Peter was a hot tempered man and this led to his argument with his wife, Riana. Riana had already given birth to identical twins and she was expecting another but Peter asked her to opt for an abortion.
"I'm not aborting this child no matter how you try to complicate the matter" Riana said as she placed her hands on her stomache. "Don't you know that it's a crime to abort a child?"
"Crime or no crime, you're aborting this baby noatter what." Peter said aggravated
"You're trying to kill an innocent foetus." Riana said as she pointed towards Peter.
"Which innocent foetus?" Peter asked sarcastically. "This so called innocent foetus is adding to the burdens of this house"
"Which burden? We barley eat once a day and all this is because of the fact that you don't have a good job. I'm just so tired of this hell called life and here you are, telling me all this useless stories about burdens and all. Please don't get me angry this evening." Riana said as she almost burst into tears.
"Don't flatter me with all these stories of yours. What do you being to the table? All you can do is to stand there and lament about the so called problems of life which you are facing." Peter said as he sat down on the only sofa in the whole living room. "If you're not going to abort this child, then I'll do it for you." Peter picks up a knife from the small fruit bowl beside the sofa and stabs Riana with it.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Riana let out a loud cry of agony as she dropped to the floor.
Brenda and Nora, Riana's two children had seen this. They moved aside to avoid the strict gaze of their father. They were paralized in words because they had seen how their father had brutally murdered their mother. Since they were the only ones to witness it, they knew that they were the next ones to be killed. They tried to escape but Peter through the knife at them. Luckily, it only bruised Brenda's leg so Nora helped her and they both fled our of the house.
They worried where they would sleep for the night because it was already half past ten. They became scared but because of Brenda's leg, they had to attend to her wounds. Luckily, Nora always carried a DIY kit which contained handkerchiefs of different colors, a little jitter and a pen, a needle and thread, some little ointments for Burns and scars, and some other miscellaneous items. She took a white handkerchief and wrapped it on the scared part as she applied ointment to the wound. Since they had no place to sleep, they had to retire for the night. They slept beside a small bungalow.
Meanwhile, Peter was agitated. He had no idea of what he had just done. He paced around his small apartment as he watched Riana's dead body as it lay motionlessly on the ground.
"What have I done?" Peter panted heavily with no idea of what to do but then he suddenly got a idea. "Maybe I can burry her at the other side of the house" He took a shovel to burry her.
Dawn arrived slowly. Peter was fired from his job as a security guard due to his persistent lack of punctuality. Even as a security guard, he still had a lot of pride.
"How will I do this now that both Brenda and Nora have seen what I did to Riana and how I killed her? How do I know that they won't end up spreading the word out?" Peter said to himself as different thoughts popped up in his mind."I'm sure they won't say anything. Fingers crossed" He thought aloud
Meanwhile, Brenda and Nora had just woken up. They had no food to eat, no place to bathe and also no new clothes to wear. The owner of the bungalow, Miss Amber Coleman, came out and saw both Brenda and Nora sitting beside the door.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Amber asked in a chilled voice as she leaned closely to the door with her hands crossed.
"No one you need to worry about" Nora said as she slowly picks Brenda up. "I'm sorry if we're disturbing you. C'mon Brenda, let's go"
"But where will you go?" Amber asked concerned."Infact, just come in and we'll talk over a cup of tea."
"Don't worry. We hate to be a bother" Nora said
" Don't worry, it's no bother. I have more space than I need anyways" Amber says as they both reluctantly agreed.
When they got inside, Amber asked them what had happened and Nora, in great pain, narrated the sad tale to her. She was so shocked to hear that aan had killed his own wife. She almost burst into tears as she look at how helpless they both were.
"I'm going to the supermarket to get something for this wound of yours." Amber said." If you're hungry, there's some food in the fridge. Should I warm it up for you?"
"No thanks!" Brenda response in pain.
"So we'll talk later okay?"
"Okay!" Nora responded
On her way to the supermarket, she noticed Peter's toasting look. Looking down at her body structure, he walked up to her.
"Hi love," Peter said as he tried to lean his hand on Amber's shoulders.
"Are you stupid?" Amber asked in a soft but outrageous tone which kept Peter's hand hanging in the air."I'm guessing that you are jobless and that's why you are here behaving in an indecent manner" As Amber said that, he slowly retreated to avoid humiliations.
As Amber walked in, she was followed in by many prying eyes of her beauty. She sighed silently as she walked up to the counter to get the items which she needed. She retreated back home.