Bob smoking as usual on lunch break.
“Why you won lotto, I see”
“Ya, it sure feels like lotto”
“You can’t have a smile like that mate, on a dull day like this one”
Looking at the phone with disbelief.
“Ezra is visiting”
“You mean it, mate”
I have always talked about my spouse to my colleagues. We valued our personal lives, he was an Australian, Barbarian originally but had lived in Australian ever since he was a child hence the accent.
“Yes, I need to get a leave when she comes here so that I can have enough time.”
“I am available, the whole 6 months I can’t take any leaves now, finished all my days mate, maybe Donald will put me on charge of the department.”
They took leaves almost all the time and I was a workaholic since I had nothing much to do. So he availed himself. I went inside the office to call Dr MacD.
“Sir”
“Yes, Ms Gonya”
“How are you doing, Sir”
“Good, Ms Gonya yourself? How are things in the office”
“Nothing sir, Nothing much work related just personal”
“Yes”
“Sir, I checked my schedule and I haven’t took leaves yet. I was wondering if I could take a few weeks off. My spouse is visiting and I thought I should just take a holiday”
“No, problem we can discuss it on the next meeting. Just send an email for emergency leave Bob and Andrew are available for nearly 10 months of their work hours. Just give me the dates and you be sorted” That was it. Now it was just me and the planning stage. Where will I take her, I was used to almost all the corners of Sydney. Something romantic, massages, dates on the finest restaurants, the vibe, Sunday chills, I was so prepared and scheduled each day llikethe professional planner that I am. The day arrive, it was raining. What worse to happen, I came earlier around 6 am to wait for the flight there was a storm the previous day that led the flight to land in India, we were told to wait a few hours from anticipated time on the following day. I was not about to drive back to the house so I sat in the restaurant and ordered coffee and a newspaper. I am a busy person, I buy newspapers every morning. It’s a habit even though I watch the news in the morning. It familiarises one with what is happenning around or catching up on sport or other projects in the city that are tendering but to actually read everything on the newspaper wasn’t normal to me. I finished then watched TV, I made a few calls and I hate making continuos calls it brings some sort of insecurity or mistrust then I thought about Ruth. I stared at the television after like our closet all I could see was the
empty closet on TV .
Phone ringing it’s Ruth’s mom
” Buoy”
Phone ringing
“Buoy”
Phone ringing
“Buoy”
“Huh”
“I’ve been looking the whole airport for you”
“Ezra, oh my God”
We hugged.
“Why you not answering your phone?”
“Oh my God, how did you find me”
“From our last text you said you having coffee at mug n bean”
“Oh man, I could have lost you.”
“Got a map as soon as I landed”
“My goodness, I missed you. Welcome let’s get your stuff and go”
We couldn’t stop hugging and crying.
We made love like the young couple we were and travelled the whole country for 2 weeks and she went back.