The Step Mother

She thought she could cope

Three children!

Perhaps if they knew their place, she would have done better but he loves them too much

When he comes home from work, they are his primary constituency

He will hug and romance them until they sleep

Her food and heart would have cooled

She saw herself as a glorified substitute mummy

It was unfair of her to say so because he really loves her

She knows this!

But she still doesn't want to share. Why should she?

They are preventing her from enjoying the dividends of her marital bliss

They have to go.

She schemed and cried

He sent them to the boarding house

They cried and wailed

Their mother is late and now they are being sent away by their father

She wanted him all to herself

Out of sight is hidden from the mind

Perhaps now she can conceive

Witches!

She ran from pillar to post

Doctors said she is fine

Her husband was declared virile

Month after month the sight of scarlet sends her into distress

The children arrived home for vacation, she lost it

"Take your witches of Endor away from here, they have to go"

He left home with them that day, he was just fed up. Was he supposed to throw his children away because he married her?

He had begged, bribed and appealed to her to treat them like her own

What offence did his children commit?

She waited for him to return

He didn’t

Day 1 to day 60

She was alone

She called everybody she could

It was as of they vanished

She fell ill

Her younger sister came to stay with her

Her mother also

They talked to her

She realized her folly

She was told she is eight weeks pregnant

Finally!

But she had mixed her lot

She heard they had gone to the UK

She got through to him

She pleaded

She begged

She apologized to "their children"

He brought them back

She accepted them

Twenty-five years later, he died

The three took care of her and their two younger ones

She was happy she learnt on time