The man told Ella his news on Friday night. He had been waiting for the right moment all week and decided that the last day of work would be very appropriate.
Ella was even getting used to her husband’s work on weekends. Indeed, there was more money. Only… on the bank card. This money almost never reached the wife and children. The husband collected it. He did not answer, only smiled thoughtfully. Ella even thought that her husband wanted to take the whole family on vacation to the sea. But it turned out quite differently.
– Here’s the thing, – Adam came out of the bathroom, went to the kitchen and sat down on a chair.
– Go ahead, – his wife sat down opposite and propped her cheek with her hand.
– I’m coming, – Adam said quietly.
– Are you going to work again on weekends? – his wife did not understand.
– No, I’m leaving you. I have the other one, – the man suddenly said.
Ella froze.
“The other one!” – And immediately a puzzle was formed. “That’s what the job was, it turns out, and where the money went.”
– Ella, help me pack my things, you know better what to take there, – the man said, finishing his soup.
Ella lost all words from such impudence. Thoughts were spinning in her head. Ella wanted to quarrel with the man so much, but she was able to restrain herself. She sat and ate as if nothing had happened. All their life together, when her husband went on a business trip, his wife packed his bags or suitcase. Ella wanted to be outraged, but she did not lose her face. She got up and left the kitchen on wobbly legs.
– Ah, to pack…, – Ella grabbed the biggest suitcase they went on vacation with, opened it and froze.
– “Ugh, what junk,” she thought and began to put in this suitcase everything she wanted to get rid of all her life: cans of screws, her husband’s old slippers, some of his packages that he did not want to disassemble for years, a broken umbrella, dirty rubber boots, even underwear from the basket in the bathroom (she did not touch the new one, something that would be useful for her sons).
In ten minutes Ella walked through the two-room apartment and raked everything that was annoying, unnecessary and related to her husband. She collected it. The “junk” barely fit in a huge suitcase.
But the wife bravely pressed the contents with all her weight and fastened the locks.
A little worried, disheveled, she stepped aside and let her husband to the door. He was satisfied with a delicious dinner, put on his shoes, took his jacket and straightened up.
– Well, – he began.
– You won’t tell the children?” – his wife stopped him.
He was embarrassed and said quietly:
– It’s better you do it yourself. I don’t like to say goodbye, you know, – the man grabbed the heavy suitcase, said “Wow” and left.
Ella closed the door behind him and only now cried. The emotions that overwhelmed her rushed from her eyes. And it felt good. She went to the mirror. There were two tracks on her face.
– I need to wash everything off,” she was setting herself up for the positive, – and into a new life. Clean, happy.
The husband then tried to return several times. First for clean things, then he wanted to return to the family, but Ella was adamant. She changed the locks on the door the next day and filed for divorce herself.
– No room for junk in the family, – she joked.
