On the eve of every closing, it was always Kay's ritual to escape the austerity of the office. She paid herself a treat. That usually meant time with her hubby and doing something special. The last time, which was… six months ago… heavens.. She thought, bewildered. The last time, she got home early and fixed dinner. It was fearful. Her husband could eat fufu at 3am in the morning if he was up to it. Kay also knew it somehow, it almost always puts him in a cheery mood. They passed the rest of the evening watching Lord of the Rings again. It was a favorite time, when she bore his full attention. Sometimes they forgot the movie; Kwame told the funniest stories with outrageous im...
Babs took the day off. She had called in sick. She knew Kwame would hear of this but would not object. They both knew the space was direly needed. It was getting hard keeping up the pretense at work. Just last week at a routine monthly meeting, Kwame was pushing for cuts in the work budget for the extras that were being used for the new project. It was logical. New Horizon films could do without it. Babs objected. Her reasons were that the extras had to be enough to fill out the shots on location. It made for the right feel the documentary was supposed to portray. Maybe it was all the talk of cutting out extras ,maybe Babs had begun to feel like the extra in Kwame's life. The analogy brought so much anger, it was inexplicable. Usually, Babs was skillful at keeping her cool but in that instant, she was desperate to assert her presence in his life. I must matter to this man, she thought at the time when they barraged heated remarks across the conference hall ...