A womans envyA Story by CherylHow envy and hatred can destroy families
What Alison did not know , that what was ansent in her
home, would affaect every area of her life as an adult. There eye met and she
notices that he had come into the store were she worked and he noticed her, she
felt wow, I think this guy likes me, he seems really nice, he was well dressed
with a crisp white , it looked like pure cotton , a white shirt and black
trousers, he had the most amazing large green eyes. His smile seemed to reflect
the sun. She served him that day and went on her her way. What a nice guy she
thought, I wonder who he is. As the day ended she forgot about him, he was just
another customer that came through the store. She awoke yet another day, and
made her way through the norm, she went to work. It was about mid-day and the
young man re-appeared, this was no accident , he had come into the store again
because he fancied Alsion, he bought himself a ties just so he could meet her.
Well that moment lead to a twenty year marriage that lead to the distruction of
an entire family. He asked her out and in the most natural way they began
dating. She had been married before, but the man she married left her after a
month. It was a painful time but once again she survived. She had a child and
this young man appeared to accept her, even with a child. Appearnces are so
decieving, she was naïve and totally oblivious to the human soul and how it at
the power to destoy. Life just appeared as in her world life should. Alsion and
Jason began a realtionshop and all just seemed so well. He really seemed to
like her. She felt normal, she never has issues with low self esteem or
judgements she understood in her world at that time , she was just who she is. After a full year of dating , Jason wanted to move to
another town to get work and make a life for himself, so he asked her to move.
She really did not have any reason not to, so she applied for a position in a
branch of the company in the town they wanted to move to. To her surprise she
got the job. Within three days her life changed. She knew Jason for a whole
year now and they really enjoyed each others company and what appeared to be
love to her. He appeared to come from a good family. She moved to the new city
and Jason and Alsion had to find a way to see each other, she lived with her
brother when she got there. After a couple of months Jason and Alison found a
flat and moved in together , still everything seemed fine, he had accepted her
child and they appeared to live very happy. Six months after they had settled
down and got on with life. What Alison did not know that Jason family did not
know that he had been living with her. She was at work one morning and his
mother called her and asked her how was her son, too her surprise she said he
was fine and why was she asking, she was under the impression he was close to
his family. His mother told her he had not called home for six months. Alison
was naïve and added to that a soft and caring person. As the year went by his
mother became close to Alison and she eventually made Alison believe that she
liked and accpeted her into their family. After a year went by Jasons family
moved up to the same town and Jason. What Alison did not know how much her
mother-in-law would actually hate her. She was soft spoken and used her words carefully always
apperaing kind and good. Alison did not know her lack of love from her own life
would cause her to be deceived. Jasons mother drew her close to her as the days
and months went by. Everything appered good and life went on. Nine years after
Alison and Jason had lived together Alison fell pregnant with their own first
child, her own Son was ten years old. She was very close to his mother and
somewere in her heart she thought, maybe this woman would be the mother she
never had. She ebraced this love that seemed to be coming from Jason mother ,
it appeared so sincere to her. When the baby was born the whole family
celebrated , Alsion came from a christian back ground and was a practacing
christian , but when her baby was born she felt like she also wanted her child
to have a bit of her history and faith.
She began to take and interest in her faith , and to her surprise she was
overwhelmed by all this love she learned about God. Over the years her
mother-inlaw and her became close and Alison trusted her. What Alsion did not
know that the woman was shaping her and moulding her as time went by and Alison
was obedient. What ever she was told she did, because that’s what life was
life. Her mother "in law began to tell her , she needed to wear make up and
dress in a certain way. She said men wanted woman like this, so trusting her
she believed and slowly but sure she began to change. Now Jason never really
had any issues with her before this and as time went by he noticed she changed
her dress and wore more make-up, he began to give his comments. Ten months
after their first child was born she had her second child and still everything
seemed normal. But something was happening , Alison began doubting that she was
good enough for Jason and his family , she doubted that she could be a mother
or a wife, because her conversations with his mother. As time passed she
developed the desease of low self esteem. His mother with often tell her that
her son loved her more then he loved Alison. This went on for years, and as
time passed. Alsion began to read up on what was happening to her and found out
that she what she was expereincing was emotional abuse. The holiday were coming
up and in their home they had huge family dinners at x-mass and new year. Jason
gave Alsion a beautiful home and the best money could buy. It was x-mass day
and the first appearance of envy appeared. Jason sister took Jason to a store
and made him buy Alison and his mother the same rings for x-mass. Alison had been behind the seens reading up on what she
was feeling. She had no idea how hated she was. Jason grew in money and stature
as a business man. As a family they were okay. Life went on each day. Jasons
mother had a plan. She wanted revenge because Alison had taken her son away
from their home town, she plotted for year in and year out, she was patient ,
she stripped Alison of her self esteem little by little each year. After her
children were born and growing , Jason told Alison that her friends envied her,
she must not go out and work ,she must stay home and take care of the children.
Jason and his mother were close, Jason confided in his mother, and what Alison
did not know that whatever he told his mother she was using against his family.
He told and complained to his mother that he did not like the idea that Alison
wanted to stay at home and look after the kid. He told her her believed she
must go back to work. That the kind of woman he wanted. But Jasons mother
encouraged Alison to do just the opposite of what Jason wanted. She worked her
magic each day. As time passed Jason grew cold towards Alison and began to go
out more and went on holidays and overseas with his cousins. His mother told
him this was the right way. He began to live a single life and eventually in
the home the bills were not being paid and the situation got worst. Jason would
come home and fight, he would tell Alsion that she was a bad mother and a bad
person, she was fat and ugly. Alsion withdrew and went inside herself trying to
fight not just Jason but an entire family she thought loved her. Jason grew and
oepned a resturant , it was successful the more he grew the more she died.
Jason started having an affair with one their best friends ex-wife. The whole
family tried to hush it up. Alison would go to the resturaunt and every one
knew. When Alsion did eventually find out abou the affair, there was nothing
she could do. She tried to make her life right and turned to God and her faith,
to her surprise this too would let her down. Alison grew wary and fought
emotional abuse and the battle to stay alive each day, the children were
growing and watched them and listened to them fight every single day. Jasons
mother was glowing, she was winning she was going to get what she believed was
taken from her. In Jasons family his father had many affairs and his mother had
to accept this, when Jason was born she took a vow that the only man she would
ever love would be Jason and this became her reality in the end. The children
were eight and nine years old when Jason wanted a dirvorce. Alsion heart broken
and lost lost her marriage , them she lost her home, and because she never wnet
back to work, she lost her children. The children lived with their father for
over a year and after a year Jason and his mother father and sister took a
house together. Jason mother got what she worked for for eighteen long years.
She won she got her son back. She got to see her children twice a month ans every
time she went to go and pick up her children she saw the glow in Jasons mothers
eyes , she watched and saw how one womans envy destroyed an entire family for
all eternity Alison never lived again, she existed each day, she no
longer believed in God, she wanted some form of juctice for such things that
happened but nothing changed……… What else could Alsion do, she had no hope,,,,she
carried that pain with her each and every day…….. Nothing is what it appears to be……..Alsions mother in
law was the sweetest , soft spoken most kind and caring person in the world…… No one will ever find out the truth of who she really
was……there is no God to bring jsuctice for such things in the world…..one more
soul lost forver…… Well what do you think …..finish Alisons story for the
rest of her life © 2013 Cheryl |
StatsAuthorCherylGauteng, Sandton, South AfricaAboutI write short stories of life through expereince more..Writing
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