Otherland by Shampine Almondie

Author:Shampine, Almondie [Shampine, Almondie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: NewAge Publishing
Published: 2016-05-07T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

Humans were easy, too easy, pathetically easy. Dwayne remembered his life as human, all the fears, the anxieties, the disbelief in the unknown, and neither caring about it, really. Human life seemed intolerable, time being your worst enemy.

For disadvantaged people like him, who could rarely find a job, or keep one, for that matter, because he refused to be owned or controlled by anyone after his father, 24 hours a day was spent wondering where the money would come from to buy enough food to satisfy the body, to get warm enough shelter and clothes to keep the body from freezing to death, let alone all those other needs of the human body.

In his human life, he thought he’d hit a jackpot with his former wife. She’d loved him for the way he was, didn’t seem to care that he couldn’t hold a job, provided him those three meals, those vital needs of the human body, as well as some comfort, too.

Things changed once they’d married. She began complaining about him not bringing in enough income, not doing enough around the house, not being the kind of man she wanted in her life, and that old insecurity that his old man had always encouraged returned to him. Not good enough. So he’d gotten her pregnant. The first one she was able to, with good conscience up until, get rid of, saying they weren’t ready, but it had haunted her, so when she ‘accidently’ got pregnant again, she couldn’t go through with another termination procedure.

Throughout the pregnancy, he’d gotten a job and had become that ‘better man’ she wanted. She thought he’d changed and was doing it for her. Humans, so ignorant, so self-centered. He’d just needed her to need him, because that would ensure that she wouldn’t leave, so he waited for the baby, let her struggle with trying to find childcare and paying for it for the first three months, before he presented to her his usefulness again. He’d stay home and take care of the child, because his employment was only seasonal to begin with.

No more transporting the child to and from sitters. No more sitters calling last minute to say they couldn’t babysit that day, earning her write-ups at work and threatening her job. No more waking up an hour earlier to get the baby fed, dressed, the diaper bag filled, with no time for coffee or pre-work preparation. Nope, he’d take care of it all.

Did her appreciation last long? Nope. Humans. Never satisfied. She’d come home from work after a long day of his taking care of the baby, and she’d be mad about the house being a mess, nothing being done, about having to make dinner, about giving him a break after all day spent taking care of a baby’s needs. She’d started throwing it in his face about how she worked all day and the least he could do was this, and the least he could do was that, and once again, he wasn’t good enough.

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