Killing two birds with one sandal

Peter was confident that his wife Maria was having an affair. His touring job only added to her convenience and made Peter grow sick with rage. Peter was waiting for the golden opportunity to catch her red-handed before slamming the divorce papers in her hands.

Maria on the other hand was busy with her toddler and trying her best to complete her first novel to meet her publisher’s deadline. She was unable to figure out the climax. Peter’s touring job left her struggling to meet up with her baby’s expectations to get any free time to work out her story-line. She wanted to surprise Peter about the book so she’d kept it a secret till now.

The trouble started when she would ask Peter all sort of imaginary questions to help her with story-writing. With work stress, staying away from his baby and fatigue taking over his sane mind, Peter started doubting his wife to be having an affair.

One fine evening, Peter decided to return home a couple of days earlier than his schedule to catch Maria red-handed. Maria was busy working on her story after putting the baby to sleep.

Suddenly there was a thud in the lounge. Maria was alarmed but then she didn’t bother to go and check for she wanted to finish the story that night. He could hear something rustle by the kitchen. She was determined to write the climax of her thriller novel to bother. But then the thought of her baby, made her get up. The baby was fast asleep but suddenly there was a loud screech. As if someone had stepped on baby’s screeching clown.

Sweat trickled down her brow as she tried to swallow the lump rising in her throat. She was scared, but she wanted to act brave. She grabbed a shoe from the shoe rack on her way to the lounge. She wanted to poke the high heel or hit anyone on the head with it, if need be.

She was slowly walking towards the light switch when tripped over something with a loud scream. Just them something clicked and the lights turned on.

Peter had just stepped in the house with his key and turned on the light to spot his wife nursing her hurt back and a man rubbing his head as if someone had hit him hard in the head.

‘Caught you’ was all Peter could utter with anger burning in his eyes. Before Maria could understand anything, the unknown man uttered, ‘Please don’t call the police’.

trying to dial a number, Peter retorted, ‘I am calling my lawyer not the police’.

Now it was Maria’s turn to shout, ‘Peter have you gone crazy? Why call our lawyer for a burglar in the house?’

‘Burglar?? who? I know you are pretending, he is your lover.’ replied Peter putting his cellphone on his ear.

As Peter and Maria got busy in their usual fight, the thief tried to sneak out of the door. Just then Maria hurled her high heel sandal to hit the man in the head with the steel heel.

The shoe hit the aim and she got the climax for her novel.

P.S.- I know, I have been missing from the blog scene. I am trying to get back to regular writing, but Bubbly keeps me very busy.

Hope you guys are having a great time this New Year.

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