My Wife Kicked Me Out To Freeze In The Snow Because I Was Struggling. I Was Rescued By An Old Classmate While My Wife Waited For Me To Beg. How Do I Tell Her I’m Never Coming Home?
H2: Out in the Cold
The most surprising part was the fact that she didn’t even try to talk to Kevin about it. She didn’t seem the least bit interested in figuring out the reasons behind her husband’s nervous breakdown. Instead, Emma kicked her husband out of the house into the cold, cold night, knowing full well how helpless a drunk person could get.
Staggering from side to side, Kevin wandered down the snowy street and thought about how cruel his wife was. It was getting colder by the second, and the man’s face was getting covered with a thin layer of ice. The situation was aggravated by the fact that the strong wind was burning Kevin’s cheeks, making it hard for him to take a deep breath.
At some point, the man felt very tired, and all he wanted to do was fall asleep. Kevin looked around and, seeing no suitable cover, sat warily on an icy bench 50 yards away from a bus stop. The man curled up, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep alcohol-induced sleep.
Images from his past life started flashing through his intoxicated mind, intertwining with each other in the most bizarre way. They created new situations which never happened in real life. Having fallen into a deep sleep, Kevin didn’t even feel how someone pulled him off the bench and, enlisting the support of the passers-by, placed him in a car parked by the side of the road.
H2: A Familiar Face
It was hot in the car, and the man instantly broke into a sweat. Kevin could barely remember what happened next. First, they arrived somewhere, and the man got dragged into a house. Then someone carefully took off his clothes and put him into a warm bed.
The fact was that staying out in the cold for so long caused Kevin to run a high fever, which in turn caused chills and muscle pain. The man slept for two whole days and, having finally woken up, he looked around and asked in a barely audible voice:
“Where am I, and what happened to me?”
At that moment, the door opened, and a young woman came into the room holding a tray of medications in front of her.
“Well, finally. I was starting to think you were never going to wake up.”
The woman’s face seemed vaguely familiar. Looking more closely, he exclaimed in surprise:
“Olivia, is that really you? How long has it been?”
“Yes, Kevin, it’s me. I found you sleeping on the bench freezing. Please forgive me, but I couldn’t just let you die there. Some kind passersby helped me get you into my car because I couldn’t have done it myself. You’ve gained some weight since we last saw each other.”
The woman left. Kevin realized that by the will of fate he was now at Olivia Johnson’s house. They used to sit together in school, and he even dedicated love poems to her. He lowered his eyes in embarrassment, feeling very uncomfortable.
But Olivia wasn’t going to lecture him or tell him how wrong he was. Instead, the woman talked about Kevin’s feelings and what he was going through and quickly learned the reason behind his drinking problem. Seeing how sorry her former classmate was about how he was acting, Olivia offered the man to stay at her house for as long as he needed to get his life back together. Kevin gladly accepted Olivia’s offer since he really didn’t want to go back home to his wife.
H2: A New Path
Meanwhile, Emma was at a loss waiting for her husband to come back home. At first, the woman thought that he simply continued to drink and would come home in a couple of days. However, when they called Emma from the woodworking factory to ask why Kevin never came to work, she started getting worried.
“Where could he be? Did he freeze to death somewhere? No, that couldn’t have happened. Someone would have found him a long time ago,”
The woman thought, doubting her own theory.
But Kevin didn’t come home a day or even a week later either. Emma was about to go to the police in order to file a missing person’s report when her husband finally called her.
“I’m sorry, Emma. Maybe I was wrong and should have said it earlier. Unfortunately, I don’t love you anymore, so I want a divorce,”
Kevin said calmly.
At first, Emma thought that she must have misheard him or that it was just her imagination playing jokes with her. But when Kevin said it again, she realized that there was no mistake. She hung up the phone, covered her face with her hands, and wept softly.
What Emma couldn’t have known was that when Kevin saw Olivia, he realized that she was the woman he really loved. Instead of criticizing and blindly condemning her former classmate who got in trouble, Olivia was willing to spend time to get to the bottom of the situation and, more importantly, help Kevin figure it all out too.
Surrounding Kevin with care and warmth, she showed him what family life could be like when there was no betrayal and when everyone’s voice in the family was heard. Kevin never regretted having left his wife for Olivia. And just a year later, cheerful children’s laughter filled Olivia and Kevin’s house, and they finally got what they’d been dreaming of for a long, long time.
