Did he did it or not?

When I was working at the side office, he brought a woman home; used this house, that room, that bed. I found out about them sometime later. I packed my things and leaved this house. After sometime, he went to the side office to ask me to go home with him. Promising he will never meet the woman again or do anything similar like it, I came home with him. You won’t believe, even their break-up fee was paid by me. Guess how much that woman asked for? Only RM 2000. Aren’t she what the new generations call ‘cheap’?

That was what my mother told me somewhere in March 2003. The father whom I respected for more than 15 years(I was in Form 4 by that time and haven’t celebrated my birthday yet), believing he is a faithful, honest and reliable husband as well as a father. How can he do this to my mother? The subject was brought up at dinner table by me *of course without my father’s present* one night. I have been curious for many years after I found my parents’ marriage certificate in the drawer of the dressing table; why was my sister only born after they were married for 7 years? Bare in mind, my mother was 28 when she married my then 31 year-old father and I’m only younger than my sister by exactly 2 years and a half. So, it means she gave birth to my sis when she was 35 – considered ‘Gao Ling Chan Fu’.

I really needed someone to talk to after that, so I told one of my close friends about it. She was stunned to learn the news, as she had met my father a few times before and always thinks that he is the kind of man who won’t do anything unfaithful to his wife. He doesn’t even look like one. Every one thinks his is a 'Ya Sei Hao Lou Dao'. I was not keen to talk to him for a few days, but stop that action after discreet thinking; it’s good enough he didn’t do it again, after my sis and me were born, right? And he is taking good care of his family now; providing food and all the necessities.

So, the subject was considered closed. But everything went wrong a few weeks ago after my mother *we call her M* heard something from her colleague *lets call her A*.

A: eh M, Miss Wong was complaining to me that since you started working here, your husband didn’t call her or invite her for lunch leh… (Miss Wong is my father’s ex-colleague in her late 30s or early 40s)

M: Really? I never ask my husband where he has lunch or with who he eats.

A few days later…
Miss Wong: eh, you guys wanna go have duck rice *stall very near their work place* ah? *after hearing A and M’s conversation*

A and M: Yes.

Miss Wong: M’s husband loves the duck rice there. I was the one who bring him there.

Later that night after dinner…
M: Miss Wong told us today that you like the duck rice there wor…

F: Oh… Yea, the duck rice there is good. Very delicious.

M: I’ve been working there for almost 1 month and you can’t find a time to tell me the duck rice there is good? And I need to find out that you love it from your EX-colleague?

F: … *take his plate, fork and spoon, leave the table*

M: *Make sure F was out of ear shoot* I wonder whether your father notice the way she wear her cloths.


Torpor and sis: …

Last night, when father came back from OT – 10pm
M: Where have you been?

F: Huh?

M: Why is your shirt not tucked in properly?


Torpor: *sense some sparks coming out of M* Maybe go toilet liao didn’t tuck in properly le.

M: If go toilet didn’t tuck in properly should be in front, not the back.

F: Just now get down from the car maybe stretched until the shirt came out gua… *walk up stairs to change into house wear*

M: *F puts the shirt in the laundry basket* You better clean it before you put it in if it is CONTEMINATED.

F: *Rise voice* I came straight back from office OK?

I think my mother is getting more and more sensitive by day. Things may get worst now that my father said he will not be eating dinner every weekday for a month because he has a project to rush. It’s only the first day of his month long OT and something like this happened. And now my sister is not at home. I’m just like a sandwich; between my parents. What should I do? And is he really working? Or he is doing something unforgivable?