BEER IS A BEAST

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The doorbell rang and Mabel knew at once that it was her husband Peter who was at the door. She looked aat the clock hung in the wall and it read 11:30pm. She ought to be in bed by now with her present condition but the fact that her husband wasn't yet home kept her awake. She wondered what changed in the caring and the awesome man she once knew. He was the best father to their 6 year old daughter and also a great husband who loved spending time with his family. Not until four months ago when he started keeping late nights and coming home so drunk. She planned not to open the door for Peter until it's 12:00am despise his continuous tonging up the bell.

At 12:00am, she opened the door for him, Peter looked at his pregnant wife with a very visible angry look. He spoke in a harsh tone "Woman where were you all this while I was knocking on the door" . Mabel replied, "you ought to be thankful that I even opened the door for you because yesterday I told you that you shouldn't step your foot into this house later than 8:00pm. I wonder what has come over you, your office closed by 6:00pm and you ought to be at home before 7:00pm but instead, you will prefer to hang around getting yourself drunk with beer. Our daughter keeps asking of you and every time she does I always have to come up with a lie. Peter, you got to stop this recent attitude of yours I can't take it any longer."

Her husband looked at her in his drunken state and said, "Please leave me alone, this is my house and I will go out and come back anytime I love to." Mabel hissed and headed towards the stairs and she spoke "I just wasted my speech on a drunk fool". Peter became visibly angry and asked what she just said. Mabel replied "you are nothing but a drunk fool". Peter walked towards her and held her by the arm. Before he knew it Mabel fell from the stairs, he wanted to hold her but he was unable, he could see his wife bleeding. He touched her and discovered she was unconscious he couldn't believe what had just happened before his very own eyes, he couldn't believe he has hurt his dear wife. His drunken state disappeared immediately as he carried Mabel to the hospital.


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At the hospital, Peter could be seen practically walking around the waiting room, he recalled how his drinking habit started four months ago when he lost about 20 million naira in a business. He was scammed actually, he didn't have the guts to tell Mabel because she warned him not to embark on such business because she thought it's a fraudulent one and indeed it was a fraud. He visited the bar the day he discovered he had been scammed to find solace in alcohol and gradually he made some friends in the bar who always expected to see him every day and so it became a habit of his to always visit the bar after work.

The doctor walked in and Peter spoke with his visible teary eyes ''how is she?'' ''Well, she is fine but we lost the baby'' the doctor said. Immediately Peter sank into the couch crying, no consolement from the doctor could stop him. He blamed the beast called beer but he blamed himself more for letting his financial loss to take over him, he just lost his six months old fetus.

Two hours later, Peter walked into the room his wife was admitted in. She looked up to him in teary eyes and said ''they persuaded me for the truth but I told them, I needed some air and I was coming down from the stairs when I fell. I did that because I love you and I hope we can still work things out''. Peter knelt beside her, he spoke ''I'm sorry for everything I just let what I'm going through financially to take over me...'' He didn't complete his statement when Mabel cut in ''I know about it. I figured it out even though you didn't say it. No matter what always know I'm here for you and whatever any of us is going through, we should let the other know and we surely go through it for we are love partners''. Peter smiled amidst tears and gave her a peck on her forehead as he held her hands. He blamed his solace that led to the current unfortunate incident. He blamed beer the beast.

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Beer is a beast if the user allows it influence him/her negatively. The story line is educating and lots of moral to learn from.

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