LIFE, ABOVE ALL
Episode 38
GANIZANI
It’s almost two months since my sister Tiyamike went missing my little sister disappeared clean off the earth leaving barely a trace. The police have even stopped looking they said there’s nothing they can do. What’s funny is that they don’t believe she was kidnapped because she had an argument with dad that night she went away and after what dad told them they just think my sister took off with some friends.
I don’t believe Tiya would just pack and leave without even saying good bye.
And speaking of my father, he has been ill for the past two months, his illness is strange, the doctors couldn’t help him, he just lies in his room and when Auntie Stella goes out, she locks him up.
Auntie Stella has been traveling a lot of lately, just last week she was in Dubai where she came back with a brand new car, she also opened a boutique at one of the malls in town, that’s where she spends most of her time at. She doesn’t seem to care about me and my sister in fact we are invisible in her eyes.
It’s a Friday evening and I just got home, I went looking for my sister yet again but as usual my search proved to be futile, Thoko and I stopped going to school a month ago because there is no money for our fees, Auntie Stella says she can’t waste money on us.
Auntie Stella scowled as I walked into the house I wasn’t in the mood to argue, I walked past her to the girls room where Thoko was sleeping she hasn’t been feeling fine.
‘How are you?’ I asked
‘I am fine,’ she sat upright, I handed her the medicine I had bought for her, I managed to steal some money from Auntie Stella in the morning, I know stealing is bad but I had no option.
‘Ganizani!’ she screamed, she barged into the bedroom a minute later, staring at me furiously.
‘I was hoping you would offer me an explanation when you walked in but you just bypassed me as if I am useless,’ she fumed with anger.
I chose not t respond.
‘Are you the one who got a hundred kwacha from my purse this morning?’ she asked intently looking at me, her eyes were kind of blazing red it was as though she could see through me.
‘No,’ I shook my head
‘Then where did you get this medicine?’
‘A friend gave it to me.’
‘I work hard for my money you go out too and work hard for your own money let this be the last time I will lose money in this house.’
‘God! And you are here watching this?’ I asked
‘What do you want him to do?’
‘Auntie Stella you are a wicked woman, I pray that someday God will punish you severely for your evil deeds,’
She looked at me angrily before she raised her hand and slapped me hard across my face.
‘If I was as wicked as you say I am, you wouldn’t still be in this house, your father is as good as dead and as his wife, everything he has is mine don’t give me a reason to kick you out,’ she snapped
He words hurt but I played it cool and decided not to respond.
She marched out of the room and banged the door behind her back.
‘I miss Mother,’ Thoko said
‘We all miss her.’
‘Do you think she will ever come back?’
I took a deep breath, ‘Take your medicine so I can go and find you something to eat,’ changing the topic.
‘Mother left and then Tiya too left, is dad going to join them? Are you going to leave too?’ She innocently asked.
I looked at her feeling weak, she is too young to witness all this I wish my mother was still alive. Why did she have to die? And where is God when we need him the most? Does he even care as much as he claims to?
“I won’t leave you Thoko.’
‘Promise?’
‘I promise baby,’ I sat back on the bed and hold her in my arms, I want to cry but I can’t afford to break down in front of her, I am she has and I have to be strong for her.
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TINA
The past months, my life has been a roller coaster ride, I have had to deal with one challenge after the other, I am helpless I don’t know where to go to for help. It’s like my family was just hit with a series of unfortunate events, first my brother suddenly got ill then my sister Mildred died and now my mother is terribly ill, it’s like she hasn’t recovered from my sister’s death.
She is currently admitted at the hospital though there hasn’t been an improvement in her health. I am so stressed I don’t know where to turn to for help, I went back to the wise man for help and he gave me some lotion to rub all over her body but the more I rub the lotion on her the sicker she becomes.
I just walked out of the hospital, I came to check on mum and her situation is still the same, I walked helplessly to my car thinking of a solution, I need to find what is haunting my family before we are all wiped off.
My phone rang just as I was about to get into my car.
‘Hello.’
‘Tina,’ Stella said on the other end of the line.
‘Yes sis, how are you?’
‘I am fine and you?’
‘So so.’
‘How is mum?’
‘Mum is still sick, she is getting worse.’
‘I just got back from Dubai a few days ago but I will surely visit you tomorrow.’
‘Okay.’
‘I will also send some money to help you with the hospital bills.’
‘Thank you Stella.’
‘You are welcome.’
I ended the call and got into my car, atleast Stella has been helping with the hospital bills, I wonder why mum doesn’t even like her when she is the one helping us.
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STELLA
Power is sweat, the past months I have been having a lot of money, I have traveled to different places just in these few months I have been a member of the cult.
I was advised to start a business by Mr. Bwalya so people wouldn’t ask questions about my money. I opened the boutique a month ago and I must say it is a success.
In just a month I have managed to make a name for myself, the placed is usually crowed with customers because of the blood I sprinkled all around the shop before I opened it.
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