SILENCE

‘Sasha what are you doing here?’

‘I am tired of all this, I just can’t do it any longer!’ she yelled

He grabbed her by the hand and dragged her inside.

‘You are hurting me.’ She begged

‘I will do worse if you don’t get the hell out of here in peace, we had a deal and I met my end of it.’ He said pacing about the room

‘I can’t keep it any longer and I am not going anywhere.’ She said hands akimbo

‘Larna!’ Elisha said with fear registered in his voice

‘Larna!’ he yelled again this time shaking her body

‘Oh my word.’ She said tears glistering in her eyes as she sweated the bed sheet underneath her wet

‘Hush my baby, it was just a bad dream.’ He said holding her

‘Don’t ever leave me Eli, don’t.’ she told him

He went to grab a wet towel and cleaned her face with it.

‘Let me make you some strong black tea, it will calm your nerves.’

He walked to the kitchen to make the tea but by the time he was back, she was already sleeping. He walked back with it then later joined her in bed.

Larna felt her husband’s warm presence just beside her, she was pretending to be sleeping because she didn’t want him asking questions. Her past was her past and she promised herself that she was never going to talk about it no matter the circumstances. Everything was still as clear as day, she remembered that day as if it were yesterday and even though she had tried her best to forget about it, she just couldn’t.

In no time she was asleep and by the time she was opening her eyes again, her kids were quietly laying on one side of the bed with her.

‘Good morning sleeping beauty.’ Sai (Saidi) greeted

‘Hey my Prince.’ She responded kissing his cheek.

‘I am not a child anymore and you need to brush your teeth woman!’

That sent her into laughter.

‘To think that it was just yesterday when I held you in my arms and you cried your first.’ She said with a smile

‘Gross mum, we are grown.’ Sarah told her making a face

‘But you will always be my babies.’

Just then Elisha walked in carrying a tray of food

‘Good morning babe.’

‘Good morning.’ She said with a smile

He placed the tray nicely on her side of the head board and kissed her forehead.

‘I think we all need to get sick more often, breakfast in bed is just totally amazing. I need to tweet this.’ Sarah said grabbing her phone

‘Excuse me what just happened?’ Larna asked

‘Oh mum, tweeter is an application on the phone.’

‘And I thought I said you can only use your phones on the weekend.’

‘Mum its Saturday dah.’ Sarah responded again

‘Hey, talk to her nicely.’ Sai cut in

‘Oh look at you being all protective.’ She told him rolling her eyes

Larna and Elisha looked at each other before laughing

‘You can leave us alone now, go and do your chaos.’ Elisha told them

‘Are you sure you will be fine?’ Sai asked looking at his mother

His thoughtfulness melted her heart.

‘Yes my baby I will be fine, in fact I am fine. Now come here and give mummy a kiss.’

The twins did just that and walked out of the room leaving their parents alone

‘Will you tell me what dream made you like that last night?’

‘Babe I can’t remember.’ Larna said getting hold of the cup of tea

‘Lord this is perfect.’ She said avoiding his gaze

‘Larna.’ He began

‘It’s always serious when you call me by my first name.’ she said

‘Babe I don’t want to argue with you.’

‘Why should we argue over things that I don’t know? I have already told you that I can’t remember what the dream was about.’

‘Larna this is the millionth time you are waking up in the middle of night after a night mare and according to research it should be something from your past that is getting you like this.’

‘According to research? You have been doing a research on my nightmares?

‘Right, out of everything I just said that is the only thing that you heard huh?’

‘Babe can we just forget about all this already? I have told you that I can’t remember.’

‘You need to see a doctor.’ He said before turning on his feet

‘And where are you going?’ To make sure that the kids are dressed up.’

‘Are you guys going somewhere?’

‘We are all going to see your mother, eat up so that you don’t make us late.’

She was about to protest but she knew better than to do so because he was already out of the room.

She took a deep sigh as she recalled events of the dream, it was a lie that she couldn’t remember a thing because each one of these dreams came like memories. She had done some research on the internet and it all kept telling her the same thing; that she was supposed to revisit her past and only then would she be healed.

By this time she had lost her appetite but she knew she couldn’t let husband’s efforts go to waste. Afterwards she removed the dishes and took a bath.

The drive to chelstone was long as there was congestion and the kids kept talking about how excited they were to be going to see their grandmother seen they were not allowed to go to the funeral.

‘Mum.’ Sarah began

‘Yes baby.’

‘Imagine my babies treating you the same way you treat grandma.’ She said looking out of the window

‘Sarah!’ her father yelled

‘What dad, I am just reading a couple of what ifs on Facebook.’

‘Young lady you will not use your phone for the rest of the term.’ He said grabbing it from her

‘But that is not fair dad, besides mum has a normal relationship with grandma I don’t see why you are worked up.’

‘You will not argue with me when I speak and this should be the last time you use that tone on me again. The both of you! Are we clear?’ he asked pulling over into the yard

‘Yes Daddy.’ Both of them responded at the same time

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Kwenje’s Girl

Winnie

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