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LOOK WHAT U MADE ME DO (PROLOGUE)

Let me tell you a story of a girl with hazel eyes, type 4 black n sometimes golden locks of hair ,4'5 inches tall, thick build and dark brown freckles spread out on her light brown skin . She's an orphan now ...well before she had one special woman in her life who sheltered her from the world and her other very  abusive mother. Her name which was given to her by both her mother's when she was born, gives her strength now. Even then when both her parents decided to turn on each other -Sinqobile . It means 'we have concurred ' meaning even if she's in the harshest of battles and her opposition is favored...she will concurr and come out victorious.

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12 years ago

I recall only tiny details of the funeral.
I was dressed in a royal blue dress, and my favorite white and red bottom pumps I chose these because their the same ones i wore when my mom's got married . It was perfect then everything was joyous and not what it all turned to when my mom lost my baby sister...Tulip Philips- Khoza . We used to tease mom ...ma and me about how Tulip Philip's sounded like a nursery rhyme.
After mom had a miscarriage on her second trimester and was later diagnosed with an  infertility condition she just drifted away from ma and me too ...then it all went down hill from there .
I still can't tell the whole ugly truth ,even now 12 years later.

After the funeral my aunt _Mihle and uncle jonah as my god parents had full custody of me . They rescused me away from all the pain and raised me as their own along with their twin daughters. I never thought I would ever heal from my mother's (s) death ...both of them . Even though I was orphaned at four years I still saw way too much rage within them both,  I tried making them smile but often I got caught in the way .

Life with my god parents was way simpler ,happier ,safe and care free as we lived in a small town in GEB where everything was easy going...a far cry from what I was used to in joburg.
For the first few years of my childhood I was okay being friends with my sisters but since they were ten years older it became hard for me to actually be interested in the crazy games they played and the topic of dating always being brought up .I was a toddler all I knew was playing in the dirt and going to the park . But as I too finally became a tween and reached that stage I still was too young to participate as they were in college and I was just a senior in primary school not even a high school student yet .

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I was just on my second year at Durban high when I met him ...Tim Parker . I knew it then that we would be something bigger than even friends could be...as I introduced myself to him and he to me . We set together for the rest of the year since all the seats in class were full . We also hung out together during breaktime as I also had no friends in the school but the chess club that stayed in the library during break . I knew it was fate when we stayed in the same class all the way to our matric year . We even enjoyed the same subjects so we never had to split in grade 10 when we were sifted by the system.

And after school we went to the same university...Tim doing Computer sciences and me doing Literature and Theology.

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Present time

And now we are moving to our first apartment together as a couple...very soon I'll have the Parker surname_ what more could I want .

Or is my depression twisting my happy thoughts into mistakes.

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TIMOTHY  PARKER'S story

Timothy parker was born and raised in New York city in the USA, though Tim was indeed born to two very much alive human beings he was treated as less than.  After his mother gave birth to him ,she and her boyfriend _ Lucas decided to leave him in the care of Anastasia's mother- Timothy's grandmother- and run away together.

Lesley parker adopted Tim the very next day after Anastasia's departure to Rome with Lucas . She was his mother now and that's all he'll ever refer to her as .

When Tim was 12 years old they moved to South Africa.

After Lesley got married to a handsome young men who she met in the Cape when she and Tim were on vacation there. They got married in New York and moved to The Cape 3months later .

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Tim knew no one at his new school and in the new town they had settled in. He saw how happy his mother was with Enkosi or' kosi ' as he called him . So he decided to try and atleast befriend one person so he wasn't alone during recess and during the weekend . But he was labeled 'the nerd' by his peers and thought it was better to join the chess team at school...besides he was only gonna be there for the next two years then it was High school maybe he would meet more mature people .

His prayers were met when he met a girl named Sinqobile Philips Khoza...he couldn't pronounce her name so he settled on the English translation 'Concurred' .

As their friendship grew he shortened it to 'Concurr' which she told him kinda meant the same thing as Concurred. Their friendship was tested when Tim lost his mother who he found out was in fact not an ordinary Baker but was a billionaire. It was her husband who told him that she was infact his grandmother and that she had informed him that Tim's mother had abandoned him at birth. At 16 years old he already felt confused about who he wanted to be now he had to add 'who am I' ...he thought he already figured it out . Tim always knew Concur  would help him figure it all out...it's exactly the reason why he just couldn't be her friend but wanted to be her boyfriend. 

And she said yes while they sat in front of the fireplace in his home on Christmas eve ,while their parents were busy in the kitchen.

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He got this same gut feeling when he picked the exact same engagement ring his grandmother wore on her right middle finger. She had died wearing said ring and was layed to rest wearing it ,as she mentioned not wanting to ever part with it even in death and Enkosi kept that promise to her . But Tim too loved it so much that he chose to get a jeweler to replicate it's rare design for Concur 's ring .

And he proposed to her at their favorite heritage site ...Table mountain.

Present day

Now he was not only moving in with his bestfriend but his fiancee . And the cherry on top was having opened his own company in Johannesburg within his field of expertise... Informations Technology.

What more could he ever want ...he finally felt like he belonged and now he knew who he was and all it took was her presence in his life to make that more clear.

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