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Chapter Forty Seven.

Chapter Forty Seven.

"I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh." x Maya Angelou.

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'Please take her! Take her!' The woman holding a baby says. Her cries are piercing right into my ears.

They're painful and filled with sadness. 'Please!' She drops to her knees clutching her baby close to her. I walk forward and attempt on touching her shoulder to get her to stand and leave cause I could sense the tenseness rising here. It goes dark. Pitch dark. No one around me but the cries of a child and the mother.

'This child does not belong here! Take her with you!'
'What no! She belongs with you.'
'Leave!'

"Zanokuhle!" The urgent voice calls me out. I open my eyes and take in a deep breath. I'm hit with nothing but confusion but the moment I see my Bangi I realise that all of that was just a dream.

"What? Was I screaming?" I ask and sit up. He puts his hand on my lap with a frown on his face.
"You were crying."
"Crying?" I furrow my brows and gaze into space, the dream playing vividly in my head all over again. "I wasn't the one crying though...in this dream there was someone else carrying a baby. A crying baby and-..." I shut up placing both my hands on my belly. "You don't think..."

"No, no no Sthandwa sam, don't think like that. I'm... I'm sure this whole situation has a reasonable explanation."
"Bangi, but you remember what Mehlo said to me. He said I should never underestimate my dreams. This is probably one of the things he was talking about," I say.

He heaves out a heavy sigh and sits on the space available by my legs. He places his fingers under my chin and makes me look up at him. I'm worried now. My head thinking of nothing but who that baby could have belonged to.

Her?

Please take her? Who?

"Please don't put yourself under a whole lot of stress because of a dream you don't even understand fully. I need you to think of our baby," he says trying to give me a smile, but it doesn't reach his eyes.

I nod closing my eyes as he kisses my forehead.

I had breakfast after praying like my life depended on it. This was all before receiving a call from Thokozani telling me that the ceremony was going to take place today and he was excited. Too excited. He even wondered why he hadn't done this for his baby girl ages ago but nonetheless he was doing it now and with love even.

"I don't get the point of this meeting if all we're going to do is fight about senseless things," he says as we made our way downstairs, my arm hooked to his.
"Maybe your goal shouldn't be to go there to fight."
"I'm not going there to fight Sthandwa sam, you know that. You also know who does like starting these fights and since he will be there I wouldn't expect any less from him," we reach the bottom of the stairs and spot a guest on our lounge couches.

"Mehlo?" My eyebrows lift.

"Baba?" Bangi says also not expecting to see this man here. He puts down his cup of tea before getting up.
"Bayede Shazi, Malinga, Mathetha, Sotoyi. Apologies for not announcing my arrival."

When has he ever announced his arrival though?

"It's okay, but what brings you here?" Bangi asks uMehlo the same question I had in my mind too.
"The truth."
"The truth?" I ask. I honestly didn't need any more confusion in my life than the confusion I was facing these days. If it wasn't the dreams then it was this man in front of us and if it wasn't him it was my own sister.

"I was shown that you have seen the truth. The truth that will eventually reveal itself to you when the time is right. This truth will be the undoing of more and I have to prepare you mentally for this, cause it will be heavy on you and it will cause a massive rift between aboDlamini." Mehlo says before lifting his hands to the sky. "The one above will protect you, your husband and your seed."