LIFE IMAGINED

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LIFE IMAGINED

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Tukelo:I will wait for you here.
She  smiled at him and went inside to find her father. Her heart breaks seeing the state her father is in.
Zethembiso:Dad.
He slowly lifts up his eyes and looks at her, he opens his mouth and tries to stand up.. Zethembiso helped him stand up and they gave each other an emotional hug for a few minutes.
Zethe's father:I thought I would never see you again.
She wipes her tears and they break the hug.
Zethembiso: I thought I would never see you again too. You were the only thing I thought of for the past five months. I'm sorry dad for how I left, I let you down.
Zethe's father: Shhh, it's okay. I'm just so happy to see you.
Zethembiso:Hey dad about Zanesipho... Uhm... She is gone.
Zethe's father: What do you mean gone?
Zethembiso:When I arrived in Durban I found her and she wasn't in a good state, she was basically a living corpse. So yesterday she died. I'm sorry.
He looked down and sighed, he knew something was wrong. At least he knows what happened to his daughter, two years without seeing her only for her to return deceased.
Zethe's father:Its okay, somehow in my heart I always knew that the chances of her being alive were slim, Zanesipho wouldn't have stayed away from her family for this long. I'm only worried about the baby they say she left with the father.
Zethembiso:We will find her/him dad don't worry.
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Zesulwa lays in bed smiling, finally her daughter's death has been avenged. Now he can rest in peace, Mkondi will rot in jail & Mamdluli. He closes his eyes and wait for his soul to leave his body. He opens his eyes and there she is holding her hand out for her smiling. He stands up and holds her hand.
"Let's go daddy, we will never suffer where we are going"
He lifts her up and hold on to her tight, he doesn't want to leave her again.
Zesulwa: I love you so much.
He lets out tears of joy and begin to walk away. Midway they both turn and look at Zesulwa's lifeless body lying in bed , Zesulwa takes a deep sigh.
Zesulwa:There's nothing I'm living for anyway in this world, it has never shown me any favour. I was always suffering and miserable. It's time to leave.
He smiled one more time and looked at his body and they disappeared.
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John is standing outside with his hands on top of his head. He was called by one of his neighbours to inform him that his house was on fire, he drove like a mad man rushing to his house; only to find completely nothing. Police, the fire department and the ambulance are all here trying to help. But three bodies were found, completely burnt. They asked him to identify whether the bodies were of his family and as hard as it was to believe it but his family is gone. He knows who did this, he didn't think they would resort to doing this. He had always thought he had everything handled, that no one could touch him but he clearly underestimated them. The forensics cover up the bodies and he lets  a scream, he rushes to the bodies and tries to touch them but they pull him back.
"Leave me alone, leave me alone. I want my family", he cried and screamed as he wiggled from the police's grip.
"Sir I'm going to need you to calm down, your family is gone. We will find the person who did this. Do you have any idea who could have done this?"
John:I know who did this and you better pray you find them first, because I will kill them like they did to my family.
"Sir you are not allowed to take the law into your hands."
John:Don't tell me about the law, you guys are a joke. Infact you are wasting my time.
He clicked his tongue and went to his car.
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Zimbili is hugging her knees rocking herself back and forth, the guilt is now starting to kick in. Yabatha helps her stand up and wipes her tears. He holds her hands.
Yabatha:Stop crying.
Zimbili:We killed a family Yabatha, there were children in there.
Yabatha:John killed our families too without showing any mercy. This is no time to be weak, we need to finish off what we started. By now he already knows his family is dead and is coming for us.
Zimbili:What are we going to do?
Yabatha:We fight Zimbili. We have let that man toy with us for long, it's time to fight back. Do you hear me?
She nodded.
Yabatha:I need to hear you say it Zimbili. We can't let him kill us.
Zimbili:Okay okay I hear you.
Yabatha:Good, now let's go.
Zimbili:Where are we going now?
Yabatha:To meet him halfway. I'm going to kill him. People like him deserve death, even jail won't do it now because he'll just bribe everyone..
He took the gun and shove it in his bag.
Zimbili:Where did you get a gun Yabatha?
Yabatha: I stole it from Ndebele.
They got out of the house they were in and went to the road, they stood on the pavement hiking for a ride. A car stops next to them and offers them a ride, they hop in the backseat and hold hands while the driver starts the car. He looks at them and smiles. He drives away.
Yabatha: Please drop us off on the next robot.
The driver ignores them and keep on driving.
Yabatha:Hey I said drop us on the robot you just passed.
Zimbili tried opening the doors but they are locked, they look at each other and it dawns into them that he was never giving them a ride.

The driver reached his destination and there was Green standing outside with an army waiting for them. Yabatha & Zimbili looked at each other and nodded. John opened the car doors and dragged Yabatha out. He gave him a punch followed by a slap and another and another.
John: You burnt my family! You son of a bitch!!!
He held him by his t-shirt and punched him again and dropped him on the ground. He stepped on him on his neck with his pointy shoe. Yabatha kicked his feet trying to break free as he was losing breath.
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Zethembiso is walking around the neighbourhood trying to clear her mind, she told Tukelo to leave as she would like to spend more time with her father. She saw someone familiar walking towards her, but no that can't be him. This person looks clean and you can tell he is handsome. The more he got closer , Zethembiso had her mouth wide open. It really is him. But how? Last she saw him he was this dirty ugly man
Mbongeni: Zethembiso.
Zethembiso: Mbongeni.
Mbongeni:It's been a while. Durban must have been treating you well.
She lost words, this is the very same man she left and now she's back with absolutely nothing; while he on the other hand looks like life has been treating him well.
Zethembiso:Yes Durban was fine but I'm back home now. What about you?
Mbongeni:Things are also fine on my side, I now have a stable job and next year I'm going back to school. I'm turning my life around, I managed to build myself a room for privacy.
Zethembiso swallowed a lump of embarrassment, she always looked down on him and told him how poor he was, and now he has turned his life around.
Zethembiso:That's good, I will see you some other time. I have to leave.
She quickly walked away before she could embarass herself even more.