in her shoes

chapter 28

Bhekokwake Mkhize

I can't believe my mom would send a girl in my bedroom but that doesn't sound like my mom so this girl could be lying to try and ruin my wedding night and if that's the truth then she will be buried with an hour.i can't believe my wife has become so soft she was such a good judge of character but I guess the monsters are changing her and this days Death has disappeared and the cry baby Alutha has come alive and I love her but she is a pain and the peréz boys think she is cute so the aggrieve her to annoy me that the only reason I kicked them out and their sister cried the whole day that day,now I'm heading to the main house confront my mom she is the best mother money can buy I just wonder why Alutha feels she doesn't like her very much but as I said my baby has lost her touch because there is no way my mom would hate the woman I chose to be my partner in life while she has always complained about me not getting married all this year's,so I refuse to believe that she is involved in all these confusion.

When I get to the house I find her sitting with my uncles and their wife'.my uncle is my father's younger brother,you see my grandfather had two wife's and my father was born of the second wife because his first wife could not have babies and that the reason he married the second wife so when she gave birth to my father it was a win for both houses to the first wife it was having someone to care for and finally a babies to spoil and love but for my grandmother it was a win because she had forfilled her purpose in the marriage for bearing a son an heir so when she had the second child who was also a boy named mcineni the family celebrated the new life my grandfather had other ideas and they were not his ideas but that of the ancestors to gift the first wife with the first born so that her house would not perish and that was what done even in the old days in marriage such as their and it was no problem because the first wife had already bonded with the boy and there was peace between the wives because they both understood they roles so it was easy to agree but what they didn't know was the pressure they put on the boy because he was named Bhekikhaya (the Castilian of the home)so he had to follow his name and look after both homes because that was what his father groomed him for. The problem was that the marriage produced only boy and all three boys took after their names who were Bhekikhaya,mcineni (take care/keep him)xcovizwe(chaos in the community)and this name for their last born was from an ancestor that demand the child to carry the name in order to rectify the meaning of the name.the problem started when a  friend of my grandfather became jealous of his peaceful and fruitful marriage and put a curse in our family for generations that the names we give our children will follow them so when my dad gave me the name Bhekokwake (minds his business) hadn't known about the curse until one day my uncle xcovizwe impregnated both wives of his nextdoor neighbour and the husband found out and chaos broke out to enestand that even the king couldn't solve it so he requested for a healer to intervene because this case was one of its kind so the healer told them of the curse but it was going to be broke when a child of blood was born what ever that meant so because he was not clear in his riddles they carried on living but only concise of the curse but I was not as lucky as my sisters nomcebo (mother of wealth)and busisekile(blessed one) who got names that brought them fortune but mine ruined my life that why I vowed not to have kid because I believe my dad messed me up by giving me the because he was tired of taking care of his brothers and cleaning up their mess he decided I should mind my own business.

So back to the present they are sitting with my mother and after my dad died my mother inherited his brothers so the were part of the parkage that come with marrying the love of her life but even today the brothers still manage to follow their names and my sisters follow their names aswell nomcebo married well to the chief and he is wealthy and busisekile got blessed with 10 children in her marriage to her loving husband the is always an upside to the names even the good ones nomcebo married to wealth but her husband is a serial cheat so the might be wealth but no love and busisekile married the love her life and was blessed with children but she found her husband already married to three bitter wives who couldn't have children so you see and with me I mind my own business but that has made a lonely person who has a lot of issues through out the years that why I don't have a crew or friends but the Motaung children have been the only people to stand me and the way I am.