The Whisper

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( what really happened to Alhena)

Seeing all of them there together was the final nail in the coffin I thought that I'll approach my past when I'm ready but it's true when it's said that we can't run away from our past forever that day I saw him at the mall I thought I was hallucinating but it was really him..fuck. My father died from cancer and I was left with my mother and little sister Bahumi after his death everything started going sideways I didn't even finish school I was told that I have to help in making money so Bahumi was the one who had the privilege of futhering her studies while I stayed at home with my mother. One day my mother had told me that dad had a wish and I must fulfill it , my mother knew how much I loved my dad so I wouldn't say no to honoring his wishes and I was told that his wish was for me to get married to the Zulu family since he worked for Mr Zulu he saw that I'll be taken care off when he dies and that is how mine and Mbuso's marriage started.

At first things were weird between us we became friends and from friends to lovers and our marriage became like every marriage. He was my first in everything and i loved how kind and caring he was I gave myself to him in whatever way cause he was my husband after all. I got married to him when I was 18yrs and we were married for 4years things started to get bitter when I kept on having miscarriages and his family was on our necks wanting a grandson and a great grandson.  Everytime I got pregnant I would loose the baby.

They started to call me names for being unable to bear children for him. They also used to insult me and he did too calling me a woman who can't give him what he wants when he gave me all I wanted he started not sleeping home and when I would ask him where he was he would beat the shit out of me when I run to my mother she would tell me that I have to bear it all cause I belong to the Zulu's and I'm nolonger her daughter since I'm married so ngabekezela nami until one day he came home with my younger sister and she had a big bump I was so confused cause she never told me that she was pregnant.

Everyone was happy even my mother they all seemed to know about it. The hatred Mbuso used to look at me with whenever I open my mouth to talk most of the time I would keep quiet that day he had came with Bahumi he said that he wants to Marry her because she is carrying his heir. Everyone was happy and I was still confused but my world came crushing to the reality of that my only sister had betrayed me and my mother seemed to be happy for her. He had drawn divorce papers for me to sign but I refused cause I loved him so much and I didn't want to accept what was infront of my eyes. They finally did get married and she gave birth to a cute baby boy they became a family and I was nothing but an outcast in my matrimonial home I would have left but I had nowhere to go even my mother wanted nothing to do with me.

One day I had gone to look for a job when two man kidnapped me from the streets and they tried to rape and kill me but I got saved God bless that angel who saved me. When I regained consciousness at the hospital I escaped cause I was scared that maybe those man will come for me again. The first person I thought of running to was Mbuso but when I got home I learnt the shocking truth. Him and Bahumi were in the living room talking and he was saying that he had hired a man to kill me since I'm the obstacle in their relationship. I couldn't help but cry and swear at him he slapped me while Bahumi was watching in satisfaction and he asked me how I got saved I didn't answer him but pushed him and I ran fo my life that was the last day I saw them. I started being an alcoholic I was angry at everyone and even at my dad for leaving me behind when he should have taken me with him.

I don't really know how I ended up in the Dungen but I know that on that day I was drinking while walking on the streets like a senseless woman when a car pulled over and snatched me and when I woke up I was in a new world and a world of hell.

I don't think I'll ever forgive them for what they did to me cause all that happened to my life was because of them. The door bell rings waking me up from my nightmare of the past. I make my way to open it and get attacked by big hugs from my sisters.