KURISANI
"What is this?" my heart is drumming against my chest because my mind had already started playing out different possibilities and I'm not slow, I can see where this is leading to but I don't want to conclude anything before I hear the words come out of her mouth. I want to hear her say it and maybe, just maybe it's not what I think it is. Maybe it's not what I was told would come to pass after my cleansing, for her sake it better not be.
" What did you do to me?" she asks accusingly while catching her breath. I take a good look at her and this woman does not look good at all, it looks like something is feasting on her from the inside. She glares at me with so much hatred in her eyes.
"What do you mean what did I do to you?" I walk a little closer to her. She still has her back against the door. "Hahani Fanisa, what is this?"
"Just tell me, dammit! This all started after your cleansing so something you did there must have triggered it. What did you do? Set me free from this torment, Kurisani. Do it now," She demands.
"Now you are confusing me, hahani. You're the one who came in here and said you want to talk and then you turn and start accusing me of things I know nothing about. Are you sure that all is well... With you?"
"Do I look well to you?"
"No, you don't. You really don't," I cross my arms. I can't stop my mind from raging, this woman, I swear, if she's the one...
"Fine, I'll tell you. It started when we visited you and Tirhani,"
"When you showed up unannounced ?"
"Yes, that time. I had something with me that I would put in your breakfast each morning. Something that was meant to help you conceive quickly and give us an heir and it did it's work but because of your whoring ways, you stupid girl, you went and fell pregnant with another man's child,"
" Did I ask for your help? "I ask and she goes quiet" Answer me, you witch! Did I ask for your fucking help? What gave you the right to mess with my body? To feed me things? You could have killed me! "
" We own you, remember? You were given to this family and here, we do what is best or the family whatever the cost. We paid so much to have you as his wife and so you are ours, "
" So that gave you the right to feed me things? To poison me? "
" I did it for Tirhani. My brother's son deserves so much better than a wife who sleeps around, "
I laugh when she says this, I really laugh and it takes her by surprise" You think you know it all, don't you? Well let me clarify for you, you know absolutely nothing! Nothing at all about our marriage, "
"I know that you are very lucky to have married into this family. To have married my nephew because I know he would give you the world if you wanted or if you behaved like a proper wife should but you just had to be a loose-"
"Oh cut that shit out and listen. I just told you that you don't know about Tirhani and I or you would have known that this was a joint agreement, you witch! You think your nephew is this godsent man that much? He was out there screwing someone else just hours before our wedding and he did not stop there. He abandoned me here to go and continue living his best life and you want to come here and act like I've wronged a saint? "
"Even so, everyone knows that it's a man's nature to go out there from time to time, you didn't have to make it a competition,"
"What competition? I wasn't competing with Tirhani, I didn't care what he does with his time. I was just living my life and refusing to be the wife who begs to be noticed to be noticed by her husband liken he didn't know that he was going to marry her in the first place. I wasn't about to go on my knees and beg for love and I'm still not willing to do that, never! If I see that I'm not wanted then I will not force the matter. You had no right poking your damn nose into things that have nothing to do with you. Who the hell do you think you are? Cooking my womb with God knows what poison you were feeding and then you want to stand there and act like there's even a single justification for your evil ways? There will never be-" I stop and think about it again" No, actully wait... if you poisoned me at first wanting me to get pregnant then it means... "
