Tamara Chronicles

THE ACCIDENT

A little recap of the life of Tamara, she was a normal girl but her grandmother's curse was about to catch up on her as her grandmother was cursed alongside her family, she was to live lonely the rest of her life. This was about a few years ago when her Grandmother was still young and full of life. She did an unspeakable act and went to a witch doctor to help her with her aid. She eventually got what she wanted but as she came to learn with great power comes great sacrifice and responsibility. The witchdoctor added Beauty comes with a price. Little did she know that her parents were the price she had to pay for her precious beauty?

Soon Tamara was all grown and ready for school .A School that accepted all and rejected none; indeed it was all in all perfect. She was nervous, her mother could tell from her eyes .Eyes looking watery waiting to flow with tears, but not tears of joy. The first days proved to be a climb onto a steep slope but it eased with time, the healer of everything, and turned to move down the slope. Family time became scarce as Tamara got deep to school and her parents lost to a pool of work, loads upon loads and lots of extra hours at the office, left with only Sundays and a few lucky Saturdays were they could spend quality time with Tamara.

Tamara was always a good-natured, lively sass while interacting with her age mates, however she had never spoken ill about her mother until that very first day at school. Well, that went over like a lead balloon sinking deeply in her ears .Fear began dripping in her veins as her mother placed her down and took her hand by force. "You will listen to me as I did not labor in vain," her mother stressed .Even though Tamara did not understand the words that came out of her mother's mouth, her face told everything to her. Sooner than later they arrived at school. it was as spacious as the rumors dictated ,the students could be seen walking uniformly in uniform as they marched towards the flag. Immediately Tamara and her mother walked in the gate ,Tamara almost caused a commotion as she had not seen a parade before but insisted to join comrade .Fortunately she was stopped by her mother before she could cause a commotion to the parade. Eventually the parade was over and she was introduced alongside other 2 students .She was young, adorable, pretty much intelligent but also a little bit sassy. The teacher was a blessing in disguise, she was delighted to see new student in class. Tamara was pleased by the smiley teacher who always liked making jokes all the time ,Later that day it was time for Tamara to head back home but her mother was running late .Fortunately the smiley teacher was going the same direction and made sure Tamara arrived at home safe and sound.

Every day was a new beginning and a new lesson to be learnt, Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds and like winged stars the fire-flies flash and glance, pale in the open moonshine. "It is time, we have to set the ball rolling" Her father articulated (They were to go on a business trip). Tamara woke up unexpectedly and her mother rushed to her aid without hesitation, she had grown rooted to the warmth and love of her young one .Her Father immediately figured out a plan to separate the two and took care of Tamara's needs as she was preparing for school, she accepted obstinately and left. The trap was set for Tamara not finding out her father's real intention.

The Trip was set and ready for takeoff; they were to attend a conference meeting in Tokyo. They tried to arrive at the airport on time but were fairly late, at the airline counter there was some sought of delay. Some white people were talking in a vernacular language; therefore they had to wait for a translator to intervene. After that commotion they delivered the luggage hopping nothing would go wrong, but to their surprise they were a few kilos overweight due to some pancake they had packed earlier .To add insult to injury it was 20 minutes late for their flight and the x ray guy was taking all the time to inspect the luggage, it felt like fate had sealed their fate. Elizabeth (Tamara's mother) had given up but Robert (Tamara's dad) was still hopeful. At least their boarding passes did not fail fortunately the plane was also late since the fuel tank was running out and had to be refilled.