[At the hospital.]

Sham: (shaking) What do you want here?

Lucky: Shut your mouth and listen to my great-grandmother.

Mrs Ledger: Sham, I’ve god bad news for you and Lucky.

Sham: What is it?

Mrs Ledger: First of all Sham, I want to apologize for everything I did to you, Lucky and your family, Sham.

Lucky: Granny, it’s not you who should apologize to him; he’s the one who should apologize.

Mrs Ledger: You don’t understand Lucky, my boy. Lucky, sham had all the right to do what he did to me and my family.

Lucky: What do you mean, granny?

Mrs Ledger: Your mom, your father and I, we pushed him onto the edge.

Lucky: I am really confused now, granny.

Mrs Ledger: Lucky, I was once married to Mr Sham’s first father-in-law. He disappointed me and I wanted him to pay by killing his daughter, Sham’s first wife.

Lucky: (shocked) What?

Sham: (shouting) Why don’t you tell him that you and Nomusa killed my two months old son?

Lucky: What?

Mrs Ledger: No, that’s not true Sham, we didn’t kill your son.

Sham: (shouting) If you didn’t kill him where is he now?

Mrs Ledger: (crying) Please let me explain Sham.

Sham: You better be fast.

Mrs Ledger: Sham, I was lying the day I say your son died, months after we kidnapped him.

Sham: What?

Mrs Ledger: (crying) Nomusa was infertile and she was not going to have children for the rest of her life, so Lucas and I decided to take your son, Lucky, to be Nomusa and Lucas’ son.

Lucky: (shocked) What? Oh no, oh no that can’t happen. Please tell me you are joking.

Sham: (shocked) What, Lucky is my biological son?

Mrs Ledger: (crying) Yes, it’s true Lucky, Sham is your biological father. Lucas and I killed your biological mother.

Lucky: (crying) I am… I am so sorry, dad for everything I did to you, I am so sorry.

Sham: (crying) I am so sorry too, son, for every pain I caused to you.

Lucky: (crying) But how could you do that to me, Mrs Ledger, huh? I almost killed my biological father thinking that he is an enemy, while an enemy is you?

Mrs Ledger: (crying) I am sorry Lucky, I am sorry boy. I did not mean to hurt you and your father.

Lucky: I messed up big time now and I don’t think things will ever be fixed.

Mrs Ledger: I am so sorry guys, now I see that revenge is very dangerous for us all. The only thing I ever wanted in my life was to have revenge. But because of revenge, I lost my grand-daughter and everyone who means the world to me.

Sham: (crying) I forgive you Mrs Ledger. Because of revenge I lost my beloved wife, father and I almost killed my own flesh and blood; my son. Revenge turns you to be evil and dangerous; not only to those you’re up against but even to yourself. I am sleeping in this bed today suffering from pains and stress because of revenge.

Lucky: I almost killed my father because of wanting to return bad things and most of all I lost a good and supportive man, Mr George.

[Sham’s room door opens.]

Detective: Mr Sham Jacobs, you are under arrest for murdering your wife, Nomusa Ledger, Glen and Mr Lucas Nzimande.

Mrs Ledger: Oh no Detective there must be some mistake somehow.

Detective: No Madam, Mr Jacobs is a murderer and we are more than willing to help the prosecutor to convince the judge to give him a life sentence.

Sham: (crying) Lucky my son, your father loves you more than anything in the world. I am sorry I did not get a quality time to spend with you.

Lucky: (crying) I love you too, dad. I promise to love you until I die.

Sham: Please promise me, Lucky, that you will never take revenge on someone else again for the rest of your life.

Lucky: I promise. And from now on, I don’t want to be a CEO anymore. But I am going to study motivational studies; I want to be a motivational speaker so that I would motivate people about how dangerous revenge is.

Detective: Constable, cuff the man and put him in the van.

Lucky: (crying) I love you dad.

Sham: (crying) Love you son and please forgive, Mrs Ledger as she did not know what she was doing.

*****

[A year later, Lucky gives a speech at one of the correctional services that he visits.]

Lucky: (crying) Revenge is indeed a mission that will never be accomplished; revenge is suicide. Today my mom is dead, my father is in jail, I lost my best friend and today I’m a murder because of revenge. If I listened when people warned me about the dangers of revenge, I wouldn’t be here crying today. I suggest you show revenge to your enemies by forgiving them and loving them; which will hurt them more than everything in the world. This is my story of my revenge, I cry today but I hope you are not going to the same mistake I did.

[The End]