As they drove there she kept talking about the dream she had dreamt the previous night and Takunda had switched off mentally, he was tired of these baby dreams. Somehow they made Runako sink deep and deeper into depression, but Takunda could not stop them.

“It’s okay honey, it was just a dream. What do we need to buy?” Takunda responded to his wife, who sounded so hurt that the baby in her dream was taken from her.

“It’s not okay, I want my baby, she is my baby, she is mine”, Takunda almost dropped a few tears but he couldn’t, he had to be strong for the both of them.

He took out a needle from the first aid kit, and injected his wife. Within no time, she was calm.

“I am going to buy the things we need, lay back and relax, I will be back very soon,” he said as he picked up a paper where Runako had written the things they needed.

Runako nodded, she was still too weak to talk from the drug.

As she sat there waiting for her husband, Runako saw a baby standing and using her mother’s cooler box to balance. That baby looked exactly like the one she always dreamt about.

She opened the car door and walked right to the child, then she realised her mother was sitting right hide her. As soon as she got close to the child, the baby took a few steps and fell right in front of her, then tried to stand again using Runako’s legs to balance.

“Excuse me, I am sorry she is messing up your clothes,” the woman said.

“It’s fine, it’s not a problem at all, what is her name?”

“Her name is Rudo.”

“Hello Rudo!” Runako said as she carried the baby.

“I am Runako by the way, you have a beautiful daughter,” she said as she was playing with Rudo.

“Thank you, I am Huvepo,” Rudo’s mother responded.

Just as when the introduction was about to turn into a conversation, a customer come to buy beans, Huvepo turned to measure and pack beans that was placed neatly on the table behind her along with other things that she was selling. But when she turned back to her daughter, Runako gone. She looked around to see if Runako had left her baby.

“My baby, my brother did you see where the lady who was holding my baby right next to you went?”

“No, I didn’t notice”, the young man responded. It was the truth, the young man was too busy on his phone to notice, but that response annoyed Huvepo.

She walked from the table headed to the parking lot asking anyone and everyone if they had seen where Runako went with her daughter. Some ladies who had seen Runako and her husband park directed Huvepo. She ran to the car but both Runako and the baby were not there. Huvepo fell on her knees as she started crying.

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