” Ouch! Ooooooh! ” Mzwa groans in pain.
” I want you to die a slow painful death, you paying for all the pain you caused me. “
” I got into a relationship with Thenjiwe because I wanted more children. You said you don’t want another child after our daughter, remember? “
” We don’t have a child together! My womb was removed at the age of 9, after uncle Sam damaged me. So, I can’t conceive! A friend of mine who was a midwife, stole her for me. “
She sat on Mzwa’s lap and thought about that day. Her mother was out clubbing with friends, meanwhile uncle Sam was raping her. She told her mother the next morning but her mother refused to take any action because they had no where to go. She couldn’t even run to her father’s people because they hated the prostitute child and blamed her mother for the arrest of her father.
” You are wicked to steal a child! She could’ve have had a proper childhood with her parents and end up in a better place. To be honest, we both failed to love her. I can imagine what her parents went through. ” he shakes his head in disbelief.
” I don’t know and I don’t care. I did what I had to do to make you happy.
” What was I thinking to love a child of a prostitute and a drug Lord? “
” I didn’t want things to end this way but you pushed me to far nawe mahn! “
” You disgusting me! ” he spits on floor.
” Did I tell you that I am going after Lumka when I’m done with you? “
” Don’t you dare harm my lovely beautiful daughter! ” he tries to get up from the chair.
” What will you do? “
” You going to rot in jail! “
” I grew up in a terrifying household, jail doesn’t scare me. “
” You going to regret this! “
” No, I won’t. I am getting rid of what has been hurting and bothering me all these years. Just like I did with uncle Sam. ” she sighs.
” You are the one who burned Sam in the shack that night? How? You were only 11 years old!
” Well, I did it and I am going to do it again today.
Pinky gets up from his lap, lights a match stick and throws it on Mzwa’s scooter.She quickly runs out before the place blows out. On her way out she bumps into police and a crowd who heard gun shots and yelling. She stretches her long pale arms, so that the police can handcuff her. While, people are running around with buckets filled with water, trying to put out the fire. They give up as the whole garage blows up, relatives start to weep for their beloved Mzwanele.
” Throw her into a loony bin! ” curses the shocked and frightened police officer.
” She must die in jail! ” says Linda, the nosy neighbor.
” No bad deed goes unpunished.” Says happy Pinky, getting into a police van.
” Hurt people hurt people! I knew that this child will be a danger to herself and society. ” says the old frail woman passing by.