Chapter 15 'The last testament'

Have you ever met someone new and you spend a day with them and it seems like you have known them forever. Have you ever board a bus and set next to someone so friendly, very much like you and never close to the friends you have at home. But that person drops off the next stop you say goodbye and never to see them again. Your heart is left empty as if there had been in it for a long time.  One of my favourite songs said ‘an old man turned ninety nine he won the lottery and died the next day. You meet the man of your dreams and he introduces you to his beautiful wife. You look for a knife and find a thousand spoons. Isn’t that ironic?’

Everything was set and ready, she was well dressed, her coffin polished and a lot of mourners had gathered to say goodbye to a woman they thought they knew a long time ago. Ruth was there as well, she was now fit enough to walk by herself.  She went to her bedroom and mourned her friend one more time, a friend that sacrificed her life for hers.  Anele followed her daughter to her room and held her close she did not want to lose her again. It was Taka’s last will and testament that brought a new chapter in these women’s lives. Before she died she wrote

Dear girls

It was lovely knowing you.  I am happy to have met you. My life has been on the balance and soon I was going to be sentenced and spend the rest of my life in jail. I grew up a rural girl, got married early and never got an education. All of my life I have lived it on sacrifice and love regardless of  abuse. Therefore as a friend I request you do the following for me; by the time you read this I will be dead. Please Selina take a bus to a small town called Lumbo; there you will find a hospital. Look for a nurse called Nonhlanhla Dube tell her you were sent by Taka. Bring my daughter back with you. When Ruth is awake tell her I said my daughter has to be a lawyer like her. Take my body to the doctors tell them I have a very healthy liver that will suit Ruth. Give Ruth my life however she has to forgive Anele. We all make mistakes.

Goodbye my friends

Father jerkins made his last prayer and Taka was laid to rest. Anele and Ruth with Taka’s daughter made their way back home. Though Anele had lost half of her wealth she had gained most of what she had missed all of her life. Selina went to Father Jerkins and held his hand tight and whispered ‘Father behold your daughter needs a father’.

The end

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