The Changing Tides - Season 1 - Episode 53

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The Changing Tides - Season 1 - Episode 53

One with some sort of serenity.

She looked at the cross of Jesus hanging on the wall near the window and a portrait of Mary
knowing that was an indication it was a catholic home .

Maria’s mind wild as she remembered years back when her father asked her to start catechism
lessons. Her father never really went to church but Maria and her siblings were made to go to
Catholic church while her mother continued with pentcoast. .

She recalled how her father always told them he was from a home with strong Catholic faith.
She was lost in thoughts thinking about her parents when the man she had seen before entred the
room and cleared his throat before greeting them.

Maria turned her head and her eyes met the man’s.
“Am fine thank you” she tried to smile.

The man recognise her,
” have we met before?” He asked her with a wrinkle on the face like he was struggling to
remember where from.
Maria smiled again,
” yes sir, I stopped you at church a week ago. ”
“Oh yeah! ” The man exclaimed relaxing in his seat.

“I remember you. How are you my child ” he smiled his facial expressions reminding Maria of her
father again.
“Well sir, we came here because this lady here has some few questions to ask you,” Musonda
started looking at Maria.
“Go on dear” he nodded to her to encourage her. Knowing how nervous she was. Maria sat up
and cleared her throat.

“Um am, I came to ask if you know of someone from Lusaka” she’s started stammering….
“From Lusaka ?” the man asked,
“Yes Maria sighed rubbing her fingers as sweet built up and her heart beat so loud she thought
everyone could hear it beating.
“The thing sir is that, am a daughter to Mr Kenny Ngowani and Beatrice Mambo, am the only
surviving relative as my father and mother together with two of my siblings died in a traffic accident
about 10 years ago” she explained as the man listened to her.
At the mention of Kenny Ngowani the man lifted his face and looked at Maria his mouth open.

“What? Did you say Kenny? ” He asked her his eyes wide open.
“Yes that’s my father” she nodded. .
Instead of responded the man stood and walked to the other room and came back holding a photo
In his hands. .
“Is that the man?” He asked giving Maria the photo.

“Yes,” Maria agreed at the first instance she looked at it. Her father and the man took the photo
together, though he looked a bit younger, Maria identified his father.

“So you mean you know my father?” She asked him surprised. .

“My name young lady is Kenny Ngowani. Am speechless right now because that man in that photo
is my son. The son I lost years ago because of some misunderstandings. I named him after
myself” he continued.
Maria looked at the man before her and stood to walk to the window like the air in the room wasn’t
enough any more.

“So all these years you were here and here I was thinking am all alone in this world. ” Maria spoke
as tears started forming in her eyes.

“My child you are my blood, if you are kenny’s child, you are definately my grand daughter and this is shocking news” he added.
Maria looked at him.

“Well, this is really something and honestly I didn’t expect this. I just saw you resembled my father
and now that I know you are my grandfather I really don’t know what to tell you sir ” she shook her
head. .

The man smiled sadly..
“oh my child you won’t understand it’s a long story. believe me if I had known you existed I could
have looked for you a long time ago. Look at how you ended up paying for your parent’s sins.

Being all alone in this world at the age you were left I can imagine is never easy”
Maria walked to sit back when the man narrated how it all happened, after she told him her
parents where gone and that she had struggled to reach were she was.
“My son was a good boy, a dreamer of something big.. he wanted to become a Doctor. When he
completed secondary school he was admitted to study with the University of Zambia. After coming
back from his A levels studies, Kenny came to tell me a story about him wanting to marry this girl
he met.