The Changing Tides - Season 1 - Episode 55

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The Changing Tides - Season 1 - Episode 55

As a father I told him he had to wait until he completed his education and later on he could go on
and marry the girl.

Your father thought I was being so hard on him and told me to my face that he could do jobs and
take care of his wife.

My late wife may her soul rest in peace and myself tried all we could to make him reason but he
was so bound to do things his way even after I threatened to stop paying his tuition fees.
We didn’t know that he had made your mother pregnant back then, and according to them your
mother was a strong Pentecostal member and she never wanted people to know she got pregnant
before marriage. She had also just completed secondary school.

Later, Kenny disappeared and we looked for him everywhere. I even paid tuition fees for his
second year in school hoping he would return but he never came back.

As a father I was so disappointed with this behaviour. The time I met him in chingola he was
looking so poor and worked as some casual worker in the mine and when I went to him to try bring
him back home, your father made it clear that he wouldn’t come back to people who didn’t respect
his decisions.

To cut the long story short, the last time I saw your father we had exchanged a lot of words which
am not proud of now. I actually somehow cursed him in my words and the time I heard rumours he
was dead I felt bad that we never had time to renconcile. In fact I came to know of his death 2 years later and had no idea he relocated to Lusaka. ” the man narrate.

Maria was quite listening to her grand father, the news she just heard making her realise that
somehow her misfortunes where engineered by her parent’s past mistakes.

“I had no idea you even existed my child thank God you found your way home. I never got to meet
your mother or her parents too. Am so happy you came by” added seriously.

“You are my child and I promise to help you in whatever way I can to better your life. God has
just given me a chance to make amends with what happened with your father.” He smiled holding
Maria in an embrace they both cried. He let her go and sat back down looking at Musonda.
“And you young man, who are you ?” He asked turning his attention to Musonda who was quite
all this time.

“Am Musonda sir, a friend to Maria we stay in the same compound within this township” he
explained.

“Well thank you for helping bring my child home. Am really happy right now I don’t know how to
express this.”

Mr Ngowani called his sister and the other people in the house and introduced Maria, as
Everyone smiled and greeted her, asking her one question after the other.
Maria gave some of the details of her past life and by the time they finished catching up they
realised it was late and Maria told her newly found grand father she would visit them the next day.

he insisted she went over to stay with them. And Maria promised to think over it.
A feel of relief clouded Maria as Musonda drove her back home.

” Thank God you brought me here” she thought to herself.