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The Hidden Motive

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It has been a long day. A lot of people have been in the compound and the house help is cleaning the compound. Mama Anita is seated outside waiting. Anita walks to her. She is still happy.

“Yes mom, you called me?”

“I did. Have a seat.”

“OK. What is the problem?”

“I want you to end your relationship with that boy.”

“WHAT?!”

“I know you are not deaf. You have heard me.”

“Are you being serious mom?”

“Yes I am being serious.”

“You want me to leave the man I love?”

“Yes I will not repeat myself again.”

“OK, why?”

“He is not from our people.”

There is an eerie silence. Anita is still looking at her mother. She is trying to compose herself as she can.

“So?”

“What do you mean ‘so’?”

“He is not from our people so?”

“It would seem he has even taught you to talk back your mother, eh?”

“No. I am still trying to understand your logic. I have been dating this man for 2 years. You have known him from the start. Why after all this time and when we are about to get married do you come up with such…ideologies?”

“I was not sure how far you would go in the relationship. I was hoping for you to see some sense. You know fully well our people and his people do not mix. You should have seen how his parents were looking at us. Faking smiles when deep inside their heart they were ready to strike us down.”

“You know what mom, no, I will not end my relationship with him over some flimsy excuse. You have to do better than that.”

“Wait, you are talking to me, like that?”

“You are still on that?”

“If your father was here…”

“He is not. He died.”

“Yes, he died, fighting those people.”

“It has been 15 years. We have been living in peace. Why can’t we just move on?”

“I will never forget the pain and the torment. I lost the man I love.”

“I lost my dad too. However, you cannot stay on that issue forever. We have to move on mom.”


“No. I refuse to forget.”

"Mom, if you have hidden agenda against my fiance, I will not let it succeed."

Anita left immediately after that statement, never giving her mother the chance to respond.

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