SHATTERED EPISODE 27

From the writer of
Nude Bed
Death after life
Cold Desert
Hot eyes
Sorrows of an Eagle and
Calabash


That moment when you find love, trust and honour in the eyes of everyone.
That moment when your worst enemy becomes the demon himself.
That same moment when your best moment becomes your worst nightmare.

Enjoy the thrills of how far life would sacrifice for love. Yesterday is always a shadow you can not escape, today is a dream worth living, yet tomorrow shall forever remain the wonder of nature hidden to all.

A *shattered* past in itself is a shattered tomorrow.


*SHATTERED*

EPISODE 27

He rather sent delegates as if he was sending people for peace keeping.

Ma-uuda turned to her father with tears in her eyes. "Daddy, please tell me it's not true. Tell me it's not true", she cried.
"Tell her the truth Larweh. Larweh, tell her. How come she has the name Ma-uuda?", my mother said.
Ma-uuda's father stood there, put his hands in his pocket and looked up. "My daughter, I'm very sorry for  all this. I'm sorry it's happening on your day. The truth is a bitter pill, but it takes a man to swallow it. Whatever she is saying is true, but I didn't know these were my children. I didn't know. If I had known, I wouldn't have sat to watch this tragedy befall you.
Please, take it easy my dear daughter",he said.
"So who am I? Where is my mother? You told me she died when I was a year old. Is that really true? Daddy, talk to me please", Ma-uuda cried uncontrollably. "Hmmm...Ma-uuda, you are not my daughter", he said with tears in his eyes.
What! We all got shocked with that. He went ahead to say, "I sold my wife here's jewelleries, lands and some cloth and made my way to the states. I came down after I had acquired much,  but didn't find enough reason to go in search of her. I had one servant here who used to help me a lot. She was pregnant before she came in. Her humility made me like her.

On the day of delivery, she passed on. I couldn't but adopt you as my own. She was a muslim so that's how come you got the name Ma-uuda. I promised myself I would love you and never disclose the secret to you. Little did I know that misfortune was knocking at my doorstep." Ma-uuda sat on the floor and cried while we all went closer to her to calm her. Hmmm, this world! It can take years to mould a dream, yet takes only a fraction of a second for it to be SHATTERED.

I can't sit to watch Ma-uuda go through this alone. I took the chance I had to tell everybody present about the nasty affair between Mariama and my so-called brother. I didn't hide what my presumed father tried to do to me as well. "Eeeeeiii!", they all said. Quaku Adepa shamefully apologised. "That wasn't the time bitch! Like father,like son", I said. They both knelt down to apologize.

 "See what you have done to our fine flower vase. Do you know a glass flower vase moves from treasure to trash once it is broken?"Naa asked them both. What then do you expect her to do now that you have successfully made her life miserable?



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