Make it Work

My Truth

13 30 At the Plot

I receive a very warm welcome upon my arrival from two-year-old Anaishe and her mother Davidzo, both of them mean a lot to me. When I met Davidzo she was on the road bruised and her clothes torn and I helped her and let her stay at my plot back when I was younger. And the little angel alongside her is her daughter Anaishe, so cute.

We head into the house, straight to the living room.

“How is everything over here?” Anaishe runs over to me from her mother.

“We have been good here! (she answers) And how is everything at home? How is Mrs Zimuto doing?”

Breathe audibly, “She is healthy.”

“That does not sound like she is good. What is going on Michael?” she enquires further with concern.

“A lot!” rub my hand on my forehead.

“Well you can start by telling me something! Like what is going? Now that I have come to think of it, I haven’t heard from you in a long time, what was going on?” she presses on.

“Do not worry about it, I am sure you have a lot on your plate and I will not add more to it! I look at Anaishe and ask Davidzo, “How have your books been? How have you been handling your books and Anaishe here?”

“If you say so!” she wheezes and continues, “Anaishe has been a little difficult but I am getting used to it now! Waking up during the night and fight through the night until she sleeps.” She pauses and breathes heavily and continues, “Let me prepare something for you to eat!” she rises from the couch head to the kitchen living me with little Anaishe.

“Heyy, when you finish, I will be in my office with Anaishe, we are going to do some work in there!” shout out to her as I get up from the couch and head for my office playing with Anaishe who seems to be enjoying just being there with me.

I continue with my personal project as I wait for Sunday to hit the present. All the pain, all the suffering, all the disappointments, I will settle everything through this new project once and for all, but I have no idea how long or how much it is going to rip my soul apart but right now finding the truth will be better than living in the darkness. A baby playing by my side and playing with me will make this project run a bit better, only if I can show her to my family, but they will ask a lot of questions and discover how I got her and it will not end well. Best I wait until all this subsides.

After a couple of hours Davidzo knocks on the door finds me a sleeping with Anaishe in my arms drooling on my chest.

“Mr Zimuto!” she comes closer and shakes me as she whispers so that she will not wake up Anaishe.

Wake up with haste, “Yes, Yes, Yes! What is it?” look around.

“Your food is ready, you can now come and eat.”

I look at Anaishe, “Can you please take her?”

“Of course, but it seems she is really enjoying being with her old man!” she chortled gleaming with happiness.

She tries to take her and she wakes up and cry. Over this short period of time we have become so gooey. I am happy at this moment because this is the first time she has chosen to be with me over her mother.

“Wow, this is quite new!” she sounds surprised, extends her hand again and I block it in the middle.

“Do not worry about it, I got it, let me handle this.”

She moves back, “Are you sure?

“Yes, I am sure.” I affirm my confidence.

She looks so cute, some features like mine and that is not bad because in when I was younger I was at times mistaken for a girl especially when I walked around with Tanyaradzwa.

“I cannot believe that the crazy thing we did brought us this little angel!” I sound merry, appreciating everything.

“Tonight, she sleeps with me and you make sure you get much needed rest.”

She laughs, “Okay, if you say so, but let us wait until that time comes.” Replies doubtful of everything I have said.

“Good and since I got this one handled, you can go and study now, when she wakes up I will handle her!” I give her my word and straight for the kitchen I go.

Davidzo heads the opposite direction to and study. I eat and return to do finish my project with Anaishe close by always just in case she wakes up. The struggle between me and her went on for the rest of the day.

1 July 2019, Sunday

7 18 AM

“Good Morning, Michael! This is rather surprising. So, you two decided to sleep in the office, how precious.”

“Good morning!” wipe my eyes with my fingers, “What time is it?”

“It is 7 20 right now.” she answers extending over her hands to take Anaishe.

“Ohh, I slightly over slept, there is some business I would like to attend to. I need to rush and take a quick bath now?” pointed out, handing over the baby to her.

“Yes, you do that, after you have attended to your guest downstairs!”

“Wait what? He is already here?” stammered, grabbed the papers I did and quickly rushed to go and see him.

Living Room

Open my arms wide, “Mr Magnus, it has been a long time! How have you been?” greet him jocundly upon seeing.

“It has been a long time indeed my friend!” he opens spreads his arms also and embraces me, “I was surprised when you called me.”

“Yes, I apologise for being out of touch my friend, I was in a comatose for almost four weeks.”

“You were in a coma for almost four weeks? And you thought that was not an important thing to tell me when I was asking how everything was! Why?!” Davidzo interjected and shouts disappointed.

No excuse can work at this point for why I did not tell her I was in a coma when I arrived but I will talk to her later on, right now I need to talk to Magnus.

“I apologise, I will talk to you after I have concluded my business with Magnus here.”

She scoffs, “You better!”

I grab hold of Magnus shoulder and leave with him to talk to him privately.

“You were in a coma for all this time? All along I thought you were ghosting me brother, are you okay?”

I look at him and smile, “Health wise, I feel fine and on the life part I am far from it and that is why I called you here,” put my hands behind my back as I assert.

“Alright, I see now, so what do you need brother,” lays his hand on my shoulder and continues, “I can see that you also have made up your mind and trying to divert you from this will make it worse. So, I will do anything without any objection.”

“Good! Here are the files, I would love it if you would be discreet when you investigate this matter and get back to me once you have exhausted everything and feel there is no more information. I am counting on you, for a lot depends on this,” I pause for a second looking up in the sky, “I will pay you after you have finished the investigation.” I add and stopped talking.

Magnus opens the papers to scan what is inside it and closes them.

“Wow!” he resounds his surprise, “I bet this is what lead to whatever put you in a coma!”

“It was an accident!” share with him.

“An accident? Like a car accident? Michael, you are the safest driver that I know! How the hell did you get into a car accident? Unless if it was your wife driving the car,” catechizes in disbelief.

I look at him for a little while and reply to him, “I cannot dive into description right now for I have no memory of that myself!”

“Okay then, I will be leaving now to start the preparations for the investigation and then after all this is done, we can get a drink and talk.”

I smile looking down and softly I reply, “Until then my friend, right now let me deal with this one here, then I will head back home tomorrow. I have a lot of work to do! I will leave this part to you.”

Magnus laughs turns to leave, “Then I will be seeing you in the future man! Bye, for now.”

In the Kitchen

I am a bit relieved, I will just have to leave the investigation to Magnus, I trust him. I need a glass of water at the moment, I am thirsty. I grab a glass and fill in some cold water from the refrigerator and start drinking. My mind at this point is clear.

“So, a coma huh?!” her tone is speaking more than her words and she continues, “Were you planning on ever telling me?”

I pause for a second with the glass on my mouth, looking at her with one eye while she is leaning on the door frame folding her hands with a fierce look in her eyes speaking to me, in my mind I can hear her yell, ‘do not lie to me’. I owe her the truth and I have to be honest with her on this at least.

“To be honest, I did not want to worry you. So, I decided to conceal that truth from you!” at this point I advance forward by being candid with her.

“Really? It is bad enough no one knows me and Anaishe exist in this world but if anything happens to you, what will happen to us? Who is going to take care of us? How are we to survive? I am still studying and that is all because of you and if anything happens to you, I do not know what I am going to do!” she raises her concern and fears.

Tears fall from her eyes, it is like I can feel and understand her pain because I am the reason why she is crying. At moments like this I tend to get lost on what to do and just start to overthink on whether I should do something or nothing, whether I should say something or keep my mouth shut. I am feeling useless at the moment.

“Really? You are not going to say anything but just stare at me?” her tone has an increase in disappointment there and I can feel her anger growing with her tears continuing to fall from her eyes.

My body just moves own its own to her, I embrace her in my arms as and she continues to scream out her fears and disappointments at me, I cannot perceive what she is saying anymore but I just wish to make all this sadness, fear and anger in her disappear and see her smile again.

“It is going to be okay, I promise! I am still here, am I not? Proof I will always be there for you no matter what, as always!” whispered to her.

She stops talking but continues to cry still and holds on tighter to me.

“Anaishe is awake now,” I move her from my chest and hold her shoulders, “I am sorry I was being selfish by keeping the truth from you, that will not happen again! Let us three go outside and take a walk for a while.”

She wipes off her tears, “Okay, okay, let me go and take her!”

“No, let me go and get her, you prepare something for her to eat.”

“Okay.” She initiates food preparations.

A few minutes later I return with Anaishe in my arms, and she reaches out to her mother who is preparing food and Davidzo takes her from me. I leave the kitchen and wait for them outside of the house.

Minutes later she comes out holding the baby’s hand and a bottle on the other.

“We are good now! We can tag along,” that smile that had gone missing has returned and I will say I am relieved.

“Well then, how about it ready for a day out with daddy little princess!” Anaishe being jumpy holds her mother’s leg laughing.

“Well, I do not think we can call this a day out because we are just going around the whole plot. See some animals, see the land and then return back to sit for the rest of the day!” her tone sounds like she is weary of going over the same routine whenever I visit.

“I know, it is tiring, but I think next time when I return I will take you both out of here, I just have a lot going on right now with everything.”

“I know.” She smiles and lifts Anaishe, put her into her arms, “Now we are ready!”

I kind of feel like she is still not satisfied but at the moment I cannot do much, so she will have to just wait but I hope she will have all her wishes come true in the future. And that whatever happens, we will raise our daughter well together. But right now, is not the time to worry about that. We just have to enjoy each other’s company.