Make it Work

Forsaken

2 July 2019

For the rest of the day we enjoyed, movies games and eating till we went to sleep. But this new day that has been reached is fervent and favourable for me to return home and continue my life. Although I am fallible, I am positive, I left them in a fettle that would never become insalubrious, they will be alright. The light in my soul was fading drastically but just a little time with Anaishe and Davidzo, I am exuberant and I cannot wait to lay eyes on my wife and I have to think of an apology even though I was mad at her, I should not have just left like that but it had to be done.

I do not know or understand this fervour I am feeling on my body and in my soul to see my wife’s face!

Home sweet home, enter through the gates I do and finish up outside efficiently. Rush inside in search of her and at this point it still has not hit my mind that before I left I asked her friend Ruvarashe to take her in. The excitement is undermining my memory, I cannot find, then it hits me and I leave and drive off headed for Ruvarashe’s home and on my way there I pass by a crowd of people and the crowds fiddling appears to be violent so I pass by without giving much thought to it.

After a while driving I reach Ruvarashe’s home and knock on the door.

Opens door, “Good Morning, how are you?” Ruvarashe greets me, but there is a confused expression on her face.

“I am fine! And, how are you?”

“Pretty good.”

“Is she here?”

She breathes audibly, “I thought you got my messages? And then again you said you were going to turn off your phone! Where have you been?”

“Just taking sometime to thing and regain myself! Is she here?”

“No, she refused to come. She said she will wait for you at home!”

“But I went at the house and I could not find her?”

“Maybe she went somewhere!”

“No something is wrong, I need to find her!” I turn to leave.

“Should I come with you to look for her!” I see her eyes, she wants to come with and she seems to be worried about something but I do not know but I will not ask it will delay me more with her explaining.

“No, do not worry!” quickly rush to the car and search drive searching everywhere possible but I still cannot find her. The guilt of leaving her alone is weighing on my mind and I am worried and making mini prayers to a God who I have not prayed to in a long-time. That uncivil savage crowd thingy was occurring close to my home maybe they know where she went if I describe her well I might head to the right direction. Drive to the place and the savage gathering seems to have escalated further from how I left it like. I gather up some courage and leave the car to ask if they have seen her.

“Heyy, Mr, have you seen a young woman, in her early twenties, short with lig……..”

“Short with what?” the man asks.

I cannot believe my eyes right now. Her leg is helplessly on the gravel road with scars and blood all over it. Just that image of her leg expatriated all the exhilaration I had to lay my eyes on her. Maybe it is not Vimbai but someone else who has a similar structure like her but that is impossible for I would recognise my wife anywhere from seeing even the smallest particle on her body, maybe that is an exaggeration but only those who have felt that feeling know what I mean. I look away from her but still approaching hoping to be proven wrong but I know I cannot be mistaken on this.

“Young man, move away so we can deal with this prostitute, we are going to deal with her, we do not tolerate such people in our society,” one of them says so holding my arm but I keep on moving forward.

I can see her face now is also in blood and the glumness on her face, I cannot handle it, that is something I did not want to see on her face. I am sure this is Nhamo’s doing but this is my fault for leaving her that she is in such a predicament. I can see the man closest to her is preparing to hit her with a rod and I expeditiously react and catch his hand before it can land and he turns to look at me and he is angry, I return my eyes on her again. Her soul seems to have been shattered and she no longer has a fighting spirit in her. Push the man away and crouch and put my hand on her cheek. At this moment all the noise has disappeared and all my concentration is on her and my anger is rising rapidly. Draw her close to me and put my lips on her forehead and drop tears and a stone hits me. With haste I rise and hit the closest people so hard that all the others behind dropped all the drama.

“You dare put your filthy hands on my wife? She is a prostitute? How the hell would you know that lest you are into the same business?”

None of them respond and some of them are confused as to what is going on here.

“You are Michael, the guy who owns that Media company right?” one of them shouts from the crowd.

“So, what if I am?”

“How did you get involved with such!”

“So over there you see yourself as righteous?”

“Young man, stop invited such women into your life! You seem to be a descend young man and you have a future, do not destroy it by associating with such women!” he seems to be confident of the backing he is getting from the crowd.

And me upon hearing this I am laughing and he is still advancing towards me.

“You are laughing young man? She will destroy your life and career!”

Instantaneously I punch him in the stomach and hit him with the knee cap on the jaw, “Do not disrespect my wife! I swear I will not hesitate to obliterate you! Right here, right now.”

The crowd starts buzzing, but this is not the time for me to shake for I have already failed to protect her before, I will stand my ground now. I have to get her out of here and call a doctor to come and see her. This is why I hate society and leave far away from it, but how did they get this far? And why? Good thing I learned to fight on my free time and hopefully that will get me through this. Please God, do not let her die until I get her through this! What the hell was she thinking walking around alone at such a place! She believes in you a lot and you led her into such a scenario.

“If anyone tries to get near to her I will beat the crap out of that person,” confidence is sky high on the visible part but inside right now I am about to pee on myself the hundredth time.

There are a lot of them to overcome alone! Hopefully they just leave without trying or only a few come forward, but a few that I can beat like one or two. But certainly, the numbers have started to decrease ever since I began protecting her, I guess I will just have to wait a little more. After what Nhamo and Steve did to you, they still have the audacity to do this to you? We shall see who will remain standing at the end of the war. She is bleeding out fast, who cares if there is a lot of people around?

I turn and reach down, pick her up and head to the car and surprisingly no one did much about it. Before driving I pick up my phone and call Tendai to come over to my house. I cannot seem to stop the tears from flowing down my cheeks. My heart is heavy but not because of hate, the disappointment is too great for me to bear right now. I speed down the road home, enter the gate, close it. Carry her to the bedroom, carefully lay her on the bed.

Convoke all my strength preparing to clean her up waiting for Tendai to come over. Take off her clothes, clean her up and put on cleaner clothes on her. And stay beside her in deep thought.

“Why are you the one suffering from all of this? Why are you the one who is being forsaken by life?” my tears flow down the cheeks, “If only I had been there, you would not have gone through everything you have been through!” lamented my decision to abandon her placing my hands on my neck crying out loud.

The pain of seeing her lying unconscious because I was hell bend on pushing you away instead of pulling you closer to me, bellicose because you lied to me and got married to me in your lies still. I am no saint I know, all I want to do is to protect but I have failed to so with you.

“I have really tried and I feel time pass and all this pain, anger, frustration has led me and you here because of the lies that created a barrier between you and me. But still it is no excuse for me not to be able to protect you though.”

There is someone at the gate, hopefully it is Tendai. Rush out of the room to the gate and there she is here.

“Please drive your car inside, this might take a while!”

“What is wrong Michael?” the look on her face has a lot of questions, “Why are you crying, did something happen?”

“It is Vimbai……. Vimbai has been…….. she is in the house, Come with me and see please help her!” stammered, grabbing her arm to take her into the house to see for herself.

Lead her to the room, so she can check on Vimbai.

“What happened Michael? Why is she like this?” she points at Vimbai.

“It is all my fault, I let this happen to her, if only I had not left her alone!”

“Wait, you left? To go where and you found her unconscious in the house?” Tendai continues to try and squeeze more information.

“No, I found her outside and there was a crowd…..”

“A crowd doing what?” she interjects with a question.

“They were beating her!” bawled imparting the information to her.

“Oh my God,” she quickly goes down to check on her, “You laid her down well, let me rush to the hospital and collect equipment to check on her. You and I have a lot to talk about young man, I am greatly disappointed in you.”

She takes off in that instant to go and collect equipment to check on Vimbai.

I feel silly and stupid and helpless at this moment, and she is right to be disappointed in me. I am supposed to assuage her pain and bring happiness and laughter to her and all I have done ever since we got married is bring her pain.

“Instead of her bringing equipment here, we could have just taken her to the hospital, I could have done that when I got her out of that situation. God, I do not know what to do!”

Down on my knees I go beside her, take her hand and hold it there and then. I do not move at all from there. Almost two hours later from the time she left she returns,

“I took these first, you go and collect the rest and do not break anything. Let me set up and begin now.” Her tone sounds like she is very disappointed, “go” she shouts.

She brought in the common medical diagnostics devices, a stethoscope, a sphygmomanometer, an ophthalmoscope, an electrocardiograph and a thermometer to begin with. And this drip thingy also with her and other things I do not understand.

“Okay, I think I got it all, what now?” I look around to see if I can help.

“Nothing, you do nothing, I think you have done enough already.”

Those words cut deep, but the truth remains she is correct but I cannot just sit around and do nothing while she is in pain. I need to do something.

“Maybe there is something you can do, go downstairs and wait there till I finish up here.” The commanding annoyed tone in her words is scary.

I move out of the room and wait for her downstairs in the kitchen, filled with food but I have no appetite even to taste my favourite delicacy. I am shattered! The only thing I can do at this moment is go back and forth in the kitchen waiting for Tendai to come down and allay the good or bad news to me. But I have to be ready because once she comes out of that room, I will be having a conversation with a demon in a woman’s flesh. Hopefully everything will be alright.