Walks of life

Confusion.

Joannah's POV

I led my siblings to the taxi park and we boarded an Uber which was on the side way of the road. We just got lucky to get it without using the app and it will be even cheaper and easy to get us home quickly and in time.

During the ride we were all silent, I think each one of us was trying to re-play what had happened at the agency in their own mind to get some explanation because no one talked. I was asking myself who the lady Mrs Yiga was to our mother or even how she got to know her.

I don't remember ever meeting her in my life and am very sure neither my siblings.

I was in my pool of thoughts when my phone went off signaling an incoming call. I pulled it out of my hoodies pockets to see it was Uncle Tom calling. I was at first surprised and in a split second happy that he is the one calling me.

It's been a while since I last talked to him and mom had started restricting us from communicating with him thinking we will inform him about the situation at home and all the financial crisis we were in.

I took the phone and heard him chuckle on the other line.

Hahaha Hi Annah, he spoke will laughing a little that it came out like a chuckle to me.

Hello uncle, am sorry I kinda got lost in thoughts when I saw that it was you calling, you know it's been awhile........ Um so I was surprised!!!!!

Yeah I know it's been a while and I didn't know if you just hate me or you guys don't miss me at all, maybe I should just come back home and you let me know straight to my face that you don't love me no more, ha he said in a very dramatic and prayful way mimicking a child's voice that I burst into laughter.

I know he got that character and he jokes almost every time you might not take him seriously if he was being serious at some point.

Am really sorry uncle, the thing is I had no.....

Sorry I meant I was kinda busy. Oh my God I almost told him I had no money to make a call to him. That would of course make him question me about everything at home and how I don't have money.

He even left each one of us some little up keep for ourselves but I can't tell him we spent that on the basic needs at home and other utilities.

Where are you right now and where are your siblings? Jo's phone is off. Uncle Tom continued to ask me more questions that I wasn't sure if he had to know about them yet or not.

We are in a taxi heading home, I replied shortly so that not to make it seem like am hiding something. Uncle how about I call you when we get back home, I requested trying to cut this off before the conversation went bad.

Alright, I will be waiting to hear from you guys at once. You should call me on a video call I miss you all and I wanna see how you have grown since I left.

Oh come on uncle it's been a few years we didn't change much after all you have been seeing us in photos.

Trust me those these ain't the same they just make you look like a different person, anyway say hi to the little ones for me and will catch up with you guys later bye love y'all.

He made a flying kiss sound and hung up after I replied to him likewise.

Guys that was uncle Tom and he wanna talk to us on a video chat when we get back home. I tell both Lin and Jo who have been looking at me the whole time I was talking on the phone with different kinds of facial expressions whenever I changed the tone of whatever they were looking up to I don't know.

It's like they were trying to figure out who I was talking to and what was being said from the other line.

I would have put it on speaker but we were in an Uber not a private car so when I hung up they were alert to know who it was. I told them and I saw both of them shift in their seats.

These two should have been twins and I think the identical ones. Coz they almost do everything at the same time.

We had got home and I paid the Uber driver and we made our way inside the gate. I checked my cross bag to get the keys only not to find them.

Guy we don't have the keys, I told my siblings who were looking so experated and that when I remembered it was mom who locked the door while we were leaving in the morning.

I got my phone and called mom who answered at only two rings. Mom we are here but we got no spare keys.

Okay am coming, she replied and ended the call.

We stood outside the gate for 2 minutes before the gate door was opened and it wasn't our mom who opened the door but a complete stranger.

I stepped back and looked at the man in front of us like he was about to jump on us in a second.

He looked at us and he smiled obviously sensing our hesitant state. Jo was the first to act and stepped in front of us like a protective bro he is.

Sorry sir but do you mind telling us who you are please?Jo asks the man in front of us in a serious tone and composed way that meant he wasn't afraid and wanted the answer. I really don't know what's behind that "do you mind" phrase he pulls off on every stranger he meets, I think it's his way of questioning I don't know.

I know you are all confused as to what a complete stranger might be doing in your home but come in you all will find out everything you need to know. But as of now Am Kyalimpa Dennis and am your Grandfather's driver, the man before as said . We looked at the man dump founded. Everything he was saying was not making any sense to us at that moment. We have lived in this house for seven years and we didn't see no grandparents not even more than 4 new people now a grandpa and his driver. This was getting a little bit more complicated every minute that passed but I was ready to know everything the moment we make it in the house.

OH God I wish he knew we didn't even know any Grandpa. Any way that's not the issue right now we just need to go inside good enough his not restraining us from entering then thats just alright, Lin said with a shy smile and bright eyes.

Some times I forget she is even with us she is a silent person but do not get me wrong only if she is in a situation she can't hundle thats when she ever keeps quite.