Is Love Just A Fantasy

Chapter 2

Evana lays in bed, her body aches from all the pinching, punching and kicking she got from her mother, tears roll down her face, she tries her best to stay on her side of the bed that she shares with two of her siblings. Every part of her body aches, she just wishes its end month because only in those two days do the house has peace, that when her dad who works in the city come home. But lately things have been changing, her father doesn’t came home as often as he used to, but despite that he still sends money home for family upkeep. In her mind she cannot stop wishing to grow up and leave home, she feels that the world out there will be a better place for her. She imagine herself leaving home and boarding the bus to the city but again she ask herself what she will do when she go there, there is only one thing in her mind. She want to go to the city and be an actress, and a writer.

The idea of her being on Tv (television) makes her forget all the pain, she gets in her world of fantasy, dressed in those cute and stylish cloths and rocking the screen, giving her best and writing the best movie scripts. She imagine herself winning the best actress and best script writer at a go, walking through the streets of Nairobi like she owns them. Oh yes swinging her medium ass, which compliment her body as she is not tall she is medium height, she can’t tell how her bust will be but she is sure she will get something there as in her family women got bust and behinds whoops. Her  complexion too is good as she is brown, but she prefers (chocolate milk) as a clearer way of defining her skin color, her lips are dark and her cheeks are round and full, her eyes are medium size and brown in color, her eyebrows are well defined with  beautiful long eye lashes. Oh boy she can’t wait for her boobs to glow to the fullest, for she believes they will be killer boobs. While she fantasize on how she will look like when she is fully grown she falls asleep.

Evana is sits on one of the benches in Gevagee gardens in the city, she wearing a hip star blue trouser and a pink fish styled top, with white Nike sport shoes, and her braids are held with a hairband on the top of her head. As she sits there looking at her phone, she feels someone is walking towards her, in front of her there is a pair of shiny black leather shoes and realization dawns on her that it is a guy who has stopped walking and stood there before her. She lifts her head slowly the guy is wearing grey trouser well pressed and has a light blue shirt, he is tall dark and saying handsome its understatement. He has a well-defined jaw, bushy eyebrows and the lips are shouting kiss me girl. The guy smiles at her reveling milky white teeth and stretches his hand to her for greetings, as Evana stretches her hand while smiling to greet him, her hand is slapped and she hears her mom voice, “ eehe since he hugged you yesterday the only think you can do is to smile even you your sleep. Wake up and make breakfast, shameless girl……..Once again the dream was cut short, as she jumps out of bed she feels pain all over her body she remembers last night beating, her mother is still there which causes her to flinch and run out of their bedroom.

As she makes fire in the kitchen she recalls that dream, she started dreaming about the man way back when she was in class four. In her mind that man is the well-known comedian Churchill, as that day they had gone to the neighbor to watch ridiculous comedy show which aired every Sunday, and that day Churchill in the ring made those bible jokes, based on the naming of the chapter, she remembered how he joked that the book of Exodus was named like that as the children of Israelite's were in the wilderness eating manna and quails, which in reality was EX and soda making exodus (meaning bread and soda), oh little things that impress young church girls. That day young Evana started seeing the comedian in another light, and he became her idol. She kept pieces of newspapers with the comedian, and she was lucky to get Sunday nation newspaper which had the buzz magazine and there siting on a studio stool with a striped black and white shirt, on the far end were shining cooking pan. She covered her English book with the newspaper, it’s good to note English was her favorite subject, on top she used a clear nylon bag and after the book was filled up she would change the cover.

One this was as clear as day to Evana for her dreams to come true and for her to meet the man in her dreams, first she has to grow up and second she has to leave the village. Therefore, that means she has to be patient, avoid having conflicts with her mother with is likely to impossible, because at times she perceive she beats them cause she feels it has been a while since she heard their voices screaming for help and saying sorry for mistakes they have not committed. Anyway its Africa, parents are the law, you can’t say s**t, and you live under their roof, as long as they provide for you, boy you live as thy say. Am sure you are asking “can’t they report to the authorities?”  Daah! The local chief is always a family friend he will beat you and take you to your parents for more beating. It’s either you run away to the nearest town which is Nakuru became a street kid or a house help which our dear Evana was not ready for she still had dreams and was willing to wait. What will happen to Evana as she waits for four years in high school and which school will she join?