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The trail of a promiscuous apouse

Beatrice learnt that Chipo was studying at the University of Gweru where she met the boyfriend who had made her pregnant.  The boyfriend in question had graduated a year earlier and was now working in Harare.  Chipo told her how her mother used to visit her from time to time all the years she was at college but her father never did.

She told Beatrice that her mother had divorced twice and had married for the third time.  Beatrice learnt that since the divorce of her mother from her first husband, Chipo had lived mostly with her father.  Chipo explained that though she was her mother’s first child, her father turned out to be her mother’s second husband. 

Beatrice learnt that Chipo had come from Gweru that morning after finishing her final examinations the previous day.  She had come to Harare with the hope of staying with her mother while she tried to sort out her circumstance with her boyfriend.  As she was, she could not go to her father for the obvious reasons and therefore, her mother’s place was her best option then.  But when she got to her mother’s place she got more than what she bargained for.

“You won’t believe this Beatrice.  On my way from Gweru this morning I decided to drop in Town.  Since I had a lot of luggage I decided to take a taxi to my mother’s place.  When I had just arrived, that was when Baba Shiri, my mother’s husband, was being dropped by his attorney who had picked him from prison this morning,” explained Chipo.

“Why was he in prison?” asked Beatrice.

“It is another long story that needs time to explain.  But in short, he was accused of murdering his wife and daughter.  It was later discovered that he was innocent and he was released from prison this morning,” explained Chipo.

“I remember hearing something like that over the radio earlier today,” said Beatrice.  “But anywhere please continue.  Don’t let me interrupt you.  Then what happened?”

“I was happy to see him more because I needed someone to help me lift my luggage into the apartment.  He was also glad that I was there because he did not have the keys to the front door and he was not sure whether my mother was home or not.  So with his help we took the luggage up the stairs to the first floor.  As we had anticipated the front door was locked.  Since I had my own keys to the apartment we did not knock on the front door. 

“I unlocked the door and we put my entire luggage indoors.   There was no one in sight. In the kitchen there was no one and the bathroom was empty.  For some reason we did not bother to check the bedrooms as we both thought my mother was at work.  We were about to sit down when we realized that there was someone in the apartment,” said the visibly perturbed Chipo. 

“Baba Shiri went to my mother’s bedroom expecting to give her a surprise. As soon as he opened the bedroom door, I heard my mother scream.  I thought she was surprised to see Baba Shiri, whom as you would appreciate should be the most important person in her life.  But instead, it was something else.  When Baba Shiri opened the bedroom door, he was shocked to find my mother being intimate with someone.  Baba Shiri called me and said, ‘Chipo come and see this’.

“I didn’t know what he had seen and I didn’t know what to expect.  I stood up from the sofa where I had just thrown myself and went to where he was standing.  I could not believe my eyes.  In bed was my mother with a man.  Both of them were completely naked.  I watched helplessly as the two got up and started dressing. I failed to even say a word and walked back into the living room and slumped in a sofa with so much disappointment.  The man in bed with my mother was no one other than my boyfriend,” narrated Chipo.

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