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Jealousy!

While kanzige was struggling , muhanga placed his rounded tattered lamp  on his plain wooden chair and placed the child who was sleeping on his flat mat and rotated whole house dropping and dumping everything around him  with the extreme anger.

"Grace you see your mother?"

"The useless wife"

"I would have killed her"

"She will return my cow"

He continued growling upon the child who never understood him.

The child who was understanding nothing laughed with her cute big cheeks and two middle shining teeth looking at the rapidly shaking  of his  father's mouth . She was satisfied  with her near little baby tiger doll which she handed to her by the nun at  the clinic.

Kanzige was planning of how she was going to escape from mercilessly hyenas.

"Mary help me for last"

"Let me pass for today"

She prayed with fear while planning to run off from that hell.

One - two - three ... she runned like a antelope followed by a hungry lioness. retriting two steps running but she tripped on other step nearer to the opening of that hole. She runned quicker and quicker through whole forest , tripping but recovering from pain and continue running without looking back depicting in her mind the tremendous hungry hyena running after her.

She found herself arriving at the yellow brimming and shinning lamps in jacaranda lined streets of the city. The night was cold with a strong northerly wind. Looking around she was arriving in nyabugogo national bus parking. Few taxes were beeping and driving erratically.it was bed time.

she ceased off and exhaled taking a short intake of air finally not being followed. Moving slowly in the white line of good black tarmacked roads , freezing , her eyes focused on the linearly aligned buses , she was only hearing the voices of city drunkers and the good fantastic melody of music she haven't heard before in the nearer bars. In her mind was only the hyena she escaped and the child she abandoned.

Passing around three drunkards  who were laughing sitting on the left road corner , she was hearing  a deep hoarse voice calling her.

"My dear how are you"

"Come here" one of the rattled drunkards told her to came with a hand holding a big beer bottle and the smokes of cigarette over his nose.

They are going to rape me, no no no I can't go there , she told her self while starting to move faster a bit.

The faster she moved , the millions of scaring voices followed her asking her to stop. Looking backwards , they were following her.

"Baby baby"

"Drink here it's yours" they queried at her while increasing their steps rapidity.

" No no I am coming from the village.  everything is fine!! I am christian I can't drink!!"

" It was a long journey !! " She replied with a friendly smile.
her friendly reply was met with hostility.

" You stupid lady !! You refused our offer ?? You are not better than a monkey , an animal." One man shouted.

one of the man staggered over to kanzige, his face full of rage and his fist cleanched ready to throw a punch.
She nervously scanned the roads and runned quickly and quickly with their feet on her . she saw brodile near to the road and in one second she runt into it.

Fearful kanzige whispered over her self "God God please help me i don't need these faces "

Arriving there they looked and found nothing. Staying near-by she was full of fear until the impassive men are gone. In her tiredness she was able to reach her ancient home which was fall from there .she slept there along the night with dreams full her child.
In the morning , She dreaded coming to her town of birth . Everything was still exact the same  since .