Thursday, 18 September 2014

Chapter 2 :Babies and Broken dishes

Chapter 2 :Babies and Broken dishes 

Time just flew by before I knew it I was jammed packed with work.

As my naani would say time has no barakat these days 

As the weeks went by I found myself lost in my own world and hardly saw friends and family expect on a Friday night when my mother insisted everyone have supper at our house

“A family who eats together stays together when we were small we should knew all our kalas and fois children today people don't even know they neighbors” she lectured anyone who tried to get out of supper

Friday night was supper night at our house and as my cooking skills where now approved by my mother 

I sneakily took my dadimas mothers chicken curry recipe to try ...

I cooked the curry everyone loved it..well my dad said it was tasty and Ahmed ate almost half by himself ... my mother told him that he must stop acting like Maryam don't feed him 

Ahmed cheekily replied “Maryam was stealing all the food for herself ...” poking her tummy "she was getting a bit plumy but more round" 


Poor Maryam went bright red ....

“Well I'm not getting fat it's just that I'm 3 months along ....” she whispered softly

“Oh that's so cool at least the twins will have a cousins they age !” Muhammad said excitedly he was sitting near Maryam  


Twins? Who's having twins I wondered 

Fathima whispered loudly “you weren't suppose to tell them ...now mummy gonna tell the whole world before your mother finds out....and it's not like we going to be in durban much longer” 


“Can you guys stop whispering and please tell us what's going on” Dad said loudly


“Muhammad and I are planning on adopting twins as you guys know it's not safe for me to have kids anymore And Mo got a job offer in Cape Town we going to move there” Fathima said in one breath 

My mother who was on her way to kitchen dropped the prix dish she was carrying .....

Twins? Moving? Huh? Whats happening here was I really caught up in my own bubble these last week I missed so much I thought to myself

Next thing we hear a big bang in the kitchen and it didn't sound like a prix dish. ...

Way too steal Maryams thunder I thought to myself  ...

As Ahmed fired questions at Maryam 

My dad rushed into the kitchen

Talk about a fast paced life ....