Akhona

incident led to the sudden poverty of her family and to settle an old debt she was given as a bride to Abasi,a strong, courageous and stern man. Who had no interest in marriage but w

thi's pregnancy,her pregnancy was able to soften the hea

orridor of the mid wife's house awaiting a report from the mid wife. After a long time the mid wife emerges out and announces the arrival of his daughter,he rushes inside to behold the good news himself. One would think he would rush to his wife to see how she was doing but

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rsation and inquired what was new in school today. They both hugged me, asking how I was doing but that didn't answer my question since I was still curious in what they were talking about. Annika answered me by telling me that they were discussing about a new student who came to school and had an encounter with Sophia the supreme ruler of the class. It was quite amusing to know that there was another student who confronted Sophia. Noxolo which I called her Noxo for short, didn't fail in giving me full details of what happened. She started off like this,"Akhona I wished you were there you should have seen Sophia's face when the new student spilt yoghurt on her shoes. Her expression showed rage and while she tried to get hold of the new student she slipped and fell flat on her face." She started laughing along with both of us while I beckoned on her to continue,she went on"Wait first...let me start from the beginning..."as she tried composing herself from laughing. "A new student Clara from another town that I can't remember came today and was introduced to the class. She sat down at your usual chair, during break Sophia and her clique came over to tell her the rules of the class, which is to always obey Sophia's rules. While she was talking the 'veggees'(spirit) of Akhona went in her, giving her the courage to rise and spoke her mind at Sophia". Before she could continue I interrupted her with my laughter and asked what she meant by the Akhona's 'veggees'. Annika replied still laughing" She was sitting on the your chair and your spirit possessed her. The tales of your confrontation towards Sophia is still fresh in our minds and no one can ever forget what you did to her ". Noxo chipped in,"Yeah Akhona you're are very famous and your chair had been kept as a memorial of you. Till today no one sat in it, we only went there to acquire your spirit by touching the chair anytime we needed courage. After all it is written whosoever is worthy to sit on the chair acquires the spirit and becomes the champion". I simply let out a loud laughter on my friends mythological story about me,to me I wasn't that brave and could only confront Sophia due to my rage that flowed in me. My anger was my strength and with it I could do anything I want with no fear. I wasn't a champion but I saw myself as a warrior that had two parts to choose,the part of victory or the part if defeat. Dad always said a warrior should never chose the part of defeat and should always chose the part of victory. His words were,"Victory till the taste of death",and that was want I believed. At times I miss the days I spent with that but that was of the past and I needed to face my current situation. Noxo continued the story,narrating how a huge fight emerge between Sophia and Clara,also didn't leave the part of how Clara won the fight and declared herself,the next commander of the class. I wasn't that relax hearing that Clara was now the commander, though it would be nice having a new person but who knows if she would be worst than Sophia. I spoke up to Noxo,"Don't you think it would have been best if we had no commander,why

it was possible but I might lose the zeal to go back,we continued chatting on other things why we both ate our food we brought along. We talked on lots of things,the fishing ports,the high class girls in the neighborhood,the upcoming events and not to mention t