Loving Pezo - Season 1 - Episode 57

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Loving Pezo - Season 1 - Episode 57

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Pezo: Joe is apparently engaged to marry someone soon. ( with so much heaviness in her heart)-
the kitchen party Kuka and I attended yesterday was for his wife to be.
It was as though someone had stabbed Mrs Chinyama with a knife in her heart. Each word that
followed was so much of a bitter pill even as Pezo said them all. Pezo never stopped crying

.
Pezo: am so sorry Mummy. I will accept any punishment you will decide to give me. I hurt you and
I do not deserve anything good from you.

Mrs. Chinyama still never said anything but just gave her daughter a hug as she equally she’d a
tear.

How can this life be so cruel to a child like you. You have never hurt even an ant in your entire life
to deserve this Pezo. What more punishment do you expect from me when you are already this
hurt.

Pezo: (wispering) am sorry Mummy. Sorry.
Mrs. Chinyama: (now facing her directly) I will not lie to you that what happened won’t affect me or
the way I relate with you in any manner child. Am hurt because even after seeing this so clearly you chose to act against your own loving mother’s advise and went ahead to misbehave with this
stranger. What do you expect me to do now Pezo.

They both remained silent in their tears for a while. Suddenly, Mrs. Chinyama stood up and was
about to leave when she stopped
I need you to be strong for now. See how you can live with what just happened. You and I will
have to go to the hospital for some tests.
And she left. Somewhat disappointed. Although Mrs Chinyama expected this from her daughter’s
relationship… she never thought it would be so deep. As she continued to think about all that she
just heard, she couldn’t even imagine what kind of embarrassment this would be to the family.


Worse off if her husband would hear about it. Pezo had always been the pride of their home. Their
sunshine. Only songs of praise were ever sung about her. She only prayed that her friend Stella
had not heard about what happened knowing so well that her daughter might have already narrated it all. She suddenly got a headache and could not contain it till she had to share the
ordeal with her husband- Mr. Chinyama who never took the news so lightly. He was a most
dragging his daughter to Mr. Mitti’s apartment but his wife managed to convince him it would only
bring more shame to the family. Besides, just because of their daughter’s errors, they had no right
to destroy the other woman’s marital life.

Mr. Chinyama was so hurt he ended up giving his daughter a good slap that left her on the floor.

Luckily- her mother was able to once more come through for her. He had never la!d his hand on
his daughter before and after doing it he felt so bad but he had to maintain his stance and not
allow for his weakness to be revealed in front of his daughter. It was a little tensed up by the
Chinyamas that evening and nothing seemed to be making sense for everyone. What made him
so upset was the fact that she trusted to be under other people’s care when it happened instead of
trusting her own family for such times.

By the time it was morning, both Pezo’s parents seemd to have cooled down a little. They both
decided not to use the family doctor whom the chombas equally used incase of any worst results
of whatever tests they would get. Mr. Chinyama decided to cancel any appointment he had for that
day and drove his wife and daughter as they went to see an independent doctor for Pezo’s
thorough medical checkup. They didn’t take long to leave the private named hospital were they
had gone and luckily, all results came out as non reactive (pregnancy, HIV and STI). As it
happened so recently, they were advised to see the doctor after three months for the other two
tests except for pregnancy one. Atleast it was a relief for that moment and Pezo could only thank
God for the outcome. She could clearly see that in her father too though not expressly stated.


But overall, a but of joy seemed to have returned to their residence though not on the part of Pezo.


It was not easy for her to just continue with life as though nothing major Had ever happened. A week
later, she heard through the grapevine that Mr. Mitti and Matimba had a grand wedding and it was
currently the talk of the town. She never seemd to be bothered with that but she could not pretty
much control what her mind would have her think about. Mukuka really tried to spend most of her time of her and for the week that followed- she got leave just so she can be with her friend but
even with that- it didnt help much. As for Kalima, much ad he wanted to help in the process, It’s
like Pezo just couldn’t understand that his sympathy/comfort was genuine and she never wanted
him any were near. This made Mukuka so happy as she still never wanted Pezo for her brother for
some unknown reason.


With time, Pezo’s appetite went down and she could no longer relate with everyone as usually.

Most times were moments spent in the company of herself. It began to worry her mother and
father more specially when they noticed she hasn’t been touching most of her food. A month later Pezo requested from her parents that she visits her grandmother being her mother’s mum in
Zambezi area of the North Western part of Zambia. Initially they were hesitant but after discussing
between the two of them, they realised that if they were to be open with her grandmother on what
happened, she could assist alot in having Pezo recover from her ordeal considering how close their daughter had always been with her grandmother and aunt who loved with her back in
Zambezi. And so two weeks later Pezo embarked on a longest journey of her entire life using
road transportation. Her mother had decided to travel with her just to ensure her safety although
she would have to return earlier. Since time immemorial, It was mostly her grandma who always
had to travel to Lusaka to see them if not for medical attention and if the other way round- it was
mostly Mr. And Mrs. Chinyama to travel without the children. Pezo had never understood why and
she decided to leave those questions unanswered.


When they arrived at the village- there was amazing jubilation. Grandma and Aunt Ruth (being
her mother’s elder sister) had done so much to prepare for their arrival. After a long while, Mrs.
Chinyama was able to witness her daughter smile from deep down her heart at the sight of her
grandma and she could not wait to share the great development with her husband. For the first
few days of their stay, Pezo could never leave her grandma’s side and it was quite challenging for
her mother to explain why they had come to visit for she felt it best to do so in the absence of


Pezo. But in the process of trying to do so- Pezo approached her mother actually begged for to
leave it upto her to tell her story to her grandmother. And as soon as she saw her daughter had
settled in well, mrs chinyama left after a week or so- Mrs. Chinyama had to leave. Pezo never
understood this but she was always free to talk to her grandma and even exposed all that hurt her
the most as she submitted to Mr. Mitti the times they would need together. She felt lighter after the
discussion and solutions of how she would help herself during this rediscovering of one self was
also discussed.