Connection

My weirdness was getting out of hand. First I fell down because someone yelled at me and now hugged a stranger. The lady stared at me,with a satisfied look on her face,she just smiled and led me to the shop, my fidgeting body found its way on a chair just before me. As she braided my hair

My mind went far and wide for answers, as I surveyed every corner of her face. I haven't seen her for sure, but maybe this feeling was just there because I have a crush on her son. I won't attest to the fact that she looked like jamal .

She braids my hair,with so much tenderness and I wonder if she is just this sweet, or it's in the family. I was expecting alot of detangling but she must be skilled in what she does, after the coaxing I was told to wait .

l couldn't resist I sat down like an obedient dog waiting to be fed, he had tried starting a conversation but i was busy trying to recall where I saw that face,or heard such voice, how can jamal and his mother make me nervous the same time,maybe it's in the family,l wonder my reaction when I see his father,l might bow before him or worse.

We both headed to my house his mother followed, I was so nervous,but I still tried to walk,on our way to the house, Mrs Anna (peters mom) held my hand, looking at me like she was trying to say something,and couldn't come up with word, The only thing she said was that the only difference between now and then is that i have grown a little bit taller and developed a matured face,l still have the same character I had when I was little.

Well that explains many things. Maybe she was with me when I was little,but the way I felt anytime she touched me was nothing compared to people I have met that claimed to know me when I was little.

mom wasn't around,maybe she was in her shop,i called her to inform her that Mrs Anna was present,she was also happy, for no special reason, maybe Mrs Anna also makes her nervous,l tried making them comfortable by asking if they would like anything , after chanting it severally like my life depended on it.

I didn't want to embarrass myself before Jamal and his mother, because I was nervous. They made me feel hot and cold at the same time,in no time my mom came to my rescue. She was so happy to see them.

They seemed to be best of friends,the way they exchanged greetings was nothing

formally,they even hugged each other. She did the same with Peter,but she held peter at shoulder lent,staring at him,with a childish grin on her face,l could tell with the look on his face that peter as the same feeling I had when I saw his mother,he stuttered while greeting her, and his legs were shaking slightly,my mom pulled him in for a hug the second time and he fell, maybe his legs couldn't hold on any longer.

This brings a smirk to my face, at least I am not the only one with stuttering issues,her looks like he just saw a flower with eyes, well maybe mom makes him nervous as well. I hope he has such a reaction with me one day, it would be nice .

Time passed and conversation led to another conversation and I heard the most unbelievable story of my life. Mom usually keeps things away from me, I don't complain, I just accept fate, but what could be more important to a child than who breastfed her.

I have accepted that the country is different for so many reason, but now when we decided to act like characters in a movie it becomes weird, now mrs anna and mom had began to act like korean characters, they shared eye contact and smirk nervously , something was up or sure and i knew it.

First it started with sear down reathabile, i looked at the line their fingers were [pointing and it was close to peter, sitting down near a crush in a family meeting that's nice, i walked sluggishly , took my seat and regulated my breath.

Then they began to tell me tales of my home town, i wasn't surprised, i have heard tales about south africa, read a few, and experience so little, but i haven't heard their part of the story, then it all began when i was born., bla bla bla, i know childbirth was painful, but having to hear so close to jamal gave me that wifey vibes and i was so uncomfortable, i just can't wait for the tale to be over.

Then something shocking exceeded their lips, " you aware both switched in the hospital" , when i said animated i meant it, it was obvious the sudden meeting wasn't for something casual, like it always is, and then it all proceeded to having an accident after a year and then they needed blood and just like the movies both mom and anna were in the same vehicle.

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I don't know why , but deep down I think all this was planned somehow, it's just too fictional, and this little piece of fiction made me feel all kinds of ways, from intrigued , to lost, from that to unhappy, and from that to nervous.

Well that means i really didn't spend more time with my real dad, the story continues to a more believable part wereThey couldn't just give up their children just like,so they decided to visit each other from time to time,till I got used to my mom then I had to leave with her permanently,and jamal went back to his biological mom.

Mom told me that anytime I came to visit her I would always cry till the day was over. She would panic when I had a high body temperature, because I cried too much and my eyes would be swollen,but after three to four months of staying with her I got used to her loving nature.

Not to brag. But I believe it as well, well this also means a lot of things, knowing i had a crush on someone who is likely to be a brother, finally a connection i have been seeking, for years.