Chapter Five: The Shadow Wedding

They argue that the best time to carry out your assignments or rather concentrate is during the early hours of the morning .Most of the succesful people would argue that success is built when others are sleeping.This remind me of a certain kind of myth that exist in Africa where the young ones have been made to undersatnd that when you are born in afamily that you do not own a vast piece of land to cultivate and even build an estate on, it basically means that your great great grandfather liked sleeping and because of that the most prestigious estates,or talk of the most fertile land was acquired just when he was doing what he loved most and that is sleeping.

In early two thousand years such arguments became even more realistic and practical to an extent that you will find or listen to a commercial advert in the local radio station as well as television broadcasting that :"Welcome to the prestigious land along Nairobi-Mombasa raod,few kilometers from the proposed industrial park and only a few kilometers to the airport .The plot goes for only one million for a quater an acre and it is on the first come first save basis .Do not be left behind sleeping when others are securing their future"I dont know the extent of the truth in such statements but I agree on the point where it alludes to waking up early or starting early will save you alot.

As we enjoyed a romantic moments that evening in the castel .Two of the ladies so close to me were experienmcig moments of fullfilments in their lives .IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE KIND OF MOMENT.THE TIME TO ACHIEVE WHAT THEY HAVE LONG ADMIRED WAS RIPE.THINGS WERE AT THE HIGHEST EXPECTED PEAK LEVELS AND THAT COMES WITH ALOT OF COMFORT IN IT.

Many will agree with me that there is a certain level of fullfilment that comes once you have experienced a real sexual moment with someone you have always admired to have.This comes with alot of weight .You will find a croocked looking HipHop artist having a crush on well beautifully created soul music artist and viserverser.That is not actually where my problem lie,my problem comes where it is a do or die situation.IT IS EITHER YOU ARE WITH ME OR YOU ARE WITH ME .NO OTHER OPTION.Sometimes I feel like we human beings become overrated on many aspect of our lives .The society has made us to exist in the world of it is either my way or highway.WHAT I WANT MUST HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT.

"That lady must love me whether she liked it or not "

"I thank God I have graduated from high school ,now I must go to a prestigious university in town"

"Lucy just joined the university the other day to pursue Law,I must do medicine"

We exist in a world of competition but I feel we are just taking the whole issue much too far.As a victim of circumstances I pray to witness one day a situation where we humans we not only focus on their ultimate ambitions and goals but also focus on the activities that lead them towards achieving the goals .A siatuation where we can sit down and have a conversation over one,two,three,agree on our likes and dislikes,a moment where humans shall see an intimate relatioship as a level playing field where discussion is more important.

That was a night of fullfilment to Princess TT.Her ambitions of having a sexual relationship with me had been achived.She did not care about her confidant Imani and the betrayal she had caused on her .Princess TT did not care about all my sufferring.Now ,we were already in marraige and it is when we struggled to figure out what we liked and what we disliked.Most of the times we had what I term as a post dating communications and literally our marraige lacked  a proper communication and I believe that is the consequences of being overrated with attaining our goals without necessarily figuring out on the activities that could lead you to them.

Imani weds the Black Mamba.It was a night of fulfilment. She weds him blindly thinking that she had won the battle and managed to get me from the frustrations of her former confidant ,Princess TT.

In the evening of the following day ;after my first day in marriage ,a smoke is seen covering the clouds just above the great forest most probably the routes which I was taken through by the evil men of the kingdom.Imani finds her love of life and the wedding is hurriedly planned perhaps because she feared again that I might be snatched away from her .So she took every minute with “Katonde" seriously not to delay things because she had learnt the consequences of doing things at a slow pace and this time round she was determined to officiate our marriage as soon as possible. It was planned and implemented right in the forest .She did not want to care where the venue will be ,all she wanted is at the end of the day we are pronounced husband and wife.

The night before while in the struggle to look for her boyfriend Katonde who forcefully made his way to the far place of the secret island though the place was unknown by many including Imani.They say food fuels energy,when we take food it is same as the vehicle refueling its tank so to keep the momentum and keep moving. In the midst of the struggle to look after her boyfriend,it was time for Imani to refuel his body and boost the energy level .For over five hours of continuous search without better result Imani did not bother taking any food .I guess sometimes the issue of feeling hungry is all about the mentality you decide to have .This was a tough exercise especially for a woman .It was similar to a paramilitary training or a movie with a heroine trying to make her way where there is no way and perhaps portraying the power of a girl child to do what men can do.Hence,the famous provable saying “what a man can do a woman ca  do it better”.Imani was the only woman in the search team as she couldn’t been accompanied by his workmates or even his close ally Keroche bearing in mind the tense mood at which she left the kingdom in.

Food was necessary! It was time to recharge and probably to restrategise on the search tactics .Imani had converted strangers into friends and now allies .Imani was determined to get Katonde and the love in her heart pushed her out of comfort zones to an extent that she did not realise or discriminate on who to befriend and who not to befriend .At this moment the only human  enemy in her mind was Princess TT and the only love she saw in her mind was Katonde.It was a true love .She loved with determination.

Food was prepared ;it comprised of bitter herbs ,roasted meat and some boiled yams .Such was the only human food Imani had seen his entire life and probably she had not encountered the used mode of food preparation since she started working as  a maid in the palace but atleast she had witnessed it those days when she used to stay in the village. Other foods present included undefined milk ,blood like juice ,raw meet and many other unknown wild foods .Imani didn’t bother but to eat without questioning. She ate roasted meet and drunk the undefined milk as her counterparts enjoyed the raw meat,bitter herbs among others.It was at this point in time that the history of Imani’s love journey was going to take another route and perhaps a route through a bend.

Despite Imani loving with determination, it was time for disloyalty to take part .

“THANK YOU GOD !THANK YOU GOD !THANK YOU GOD “Imani shouted aimlessly from a nap .She went on:

“LET US PRAY BECAUSE GOD HAS ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS.I THANK GOD FOR BRINGING YOU BACK AND RESCUING YOU FROM THE DEN OF LION AND SAVED YOU FROM THE EVIL PLANS OF THE KINGDOM .I LOVE YOU DARLING".She sounded foolish and maybe drunk .How dare can you include a romantic statement such as that in prayer ?No one could answer that.It was just but the beginning of unknown reactions trying to compromise her thought process.Love had just messed her up  but she did not care she had to do anything and everything to get Katonde. It was a night of fulfilment .

She moved near black Mamba hold his hand up and caught him by the shoulders uttering some words of wisdom and full of love .

“YOU ARE INDEED THE ONE ,THE ONE FROM WHOSE MY RIBS CAME FROM.I SHALL ABIDE BY YOUR HOUSE RULES ALL THE TIME .I AM HAPPY MY WISH TODAY HAS ARRIVED .TEARS IN MY EYES ARE JUST BUT AN EXPRESSION OF HOW MY EMOTIONS ARE HIGH .I WILL KEEP LOYAL AND RESPECT OUR MARRIAGE  OOH...OOH....ALL THE TIME”.She paused as the Black Mamba used his well spread chest hair to wipe down all the tears in Imani’s eyes.

“DEAR KATONDE ,AM YOURS AND THAT IS SEALED ,THAT IS PERMANENT. I AM HERE FOR YOU .I AM READY FOR THE GOOD MOMENTS AHEAD .AM READY FOR THE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WE ARE GOING TO SIRE .I AM READY FOR BABY TASHA,DOREEN AND KATONDE JUNIOUR.I WILL NAME THEM BY MY FAVOURITE FIRSTNAMES AND THE REST OF THE TWO NAMES I SHALL LEAVE THEM TO YOU TO NAME “Imani expressed her emotions so passionately to an extent of not fearing anything. Romance rented the air .

“I SHALL LOVE YOU FROM THE BACK TO THE MOON “The Black Mamba broke the silence that had been kept constant by Imani's expression thou in a poor grammar and misplaced wordings.

Sitting at the top most part of the castle consuming all the privilidges that the newly wedded couples are given the smoke spread out of the forest sending a communication that a ceremony is around the corner and as per the custom that indicated that a shadow wdding is taking place.It was a night of fullfilment.

Princess TT downing in her white sexy booty short and a tumbocat light blouse kept on showering me with a peck after a peck.Had never seen the Princess behaving this way.Infact,for the whole time I have served in the palace i have never witnessed her putting on such wears that literally exposed the bigger part of her skin.

As I enjoyed the moonlight and a  strategically placed heat regulator that supplimented me with an additional heat besides that from her literally hot body I keenly observed the trajectory of the smoke as it rises above the sky .I did not understand where that strong urge about what was happening in the forest despite being inthe public domain that a shadow wedding was happening.The smoke trajectory moved against the wind direction and that signified that one of the parties in the shadow wedding has followed the right protocol.It was an early warning.Some weired feelings came over me and I suggested that we retire to our matrimonial bed an idea that Princess TT did not like it and as a result she rolled down the eyes on me which equals to lack of respect to a man.But my hands were closed and the manhood in me robbed out ,I could not anything to her despite the fact that her act should attract a bitter slap as per the customs.Love had denied me my manhood freedom.

Little did I know that the Love of mylife was the one participating in the shadow wedding in preparation for marriage the following day.The herbs and the undefined milk contained some contaminants that compromises someones ability to process information correctly .

I kept on having nightmares and everytime i could wake up hurriedly I would be taken back to sleep by a slap on the back.Imani's vision and thought had been compromised to see the Black Mamba as Katonde.The Black Mamba's mission had succeded.