Chapter Twenty-Nine

I was smiling on my way to my aunt’s place. I didn't even want to stay longer, but it was my duty to check up on her. I knew my family would not do so until later but I worried more about her.

“What brings you here Mayamiko? I told you I was going to be fine?”

“Look you are all alone.”

I said, going inside the house and picking up things on my way. My aunt was not an untidy person, so it worried me.

“Bankhazi, basibweni balingu? (Where is my uncle?)”

“You know him and beer.”

We both laughed. If it’s something that my aunt failed to separate from my uncle it was his beer. He would go to any beer hall and drink. Even some homemade beer legally or illegally brewed he knew the venues.

“If you are to re-marry stay away from men who love beer.”

I was thinking about my predicaments as I didn’t know Chisomo that well. What if he was a drunkard, as I only saw him sober at work? What if she loved beer and women?

“So, you have a man now?”

She was looking at me with a curious face I just laughed