It was a beautiful Saturday morning, for the first time I was the first one to wake up. I made breakfast for everyone, it has been always my mother who wake everyone up but that day, It was me the princess of the house. We all ate breakfast together after everyone was done, I washed dishes, by that time my mother Nolufefe and my father were getting ready. We were all going to a family gathering in East London. After I was done, I went to my bedroom to get dressed. I wore my Xhosa dress attire as it is something that we always wore at the family gathering as Amaxhosa and I loved my Xhosa Attires because the were always perfect for my beautiful curved body. I had never bèen to a gym but my body had everything in its rightful place, basically my body didn't need a gym. Once I was done I went to the dinning room that's where I found Mom and Dad waiting for me. Looking totally beautiful. You could have seen my Mommy on that long Xhosa dress look all ravishing, all curves out. "Can we leave now my beautiful queens" daddy said holding Mommy's hand. I reply yes I believe we are all ready. You could see mom's and dad's love for each other. We Drove from Mthatha to East London. On the way we were playing gospel music sing loud together, we were all happy and dancing. The atmosphere was perfect, souls connecting.
We them arrive at East London on my dad side of the family, KuFaku, Nyawuza, Thahla. We greeted everything one from the grandparents to the grandchildren that's how it's done, it's the culture for us Xhosa. My mother couldn't get time to rest just like I and dad did because she had do Play being a perfect Makoti. Immediately after she has done greeted everything one, she had to go to the river and fetch water, help with chores. My mother doesn't like working too much she has this excuse that she works to much at the hospital that's she doesn't like doing chores, I wonder how is she coping, or does she want to give my family a good impression of her, I wondered. In the meantime I was busy chatting and catching up with my cousins and daddy with his cousins and parents too . Then ceremony which me, daddy and mom weren't aware of started we thought It was only a family gathering but we were wrong. The ceremony was for my younger cousin Luntu apparently they were doing imbeleko for him. Imbeleko is a ceremony that is done to introduce a child to the ancestors of the family. My grandfather brought a goat and impempo, where the goat was slotted. After the imbeleko was done the whole family went outside, others we braaing meat other dancing, singing other drinking umqombothi. the whole family was happy and meeting relatives I never knew. Everyone had a great time.
It was getting late most people were going inside as it was getting cold, then this man came to my mother and I had never met this men before but the way my mother looked at him you could see there is something. The fear in my mother eye even a little child could see there was something. What is it, I wondered
