Dinner

Jimjim after washing the clothes, ran into the kitchen, made fires, cut the vegetables, boils meat, she was so eager to finish her work on time. She didn't notice her young child watching her silently. A young child afraid to disturb her mother's work not to make her sad, she silently stands in the corner of the kitchen, waiting patiently like a young matured child knowing her responsibility of work. She wished she could help her but since she doesn't know how to cook she silently watches her mother working to grasp her method of cooking.

After finishing her work Jimjim cleaned all the utensils, cleaned the kitchen and waited for the masters of the house to have their dinner. It was already a time to eat, Jimjim seeing her child at the corner of the kitchen she smiled and held her tight, "Devo, hoped you are not hungry yet", Devo nodded her head affirming she isn't.

Since birth Devo was born dumb. But her eyesight was sharp and her hearing ability was quite abnormally sharp.

One by one all the family members of them came to have dinner. An elderly man, Jimso was Jimjim's eldest brother. He was robust and always a bad tempered man, his wife Ringwa was very opposite of his husband. She was nice and beautiful but was always afraid of her husband's bad temper and tantrums. They have three beautiful children an eldest 15 year old boy Mamwa, 12 years boy Dimwa and an 8 year old girl Wanwa. Thanks to her mother's beauty they were very handsome and beautiful.

Wanwa eat her food but some portion when her father was eating and talking she hurriedly hid some meat in a handkerchief. Her mother and brothers saw it but they all ate silently knowing that she was keeping the meat for Devo and their aunt.

They were all afraid of their father so they just kept quiet, eating their dinner.

Jimso keeps talking about the incident where his cow was killed, he was angry at the young man from the village, "how dare he challenge me by killing my cow, how dare he talk to me that young man, who the damn person was he i have to go out and find about him", after saying it he washed his hand and went out.

Ringwa couldn't say anything in his husband's matters. He was like absolute power at home and even outside the house always showing his bad temper everywhere. They all looked at him going out. When his shadow was not to be seen Ringwa called Jimjim and Devo to eat with them, "come fast and eat Devo might be hungry come hurry Jimjim feed her, she loves meat".

Jimjim fed her child some meat and vegetables, and even Wanwa gave her meat to Devo. Though they were cousins she loves Devo like her own younger sister, whatever she eats she always hides in her handkerchief and brings it to Devo.

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