TURNING POINT FINAL

Life can be so hard at times, My Parents died when I was 15 years Old, I had no-one to depend
on as my Grandmother Blamed me for my Parent's Accident, Though I didn't know why, She
made it clear that she didn't want to see me after my Parents burial. And that time Bright was
asking me out, He even came at my Parents Funeral and He was there for me and that made me
accept him. I shared with him everything that had happened and He was staying alone as his
Parents were overseas, He took me in, Bright and I loved each other and I never thought he
would do something like that. After he had chased me from his house and his life. And Went to
Chenge's House, She was mad that I had spent the whole night at Bright's door, Well I Spend the
whole night there hoping that Bright would have a change of heart but that didn't happen.. He
didn't even check up on me to see if I had gone or still there, to think that it was raining whole
night continuously and I realize that I didn't knew the man I was in love with. I thought I knew
him but after this day. I realize I underestimated. I thank God for Chenge, She was always there
for me. She told me not to be anxious about anything though I would feel bad sometimes. She
would pay rent, bills all by herself and never complains. I gave birth to my Boy and everything
was normal, Bright never Called or text, First days I would cry thinking about him. But gradually
I got over him as I promised myself that I would work hard for my boy and provide everything
he needs. Days passed, Weeks passed, Months and Years, I was now going to work and going to
School as the same time, I always loved Fashion Designing and Chenge convinced me to go to
School of Cutting and Designing. My boy was doing just fine and Chenge was in love with him,
He would come to pick him up and spend the weekend with him. One day Chenge brought a
Topic that I have been avoiding

Chenge

"So, tell me what you are thinking”

Me

"Thinking? What are you talking about, Chenge Please we are not going to talk about Bright,
no, not again.”

Chenge

(She drank the juice looking at me) "You know what, your problem is you always thinking
about Bright, Who said I was talking about Bright." I rolled my eyes

Chenge

"Was talking about your life broadly ,I mean your love life, not all men are like Bright ,There is
actually Mr. Cute, Perfect man, Who is patiently waiting for you, You need to open your heart".
Me

"Chenge I'm not doing this with you right now, I don't have energy for this kind of
Conversation" Talking about Men, there was this other man, who I'm surmising to be stalking
me, I met him when I was in a Supermarket with my son. You know how Children behaves
sometimes .My Son picked a Chocolate and I didn't have money to pay for it. I fought with him.
And it really draws attention, that's when this Gentleman came and carry him in his arms and go
to the Till and pay for the chocolate. I was really embarrassed honestly, I  just picked my stuff
and went outside where the Gentleman was waiting holding my son ,they were really getting
along, The guy asked if he can drop us and I refused from that day the guy would pop from
nowhere and that's why I thought the guy had been stalking me or something. I was brought to
reality by Chenge. Who is busy clicking her fingers..

Me

“hmmmm ,Chenge, let me be”..

Chenge

”Are you here or you somewhere else. I’m busy showing this hairstyle in my phone and you are
busy thinking about Mr. Perfect and you busy Blushing..

Me

“Blushing, me, Chenge. .You are really sick" .I stood up as she blocked my way.

Chenge

“You are actually blushing, Love is in the air, and Love is in the Air..." She started singing as she
dances one thing about Chenge. She was not a good dancer, she was a good singer but dancing
was not just her cup of tea. I started laughing.

Chenge

“What is so fun, you actually love this guy”.

Days turned into weeks, Weeks into Months and Almost Every day I would bump into this guy, I
know it was not by chance but he was really stalking me. He won and I lost. Most of the time we
could go out together chill and enjoy. We were just friends, He was taking things slow. He would
sometimes come home and pick up my son and they would go for ice cream. Sometimes I would
lie that my son had gone to my Brother's Place not because I didn't trust him but I just didn't want
my son to be attached to him and get my hopes high and end up getting hurt and hurt my poor
untainted son. Everything was really going well and we were still friends. He came to my place
and this time my son had gone out with Chenge. He were both in the Kitchen as I was making
food for us to eat. He was standing near the cupboard, stealing glances from me and I was busy
choping onions.

Me

“You know it's saucy to stare at someone”, A smile curves his lips and he cleared his throat.

Him

“You know I have been thinking”, He paused and stared at the chopping board and I stared at
him.

Me

"And”, I nod my head

Him

“Okay you mentioned something about your desire to become a Fashion Designer. I can help you
to achieve your dream ,Look I don't meant to dictate your life for you but See, You have dreams
and you must live up to your dreams, I’m not...

Me

I cut him off, “Okay. Thank you very much for being concerned but that dream is as good as
dead, I have a job and a son .I'm happy. Don’t worry really, it’s nothing”. I avoid eye contact
with him then try to chop the Onions fast and he was still staring at me. I started going to the
cupboard, pacing around

Him

“Quit the Drama, We all know it has been your dream and You still wanna do it, For God's sake,
I'm your friend and there is nothing wrong with a friend helping a friend achieving their goals. In
Life we need each other. You can't do everything alone”.

Me

"Can we please drop it", I was now getting annoyed, I don’t even know why. His Phone rang and
he started talking over the phone and it sounds like it was an emergency. I continued Cooking.

Him

“Okay Cool I’m leaving something came up, Duty calls, but we are not done, we are surely
going to talk about this. I just nod then he left
 TURNING POINT f ina l

I just nod, I didn’t have anything to say, I just continued with what I was doing.
It was the first of the week, I was avoiding to see him, I would tell him that work was really
hectic and he would understand sometimes He would call sometimes and I would ignore him
because I was still avoiding the topic he had raised the other day. It didn’t take long before he
came to my house and found me there. He makes his way in and we ate lunch together he even
put my son to bed and we talked about other things until he cleared his throat.

Him
“So have you thought about what I said the other day,”, I pretended like I didn’t hear anything he
looked at me and I looked at him, One thing lead to another and He lowered his head towards me
and I just stood there like an idiot, This guy was really something else, I couldn’t resist him, His
soft lips met mine and we kissed so passionately, He just stopped and stand on his feet then took
his car keys, His face looked worried, To be honest I didn’t have any regrets I enjoyed the kiss.
I don’t know what had made him to be so mad and left like that, I thought of calling him but I
didn’t want to be too fast or make him think otherwise so I just chilled, God knows how many
times I wrote and delete messages I was trying to send to him. I then put my phone on charger
and try to focus on my work, Truth to be told I kept on thinking about the kiss, At some point I
even forgot that I was that same person who will never fall in love again, As much as I wanted to
deny this fact, I was really in love. I slept waiting for his message or call but there was nothing.

I was not really in the good mood, I even got up so late that I was late at work, I just went
straight to my office making sure the Manager would not notice me, As I head to my chair, I
noticed something on my desk, An Envelope ,For a moment I thought MD came and noticed that
I was not yet at work and decides to fire me, I could not hold my breath, I was really shaking,
My job was the only thing I was relying on, My job could pay my rentals, bills and takes care of
my son,

I went straight to my office and as I was to sit down, I saw a nice Envelope on my desk and my
heart skipped a bit, Was I being fired from work, what was really going on, I panicked, I slowly
took the envelope, It took time for me to open it as I was debating with myself if I should open or
not, I crossed my fingers then took a deep breath then open it,

'Phew, Relieved, As soon as I see that there were documents and they had Kelvins Signature on
them, they were written on the top "Fashion Designing Awards Competition", Time to showcase
your talent", This only means he went on and registered my name for the competition, Yes I had
gone to College for Designing and Cutting, and secretly I would sometimes do Attires for clients
as a my part time business but I never dreamed of being in a competition worse National
Completion.

Though I would watch news and always a girl named Charity always on number one, she would
always trend on news, whenever it’s about Fashion Charity will be there, just by looking at her,
you could simply see Fashion all over and here I was anticipating to compete with someone like
Charity. I really envied her a lot, I would follow her pages and everything about her. I haven’t
got an opportunity to meet her in Person but it felt like I knew her, deep down I wanted to be like
her, I mean if I had not wasted my time with that man I trusted my life with, Maybe I would have
been like Charity, Maybe if I didn’t met Bright, life could have been better, I would have
achieved my dreams, Charity had updated her profile saying she is engaged, She didn’t put a
picture of a man she got engaged to, but the next picture was of her and a beautiful brand new
car, I don’t know much about cars but I could see that it was a beautiful Mercedes Benz and she
had written a caption "Thank you Bae, you are the best”. Since that day I stopped following her
as I was trying to be pleasant with what I had, I did regret trusting Bright but I don’t regret
giving birth to my Child, my son was a blessing to me. I wiped tears that were coming down
involuntarily and I slowly put back all the papers in the envelope and I get back to work as I was
already late.

It was almost lunch hour, I get a message from Kelvin and my heart leaped with joy, hoping he
would talk about what had happened the other day but the message was actually to confirm if I
had got the documents, I cleared my table then went out for lunch. I deleted Kelvin's number as I
didn’t want to hurt myself by keep waiting for his messages and checking if he had updated on
status. I was done with him.

You will never see how days were moving so fast, to think it was weekend already and still
haven’t heard from Kelvin, I know I had promised myself that I would forget about him but truth
be told there was a part of me that still wants him no matter, how much I would try I took my son
to the park since it was Saturday and Chenge joined us, My son was busy playing as we were
busy chatting.

CHENGE

"So what designs are you going to present for the contest, you know you are going to need a
model or someone who can wear you design right, my body isn’t bad, you can use me ,I won’t
charge you”, I burst into laughter, This girl really was she serious.
ME

"I told you I'm not gonna waste my time on that contest"

CHENGE

"And you know Kelvin had send money for you to buy everything that is needed, materials and
you really, he even send required documents. I don’t know much Destiny and life whatsoever but
I know that opportunities comes and goes, the universe doesn’t have to favor you all the time.
There is something called "A Turning point" and this could be your turning point. God doesn’t
give us opportunies in life or chances for us just to see and say "wow”, this is good but this is not
for me, moreover life is about taking risks and trust me the outcome might not be what we
expected but it is always worthy something, I advise you grab this opportunity and see how it
will go".

I watched her as she was saying, digesting every word she was saying. “I was stuck between my
pride and low self-esteem, if I took the offer Kelvin would say if it wasn’t for me at the same
time competing with People like Charity was just impossible, yet I didn’t have any experience in
Fashion Designing. Chenge went to play with my son and they started taking pictures grinning
and I was in my own world thinking hard, the voice of another Pastor came back to my mind
,this Pastor preached the other Sunday saying “The reason why Peter started to drown was fear
and doubt and the reason why he was able to walk on top of the water was because he had
confidence in Jesus, Jesus had said come, If you trust God why do you doubt, The bible even say
in Ephesians 3:20"Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly more than what we
can ask or think", Trust him, he is able, Trust him, he is able", These words kept on ringing into
my mind and I stood up and walk towards Chenge.

Me

"We are leaving now, I have some work to do at home", Chenge picked J.J and we went straight
home, Chenge left as soon as we ate and I put my son to bed then I started working on the
designs, the Devil whispers into my ears saying "Beware of what you call Faith, this is
foolishness, imagine you competing with Charity", I ignored the voice and continued. The whole
weekend been working on designs and the fun part is I haven’t been able to come up with the
designs that appease my heart, but I told myself that I would not give up, As this could be my
"Turning Point".

The date to submit first Designs was approaching soon and I had to come up with something. I
managed to come up with a nice design then I submitted and I kept my Faith, I decided to go to
the Mall after I had submitted my design, I spotted a car in the car parking area which looked
like Kelvin’s, I moved closer and it was really his, I looked around and there was no one, I went
inside the Mall, and I was about to pass the wedding wear shop, there he was smiling with a girl
and he was actually helping the girl to wear the veil proper, I can’t even explain, how I felt, I
just ran outside, I could not control my tears, So he has a fiancée ,men are just….I breathed ,I
know he hasn’t said anything or asked me out but the fact that we kissed, So it means that kiss
was meaningless to him, why did he come to my life and pretends like he cares, He gave me
hope and now. I went straight home and slept, my maid came to check if I was okay, I guess she
saw my mood when I got home. I just nod and she didn’t ask any further, she quickly closed the
door and left. I was now confused if I still had to take the offer and continue with the contest or
just let it go, As I was busy thinking, I got a message and it was an email and I ignored it
deliberately. Thinking it could be from work .Immediately my phone rang and it was Kelvin, I
don’t know why but somehow, I was beginning to despise him, I didn’t even pick his calls. He
kept on calling until I decided to put my phone on silent, my phone beeped and it was a whatsapp
message from him, I just went to his chat and highlighted then delete without even reading his
message. Chenge then called,

Chenge

“Why are you not taking Kelvin’s calls, What are you so busy with”, I froze at the mention of his
name, She continued “Anyway congratulations, Kelvin called me and say you were not picking
his calls, your designs has been accepted, You don’t know how happy Kelvin is, Please call him
back” I frowned

Me

“Really, my designs have been accepted. I’m so happy”, I responded trying not to react at
Kelvin’s name. We talked about other matters and the contest then say our goodbyes and hung
up. I opened my email and I smiles but I didn’t regret deleting Kelvin’s number.

Being accepted really gave me the green light, I even forgot that I was going to compete with
ladies like Charity, I asked for some days and my Boss agreed, I started preparing for the final
contest, I had to nail it, the design has to speak for itself. This contest had made me so busy that I
had actually forgotten about Kelvin. The day for finals arrived and I was really nervous, I didn’t
have connections for any models yet my Designs were supposed to be worn by a model to
showcase. As we were about to leave. Kelvin arrived, Chenge smiled and I had to pretend, we
greeted and he took J.J.

Him

“You are looking amazing Anisha, you are definitely going to be the winner trust me”, Chenge
smiled and I forced a smile, he noticed.

Him

“Oh, by the way, I know you need a model that will wear your designs, don’t worry, all is set,
let’s go”, He tap my shoulder as he makes his way. I only wanted to concentrate on the contest
so I let it slide and even thought of saying ‘no thank you, but I decided not to let my pride got
into the way, I chilled.

We arrived at the venue just in time, someone called Kelvin from behind, it was a lady’s voice, I
looked and Gosh, I stood there like a zombie as that same girl I saw at the Mall with Kelvin
coming towards us, she was all smiles, she and Kelvin hugs, the hug was a bit long, They finally
realized that we were there and they let go, Kelvin looked at me and surprisingly there was no
guilt in his eyes.

Kelvin

“Oh, Tracy, This is Anisha, and Anisha meet Tracy, and Tracy here, he paused and looked at her
and smiles at her and continues, Tracy is my world”, Ouch that really hurts. I mean he didn’t
have to say it loud, I could see, I couldn’t notice Tracy’s hand in front of me until she waves at
me

Her

“Hello”, I quickly shook his hand and smile and she smiled too

“I understand you are nervous, who wouldn’t be, honestly, don’t worry, it will all work out well”

My God she was really beauty, more beautiful than I, her body and skin was just on point
flawless. I was not even half her and she looked so young early twenties I guess.

Kelvin

“So Tracy here used to wear clothes for Edgars, while she was still in Zimbabwe, so I just
thought since she is in town, she will be the best person to wear your designs”, I popped my eyes
out, really, this Guy, what does he think of himself, I controlled my tears, Tracy seemed to be a
good girl, the way she was talking to me all the way, I dressed her and everything.

The Contest started and everything was just amazing, Kelvin and I were sitting next to each other
and we were stealing glances and his eyes were saying a lot that I couldn’t understand, it was
now final round and Tracy was really rocking in my designs. I decided to go the bathroom to
freshen up, I didn’t realize how long I had been in the bathroom until there was a sharp knock at
the door and I opened, it was him, I just faked a smile

Kelvin

“Are you okay, I mean, you just left and you took time so I….”I just nod and I started walking
and he followed me as we were about to reach the door because I was heading to the door to get
fresh air, I don’t know why suddenly I was feeling bored, He holds my hand, stopping me.
Him

“Are you sure you are okay or Did I do something wrong”, Like seriously this guy, I just looked
at him in disbelief and the judge just announced the winner, I didn’t believe what I just heard,
Kelvin even looks at me, I took another step further and Kelvin grabs my hand and tightened his
grip and the Judge announce winner again, I didn’t know how to react, my heart stopped a bit, I
just followed Kelvin and there I was, with Awards and the Media,, getting all the attention, I
must say it really felt good. After all it was indeed a “TURNING POINT”.

Tracy came and gave me a tight hug, she was extremely happy and it was genuine, I could see
from her eyes, I had mixed emotions, I was so happy that I became the winner but with Kelvin
and Tracy issue I was just confused, Surprisingly Charity came to congratulate me but I could
see she wasn’t happy.

Kelvin

“I had faith in you, I’m proud of you”, He gave me a very tight hug and it was full of emotions, it
was a very long and passionate until Tracy pushed him away.

Tracy

“This call for celebration guys”, She was still wearing my dress, honestly I didn’t want to go
anyway especially with Kelvin and Tracy it was just awkward and Kelvin really.

Me

“We can do it some other time, I need to rest, and the week has been hectic”.

Tracy

“No, we are all going …come on…come on”, I wanted to refuse but she started pushing me and
we went to Kelvin’s place, I guess it was all planned, the decorations and everything, It was
really stunning, we got inside and the food was served but my plate was covered, I looked at
everyone and opened my plate, I couldn’t believe my eyes, a nice silver shining ring and on top
there was his name, what kind of a design is this, for a moment ,I looked at Tracy’s finger
thinking I might have took her plate, and she had her engagement ring, So what was going, I
looked at Kelvin and he quickly kneel down and took the ring and I was really confused, I stood
up

Kelvin

“I know you were not expecting this but you know Anisha, I will be foolish to let a woman like
you go, I know I have been a coward, I should have said this a long time ,but I didn’t want to
lose you and J.J. You guys mean a lot. Give me a chance to love you, I genuinely love you. I
don’t know what I was feeling, what was happening.
Me

“Wait a minute, I thought Tracy and you were….,I mean you and Tracy…you”, I stammered as I
was still in shock.

He looked Tracy and I in confusion and Tracy looked confused too

Tracy

“Me and him, what, I don’t understand”.

Him

“What are you saying?”

Me

“I saw you guys at Mall the other day, trying gowns and I thought you guys were an item”, Tracy
burst into laughter and Chenge too

Him

“Tracy is my little sister, she is the last born in our family and only girl that’s why I said she is
my world, Remember I told you I had a sister who is in Canada and I even told you that she was
getting married, My God no wonder why you were acting up”, I was so embarrassed, I couldn’t
even look at him

“You should have asked me about it”, I just stand there saying nothing, “My knees are hurting”,
Gosh he is such a Drama King

Me

“I love you too Kelvin and I want to be a part of your life”, He slipped the ring on my finger and
stood up and kissed me.Tracy and Chenge clapped their hands... We ate and he dropped us at
home, I kept on looking at my finger, I couldn’t sleep, I was so excited.

I couldn’t believe that I got all worked up for nothing, All the drama, cursing and silent treatment
I gave him was for nothing, I felt bad for him, Poor guy, The following morning news about me
were all over ,TV channels and even on social media. There was also news about Charity, she
was actually dating a married man, no wonder why she didn’t put the picture of him. The wife
came and create a scene as soon as we left the Contest Venue, I learnt that what we see is not
always true and we should be careful about People we envy in life, I felt left out in life, not
knowing that my own time will come and will shine and it will be my “Turning Point”.