CHAPTER 182:CEMETERY

"That's true ma'am they said surprised.

"Okay then you can go ahead and familiarize yourself with the sewing machine,Milka will show you. And Milka before you leave kindly bring me my breakfast"Ivana said as she yawned tiredly.

Milka brought her the warm Milk and the boiled yams her favourite snack every morning. She took it slowly, she was not feeling well because lately she have been overworking herself. 

'Even if I am fatigued I will have to go the cemetery today.' sShe thought as she stood up and left for the porch where Milka and her friends were reminding themselves about basic rules of sewing. So Ivana handed them the written interview first before she carry out the oral interview. She gave them thirty minutes to attend to that written interview.

"Milka tell Charo in next one hour he should be prepared I want him to take me to the cemetery." Ivana said as she touched her forehead like someone who is in pain.

"Hey Ivana are you okay, I have noticed that you look tired. You don't have to come go if you are not okay" Milka said worriedly.

"Don't worry Milka I will take rest when I come from the cemetery." She said as she sat on the couch,"Kindly inform Charo"

After thirty minutes Stacy,Nekesa and Gloria brought the papers to her but unfortunately she was sleeping on the couch. So they just placed the interview papers on the table and returned to the porch.

"Is ma'am Ivana I'll? She doesn't look fine."Nekesa said.

"I hope that she is just tired and probably resting I don't want her to be sick. I think she is a nice person as Milka told us." Gloria commented too.

Milka returned and walked straight to the porch where stacy, Gloria and Nekesa were. "Have you already finished the interview, how quick. You are so intelligent." She said as she checked the sewing machine.

"But unfortunately Milka, Ma'am Ivana us sleeping in the counch will she think that we cheated in the interview when she wakes up.!" Gloria said.

"She is sleeping? Let me check on her." Milka said then left.

She walked to the couch where Ivana was lying and tapped her slowly. The first time she tapped on her she didn't respond. Then she tapped on Ivana again while calling her name.

"Ivana,Ivana are you okay?" She asked.

Ivana yawned tiredly as she rose from the couch. "You mean,you mean they are fine with the interview. Very impressive, I will have to conduct an oral Interview to them before I leave for the cemetery." Ivana said as she checked the papers.

"Milka go tell them that to be prepared and come in one after the another in the next five minutes." She said as she went through the written interview. She was mesmerised with the kind of answers they wrote. All of them explained differently but correctly.

'Woow if they answered like this differently but correctly. They didn't cheat despite the fact that I was not supervising them. Then they are trained correctly.' Ivana thought.

"Ma'am Ivana I was informed that you want to conduct an oral Interview to us." Gloria said with confidence.

"Take a seat, you are Gloria right?" Ivana asked confirming her name.

"Yes Ma'am.

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After the interview Ivana left for the cemetery, this time she just carried candles. She was tired to go buy the wreath.

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"Do we have to go to the cemetery today John we can go there another day"Miss Grace said.

"Mum I just feel that today is the perfect day to visit dad. Let's go tell him that we need his prayers to be hired in his company. You know ancestors communicates with God." John said.

"So you think that your father is already an ancestor now? He is the living death. You never learned a thing in school John." Miss Grace said.

"Because you never took me to a nice School mum." He said jokingly.

"I think John we will buy one wreath okay, I don't have enough money to buy two." Miss Grace said.

"It's okay mum I do understand." John said surprising his mother.

"You are not complaining?" Miss Grace asked.

"No, I am happy that today you agreed to accompany me to cemetery without complaining or giving me excuses as you normally do."

When they arrived at cemetery the gateway open, so they walked straight to the grave of Mr Bombwe. Fortunately for them,John noticed that a lady was already there so he tapped on his mother and said.

"Mum, look Ivana is there mum." He said happily as he pointed and Ivana who was kneeling at the grave with her back at them.

"Are you sure? How do you know that she is Ivana?" 

"Mum I know my sister, I have seen her once and perhaps there is no one else who can visit dad if not her or us. Come on mum lets go and greet her." John said as he pulled her mother by the hand.

"Are you out of your mind how.....Miss Grace stopped talking as she looked at Ivana who was standing up. She dragged John quickly and the kneeled at a random Grave that was in front of them.

"Mum why are we hiding from her, this is the right time to reveal ourselves to her." John murmured as Ivana was aproaching.

"Shhhhhhh, are you crazy do you think she will believe us." Miss Grace said through gritted teeth.

Ivana was two steps away from them when John immediately stood up and composed himself on how to approach her. Miss Grace wanted to pull him down and slap him hard but she didn't want to cause an suspecion. So she just held her breath as she waited to hear what John had to say to her daughter.

"He....hello Iv.... ma'am" John stuttered.

Miss Grace bowed her head, she didn't want to look at her. But deep inside she wanted to embrace her tightly.

Ivana stopped walking and looked at John at first she thought that she was not the one being addressed to.

"Hello you are talking to me?" Ivana asked.