When I got inside, I thought Anna would be asleep but there she was, waiting for me like a mother of a trouble-some teenager.
‘Chomee
Dating Billy AndersonThe next few weeks were very good. Billy and I were officially in a relationship. He took me everywhere. To the movies, the park, shopping. He actually gave me an allowance, fetched me and dropped me wherever, whenever. He even took me to a beauty salo
Shopping was bliss because we got along (thanks to Billy’s credit card) and we got exactly what we wanted. I was buying a lot of swimsuits with different colours, forgetting that they would sell me out to Anna, especially because I didn’t want her to know about my excursion to Durban. Anna was two years older than me, so she felt a great deal of responsibility for me. She often told me that I am now her little sister, the sister that she never had. She had this paranoia about Billy sleeping with me and then leaving me. Hence that’s why I didn’t want her to know about our plans.‘Petunia, what exactly are we shopping for?’ Anna asked without looking at me.‘We are shopping for the fun of it. Isn’t that what girls d
Durban, what a paradise
We went shopping for our groceries, hand in hand, joked about things and kissed frequently. We didn’t buy a lot of things since we left the car behind, so we didn’t need to strain our limbs with heavy bags of food. We just got things that we needed for the night and we said to get the rest of them the following day. We couldn’t get our hands off each other, we were basically inseparable. We were figuratively joined at the hip. Billy was a little strange though. He was on the phone a lot and he moved away when he answered or made a call. I must say he got me a little worried because he never used to do that. A part of me wanted to confront him and a part of me didn’t. I thought maybe he must be talking to his dad about the morning’s events and maybe he didn’t want me to be upset.We then got back to our m
I’m still his pretty
There’s new girl in town; a cougar lecturer‘Hey chomee, welcome back. I have missed you so much.’ That was Anna burying me into her arms after opening the door for me, to my amazement of course. The whole way, I have been worried about how responsive she would be. I was actually expecting her to be rude and moody but she looked rather happy to see me.‘Hey friend, I have missed you too.’ Of course I lied. I didn’t miss her at all. If anything, I was glad to have been away from her for almost three whole days. ‘How have you been?’‘It wasn’t the same without you hey, but Maureen kept me company. I even led her do my nails and hair.’ Anna looked really excited and the hair style she was rocking was amazing.‘Wow, friend, these are awesome.’ I told her, inspecting her now glamorous nails immensely and added, ‘your hair style is just out of this world. Maureen is really good at what she does.’‘She surely is. Now, please tell me everything about Durban. How was the beach, the game, the fo
‘Grandma Gloria, how are we this morning?’ Sharon walked past me with broad shoulders and a stupid greeting. She greeted me rudely and I wasn’t going to let her off the hook this time around.‘I think I know exactly what grand
I left the campus and walked slowly to the bus stop. Second day in a row, I had to leave college because my day was ruined. I knew it was wrong of me to just leave without attending all of my classes but I had developed a sudden dislike of going to school in just two days. As I was walking and wiping my tears, Billy came along and pulled up right in front of me.
One would argue that killing three people was a breeze to me, they might be right because I did kill them. But killing myself wasn’t easy, the physical pain that I so desperately wanted didn’t sound like a great idea if I was doing it myself. I thought that, perhaps I should go to Park Station and throw myself in front of a moving train, but I didn’t have the guts. But in my quest to punish Billy, I thought about his words. The fact that he didn’t want to lose me. Yeah, he said some pretty hectic stuff before he left, he was angry. He told me that he loved me, and I believed him, he had no reason to lie.
He spoke to God-knows-who and then told them that he will send them GPS coordinates. That just raised a lot of questions in my mind. I was wondering why didn’t Billy ask whoever his goons were to kill Naledi in the first place. If they can dispose of a body, sure they can kill. Or might even have killed before. I was wondering why he had to make me do it for him. We sat in silence for almost an hour. Billy didn’t want to look at me, when he did, he either said something hurting or asked me to feel the body’s temperature, which was already cold. I covered her with a blanket because I couldn’t bear to look at her body like that.
In my twisted head, I believed that going away from my family and my life as I knew it was a small price to pay. Finally, I was getting the man of my dreams, a good life and I knew that both Billy and I were not perfect. I even thought of us as Bonnie and Clyde. We were not bank robbers, we were killers but I was hoping we won’t kill again. The consequences were not as thrilling as our relationship was. I began to pack my things soon after Billy left because he said I had to leave as soon as possible. For the first time in days, I felt good. I don
‘Chomee
I raced back to the kitchen and looked for a dry dish towel. I found it in one of the drawers and with it, I wiped everything that I touched. I wiped everything, the counter top, the door knob as well as the key, the taps and the tub. Everything that had my prints, I wiped thoroughly. Except for Naledi and Sharon. I didn’t try wiping them because it was pointless. No matter how hard I would’ve have tried, it wouldn’t remove the fact that I killed two innocent people. They were only guilty because they were beautiful and they had everything I didn’t. Also because Sharon disliked me and Naledi was a threat to my happiness
I steadily sat on the bar stool and my eyes wandered around the kitchen. It was small but not as small as ours. The cupboards were made of rich brown wood with stainless steel handles. It was lavished in a way, most of the appliances that they had, Anna and I could only dream of. There was a big black double door fridge standing at the corner, which looked like the one Billy had in his cottage. The microwave and the kettle were similar to Billy’s as well. That made me wonder whether Billy and Naledi bought them together out of love or Naledi was living up to her reputation and extorted money out of Billy to furnish their kitchen and poss
Without any hesitation, I gave him the go-ahead. I wanted him to live his life without having to look behind his back. A life without Naledi’s obnoxious threats. Yes I never got time to study the girl, but what Billy had poured out to me was more than enough for me to dislike her even further. The drive to town was a very quiet one, but the loud beating of my heart was audible. Even with the encouraging rage, there was a lot of room for fear. I was about to end somebody’s life, I had to be frightened.
For the next couple of days, Billy coached me on what I needed to. He even took me to a shooting range, explaining to me how to use a gun and how to break and enter without being seen. It was scary at first, but we had fun playing the bad guys. Billy tried his utmost to make me feel comfortable. He was way too smart as well because every time he came over, he will always show me a threatening text from his sugar momma or play an audio of the things she would say about me. All of that made me angry and fired up to pursue with the plan. There were however, times when I wanted out of the situation, but Billy always outsmarted me. He’d alway
The night seemed to be longer than normal but eventually, dawn broke and the new day greeted us with warm winter rays. I was still overwhelmed by everything that Billy poured out on to me the night before and it was too evident. Billy suggested that we both needed to loosen up and he picked Sandton as the therapeutic destination. I welcomed the idea wholeheartedly as I knew that he wasn’t going back to the lecturer. Spending time together increased my chances and the fact that he finally confided in me made the relationship a real one. For a few hours, I wasn’t at all concerned about Billy’s troubles; I was too busy enjoying