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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Thing is: I have been calling you all day. I started to suspect that you might be avoiding me… But it turns out that you are just busy.”
A short silence, a hope that she might say something. She did not and that nudged him to conclude the call.
“I, um, happen to miss you. A lot. Good night, Mpumi.”
That was the end of the call. A short while later, Cynthia decided to break the silence, “So,” she said—awkwardly, “that was business, huh?”
Upset, Mpumi jumped up and stormed out.
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The next day in the afternoon, both Thabo’s parents stood knocking on Thabo’s door, “We just want to know if you’re alright, sweetie!” cried the mother. She looked very worried—both she and her husband.
There appeared Mpumi walking in through the front door. The moment they saw her, t
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The mention of Dion always made Thabo feel incompetent. It wasn’t always like this for Thabo until, of course, he found himself entangled with same woman Dion wanted.“Honestly, I don’t have time for this.” Thabo turned to walk back into his living room—leaving Mpumi still at the balcony. And he turned back to her, to question her, “Why did you walk away from his call? Isn’t that what you want? Him?”“Is that why you disappeared?”“You took my car!”“Call a taxi!” Mpumi could easily tell that Thabo was trying to push the blame onto her and she was not having it. “You have taxi numbers in your phone! But no. You had to vanish.”She continued to reprimand him, “Here you are, in some fancy hotel, topless and flirting with a staff. And a whole glass of wine in your hand. You had not only your mom and dad worried, but Sam too and a whole lot of your oth
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Thabo made the introductions, “This is Mbali, my cousin, and that is her boyfriend. We went to primary school together. That’s where we all first met. And then, of course, this is Mpumi. A good friend and as well, a girl I’m crushing on.”COUGH! Mpumi chocked on a sip.She did not expect that. Of course, she knew but she did not expect him to say it out like that. Concerned, Thabo rubbed her back, “Are you okay?”“So,” Mbali said, “now that you’ve heard that. What do you plan to do about that, missy?” She had gotten Mpumi’s attention. There was an eye-contact between them. Mbali thought she caught a reading, “You...” she said calmly, “you poor soul.”Mpumi looked to Thabo to try to understand what was going on only to see him roll his eyes, she turned back to Mbali, “You have been through a lot. A lot more than any sane person can handle.”Mp
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The next morning, they woke up in the same bed, his bare chest on her cold back and his arm over her waist. “What you, um,” he pulled the blanket over her neck, “said last night...” He continued, “Did you meant it?”A silence.“Do you remember what it was that you said?”She turned to him, “You and I are official now, if that’s okay with you.”“Are you kidding me?” he chuckled. He was happy, “I’ve been rooting for us since day one!”Her phone rang. She reached into her jeans on the floor and pulled it out. It was Sam calling, “Where are you?” She seemed heated.“What? Why?”“I’m out here. We’re all out here!”Mpumi immediately jumped, “Ow shucks!” She rolled all the blanket to herself as she stood from the bed, “I wil
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Mpumi approached Dion standing alone, he was neatly tucking his band into his chest pocket, making sure it was visible. “Ah, yellow band,” she said catching his attention.“Oh,” he smiled, “you too?”“Brenda, just loved me in her team,” said she.“Too full of yourself?”“Nope. She told me so.”Dion was so happy that himself and Mpumi were in the same team—he was happy but he would not show it.It was after the designation of teams and the crowd cued by the tables getting their meals. Vincent, in the line, found himself conversing with one of the children his age, “Yeah, I’m adopted. Not long ago, actually.”“Cool.” The girl said, “Me too. How are they? Your foster....”“Oh, no. It’s adoption.” Vincent emphasised, “Permanent. I call him dad.”“Oh, lucky you then. Well, mine
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It was a world-wide spread news that Dion was a now changed man. Even so, there were other people who doubted him. Karabo being one of them. Karabo was a long-term member of the GREEN organisation and she had been working side by side to Brenda—sourcing investors to buy seeds and fertilizers so that they could plant more trees around the city.They have had many doors shut in their faces and even escorted out of buildings by security guards. They’ve had the most wealth businessmen and businesswomen look down on them with disdain almost as though they were ‘lazy’ beggars.“No. Look,” Karabo was adamant on voicing out her opinions on Dion. “I just think that he is arrogant. I don’t care about what you all are saying about him being a changed man, but really... Do people change? This is probably some PR for him.”Mpumi was so angered by that, such that she shoved Karabo’s shoulder as she was heading to the bus. That was on purpose and Karabo knew it. Karabo would not back down from such
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FELICIA!Felicia…That woman…“I didn’t think things would ever get better with you. I’ve been watching the news, and reading the papers... It’s no longer the ‘scandalous Dion’ I used to know. Instead, a very generous and happy kind of Dion.”“You think I’m happy?” he laughed.“Ah, and he laughs now. I also, saw that you didn’t mention my name, you didn’t trash me all over the press.”“Not my style.”“You know, I felt bad all the time. I still feel bad. What I did to you... Dion, I am really sorry. It has been eating away at me. That’s why I’m finally here today. Maybe, if I apologise to you and the kids, I’d be okay. You know? I’d be fine. So, I apologise.” She started walking out.She said what she wanted to say—it was time to leave. She didn’t see a reason to stick arou
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Dion finally, managed to get Dave to the kiddies' playground, at the swings. He went back to Vincent, who would not touch his meal or his ice-cream, “Hey,” he sat beside him. “Are you alright?”“Yes.”“Lying. Here's the nice thing about you, you can’t tell a lie anymore.”“Okay, dad.”“This is about that girlfriend of yours?”“She’s not my girlfriend.”“She’s going through some problems, isn’t she? And you want to know what is going. You know, how you always tell me what to do? It’s my turn now, but unlike you, I will be sympathetic. Don’t wait, because she won’t say anything. Find a way to make her trust you and comfortable around you. Find a way make her talk to you.”“Like you did with Mpumi?”“Well, we all know that Mpumi was different. Truth is, she opened up to me once
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As the days went by, Mpumi was slowly shutting down. Looking into her eye, Thabo could see lifelessness. Very often he would find her in the garden standing still (almost frozen in time), her eyes staring into empty space and her arms folded. Thabo knew not what to do for her. He often tiptoed back into hiding, each time he found her like that. He learned that he found solace from his family—being around them would always pump-up his strength. Thabo knew what he had to do but he would not bring himself to do it. ……………………………………………………………………………………… It was finally, the next day at school. Vincent had his swim-coach yelling at him for his lacking progress. “You don’t practise enough! I told you, crawl, crawl! What is wrong with you?” “I’m sorry, coach.” “You’re sorry? You’re gonna cost us a medal,” Coach finally left the boy, Vincent, alone. The other boys and girls threw Vincent pitiful eyes. Chrisy and Jonat
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