Chapter 18

CRIMETELLA  

 

CHAPTER 18 

 

MQHELE ZUNGU 

 

Time was now 2am in the morning I could hear that my wife is sleeping I got out of bed and walked to MK's room I didn’t even knock I just opened the door and whispered calling his name lucky he heard me yho izinto zongaboni , he walked me out to the kitchen im sure he wants to drink milk to stay awake. I don’t know the equation but milk is suppose to make you sleep right but then to him it does the inverse. 

 

Mk: ngo 2 ekuseni wena you are waking me up for what good reason Mqhele. 

Me:khayeke ubayinkazana, how are we going to tell the girls? 

MK: I don’t know but we have to do it before everyone wakes up. 

Me: I was thinking now yazi cause I can't even sleep lets wake them up then we meet upstairs.  

 

I leave him there and I went to my room I stand against the wall how I wish I could see right now so I can comfort my woman good and see her pain and go through this journey with her but then I have to be patient with myself cause if I focus on that I will be distracted and miss the bigger picture. 

 

Hlalu: why are you standing there? 

Me: come here, give me a hug.( she hugs me but her body feels so cold so that means she was outside.) 

 

Me: why were you outside? 

Hlalu: I wanted to clear my mind off things. 

Me: okay, come I want to talk to you about something.( she heavy sighs how I wish to see her face but I could feel that there is something going on here she is not herself) 

 

We walked to the rooftop and seat there I could feel that she is not looking at me probably she's looking at the stars ow I know they are so bright in this time of the night since its about to be dawn.we hear commotion coming up and that’s the wonder woman at it again. 

 

Hlwayela: ha.a you're wrong you can't wake me up at this time of the night , I want to sleep no I don’t want to… oh you're also here but guys what is it that you want to tell us in this time andithakathi mna I can't be awake at this time im even sleepy as it is 

Mko : am thetha Mqhele  

Me: ow wow so you really going to put me under the bus wow 

Hlwayela: Nana please thetha ndiyozela nyani (pleading)  

Dave: eish am you now wena babe..( his voice is shaking come on this is harder than I thought.) 

Hlalu: they woke you up to tell us that our parents are dead. Im not sure how they died but they are.( silence, just about then Hlwayela screams crying her cries are painfull they cut deep im pretty sure Unathi his hugging her just as im about to reach my wife’s hand) 

Hlalu: you knew.! ( okay thats not a question but a statement)  

Me: babe come on it wasn’t the right time for me to tell you.im sorry my love I really thought I have time to tell you. 

Hlalu: time to tell me, what about time to save my parents? 

Me: babe when I see something I can't change it and I must let it happened. 

Hlalu; im not you, you should have told me Im sure me and my family would have done something, but no you are stupid selfish person , you kept quiet while people out there were busy planning my parents death , you kept quiet I so hate you right now I curse the day I meet you, I so wish I wouldn't have married your stupid selfish self, wathula Mqhele , Im always here for you right beside you but kwanzima to tell me that my parents will die or anything but no you kept quiet and fucked me everynight. I so wish your parents could die so you can feel the pain maybe the death of your mother didn’t do a number to you. I just buried my mother and now my father. 

Me: Zinenani (my voice is so soft full of hurt I have a big lump on my troat and im sure even if I blink right now a tear will follow) 

Hlalu: see now you are blind and useless to me. You are here while my parents dead body is laying there … Pheko: zinenani hayi! 

Hlalu: or what? What? Please go to your wife and leave me and my stupid husband alone, fuck you knew that why you so calm, whats wrong with you people. 

Phaka: there was nothing we could have done it was either us or them and they said they will die for us to live please understand. 

Me: why wasn’t I told? Huh why and where is Zintombi and Azi? 

Me: they died too.. 

Hlwayela: what I don’t understand is to why are you all here, why not out there and revenging to those people,( shouting)  

Dave: baby please don’t shout. 

Hlwayela: hayi futsek wena! 

Hlalu: can you please explain more cause right now I don’t know whats going on why did our parents and your sisters had to die. 

Pheko: you are no longer a Hlombe that is why dad told us not to invol6 you in anything that is happening that is why we kept quiet, one morning dad got a called from u Mqhele requesting for family meeting and he told us that he saw everyone dying and that only you and Hlwayela survived since now you are married to them. He told us that the man dad murdered when he was young his son is out looking for him and that son was CRAY  

Hlalu: the cleaner( she said in a painfull voice) 

Pheko: yes, so fast forward Cray contacted dad and he ask to meet up with him and we called Mqhele to come just to calm him down, so Cray said he wants to end fathers generation and if he fights him he will destroy everything. Yes you can ask that why did dad agreed to all his request was that dad was actually feeling guilty about his doings, but he asked him to spare your lives. 

Hlwayela: an yet you are here vomiting shit! Why you not dead? 

Phaka: because Mqhele and the gang helped us to escape and that’s why we are here. 

Pheko: and we fought and won the battle we killed Cray and we are sure his goons are looking for us but if we are with you guys they wont do shit. 

Hlwayela: what about the fuckers that came to my house? So nina zinjana nibulala umntu an now you on the run nibalekela kuthi cause nifuna nathi sife ow shame waze wazizala izifebe u Dlangamandla! 

Phenyo: we are sorry, how about we go away for sometime just to minimize everything , do you think you can get us out of the country Zungu? 

Me: yes but that not.. 

Hlalu: just keep quiet wena cause you are so useless just be useful for once in your stupid life and help these fools cause if they stay any minute I will kill him, where are our parents remains? 

Pheko: they said thats going to be your punishments since they can't come to you,you will never find peace of buring your parents so im sure they took their remains to somewhere we don’t even know. 

Hlwayela: yintoni enikhe niyazi nina? Just go please I cant do this mna yhoo ha.a im so leaving. 

MKo: leaving to where? 

Hlwayela:ow ndokutshisa unye ke wena uze uthethe into ephuma ecaleni! 

 

Everyone walked out just then my eyesight came back and I looked at my wife her head inbetween her thighs rocking her body back and forth just then her words aircord in my ears ,” you are useless and stupid” 

 

Inloving memory of the Dlangamandla family  

 

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