CHAPTER 7
AFTER PARTY
Ayakho Mabuza.
Am drinking water instead of champagne and wine, that's why my nerves are still kicking in.
The man I fear..
The one who kills..
The devil am to be planning to run away from..
I danced with him, touched him. Tried to kiss him and the worst of it all, offered him myself.
" Excuse me, I'll be back."
I stood, making way out of their sight. I want to go take a breath somewhere, through his mask I can see the evil smile behind it.
The cold stares..
Civil emotions..
Annoyance and irritation whenever he looks my way.
His deceiving smile slapping their faces but not mine.
A king cobra I say.
I reached the bathroom, it is by now that my senses recall the cold.
Am now shivering. It's either from him or from the cold.
Even far from him I still feel the tension of his presence.
He was setting blazes through my inner skin yet I was a cold chicken of the Iceland.
" You look normal to be mad "
That's it. Am tired with this life, I turned around and it's...
" Bestie.!"
I said it out repeating after my heart.
" Eww, we still call that.?"
She says.
My numbness sips in. I felt embarassed . Emotional damage running rounds in my veins.
The irritation written all over her face.
Just as I thought.
" Get over that Aya. It's been years. Can't believe you faked a sickness to stay away from us. Your friends."
" What.?"
My tears are weak and so it's simple to let them run on my cheeks.
She laughs.
" Let me guess, memory loss now huh.?"
She asked making it sound like a joke.
I looked at her in disbelief.
" What are you saying.? I can never do that. You guys were my sisters.!"
I said.
" That's not what your parents said. Quoting that we fed you drugs."
That sounds like my mother, she is the only person that is a good story teller. I bet her ancestors are negotiators of hell's gates.
" It was a bad fate to meet you here today in the first place. Chao.!"
She rolls her eyes walking out of the restroom.
I feel like stopping her and explain myself but I can't even budge a step.
My heart is racing.
Am silently crying and the best thing I did was to open the sink tap and splash water on my face.
The coldness of it somehow got into me slowly cooling down my face.
I opened my purse and took out my pills, gulped it down followed by water and closed my eyes to breathe.
Sphetheni Zulu.
Her anger is opting on the last voltages within her blood.
It's like there is a roach under her skin.
She can't fake it no more so to hide her anger she got a glass of whiskey.
That helps a lot.
It always did , including the day she buried her younger sister alone.
She didn't want secrets to be revealed. So it was better that way, she had to be gone from this world.
But now it's like Simo is stepping on her big tail. It's pissing her off, he is becoming a nuisance instead of a good boy that he was always.
Mabuza got the nerves to announce that he signed everything under this boy.!
This bastard.?
The illegitimate puppy she should have killed the day it was born.
Hell no.!
This won't happen right under her watch. If not she is not Sphetheni Zulu.
Not on this world.
Simo checked up his watched and his face fell to the door, is he expecting someone now.?
Richard Mabuza.
" I think that we should get going."
He announced. Simo eyed him, then to the door again.
He is more scary in the mask.
" It's still early. Why not stay for the final announcement from the ambassadors.?"
Then he is the prime.
Mrs Mabuza holds simo's hand on the table. Thank God Ayakho is still not back yet.
" We saw them honey. That's why we want to leave without her."- Mrs Mabuza
" You can take her home with you. She is safe that way." - Richard
Andile looked at Mabuza with worry.
They are taking a big step to protect their daughter while he never gave a damn about his own when they were kids so it does hurt.
The feeling hits different when you notice another man's pain doing his worst for his family, his own legacy..at all cost.
He then looked at his son, Andile. Sell he is a man now. Where does he starts.
Apologies are foreign things in simo's system. His eyes sees beyond any man.
" At least a good bye baba. Don't you think.? She might need to know."
Mrs Mabuza smiles.
" What she needs to know now is you. And thank you for accepting our baby girl."
Mr and Mrs Mabuza smiles standing up.
Simo stand not letting go of Mrs Mabuza's hand. He looked her through her eyes imagining her pains as her teary eyes are visible.
She then perks her cheek. She is dying anyway. So it won't feel awkward that he perked the demons rough check and live like a free bird.
" Mabuza.." Andile
He raised his glass.
" To life."
Mabuza chuckles. At least let him die with a smile.
" I got you."
Mabuza said with a smile holding his wife's hand and walked away with her.
Mrs Mabuza rest her head on his shoulder hand in hand as they walked out of the premises. Simo closed his eyes and breathed out.
" Sit."
Sphetheni demands.
" I'll get miss Mabuza first."
What's with the formality.?
Sphetheni wants to cause a scene everywhere she goes. And today ain't that time.
Andile places his hand on her thigh under the table brushing it.
" Relax, we gonna talk about everything back home ."
As if it makes things better.
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