Nokukhanya (Chapter 16)

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●Nokukhanya Ngwenya

Okay I didn’t mean to bang the door like that. I did not think the stupid glass will break. I always thought it was strong like those bullet proof glass, but I thought wrong, as always. ‘Ahh bitch what are you saying? You never think! You just react. That was a glass of cos it was going to break if banged. Seriously Khanyo why did you do that? Now he is definitely going to take her from us.’ My brain is going to drive me crazy. Does anyone who wants to swap brains with me because aai I can’t with this bitch.

After that tragic incident I just walked out of there with my head held right like I didn’t just cause a scene.

I make my way downstairs with all the preying eyes on me.

“Miss are you okay?” Babu’Mkhize, the security guard asks me. He reminds me of Bab’Duma, my landlord. Oh, how I miss my old life where life was simple the only worries, I had was paying my rent on time and school. And I miss Cindy, I hope wherever she is, she is happy.

“Ndodakazi…” He says again because I wasn’t answering him just staring at him.

“Yebo baba. Wena unjani?”

“Ngiphilile. So, what happened ngaphakathi?” Ehh, so he knows also. How did the news travel from the fifth floor to here? ‘I bet it’s that bitch at the reception, she always had it for you.’ I must agree with my brain this time. That woman doesn’t like me, and I have never done anything to her. Oh well maybe unintentionally I didn’t but still that does not give her a right to meddle in my business.

“It was a mistake, baba. Indaba I was angry yabo and so instead of walking away I…”

“Nokukhanya!” I get cut off by the only voice that will kill me and heal at the same time. Slowly I turn and face the dragon that is my baby daddy.

“What the hell was that?” He screams at me.

“Langa please don’t scream at me.” I warn him. Who does he think he is screaming at me like this in front of all these people? I was respectful in enough with him and did it in doors not like this for the whole word to see. How old are we? Twelve?

Aii man!

“DO NOT FUCK WITH ME YEZWA! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT??” He continues and I just walk away from him.

I can be very crazy as well and I hope he knows this. I mean he just witness me breaking down his down and the both of us acting crazy won’t be good for our daughter. I kind of feel sorry for my beautiful little princess, she has crazy parents.

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When I get home, I finally think about what I did. That was some crazy shit I must agree, and this won’t look good on me if it gets to a point where we must go to court and fight for her. Langa must be out of his mind if he thinks I will let this go as much as he deserves to be part of her life, he cannot not just waltz in here and demand everything because he has all the money in the world. Before I lose my mind let me just go and fetch my daughter from her grandparents.

I open the exit gate and some idiot drives in on the wrong gate. I press the brakes immediately and watch this mampara as he storms out from his car to mine. All I’m doing is just watching from inside my car not like I’m not in a hurry, but I also have shit loads of problems that I’m going through and fighting someone else because they cannot separate between the entrance and exit gate is a problem I would like to avoid.

It’s him.

Why can’t this man leave me in peace mara heh?

Argh!

“Open this door.” He bangs on my window. Wuuu aaiii! What the hell have I gotten myself into. I reverse back to my house. I refuse to be humiliated by this man in a suit.

He followed me.

I should have locked my door the minute I got inside.

“Nokukhanya, what the hell was that?” He roared. I thought he would have calmed down after that movie he played all by himself just for the guards.

“What was what?” I ask after taking a sip of my water, thinking that it would have helped to calm me down along with quenching my thirst, but aai… its quite the opposite this man looked down on me and he is questioning me mothering our daughter.

“Why do you always have to make things difficult? Why can’t you just sit down and talk to me?”

“Mxm.” Says the man who has been screaming like a bitch and running to lawyers instead of sitting down and talking to me.

“You are going to pay for that door you broke.” He states.

“If I pay for it, will you leave me alone.”

He frowns.

“What you mean?” Is he that stupid? I want him to leave me alone and go jump from a bridge somewhere.

‘Don’t lie bitch you still need him. Stop being hard on him.’

“Langelihle, what I’m saying to you is, will you let go of this if replace your door?”

“What? NO! You and I connected forever.”

“Then why would you want to take her away from me?”

“You left me with no choice.” He says.

“What choice did you give me when you blurted that out in front of your mother?”

“You blocked me.” Yes, I did.

“You are married, and your wife is due any minute now. Why do you want to take the only person that matters to me the most? Langa wena you have all these people and mina what will I have if you take her from me.”

He sighs. Then cover his face with both of his hands. Well at least he looks calm now.

“Can we please sit down and talk. Please.” He begs while giving me his hand and I place mine on his and we go sit on my couch.

“I apologize for screaming at you. I knew if I went through with this you will react and finally talk to me. That’s the only reason I did all of this I just did not think it will escalate to this. You slapping me and breaking my door. Why did you block my number?” Oh Shit! I try to move away from him, but he tightly holds my hand. We are too close for my liking and its not working for me, he is still married for crying out loud.

“Because you were asking for something I didn’t even consider doing for her.” I say.

“Only because I asked for her to use my surname.”

“Langelihle, indaba wena you don’t understand…”

“Make me understand then…”

“What you are asking is a lot from me, you will need to do all the rituals for that to happen. You will have to pay damages and all that. But to who? You know my Nana passed away and I have no one else manje. I know I have the Butlers, but they don’t know our customs and plus you are married, your wife will be involved in our child’s life.” That Bitch! I don’t want her near my child.

“She hasn’t done anything to you. You are correct she is my wife but what has that have to do with anything?” This guy. He is too slow for my liking.

“I don’t want her near my child.”

“I also don’t want men near my daughter.” Well, that sorted. I guess.

“Okay so what now?” I ask.

“Marry me.”

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●Langa Gumede

We have been sitting in silence since I asked her to be my wife, she hasn’t said anything, and I guess that’s a good thing for me because she is always talking and always have some come back to whatever is thrown at her.  I asked her to be my wife, like what the hell? There is something wrong with me because even with Fikile that time I found out she was carrying my baby I asked her the same thing. We are still sitting in silence. I turn and look at her and she is far yet so close. I only came here to talk and find common ground with her not to propose to her. What is this vele? Do I really want to be a polygamist? I can’t even handle one wife, what will happen if she agrees with this? Fikile is going to have a fit that’s for sure.

“What did you say.” She finally asks.

What the hell! She didn’t hear me.

“No, I heard what you said, I just want you to repeat it. Very slowly.”

“I want you to marry me. Please. Marry. Me.” She gasps and gets up to go to the kitchen. I watch her as she opens the fridge and takes a bottle of milk and drink straight from it.

“This is some weird shit. He is mad. Seriously. He is mind fucking me. He is, right.” She mumbles to herself thinking I cannot hear her, but she is so loud I’m sure the people next door can also hear.

“Nokukhanya…”

She ignores me.

“Nokukhanya!” I say again.

“What! What do you want from me?” She is frustrated.

You.

“I want my daughter. And this is the only solution I can think of, besides the custody battle.”

“You must be kidding me.” She chortles.

“I’m very serious, unless you have another way but I’m not doing this sharing shit, co-parenting is for people who get along, and we are not those people. I want to raise my daughter full time. With her mother.”

“I don’t want to marry you and I’m certainly will not be sharing my husband if I ever decide to get married one day. What are you? A polygamist or you are just greedy.” She’s back to her old self.

She’s rude.

“Don’t be mean to me. I’m trying to come up with a better solution lana and being rude is definitely not helping.” She laughs.

Oh God I just wish to hold her and kiss her.

I watch her laugh and my mind goes back to the day I took her innocence and how cute she was when I asked her about it the following day. There is nothing I want more than to wake up next to her every day for the rest of my life.

“Are you done?”

“Get out.”

“What?”

“I said get out of my house, Langelihle.”

WTF!

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