The blind Date

3

On Sunday evening there was a knock on Nolwandle's door. She decided to ignore it at first as she was frightened.

"Lwandle it's me .. Cynthia,I know you're in there... the creepy receptionist guy told me you haven't left all weekend", she heard a familiar voice.

She went to open the door. She scouted the entire hallway before closing the door. She looked slightly shaken and frantic.

"What's with the secret spy agent vibes", Cynthia asked.
"Friend you won't believe what happened on Friday", she said very quickly.

"Yeah... Friday...you just went MIA on me and you didn't even make it to work...wow it must be nice being the boss's favourite",she finishes with a fake frown.

"Cynthia... I'm in trouble okay and the boss likes me because I work hard"

"We all work hard but you get all the extra brownie points"

"This is not the time to play the jealous co-worker I'm in trouble for heavens sake!", she said clearly annoyed at her friend.

"What...why didn't you say all along... what happened??"

Nolwandle told her friend all that transpired on Friday and also remind her that she tried to tell her about her troubles but she was just caught up in critising their to care. Cynthia apologized multiple times to her friend.

"But I don't think you have to worry...(lwandle furrowed her eye brows in confusion)... no-no-no listen.. listen... they were after each other you don't have to worry....and Martin said he'll be free tomorrow", Cynthia assured her friend.

"Who the hell is Martin?"

"Your date silly .... the one who cancelled"

"But..."
"No buts .... it's settled you'll have a date tomorrow and tonight we'll eat ice cream and watch romcoms"

Nolwandle didn't protest because she knew she wasn't going to win. She forgot about her problems for the night and she left all that happened in the past.

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She woke up bright and early on the next morning. She felt like a breath of fresh air. She was looking forward to her blind date and she was crossing fingers so that there would no repeat of Friday's events.
She left her apartment looking and smelling good. She was going to meet Martin at the same coffee shop she was in on Friday. She preferred it because it was right across the street from her workplace.

As she was approaching the coffee shop she spotted her friend sitting with some white dude and found herself thinking about Mandla.
"Compose yourself",she thought

The table they were sitting at was  outside of the shop. The guy was looking behind him as she stood there greeting her friend.
The moment he turned around they both stared at each other frozen.

"You", Nolwandle spoke but her lips didn't move and he also held the same expression.

"Look at you guys... already taking each other's breath away", Cynthia broke the silence

"I'm gonna go order some breakfast", Martin stood up looking suspiciously at Nolwandle.

"Yeah... you do that... I'd like some toast... just toast", Nolwandle was breathing heavily and she quickly sat down.

"Cynthia that's him.... that's the guy"
"What guy"
"Martin he's the one who held me at gunpoint", she was extremely frantic and panicking as well.

"What... Martin is a sweetheart policeman he would never hurt a fly ... unless he had to",She laughed ignoring her friend's concerns.

"Please we need to go now okay... he's very dangerous and I don't want to die"
"Geez ... you're serious lwandle... uhm okay you stay and I'll go ... look we can't raise suspicious okay... stay her smile,wink and laugh and you come straight to work okay"
"No ..no you can't..."
"Let me leave you two love birds to it", Martin had already returned and Cynthia played her part of not raising any suspicions. She got up to leave and her friend gave her the puppy dog eyes but she ignored them. She convinced her self that she was protecting Lwandle.

Lwandle sat quietly not sure what to do.
"Here's what's going to happen, You are going to tell me where he is right now", Martin took a bite out of his toast after giving the instructions.
"I don't know...",she tried by all means to fake her crying hoping it was convincing enough. She still couldn't understand why this gorgeous human being had to be a criminal.
He showed her a gun in his jacket. "I can shoot you now, I'm a cop and you're harbouring a wanted fugitive".
She cried for real this time.
"I don't know anything okay...I didn't tell anyone anything I promise I don't know him okay", she was hoping that what she was saying would protect Cynthia.

Her phone rang and it startled her. She answered it and a familiar but not anticipated voice came out of the device.
"Hi lwandle I need you to stay calm and follow my instructions".
She was pissed. Here she was again,a repeat of Friday's events like a bad horror movie. She wanted to swear at him but no word would do her justice. She was trapped again with no hope of getting out.