Turning Table

Part 56

***When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us***

Narrated

🌹Ginger🌹

She walked into her  apartment and threw her new clothes on the bed, she took a long deserving bath and started doing her hair,

She overhead Oyama telling the cook to prepare special dinner for two, in her mind she presumed that it was his way of saying sorry for  roughing her up the other day,
She did not once focus on the shining bruise on her eye, to her it felt like a scratch as she had worst beating than this from him,

Her phone ringed and she smiled like a love-struck teenager
" hi baby "
" I got your message you said Rossetta left early yesterday? did you find out where she went too ?"
Her smile fell on the floor, the Rose name again! is in his mouth will this shit ever end, him loving her more then she, this was solely taking a toll on her, Loving someone she can't have, for years she has been longing to be with him completely but all she got in return was heart-wrenching. This type of emotional turmoil felt unrelenting as she wished to see what he sees on her that he can't see in her, she breathed out loud.

" I don't know, the security in her house said she never left her house "
Him: call her God damn it and find out how is she?"
Me: SHE IS NOT PICKING UP MY CALLS!!"
she said in anger, she breathed out loud moving her hair from her face,
Oyama kept quiet on the other line and waited for her, while Ginger wiped her lone tear and sniffed, this has been her life ever since he announced almost 30 years ago that he is in love with her, ...she will marry her and start a family with her, while Ginger was supposed to befriend her and keep an eye on her, his precious treasure.

" I'm sorry..."
Him: raise your voice at me again...nci...nci....nci "
Ginger: I didn't mean to...I'm just.... "
Him: I don't care...!!! What the fuck is wrong with you!!....this shit is bloody pissing me off!"
Her: I'm so...rry " she said softly holding her mouth with tears running like a flood on her face, she had no choice but to bury her  feelings to avoid the painful realities of your situation, not to speak back or even try to question him..."

Him: Tell me about this poker game at the club?"
Ginger swallowed and sniffed
Ginger: it happened in a private room Rose made sure that I'm not involved in this at all "
Him: give me something to work with!"
Her: all I know is that Rose is in partnership with a man called Sandile Msomi"

Oyama banged the car steering wheel
Him: Fuck!!!" He breathes out loud, he wants to know more about this poker game but the reality is this man has an eye on Rose, and just the thought of knowing that another man is getting too close to her just drove him crazy as Fuck!

Him: get hold of her and keep me posted...look I have to go"
Ginger: baby are we still meeting tonight ?"
Him: get to work Ginger..."
Her: but Oyama....what about dinner tonight...
Him: dinner?"
Her: I thought...."
Him: you thought wrong...."
He dropped the call,

They say that love is a many splendored thing, but it’s also complex, nuanced, and painful from time to time. Loving someone is no guarantee that they will return that love, and decades spent together is no guarantee that forever will actually manifest. Ginger was in that predicament, asking herself when would this ever end!
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🌹Nompumelo🌹

Mpume set on the couch painting her toenails, she loves the quiet house and having the house all to herself but she hates that her life is just standing still, a week ago she had sex with a guy, the man was a bit rough on the edges and rude but that affection or feeling of being  needed made her feel something igniting in her but a full whole week the man has not called her or checked up on her, she only got paid for sex as if she is a hooker or  something,

She took her phone and then frustration kicked in
" damn it!" She said tossing her phone aside, Yami did not take her number or viser verse,

She desperately needed someone to love her, to shower her with gifts, and over barring attention, she wants what Lubanzi offered her all these years ago! And Yami was just the guy that gave her that glimpse of hope,

Desperate was getting the best of her now, and instead of asking herself “what is good for me” or “what do I truly need now” or “is the person truly good for me”?, she was busy standing in front of her mirror and constantly thinking, “Why does no one love me?”

The hunger affection got so loud that she started craving for just a small connection, with all the red flags Yama displayed she just saw past through them and all she could think of is the desperation for someone to love her, with thoughts that maybe the potential partner is going to fill that void rather which will mostly enhance her life.

She stood in front of the mirror looking at her,
" nothing is wrong with me, but what is wrong with me "

She asked herself, she thought of herself in the past and the reason why she is constantly hungry for love and desperate for connection, perhaps because she did not receive it as children, no doubt her mom raise her well but women had no affection or what's so ever, could be the reason why she had an interpersonal connection in her  marriage with Lubanzi which has left her starved.

He phone beeped and she looked at it, it was an international number she picked it up and answer

"Hello"
" Mpume it's Thabo "
Her heart skipped a beat, the sex  scene in Yami car hood flashed her mind, she found herself holding her chest, she may not be in a relationship with Thabo but he was her first love, the man who made her a mother at the age of 18 and ruined her career of being a Dr
Her: hi!"
Him: how are you?"
Her: I...I'm fine " she cleared her throat,
Him: look I know this is not my business, but please stay away from Oyama"
Me: what, who?"
Him: the man is dangerous Mpume, trust me when I say whatever you have with him won't end well..."

Mpume frowned something about Thabo acting like he cares about her pissed her off, wasn't this the very same man who was married but was busy with her on the side
Him: I know it's not my business..."
Her: listen her Thabo I'm a grown-ass woman and I can take care of myself...
Him: Mpume this is not about being grown or not!
Her: what the fuck?  Yeyiwenanja you don't know me and frankly, my life is not your business!! What I do with my life...
Him: is none of my concern I know... Mpume you like it or not you the mother of my child, for once in your life think of Joy when you do something stupid like sleeping with a Nigerian drug lord"

Me: what?"
Him: cut your ties with him now!!.."
He breathe out loud and softly spoke to her
Him: please Mpume!"
He did not say much but dropped the call,

Mpume looked at her phone, she could not dare call him back since he called her from an international number...
" Nigerian drug lord?"
The house started spinning and she needed air, she pushed pulled the kitchen door open only to land on some's chest
She screamed in shock, when she looked up Yami looked at her with a dreamy eye
Him: hi "
Her heart literally stopped as she looked at him, and in her heard Thabo's words kept ringing like an eco...

She was about to fake a smile but Oyama's lips were on her lips, now how does she push him off.