After that embarrassing phone call with my parents, we got up and I took a shower in his bathroom and he used one of the guest bathrooms, which was stupid rely because I was the guest. After getting dressed in another pair of his shorts and an oversized Nike t-shirt, as well as his sister's AF1, we drove off to Galleria because we were both hungry and apparently there was no food in the fridge, I didn't believe that though. The house was so clean you wouldn't tell that there had been a party there the previous night, he said they called a cleaning service and his sister supervised. Her name is Blake by the way. 10 minutes later we were walking into the mall and we were arguing about where we would eat lunch as it was already 12h30.
Bradley: "Circus Circus please hun."
Me: "If we go to Circus Circus then you can forget about that date you asked for." I know I'm playing dirty but I'm just tired of that restaurant.
Bradley: "You're not being fair though, where should we go then?" He looked so cute when he was sulking because he had even pouted his thin pink lips.
Me: "Ocean Basket. " I smiled at him.
Bradley: "Not even Mr Browns?"
Me: "Nope..."
Bradley: "Okay fine, at least you didn't pick Spur." We then walked towards Ocean Basket, went in and we were ushered to a table that was in the corner, a cozy corner at that. We sat there looking the menu, we ordered shortly and we started talking.
Bradley: "So..."
Me: "So?"
Bradley: "What's the next step now? Where will you be studying next year? What will you study?"
Me: "I honestly don't know where I'll study but I know I wanna do Law."
Bradley: "Where have you been accepted? Let's start there."
Me: "Everywhere."
Bradley: "Yikes, no wonder you don't know where to go, how about I help you choose? Or we choose together?" Again nothing to lose.
Me: "Okay what will you be studying?"
Bradley: "Anything really, as long as it won't interfere with my First love." By first love I figured that he meant rugby. Our food came during that conversation and we continued as we ate. We concluded that I would do my Law Degree at UKZN and he would do a BCom in Managerial Accounting and Finance at UKZN as well, my decision wasn't based on staying close to him, it was for me to stay at home. We had been here for over 2 hours when looked up at me like he saw a ghost, so naturally, I turned around to check if I there was anyone behind me but nothing.
Me: "Bradley what's wrong?"
Bradley: "Fuck! I forgot to ask, what time is your curfew?" What? I was actually panicking.
Me: "12am" He sighed in relief then asked me what I wanted to do since we had a few hours on our hands. Because of the December heat, I was tired of the kicks, so we had to go to numerous stores so I could find shops that I liked. I ended up buying slops that were identical to his, the infamous Adidas slides that are either navy and white or black and white, I bought the latter, or rather he bought them because chivalry is not dead. After that, we drove to the Toti main beach and took a stroll and bought some ice cream, then around 17h30, I asked him to take me home because it was getting late and I would hate for him to run into problems in my hood. You see, I live in the second biggest township in the country, and the crime here is on steroids. So I would hate for him to be a statistic. Almost 30 minutes later, he is parked outside my home, mom opened the gate for us. We both got out of the car and approached the front door, when we got to the door I opened it and called out for mom.
Mom: "Stop shouting, I'm in the kitchen."
So we made our way into the kitchen, found mom checking something in the oven.
Me: "Mrs Ngcobo, I'm back." She turned around and was shocked when she saw Bradley.
Mom: "You didn't mention that your boyfriend was so hot." Earth open up and swallow me please.
Me: "I'm starting to think you hate me. DAD!!!!" I attempted to walk away then remembered that I was with Bradley so I turned to him. "Anything to drink?"
Bradley: "Juice?" I Chuckled because he was having with his food now he wants juice. Dad came in as I was about to go to the kitchen.
Dad: "Get us some beers, let's go watch the game son." And I guess that was code for let's talk in private. I got to the kitchen, took a 6 pack of dads Heineken and put it in an ice bucket with some ice then took it to them, I was almost on the couch when dad told me to join my mom in the kitchen. It was quiet in her kitchen but I still couldn't hear a single thing that was being said. I ended up helping my mom finish up cooking and dad had asked Bradley to join us for supper so yeah, we ate whilst sitting in front of the TV. Time flew past and if was now 21h15.
Me: "Shit look at the time!"
Bradley: "It's pretty late, I need to get going."
Mom: "Nonsense you can't drive out this late, you can sleep over in the guest bedroom and leave in the morning. "
Bradley: "Thank you for the offer ma'am but I can't accept, my sister is all alone at home so I need to go back, so I'll request an Uber then I'll collect my car tomorrow. "
And that was how the night ended, after Bradley left in his Uber, I washed the dishes, took a shower and went to bed. Bradley called to let me know he was home safely, spoke for a few minutes then slept. Following morning we went to church then had Lunch at Pav as a family and we only went home when Bradley called saying he'd be coming to get his car.
