When I walked in, before I could even greet the parents, dad asked me why Bradley drove out without even greeting them.
Me: He was in a hurry, he said there was something he had to help Blake with.
I lied obviously, because I didnt want to give away that I knew about their phone call.
Dad: Do you know what he wants to discuss with me on Friday?
Me: No what is happening on Friday? You guys are now talking behind me back? I dont think I am comfortable with that, what are you guys discussing?
Dad: Hhayi that is between us men.
Me: Yet you were asking me about it, funny. Ma there is a strike brewing on campus, we will go tomorrow just check out the situation if it is still the same then I will start my lessons with Smith.
Ma: Okay baby, come and watch tv with us.
Me: No thanks, I dont want to watch the news.
Ma: You are so boring, you dont want to spend time with us.
Me: I will if you pay me.
Both: You love money, come.
I sat down with them after placing my stuff in the bedroom, left my phone in the charger as well. As we were sitting there mom brought up the house issue.
Ma: Baby, once you guys are married, will you find yourselves a place or youll live with Bradleys parents?
Me: I dont know, we havent discussed it yet.
Ma: Okay, your wedding is in 3 weeks are you ready?
Me: Even if I said I wasnt, it wouldnt change a thing. Where will it be? What will I be wearing? Where do you need my input?
I was told that everything was set and ready for the big day and that they didnt need my opinion.
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Friday finally came. So Bradley just picked me up, just after dad left for work. We drove out, going to their offices. As we parked outside the building, we composed ourselves then made our way into the building, the receptionist let us through with no hassles and we got into the elevator. We then went separate ways, I went to the boardroom and he went to my dads office. He was only going to get my dad so we could start the meeting with both of them at the same time. When I reached the boardroom, I found Andre looking out the window, I quietly waited for Smith and my dad to come in.
Dad: What is going on here?
Andre quickly turned, looked at all of us then wore a confused look on his face.
Bradley: Can we all sit down so we can start with the meeting.
They all sat down, Bradley sat next to me and the dads were sitting opposite us on the other side of the boardroom.
Bradley: Okay dads, my fiancé and I have been thinking. We do not want to live at home after the wedding.
Andre: Why?
Bradley: Because we will be a newly wed couple, we need our own space, we need privacy.
Dad: you dont need our permission to move out though, you know that right?
Me: We are not asking for your permission, we are here today to discuss, no I mean, we are here to let know that you will be buying us an apartment for the time being, then once we are ready, a house.
Andre: We are?
Dad: What?
Bradley: Yes, fully furnished and all.
Me: It is fair, we are forced to get married, so youre forced to fulfill our every whim.
Dad: Ledi, when did you become such an opportunist?
Bradley and I laughed at this.
Me: When I become Smiths fiancé.
Andre: Okay fine, you will get the apartment but the house is out of the question.
Bradley: Okay, you guys have gotten your engagement, the wedding is out of the question, Simple.
We smiled and looked at them, whilst holding hands on top of the table.
Andre: You know you cannot push us into a corner right?
Me: Sure, but we can just talk to the moms
Bradley: They will surely be on our side dont you think?
Dad: Fine, but you will only get the house once you graduate.
Me: But we are getting married in your time? That doesnt sound right.
Andre: At least give us a years notice when you want the house.
Bradley: Thats better, we will get back to you about the apartment that we want.
Me: In our names, not yours.
We both stood up, and prepared to leave.
Bradley: We will leave you to it, we have driving lessons.
Me: Bye dads, I am sleeping over in Toti tonight.
Then we exited the boardroom. As soon as we got inside the elevator, we jumped up rejoicing.
Bradley: We nailed that, no push overs this side.
We got in the car and drove to Hoy park where Bradley sat in the passenger side and I was the driver. He patiently helped me drive around and he gave me an incentive, the quicker I catch on, the quicker we go to get lunch. Because it was not my first rodeo, I wasnt that clueless, it took me a long 4 hours of non stop driving for me to gain confidence in my driving, I was beyond tired when he asked me to drive to Suncoast Casino. We reached the casino at around 3pm, and went straight to Spur, he asked me to pic a restaurant but my brain was so tired that I was lazy to think of all the restaurants in the casino so I went with the easiest and closest. We ordered, and waited for our food whilst sitting next to each other, browsing through property24. We found a few apartments around Glenwood, Morningside and Berea, they were ranging between R1.1M and R2.1M. They were quite pricey and I told Smith but he said we shouldnt worry about the price because we wont be paying. Revenge is sweet, our food came, we ate then left. We watched a movie just to pass time and before we knew it, it was 19h30 so we went to the car.
Bradley: Babe, please call mom and ask her what we should get for dinner, she normally doesnt make dinner on Fridays.
I took his phone and dialed Stephanie, she picked up shortly.
Stephanie: My baby, where are you?
Me: Hi it is Naledi.
Stephanie: Oh Hello my other baby, is everything okay? Why arent you calling me from your phone? Are you sure everything is okay?
Both Bradley and I laughed, the phone was connected to the cars audio so he could also hear her.
Stephanie: You two will give me grey hairs before my time.
Me: Mom, we were wondering if we should bring anything for dinner? We are on the N2 approaching Toti and we could make it to Galleria in time to get food.
Stephanie: I dont know honey, you guys are on your own, Blake is in PMB visiting my mom and we are in Cape Town.
Me: Oh wow, okay, in that case, enjoy yourselves.
Bradley: just like how we will enjoy being home alone.
Stephanie: Bradley, please enjoy your room only, please.
Bradley: What is the point of being home alone then? There is no fun in playing safe.
I looked at him in horror when I finally realized what they were talking about.
Stephanie: Bradley, if you dare, you will not get that apartment you want.
Bradley: I was just kidding mommy, lighten up. Anyways, enjoy yourselves bye.
He hung up using the car stereo, before she could even respond. I had not realized that we had parked in the Epic Karting parking lot at Galleria. We got two seafood platters at john Dorys then went straight to the house.
