WORLD'S APART ✅

CHAPTER 15

ZINTLE'S POV

"Remember to call me before you sleep."
Said a crying MaKhumalo.

Zintle: MaKhumalo you're dramatic . You are acting like it's my first time leaving you to go home .

MaKhumalo: What is wrong with you? Some people out there are single and would kill to have someone who is like me.

I rolled my eyes.

It has been two days since I've been in the village and Kuhle has been bothering me , not that I'm not enjoying it .

I would die without her . That girl is my drive.

MaKhumalo: Ngizok'shaya njalo Zintle , roll your eyes on me again.

(I will beat you Zintle , roll your eyes on me again.)

Zintle : Rhaa!That's gender based violence. I used to think that people were lying when they said that Zulu people are violent.

MaKhumalo : Zulu people are better than those rude Xhosa people.

Zintle : Xhosa people are not rude , it's that people don't get us. We are just trying to express ourselves using the method we are comfortable with.

I pouted causing her to laugh.

MaKhumalo : Don't justify your rudeness.

Zintle: Ok fine but you love me like this.

MaKhumalo : Says who?

Zintle: So you don't love me?

MaKhumalo : I didn't say that but since you're desperate for my lov...

I interjected .

Zintle : I'm anything but desperate but you can continue.

She kept quiet and looked at me. Her eyes held love and admiration . My heart beat started beating fast. I met her warm gaze and a smile spread on my lips.

I thank God for keeping me alive so I can see this goddess . She is the best girlfriend and I see myself wifing her in the near future.

Before dating MaKhumalo I was in a very toxic relationship. My girlfriend that time was very bossy and insecure.

She was my first girlfriend so I knew less about relationships and I thought it was normal for people to be like that.

It was really bad and I didn't think of leaving her because I thought I owed her something. The pain I have endured in that relationship is way too much for one person.

Things got out of hand when she started demanding I spend the night at her place. I was really uncomfortable with that because I knew she would expect me to be willing to be sexually active with her .

I was not ready to be involved like that. That night she called me saying she was struggling to see and she was vomiting blood. I went there to help her , not knowing that three adults were ready to force themselves on me.

My then girlfriend , her sister and the guy she introduced to be her friend but turned out be her boyfriend , they were there to break me . I don't know how I was able to run but I escaped .

That's how MaKhumalo and I met. I was running away from my ex girlfriend's flat. We were not staying together but I would visit her from time to time.

I don't know what I was thinking , I mean what would a 27 year old woman want in an 18 years old young girl. I was still doing my first year in biomedical science.

It was at night and I was running away from my lunatic girlfriend . Her flat was not that far from the campus residence so I ran for my dear life .

My room was on the top floor , that's one of the things I liked about my room. When I got to my room it was dark.