KHANYISA
If a pin could drop right now, we would all hear it.
The room has gone cold, eyes are wide open while mouths are completely shut. It literally feels like time has stopped since Mam'Nozizwe dropped a bomb on us and she's the only one sitting there calmly like she did not just say her eldest child was fathered by her brother in law, that is until she looks at her husband, only then does the reality of what she just said start to set on her.
"Nozizwe? Uthini?" [What are you saying?] Bab'Mandla finally speaks up breaking the silence.
Mam'Nozizwe bites her lower lip and casts her eyes down, she looks nervous now as she starts fiddling with her fingers.
"Awusakwazi ukukhuluma?" [You can no longer speak?] He asks her.
"Ngiyaxolisa [I'm sorry] baba"
"Uxoliselani? Yimbudane yani lena oqeda ukuyisho? " [What's this nonsense you just said?]
"Bengingaqondile ukuthi kuvele ngale ndlela, ngivele ngacasuka kakhulu" [I didn't mean for it to come out this way, I just got too upset] she shrug.
"Usho ukuthi lokhu osanda kukusho kuyiqiniso?" [You mean that what you just said is true?] he asks and she goes quiet again "Nozizwe! Khuluma man! [Speak!] " his livid voice booms in the room and I flinch, so does Liyana.
Hey, it's hectic.
"Yebo baba, Kuyiqiniso, uMduduzi indodana kaMbhekiseni [It's true, Mduduzi is Mbhekiseni's son]
" Hayi, ngeke! lokho akukwazi ukuba yiqiniso" [That can't be true] Ma says angrily looking at Mam'Nozizwe.
"Uphikani wena Tholakele? Ngiyakwazi engikushoyo" [What are you denying? I know what I'm saying]
"Ukhuluma umbhedo wena Nozizwe [You're speaking nonsense] you don't get to come to my house and spew the nonsense that's coming out of your mouth right now! At a time like this? Have you no shame!"
"Mbhekiseni,yini lena engiyizwayo [What is this that I'm hearing] " Bab'Mandla stares at his big brother for answers.
"Nami angiyizwa le nto ayishoyo. Uthini ngempela Nozizwe? " [I also don't get what she's saying. Nozizwe, what exactly are you saying]
"Baba..." she starts then looks up at her husband, his blazing stare makes her look down again "Lena into eyenzeka ngaphambi kokuthi ngivume ukuba ngowakho" [This is something that happened before I agreed to be yours]
She stops but he continues looking at her, his eyes urging her to continue
"Uyazi uMbhekiseni ubengakaze abekhona ngempela ekhaya kodwa noma yinini uma ebuya ngangiba naye. Kwakungeyona into eserious kodwa ngagcina ngikhulelwe. I was around two months ngikhulelwe waphinde wabuya futhi, ngangifuna ukumtshela kodwa angilitholanga ithuba ngoba ngaleso sikhathi kwasabalala izindaba zokuthi usehlangane nenye intombazane wayesefuna ukuyishada ngaleso sikhathi."
[You know Mbhekiseni was never really around at home but whenever he would come back I would be with him. It wasn't anything serious but I eventually fell pregnant. I was around two months pregnant when he came back again and I had wanted to tell him but I didn't get the chance because that was the time when news spread that he had met another girl and wanted to marry her right then]
"Bese kwenzekani?" [And then what happened?]
"Mina...Bengingeke nje ngibe yilo wesifazane owazala ingane yakhe, bese eshada omunye. Cha, bengingeke ngikwazi" [I couldn't be the woman who gave birth to his child and then he goes on to marry another, no, I couldn't] She says bitterly.
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