KEPT

51. THANDOLWETHU.

SEVEN MONTHS LATER

NKOSIYABO

"I'm bored"

"Just a few more minutes sthandwa sami, I'm almost done"

"That's what you said a while ago"

"I know, baby. Just a few more minutes then I'm all yours"

"Fine, you'll find me watching episode 6"

"MaKhosa,you wouldn't"

"If you're not done within the next fifteen minutes then I will" She turns and leaves

With Khanyisa due any day now. I've been at home a lot more often but that means I've had to bring work home. It's convenient because I get to see her whenever and make sure she's okay.

In the past months, Khanyisa has become very irritable, it's the smallest things that piss her off and I've been on the firing line quite a number of times. The worst she's ever done when I've supposedly pissed her off is to go quiet on me. We will literally be in the same house and when she sees me approaching she will face the other way. I cannot wait for our daughter to arrive so I can have my wife back because this isn't working, I never know when I'll say or do something that will annoy her.

I focus on my work on an attempt to take a break in fifteen minutes before she starts playing the episode, another thing we've grown to do together. I never used to be a series guy but Khanyisa has pulled me in her mystery and thriller series addiction and now we watch them together, hence the threat, she knows I want to watch it with her.

Mdu, Bangizwe and Liyana have been holding the front at the office and making sure everything runs smoothly while I pop in now and again. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm beginning to feel like I can at the very least, try to start trusting Mdu again. He's going through his own crap with Refilwe and he's opened up to me about his struggles of having to please both her and his mom, the man is tired and the women in his life couldn't care less, Mamncane is still hell bent on having it all go to him while Refilwe is being her usual annoying and conniving self, what we both ever saw in her remains a mystery.

I've also been seeing a therapist, it wasn't an easy step to take. Having to talk to a stranger about what I feel is very unusual but I've opened up to the idea and I haven't regretted it since. Khanyisa and I are in a happy place, she's very much supportive and  that keeps me going to these sessions. That and the fact that I'm trying to motivate Lwazi with his own sessions. He finally told us the real reason why he wasn't sure about the duration of his stay.

A lot went wrong in the mission they were in, him and his troop had been held captive at some point and a lot of them lost their lives in the process. Although they were able to get rid of the threat, a lot of damage had already been done and his superiors ordered him to stand down, with a recommendation to see a therapist, it's not even a recommendation because being cleared and declared mentally fit to return to work by the therapist is the only way he could ever set foot in the field again, he's working on it.

I have a few emails to respond to before taking my break and as soon as I'm done I rush to the lounge. Khanyisa looks up at me and smiles warmly, I guess I'm still in her good books, now if I can keep it up for the rest of the day.

She has her legs stretched out on the couch and I move them so I can sit then place them on my lap

"I was actually going to ask that you come with frozen yogurt from the freezer" She says lowly

"Coming right up" I know better than to complain, this is the smallest orice I have to pay compared to her growing an entire human being inside her.

When I get back we watch the episode together and by the end of it, she's sleepy