Falling (Book 3)

31|You sound like you love him

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 31

"Omphile, what are you doing here?" I ask once again. "Who's baby is it, Entle?" He ignores my question. "Why do you want to know? They're my babies, I'm the one carrying them afterall"

"You know what I mean, who's their father? Who got you pregnant?" He rephrases. "It doesn't matter, I don't remember who it was" I lie through my teeth. "I'm just trying to help you, how will I do that if you won't co-operate with me?" He sighs.

"By doing what? Telling him who got me pegnant? I know he sent you here Omphile, he's coward that cannot accept failure so he chose to cut me out of his life and now he's sending you to do his dirty work" I scoff.

"I'm not here because of him, I'm here for you because you're my little sister" He frowns, I remain silent. "Why are you here Omphile? Who sent you?" I almost shout.

"No one sent me, I'm here because I want to be here, willingly. I won't let you starve to death because of your stubbornness"

"Please leave" I know he's lying, he wants something from me. "Call me when you need anything" He hugs me and places a brown envelope on the coffee table. He walks out before I can say anything, I open the envelope and grimace.

There are two stacks of money. I walk back up to my room I walk down to my room and hide the money in my closet. I'm now sitting on the bed, I can't do this anymore. My hand finds it's way to my phone, dialling a number.

My thumb hover's over the call button, I dryly swallow before pressing it. I put the phone up against my ear, as it rings. Just as I'm about to hang up, it's answered.

"Naledi?" I remain silent as tears cloud my vision. I close my eyes, letting the tears stream down my face. "Naledi..." He calls out once again and I hang up. I toss my phone on the bed and wipe my tears.

"Minnie, o sharp?" Ona walks into my room carrying a steers takeaway paper bag. "Y-Yeah, it's just these hormones" I lie, clearing my throat. "Why are you lying?" She places the paper bag ontop of my bedside table.

"I'm not" I mumble back. "I can see right through you, Minnie. What happened?" She sighs. "Omphile was here" I start. "What was IT doing here?" She emphasises and I laugh.

"He wanted to get me to tell him who got me pregnant so that he could go back and report me to the family council" I scoff. "He's such a suck up, He'll do anything for that position" She laughs.

"But he gave me money Ona, it means something. Right?" I raise an eyebrow at her. "It depends.... How much was it?" She wiggles her eyebrows in return. "I'm not sure but it's a lot" I motion to the closet and she nods.

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"There's someone here to see you" She peaks her head into my room. I nod, and wear my uggs and head down to the living room. A smile pulls onto my face when my eyes meet with hers.

"Ma'Lwethu" I immediately hug her. She tightly hugs me back. We pull away after a while and sit on the couch. "I missed you so much" She mutters. "Did Mama send you here?"

"Your mother doesn't know that I'm here and you're... pregnant?" She confirms while staring at my belly, I cast my gaze to the floor and slightly nod. "Your father is not happy Minentle, whoever got you pregnant, should stay hidden because everything's a mess back there" She softly says.

"He wants nothing to do with me... I've tried talking to him but he cut me off, I have absolutely nothing to my name, he took back everything... He has no reason to worry about me" I wave her off.

"I'll try talking to your mother and finding a way through this because clearly the both of you aren't thinking about the babies that you're carrying" She states. "Babies? I don't remember telling you that I'm having more than one baby"

"I have a feeling they're more than one. I don't know how, but I can feel it" I smile in return. "So are you going to tell me who the father of these babies is?" She raise an eyebrow and I sigh in return.

"Uhm... I met him a few months ago, when I returned to Jo'burg. Apparently he was supposed to kidnap me but he let me go. I met him again at some party and he took it upon him to drive me home but he left me out in the cold to freeze to death" I laugh at the thought.

"I slept over at his house and I met his grandmother the following morning after he tried killing me. I thought that it would be the last time I'd see him but he kept on sending me flowers and popping up at the house"

"When Tata and I got into an argument, I wanted to leave and come back here but he convinced me to stay with him, I met his little sister and brother's... I began to take a liking to him and I agreed to start seeing him"

"We got into an argument, two weeks after I started staying with him and I decided to come back here... But little did I know that I'd be taking a huge part of him with me... That leads me to now"

"So you haven't told him?" She frowns. "I've tried, but I can't. He's capable of a lot of things that I don't want my babies to get involved in" I mumble. "You have to tell him Minentle, he deserves to know" She states.

"I know, but... I'm scared. He's not entirely a bad person, He's persuasive, very persuasive, He cares Ma'Lwethu, He cares and he makes me happy. I disobeyed my father for him, I lied to Omphile for him" I blurt out.

"You sound like you really love him"

"I do, I love him a lot" I finally admit.