izibonakaliso

CHAPTER TWO : EMPINI

I refuse to be taken by an ambulance cause I know my parents have ever herb known to science that can possibly cure my post anaphylic shock . I am the only student without bruises in my class , we are the only class that had a disturbance the rest of the school building just had a tremour . School has been cancelled for a month as the building has been damaged and our class is a mess . Our entire class has either broken or dislocated one or several of their joints after falling an entire story building. Enoch Wiseman was the first to be attended to after Mr Kathi told the ambulance people that he suffered from epilepsy and was fitting. He did not however mention that he was floating ,even with many youth of our decade chases trends or social recognition; no one from the incident dared tell of what happened to us in that classroom.

I however was marching down town to my parents herbology plant. I was not about to wait for afternoon. I ignore the reception lady who manages the registry upfront . I go pass her station and entire store to the second floor which is my parents office .

The room is empty but with my new knowledge of them keeping secrets I go to the shelves beside the oak desk and pull out ever book hoping for some secret letters to fall out but it is futile .

Kutlwano approaches my form from the floor as I lay back on the books stacked beneath me . "Your parents left early today , your ugogo wakho uyagula...they just zipped out the door . I thought they found a transportation for you to take you home . After that tremor though I am glad you are ok ...I can drive you home if you want ?",

I allow her to droan on but stop when she offers to drive me home . I dread going into anything fast even a horse after what I went through but I have to get home to check on my grandma.

"Asambe . I am dizzy from the entire world shaking or atleast azania ". She laughs at my bored expression, Kutlwano has never understood my personality but I enjoy hers and how she never tried to understand me like everybody else.

We leave after I peel myself off the floor. The drive back home is a silent one where I collect my thoughts until the device decides to awaken . K gestures to my bag but I do not want to hear more lies just the truth . It rings all the way home , K trys to ignore it though.

When she parks outside my home we are both shocked, I am unsure this is home until my Baba exits with a slight limp on his left foot . I rush out the car to embrace him . "What happened to the car ...it looks like a huge bird crashed into it why are they crow feathers on the ground?".

K looks less frightened that I am, she probably knows something about their secrets she does work for them . My theroy makes more sense when she is asked to enter the shell of a house ....the front door is just a metal frame no more wooden doors.

My ma is sobbing before grandma's form on the dining room table . I rush out of Baba's arms to crouch near my LotusStormyrein. Who opens her eyes when I whisper her pen name in her ear . Her skin looks pale almost as if she is like a fish out of water slowly losing moisture on her skin .

"Boniswa...I am glad uphilile umntwana wami ...they came for me then when I wouldn't tell them where you were they assaulted me with their dark magick !" She intends to shout in discust but her throat seem to have shallow scars that are hidden behind a gauze but they stretch to her chest in a similar signature pattern .

"They came for me too but I prayed like you taught me to and they could not hurt me but they hurt everyone else around me ...I should have just stayed home now I put peoples children in danger because I want a normal life even Enoch got tangled in it ...he almost died !", I fall to my knees banging my fist against the wooden table . My grandma doesn't flinch but my ma does and she encases me in her arms pulling me away from the table . My Baba receives me and carrys me upstairs , I soon collapse on my bed as my ma burns a sleeping drought from an oil lamp , this lulls me to sleep.