Khwezikazi.
I watch as Bella runs after Eurina in her new born speed towards the edge of the clif untill she realises the she's jumped over the cliff and into the ocean, the scene cuts to when everybody is finally back home and Bellas just broke the news to everybody else about seeing Edward's cousin when my phone rings and Faye gets up from my thighs when I reach for it on the coffee table, it's my aunt Juli.
This woman never calls me ever she's just like her brother vile heart and all, what the hell does she want from me ?
"Sawubona aunti."
I answer her call and immediately commotion sounds on the other end of the line, busses, taxi's que marshals everything it's very busy where she is.
"Weh Khwezi ngise station la e Cbd, ngicela ukuthi ozongi Landa manje, I Just got off my bus and I am very tired, please ngan yami."
Where ?
"Aunti bus station kanjani and futhi uyaphi ?"
"The bus station in town sisi and I am here to see you, please be fast."
Oh gosh no. I am not about to drive and I just finished off a bottle from last night ,KZN traffic officers can be a nightmare at this time I can't drive to Cbd.
"Okay aunti, I will request an Uber for you just head to a restaurant nearby and I will let you know when the driver is nearby."
"Why aren't you the one fetching me now futhi ngizo landiwe ngi ndoda enginga maziyo? You don't care about my safety neh, what if he kidnaps me, do you know this person why can't you send someone from the palace ?"
I roll my eyes all the way into the back of my skull.
"Aunti I am fetching you an Uber, sizo khuluma mawu fika la."
I tell her while I am hanging up and I catch Faye giving me a "I am not getting involved look" and she looks away from me laying her had back on my lap.
Is she really leaving me out to dry ?
I request an Uber for her and I give her another call letting her know that the Uber is on its way and she again questions me about why is she even getting on an Uber in the first place and I ignore her and i tell her where to meet the driver.
I get up from the couch and I bolt straight to the cellar and I open a bottle of that Dutch whisky that Tlhabane left behind and I gulp two sips and it immediately burns my throat and I cough from how strong it is before I place the bottle back in one of the racks and I make my way back to the kitchen only to hear a knock on the door and I know that she is here.
I walk to the door and give myself a moment to prepare my mind for whatever is about to happen.
Aunt Juli is not here on good intentions she is never near me for good motive because in her eyes I've always been that mischievous child that's always given her brother grief, rebellious, loose and a whore, that's what she called me when my father announced my pregnancy to the family, she was happy to marry me off that one that finally they had done away with me and her brother could breath and be rid of me and finally begin his life again.
She didn't like my mother more especially because she shared a close relationship with Busi and my older brothers mother before she also died and Baba remaried again, she never healed from that death and she never accepted my mother more so because how her and Baba got married, she felt like she had ruined her brother's life and they all had suspicions I wasn't Babas biological child till my birth and I came out quiet the opposite.
That woman has never liked me but she tolerated me because I was her brothers child and had it been to up to her she wouldn't even recognize me.
She has continued to disrespect me the same way she had disrespected my mother all throughout her marriage and all throughout my life and she's never hid it and what topped of the cake was when mama would confide in her about Babas abuse and she would call her bluff untill he beat her to a pulp one night and sent her to the hospital and she did nothing about it, those same beatings are what killed my mother in the end and none of them did anything about it, instead they stood by their brother throughout all his bull shit and now I can't help but ask myself what she's come to do at my house this late and this abrupt if isn't here to cause more damage to it.
