Yibanathi

🧡Part 53🧡

Yibanathi

An idea popped up in my head...

The cellphone is the key that I need to leave here, I need to have a look at it and when I touched it the phone had a password so attempting to guess the password on this phone will put me in trouble of the phone blocking itself but there was 4 messages from 1 chat and when I scrolled up it turns out they were from a "Malibongwe".

"Vee we need to talk about this I can't erase the feelings that I have for you."

"Velile do you know that your husband is back and just not so long ago we were sitting with the chief because he wanted to welcome him back."

I started to panic. The chief?! The village chief only welcomes people with his advisor. I was in the middle of the third step when I came into realization that we had one main chief advisor in this place and it was none other than Malibongwe Nkosi.  What on earth does this whole thing mean? 

Is she cheating on her husband?

Is she behind the fact that the community has not come to search this place for me?

What exactly is her motive behind all this kindness?

Is Malibongwe conspiring with her to keep me hidden?

What business does she have with the chief advisor that they have to talk in private?

Questions, questions yet no answers. I wish I had a solution to all this. I have two choices either to stay with these weird people who have ulterior motives or rather leave and join those living in the streets than to go to a place I once called home.  I am so confused at this point.

Staying in the streets is not a good thing because it is not safe. It is really not healthy and a very bad idea for a young woman. A lot of things go on out there in the streets. You know you are homeless when you really have nowhere to go to, no place to call home and no one to call family.

Do you know this feeling of being in control of yourself while walking on a gravel but then you stumble and fall but when you try to crawl you start to feel the sharp shooting pain from the rocks that form the gravel starting to poke you and when you are finally standing, you slip and fall. Now this is exactly how I am feeling. I don't wish this for anyone. It is really sad to feel this way its like I don't know whether I am going left or right but girl is just moving.

I decide to snap out of my thoughts and walk up the stairs to Cebo's room. I hate that I have to do this but I have no other option. I curse the day I found out I was related to Avuyile Chiliza. I think maybe just maybe life would have been so much better if I was related to drug users or something but not a person involved in witchcraft. I hate everything that has to do with black magic and now I am stuck in this house. I am grateful they took me in but this life I am living here is depressing on its own. I am now walking up the stairs slowly thinking all sorts of things. I don't want to find myself listening to any nonsense that Cebo may feel the need to say to me. I was doing so well without seeing him or even holding a conversation with him and now his mother decides to send me to him knowing very well that she ws hiding me from him.

I swear I hate this life honestly. She literally hid me away into that dusty bedroom of hers without her son knowing and now that she is satisfied I must now go upstairs inside the bedroom well I will be standing outside for the sake of peace.

Velile is up to something big and I wonder what her husband will say when he finds out.

I have reached Cebo's door and I knock twice and there is silence. This boy is testing my patience honestly. I knock again and there is no response. I decide to wait a few seconds for a signal and I do what I had not planned to do which is to try to open the door myself without being let in but the door is locked.

Uhhm... okay. I guess I should head to my room and shower as well as pack my bag because I can tell it will not end well here.

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I am standing downstairs in front of Velile who has snatched her phone from me after her hearing that her disobedient son refused to open the door for me. 

"Yibanathi what exactly is so hard about waking Cebo up, you are just useless man!"

I just shut my mouth and not respond after all I am homeless after all. She clicks her tongue and walks away and I guess I should look after the pots or not. 

I probably should just leave this place I mean there is really nothing for me here.  I just continue to walk to the kitchen cupboard and just stare at it.

" You better make yourself invisible if you know what is good for you, useless thing." 

She took her pots and disappeared and I decided to follow her and go past her and up the stairs and stopping by Cebo's door and hearing his voice talking and it is clear he is on a phone call.

"I know but she is gone to the city now to visit her friend."

" She can't cheat on me that I am sure of because she is in love with me..."

I wonder who that is but it could be Amile and he starts laughing.

"Goodluck on searching for random girl."

I hear him say.  I then hear footsteps coming up the stairs that is when I make the run to the dusty bedroom. 

When will this hide and seek end?

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