Kaboentle.
"We trust that your flight was pleasant Mrs Gumede."
Peter, our pilot says as soon as we land and I start to make my way out of the plain and I give him a small smile.
"It was an amazing flight as always Peter, thank you so much."
I tell him and he gives me a small smile and I bid the rest of the team good bye and i get off the flight and there next to the cars I see them waving at me like there's no tomorrow, the twins waddling and wiggling their little chubby arms as soon as they see me and Nkanyezi starts bouncing about and her outfit is not co ordinated at all but she looks happy and clean and neat and Lubanzi is standing tall and handsome with his brother in his arms too and he looks way older than the last time I saw him and it brings tears in my eyes and I smile.
The look on Siya eyes says that he's missed me and I've missed him too despite everything.
"Oh my good Ness look at two."
I say as i pick Londa into my arms and I kiss his cheeks and a little giggles escapes his lips and his tiny tots come out to play.
Oh missed this so much.
"Hy mama."
Nkanyezi greets as she wraps her arms around my waist and I hug as i brush her back as well.
"Hello baby."
I greet too as I kiss her cheek and she smiles.
"I missed you, I couldn't wait for you to come home because the food daddy fed us was horrible, I missed your food."
"Daddy tried to kill you with his cooking?"
"Yes and he tried to bribe us with ice cream every night."
"Mamakhe aikho lento."
[There's no such thing mamakhe.]
He says as he covers Nkanyezis eyes and she giggles as he comes closer to me and he perks my lips.
"Hy"
He says and I smile, like the young teenage girl I am inside.
"Hy."
I greet back and he smiles at me too, with subtle white hairs in beard that make him look so much older, but he still wears them well.
My eyes land on Lubanzi's as he steps closer to me and he hands me Sandile after I've landed Londa back to Siya and I look at him.
"Does this mean your back home for good ?"
I ask him and he gives me a small nod.
"No more running off when going gets tough... from here on you have to promise me that we're going to work things out as a family..."
"I do mah... I promise."
He says and I smile at him too.
He even has his father's deep voice now, puberty came way quick for my liking, he's almost at my height now, just literally an inch away.
I remember the days where he was just a very tiny eight year old, with a mind beyond his age, with so much love to give and so much pain he'd had had to recover from and through all of that he was still willing to trust again.
I grab his face and I kiss his cheek and a small giggle escapes his lips too and I see him grow nervous.
He doesn't like it.
How did we get to this point ? Where did the time go, is this still my sweet little boy.
There's a few acne spots here and there on his face, which you can't miss because of his light skin, lord we need to have that sex talk now and all that grown boys talk, Siya will have to deal with that, it's going to be awkward if I do it but it's so amazing yet bitter to see him this grown.
He looks so much like a Gumede it doesn't even scare me anymore, I've grown very used to it, the boys in this family are literall carbon copies of their fathers.
