UNCONDITIONAL

TWENTY-FIVE

'I see you took my advice and followed your heart'

'Yes,mom always knows best. It feels so amazing to have her back in my life again. All of them actually. You remember after that incident when I found out that I couldn't have kids and became really depressed. Grandma told me that I would have kids one day. I thought she was talking crazy and now I am starting to understand what she meant.'

'Yeah my mother in law always had the gift of prophecy. She could some how see the future. You know she told your father that I would be his wife when I first started working for him. Your father too thought she was crazy,I mean I was a single mother of three and black during a time when a black person couldn't even speak to a white person without being thrown in jail. I had the best mother in law ever and I always promised myself I treat my children's partners like I was treated'

My mother and father met during apartheid as the story goes. They met when my mother was 23 and my father 35 years of age. My mother was a teenage mother and had 3 kids by the age of 21. She had my older sister and my twin brothers who are fully black when she met my dad. According to my father my mother did not want to date a white man because according to her white men were evil and used black women. So my father spent about two years courting my mother and proving to her that not all white people are racist. They got married after those two years. My father claims it wasn't easy because not everybody from both sides of the family was happy with their relationship but he loved her and she loved him and that's all they cared about and still do.

'Where you in a fight with cats?. What happened to your back?'

My mom asks as I change out of my t-shirt which I accidently poured sauce on. I forgot about these marks on my back. I bruise easily and the marks take time to heal and I got these about four days ago.

That day I went over to Khanyi to have sex,after my cousin told me she was the better woman for her. She refused me to finger fuck her or eat her out even though I had protection with me. I even had those dental dams with flavour. She said she doesn't trust them and she couldn't live with herself if she infected me.

Tried to make her understand that it was my choice and I would not blame her if I somehow got infected which I wouldn't because I had taken the time to get educated on how to protect myself but she still wasn't hearing me. So frustrated I ended up at Roses doorstep. Which I deeply regret.

My phone rings while my mom is saying something about before faithful and other stuff I tuned out.

'Mma please keep it down,Khanyi's calling'

She looks at me ready to listen in on my conversation. My heart sunk to the bottom of my stomach as soon as i put the phone to my ear.

'hey baby..... I am on my way'

'What is it? What's wrong? Are the kids fine? Is she fine?'

My mother bombards me with questions as soon as I hang up the phone.

'I don't know mma,she just called me crying,I have a bad feeling about this.'

I kiss my mother goodbye before driving off towards Khanyi's. I hope everything is fine. What am I thinking, she was crying uncontrollably. This is the first time I hear her cry and whoever put her in that position will pay dearly.