Scattered Stars

Chapter 27

The broadest definition of loneliness is the distress people feel when reality fails to meet their illusion of connection.-Akhiro Ndlovu Vermaak.

___________________________

        Chapter 27

Naledi

Sandra managed to sneak me upstairs into her bedroom so her parents wouldn't question us.

After asking permission from my mother she said yes I could go to the party but I had to be back before one in the morning and I had to call her if anything went wrong, so I didn't have to worry about getting in trouble with her. She wasn't always this chilled about parties but my older brother Thabang managed to convince her that it was better she knew where I was instead of me sneaking out at night and since then I was allowed to go out partying as long as I didn't come back shitfaced. My mother wasn't happy that it was during an exam period but she understood I needed the break.

The girl's bedroom was huge, I had seen it when I was helping my mother clean around the house, and these people live lavishly.

"Okay, let's find you something to wear..." Sandra said as she went into the closet." So how do you know Dian?" She asked.

We had a thing?

I tutored him?

"We go to the same school."

"You go to Hawe?" I nodded yes before realising she couldn't see me from the closet and I was seated on her bed so I responded yes, verbally. "No way, that's super cool. I go to an all-girls school on the other side of town."

"Cool. So whose party are we going to?"

"It's a friend's party he just became legal so he's throwing a huge party, plus his parents are out of the country for a few days.

"What do you think about this outfit?" She asked coming out of the closet holding up a blazing red mini dress that had a low cut.

"Nooo... I'm not going for that kind of look." She chuckled at my facial expression.

"So...not a THOT then." She made her way back into the closet." So what are you planning on studying after high school?"

"Astronomy. You?" I questioned as an afterthought.

"I want to be an events coordinator but my mom wants me to be a lawyer, she even has an internship already set up with a firm in the city so after high school I can get down to it." She whined.

"That's pretty cool though." If the kids in the township had half the opportunities that she has, there would be so many successful kids.

"Not really but whatever. I need someone to help me out with maths and physical science, what do you say?" She asked coming out with a yellow bandage dress with an open back. I shook my head and she went back to the closet.

"I'm in grade eleven and I'm busy with exams." She came out with a pout drawn onto her face. She looked a lot like her mother except the black hair, she must have was dyed her hair black, she seems like the black sheep of the family.

"Please, I need to get a seventy percent to even get considered for the course, please."

"I'm sorry."

"Look, I'll pay you. I'm that desperate. If I don't get that seventy percent I'm losing my cell phone so my whole social life will be murdered."

"How much are we talking?" She clapped her hands excitedly and said we would discuss that later. She pulled me into her huge closet and said I should take a look around.