Ora called me just after I finished getting dressed. Perfect timing.
Me: Ora?
Ora: Uhm... I'm trying to find your car or Didi's car and I can't find anything.
Me: We used a different car.
Ora: Okay uhm... when and where are we buying booze?
Me: Argh, Ora.I'm coming to the parking lot in a few.
"Baby, which clothes should I bring for you?" I ask Didi. "Anything is okay," she replies and I give her a kiss before going out to meet Ora.
"Hey Ora," I smile. "Hey," he smiles back. "Lea was on my tail. She's gonna be here soon," he tells me and I nod.
"Didi sent me too get her clothes for tomorrow," I say to him as he takes out clothes from his big suitcase. "Okay cool. I'll walk you to the car when I finish," he says.
He grabs his toiletry bag and an outfit for tomorrow and we head to Didi's car.
"That's a pretty mean car," he smirks when I unlock it. "That's what I said," I laugh.
Lea's car drives in followed by Jabu, Nolo, Amo, Mpumi and then Nokulunga. "Lemme quickly take these to Didi and then I'll come back out with her," I say to Ora and he nods.
I rush back inside and put our things down. "Let's go," I say and take her hand.
We walk out to our friends making a noise outside and arguing about food and booze. "They do this all the damn time," I whisper to Didi and she laughs.
"Okay look, we have three options; Barcelos, Nandos and KFC," Lea says. "No one wants KFC," Bonolo replies. "I do," Lebo says.
This is gonna be a very long night.
"Okay who's driving tomorrow?" I ask. "I'm not," Jabu said. "Yeah, me too," Amo said. "And me," Lea, Nokulunga and Mpumi said at the same time.
"Okay. That's a bit tricky. Guys, why don't we just chill today and get high? We'll drink in Cape Town," I say.
"I swear Maya is the mom of this group," Gundo says and we all laugh. "She definitely is," Fortune smiles.
Fortune and I talk now and I really like it. Our friendship is back to normal. Without all the fucking.
"And we are gonna have Nandos for dinner. Is that okay with everyone?" I ask and they all nod. "Now that that's sorted, we can go book rooms," I say.
"So many demands," Lesego groans. "Yes daddy," Lesedi says and rolls her eyes making us all laugh.
They booked rooms according to how they traveled today. It makes sense that way.
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After we sorted everything out, Ora offered to pay for the food on condition he doesn't pay for booze for the next week. I mean, it's kinda fair.
Everyone voted for me to go buy the food because I'm 'the mom'. I took Nokulunga's car because it was the one closest to the exit.
These people that I call my friends decided that they're gonna park behind each other and not in the actual parkings.
Well, this place doesn't have a problem with it, but I do. I mean, who on earth does that?
The drive to Barcelos was short because it's just around the corner. I just couldn't walk there because it's late and I'm buying a lot of things.
On my way back, I called Ora and asked him to have everyone in the dining area. Thankfully, they listened and they were all there.
"I got four full chickens and a packet of chips for everyone with five 2liters of different soft drinks," I say to them when I sit down.
We all sat there, with tables joined together so that we eat together. We held a number of weird conversations and honestly, I wouldn't have wanted anything else.
"Y'all know that we're leaving at 05:00, right?" Didi asks. "So early?" Lebo complains.
"Yeah, Cape Town is 10 hours away and we're obviously gonna stop on the road," I say.
"We can leave after breakfast. Breakfast here starts at 07:00. After that, we head out," Lea suggests.
"Okay so let's say 07:30, we leave?" I ask. "Yes," Lea says. "Everyone okay with that?" I ask and they all nod.
"Be ready by 07:00, so that we can have breakfast together," I say.
We all went to our rooms at 22:20. Didi and I were so tired, we slept in the clothes we had on today.
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