Chapter 19

FOUR  MONTHS LATER

LONDIWE

It's been four months of pure bliss and things are going well for me. I found Kwazi a new school and he loves it ,he even made friends and he participates in sports clubs there . His marks have even improved . Now I know  not wasting money by enrolling him to that school.
Kwanele and I are civil towards each other ,he even invited me to a divorce celebration.Basically,we ate out in a very expensive restaurant . We went there because he had no one to celebrate with , his words not mine.
And my love life? Well it's going great. Just a few arguments here and there like any other couple. I finally gave it up three  months ago. It was the greatest sex of my life.

~~~~ FLASHBACK ~~~~

“ Are you sure about this baby?” , he asks looking down at me while I'm on my knees.

I just nod yes.

#REMOVED

~~~~ END OF FLASHBACK~~~~

“ Babe finish up already!”, Qhawe shouts

“ In a sec!”, I shout back from the walk in closet.

He insisted that I should have my clothes in his house  and before you judge , angikipiti . Some of my clothes are here to make it easier when I decide to sleep over .
His mother summoned him to her house for a family lunch and he asked me to be his plus one . I'm seeing his family for the first time today but except for Khaya of course. 

I look at my reflection and I look good! I'm wearing a yellow maxi dress  with brown stiletto sandleheels and i have my straw hat with me because it's scorching hot outside.

I exit the closet .

“ So this is why you took so long, ufuna ubamuhle wedwa laphaya.”, he smiles.

“ Umuhle sthandwa sami.” , he adds

“ Thank you baby.”

We get down stairs .

“ Let me go get my keys ,ngiyabuya.”

“ Okay baby.”, I say and he kisses my cheek before going to the kitchen to fetch his car keys.

I hear a knock on the door.

“ Coming!”

I go to the door and open up only to be met with a pregnant woman.

“ Hi, can I help you?”, I ask her.

“ May I get in?”

“ Oh ,I'm sorry ,you can come in.”, I move aside and let her in .

” Baby I found the ke-”, he stops mid- sentence and looks at the woman.

They look at each other and I look at him then back at the pregnant lady trying to add two and two together.

“ Roxanne what are you doing here?”, Qhawe's eyes land on the lady's big tummy.

“ Qhawe who is this?” , I ask him

“Roxanne I asked you a question.”, Qhawe flatly ignores me.

“  What do you think Qhawe, I'm pregnant and it's your child ! You can do a DNA if you want.”, The Roxanne person says.

I can't believe my ears.

I turn to look at Qhawe , “ Is it true Qhawe? Is it yours?” , tears start to well in my eyes.

“ You're lying! We used protection!”, Qhawe turns to look at me, “Londiwe she's lying.”

“ Well condoms aren't 100% safe Qhawe ,you know that !”, Roxanne screams.

I run to the main bedroom leaving them screaming at each other and I sit on the floor. How could Qhawe do this to me? How could he make a fool out of me?



“Shut the hell up ,both of you shut the hell up!” , I shout walking down the stairs. They both look at me in shock.

I have no idea what I'm doing but I love this man ,I know that I vowed to myself that I'll leave should I be in this kind of situation again because cheating is a deal breaker for me  but I just cannot bring myself to pack up and go.

“Both of you sit down. Stop behaving like little kids  man!”

They obey and sit . I sit next to Qhawe while Roxanne is sitting on the single couch. He places his hand on mine but I push it off.

“Listen ,  we'll have to have this conversation tommorow like the grown adults that we are but right now Qhawe and I have a family thing we have to attend to so please”, I say looking at Roxanne. This girl is really beautiful, she's intimidating but I don't show her that.

“ Fine , I'll give you two time to process this but I'll be back. Qhawe you have to do right by your first child. ”, She says. I look at Qhawe and he's fuming.Roxanne stands up and I walk her to the door.

“ He's lucky to have you but this man ain't shit, I'd leave him if I were you.”, Roxanne says.

“ You're probably saying that because you want him all to yourself.”, I roll my eyes at her.

She just smiles. “Bye” , I close the door after she walks out .

I return to my lying, cheating whore of a man.

“ Qhawe what the fuck was that?", I turn to look at  this guy.

“ Ngiyaxolisa.”, he looks down.

“ When did you two sleep together?” , I ask him again.

He keeps his eyes on the floor like a child that has been caught stealing candy, avoiding to make eye contact.

“ Qhawe I asked you a fucking question!”

“ Four months ago, the day we had our first fight.”, He admits.

“ Great, just great! So everytime we have a heated argument you're gonna go around impregnating other women!?”

“ Ngiyaxolisa sthandwa sam, It was a mistake.”, now he's shitting on me.

“ A mistake Qhawe? Inoba uphambene wena!”, this man is surely pissing off the ghetto Xhosa woman in me.

“ Sthandwa sami ngiyaxolisa.”, he's now on his knees.

“ Get up.”, I say looking sideways. “ We're going to that family get together and when we come back we're gonna have a proper conversation about this.” , Ungijwayela kabi lo,matter of fact undiqhela ukunya rha!

He just gets up on his knees and we go to the garage. He opens the car door for me and we drive off in silence.

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