All the girls went to church for the day. Cindy always encouraged this church going habit and they all enjoyed it. Even if they came back from grooving in the early hours of the morning on a Sunday, they would still go to church and look their best as well in their stilettos. After church Yoza saw a missed call from Mpho. She kept her phone on silent while in church. So she decided to call him back. But while the phone was ringing she decided otherwise and dropped the call. She needed sometime to think.
“Yoza why are you not looking all lovie dovie even though you were in Abrahams arms last night?” Amanda asked on their way back to their flat. “True that Amish, I don’t understand. You said he was good moss” Cindy added. “Yes, he was good, very good actually. But eish” she was not sure if she should tell them what her problem with him was. “But what? Does he not want to use a condom?” Amish asked. “I wouldn’t understand if you said he did not want to see you again, otherwise why would he tell you about the earrings that you left there? Tell us.” Cindy enquired. “Nah, maybe some other time ladies.”
When she was back in her flat, Mpho called again. “Hey will you come and collect your earrings?” without thinking she responded “Yes I will”. He asked when and she said “I am not sure” Mpho said “okay”, and then he hung up. She would not possible take Mpho as her boyfriend.; he snored so loud! How would she deal with that? Yes the sex was great but that was it, no relationship after that.
That following week went well. The girls were alternating their tv sessions venues. They would go to Yoza’s room as well as Cindy’s and it was much more comfortable in Yoza’s room because Cindy’s flat mate wouldn’t be there. “So, did you fetch your earrings and Mphoza’s?” Amanda asked this one time during the week. “No, I haven’t” Yoza answered, not even looking at Amish. “What is the problem kanti? Come on, tell us” Amish said.
The girls always shared intimate information with each other all the time, about sex, guys, their families, and so on. But Yoza was just not ready to talk about what she did not like about Mpho. Unlike these girls, she hadn’t bee exposed to a lot of guys like them. She was not quite comfortable talking about Mpho. She had been comfortable talking about the guy from EC, but with Mpho it was different. They probably would not judge her for sleeping with him then wanting nothing to do with him the following day, they understood. But it was still not easy. “Eish guys, uMpho is good and all. He works and he seems like he cares. But yhuu!! The snoring! Ladies he snores so loud, you would swear I was sleeping next to a tractor with a faulty engine!”
“Hahahahahahahaha!!” the girls laughed so loud at her. They laughed till they were rolling on the floor and tears were streaming down their faces. Yoza realised why she had been hesitating to tell them! Of cause they would laugh. But she thought about it as well and joined the laughing. After sometime Cindy said “But Yoza mntwana, you are not there to sleep in the first place. You should keep him up the whole night.” “Ah come on Cindy, you know I wouldn’t do that” Yoza responded. Amanda said, “I do not think snoring should stand in the way of love.” Yoza looked at Amanda and shrugged. Cindy said, “Who said anything about love? Listen girl, you do not have to spend the night there. You can just go during the day, do your thing and come back.” The girls continued talking and laughing.
Yoza thought about the stuff girls were saying. Cindy had a point though; Yoza could be acquainted with Mpho but would not spend a night there. That seemed to be a good plan. She decided to see the guy. She called him early in the morning when she was guessing she hadn’t gone to work.
Mpho: hey Yoza, what a surprise, what’s up skaat?
Yoza: hello Mpho, I have been busy with a school project. But I am done today. Can you please bring the earrings with you to work and I will come and take them on my way from school?
Mpho: Hahahaha I will do no such thing. You can come and get them here. Besides, I have no idea where they are.
Yoza: Ah okay then. Can I come over on Saturday?
Mpho: ya sure, just call before you come.
It was settled and she went to school.
Let me mention that the girls had guy friends that they liked hanging out with on some weekends. These guys were also Xhosa and they lived in another building that was right next to their’s. These guys would come and they would all chill at Cindy’s or Yoza’s flat. And ever since Yoza got a tv, her flat was the most preferred. Amanda had a flat mate from hell; they never dared going to her flat.
So they would chill with these guys maybe on a Saturday afternoon. They would all buy takeaways and eat there. And they would sit together laughing and telling each other jokes and stories. Those guys would leave maybe after midnight or something. These guys were introduced to these girls by Cindy’s flatmate. One of the guys wanted her(Cindy’s flatee) as a girlfriend and upon inviting him over he saw Cindy and friends and he liked them. The next time he came for a visit, he came with his friends. And they all chilled in Cindy’s flat. So now that they were chilling mostly at Yoza’s room, they rarely saw Cindy’s flatmate. The guy who was proposing her was no longer as interested as he had been.
This group of girls and boys rarely had alcohol together. Even when they did, they would just drink a little bit. They never got drunk together. They were all just friends and it was what it was… These guys went by the names of Luntu, Thando, Andile and Xolani, sometimes they would come with Sabelo. They were between the ages of 21 and 23. They were all studying in UP(Tekkies)…
…Moving on, over the weekend Yoza went to Mphoza at around 12 noon and came back in the afternoon around 5. Luckily that weekend he was not working as well. “Where do you come from?” The girls asked her upon her return, they had been looking for her the whole day and she hadn’t been answering her phone, “I went to Skinner Corner (Mpho’s complex name)”. “mmmmmm, so you went back neh? Wena na?’ amish said with a smile. “Ah guys, it was nice. Do you know what happened?” She asked the girls. And they all nodded their heads…