#IOnceDated a girl from Eastern Cape. Well, we weren’t romantically involved. It was an NSA (No Strings Attached) kind of a thing. We met through our friends who were also in the same type of an arrangement.
We got into the sheets hardly two hours after we met. So I asked her what’s she doing this side. Told me she’s studying at Unisa and staying at her paternal grands’ place. Asked if she’s got a boyfriend this side, she answered “ndimshiye eKoloni”
Ah manje she was my person. We partied hard together. Sometimes I’d even fetch her for tlofing in the wee hours of the morning coming from islala and tholukuthi ngi bhampile. She was cool with that, never complained. I had full access yang’thola
So when fetching or dropping her off she’d tell me not to park in front of her house cos ugogo likes to peep through the window, nami I later noticed that.
And she’d always complain ngo gogo wakhe ukuthi she’s forever talking about the “silver car”, my ride, that’s always picking her up and dropping her off at any given time of the day
A few weeks later her cousin came into town. My then flat mate hooked up with the cousin and yes (((((BOOOM))))) NSA with them too. Even though cousin seemed to have had feelings for my flat mate who was in a relationship, but moshito wa tswela pele
In the midst of all this happening I knew that mKoloni’s dad was a soldier who was in Sudan on SANDF deployment duties.
Babazala sent money every month on the 15th and sometimes nje during the month. I can’t remember mKoloni attending a single lesson at Unisa and I never khweshdind it. I was just eating her money
Days go by.....out of the green I get a WhatsApp text from a number with like 14 digits, you know mos those foreign numbers. The person tells me to stay away from mKoloni because she’s his wife. I check the sender’s dp but there’s no pic
I tell my flat mate about this. He tells me that during one of their pillow talks, cousin actually told him the whole truth
The truth is, it ain’t nobody’s grands place there. In fact mKoloni and cousin aren’t related either. They’re both dating the same guy. uGogo is actually their mother in law hence she was always complaining about me fetching and dropping off u mKoloni
Frankly I was amused. I confronted mKoloni about this and guess what, she denied it. I also didn’t entertain it any further and we continued tlofozing and I would tease her about her “dad” now and then
Soldier Boy didn’t give up, he sent another text now with his face on the dp and told me that I can have mKoloni as he has broken up with her. And by then it’s been an unusual few days since I last saw her
So there was a party where this (pic) happened. It was at some shisa nyama where we regularly went. I went there to get some shisa nyama and knew I’d bump into mKolonida since this was a huge event. Luckily I did
I called her, first showed her the pic of Soldier Boy. She glared at it and with an animated confused look on her face, which I’ll never forget, she said “Hayi andimazi lomtu”
I then showed her the text and told her that I’m done with her as my safety and peace of mind come first. And vele she and I weren’t gonna go far if we had taken things to the next level
Fast forward, Soldier Boy came back a month or so later. Cousin got pregnant by another guy(not my flat mate). mKoloni and Soldier finally broke up shortly after he came back.
The last time I spoke to mKoloni was when I saw a ring on her finger on her WhatsApp and asked about it. Said she found another guy who paid lobola for her. I laughed at her. She blocked me. [The End]
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