I remember this day like it was yesterday. I had just come back from Johannesburg Maximum Prison aka Suncity. I was visiting my boyfriend who was held on drug charges (possession with intention to distribute). A thread

I decided after that visit I’m gonna have to get my baby out. Mind you I was a second year student and bail was set at R2000. He had no family who could bail him out. So because as my brothers put it, I’m “captain-save-a-hoe”
I made it my main mission

I decided I wasn’t going to pay my rent the following month and the landlord should just take my deposit as my rent and that I would be moving out. The plan was solid. I use my rent money then I move in with him, then he’d pay me back when he gets out

About 3 weeks later, on a Friday his cousin came to pick me up and we went to go bail him out. Mind you my family was in town cause my mom wanted to have a surprise 21st do for me (I didn’t want the big thing, I wanted a car), but you cannot surprise me

So after bailing him out we dropped him off at his place and I had to rush to my cousins to be with my family. Mind you most of my stuff was at his place (I’d been moving in gradually since I had his keys). I ended up sleeping at my cousins place.

He wasn’t going to make it to the get-together (because 1, we had only been dating for 4 months and he wanted to go to a healer to get “washed” off of prison)

So after all the preps were done at my cousins, I needed to go via his (now ours) place to get something to wear.
I got to the house and there was a girl half dressed chilling on the bed

I asked her where man is and she said he was in the kitchen, I’m like there’s no one there and the door wasn’t even locked and I’m like who are you and she said I should ask him. I walked out and started shouting for him. Man no where to be found

My cousins called to ask me what’s taking so long. I said I’m coming, didn’t they see man in the parking, they’re like no. I walked back into the room and went to get a dress and a jacket, I obviously picked the worst dress because I wasn’t present

I was honestly having an outer body experience. Man didn’t have a phone because his was still in custody I think. As a result I have no pictures from my 21st because I was just so miserable.

I bail a nigga out with my rent money only to find him in bed with a girl. So when I say I fear men, I really do

I think I need to do a storytime on my channel because I was there the day of the arrest and I had a test to write that day, but obviously I didn’t.

Needless to say I failed every single module that year but escaped academic exclusion. I praise a living God

After that I packed all my shit and decided Joburg isn’t for the Gods. When my mom learnt my plan, the following year she packed all my shit right back up and said over my dead body will I have a child who’s a drop out. You will finish. God bless my mum. The end