Nombuso
I checked my phone for the eleventh times already, I was growing insane with the anxiety. He should have been here by now in fact he should have been here long time ago.
I paced the floor, tears threatening to come out. I had a bad feeling almost making me nauseous.
When the phone rang, with shaky hands I answered the number that I didn’t recognise, “Nombuso.”
The tears I have been holding on for so long came out rushing “Where are you, I’m worried sick.”
“Sit down, I know you must be pacing the floor.”
I nodded as if he can see me and sat down “Okay?”
“I’m arrested.”
At that moment it felt like I was growing weaker in each second, arrested. “What do you mean?” He quickly explained and the line went quiet for a few seconds and said “There’ll be no trial, I confessed to everything so that I can get lesser years.”
“No.” I said as I rocked myself softly “No.”
“I’ll stay here for a while Melo, and I don’t want you waiting for me, you hear me? I want you to go to university get that degree that you always, use the money that we had saved up and do something for yourself.”
“Mpilo.”
“No.” He said “Don’t visit me here, I don’t want you to see me in here. I love you Nombuso with all of my heart never forget that.” The line went dead, before I could say another word.
I let the phone slipped on my hand as I cried for the man I love and which I have list in the blink of an eyes, before I could kiss me one last time.
***
Just like Mpilo wanted I enrolled at University of Pretoria, it had been 3 full month’s since he was last arrested and not even once had he called me and never even returned my calls.
No day passed by without me thinking about him, each night I shed a tear for him. My heart ached each time I thought of him, I went to see him countless time and I would sit there without him coming out. Everyday I wrote a letter addressed to him, telling him about my day and my life university and never have he bothered torespond.
Like he would have wanted I took everything one step a time, oneday the gaping wound on heart will heal but until then I shall never forget about the love of my life.