(It is a clear day and Barnato students are spread all over the school. Some are standing by the fence buying snacks from vendors. Qhubekani and Thabo are sitting under a tree eating kota. Thabo is secretly eyeing Samantha who is sitting alone under a tree. Samantha is eating kopas snacks; she catches Thabo’s secret eye-contact and smiles. Sir Khumalo is standing in his maths class window looking at Samantha smile at Thabo. Sir Khumalo’s expression becomes hostile.)
Qhubekani: So vele jeki, you don’t want with the series?
Thabo:(Still secretly eyeing Samantha) I’ll give you when I’m done…
Qhubekani: Ah jeki…you’re done ngoseason one…
Thabo:(Still secretly eyeing Samantha) Jeki hayi, baba, the series is nice when you have all seasons at once…
Qhubekani:: Mxm nawe jeki…
Thabo:(Still secretly eyeing Samantha) I am joking Jeki. I’ll give you today.
Qhubekani: Finally, Thabo’s cold heart melts…
Thabo: (Still secretly eyeing Samantha) Jeki is it true that Samantha is dating Sir Khumalo?
Qhubekani: Yeah yiqiniso…
Thabo:: (Still secretly eyeing Samantha) She’s beautiful though…
Qhubekani: (Finally catches Thabo’s surreptitious view of Samantha.) She’s a perfect yellow…slender…the only problem is Sir Khumalo…
Thabo: Man that’s rape moss
Qhubekani: Love has no age. So they say…you want her…?
Thabo: Nope…Jeki.. not her baba…hayi….
(Same day in sir Khumalo’s office, Sir Khumalo is sitting in his chair and Samantha is standing before him across the desk. Her slender body is shy and fearful.)
Sir Khumalo: I saw you smile at that Dlamini kid again…what’s up between you two?
Samantha:(Fearful) Nothing…
Sir Khumalo: Good…if you want to continue learning here for free…you know you have to be mine, only mine, no one else…siyezwana?
Samantha: (Fearful)Ye…s.
Sir Khumalo: (Scolding) Yes what?
Samantha: (Fearful) Yes baby.
Sir Khumalo: Evil smile) Now that’s more like it Samantha…you’re a very beautiful girl.
(He stands up, goes around the desk and gingerly touches her face. Samantha’s beautiful eyes becomes cold with fear.)
Sir Khumalo: You see Samantha; the world is not nice to beautiful uneducated girls like you…
(He hears a knock and quickly back behind the desk.)
Sir Khumalo: (Answering the knock) Come in…
(Dineo walks in, she is beautiful yellow bone, chuggy. She models to the desk and contemptuously eye Samantha.)
Dineo: Sir you said I should come collect grade 12 maths homework…
Sir Khumalo: Yes…I nearly forgot.
(He reaches for a sheet of paper on his right and hands it over to her.)
Sir Khumalo: Go write it on the board for everyone to copy it out. Including you samantha…off you go
(The students exit and sir Khumalo resumes his work.)
Thabo:: (Whispering) Have you told him yet?
Samantha: (Whispering as well) No…And angikatsheli nomama.
Thabo:(Whispering) You have to tell someone, the baby will grow soon, your belly will show.
Samantha: This is hard…angeke ngikwazi ukuqamba amanga and say its Sir Khumalo’s baby we used condoms and we only slept twice. All along I was sleeping with you…without a condom.
Thabo:(Whispering)I know babe.
(A teacher walks in on them, they jump in fear and surprise.)
Teacher: What are you doing outside of class…hmm?
Thabo: Nothing.
Teacher: (Looking at Samantha for an answer) Hmmm?
Samantha: Nothing.
Teacher: I am highly disappointed in you both…for grade 12 students you seem to be idle…I am giving you up to the count of one for you to run to class.
(The two students run into their class room down the corridor. The teacher looks at them enter inside the class and goes her way.)
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Tell us: Why do you think Samantha and Thabo are scared of people finding out about them?