As Sipho was handing the girl her phone, she noticed that he had tears in his eyes. He then blinked, and the tears rushed down his cheeks. Her phone must have broken when Sipho hit her with the van, because it had ink shattered all over the screen. Sipho then took out his phone and gave it to her.
“Look, I really should be going,” he said. “Why don’t you give me your home address, and I will go check on your grandma and get her something to eat.”
“If you really want to die, please go there. Clearly you do not know my uncle, Dennis,” she responded.
“I am trying here, so what can I do to help?” he asked.
“Do you want to help? Here is what you can do. You should go to the old age home, and then get somebody there to go check up on my grandmother urgently,” she responded. “Please, and thank you.”
“Right, and when I get to the ‘home’, who will I say is requesting for the helper?” he asked, getting up from the chair.
“I am Naledi Nomngwangwa, and they will know if you mention that name,” she responded. “Now, please go, and you can take your phone with you. You probably need it more than I do.”
“Oh, it is fine. I have two. I will come back for my sim card tomorrow morning because I must hurry up now,” he responded, and then left.
After leaving the girl’s room, Sipho rushed out of the hospital and drove to the Old Age Home, just as the girl had instructed him to do. When he got there, they got him somebody who was going to help the girl’s grandmother, and he gave her a lift to Naledi’s house.
“So, you know where Naledi is?” the helper asked before she closed the passenger door.
“In the hospital, she got into a car accident,” Sipho responded, and then started driving.
“Oh, poor child. She is going to be okay, right?” she asked.
“Yes she will, and I am really sorry,” he responded, and he wished there was a way he could undo everything.
After a while, Sipho finally parked the van outside a big beautiful house at Extension 7, of course with the help of the helper’s directions, and then dropped the helper off there. He then drove off and went to park his van at work, and then headed to his home.
It was just after 22h00 when Sipho arrived at his room, so he took a bath and prepared something to eat while he watched the TV. After eating, he went to throw himself on the bed and tried sleeping, but he kept tossing and turning until he finally fell asleep. In his sleep, he had a dream where he saw Naledi standing by the road, wearing torn clothes while covered in blood. As he drove closer to her, she jumps in front of his van and died on the spot.
When that happened, Sipho woke up, jumped off the bed, and looked around every corner of the house, but there was nothing there. Something then made him peep outside the window, and surprisingly, he saw Naledi walking round the shrub by the gate, and then disappear. He could not believe his eyes when that happened, and the dream felt very real to him. After a while, he called his the number of the phone he had given to Naledi, and, luckily, it rang.
“Sipho’s phone,” Naledi said, answering the call.
“It is me,” Sipho responded. “I thought you were going put your sim card in the phone.”
“Yeah I did, but then everyone started calling me, so I had to take it out,” she responded. “Why aren’t you asleep, it is almost 02:00am?”
“02h00am, really?” Sipho thought to himself, and then looked at the wall clock amazed. “Well, you should have just switched the phone off, then,” he finally said. “Anyway, I just had a weird dream about you, and it felt so real.”
“Really?” she asked. “What was it about?”
“The accident, but it was actually scarier than the accident we were in,” he responded. “And when I looked outside the window, I think I saw you.”
“Wow, you need to stop over thinking things, Sipho,” she said. “Goodnight, I have got to go.”
“I never told you my name,” he responded.
“That is a very ignorant thing to say to a person you just hit with your van,” she said, and then hung up, leaving Sipho wondering how she had gotten his name.
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