Something Lloyd wasn’t very good at, was giving me false statements in front of my eyes. So he checked the number and it was someone from the very same house we were in. She decided to tell me lies because she saw Lloyd outside, smoking. Well, I believed he would never lie to me so I let it be and slept on his chest.

I woke up with a massive headache which might have been from the couple of drinks I had had last night when we were on our way to this place. Wow! Lloyd was the best! He brought me breakfast in bed, even though we were far from home or his house. I went to the bathroom and did my thing, used the Listerine to rinse my mouth then went back to bed. He even got me strong black coffee for my hangover.

He went out and after about an hour or so he came back with a shopping bag. He had brought me some clothes to wear after bathing. We said our goodbyes and got to his house around 11 a.m. Even though he was tired from driving, he decided we would do his laundry. We got done before 1 p.m. and I decided to spoil him with my home recipe. We washed the dishes afterwards and since he would be going to work the next day, he had to drop me at the campus.

When I got to my room, there were more than twenty missed calls from Lesego. I didn’t know what to think. What if he now wanted to hurt me? I mean, was Lesego; the worst bully. My phone rang and it was him again so I switched it off and then went to check on Warona. She was alone so we chatted about our whereabouts and what was happening at campus. She mentioned the black Audi again but that must have been Lloyd’s car and I was with him last night. I was bit thirsty so I thought we could get a cold drink from the café, but Lloyd hadn’t given me any money.

Being spoiled by someone is pretty nice. Warona had enough silvers so we went to sit beside the sports ground and had our drink there. Later that day, I went to check on our security guard as he was my friend by then and boredom was my best friend. I got there and he tried his level best to relieve my boredom.

This black Audi seemed to be serious. My security friend told me the driver said I must wait for it tomorrow after my classes. He never left his name for me, or maybe he was someone I knew and he just wanted to surprise me. Well, it got late so I went back to my cottage and had some fish and chips I had bought from the cafe when I went to buy drink there with Warona. I decided to call Lloyd.

He was happy to hear from. He then explained that the ‘night out’ was his way of an apology since he blamed me for his marriage problems. He also said that his wife had heard about our affair from some friend of his. This affair thing was getting serious. After close to an hour on a phone call with him, I slept peacefully because I had no missed calls from Lesego. I was woken up by a call from a landline number.

I took it and it was Lesego. I explained to him the reason why I couldn’t take his call was because I wasn’t in my room with my phone and couldn’t call back due to lack of airtime. We all tell lies sometimes so that was mine. He bought my story and started with his so called romantic pick-up lines, trying to persuade me to get to his parent’s house that late. School work had always been my best excuse when he wanted me to visit him late. The call lasted longer than I expected, I was not used to his long-lasting phone conversations.

In the morning I did my usual routine which is bathing, having breakfast then going off to the lectures, and the day was over before I knew it. 

Days passed, weeks, months and now it was September and I was only left with a month to write my final N4 Management Assistant exams. I hadn’t changed how I was living. I was now dating three guys: Lesego, Lloyd and Sihle. I had only met Sihle two weeks ago. He was from Soweto with no family of his own, only his parents and siblings. He was a Marketing Manager somewhere around Sun City.

He had been coming to school looking for me as we met when I went to that expensive club with Lloyd, the night I started sniffing coke. Yes, I am an addict, but Sihle was busy working on getting me to rehab. He also drove a black Audi. That meant my sugar dads were driving the same cars, working at the same place, somehow were originally from the same province.

I got to my Friday class twenty minutes late. We had run out of hot water so I had to wait for it to at least warm up so that I could take a shower. I was feeling dizzy; I felt like I was about to lose my step and hit the floor. Luckily, one of my classmates realised I wasn’t feeling well and he got to me before I could hit the floor. He took me to a nearby chair.

They got me cold water but I vomited before I could drink it. They took me back to my room and my friend Warona stayed with me. She, being the best friend ever, asked me about when last I was intimate, with whom and did I use the safety gloves? I last got intimate over the weekend with all my boy friends and I never used any protection after the weekend away with Lesego at Sun City.

I went to the clinic the following day. I got my pregnancy test and my HIV results at the same time. The day I let go of these three men is the day I will suffer the repercussions alone, and the person who got me into this will be nowhere to be found. I never dreamt of this day. The day tears would flow from my eyes like a floating river, the day I would tell everyone about my positive HIV status and positive pregnancy test. Life is unpredictable. If only I had remembered these words before the decisions I made.

The End

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