Sindie



The words that Naledi had said earlier still ring ever so loudly in my head like crazy as I drive to the restaurant, I wonder where this whole thing came from. I thought that she liked Shawn as he has raised her like his own and shown no in difference between her and Lloyd.

I need time to think, time to just forget about Naledi for a minute at least until when she comes back from school.

I sit opposite Rose, I have missed my friend, to think that we had started being friends when she was just a nanny for my daughter at Ndumiso’s house when I first go there, she later resigned after I escaped and went to work at the café.

It feels good not thinking about my own issues for a change. I smiled as I looked Rose, she has been so different ever since she met with Senzo.

“You like him don’t you?” I asked, “Earth to Rose,” I say and wave my hand in front of my face.

“It’s nice to see you stress over a guy other than your parents.” I say taking a sip of my coffee. Her parents are the worst for having want to control her life.

“Enough about me and my boy drama, how are you and Shawn?” Rose asks leaning back. “Amazing, I have to say that after Ndumiso things have been wonderful.”

“Lloyd and Naledi?”

I sigh as I look down at the table, trying to erase the bad memory of this morning’s encounter. “Lloyd is good but Naledi, she is all grown up now and we had to tell her about her biological father all because she saw some old news about her Ndumiso.”

She was just 8 when she came home carrying an old magazine cut out of Ndumiso asking if it was her dad. I didn’t know what to say to her until Shawn decided that it was best that we tell her so that she can easily accept it.

But then ever since then she has been such a pain in the ass if not to me then to Shawn.

Rose gives me a sympathetic smile “She’ll come around.”

I sigh that was what Shawn has been saying to me lately but it has 5 months now and she is still yet to come around. I shake my head “She will keep digging and digging, I don’t want her to find out what kind of man her father was. You know just the other day Shawn was reprimanding her when she ‘accidentally’ broke a vase she then yelled that Shawn is not her father.” I close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose.

“You should tell her the truth, about how bad her father was. She needs to know, maybe she will stop acting out.”

I nod “Yeah that’s what Shawn said when I called him this morning, tonight we will sit her down and maybe then she will understand why we kept the truth from her.”