Thandiwe

2 weeks later :

My application at University of Wisdom has been accepted, the night before my departure it was filled with lots of tears. I smiled fondly at the memory.

Mavis offered to drive me, the drive wasn’t filled with lots of talk. It was just the way I liked it. Quiet.

I needed tine to think, to process everything that was happening.

The drive wasn’t that long after an hours drive we had arrived the University it was big and beautiful not believing that I would be walking the grounds of this school.

There were not a lot people at the res probably because they would be arriving the following week. I had the privilege of getting a single room.

I took a deep breath the minute we walked in, it was amazing. There was a small kitchen, a study table, a bathroom and a bedroom near the window.

I twirled around the room and smiled at Mavis, not know how to thank her for taking me in and giving me this opportunity.

“Please don’t.” She said holding her hand up as if to say enough. I smiled “What?” She shook her head “You already thanked me enough, please not anymore.”

“Okay, since you are here please help me clean.”

The rest of the day was spent cleaning up the place, making the bed, putting clothes on the wardrobe and putting food on the fridge.

The place was nicely decorated with fairy lights across the room, pictures that held great memory were plastered on the wall.

“Will you be okay?” Mavis asked as we ate the pizza that she bought after we were done cleaning.

I nodded “But I will sure miss Thembi’s cooking.” I said smiling as I remember how the cook embraced me this morning, never wanting to let go.

“Make sure that you study real hard, no playing games and no boy’s. There will be a time for boys and that time is certainly not now is that heard Missy?”

I nodded, I was not going to mess this opportunity for me.

Mavis took me in her arms and held me there “I believe in you now go make me proud in there okay?”

I nodded.

Soon she was long gone, leaving me with my thoughts.

I went to the and there at the distance the lights twinkled on the darkness. This was my life now, I was away from the dusty streets of Winnie Mandela and I hoped to stay away for a very long time.