Trevor



The table had two plates and a steaming porridge ready to be dished, I found Nokwazi already sat down already she looked up happily too see me “You ready to go to work, that’s amazing cause I woke up early to make you a breakfast.”

I looked at the plates and back at Nokwazi “I’ll grab something on my way to work.”

I grabbed my doctors coat from the chair “But you enjoy.”

“Aren’t you at least going to try to meet me half way?” She asked, making me stop at the opened door I half turned “That’s the problem I don’t want to try, I don’t see myself try to make this work. This is a sham of a marriage and you are not more than just any other roommate that I had in the past now stop trying.”

I walked out no longer looking back. I walk into my car and sat there for a minute catching my breath.

I cursed the day I tied a knot with that girl, I was trapped in a loveless marriage. After I have collected my breath I sped out into the direction of the hospital.

Nokwazi

The morning has long passed and the week passed so slowly having to bare Trevor’s cold energy.

I caught a taxi back to Nkandla, I could no longer take it. Tears were threatening to come out at this very second but I held myself.

The taxi arrived in no time from the town. I walked the streets that I was familiar with and headed to my home it brought me peace to be able to walk inside the 5 room home that I have grown so attached to, finding my mother and my mother in law drinking tea in the lounge i dropped to my knees now no longer able able to hold my tears in, i let them burst.

“My child so soon and you have came to visit, you now have your own home that you have to keep warm. Nokwazi?” My mother hurried over and sat next to me “What’s wrong?” She asked patting my back.

“I hate that house and I hate my loveless marriage.” It was nothing like what they told me, nothing at all. “You never told me that he would treat me like nothing, he told me that he doesn’t love me now tell me how am I supposed to stay with a man that will never ever love me?”

“In marriage you hold on tight my child.” Trevor’s mother spoke “This is all new to him, he’ll come around and he’ll learn to love you.”

My mother nodded “She’s correct, you just have to hold on.”

I shook my head “I don’t think I can handle anymore heartache, I want to leave him.”

My mother sat back shocked “No, that is never the answer, what will people say? No you stay there he’ll come around.” The thought of staying with him made me sick but I knew my mother would never allow me to leave him. It didn’t matter to her that I was sitting in a loveless marriage.