The gathering continues

Tiny is all over the place looking for Lebo. Everybody is asking about her. Where is she? Who is gonna entertain her little cousins? The day seemed way too long. Tiny had to do everything by herself now. Carry the bowls to the tent that’s in the garden. Serve everyone in the tent and supply them with drinks. The thought of that gave her headache. She opened the drawer and took out pain block tablets. She was gunning them down when Aggie entered the kitchen. “Bathong mo’girl, and then?? Why the long face?.”

“It’s just headache, I’ll be fine” Tiny said. She had no choice but to ask the very same person she said she don’t want to see her touch the food. Lebo isn’t here to help her. “Can you please help me get this food to the tent? Make sure everyone eats?” Tiny asked Aggie.

“Oh friend, do you even have to ask??”Aggie said.

She quickly opened the bowls one by one, raving about how of a good cook she is and closed them. Tiny left the kitchen. Now Aggie is alone. Yes, alone in the kitchen with the food. She took something out of her pocket and when she’s about to open it, she heard voices coming in the kitchen. It was Lebo and Kabelo. “Oh auntie Aggie, where is my mom?” Lebo asked.

“She is with her family and she asked me to bring this food” Aggie said, annoyed.

“Okay Aus Aggie, you can go join them. Lebo and I will bring them. Right Lebo?” Kabelo winked at Lebo.

Aggie had to leave because she didn’t want anyone to suspect she wanna add something to the food. Lebo and Kabelo started their mission but how would they keep the poison from her mother. She had no idea. Unless she keep her mother from eating. How would she do that? She was mad at herself for not thinking about this plan thoroughly. She took a plate and started dishing for her mom. She put the plate In the microwave. Now they can execute the plan. Each bowl had 5 drops of the poison. She wanted to add more drops but Kabelo stopped her. Now the food was ready and off they went to the tent.

After an hour

It was time to eat and everybody grabbed a plate and a spoon. They all made a line to where the food was served. Tiny waited for everyone to settle down before she can go get served. Lebo saw her leading to the food and she quickly called her. She had to distract her so she won’t think of food. How would she do that when Tiny is hungry? She called her to the side and sort of tried to tell her about the time she left. Where she was. She had to come up with a story because she couldn’t tell her about the poison. “Mom, you know earlier on I left and went to see Kabelo. I missed him so much and I had to invite him to the gathering. I….”.

“Okay darling, we will talk about this at night when we’re busy with dishes. Now let me go grab something to eat” Tiny said.

Aggie found a moment to go to the kitchen. She didn’t know what she was looking for. She opened the microwave and then boom, a plate full of food. “Hoolalaaa looks like someone saved this for tonight. Let me see what we’ve got here”. She took out the plate and placed it in the table. She took out muthi in her pocket and started pouring it in the food with her fingers. “A little flavour here and there won’t hurt. Would it??” she said as she placed the food back to the microwave.

She was humming so beautiful and Kabelo was coming out of Lebo’s room when he saw Aggie putting muthi in her pocket. He knew he had to come up with a plan to keep Lebo’s mother from eating that food. But firstly, he had to tell Lebo what he saw. He leaded to the garden and went to Lebo. He explained what happened and now they were out of plans. Tiny was hungry and there is no food she can eat.

Lebo took out her phone and asked Kabelo to distract her mother. She was on a call. “Bra T, can you please bring mom your nice and lavish samp and beans? Please please she’s hungry and there is no food left for her” Lebo asked bra T. Bra T has a small restaurant and he always brought Tiny samp and beans. But it’s been long since he did that because Tiny once told him to stop. Within 5 minutes Bra T was at the gate. Lebo called her mom and she came to the gate. Bra T gave him food and she had no choice but to eat cause she was hungry and she couldn’t resist Bra T’ s samp and beans. She thanked Bra T and promised to invite him for dinner. She headed to the garden with food in her hands, eating as she’s humming a happy song from the satisfaction she found in Bra T’s food. Aggie got drunk and went to the kitchen for cold water. She seated in the table and found herself eating the food that was in the microwave. She could not stop raving about how nice they were.