Nombuso



I worried about him, everytime he went out it was like was taking a piece of me with him. He is the only constant thing in my life right now and losing him was out of the question.

“What is it?” I asked after he had paced the floor for the 3rd time now.

“What?” He asked stopping midway and looked at me as I stirred the soft porridge.

I breathed a sigh and looked at him “You obviously have something to say and you are getting on my nerves with your damn pacing. So just say it.”

He sat down in a way like he was throwing himself down and stopped his leg from bouncing.

“We have a gig with the guys.” He started. I closed the pot and went to sit next to him “Okay..” encouraging him to carry on.

“It is something I have never done before.”

“And that is?”

“We going to bomb an ATM, everything is set but we are short with one person to drive the car.”

I sat back and thought about it, it was out of his comfort zone but knowing him he was fast and will be able to do this.

“I can do it.”

He looked at me like I’m crazy and shook his head “You going to do what?”

“I’m not that bad with a car, put me on.”

“No.” He said firmly standing up again “I don’t want you near this kinds of stuff.”

I walked over to him and cupped his face with my hands making him to look at me “I know, but it is just this one job and I’ll be helping the man that I love.”

He stepped back and scratched his head “Mbuso, I want you to have a successful life, go to university and study for the both us, do it for us. This?” He said looking at me “Is not what I want for you. You are a bright person, you deserve a chance to study even further at least you can do that. I didn’t get that chance to go to school please don’t get sucked into this life.”

He was right, this life he was living it is very dangerous and risky and filled with lots of small chances of even making it the next day. I would wake him and find him in police custody or lying on the streets somewhere dead.

But all of this was not enough to keep me from not helping him “At least think about it before you shoot the idea down.”