Thandiwe has finally reached her destination and at this point she has to check if her flatmate/ bestie is home because he has their keys.

“All ! Where are you? I’m in Durban.”

“Ahh my personal person,babes could you do me a favour pick me up at the promanade.”

“Haibo, how did you get there ? and where is your car?”

“Uhm just come here, ill explain in the car.”

***

“So your telling me you were on a romantic date with some misterious guy who you later found out is married to a woman?”

“Moghel the way I ran out of the hotel room is shocking. I thought we had something nice going on yazi”

“Iheee All! Umjolo uyanyisana”

“We’ll atleast some of us even go on dates and are not stuck on some virgin breaker who will never come back”

“All ! Nothando and I had something really special, I’m almost sure she’ll be back”

“Hai asazi ntombi ….mna I’m just saying find yourself some yummy person who will take you out of the loneliness your in.”

“Allofit please….you really can be allofit sometimes!”

“Okay chomma ndya give.upha ke …. anyways how was Emthatha?”

“Very lovely,you should come with next time,”

“Mmh that’s a deal ….ohh we should get some pizza,”this really excites him.

In other parts of the province Nothando is preparing her documents so she can go to Zimbali , in her apartment her eldest cousin Syazthanda is helping her .

“Thando I’m really proud of you , you know I really wish uAunty was here”

“I know cuz I miss my mother as well , it’s been eight years since she passed but it feels just yesterday” Nothando said

“Dont worry too much man! You’ll be fine … anyways tell me what happened to that girl you were with before you left for overseas? ” Syazi asked.

“Ohh uhm uThandiwe I dnt know ,it been so long since we spoke ,I feel like the woman has forgotten about me somehow.”

“Weeh! how you gonna know that without talking to her ?”

“Cuz it’s been so long where do i even find her ?”

“Well that’s a question you will have to answer and ill leave you to it”

As Nothando’s cousin leaves her to herself she gets into a deep thought, come to think of it I haven’t even tried looking for her , Nothando mumbled to herself then she quickly grabs her cellphone and goe’s on all social media networks in search of her long lost lover but she finds nothing and decides to just let things be.

after a few minutes she receives a call from Dr Mthethwa the head of surgery of the hospital she’ll be working at telling her to come and see her patient the following day so she has a long drive to Zimbali during the night, books in a hotel and heads for rest.

***

The following morning Nothando is looking forward to the day she takes her time as she goes through her morning routine and she’ll be at the hospital by 12 pm.

upon her arrival something strange happens, As she enters the huge doors of the hospital she glances down at her phone to read a few messages quick and…..

“excuse me can you direct me to the head of surgery’s office”, she says this without looking at who she is talking to,

“Uhm just go two levels up on the elevator and turn left, Thandiwe herself gives the directions without looking at who she is talking to”, apparently she was doing the same as Nothando.

After a while she remembers the strangers voice to be kinda familiar but couldn’t place it, when she looked back gone was the elevator with the stranger,so she just headed to her office.

“Aah good day Dr Bhengu,” Dr Mthethwa refers to Nothando while screaming his lungs out.

He is quit a big guy with a brush cut ,big belly , tall and dark skinned

“Hi , Dr Mthethwa, you sounded alot more quite over the phone” , she says this and laughs awkwardly

“Lol , Doc the hospital is very busy and your patient is waiting for you , you were the only bone surgeon we could find with experience, so I’d also love It if you were to take one of our interns under your wing ” Mthethwa says

“With pleasure Dr Mthethwa, just introduce me to them and I’ll do the rest,”

“Okay good , follow me” …. As Nothando did as she was told they ended up in the middle of the passage Infront of the nurses station and he started shouting for all the interns to please meet with him now , and while all the commotion took place, Thandiwe was in her office and could see everyone in a group out her office so she tried to find out what was happening but she was distributed by her colleague Dr Nzimande,

“Dr Thandiwe Mthiyane,how are you and what are you up to ?”

“Nzimande ….I’m trying to see what is all the commotion about outside”

“Ohh .. apparently there’s some Dr Bhengu here to perform a spine surgery since she’s got experience,” Nzimande explains

“Ohh ..that’s all the commotion for ,okay then , anyways what are you up to ? and dont tell me you came to gossip” ,Thandiwe says looking at her straight in the eyes.

Nzimande giggles…”wuu you know me too well …but not today I just came to take a few files and I’m out,”

Right at that moment everyone returned to their work stations outside Thandiwes office and uNzimande pointed to the supposed Dr Bhengu, Thandiwe was not looking, when she turned to look Dr Bhengu had her back turned and Thandiwe thought ohh the stranger I meet this morning is the one to perform the surgery..she has a beautiful body ,she thought to herself and got back to work.

tell us : do you think Thandiwe will realise the stranger is actually Nothando?