IN FRANCISTOWN
Royalty's POV
Puleng: "So where should I help?"
Me: "You can set the table like you said. Besides, you are not well, so no doing something hard."
Puleng: "Yeah. Thank you."
She took the dishes and went and set the table then come back.
Puleng: "You think you will last in this marriage?"
O.M.G, I'm not surprised with her question, though, but she should stop worrying about such things.
I turn and look at him with an unemotional face. I'm sure she was expecting something on my face, but she got nothing.
Me: "Excuse me?"
Puleng: "ypu heard me senior Mrs Whale, do you think ypu will last in this marriage?"
Me: "I'll just have to wait and see what the future has in store for me."
Puleng: "Well, no worries, because I already know your future."
She said, leaving the kitchen holding the mazoe jug that has diluted mazoe. I followed her with the food and put the bowls on the table.
Me: "Hun, food is ready. You can come."
Puleng: "You bitc...I was going there to call him."
Me: "oooh sorry I forgot we have a plus one in the family. I'm just used to being the three of us only in the house. "
She clicked her tongue and whispher something as I went back to the kitchen. I took a bowl and put my chicken feets. Took a tissue and wiped my specs before I went back to the dining room. I sat down and started eating .
Puleng: "What kind of food is this? This food is so bad, what the fuc..."
Hun: "What's wrong with the food?".
Puleng: "it's not nice. It's tasteless."
Hun: "I don't see or taste anything wrong with this food."
Puleng: "What! So you are saying I'm mad, I'm crazy. That the food is nice and I'm just....this food doesn't have oil, nor does it has salt, it has....."
Me: "Excuse me, this food is perfectly OK. I prepared this food for our dear husband here so there is nothing wrong with it."
Hun: "So you didn't make a different pot of food with enough cooking oil, why?"
Me: "Because I don't eat food, so why should I cook?"
Hun: "But Puleng does."
Me: "Well, at least she has hands and legs. She is not disabled. Otherwise, I would have hate to become a maid in this house."
Puleng: "How can you be so selfish. On the first day, on our first day together in this house and you are already showing me your true colours. You couldn't just cook food for me, too, just because I'm not Hun? Anyway, thank you for showing me your true colours."
Hun: "How could you be so heartless like this royalty?"
Me: "Where and when did I act heartless?"
Hun: "You used to make mine and yours' food, so what happened....."
Me: "You said it yourself, 'used to', but now I don't anymore."
Hun: "You are so ungrateful, I'll be in my bedroom, and you need to move out tonight."
I looked at Puleng, and she had that evil smile she couldn't even hide.
Me: "What do you mean, where will I go?
Hun: "In one of the guestrooms."
Me: "Wow, ok."
Puleng: "Thank you for understanding former sister wife. I really appreciate your cooperation, I mean, it wouldn't be good having to drag a grown ass woman out of my bedroom."
She said, standing up and leaving going upstairs. I sat there, finished my good, and then I cleared the table with the food that no one ate. I disposed of everything. I'm the bin and wash all the dishes. Cleaned the kitchen, then I went upstairs to get some of my things, and I heard them talking before I entered.
Hun: "I said no, that's not the reason."
Puleng: "Well, it's a pity because I'm moving in either you like it or not. You have been starving me for the whole week, so not tonight."
Hun: "What part of 'you are not moving in here with me', don't you understand?"
Puleng: "im your wife, a new bride, to be specific. I can't be sleeping alone like you died or you went out of the country now, can I?"
Hun: "Oh God ok but we are not getting intimacy. We have to go and check our status first together."
Puleng: "What the fu....I'm clean, I'm clean ok. I'm 9 months pregnant, so obviously, i get tested every time I go for my chevk up."
Hun: "Yeah, that's understandable, but still."
Puleng: "What? Hun since when don't you trust me? I was not in any relationship with anyone or even having sex with a stranger, I'm pregnant for Christ's sake."
Hun: "Since the day you betrayed me with my best friend."
Puleng: (with a painful voice) "So we are still there, you never forget, you will never forget and ...."
Hun: "Hey baby, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out like that. I forgot about it already. I moved last it."
Puleng: (crying) "No, you meant exactly that Hun, and I understood you clearly."
Hun: "it came out wrong, my love, I'm sorry, ok? I didn't mean for it...."
Oh God.
Me: "Can I take my things and leave you to comfort and lie to each other?"
They just looked at me with that look that said, "Did you hear everything?" and I just smiled a fake smile, obviously. I took my things , well some, and left some that I will take tomorrow. It's not a lot of things, after all. Right now, I wish I had a phone, I would talk to mma Mkhize or Mrs Batsi and feel better.
I know they were going to make me feel better no matter what, but its a pity I sold my phone. But I can call Huney with the landline phone. I went to the guestroom and got read for bed. I prayed and slept afterwards.
I wake up after having a bad dream or let me say I remember what happened that night. I lost my pride. That night, my pride was snatched away from me forcefully. It wasn't my dream to lose my viginity like that, but it happened, and I'm still living in that nightmare.
And now this pain had to start. I've been feeling this pain since I started washing the dishes before I sleep , that's why I slept early. I thought I was tired, which explains the pain, but it has started again after I have reasted.
I stood up and went to the sitting room where I switched on the light and the TV. I took the landline phone and sat down, dialling Huney's number, but she didn't answer. I called so many times but to no avail. I gave up and just slept on the couch, listening to the pain as I switched on the TV and looked for something to watch.
I don't know what happened, but I woke up after hearing people shouting, and it's obviously the newlyweds. I wonder how we are or whether they are going to copy staying together when they eat already at each other's throat.
Me: "Are we going to stay like this for the rest of our lives with you fighting like little kids? Come on, we are in marriage here, not boyfriend and girlfriend thing. This is not high school, ok?"
I switched off the TV and stood up wearing my morning shoe so that I could go and bathe.
Me: "Sies, you annoy the shit out of me. I'm allergic to noise, so please."
Hun: "This is my house, so don't tell me nonsense. If you don't like it here, pack your shit and go."
Me: "dojt worry, I'll gladly do so if you continue like this."
I said, going to my new room. Got there , went into the bathroom, and I decided to take a shower. I stood under the shower and opened the water. As warm water hit my soft skin and fell down, the natural water from my eyes also fell, hitting my cheeks and burning them in the process.
I ended up sitting down and continued to cry continuously. I don't know how long I sat in the shower only to come back to reality as the shower glass flung open. I looked up, and it was Huney.
Huney: "Your water has blood. What's going on?"
I couldn't say anything nor did I waste tome as I stood up quickly and hugged her. I couldn't even give a fuck about the nurse uniform she was wearing. I cried until I couldn't anymore. When I stopped only hiccups were left.
Huney: "Wait here...here dry yourself. I'll bring you something to wear, then we can leave for your checkup."
Me: "What?"
Huney: "You already forgot about your checkup, get ready , your doctor will be at block 4 clinic in an hour's time."
I tried myself, lotioned, and changed into a clean maternity dress and went into the bedroom where I found Huney busy on her phone. I saw a tear falling straight on her phone screen. When she felt my presence, she wiped her face with the back of her palm and looked at me.
Huney: "Ready?"
Me: "I want a new gynaecologist."
Huney: "What? You know that's not possible. Royalty, your pregnancy is one scary one, and finding a new gynaecologist for you right now is impossible. Even if we try, your boyfriend won't allow it, never."
Me: "it's possible, and what boyfriend are you talking about?"
Hun: "it's impossible, ...Vansi...."
Me: "What the heck, you can't say such a.....aaaah." I screamed at the top of my lungs as the pain came back with full force this time."
Huney: "You see, let's go. I don't want your Sid to kill me."
Me: "he's not mine. We broke up. Just let your brother hear you say that shit."
We walked out of my room, and there was no one in the sitting room, I guess they both left. We went to Huney's car and got in, and she drove out to the clinic.
Sid: "I would like to take her with me to my surgery if it's ok with you, Dr Nkosi."
Dr Nkosi: "What are you saying, Dr ? She is your patient, so obviously, you don't have to ask."
Me: "What? I can't go with..."
Sid: "Thank you so much, I really appreciate you, man. Cuddles, we will talk."
Huney: "Sure, big brother."
Me: "Oh God."
........
Sid: "Have you been crying?"
Me: "No."
Sid: "Don't lie to me. I'm asking you as your doctor right now, so please tell me the truth."
Me: "Fine, yes."
Sid: "You know that I've been trying to keep you and our kids.....
Me: "My kids."
I cut him off.
Sid: "Your kids, yes. I've been trying my best to keep you stable, right?"
Me: "Yes."
Sid: "I've been doing everything I can since day one, but you are not helping me at all. I'm fighting a lost battle already because I'm alone. When you were staying with me, there was not even one day you cried. You were ok, everything was OK. Ypu promised me never to cry, but here you are. Your stress levels are high. Your BP is also too high, which is helping in the pain you have been feeling."
I looked on the other side with tears falling down my cheeks.
Sid: "Why? I know I wronged you, I showed no care towards you, but that doesn't mean that you were supposed to stop taking care of yourself and the babies. I made things clear to you that no, stress and no BP, then we are good until you give birth."
He went ok and on onto explaining how things are and how they became like this, and all I could dobwas calm myself silently until he stopped talking.
Me: "Can I use your phone, please?"
Sid: "If you want to call your husband then
...."
Me: "Not him."
*FEW DAYS LATER*
I've been at Sid's surgery since that day he came and took me from block 4 clinic, and trust me, nothing is getting better.
Those pains I was ignoring thinking its nothing serious turned out to be something big. I'm drained in just a few days, but I have no choice. I've come a long way so I can't afford to give up. I'm holding on this small tiny rope for dear life.
Sid, come and check me every now and then, but he is not saying anything. What he only told me was that I'm not going anyway until further notice. I called Huney and sent her to go and get all my things while Hun was at work the following day, and she did.
Now all.......
*To be continued....*
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