Sihle and Gavin came up to my room to tell me what they failed to tell me whilst I was in hospital about Menzi. Menzi had gone missing and when he left home, he had told his mother that he was coming to my place. Whilst I was in hospital, his uncles came to the house in search of Menzi and they were unruly. They literally invaded everyone’s privacy looking for Menzi and nobody wanted to tell me what had happened because I was still in hospital. Before breaking up with Menzi, I had given him some money and I thought to myself that maybe he took the money and left the country or something of that nature. I remembered that Menzi had come to see me before I went to hospital and I paid him no mind so I started blaming myself for his disappearance. As soon as I found out what had happened, I grabbed my car keys and prepared to go look for him. “But Earl, what about your party?” Sihle asked. “Dude, this can wait, I need to find Menzi!” I replied. “Oh my Gosh, this is going to be so much fun, I feel like I’m in the CSI. Let’s go look for him!” said Gavin. We inconspicuously left the house and drove to the hotel in Sandton and he wasn’t there.
“Stop blaming yourself Earl, it’s really not your fault that he left.” Said Sihle. I felt so powerless; I didn’t know what to say. If only I had listened to him that day, none of this would have happened. We drove around the whole of Johannesburg in search of Menzi and when I realized that we were not going to find him, I gave up and drove back to the house. Sometimes being impulsive doesn't yield good returns.
I had to go back to work the following day so I went upstairs to prepare before joining everyone else downstairs. Thobile had an announcement to make, she was not just pregnant but she was pregnant with twins. The housemates were excited for her, myself included. “Morithi, you’re quite the strong one.” said KG. Nigel was a bit shaken by the announcement, at some point he pretended as if he didn’t hear what Thobile said and kept on gulping down his drink. “So have you thought about names yet?” Lincoln asked. “Dude, stop with the names, I couldn’t even think of a name for one child, now I have to think of names for two!” said Morithi in his drunken state. Thobile and I couldn’t help but laugh at him. Thobile seemed to be taking the news very well; I was just excited that there would be two little ones keeping us happy in no time. Lincoln kept bringing up the fact that he and his ex wanted to have a child together and name them Karabo. I knew that he was talking about me. I didn’t pay attention to him; the only people that knew he was talking about me were Sihle and Gavin. “Lincoln, you had your chance and you blew it! Shut up.” said Gavin. The mood changed a bit because I think that it was at that point that Kelebogile thought that Gavin was the ex Lincoln was talking about. KG realized this and tried to fix the situation by telling Kelebogile about some girl who didn’t exist and he did that to save Lincoln. Sihle, Gavin and I played along, everyone else looked confused. Lincoln excused himself and left us downstairs making a fool of ourselves.
Finally dinner was ready and we all sat down to eat. It was much different from the other days where we would be separate during dinner time because of how tense that time of the night would always be. That night though, we all sat at the table and had a lovely chat.
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