A few hours later, I found myself sitting in my bedroom just to avoid everyone. I heard the doorbell ring downstairs and I ignored it because I knew whoever was downstairs would handle it. I heard that it was Gavin and he was asking where I was. I heard footsteps approaching my bedroom and I sat up straight waiting to hear what he had to say. He came into my bedroom together with Sihle and he locked the door. “You two are going to solve your issues, I don’t care how long it takes because I actually have my vodka with me!” Gavin said as he made himself comfortable. I had nothing to say to either of them. I just sat there waiting for Sihle to say something whilst Gavin mixed a drink for himself. It was very awkward; I kept looking around my room and discovered corners I had never seen all my life. Sihle stood by the door with his phone in his hand busy texting whoever it was that he was texting. Gavin kept on looking at us both waiting for one of us to say something. Sihle was stubborn, but I was worse! I sighed and then looked at the ceiling. Sihle kept tapping his feet waiting for Gavin to open the door so he could leave but that wasn’t going to happen. “Okay… fine! I’m sorry Earl.” Sihle said. “Finally someone breaks the ice, my drink was becoming warm” Gavin said as he flicked his imaginary weave. I just looked at Sihle and said nothing. “I knew this was a bad idea Gavin, let’s go!” he said. “Earl? Have you misplaced your tongue? I can give you mine if you like” Gavin said and I just broke into laughter. Sihle tried hard to contain his laughter but he too started laughing and before you knew it, we were all laughing. We talked things over and we were fine once again. When we were cool, Sihle and I attacked Gavin for his bottle so that we could drink. “I needed this!” I said. Things between the three of us were fine again but I learnt my lesson and I was going to walk away with it quietly.
Sihle then told me to go talk to Kelebogile about this whole Lincoln saga because she felt threatened by me. I contemplated doing that until we all went downstairs to join everyone that was there. I went to Kelebogile and asked her to follow me outside where I would talk to her about Lincoln. She came and we talked about the kiss. Kelebogile wasn’t fazed by the kiss, what really shook her up was the stuff that KG said. “Earl… please! Just give me Lincoln, you’re good looking, you’re talented, you have a good thing going, you can get any man you want. Just don’t take Lincoln from me…please!” Kelebogile begged. I just sighed and promised her that I would keep my distance just to make her happy.
The time for Lerato to part ways with us had come. Her man came to fetch her and she was excited to leave. We all walked her to the car and said our goodbyes. She promised that she would see us at The Big Guy’s funeral and that we should try and not fight for at LEAST a week. As soon as she left, we could feel the void. Lerato had always been one of the loudest people in the house and it was just silent. Texts from people coming to the party kept flocking in and I told KG that we should cancel the party. “NO! You can’t do that, my dad knew I loved to party, I’m pretty sure he won’t have a problem with this. Besides, we’re celebrating his life!” said KG. We all looked at each other and what I could pick up is that we were actually judging KG but he was right, his dad just wanted us to be happy and that’s what we were going to do. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Malcolm and Sihle decided to cook for everyone that day. The mood was a bit better than it was earlier on except that Malcolm nearly died. Apparently after realizing that he was burning something, he started a fire. I have no idea how the fire started but all I know is that he himself had to be extinguished even though all he left with was a little boil on his hand. Had it not been for Sihle and the fire extinguisher, we would have lost Malcolm. We obviously had to get take-outs and we sat at the table laughing at how stupid Malcolm was in the kitchen. Eventually we all headed to our respective rooms and slept.
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