The next morning at 7am, my alarm went off and I woke up to prepare for work. I had a sex dream and guess who it was with? Malcolm! As if I needed more confusion and drama at that point in my life. I went to take a shower and dressed up before waking Lincoln up to tell him to get ready for work too. I then went downstairs to prepare breakfast. There was no one at the table by that time so I just sat there by myself trying to make sense of everything that was happening in my life, especially the situation with Lincoln. Malcolm came down and greeted me before heading to the kitchen. I found myself staring at him. I just couldn’t look at Malcolm the same way anymore and it was getting a little uncomfortable for me. Sihle came rushing down, he was late, as usual. Sihle and I are different, if we have to be at the office at 9am, I’ll get there at 9am. He on the other hand wants to get there at eight. I’m not about that life. He rushed out of the house and Malcolm went running after him with his lunch. It was so cute. Sihle left and then Malcolm came back to sit with me at the table.
“Earl, you’ve barely touched your food, are you okay?” he asked. I heard everything that he was saying but I was just lost in what I saw the previous night. I started noticing his teeth and his lips and everything that I wasn’t supposed to be noticing. I couldn’t even answer his question because I was afraid I’d say something that would incriminate me. “Uhh hello!” he waved in my face. I woke up out my trance. “Sorry what was that?” I asked. “Are you okay?” he asked for the second time. “Yes! Yes! Yes… I’m … fine… I think I need to leave now!” I said as I prepared myself to leave. He sat there looking confused as to what had just happened at the table. Lincoln came down and just as he was about to sit at the table to eat, I told him we’d get breakfast on the way. We sat quietly in the car. Nobody was saying anything to the other. We got to work, I kissed him on the cheek and went to my office and he headed to the IT department where he worked.
When I got into my office, I checked my emails. I had received an email from Thebe reminding me about Thapelo’s wedding that was happening a month's time. I was excited about the wedding but I just wasn’t looking forward to seeing his new boyfriend. I checked with Clifford to see if he was done with my suit and he told me that he had finished with it a long time ago. I went to try it on and I loved it. I called Lincoln and told him to head to Clifford’s office to take measurements for his suit for the wedding. Because I hadn’t had breakfast, I was starting to get really hungry so I headed down to the canteen to get myself something to eat. I saw Kelebogile at reception and I decided to go say hi to her.
“Kelebogile! Hi.” I greeted. She just gave me a blank stare. “How are you?” I calmly asked. “We’re fine! Me and the baby!” she said with attitude. A part of me wanted to slap her right across her face but another part of me told me to be humble because I had the one thing that she couldn’t really get back… at that time. “I hope so… see you around!” I said with a smile and walked away. When I got into the canteen I saw Sihle and I told him that his friend Kelebogile was in the building. He just rolled his eyes. There really wasn’t a lot of work to be done that day because most of the projects we had started were almost finished. I called KG to find out how the arrangements for his father’s funeral were coming along and he told me that everything was going well. That day I left Lincoln at work because he had other commitments. I took a boring drive back home. I was still fazed by Kelebogile’s attitude and I was trying not to let it get to me but I was failing... dismally!
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