Chapter 6

Ethan and I sat on the grass just talking until the bell rang signalling that lessons will start soon and the rest of the day was uneventful. School is over and at home watching The Amazing World Of Gumball waiting for my mom and aunt to arrive with the pizza.

We have this tradition that every Friday we~ me, my mom and my aunt~ eat takeaways in my home. Then on Saturdays we eat home cooked meal at my aunt's place.

As I am still watching my favourite cartoon my phone rings. "who could be calling me when I'm watching my favourite episode of The Amazing World Of Gumball?!" I ask myself frustrated. I'm watching that episode where Mr Dad gets pranked by Gumball and Dalwen and he seeks revenge by pranking them back.

"yes?" after several ring I answer my phone not bothering to look at the caller ID. "Is how you greet your elders nowadays Sarah?" My brother from another mother says. "Yoh! Scelo I'm sorry. I was watching my favourite cartoon and my phone rung so I got irritated. How are you though?"

My big brother Scelo is my father's first child and I'm the second and the last. We have separate mothers and we all get along very well. Scelo is 1 year a few months older than me. "I'm good You?"

"I'm fine." I say.

"I was just checking on you before you write your prelim exams. How about tomorrow we go to a mall just to get your mind off things?" He asks.

"Ish I already have plans for tomorrow how about next week?" I ask biting my bottom lip nervously. "What plans?" He asks sounding curious. "Plans with a friend." I smile widely to myself. I'm very excited for tomorrow I can't even wait. "a friend who is a boy?" oh oh he is now speaking in his big brother voice.

"I'm not going to answer that." I say getting up to take some biscuits from the cupboard. "Sarah! I'm warning you." I sit down with my biscuits in hand. "Yes a friend who is a boy. There's nothing wrong with that. You of all people should know that." I say nonchalantly rolling my eyes at him being over protective.

"You can never be sure with boys and I don't want you to get your precious heart hurt. And you might end up doing the worst mistake of your life." he says sounding very concerned.

I decide to egg him even more. "It's not like during the sleep over we'll be doing R-18 things." I smirk when I hear him gasping. "WHAT?! You Are Not Going There! And I'm going to tell your mom your nasty plans."

I laugh loudly very pleased with his reaction, "calm down! I was just joking and you wouldn't dare tell my mom because I also know stuff about you that are not pleasant to hear." I grin to myself. "You-! Okay but just promise me that you won't do something stupid sisi."

"I'm not a stupid girl my G." I smile.

"Stay that way! Anyways got to go to my girlfriend right now."

"Tell her I said hi." Scelo and his girlfriend~ Palesa~ were litteraly high school sweethearts. They started dating at grade 10 and now they in university together still dating. It's actually heartwarming.

"okay bye lil sisi. I love you."

"bye big bro. I love you too." with that said I hang up. "Who do you love too?" My mom questions as she enters the house with my aunt and a pizza in hand.

"Oh I was just talking to my boyfriend. He said I should tell you 'Hi '" I say smiling but on the inside I'm dying from laughter. Before my mom can reply my aunt says, "What the hell! A Boyfriend?!", with a bewildered look. "Oh yeah. He is gorgeous and is very smart, we help each other with school work." I try to suppress my laugh even more.

"Oh yeah? What else are you going to help each other with? Your private parts?!" my aunt yells. I can't help it but laugh! My mom and I laugh but my aunt remains serious. "We'll help each other with our privateparts?! No." I continue to laugh.

One minute later I stop laughing and look at my aunt who still wears a serious face. "I'm just kidding aunty, I don't have a boyfriend and never will." I say blowing her an air kiss. "yeah right." she mumbles under her breath.

Since I was 10 years old I liked teasing them about boyfriends. This is because it's funny and it's kind of a contingency plan for when I actually have one so they dont suspect anything. And honestly I don't blame them for not wanting me to have a boyfriend at this age.

I think they fear me ending up as a teen mom. They fear I might follow the steps of my other aunt who is dead now. After she fell pregnant as a teen she go involved in bad things which rendered her falling to her death.

"Sarafina stop teasing your aunt." my mom says. I turn to stare at her as she's busy dishing up the pizza. Why would she call me Sarafina? She knows I don't like being called Sarafina. So why does she do that, when she knows very well how it affects me?!

I bit my bottom lip trying to prevent myself from crying. "Don't call me that." I say through clenched teeth. "I'm sorry but stop teasing your aunt right now." she says. I take a deep breath and nod.

My mom hands us our food and we start to dig in. "Mama don't forget tomorrow I'll be going to hang out with my friend neh." I tell. "Yeah okay." she nods and continue eating.

"Yeah Yeah

Passerby

Seeker

What kind of person?

Am I a good person?

..." My phone starts ringing and FouReyES appears, I smile answering. "Hey."

"Hey, just wanted to tell you not to forget about our date tomorrow."

"You mean hang out. And yes I won't forget. Where~" my mom cuts me off by speaking. "Sarah go talk outside we want to hear the TV." I just nod and head out.

"Where should we meet?" I resume. "How about at the bus station, where you get off. At about 12:00, I'll fetch you and then we'll go."

"Okay but where are we going exactly? I ask.

"You'll see. Just wear something sexy." I can hear the smirk in his tone and words. "You are such a pervert!" I laugh and hang up the phone.