chapter 8

As i had seen my aunty approaching me after she had gotten done in the bathroom, I had rushed to go check on my phone after leaving my cousin with her, I had seen that the screen of my phone was already turned on and that I had missed a call from Kaylee's granny, I had checked if I had airtime and unfortunately i didn't, I had decided to take an advance from Vodacom, which was the network I use

Thankfully I was able to and purchased some airtime, immediately I had decided to call her back and so i did, she had answered and had told me what Kaylee had told her after she had questioned her

"Hi Ginger, so I spoke to Kaylee and she had told me that she was at your house the night you speak about, so I'm very confused, was she actually there at your place?" she had said to me in a very suspicious tone, for a minute i had suspected and thought that Kaylee had asked her to say that, but i decided to not let those thoughts get to my head

I had replied to her saying that Kaylee is lying to her and I'm not even sure why, I kept my guard up and kept saying that she's lying, trying to make sure that the granny believes me,

I got even more pissed after hearing all of this, I really didn't imagine that Kaylee would use me like that just to try and cover her mistakes, I was disappointed in her aswell as angry, she turned out to be quite a liar and in that moment considering how upset I was, I had decided that come what may, I am not letting this slide, and I am making sure that she gets punished for doing what she's done

She knew that I had a special connection to that boy and that even though I never really wanted to be with him, he did mean something to me at a point, he was a player and both her and I knew this, that he's gonna use her, but if I'm being quite honest, I think she'd prefer being used, she'd prefer being hurt, I've begun to think that maybe she wasn't even hurt after her past relationship and that she pretended to be just to make me feel like she's this gullible and innocent girl

Thought after thought had entered my head, all the memories I had shared with her...I couldn't help but think that maybe everything was a lie and she had been pretending all this while

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When I had first met her, she had been busy with one of my friends, her name was Lucia and she was lesbian, need I tell you that Kaylee was Bisexual, so she preferred both girls and boys, she had dated Lucia for a while, Lucia didn't seem that quite interested in her anyways and I could see that, Kaylee would always force her into a kiss and before I had seen it as a cute gesture but now that I've seen things from a different perspective, I can see how pressurized Lucia must've felt

About a month ago Kaylee had tried pressing charges against Lucia's best friend, her name is Aminah and both her and Lucia were in my class in gr9, I had been quite close to them of course until Kaylee and I became friends and she had polluted my mind against them

The reason as to why Kaylee wanted to press charges against Aminah like I had said, was because Aminah wasn't okay with Lucia and Kaylee being together back then and so she had told Kaylee off, plenty times mainly because of her behaviour and how childish and forward she was, I've always seen and heard both the sides of the story, at a point I felt like Kaylee was wrong and at other times vice versa, I've never hated on them though, I mean, why should I?

They were my friends aswell even though we grew apart as time went by

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Aminah wasn't the only one that Kaylee had wanted to get into trouble, there was a boy named Kylan aswell and he was in our school, Kylan and I had come to school the same year and we were supposed to be in the same grade but unfortunately I had repeated grade 8, I'm not quite sure if I've mentioned that

In 2020 COVID-19 had begun in South Africa and so we obviously were on lockdown and so schools were closed, my mother had decided that she isn't going to send me and my little brother back to school, when the country is no longer on lockdown and so that year I had only attended school for the first time and soon after that I didn't attend at all for that year, I was so angry at that time, i just wanted to go back to school, mainly because both my mum and granny were really bad to me, I had been mentally abused by them and that traumatized me, making me want to go to school often and not stay at home

I barely had any freedom, I wasn't allowed friends home and nor was I allowed out, this was even before COVID-19 had begun, it's almost like I barely had a life, with no cell phone and no connection to the rest of the world, I was just hoping at that time that someday I'd be able to go back to school and not be stuck at home, it was just my granny and I at home and we'd argue most of the time for the smallest things ever and that made me not want to be around her either...