Meanwhile, Elsewhere
"A highjack... How so?" Curiosity had now consumed Katlego.
"When Lihle and I found you, you were in bed... Covered in a blanket," said Thapelo, struggling to put together the sentence.
"But didn't you just say a hijack, I'm not getting you brah"
"No Kat..." He let his giggles slid out his giggles. "What I mean is that you were in a bed of leaves, your white shirt..., covered in blood, a few metres away from your friend's car.
"And from where exactly was I coming from?" Katlego stood within the jacuzzi and sat on the edge his body temperature was beginning to rise.
" Uhm! Uh! You were coming from a party, your friend's party," spilled out Thapelo while avoiding Katlego's suddenly narrowed eye-contact.
"The bottom line is that the "bipolar" chick who did this to you is now kind of behind bars," said Thato as he walked in, in his boxer shorts, with his arm around another half naked girl, "far away from all of us."
"A bad girl with a pretty face is what she turned out to be," nodded Thapelo before he sunk lower
"Zintle is really dangerous Kat, You best stay faraway from her... She's bad news boo," the girl added as she intimately got into the jaccuzi alongside Thato.
In the jacuzzi Thato and his girl arrived and when they began splashing water in each other's face Thapelo stood up and left. An irritated and disgruntled expression as he did so. Kat could see that he was very annoyed and maybe even jealous. Funny enough they both giggled as he did so.
"Seems like he still likes you," laughed Thato before taking a sip from his glass of wine"
"He and I will never be an item, and he knows very much why." she clicked her tongue and kissed Thato.
"Don't we just make a cute couple... Aren't we just the definition of true love," asked Thatho, looking across to Donnel"
"Was I ever like that with Lihle... 'cause quite strangely I don't remember, how queer? "
"Even more intimate than that but sorry for your loss... Memory loss that is," her words came out awkwardly.
"Yet we weren't always like this. Sadly I got dumped by that chick I told you I thought I loved..."
"While I dumped the guy whom I thought I was in love with, until I realized that he was just using me," she finished Thato's sentence, and he slipped a whisper in her ear. One which left giggles dancing in her lips.
Without a further notice or any warning she slips out of his cuddle and splashes water in his face before getting out of the jacuzzi and jogging out. Thatho gets out too, loudly, and runs after her whilst grappling his dripping his checkered boxer shorts.
"Dude, your phone... Its ringing!" Katlego shouted, but his voice just couldn't catch up to Thato. So he reached for the phone and answered.
"Thato it's Zintle... We seriously need to talk," said a voice from the other end of the line"
Her voice left Kat's words hiding within a lump on his throat, his heartbeat skyrocketing to the realization that he was actually talking to the pretty monster that everyone was talking about. But he couldn't help wonder as to why she was calling Thato. "Maybe he was part of the attempted hijack, maybe it was Thato who devised the whole accidental incident," thought Katlego, before he swallowed hard.
"Thato! are you still there?"
"He's not around, what do you want" He yelled calmly, squeezing a handful of water, hoping for her to leave a useful message, even a small clue.
"Katlego! Is that you... Thought you were, dead" she sounds shocked over the phone.
"Well I'm not, and we both know what you did to me Zintle,"
"Broke your heart...?"
"Worse, you tried to kiss me Zintle... I mean kill" Katlego snapped back, a rush of fear and curiosity working through him.
"Is that what you know or what you heard? 'Cause if so, then they've made you a bigger fool than you were... Open your eyes Kat!" Clearly, she was doing her best to offend him.
Katlego remained quiet for a while, not knowing what to believe, his mind still dwelling on Zintle's convincing speculations. On the other side of his brain, Lihle's words replayed over and over. A clash of truths had left him confused.
"Otherwise, please tell Thatho, better yet, just come see me within a few days... I'll text the adress within a few seconds.
"Why should I, so you and your boyfriend can finish me off?"
"Katlego, Just come see me... I'll tell you nothing but the truth" her voice was accompanied by some tiny voices which sounded in the background.
Then just like that she uttered a very familiar polite laugh before cutting the phone. Weird enough he was supposed to feel a sense a hatred and resentment towards her, instead, it was the complete opposite. It was as though hearing her voice had left a lovely, forbidden seed growing inside his heart. Or maybe it was just because doing what he wasn't supposed to felt right. He gritted his teeth and slid his torso deeper into the jacuzzi, yearning to hear her voice again, the rainy night's cold making him crave for warmth. Either he loved the sound of her voice or his intuition was telling him something deeper than he could hear.