03/08/2022
Pure Bliss
Chapter 1
BONOLO
I'm woken up by a noise I'm familiar with, my grandmother shouting outside while sweeping the yard. She does this all the time, everyone who passes by my home knows that NaSkhosana has lazy granddaughters and "All they know is men, once their phones start ringing they jump".
Funny enough, everyone who lives around here envy grandchildren like us. We do clean, but we like cleaning at our own time but no, gogo prefers 5a.m .
I take out my phone and it's only 9a.m , sigh. I scroll through Facebook while Gugu covers herself with the blanket. I giggle after seeing a text from Siya, he's my online "friend" whom I promised a meet up and the cookie. He should just forget because I have Tinyiko my real boyfriend. I hear footsteps and the door opens, Gogo must be looking for something.
“WHAT THE — !? ”I exclaim and Gugu screams. Gogo splashed us with cold water.
F**k !
We quickly jump off the bed . It's day 1 of 27 school holidays, Lord when will this end !?
I can hear Gugu in the kitchen complaining about Lethukuthula not being woken up because he is a boy. I trust her to speak up when s**t hits the fan. She's the voice for people like me - people who can't speak up for themselves. Gogo tells her where to get off as I hang the blankets outside. Tinyiko passes by and I blush, he gets closer to the wired fence and I meet him halfway.
“Yini uzichamele, did you have a wet dream about me? ” he asks while smiling naughtily
I laugh. “Ofcause not, I spilled water by mistake" I answer him shyly.
“Okay, I'll fetch you at 2pm okay?” he says.
I nod and go back inside the house, to stop the commotion and take a side , Gugu's side ofcause. She makes sense but now it's time I back her up.
“Vele gogo Lethu eats, baths and sleeps. He doesn't even rinse his bathing basin and we're not his wives we can't live like this”
“You are so lazy! Girls are supposed to be the backbones in the family and carry everything because their brothers are busy... ” - NaSkhosana replies, in a calmer tone but Gugu interrupts before she can finish.
“Hehe hhayi, busy with what kahle kahle Gogo? We even do the garden, we are the ones that collect firewood and make the fire, cook and clean. We get tired not him. Nayi imihlolo yazi Sihle”. Gogo has decided to let this one go early. Lethu has decided to wake up and now he's opening the fridge.
“Where's my porridge? ” He asks looking at us.
I answer quickly, “You cooked porridge? ”
He shuts the fridge violently and leaves, to smoke his crystal or whatever drug that makes him go crazy on us.......... ..............
Tinyiko fetched me and we walked to his home. It's my first time here and I've heard that his mother is not nice but I know we are not here for introductions. Like most boys in the hood, especially those in their late teens, he has a room outside. It's like the moment parents build rooms for their boy children they are giving them permission to get everyone pregnant but Tinyiko doesn't have a child yet. He unlocks the buglar door and then the door then he opens for me. I get inside and it's a really nice room, all tiled up and he has a smart headboard too! He doesn't have the sound system that all outside rooms traditionally get but he does have a laptop. I sit on the bed while he opens the windows. It's my first time in this room, but it's not my first time in a boy's room. I'm well known for "ukshaya isandla", I've been in 2 boys' rooms but I never gave up the cookie. It's risky I know.
He turns his laptop on and puts it on the bed, I hope he doesn't play p**n. Phela I know he thinks he's getting it today.
We both lay on our stomachs and watch the action movie he put on, I don't understand anything so I keep on asking him about everything until the movie is halfway through.
“Ahh Bonolo! Now I didn't even see my favorite part ” he says then closes the laptop and turns to look at me .
“ It's not like you don't know this movie, you do” I reply then roll my eyes.
He chuckles and moves closer to me. He kisses me slowly and I respond to the kiss. His hands are moving to my belly, then my b***s which fill his hands. He aggressively rubs my b***s and removes my t-shirt. His face moves to my neck, then he sucks my left b**b while he rubs the other . I'm breathing like a hairdryer now, but I still won't give it up. He unbuttons my jeans and I let him be, I'm wearing a tight underneath. He Chuckles when he sees
My tight and tries to remove it. I hold his hand and say the classic line every boy hates “ I'm not ready ” but I get the shock of my life, he tightens his hands and throw my tights across the room, I'm begging him to stop but it's falling on deaf ears. “Tinyiko please wait I have to tell you something ”,he looks at me with red eyes, I'm crying but it doesn't seem to bother him. “if you can't stop, please be gentle atleast ” I beg him. I may not want this, but I still don't want to feel pain, I fear pain. He pulls his sweatpants down and his p***s springs up, he really is Tsonga. I cry and mentally prepare myself for the unwanted invasion. “ I'm sorry ” he whispers then pushes in hard, more like slammed. I'm weeping and I'm saved by a knock on the door. It's a woman “Tinyiko what are you doing! Open up! ”. He stops and pulls his pants up. He opens the door a little and speaks XiTsonga with the woman, she's begging him to let me go. Meanwhile my eyes are still closed, I'm still laying on the bed like a dead chicken trying to come to terms with what just happened. I got r***d, by my boyfriend. I lost my virginity. He shakes me and I open my eyes. I stand up and notice the blood stains on the bed. I try to stand up but it hurts so much. He doesn't look at me in the eyes but gives me my clothes. It was all good when he was taking them off but now..........................
THE NEXT DAY
I wake up and text my friend, Bongi. I only tell her I lost my virginity but I don't tell her the details. I know what Tinyiko did is wrong, but I must stop being a cry baby and toughen up. I should have known better. He has sent me three texts apologizing for hurting me, and says he should have been gentle.I ask myself whether that's the only thing he did wrong, maybe I'm being over emotional but I told him to stop and he continued, who will listen to me anyways it's a norm in the hood, they'll say I'm just incriminating the poor boy. I'm not sure if our relationship will still continue though. My phone beeps, it's screenshots of a status he posted, it's him and his ex-girlfriend and a caption written " Get yourself a girl like mine" . That's it! It's over. I cover myself with a blanket and silently cry. Gogo has to forgive me, I'm not getting out of this bed today.
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