The next day was to prove another drama in my life, I made
up with Dinny and we continued with our friendship after Modise advised me to,
saying we couldn’t throw away our friendship because of something so
insignificant and I agreed with him. As I was preparing to go to the market I
asked her to accompany me there but she said she couldn’t for she have promised
her mother that she was going to help her with thatching her hut.
That puzzled
me for I knew how she loved going to the market, I mean she would lie or do
anything just to go with me there but anyway we parted ways agreeing on seeing
each other in the afternoons. At noon I returned from the market on high
spirit, thinking of what I was going to cook for Modise, pap and vegetables
since they were his favorite dishes. As I got near our hut I heard some noise
from within and I slowly approached the hut in order to earshot on what was
being said inside.
To my astonishment I heard Dinny’s voice saying, “But you
love me more than her, don’t you, love?”
“Yes I do.” That voice! I knew the voice! That was Modise’s
voice!
Without thinking I cried, “what!?” and as a response to my
outburst came out naked Dinny wrapped with a cloth around her body and devilish
smile on her face and said, “Well thought you were his only woman, huh? Guess
what, dear! You were wrong and stupid to think so!”
I tried to get inside but
with push me away from the door. “You see, Belanca I am sick and tired of being
under your shadow, Of you always going like, Modise this, Modise that. I have
been planning to show revenge on you and this bed couldn’t have come at the
right time. Now I get to sleep on ‘your bed’ first with your man! How nice!”
“By the way do you know what made that beautiful branch to
hit your curves? Oh no, you don’t! Because Belanca my darling you are so
trusting, so innocent that no man can resist you. You took my man away and now
it is your turn to pay.”
“Your man!? Whom are you talking about?”
“You even think low of me! You have even forgotten that
there are men who are interested in me even if their number is not as countless
as yours. You took my Tshepiso away from me!”
“Tshepiso? What are you talking about? Dinny you are like a
sister to me and I’ll take your man away from you or let alone do anything to
hurt you.”
"No. because he was loving someone else and that someone
else was none but the lovely queen of our village. I tried everything that I
could but I never saw the day he turned and look at me the way he was looking
at you when he thought no one was looking. Yes I tried everything but I guess I
could never beat you to the angelic life you were living.
"No man in this village cant resist Angel Belanca, and me
as the friend I just had to live under her shadow but now it will never be like
that, oh no, for I have charmed my way to your bed and not only your bed even
you man.”
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Setswana English Translation
Borôkô Good night
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