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The gods are quiet
It’s Thursday and my day to rest without a man next to me. But I must say I like the competition between these two, each one wants to do more than the other, the gifts I have been getting are amazing and expensive too. My phone rings and I picked it up from the coffee table then checked who the caller was. It’s that damn Lesego aah! he drives me crazy acting like Thabiso’s savior, why can’t he just get a life?
“Thabiso is not here” that’s what I said when I answered the phone. “What the hell did you do to him?” he yells at me. “Hey! Hey! Hey! Just because he is not here doesn’t mean I did something to him.” I replied pissed that he even dared to raise his voice at me. “I know he is not there but I want
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