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{Pastel’s house hold}
Armor is having breakfast with his fiancé and their families. His phone rings and it was Mr Big the man he delivers cars for he wonders what he wants, he excused himself from the table and go to answer his call privately, he gets in to his study.
“Biggie.”
“Don’t Biggie me. Where are my cars, Armour? I’ve been waiting for them since last night,” Mr Big roars on the other end.
He is taken aback by his statement because he summoned his men to go, and deliver the cars, it didn’t make sense to him as to why he did not receive his cars.
Armor: “What are you talking about?”
Mr big: “Don’t act surprised. My cars are not delivered and I was supposed to auction them tonight at the auction!”
Armor: “I don’t understand, my guys said everything went all and your cars got delivered.”
Mr Big: “I’m slowly but surely getting pissed, I want my cars Armour, and I want them tonight before the auction starts.”
Armor: “I’ll do a follow up and find out what’s wrong then I get back to you.”
Mr Big: “I just want my cars tonight Armor or else your family will have to burn inside that house. You have 5 hours. 5 hours Armour.” He swallows at absolutely nothing, and hangs up because he knows that Mr big lives up to his threats. His stress levels escalate, he is feeling the heat. Just then his phone ring it’s Zano one of his guys he wanted an explanation from him as to why didn’t Mr Big get his cars as promised, he paid a lot of money for them. And hopefully Zano will give him the answers to his questions.
“What’s going on Zano?” Is the first question he asks immediately as he answers his phone.
Zano: “The cars have been stolen and all the guards are dead we have no leads or any witnesses.” Armor shoots open his eyes, his veins are popping he feels like his brain is going to blast. He kicks the chair in his study and it flies hitting the door.
Him: “How? How did that happen? Who else knew about this?” Armor asks loosening his tie right now he feels like the tie is strangling him. He is stressed not knowing what to do. If the cars are stolen then this means Mr big won’t get his cars tonight, and he will definitely kill his family, he had to come with a plan a solid plan that is. But what?
Zano: “I think someone from the inside sold us out. These people had it all planned out and they knew how many guards were going to be there,” Armor scoffs.
Armor: “The culprit must be found! Question each and everyone of them, make them talk. Mr big wants his cars tonight if they’re not delivered within 3 hours then we are as good as dead!”
Zano: “I will get right on it right away, Sir.” Armor hangs up his phone and takes off his shirt he is feeling hot all of a sudden.. His wife Xena steps inside the library, and she finds her husband pacing up & down looking stressed, sweat dripping from his forehead.
“What’s wrong love?” she asks looking at Armor with so much concern in her eyes.
Armor: “Everything!” he yells. “The… The cars have been stolen. Mr big never got them, they are nowhere to be found and no one knows who took them”
Xena: “What?! Who would do such a thing? Do these people know what they’ve done? Big will be coming for this family with all that he has,” she says this sitting down.
Armor: “He will. He told me that our parents will burn inside the house, he knows that they are here,” huffs.
Xena: “What? We have to make a plan. Big can’t do such! Who does he think he is anyway threatening our family like this? You are also to be blamed truly speaking”
Armor: “What did I do now?”
Xena: “You’ve become too soft. No one fears you anymore. If you were still the old you, none of this would’ve happened Armor. They took advantage of your weakness.”
Armor: “What difference will it make? The cars are gone, and my life has ended! I’m doomed. Do you hear that? Doomed!”
Xena: “Big won’t do anything to us I’ll make sure of it.”
Armor: “Do you have a solid plan? A plan that will make him disappear for the rest of his life?”
Xena: “Let me go and make a quick call I’ll be right back,” she gets up from the extra chair that she was sitting on patting Armor on his shoulder and walks out of his study, going to their bedroom to make a call.
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“I need you to take out someone for me tonight,” Xena tells her trusted man.
“Details”
“Mr Big CEO of Charles & Charlene construction company. I want him dead before the auction starts.”
“Everything noted.”
The person hangs up. Xena puts her phone on her chest and take a deep breath, she knows that Sly won’t disappoint her, she hates seeing her fiancé miserable, and not being able to do anything. She is and will forever be besides his fiancé despite the Infidelities they are both having. Everyone is messed up here!
2 HOURS LATER
{WAREHOUSE}
Mr big is sitting in a white couch fit for a king naked, he has girls fanning air for him using some tropical leaves that he keeps frozen in his Fridge, while the other girl is giving him a blow job. He has a glass of whiskey in his right hand, and a cigar in his left. He is not enjoying what the girl is doing plus Armour is double crossing him, he puts his glass down, and takes his gun that is next to him and shoot the girl on her head and blood splatters across the walls. The other girls scream in fear, it’s their first time seeing Mr big killing a female in cold blooded in front of them, most of the time he hire his guys to kill the girls for him.
“Clean up this mess and go throw her body at the river,” he commands his men. The guards hurry to the girl, and they drag her body out. The other girls are silently crying. “I hate being disappointed. She should’ve do me good, but no she decides to do it wrong. I hate amateurs!”
“That gave you no right to kill her. You should’ve told her that you wanted it like ‘this’ Charles. This is my 3rd one of my girls you’ve killed, I always let you go, but this time around I won’t. You’ve crossed the line Big.” Adele tell him. Mr big laughs and his goons join him in laughing.
Big: “What are you going to do Adele? You know very well that you can’t touch me just one snap and your daughter is dead,” Adele chuckles lightly while shaking her head.
Adele: “You think you are untouchable neh? You are a mafia Mr can’t get Mr can’t tholakala. Tell you what Big, go ahead, ‘snap’ your finger, and your mother will be joining my daughter.”
Big: “What are you talking about?” Adele nods to one of the guys to play the video and its Mr big’s mother tied in a chair with her mouth sealed with a duct tape. Her eyes are blood shot red you can tell that she was crying, and fear is written in her big eyes.
Big: “You bitch!” He stands up and walks to Adele. His aim is to strangle her, but Adele’s men stops him with their guns from getting close to Adele. “What the fuck Adele! That’s my mother you holding hostage,” Adele laughs.
Adele: “Just like you’ve planted a chirp in my daughter’s hair? Tracing every move she makes! How sick can you get?”
Mr Big: “I will ask my guys to remove the chirp on your daughter’s hair, and drop the tracing of her whereabouts just let my mother go.”
Adele: “Actually, the is something I want from you.”
Big: “What is it?”
Adele: “Kill Mr Sol for me. I want that club.” Mr Big swallows there is no way he is going to kill his brother.
Big: “Unfortunately I can’t kill my brother you will have to hire a hitman or kill him yourself,” Adele fumes, and looks at Mr Big with her head slightly tilted. She does that a lot when she’s angry, and her right hand will start shaking, once it shakes it means she must shoot. She takes her gun that is tugged in her waist holster, and points it at Mr big.
She cocks it and as she is about to pull the trigger the fire alarm ring warning them of danger, everyone panics and by the time they realize that it was actually fire the warehouse is already filled with smoke. They all bend down coughing and some running to the door, Mr big is crawling covering his mouth with a gun, he manages to get out of the door, but someone shoots him on his thigh, he screams in agony. They shoot his other thigh
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TSAKANI
My phone rings waking me up from my sleep I tried ignoring it, but the person keeps on calling me, people just don’t like it when I take a nap considering the fact that I haven’t been sleeping for the past few days. I take it out from my pocket and look at the screen its Thato, I wonder why is he calling me at this time.
“Sure boi,” I answer him sitting on my butt.
“Ntwana your sister has been admitted at the hospital,” Thato tells me then hangs up. Thato is a surgeon at Medi- hospital, and sometimes he does his rounds in other hospitals. Shit. I quickly leapt out of bed, and go rinse my face and walk out of my room grabbing my T-shirt in the laundry basket, I pass by the lounge, and my mother has passed out on the couch. I can’t tell her yet until I know what’s wrong with Kedibone. Kedibone is the last born and an only girl in a house full of boys there’s five of us with me being a 4th born. I get to the hospital, Steven Texted me the name of the hospital earlier on, and I walk to the reception area. The receptionist is chewing some bubblegum and painting her nails, women. This is why I despite public hospitals the workers are incompetent. I greet and she greets back with an attitude not even looking at me.
“I’m looking for someone who is said to be admitted here an hour or so ago,” you can tell that she is annoyed judging by the way she suddenly chews the bubblegum, she lifts her face to look at me, and her jaw drops, I’m handsome I know I also drool over myself sometimes. “Excuse me miss”, she is still looking at me she can’t move her eyes of me, if it was up to her she would swallow me right here right now. I see a doctor, and I quickly rush to him leaving the girl to daydream about me I’m sure she has never saw someone as handsome as me before, argh I’m kidding. I call out to him, and he stops in his tracks fixing his glasses.
“Good morning sir I’m looking for Kedibone Mabija who was admitted an hour or so ago.”
“The girl that inhaled too much smoke and her hand got burnt along the process?”
Me: “What? Where was she when she got burnt? Anyway, maybe it’s not her. Can you please take me to this girl?”
Him: “Let’s go,” we walk for few seconds, and we step into this other room he leads me to her bed, and it is my sister.
Me: “Who brought her in, and how is her condition?”
Him: “I don’t know who brought her in. And she is stable for now, but she still needs to breath with the oxygen since her lungs are now weak due to too much smoke in her system.”
Me: “Her hand?”
Him: “It has been treated. Her burns are not that bad it’s just minor ones,” I nod. “I’m leaving now take all the time you need with her,” he tells me walking out.
I still don’t understand how Kedibone got burnt when she went to visit my brother on the other side of the town, why didn’t my brother call me instead of Thato calling me? This doesn’t make any sense I will have to call Bongani maybe he will explain to me on what went wrong. I settle next to her bed and she is sleeping peacefully, looking at her with all these machines attached to her makes my heart ache. Her hand is bandaged I look at her and take a deep breath. How did you end up here Kedibone? My phone rings and it’s my mother. I take a deep breath and answer her.
“Mama”
“Where are you because your brother Bongani is here looking for you?” what is he doing at home so late, or maybe his worried about Kedibone because she did not go back to his house. But let me test the waters I want to see something.
Me: “Looking for me? Is he with Kedibone there?”
Her: “Why would he be with Kedibone? Kedibone is at her friend’s house she will be spending the night there,” so she lied to me? What really happened? Where was she? She will answer all these questions that I have as soon as she wakes up. What if she died?
Me: “I’ll be home now.”
Mom: “Okay. I’m sure by the time you get home I’ll be already in bed,” She hangs up. I rub my face with my hands. Kedibone what happened because if it’s your boyfriend then you will have to kiss him goodbye. No one messes with my sister and gets away with it.
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VUYO
My younger brother Mpho asked me to come over to his house he wants us to discuss something important. I take a quick bath and wear my sweat pants with a simple T-shirt, I take my car keys and walk to the kitchen on my way out I bump into Cindy. Our marriage is no longer the same we have drifted apart coming to think of it she is the reason for this none existence marriage of ours.
“Where are you going?” she asks.
“I’m going out,” I check the time and its 19:00. “don’t wait up for me,” I tell her this with my hand already on the door handle. I walk out before she could even say any word. Her face disgust me right now, and I don’t know why.
I get to my brother’s house and I enter without knocking I call out his name.
“By the pool,” he answers. I make my way to where he is, and I find him sitting flat on the floor his eyes are red, it seems like he has been crying. I sit down and I notice a half empty bottle of whiskey next to him.
“What’s up man? You don’t look okay.”
“I lost her,” he sniffs. “I lost my girl.”
Me: “Maya is gone?”
Him: “Yeah man. That bastard took her away from me.”
Me: “Who is that?”
Him: “Big man.”
Me: “Big? As in Big our Father’s best friend?” He nods…. Wawu!
Me: “I don’t understand. Why did he kill her? Do you owe him something?”
Him: “I don’t owe him anything bruh,” chuckling. “He was fucking with my girl Vuyo! He was sleeping with Maya old as he is!”
Me: “What? Why would he sleep with your girl?”
Him: “I don’t know man I don’t know.”
Me: “How did you find out?” He hands me his phone and since he was watching the video I press play and the first thing I see is Maya giving Mr Big a head. It looks as if like a commotion was taking place the video did not have any volume of which is weird. I see Big taking his gun shooting Maya on the forehead, I widen my eyes and pause it. “What the fuck man? We need to take him out,” he laughs.
Him: “You can’t even hold a gun Vuyo”
Me: “I will learn, but Big will have to pay and he must pay in a hard way.”
Him: “He must and I want to watch him die a slow painful death,” I take the bottle and drink straight from it… How can Big be so cruel and sleep with his best friend son’s girl? He is one sick bastard. But then, why did Maya agree to sleeping with him naye he is to be blamed.
Me: “Did you tell pops?”
Him: “No. I don’t want to stress him, he is already stressed as it is,” he sighs. This is bad.
Me: “Cousin TK?”
Him: “No. That one will massacre his family & friends even new born babies. He is ruthless, so no, I will not tell him I can’t be having too much blood on my hands, yes I will not kill them directly, but TK will spill blood because of me,” I nod. TK doesn’t have a heart, he is not a human being. He enjoys seeing blood, and sleep well after as if he did not kill someone in cold blood. Everyone in the family, and the hood is scared of him we are never comfortable with him around, and we must always watch what we say.