I left Gabz on Thursday afternoon going home.I was looking forward to seeing the kids oh.Coz i saw them last i gues around January end.So when i got to my house i packed up my luggage so fast i almost forgot the money for the bus fare.I hurriedly closed shutting the windows,pulled up the curtains in and switched off the television which is normally left on even in the mornings when i leave for the office.
It felt great getting home.My mum still waiting for the 9 o'clock news on t.v and the kids all sprawled on the mat snoring their night away.They usually doze off at around 7 coz they don't get to rest during the day.They are always out and only come back to check if there was anything to eat and after that they disappear again.
Normally you won't get basic things like meat and vegetables at a reasonable price in the village so usually i buy them in bulk and take home.So this time around i had bought like meat,veges and some other little stuff,including toys for the kids-two big trucks for the boys and a big doll for the girl,almost her size.
I had the best easter holis spent with kids.Rodgers Jnr never wanted to leave my side o.He's always like that.Others will be out playing but ene will just stay here next to me.my mum says i'm his girlfriend..lol..
It was very sad leaving them when i had to get back on Sunday.Yes i came back on Sunday coz i wanted to rest on Monday before i resumed work on Tuesday.I reached Gabz around 8pm and when i got to the house i looked for the key in the bag,but there was no key!..O.M.G!! I panicked.I took all the clothes out of the bag and started putting them back in one by one.Shaking them out everytime i put them in.There was no key.I didn't have enough credit on my phone to call my mum(what was she gonna do anyway,at that time?).So it's after 8 and maybe going in to 9pm.I walk to the nearest shops.All the phone shops are closed! Good Lord!
I paced up and down there for a while until i saw one guy talking on his phone.Did i have any choice? No! I was despearate o!,and it was freaking cold coz it rained the previous night.So i approach him and immediately asked if i could use his phone.
When i called my cousin-who leaves with his mum in the same yard with me,he told me that he was out of Tlokweng and he won't be coming home till the following day or if he did,it was gonna be in the wee hours of the morning.Damn! What was i gonna do?
I thanked the guy for his phone and left.Gues he's one of those one in million guys who won't ask for a return favour after helping out.So i'm there,pacing up and down again.I went and set by one shop there,waiting for what i didn't know.After a while i saw somebody who looked exactly like my cousin.He was looking for someone i gues coz he kept on peering into people's faces and all.So i watched him keengly until i got his face.It was my cousin!
And then,we were watching t.v at their house when i felt an urge to go check anything at my house.So when i approached i could see light coming from inside! What? i hurried to see where the light was coming from.Hey! people..my t.v was on oh! Who could've switched on my t.v?
I'm still waiting by the window.The landlady passes from the main house to her quarters.I ask her,
''How long has this t.v been on?''
''It has been like that since you left''
''What?..but i switched it off!''
''No! i haven't seen it off! Jane you don't usually switch off the lights in your house you know that? Even those lights were on! Du know how much electricity you are wasting by leaving everything on? And when i increase the bills you people start complaining!''
Ah-ah! This old woman! What the hell is she talking about? I only leave everything on wjen i'm around coz YES it's scarry living and sleeping alone.But on Thursday?...on Thursday i switched everything off! Who could have switched everything on?
Tlokweng is a village only separated from Gabz by a river.The village has got history that people there don't have a cemetory,like a graveyard.So they bury people in their houses.It's a rumour that i,myself proved true coz i once attended a funeral of a collegue's mother.She was buried inside the house.The grave is dug just as deep as those at the cemetories,the prosedure is the same.Flowers buried in with the dead and all.
So i started thinking if there's another 'person' leaving in the same house with me! Who's switching on my things when i switch them off.I even got thinking that the old woman knows.
But i'm not superstitous oo.And if they had buried somebody in that house at some point,i got nothing to do with it.It doesn't affect me.I'm not their relative oo! I donno them,they donno me.Period.
But again,somebody's playing tricks on me.And i don't like it oo.I don't like one bit!.And it wasn't the first time it happened oo.The first time it did,i said to myself, ''maybe i didn't switch it off after all''.But this time!,ah-ah! i'm sure i switched it off.I know i might have been in a hurry leaving for Serowe but i'm sure i saw myself pressing that red button on the remote control!
