tough, you are the student body president," I say the last bi

he first female student body president my school has had in the last thirty years,

n our matrimonial bedroom, an invisible cloak settles on my shoulder. Eve

parched lips, I have a bad habit of biting them when I'm nervous. My reflection flashes me a fake smile with her hands going

ount of cleavage and her hair is swept up in a half-up, half-down hairstyle. The h

up in my most provocative gown for Brandon neither did I style my hair this way fo

put on any lipstick yet because I don't know his favourite colour, that's if he has one.

y thoughts and I happily leave the mirror. Standing there didn't do as much good for me as it usually did. Spea

o call. Thankfully, my feet cushion the fall and I pick it up to see the screen is free from any c

t and I hope I can keep it that way. I have only one more semeste

on as my finger hits the receiver button. "Ouuuu, I like me some hot, s

a is the only one who makes the word black sounds like a title, she ha

e," I

, "I can see right through you and I know yo

ary

a lie, ain't you?" Her eyes fill my screen and her voice redu

I reply and la

s allowed to call me that and many other names. I do the same too.

she plays with a lock of her jet black, straight hair. "C

ke I told her. We have always talked about how we wanted our weddings to be, the roles she wil

e the silent treatment for a whole day when she finds out I lied to he

my screen, I bite my lips

are calling,

alling out of their sockets. They will most definitely talk about m

issa was absent for the wedding, I had sprung up a lie. All I had done during that period wa

u don't want me to speak to them, it's fine

." I tra

rything when you get back?" I nod, I will give her ever

times I think I don't deserve her. She gives so much of herself into our friendship and the best I

guilt and a scream from her has me buttoning up my gown. She's big o

s, greet her

d I laugh, she always acts like a newly married at the

use my old Samsung thought it a good idea to stop working and also because of my pare

nce our early morning fiasco and I have not l

like our

t was her idea to get him something in retu

ns. "It's either he likes it

I have not given him. We were too tired l

he stool she's sitting on. She took the ba

nexistent sexual life with Ma

aks. "I thin

outh African slang which loosely translates to homegir

you then. Nd

Ma," I reply an

on. I walk back to the bed and plop on it with the silver necklace i

it and if I join the two together, they will form a full heart. I am not

illed with only uncertainties. I shove the necklace under the pillo

d asks with his eyes dartin

sit up, going on to add

I misse