Ice cream

The tour date finally came. Thandi and her school mates were so excited to be going on a tour to Johannesburg as most of them had never been there before. The journey took six hours by a bus but they were not showing any signs of exhaustion. Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa with lot of attraction sites. It was also know as the City of gold as most gold mines were there. Many people left their homes and provinces to look for a job there. It also had many universities and technical colleges most of them had applied to and hoping to get accepted to studying in next year. When their bus drive into the city, they screamed with excitement peeping on the windows. They had never seen a city this big before. It had the highest skyscrapers they had never seen. It was buzzing with cars, buses and trucks everywhere. People were walking in all directions. The bus drove thru town, passed a lot of traffic and finally got to the bed and breakfast they would be staying in. Commonly known as BnB’s these were safe and affordable accommodation facilities that offered comfortable rooms and breakfast to its customers. The teachers were given single rooms and pupils were allocated double rooms and had to share with each other. The teachers told them that their first site seeing was booked for the following day in the afternoon. Pupils were free to go around as long as they reported to a teacher but were advised to rest as they had just had a long journey. Thandi was sharing a room with Mandy and as soon as they got into their room they called S’bu together to see if he can show them around as they did not feel like resting. He suggested that they request from their teachers if they could stay overnight with him and come back the following day before their site seeing. The teachers had no problems with the two of them going with S’bu as he was Mandy’s brother but he needed to come and give them his contact details and address in case anything changes with the site seeing plans.

Thandi was still busy unpacking her stuff when S’bu got to the BnB and was met by Mandy, Cindy and Pretty who took him to meet their teachers. S’bu looked exceptionally handsome today and soon won most teachers win his charms. Because teachers love education they were all exceptional impressed with him when they found out that he was doing his bachelor of commerce. One teacher even took him around to encourage the pupils to further their studies next year. When Thandi came out S’bu was surrounded by her school mates who were asking questions about university. They wanted to know about courses, facilities and funding opportunities. She watched him explaining patiently to each one of them. It took an hour for him to attend to all their questions and promised to bring them some application forms when he comes back. When S’bu was done he walked to Thandi hugged her and whispered something in her ear that made her blush. Mandy warned that if they continue flirting and teachers see them, they will not be allowed to leave. They let go of each other fast and walked to S’bu’s car and were amazed to find Cindy and Pretty waiting with their bags there.

“Good morning ladies” S’bu greeted them.

“Hello S’bu, how can you take our friends and leave us behind?” Pretty asked charmingly looking at S’bu in his eyes.

“I was no aware that you are all still friends” S’bu said coldly. A while back Thandi had told him that these two were not talking to her because of him. He had spent a lot of time planning this weekend and wanted it to be special for Thandi and didn’t want to ruin it by bringing along people who might spoil it.

“Of course we are, right Mandy?” Cindy replied looking at Mandy for approval.

“Of course you can come along” Mandy was just glad that she won’t be alone with the two lovebirds. She was too preoccupied by Bonga during the time her three friends had a disagreement and had even forgotten about it.

S’bu watched them get into the car, he could not say anything unless Thandi objected. Pretty literally ran into the front passenger seat. Thandi who had her head down the whole time got in the back and sat in the middle with Mandy and Cindy on her sides. The two had not talked to her since they had a fall out but she felt that it was not her place to object to them coming along. On the way Pretty was talking and asking S’bu many silly questions until he could not take it anymore and decided to play music loud in the car. Everyone in the car could see that Pretty was shamelessly flirting with him. Thandi felt sorry for S’bu but was also amused by the whole scenario. Sitting in the middle at the back, she had full view of the rearview mirror and was laughing watching S’bu making all sorts of faces. Hearing her laugh S’bu looked directly to the mirror, their eyes met and Thandi blushed.

“Your list of things to make up for is getting really long” S’bu warned looking at her. Thandi could have stopped Pretty from coming along but she didn’t and now she was laughing at him while he was being irritated by Pretty.

S’bu saw an ice cream shop, knowing that Thandi and Mandy loved ice cream he stopped and asked them to come out to buy some. Girls all chose their flavours and S’bu paid for them.

“Aren’t you getting any?” Thandi asked him noticing that he did not buy one for himself.

“I’m going to eat yours with you, I want to lick where you’ve licked” he answered her mischievously.

“Shameless!” Thandi exclaimed. She could not believe that he said that with people around.

The cashier at the shop heard him and laughed, so did Mandy, Cindy and Pretty. When they got to the car Cindy and Mandy pulled Pretty back forcing her to sit at the back with them leaving the front seat for Thandi. From the time they left the BnB with S’bu, Cindy had realised how ridiculous they had been to be angry with Thandi as if that would make S’bu like them. She had planned on apologise to Thandi and persuade Pretty to do the same. In the car S’bu and Thandi shared the ice cream. Thandi could not help noticing that he was licking at the exact spot she licked like he promised he would. Noticing that Thandi was blushing, he decided to tease her more.

“I know it’s not a proper kiss, I promise to make that up to you when we get to my flat” he said with a mischievous smile.

Thandi could not believe S’bu could be this shameless even when her friends were around. S’bu laughed knowing that Thandi was not used to showing affection in public. Even though he found it cute when she blushed, he was flirting with her for a different reason this time. It was a statement for both Cindy and Pretty, he was making it clear to them that they had no chance at all with him. S’bu’s plan worked on Cindy who made up her mind to forget about him but achieved the exact opposite on Pretty who vowed to work hard at getting S’bu so he can flirt like that with her. It only took them 30 minutes to get to S’bu’s flat but it felt like a lifetime to Thandi.