Born a Crime

had to go in and convince her to come out, and eventually she did. She was even more gorgeous than before, in an amazing red dre ...

where I was. I drove around for an hour in the dark, going left, going right, doubling back. I was on my cellphone the whole tim ...

her door. When I opened it, she just sat there. “Are you ready?” I said. “Let’s go in.” “No.” “No? What...what do you mean, ‘no’ ...

saying “no.” She wouldn’t get out of the car. Finally, I said, “Okay, I’ll be right back.” I ran inside and found Bongani. “Wher ...

he lost it. “Jesus in Heaven! This is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. You said she was beautiful, Trevor, but this is i ...

They were calling back to more people inside. “This is insane! Look at Trevor’s date! No, no, no, you gotta come and see!” I was ...

Babiki sat in the passenger seat, staring straight ahead, refusing to budge. I was outside the car, pacing, stressed out. A frie ...

convince Babiki to come in. After a minute his head popped up over the car with this confused look. “Yo, Trevor,” he said, “your ...

“I...I don’t know.” “Have you never spoken to her?” “Of course I have—or, wait...have I?” I started flashing back through all th ...

himself the whole time. He’s Tyler Durden. In all the excitement of meeting Babiki, the times we were hanging out and getting to ...

He’d learned several South African languages in order to deal with his customers, so he’d spoken with her fluently when they met ...

her beauty and just the idea of her— I didn’t know I was supposed to talk to her. The naked women on my computer, I’d never had ...

going right by me in Pedi or in Sotho, but that’s completely normal in South Africa so it never bothered me; I got enough of the ...

I remember it as English. So whenever I lay in bed at night dreaming about Babiki and the moments we’d spent together, I felt li ...

rushing back and I saw it from her point of view, and it was perfectly obvious to me why she didn’t want to get out of the car. ...

nowhere with some strange guy, no idea where I was taking her. She was probably terrified. Then we got to the dance and she didn ...

“Inside. Dance. Please?” “No.” I asked Bongani if he spoke Pedi. He didn’t. I ran inside to the dance and ran around looking for ...

Mazda and drove Babiki home. We sat in total awkward silence the whole way. I pulled up in front of her block of flats in Hillbr ...

have no idea how girls work. I got out of the car, walked around to her side, and opened her door. She gathered up her dress and ...

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