“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
someone who spoke Pedi to help
me to convince her to come in. “Do
you speak Pedi? Do you speak Pedi?
Do you speak Pedi?” Nobody spoke
Pedi.
So I never got to go to my
matric dance. Other than the three
minutes I spent running through it
looking for someone who spoke
Pedi, I spent the whole night in the
parking lot. When the dance ended,
I climbed back into the shitty red