It was a great deal and Tebogo hoped Sindi would think so. Knowing his mother, she wouldn't handle the pressures and demands of raising a child in her age. Tebogo gave her a year before she would be content to being a holiday grandmother. Sindi wouldn't lose her child; she'll just be gaining a rich family who would take care of her son's needs. That was how Tebogo saw it and he hoped to make Sindi see it that way soon. He didn't want to be in Jo'burg longer than necessary. He had a business to run and a life to live in New York. With the second beer in hand he went back to the window. The phone in his room rang; he looked at it but made no move to answer it. He didn't need psychic powers to guess who it was.
He focused on the scenery and drank his beer. The phone persisted - it was one of this mother's many annoying habits… To persist.
Soon he couldn't stand the sound, he snatched the receiver and said hallo angrily.
"What took you so long? I almost hanged up." His mother complained. Tebogo wished he could tell her that was what he had hoped for, for her to hang up as he wasn't in the mood to talk to her.
Instead he said, "I was in the bathroom."
"Well?" She demanded. 'When you coming back with my grandson?"
Rose Motsepe had a high pitched voice that could break a glass. At this moment in threatened to destroy Tebogo's ear drum.
"I'm not sure yet." He said wishing he had let the phone ring indefinitely.
"What do you mean you are not sure?' She shrieked. 'You have been there for over a week! Why is it taking you so long?"
Tebogo closed his eyes and cursed silently. His mother had what it took to turn him into a sinner. Already he wished ill towards her. Never in his life has he met an insufferable woman like her. How his father had put up with her, Tebogo didn't know.
"It's complicated mother. Sindi wants nothing to do with our family."
"I don't care what that woman wants. I want my grandson!"
"She is your grandson's mother and unless she gives permission for us to see him, there is nothing I can do." Tebogo told her.
"Nonsense!" Rose shouted. "That woman doesn't deserve to be mother. Look at what she did to your poor brother."
"What she did?" Tebogo didn't believe what he was hearing.