Short Story: What's Wrong, Boy?

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What 's wrong, boy?

We 'll clean up all the blood and take it back to where we found it.

I was with Ayanda.

We did the deed.

- So you were right that you guys are fine.
- He 's back to being the Ayanda I know.

We cleaned it up.
They won 't find any fingerprints.

I hope and pray that woman you found dead, stays dead and nameless.

We asked her who molested her.

- She mentioned Pastor Nkosi.
- Oh, Holy Spirit!

There 's a time to speak and a time to be silent.

And this is a time to be silent.

But if you force my hand, you will get hurt.

Mashimanes, Maphumulos...

I want to thank you for all your blessings.

And for looking after Smangele and me all these years.

Dad, I just wanted to tell you that...

I 'm still going to
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- Zinhle.

She passed away.

What happened?
I thought she was recovering.

She committed suicide.
She slit her wrists.

Wow! I...

I 'm sorry.

Um, let me go make you some juice.

"Kidnapped high school girl reunites with family."

No. That lady wasn 't a high schoolgirl.
She was older than that. Maybe 28 or 29.

Bra, I 've been listening to the radio.
They haven 't reported on the body or the car yet.

Bra, this is really bothering me. Who was she?

I don 't know. If her family knew, they 'd have reported it already. The police would know.

- They 'd be looking for her.
- Yeah, but what if she didn 't have a family.

Maybe it was a lovers ' tiff.
Maybe her boyfriend beat her to death.

There you go again with your theories.

Listen, bra. These things happen.
Maybe her husband hit her by mistake and she died.

And then dumped her body and the car.

Listen, bra. We cleaned the car and got rid of it.

We 're okay.

But there 's still one problem.

We still need to steal a car for that client.

Wasn 't it the client who set us up, Mxo?

I 've thought about that. But that guy is straight.

We were just unlucky.

- How much time do we have left?
- We have none.

You know...

- Ayanda, we have to
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The police are still investigating.

But I thought she was okay when we left her yesterday.

Me too.

She has no family.

Oh, my goodness!

The body was found by children who were playing.

The deceased hasn 't been identified yet.

The police have urged anyone who might know something to come forward.

Here comes Warrant Officer Dhlomo.
Let 's go talk to him.

Warrant Officer Dhlomo, who is the deceased?

Wait a minute.
I 've just arrived.

- Dinangwe...
- What do you have?

- Have you found any identification?
- We haven 't found anything yet.

But I want to show you something.

We found the woman 's body in the boot of this car.

- And there 's no ID or anything?
- I 've looked everywhere, but there 's nothing.

We must call the office so they can check on our missing persons ' list.

Sir, from what I see here, she 's been dead for more than 36 hours.

Forensics will run tests and have the results back by tomorrow.

The most important thing is finding out how long she and the car...

have been in this veld.

This place isn 't so isolated that no one couldn 't have seen something.

You 're right, sir.

Check the registration plate so we can identify the owner of the car.

Okay,

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