I hear the car coming and the gate opening to the underground parking. I stay in the pool house because I don’t want to just sommer say hello, here I am, Oom, in your pool house. I must phone him and say I want to talk to him serious – can I come over to see you sort of thing. Maybe we can have a beer. I must get up early tomorrow to phone from the harbour before anyone shall find me. Now I see Oom Frank and them around a braai, the fire is burning in the braai place on the other side of the pool. Two or three of them is sitting in chairs. The maid is walking with a tray from the house. I can hear them laughing and speaking. They’s happy, no worries. Maybe they has had a drink. Oom Frank says loud okay let’s braai. Soon I can smell the fish cooking. I don’t like fish, only fish and chips. I like Snoekies by the harbour. They knows how to make it – the best. Fresh fresh fresh. Vars vars vars. I don’t know if Oom Frank will help me again. I juss don’t know. But all these important people has friends who can make things right. I mean he gave the Scientology outjies $50k, that’s a fuck of a lot of money. No skin off his nose.
It’s dark and the fire is nearly dead. The lady says okay I am going to bed I am tired, forgive me. What for? I don’t know. Oom Frank says I will be up soon, darling. This should be his new wife. And my wife and Wynand who can maybe be dead, how are they? I have dropped them right in the shit. I must get away where I can take Junie and Elmarie and Elfrieda. But maybe she doesn’t want to speak with me no more. If Wynand have not attacked me we can be in Durban with the Banana Boys right now eating ice cream and seeing the snakes, black mambas and so on, in the snake park. They has had shark nets for years there, no trouble. Now they are trying nets at Fish Hoek. I was a doos telling them at Cape FM to shoot sharks but it was because I was drunk. Everyone knows I was totally pissed – totally wrecked like they says in California. Maybe I can go back there one day.
I am falling asleep on a stripy lounger.
I need to take a piss. I look out of the window. Now they is all in bed or in the sitkamer. I go round the back of the pool house and take a piss. I see the light is still on in the sitting room. I can see someone standing up and another person gets up. A boy and a girl, it looks like, goes out through by the gate. I lie down on the stripy mattress again. I must get up early in the morning.