Thread by @ikentanzi_

I’m not sure what’s going on but there’s white foam coming out of the driver’s mouth.Panic shoots through my veins & I find myself banging on his window louder.He’s not waking up.Lord what should I do?!
I can’t think.
I can’t think.
This night is slowly turning into a nightmare!

I must’ve been screaming for him to wake up because a crowd was gathering around the car,like vultures to torpid flesh.
“What’s going on?”A tall black guy with a body resembling that of Hulk asks me.
Must be one of the bouncers from one of the clubs here. I show him the driver.

He immediately calls for an ambulance. *My word Ike! You’re a health professional for heavens sake!Why didn’t I think of this?*

Everyone coming out of the clubs on either sides of the road, visits the scene & I’m the supporting actor.

After what was most certainly a decade,we heard sirens approaching,then we started to see rays of red & blue lights,almost similar to the one’s that add to the madness of alcohol in clubs, coming our way. It’s the ambulance. I’m still standing right next the white Toyota Corolla

People make way for it to penetrate into the scene & three white men step out of the ambulance. In a matter of seconds,the backseat window is broken & the car alarm reaks havoc.

The drivers door is opened & the lifeless body of our supposed driver is taken into the ambulance.

His car is towed away & the scene empties as if nothing happened.

Oh shucks! Joyce and Thembi!😭

I got caught up in saving the man that should’ve been our driver,that I forgot to check up on my friends. I make my way to where I had left them & I cannot not believe my eyes!

Osas is standing with them.Joyce is standing upright & is giggling to whatever joke that Osas is telling. It’s seems that she’s okay now.

“Osas, hey.Ugh, I’m sorry I took forever guys. That car that’s just been towed away was supposed to be our ride home. Drama,I tell you”

Osas looks confused AF.
“Hi... uhm, do I know you?” He says to me.
“He’s probably seen you on Instagram or something.Ike is kinda big on social media” Joyce answers on my behalf, and she’s even twanging.This bitch!

“No, I saw you at Great Dane, you bought me a drink,remember?”

“Aah my guy, you must’ve confused me for someone else.” His tone suggests that I’m being a weirdo right now.

I accepted defeat & convinced myself that i was having a deja vu moment.

“We were waiting for you to come back, we’re going to Sandton right now, wanna come with us?”

*Bathong Joyce! Weren’t you throwing up & dying a few minutes ago? Now you wanna go to Sandton with My Osas? &isn’t Osas gay or something? I mean, I might be wrong but I think he was hitting on me at Great Dane. Oh,yeah,that’s right... he wasn’t at Great Dane. Its all in my head*

“Nah, I’m calling it a night, I’m really tired hey.”
I’m honestly such a great actor sometimes,nothing about my tone suggested that I was low key heartbroken that this sexy beast rejected me infront of my friend’s.He said he doesn’t know me, & has never met me before. Amadoda💔

“Okay, uber quickly then. We’ll wait with you.” Thembi says. Atleast this one still remembers that I’m her friend.
I take out my phone to request a ride home.
*Shit, my battery is dead.*

“Here, use my phone.” Osas offers. I must’ve thought that out loud.
My word! His voice!

I take the phone from his hand. He has Drake’s 6 God album cover as his wallpaper. I look at him & I catch him staring at me. Our eyes lock, I feel my feet vibrating. He winks at me & continues charming Joyce, the gone girl. I proceed to his uber app & requested my ride.

My driver is across the street. I bid farewell to my friends & instructed them to send me their location of where they’re going. You can never be too careful in these streets.

My heart was still kind sore, I liked Osas. I took my ride home & passed out the minute I got to bed.

In the morning i’m woken up by a call from Joyce,she’s inviting me to a brunch at a restaurant in Maboneng. Without any hesitation,I say yes.I’ve forgiven her for stealing my potential soul mate.
I got out of bed,freshened up & hurried to Patapata,where we were to have our brunch

Bathong, Joyce didn’t tell me that Osas would be here. Thembi is no where to be seen. I walk to their table & greet.

Osas is still eye-flirting with me... or maybe it was all in my head? I don’t know anymore.
Joyce snaps her fingers & the waiter comes running to our table.

“Order whatever you like” Joyce said. I took the menu from the waiter’s hands & asked him to give me atleast 5mins so I could decide on what I wanted to eat. Joyce is telling me about what they got up to,the night before.Actually,I’m not interested.Osas is making me uncomfortable

I asked Joyce where Thembi was & she told me that Thembi left with one of Osas’s friends the night before. Apparently Thembi was head over heels for that guy, such that She went home with him.

As Joyce was telling me all this, I couldn’t believe a word of what she was saying..

It honestly doesn’t sound like we’re talking about the same Thembi here... but what do I know? Thembi & Joyce may not be the 15 year old friends I left a few years ago, when my family moved to KZN. They could be totally difrent people now.

My Chicken & Mushroom pasta arrives just when Osas went out to take a call that seemed really important from how upright he got up from the table.

I’m just gonna mind my business & chow my pasta then leave.Ugh, this pasta is delish!! You can never go wrong with a bowl of pasta.

My tastebuds took me to a universe that refused me access to whatever that Joyce was blabbering about. After a while, I notice that it was finally quiet.

The good sis is looking at me as if I’ve committed a heinous crime.

“What?! You gonna make me choke!” I exclaimed to her.

“...well aren’t you going to ask me how it was?” She says.

Whatever it is that she’s about to tell me is obviously the reason why she’s been smiling & giggling like a cheshire cat.
“Well, how was it?” I don’t even know what we’re talking about. I just wanna eat my pasta bathong

“It was this big...” she extends her hands as though she were measuring something. This is when it hit me. She’s talking about Osas’s penis size.
“Really?!” I’m really trying to look surprised.
“Yes! Chomie, it’s still painful even now”
“You don’t look like you’re in pain though”

“Yes, that’s because he sent me a big fat check for it. He said it’s his way to me feel better...”

“..So he paid you?”

“20 sgodo babes”

“20 thousand?”

“Uyadlala wena, and he said he wants us to date me . Like... properly date me chomie” she’s ecstatic!

I smile & pretended to be happy for her. I really didn’t wanna burst her bubble & ask about how she was going to manage having sex with Osas,since he was apparently too big for her.

At the back of my mind, I’m still worried about Thembi. I texted her. Only 1 tick is went through

Osas finally came back to the table& you could tell his mood had changed.
“Can you please ask your friend,to ask Thembi to answer her phone.I tried calling her,she won’t pick up”
I don’t care how moody he is,my friend is a priority here.
“Okay.”
His face is buried on his phone

Joyce has stopped blabbering,I think she can sense that the call Osas just recieved has changed his mood.They’re both awkwardly quiet now.
I also got busy on my phone,finished my food & left.I was sure Joyce would fill me in on what got Osas so upset, angithi they’re a couple now

Later that same evening,I get a call fromJoyce .Now she’s worried because Osas says that,his friend says Thembi didn’t even spend the night at his place.
Now she thinks something bad happened to her. As she’s talking,I can hear Osas in the background,she’s at his place again

I guess she’ll be waking up with another R20 000 tomorrow.

Before ending the call, Joyce promised to call Thembi’s sister to find out if she’s with her.I went to sleep & went to work the next morning.
I text Joyce, asking for an update on Thembi’s whereabouts.1 tick goes through

Aibo! Not her too! I continue with the rest of my day,hoping that I Joyce would get back to me, but she didn’t. Now how do I find her?! I tried calling Thembi again but it just rings & no one picks up.

I’m losing weight by the minute, thinking of what could’ve happened to them.

At 22:00, My phone rings. It’s Thembi. In lightning speed, I pick up & start interrogating her about her whereabouts. Mo’ghel is crying. I’m up on my feet looking for my sneakers because I’m sure as hell going wherever Thembi is. I ask her if I should call the police, she says no

She told me she was back at her flat in Midrand. I instruct her to lock all doors & stay there. Like a headless chicken, I run to the reception area, I get on a meter taxi & we rush to Thembi’s place. My throat is dry AF, my heart is refusing to keep still. Kubi!

I got to her place & knocked on her door as if I were the police. She peeps through the window before opening the door. I step inside & give her a hug. She won’t let me go. I’m scared of whatever it is she’s about to tell me.
“What is it Thembi?” I finally manage to ask

She doesn’t give me a response. Instead, she starts weeping. Now I wanna cry! We stand still in her kitchen, holding each other for dear life.

After sometime, she let’s go & walks to her bedroom. I follow right behind her. I think she’s ready to talk now. I’m still scared.

So Thembi tells me that when she met Muto, Osas’s friend, she felt a bit dizzy so asked Joyce to take her sit with her until she felt better but Joyce disappeared with Osas & she never saw them again. That’s when Muto, stepped in to take care of her.

He wasn’t as charming as Osas but there was something attractive about him. He kept her company while they waited for Osas & Joyce to come back... they never did. Muto wasn’t a man of many words so they didn’t really discuss anything much. He was a bit boring, really.

Everytime when Thembi tried to stand up, she felt intense vibrations running through her body, Down from her feet to her womanhood, then the dizzy spells would hit her.

She’s never gotten this drunk before. She just wanted to go home, but who would take her?!

Muto suggested that she spend the night at his house,Thembi says she doesn’t remember what happened next, but she does remember them entering his house. At this point the mysterious vibrations she was feeling earlier on had vanished,her body was fine,but her mind was a bit fuzzy

She also added that she couldn’t have had something put in her drink because she didn’t have anything to drink after Great Dane. She was supposed to be sober by now. Muto made her coffee & showed her to her room for the night. “What a gentleman” she thought to herself.

She took off her clothes & got into the in-suite bathroom. Everything looks expensive here, the silver sink, the white towels nicely folded ontop of the silver treasure box by the black and white painting of angels falling from the sky, gave the bathroom a 5 star hotel look.

She gets inside the shower & deems herself vulnerable to the warm waters kissing every inch of her skin. She’s lost herself to the harmonious sound of water falling and she’s taken into her own little universe.

She can’t hear anything else but the sound of water to her skin.

Such peace.
Such silence.
She felt safe & refreshed. Although she did not know Muto, he’s taken care of her this entire night. There’s no reason why she shouldn’t trust him. The coffee he made her got rid of the dizziness, he was as good as Prince Charming, really.

While reminiscing about how good of a man Muto was,She started hearing subtle mischievous giggles in the room. At first she thought she was imagining it,but they seemed to get louder.
She turned the tap off & and brushesd off the water on her face so she could open her eyes

There’s so much mist in the room, she can’t see past the shower glass. She opens the glass door & quickly puts on a towel. The room is as quiet as dawn now.
She steps out the bathroom & finds Muto sitting on her bed.
“Muto, is everything okay?” She holds on tight to her towel.

“Yes, I just have a special favour to ask of you.”

“No, Muto... I won’t sleep with you, if that’s what you’re asking of me.”

Muto stands up.
“Who said anything about sex? I’d never ask that of you. I barely know you.”

Relief reigns in Thembi’s heart.
“What do you want then?”

“I’m going out to fetch my sister from her boyfriend’s place, she just called me, crying. I think they had a fight or something”

No ways! Men like him still exist?!

“Okay, so what’s the favour you’re asking from me?”

“Nothin much, I just need you to feed my dogs for me. I usually feed them at this time of the night because I’m hardly around in the afternoon. I will leave the defrosted chickens on the kitchen counter, all you have to do is take it to their room at 3am” he says.

“They have a room? Where? In this house ?” Thembi has never heard of such a thing... maybe from white people, yes. Not from black people.

“Yes, they have their own room, in this very house” Muto says jokingly.

“...and how do you know they won’t bite me while you’re gone?”

“If they do want a taste of you, let them. Otherwise they might just have you for dinner, instead of the chickens” Muto is still laughing.

“Haha, very funny Muto. Get out so I can put some clothes on, will you?!” Thembi says. Muto isn’t so bad looking after all yazi....

“I charged your phone, here you go. I’ll be back shortly okay, just feed my babies, please. He said & exited the room leaving Thembi blushing.

She hears the sound of the gate opening and then closing. He must be gone now. She checks the time on her phone, it’s 02:20.

She quickly dresses up & heads out the bedroom. This should give her some time to properly inspect this house while the owner is away. Shit, he left the all the lights turned off, she doesn’t even know where the light switches are. She uses her flashlight to look around.

She climbs down the staircase and is in awe of how beautiful the interior design of this place is.

There’s a giggle coming from behind her. She jumps in freight,runs downstairs & heads to the Kitchen as this is the only room she’s familiar with in this huge house.

She manages to find the light switch in the kitchen & decides to camp in there until Muto returned. She kept checking for the time, hoping Muto would return before 3am.
Also, what kind of dogs eat up 6 raw full-chickens? How many are they kanti ?

The time now is 02:54.The atmosphere in the house is starting to change.She feels as though someone is watching her.She tries calling Joyce but it goes straight to voicemail mail.She thinks of calling me then decided not to cause I was gonna shout at her for being at Muto’s house

Only 3 minutes remaining now, the vibrations she had felt earlier on run through her trembling body, from her feet to her womanhood. She not cold, but her teeth won’t stop chattering. She all of a sudden anxious.

It’s 03:00. The giggles come back, but are lurking in the dark.

There are footsteps coming down the staircase, it sounds like a lot of people are coming to where Thembi is. She calls Joyce again & it goes straight to voicemail once more.

Next thing, the lights in the kitchen go off, she screams & runs to the main door. It’s locked!

She feels footsteps coming towards her, she runs and hides behind one of the big couches in the open planned lounge.She tries controlling her breathing & being as quiet as possible.The giggles are now in the kitchen.The trays that had the chickens on them are tossed on the floor.

There’s no way that dogs are doing this!

she then heard little voices speaking in a language that almost sounds Arabic in nature. It was at this moment that she started fearing for the worst. She also knew that Muto wasn’t coming back for her. This was part of his plan.

Her heart tells her to pray but she doesn’t find the words to even start praying.

For a long time, she remained behind the couch until it was quiet in the room. She pressed the home button on her phone so she could check the time & that’s when she saw them hovering over her.

She’s frozen in fear.
She looks up at them & fails to even scream.They look at her with wide yellow eyes,& from their mouths down to their long beards, traces of blood can be seen.There’s more than 6 of them.They resemble little Indian people but there’s nothing human about them

Her body was numb & she felt as though she was having an out of body experience as she watched her body being dragged by these little monsters, into a room with three candles burning.
There’s money all over the floor.
The room smells reaks of diarrhea.

There’s a man sitted by the burning candles.She couldn’t see his face very well but she could tell that he was a man.The little monsters vanished when the man stood up on his feet.He’s as tell as Osas..but has a body of a beast,like Muto.His body is covered in what looks like mud

He forces himself on Thembi’s powerless body & tears the life out of her.

As this is going on,Thembi is somehow watching from above. It all feels like a dream. She cries out for help but she no longer had a voice.

The door opens while the monster is ontop of her.
I’ts Muto.

He runs to Thembi’s body & says some incantations as if she were banishing the monster ontop of her.

It looks at him with its infernal eyes & right before their eyes,shapeshifts into a woman.
It extends it’s hands &Muto shook his head & took it by hand & they went out the door

She doesn’t know when or how she got back into her body,but she was woken up by Muto in the morning & she was in bed,in her guest room. She started crying immediately when she woke up&Muto comforted her saying,it was all just a bad dream. Deep down in her heart she knew it wasn’t

She got out of bed & begged Muto to take her home. He did just that, but before he could let her go, he warned her about telling anyone about what she saw in his house. He must’ve known that Thembi wasn’t buying into the dream story, that He was feeding her.

She got home & passed out. When she woke up, there was blood all over her sheets. It cannot be her period, she just had them the week before.
Something Is wrong!
She runs to the shower & waits for the bleeding to stop, then showered.

Ever since then, she’s been hearing a baby crying inside her house. She’s not sure if it’s all in her head or there’s actually a baby in her flat.

I was obviously devastated to hear this, i tried convincing her to go to the police but she wouldn’t let me.

Oh no!!
If Muto is into the dark arts, Osas must be into this as well.

At this moment, everything about him made sense. Him following us from Great Dane to Liquid Blue, his wallpaper, the vibrations I also felt on my feet when in his presence. He was trying his luck with me!😩

“Now I’m even thinking that Joyce being sick at the club & then being miraculously okay, was no coincidence. Phela, she gulped on the drink that Osas had bought for me... he must’ve put something in that drink.”

Thembi is still weeping. I grab my phone & call Joyce.

She picks up.

“Joyce, where are you?”

“I’m at Osas’s house, you won’t believe what’s being delivered here.He’s getting a snake as a pet, he says he tired of being scared of snakes so this is his way of getting over his fear”

“Are you fucken right now? Joyce, get out of there!”

“Awkame Ike, I’ll see y’all tomorrow” she says & hangs up.

Thembi suggests that we pray for Joyce because she’s obviously under Osas’s spell. They can somehow make you so dumb, you can’t even see the shady things they do infront of you.

I slept at Thembi’s place that night.

The following morning Joyce bangs on the door & is screaming for us to let her in. We both jump to the door,already thinking of the worst possible scenario.

“Everyone, dress up! I’m taking y’all out! C’mon, chop chop!.” She says as she walks in.

We sit her down & start telling her about what happen to Thembi at Muto’s house. Her jaw dropped to the floor, and then she started crying.

Joyce started confessing that she doesn’t actually remembers having sex with Osas but she always wakes up naked next to him the morning..

She says that Osas always insists that they get drunk together before having sex, but everytime before they have sex, he’d leave the room to attend to a business call & only wake her up late at night for sex.

She says it’s always in the dark, and he’s always rough.

When she told me this, I immediately knew that Osas probably had another snake living in his house. This explains the painful sex.

Both Muto & Osas we’re involved in ukuthwala. A practice that involves using certain spirits to gain wealth.

Ukuthwala using a snake is considered powerful however, it’s one of the most dangerous ways of ukuthwala. Snakes are fond of sex, same as the sex demon that was used by Muto. Snakes may also demand human blood sacrifices, or even marital vows between them & the owner.

Ukuthwala ngabafana or Zombies for wealth is also considered to be powerful, however they also demand lots of sex & will have sex with anyone they find at your home. From children, to adults & all genders. They chow whatever comes their way, sometimes even their master.

‘Abafana’ are found in the northern pasta of Africa & in Asia. Word has it Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo, India & Thailand has the best market for them.

They are said to come at an expensive price,hence only the already rich can afford them.

Quick advice to girls... and gays alike🌚 These rich men that want to offer you the best Instagram life are mostly doing shady things behind closed doors. Especially the ones without clear careers and/or businesses. Where are they getting their money? When do they go to work?

They only pamper you because you’re a sexual sacrifice to ther income streams. Sometimes you’ll think you’re sleeping with them, kanti it’s a snake or you’re bieng taken for a ride by His boys. In clubs, watch out. Be woke, always! Don’t accept drinks from strangers!

Thembi went for a consultation & found out she had miscarried & that her child’s spirit was now working and on behalf of Muto.💔 That is how he used girls to make money. She’s still in the process of finding means to fetch her child’s spirit & cleanse it off Muto’s evil spirits.

Joyce consulted a gynecologist following our conversation & she was told that the chances of her, ever having her own kids are very slim. That it would take a miracle for her to carry a baby full term. This drove her down a path of severe depression & low self esteem.

A consultation with a sangoma revealed that she indeed had sex with a snake serveral times, hence how painful the sex was.

The end.

Thank you for reading until the end. Kindly retweet the thread so it can reach as many people as possible.

Still thankful for y’all’s support😩
Hence, I’ll never stop writing.

Yours in threading,
Ike Ntanzi
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