So for quite some time Aron didn’t tell his father about the goats and why are not at home as days were going on and on. But I don’t blame him because he was never to mind anymore. Well... Aron knew that somehow when he found out that his mind will be all over the place losing it like a headless chicken. However, sometimes when we tend not to mind everything something somewhere just fall apart slowly and surely. That evening Simon came home from the house of Susan I remember what he noticed is that the kraal was empty and it was quite the time the goats arrive at home as usual but... they were no whereto found. Aron knew where they were and he wasn’t sure how his father will digest that so what he did, he just said senseless things and he said that he will go back at the veld to check if he won’t find them. What Simon didn’t know is that the goats were in capture by the old Dutch man about two days because he wasn’t paying attention at all and he was always coming home after Aron went to bed. Eventually Simon was going to find out what happened to his livestock but... Aron vowed to himself that he won’t even hear from him, however only if he picked up his mind a little and notice that something is going wrong in his house while he was busy entertaining Susan with the time he was supposed to make sure everything is still well in his house. You know sometimes as man we can do all the impossible things just to please the ladies we say we love without noticing the change we are doing in our personal lives and that always brings us back to square one like hero to zero in just one senseless action. By the way old Dutch man was going to release the goats when Simon paid the fine by just imagine how stressing it will be for animal to be locked until their Shepard come to rescue them and everything looked like it was going to be a long term thing because Aron wasn’t willing to tell the truth and the whereabouts of the goats to his father who no idea. Anyway It was the hardest task for Aron because he had no words to explain the explanation to his father I guess because of the fear in the outcomes after he told him besides he realised that he has done anything wrong but... what he did wrong is keeping the truth from his father and etc. even in that case Aron didn’t see a reason to tell something to his father I guess what he had in mind is that his father will assume things on his own but... what Aron didn’t know is that he was making things more complicated not just him so his father. However, Simon wasn’t in a good position to blame his son for not telling him because he knew lately that he wasn’t being a good father and he was barely at home and most of the times Aron was home alone in the house. So Aron as he was busy with his final exams and he was leaving early from home to school and coming late from school because his sponsors were bringing other people that will help him do well in his school to make sure that he is not losing his scholarship as he lost his father’s goats from the old Dutch man who is still capturing them with the hope that the owner will come back and fetch them but with the fine of which Simon knew about but he never thought that in his mind one day he was going to pay such fine to pay for his goats. Therefore, for Simon not to notice such things in his household kind of shown that he wasn’t been around the house or still checking the house when he comes from his private things. Later that day Susan came over the house to do he r job as junior animal specialist so she can see how far she has done so far. Unfortunately, from the kraal there was still no sign of the goats and it was the time they should be at the kraal by then so Simon asked Aron about goats’ whereabouts and said to him they should be on the way right now so they bought the story and suddenly the conversation ended up to be finished inside the house but... they were not talking about the goats and Simon asked his son Aron to make something to drink for Susan and she refused the refreshments saying that has drank something to way. Anyway that gave Aron a chance to go at the study group in the few three houses away from his house and he left his father as usual with his lover Susan because there is always a thing about old people to always keep things a secret even if you already know the truth about it. Susan was loving the fact that Aron was trying by all means to work out for his academic records and he was doing exceptional well with it but... he wasn’t getting the scores he was wishing for because he felt under pressure by his life and the loads of work he was getting from the teachers. Regardless the big secret he was keeping from his father I guess in his mind he was trying to teach his father a lesson but... will the lesson be worth it? You know what scares Aron was that they were going to lose their only pride and he knew that he could do something to stop that but he believed that his experiment was going to let his father know that he was missing something in their household and he wasn’t noticing anything. As Aron left his father and Susan in the house they were left flirting on each other they became so romantic towards each other, instead of she mixed business with pleasure however Susan knew consequences of doing that and she knew that was going to ruin her work as well as her reputation in the agricultural sector but... she never seemed to mine not even none of that.


© Makaziwe Gotyana