Status Updates From The Thing with Zola: A Novel

Everybody Wants Somebody Who Wants Somebody Else 😭 #justiceforOkuhle
5 stars honestly, loved every minute of it but like Zibu when I catch you sisi 😭 you did my girl wrong.
Team Okuhle all they way 🥹💯

ZIBU. SITHOLE. MA’AM. PUT THAT MAN DOWN. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. Now he’s conveniently at the same hangout spot as Zola just as soon Okuhle called her about to clear the air?? Narratively, that scene is suspiciously convenient. Mbali magically appears at Zola’s table?? That’s not just coincidence in my reader brain. “Now that we’ve cleared the emotional runway, let’s put these two idiots together 😂

The flowers wreck her. His attention to Zola wrecks her. She drinks herself into oblivion. She falls down the stairs 😭meanwhile Mbali is out here living his life. Girl, ENOUGH. Give Okuhle a new man. Give her a hobby. Give her a vacation. Give her a promotion. Give her a mysterious handsome stranger at the clinic. I don’t care 😂 just get this woman away from Mbali for five minutes.

🇩🇪: “My love, should I come to South Africa?”

Zola:

🇿🇦: “Hmm, actually my mother said no.”

Her mother:

👩🏾: “I beg your pardon?”

😭😭😭 omg be for real rn

Gunther: “I’ll come to South Africa. I’ll be closer to you.😃😍”

And Zola’s reaction is apparently: 😐

And then suddenly: “I spoke to my mother and she thinks it’s not a good idea.”

GIRL. O MAKA😭

YOU DID NOT SPEAK TO YOUR MOTHER. You want Mbali and know full well it’s wrong bc he’s clearly involved with your girl boss. SIES Zola 🤨

She just drunk called him 😏. I’m so done 👍

Mbali: 🚩
“I’ll send flowers, she’ll thank me, then I’ll ask her out.” This man skipped about five normal steps

Okuhle (the boss): 🚩🚩
“Give me your phone.” 🤨🤨 uhm… how about no ma’am

Zola: 😭
I actually feel the most sympathy for her but like at the same time…Girl. USE.YOUR.WORDS. What???

I’m withdrawing from this love triangle. These people can sort themselves out, adults who are more than capable of doing so, I’m so done with them 😏

Like, my brother… out of every possible way to congratulate Zola, you chose a bouquet of flowers delivered to the office of the woman who has loved you for years? Were chocolates unavailable? A text message? A phone call? Literally anything else? 😭

Of cos he sends a bouquet of flowers at her workplace knowing the work dynamics between Zola and Hlehle 😏😏 I don’t like this guy