Dial - Season 1 - Episode 19

4 years ago

Dial - Season 1 - Episode 19

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When Akos was discharged from the hospital later in the day I drove her home…her home, of course.

She had earlier called the hospital where she worked, and she had been given the day off. She was as sweet as she was beautiful, and by the time we got to her chamber-and-hall apartment at Adenta, she was chatting freely with me.

I turned on the charm and oozed charisma, and slowly chipped at her defences. She had a boyfriend, she told me, but his urge to sleep with her had eventually brought heated arguments between them when she informed him she would no longer share his bed until they were married.

She had caught him cheating with her own friend, and she had broken off the relationship. He always called and visited now, claiming he was a changed man, but Akos just could not bring herself to trust him again.

I stayed with Akos of Wowo, and by the end of the first week I knew three solid facts about her.

The first was that she was not going to sleep with me without the security of marriage.
Now, if the decision to stay chaste until marriage had been because of Christian beliefs, or personal principles, I would not have had any problem with that. I would have had her naked on my bed in a few days.

Her resolve to stay chaste was borne out of fear for her strange father. The man had told her that she would go blind if she slept with any man without being convinced that the man would marry her.

What a particularly wicked father she had!
And her fear of her father was her religion! She was not going to budge from that position even though I jokingly tried to convince her that her father wouldn’t do that to her, and that he had just instituted that terror in her to keep her on the straight and narrow path.
But Akos would not budge; she was that much scared of her father.

The second fact I knew about her within the week was the fact that her strange chain really worked.

On the third day, when I was taking her home, I had parked beside the street to chat with her a bit. She had been relaxed, but suddenly she had sat up straight, her eyes alarmed.
“Move the car, Yao, please!” she had pleaded in great alarm.

“Why, Akos?” I had asked, smiling. “Don’t you want to chat with me for a while?”

“Oh, the chain stung me, Yao!” she cried. “Please, just move from here and find somewhere else to park!”
I shook my head with amusement, and then I started the car and moved on. Less than two minutes later I heard a loud noise behind me, and when I parked and looked back I saw to my chagrin that a huge articulated truck had lost control and smashed that side of the road where we had been parked.

If we hadn’t moved, we both would have been killed!