Dial - Season 1 - Episode 31

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 31

After a while he pushed the white pot away from him and then he wiped his right hand on a white napkin and dropped it on the glass-topped table.

He had then leaned back and regarded me solemnly.

“Now, Mr. Biko, I’ll go straight to the point,” he said gently. “Akos loved you, and that is a fact. She loved you so much that her soul begged me to spare your life. She was very fervent, and so I promised her. You see, I wanted to destroy you so totally that you would have begged for death, but for my daughter’s sake, I will spare you, but on one condition.”

I had been aware that I wanted to speak, but nothing came out.
Somehow, it seemed that I could not speak in the dream.

“We are going to bury her, Mr. Biko,” he said gently. “You put her on your list of fun, and you ruined her life. But that’s okay, Mr. Biko, that’s okay. She wants you to be forgiven, and so shall it be. However, she will not be buried in shame. In a week’s time, before we bury her, I expect you to be with us in Wowo. You will marry her, and you will have a wedding night with her. Only when you have done that, will you appease the anger roiling in my heart. After the wedding night, she will be buried, and you will be free.”
He stood up and looked at me gravelly, and then he smiled.

He reached into his pocket suddenly and brought out a white envelope. The old man opened it and showed the contents to me.
In the envelope were the protective chain he had placed around Akos’ neck. Also in the envelope was the ring I had bought for Akos, and locked up in my drawer before leaving my office.
And my heart thudded with sudden fear in the dream.

“That is your invitation to your wedding to my daughter, Mr. Biko,” he had said gently and put the envelope down on the table in front of me.
He then brought out a red sheet of paper and a black pen.
He slowly wrote something on the red sheet of paper, and then he smiled and turned it toward me, and its contents chilled me to the very core.

Nana b0s0mba had written:
REDIAL LIST
01. YAO BIKO
He smiled, and then he spoke gently.
“I’ll leave now, Mr. Biko,” he said with a little bow. “I give you respect, because my daughter loved you. In one week you will come and marry her, and spend your honeymoon with her corpse. Just a week, Mr. Biko. If you fail to show up, you will definitely grow older with more experience.”
He chuckled, folded up the red paper, and put it into his pocket.
“Enjoy your food, Mr. Biko, enjoy your food,” he had said as he turned.
A white door suddenly materialized behind him, and he opened it and walked through.
I bent my head to eat more food, and that was when I saw the face of Akos inside the white pot, and I began to m0an and grunt.
But then, suddenly, I saw my body crumbling, as if my body was dissolving into grains of sand…and I began to scream with fear until Vida woke me up!
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