Dial - Season 1 - Episode 34

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 34

I got clean sheets from her wardrobe and carefully made the bed again, and then I lifted her and put her on the bed. She stirred restlessly, her face furrowed with fear, and I held her for a while until she stopped fretting.
I went to the bathroom and took a cold shower without soap and sponge. I just stood under the spray and let it hose me down for a long time, and then I dried myself and returned to the bedroom.

Vida was awake, and her eyes were fixed on me with great panic in them.
“What is going on, Yao?” she asked, and the terror was cloaking her like a second skin. “I don’t understand! What’s this? At first I thought that maybe my husband had invoked some terrible spiritual curse on me, but then I saw that strange food on your fingers and on your lips! It has to do with you! That was why you were screaming in your sleep. What’s going on, Yao?”
“It’s my fault, Vida,” I said slowly.
Somehow, her terror was affecting me and driving my fear up to uncomfortable levels, and so I told her a loosely factual story about a disgruntled business partner who had threatened me with spiritual attacks.

She looked at me silently, and I knew that she had accepted my story, and somehow it had restored a bit of her sanity, and it was something she could live with.
“These things are real, Yao Biko,” she said tremulously. “You just don’t know how evil some people can be. You have to take it seriously and get help otherwise it will get worse.”

“Yeah, love, I’m beginning to see just how deadly it all is,” I said miserably.
“I know a very powerful man of God,” she said at length. “Apostle Jacob Williams, founder of the Pawa Yesu Fire Ministries. I can give you his card. He’s powerful, filled with the power of God. He can deliver you.”
“I’ll appreciate that very much, Vida,” I said with some relief.
She came close to me, and I held her tightly.

It was dawn now, and we had both been exposed to something really scary, and so we clung to each other for comfort. Eventually, her lips found mine, and we started kissing.
And then, soon enough, the passion reared again between us, and she turned me on my back gently and mounted me.
She didn’t say those silly words again to me, and we made slow passionate love that dawn.
She slept, but I didn’t.
I was scared to the very roots of my life.
In the morning, she wanted me to stay, but I wanted to leave. For one, my libido was suddenly gone, and I didn’t want to be with her. My panic had soared during the time we finished making love to the time I got up and dressed.

She gave me the complimentary card of Apostle Williams, and then we went to the garage. She took the bundle of bedsheets and the pots I had put there in the boot of the car.
When she drove out she deposited it in the huge trash bin outside her house, and then she took me to the terminal where I retrieved my car.

She looked at me with huge wet eyes, and then she hugged me and smiled sadly.
“Take care of yourself, Yao,” she whispered. “Please, go and see the man of God.”

I nodded, feeling so claustrophobic in her presence.

We parted ways, and as I drove towards Accra I found the fear creeping up on me again, and that was when I began to get angry.

So I met a girl, lied to her, bedded her!
And now an unfortunate thing had happened. Fine. In a way I was indirectly responsible, but that was no reason why that old man should seek to show me dark powers like what he did in Vida’s room.

Two could really play that game.