Dial - Season 1 - Episode 78

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 78

“Yes, I suspected you wanted to get drunk before making love to me, and I didn’t want it that way! Any other girl I wouldn’t have minded, Dede. But I wanted you to come to me out of your own volition, not under the influence of alcohol!”

“Yes, Yao, you were right, I wanted to get drunk,” she said in a trembling voice as she looked into my eyes. “At that moment, if I had made love to you, it wouldn’t have had any meaning to me, because I wouldn’t have done it by my own will!”
“What are you talking about, Dede?” I asked painfully. “I don’t understand you!”
“You remember I told you Akos wrote a letter to me?” she asked softly, and again I nodded. “Yes, she told me about how much she loved you. With her last breath she begged me to try and save you from the wrath of her father. She had a simple plan…she said if I married you, or got close enough to you, her father would have no option than lift the curse off you.”
I looked at her with absolute shock.
“So, all this…all that we shared, you were pretending? It was an act?” I asked, and my head pounded with the terrible bitterness and pain I felt.

“At first, yes, up till the time I asked for more drink, Yao, I was pretending. I was just doing a favour for my dear Akos,” she said sadly. “I didn’t want to do it, but it was something she begged me to do before she died, and I could not deny her that. The plan was to marry you, because only that would appeal to my brother to release you. Later, I would’ve told my brother that I made a mistake, once the curse was off you…and then I would’ve walked away from you, my duty to Dede done!”
“Then, if you didn’t mean it, if it was just a plan, why did you make love to me, Dede?” I asked harshly, my pain raw. “You could’ve told me about it, and we would’ve pretended to be in love, and you wouldn’t have had to sleep with me!”

“You’ve not heard even one word that I’m telling you,” she said softly, shaking her head. “If I had told you, my brother would’ve known straight away that it was a plan. It had to come from you, from your heart! You really needed to want to marry me, and he would’ve known it was genuine, and released you! Like I said, up till the moment I asked for that drink, there was simply no way I was going to make love to you without being drunk, because that’s not the way I am! I don’t sleep with men I don’t love!”

“And so why did you?” I asked painfully. “When I left you last night why did you come after me in the bathroom? Did Akos’ ghost come and beg you to sleep with me?”
She pushed me fiercely in the chest, and she stood up, tears flooding her face.
“You fool, you bastard!” she screamed down at me. “When I came to you I wasn’t drunk! I came to you because I realized just how hopelessly I’ve fallen for you! Akos said so in her letter! She said I shouldn’t worry because she knew I would end up falling for you! And when I came to you, when we made love, it wasn’t because I was doing Akos a favour…it was because I loved you, and that I was seeing myself spending the rest of my life with you, and it gladdened my heart! I made love to you out of the love I felt for you!”

I stood up desperately, my face cut to shreds.
“So nothing has changed, Dede, my love!” I said desperately. “I messed up big time, I know, but I’m new at this love stuff! I’m not making any excuses, but please, I beg of you, cut me a piece of slack here! I’m learning the ropes! Please, understand and forgive me, give me a chance to redeem myself!”
She shook her head sadly.

“Don’t touch me, Yao, please, don’t!” she said painfully. “That’s how you would always see women…as numbers on your computer, you bastard! I’ll beg my brother to release you, not for myself but for Akos…but I never want to see you again. Ever!”
“Dede, oh, Dede, please!” I tried to hold her, but she pushed me away violently as her tears began again, and then she fled to the elevator, got in and soon she was on her way up.
The pain was like nothing I had ever experienced. I swung on Nana b0s0mba.

“Are you happy now?” I bellowed furiously. “You must be satisfied now! You want me dead, Nana Wowo? Kill me, Nana Wowo! Strike me dead and kill me right now, Nana Wowo! I am simply tired of you and your bullshit! I’m tired of living in fear! You’ve destroyed me already so go ahead and finish it! Strike me dead, Nana Wowo!”

His eyes were like the embers of hell as he calmly bit into his green apple and looked at me.
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