Dial - Season 1 - Episode 86

4 years ago

Dial - Season 1 - Episode 86

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So there I was…alone, confused, hurting, terrorized and in great emotional pain.
I was basically left with nothing. No friends, no advisors, no remedies…nothing, only my money. But, I was in a situation which money couldn’t solve. I wanted the pain in my heart to stop. I could have hit the town with money and brought home ten girls to stay with me, to make me forget Dede, but my heart rejected it.
There were thousands of women in the world, so why was her departure affecting me so greatly? Why should the absence of just one girl whom I barely knew fill me with such emotional pain?

I lived like a slouch for two days. I drank mostly, because I couldn’t eat. Basically, I watched movies, drank liquor, went to the roof to swim and sometimes just sat still with my cornrow grey hair and wept silently.
It was a futile attempt to forget about Nana b0s0mba and his evil curse on me. It was around noon on the second day, when I woke up on the roof with my hand trailing in the swimming pool, and my head splitting with a horrible hangover headache, that I finally decided that I needed to take action about my condition.

The decision didn’t come out of the blue, no. When I woke up with the headache, I made my way to the elevator and rode down to get some painkillers from my medicine cabinet.
It was after I swallowed two tablets, and decided to shave my beard, that the decision was made. I had already brushed my teeth, and as I reached for the electric shaver, I saw my reflection in the mirror and paused suddenly.

I could see the faint web lines around the edges of my eyes! The web that was associated with age! Squinting, I leaned forward, turning my head and looking intently at that horrible piece of evidence.

I was indeed growing old rapidly!
Nana b0s0mba’s ultimatum came to my mind forcibly…

“You will die, Mr. Biko…”
He had given me a way out, though, a slack in the rope around my neck. Hunt down five girls on my list and get at least one of them to forgive me!

With a deep sigh I turned away from the mirror and walked to the living-room, shaving forgotten. Time to find five girls to help me reverse this curse, and go after Dede.

My MacBook was still on the seat where Nana b0s0mba had left it, and so I took it and marched to my bedroom study, put it on power, and then I sat down and powered it on.
This was it!

The selection that would either lead to my redemption…or to my death.
I navigated to the DIAL LIST.

Forty-six names, but two were not eligible. Dede and Akos of Wowo.

I was suddenly filled with a strange bout of sadness as I looked at the names of all those women on my list. It had been amazing fun, great fun, filling me with inexpressible joy to add to that list.

Invariably, it had become the monster with the lethal venom that would kill me. My heart was beating rather loudly as I tore off a sheet from a yellow pad, and picked up a customized pen from the desk planner.