Dial - Season 1 - Episode 90

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 90

And his head bent, and his shoulders began to heave silently as he wept brokenly for his dead daughter. The more he wept, the more crack lines appeared in the mirror, and soon his image became so distorted that I could barely see him well.

And for the very first time since I met him, I understood the enigma of Nana b0s0mba of Wowo. A grieving man, a father whose life I had ripped apart with my irresponsible behaviour toward his only daughter. A man who had enough power to cut me down to size, but who was limited by the wishes of a daughter he loved beyond imagination, torn in equal parts by his urge for revenge, and by his love for his daughter, a love deep enough for him to respect her last wishes.

I saw myself through his eyes, and finally I came to realize that, in a macabre sort of way, he had indeed treated me fairly.
“I’m sorry, sir,” I whispered tremulously. “I am so sorry! Please, forgive me!”

He cleaned his face furiously, as if he were angry with himself for that show of vulnerability, and then he looked up through the cracked mirror and smiled that gentle smile I knew so well.

His voice was soft and gentle as he spoke again.

“We’re past that, Mr. Biko,” he said softly. “I cannot forgive you just like that. I need to know that you’re indeed sorry, because I don’t want another father to suffer the pain I’m going through right now. Mr. Biko, I can’t allow you to let another innocent girl take her own life, and make her father grieve the way I am grieving! So yes, we go on…and now, listen carefully…”

And, the moment he said that, the thick smoke glided across the mirror again, and I heaved a sigh of relieve, thinking he was gone. But, slowly, the smoke cleared from the mirror…and I saw that all the cracks were gone. It was a smooth mirror again, and Nana b0s0mba was back to his smiling evil best.
“You f--k*ing bastard,” I said, but I didn’t say it out loud; I said it in my head.

“You’re more than a fuc*king bastard, Mr. Biko,” Nana b0s0mba said in the mirror.
“Apuu, you think you’re wild aaaama!” I said, and I laughed insanely at that moment, and soon the laughter turned to a hysterical bleat, and somewhere deep inside me I knew that if I didn’t get hold of myself, this evil man would drive me completely mad in no time.
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