Dial - Season 1 - Episode 96

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 96

I got up and raced blindly for the door as their jesting and mirth and mad glee followed me!
I never knew how I got into my car and blasted away from there!

Much later, shaking with horror, I heard my phone ringing, and ripped it out of its clip on my dashboard.

I looked at the screen blindly.
It was a number I had stored but never called, a number I hated, because I hated its owner.
She called at least twice every month, ever since she came to my father’s birthday. She called consistently, every month, although I never picked any of her calls, neither replying to any of her texts.

I had saved her as W---E on my phone.
Yes, the woman who had broken my father’s heart, the woman who had regretted giving birth to me, and whose parents had dumped me on my father when I still needed breastmilk to survive.

The woman who had given birth to me, and who I never ever would call mother!

But as I stared at the phone, I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I had my grand-mother on my list, one of the women who would forgive me. I had saved her as the last option, but now the call from the woman who had carried me in her womb for nine months frightened me.

For the very first time in my life, I picked that woman’s call.
“Hello,” I said tightly.
“Oh, Yao, Yao, my son!” she was weeping uncontrollably. “Grandmother is dead! She just had a heart attack and died! Oh, God! Oh, son! Please come to me! Yao, I beg of you, please forgive me! Please come and see me! I have no one but you, my son….”

She rambled on, but the horror struck me, and for a wild moment I almost vomited.
It slammed fiercely into my guts!
In the blink of an eye, four names had been crossed from my list!

I had only Akushika remaining!
And, after her…a date with death if she refused to forgive me!