Dial - Season 2 - Episode 51

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 51

This time the tears came, and we wept together. She clamped her soft, salty lips to mine, and as we kissed passionately, Maame Ntiriwaa got up and slowly fixed us with her sad eyes.

“You two are making a big mistake, let me tell you that,” she said painfully. “The way you’re aging is bad, Yao. It looks to me you’re gaining about ten years each day, and you two don’t have more than a few weeks together. Love is sweet, love is great, and love is wonderful…but there’s death around the corner. You have to accept the pain, and live with it, please. It is better, far better, than Yao dying. You have to sacrifice this love for his health, my dearest daughter.”

She turned, still weeping, and left us in each other’s arms.
When we parted, panting for love, three of my lower teeth rolled out and clattered to the floor.

I looked at them sheepishly, and then I began to laugh.
These were horror days!

***

We tried to be as happy as we could, my dearest precious Adobea and me, but the fact remained that I was an old man now. I had become slow and brittle, and absolutely weak.
She suggested on countless occasions that we should get married, but I just couldn’t see myself carrying an angel like her to the altar looking the way I did. She told me that maybe, just after the wedding, the curse might be broken, but I doubted it.

Adobea, my sweetest love, was with me all the time, and even wanted to spend the nights with me, in my bed, but that was something I didn’t agree to. She was the most desirable woman in the world, and I was a miserable old man who loved her so much. I knew it would be so easy to make love to her – if I could sustain an erection – but that wasn’t what I wanted for her.

A week passed, and then one morning I just couldn’t get out of bed.