Dial - Season 2 - Episode 56

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 56

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It was the next evening – when I could barely move, and she was cleaning me gently while tears streamed down her face – that I coughed, and a wad of bile mixed with thick red blood spewed out of my mouth.

Abena Adobea stared at that wad of horror, and then she gently wiped it off and cleaned around my lips.
“I’ll tell Brian,” she spoke quietly, but I could see the torture tearing that beautiful face apart. “Tomorrow, we’ll send you to Wowo to marry Dede.”

And, when she said that, when I heard that note in her voice, a note that suggested she had just given up on me, my weak heart thudded with sudden trepidation, and that was the moment my fear of the impending death ended.

I had been ready to go to Wowo and marry Dede, just to break my curse. The fear had almost made my heart stop beating. It had been unbearable and scary, and I had been willing to go against her will to Wowo and claim my life back.

But hearing her voicing it out, deciding that indeed she wanted me to go to Wowo and marry another woman…well, it shattered me. It dawned on me, with the force of a derailed train, that I loved this girl with every drop of blood in my ailing body.

I reached out weakly and touched her hand, and when she smiled, through her pain, I saw her resolve to make a sacrifice, and that alone hurt me more than any effect of the curse ravaging my body.
“I’ll go with you, my love,” she whispered quaveringly. “I know Nana wants you to go alone, and so I’ll be with you as far as the last town or village to Wowo. And there I’ll say goodbye to you.”

Tears bubbled in my eyes as I croaked in that horrible whisper-like voice of the old.
“No, no, no, Maa Abena, please! I don’t ever want to say goodbye to you!”
She didn’t say anything, but helped me to get into my pyjamas. She then lay down by my side, and put a head on my shoulder, then kissed me gently.

I put an arm around her, and we shared a gentle night together, just holding and cuddling.

I was in pain.

Oh, dear!

This was what I wanted…but I had found it too late.


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