Dial - Season 2 - Episode 97

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 97

“What’s wrong with you?” my mother asked with some concern even as the Holy Man and Maame Ntiriwaa laughed too.
“He’s remembering what happened when I cursed him,” the Holy Man said.

“This doctor, what did he do?” I asked amidst chuckles. “Oh, he’s so dead!”
“He’s been drugging young ladies that visit him, and sleeping with them without their consent,” the Holy Man said sadly. “He just made a young Christian girl who was going to get married soon pregnant. She didn’t know how she got pregnant, and she tried to commit suicide because her fiancé left her.”
“Oh, that’s horrible!” my mother said, her face horrified.

“You’re going to make him grow old too?” I asked, beginning to laugh again.
“I visited the girl before coming here, and cheered her up,” the Holy Man said as he put a piece of plantain into his mouth. “She’ll be okay. This doctor, hmm, old? I don’t think so. At first I wanted him to be fat, and then thin, but now…I think I’m going to make him grow in reverse, you know. He will grow younger and shorter until he becomes a small boy, then he’ll change.”

I guffawed with laughter, unable to stop myself.

And then, the Holy Man shut me up violently!
Oh, he didn’t hit me, no, and he didn’t shout at me. He just casually looked at me.
“You said you’re looking for Abena Adobea?” he asked softly even as I was laughing, and I nodded.

“Okay,” the Holy Man said, lifted his left hand, and simply pulled out a lovely white invitation card from the air, and then handed it to me. “You’ll find her right there.”
I took the invitation card, and then violently I stopped laughing as I saw what was printed on it:
Solemnization of Marriage
Asamoah Adobah Weds Abena Adobea
Saturday, 7 April, 2018
Asempa Bethel Church, Kotobabi
1.00 p.m. prompt.

That was how violently I stopped laughing as my dazed eyes went to the beautiful expensive clock on my wall.

It was 2.p.m.
Oh, dear, oh, dear