Dysfunctional Family - Season 1 - Episode 29

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Dysfunctional Family - Season 1 - Episode 29

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Lily sat in her living room waiting for Amos as she watched T.V. She’d missed him a lot and couldn’t wait to be in his arms. When the knock came, she hurriedly rushed to open the door. Disappointment flashed all over her face when she saw who had come.

“Clyde. I was expecting-”
“Amos, right?”
She nodded.

“Can I come in?”
Lily opened the door wider and let him in, then she closed it.

“So,” began Clyde. “What is it that that boy has that I don’t have, Lily?”
“You’re drunk,” she replied, sitting beside him. “Go home and take a nap then we can talk.”

“You ungrateful b---h! I picked you from the gutter, saved you from rapists and murderers and this is how you repay me?”

Clyde had always been in love with Lily and had even manifested his love for her but she saw him as a brother and couldn’t bring herself to love him in a different way so she had clearly told him she couldn’t love him back the way he wanted her to. Clyde had understood, hoping she’d eventually fall in love with him one day. That day never came and now she was s------g Amos. Hell, they kissed and laughed at silly jokes every chance they got and that was slowly eating him up inside.

“I am grateful for everything you’ve done for me,” Lily said to Clyde. “But as I’ve told you times without number, I can’t just bring myself to love you in a different way.”
“But you can love that Amos?”
“The heart wants what it wants.”

Clyde cupped her face and looked deep into her eyes. “Kiss me, Lily.”
“Why would I do that?”
“Kiss me, dammit!”

“You’re drunk,” she stubbornly repeated.

That earned her a slap and then Clyde forcefully kissed her. He pinned her arms behind her back and began taking her clothes off.

She tried to push him off her but he was too strong.

“Don’t do this,” Lily pleaded. “You’ll live to regret your actions, Clyde. You know what rape means to me, how it’s scarred my life and you raping me will just make you hate yourself.”

“Shut up!” he spat in her face, “If you aren’t willing to give me what rightfully belongs to me then it’s only right I forcefully take it,” he pulled down his trousers and boxer. “Now cooperate and will actually enjoy this.”

She gave up fighting once he entered her. Lily closed her eyes and pushed Clyde out of her mind. To her, she was 10 years old and her biological father was on top of her, molesting her. She was 11 and her uncle was raping her. She was 14 and was being gang raped in the streets where she’d found herself wandering after her aunt threw her out of her(her aunt’s) house when she caught her giving her husband (her aunt’s husband) a blow job. Lily had tried explaining but her aunt wasn’t listening.

Amos was calling his mother as he approached Lily’s house. Juliet’s line was still ringing when Amos reached the door. He was about to knock but hang up when he heard Lily crying inside, “Stop it, please. You’re hurting me..”

In her mind, Lily was being gang raped.
Amos pushed the door open and fury coursed through him when he saw Clyde on top of Lily, brutally thrusting into her. Anger clouded his judgement and Amos took out the gun that he now moved with. He aimed it at Clyde’s head and without hesitation, pulled the trigger. Clyde who had had his back facing Amos rolled off of Lily and lay dead on the floor.

The gunshot had reeled Lily back to reality and she saw Amos standing in the doorway, gun in hand. She looked at the floor and there lay Clyde, dead.

Minutes later, Lily was fully dressed while Amos paced the room frantically.
“Am going to jail..” He was in kind of a trance where he kept on repeating he was going to jail.

“No you’re not,” Lily assured him, staring at the dead body. “We’ll clean the house and get rid of Clyde’s dead body, Amos. So relax.”

“What if we go to the police and tell them I was just protecting you? The dude was raping you for crying out loud!”

“So that they ask how you come you possess an illegal gun? You’re smarter than that, Amos. I agree you’re pretty shaken by the incidence but be a man and get a grip, gosh!” Lily rushed to her bedroom and grabbed one of her heaviest blankets. She rushed back to the living room.

“Will you quit pacing and help me?”
Amos quietly went to help her roll the body in a blanket.

“We’re burying him behind my house,” Lily announced.
Amos nodded.

When it was dark, they went out to dig and they dug for hours. By 3 A.M, they’d buried Clyde and Lily was scrubbing his dry blood off the floor.

For the next few months, Amos couldn’t sleep without having nightmares of Clyde telling him he’d pay for what he’d done to him. Amos would awaken with a scream, sweating.

Juliet whose bedroom was just next to her son’s had observed he had nightmares almost every night. She was worried he’d gotten himself into something dangerous seeing as the people he associated himself with all looked thuggish. His girlfriend for example scared the hell out of her.
Juliet rose from bed early as usual the following morning and started cleaning the house. Cleaning was difficult now that her baby bump was growing each day. She had only one more month to go before she could deliver.

When Amos woke up, his mother had cleaned the house and had prepared breakfast. They were eating when she asked him, “Who’s Clyde?”

Amos almost choked on his tea. “How do you know Clyde?”

“I heard you saying his name in your sleep last night.. Now answer my question, Amos. Who’s Clyde?” He was tired and was no murderer, not literally though. He just wanted some peace of mind and his conscience wasn’t letting him get any.

He sighed. “Clyde is someone I killed and buried behind my girlfriend’s house some months ago.” “Jesus Christ!” Juliet said with a gasp.

“It’s not what you think, mother,” said Amos hurriedly and soon explained how everything had played out.

A shaken Juliet said, “You have to report yourself to the police, Amos.”
“You mean turn myself in?”
“That’s the only way you’ll have peace..if you pay for your sins. Look, the sentence will be lighter if you turn yourself in.”
In the afternoon, Amos gave Lily a phone call.
“Babe,” she enthusiastically picked up. “Talk to me.”

With a sob, Amos said, “Please forgive me for what am about to do, Lily. I love you.” He hang up and switched his phone off.
“You’re doing the right thing,” Juliet patted his shoulder.

This was as difficult for her as it was for him but lately, she only wanted to right her wrongs and Amos involving himself with criminals was just a result of one of her many wrongs which she was now more than willing to right.

And so it happened that Amos turned himself in and unknowingly incriminated Lily as his accomplice. Lily who had finally figured Amos’ cowardice had finally got the better of him was about to flea from her house when she saw the police van drive into her yard.

That’s when she decided to end it all. She’d rather die than spend the rest of her life in jail so she got her gun and aimed it at her right temple. Closing her eyes, Lily pulled the trigger and died instantly.

Bruno and Bruce were arrested for possession and trafficking of cocaine among other crimes at a bar an hour later.

A month down the line, Lubesha was among the many various reporters to write about Amos’ arrest, him turning himself in and being sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter, with hard labour.
Donald, Alice and Lubesha had all been shaken by the turn of events and this had quite strengthened their bond as they now spent as much time together as possible.

Juliet on the other hand spent her time alone at Amos’ house as her loved ones treated her like an outcast. They all blamed her for everything that was going on. She’d cried rivers for the past few days and was crying while looking at a photograph of Amos when her labour pains began.

She grabbed her phone and called Alice who’d put her on blacklist so the call didn’t go through. She called Donald whose phone was off and finally, out of desperation, Lubesha who picked up after a few rings.
“I need your help,” Juliet spoke into the phone. “The baby’s coming.”

Lubesha was around the area snooping for his next big story so he said, “Am on my way, stay put.”

By the time Lubesha arrived with a taxi, Juliet had packed all the necessary stuff in readiness for her delivery.

Her contractions were now frequent.

“Thank you,” she truthfully told Lubesha as he helped her to the taxi.

“Don’t mention,” he replied.

It so happened that Juliet was rushed to the hospital where Donald and David worked and due to her age, complications arose during delivery so she ended up being rushed to the Operating Room. Ironically, Donald was one of the people performing a C-Section on Juliet. It took professionalism to even manage to hold a scalpel.

A healthy son was pulled out of Juliet’s womb and the nurses were cleaning him up while Donald was stitching her when the machines connected to her went haywire. She was going into shock and was losing a lot of blood.