Oaths - Season 1 - Episode 23

6 years ago

Oaths - Season 1 - Episode 23

Darkness!

Darkness filled the atmosphere as my eyes slowly opened. I felt my body become limp and weak. I had a blurry eyesight too, and a banging thud of headache to flow with it.
I tried moving my body to stand up, but it was stiff. I felt my legs folded together, tied onto something, same as my hands too. I seemed to be in a sitting position, with my hands, my legs and my mouth sealed. My body also reeked of excess sweat.

I coughed out repeatedly without ease till I felt a figure beside me. The figure advanced further and flashed a torch to my face. I instantly looked away from the excess brightness penetrating my eyes.

“She’s alive.” The figure mumbled quietly, still flashing the torch on me.

“Call Lady Tee,” I heard another familiar voice.

Immediately, the atmosphere became brightened. The light had been turned on, and I could see two hefty guys and a skinny one. I remembered his face; it was him, Big Tiny; the guy who had once threatened me with a gun.

“Hello!” He gestured with a hand wave and a mocking tone from the corner he stood. I was too weak to speak.

Shortly after, the door to the room creaked open and a lady walked in. She was accompanied by a tall, macho guy and a kid.
To say I was surprised would be an understatement. I was shocked! Partly because, this same kid who accompanied her was the same boy who had stopped me along the way to help him aid his sister. I remembered offering to help him and…

“Surprised?” The lady suddenly spoke, jerking me out of my thoughts. I turned to face her and recognised her instantly.

“Remember me?” she asked, taking a sit on an empty plastic chair directly in front of me. I tried to speak but my voice came out in a muffled tone.

“Remove the wrap from her mouth!” She ordered. One of the guys came forward behind me and loosened it off. I felt fresh air and coughed out repeatedly.

“You were saying?” she urged me on.

“I said, you again! You witch!” I repeated, anger vested in my voice. She laughed.

“I’m glad you remember me,” she said with a slight smile. I would have punched her in the face if my hands weren’t tied.
“What do you want from me this time, witch?” I spat angrily.

Almost immediately, a thunderous slap befell my left cheek.

“Mind how you talk to Lady Tee!” The macho guy behind me barked. I bowed my head towards the ground, squealing from the imprinted impact to my cheek.

“Thank you.” The lady gestured.

“Now look here,” she ordered. I paid no heed and kept my head down.

“She said look here!” The guy behind me barked, pulling my hair up to face her.

“Do you remember the first day we met, what I told you?” Lady Tee asked, directing the question to me. I remained mute.

“Do you remember the last time we met?” she asked again. I said nothing.

“ʼTell your Senator to take his money and bundle himself to hell.ʼ Wasn’t that what you told me?”

Again, I remained silent.

“Well,” she continued, “today is your lucky day. I’m happy to tell you that the Senator himself is here today, so you can as well repeat that exact statement to his face.”

With a click of her fingers, the macho guy behind me re-wrapped my mouth and after that, another guy opened the door and went out. In a split second, he returned again with a man and another armed guy behind that man.

The man was pot-bellied, fat and looked like an obese. I was certain he was the Senator in question, from the way he walked, the way he looked and the way the other guys hailed him.

Hurriedly, Lady Tee stood up for him to sit after dusting the chair with her palm, and he sat, facing me.

The macho guy behind me lit a stick of cigarette and handed it to him. He inhaled it deeply and then puffed it to my face. I choked from the smoke.

“So it’s you.” He simply said, with a bass pitched voice, slightly laughing.

“Untie her!” He said next. The macho guy behind me loosened the ropes on my hands and legs, and then unwrapped the seal on my mouth. For the first time that moment, I felt comfortable. Yet, I wondered why I was let loose.

“I want us to reason like humans,” he said, inhaling deeply into the cigarette with an avid stare on me. Thereafter, he threw it down and mashed it roughly under his feet.

“Like humans?” I repeated. He nodded.

“Like humans, yet you kidnapped me, tied me up and held me hostage here? What kind of human are you?”

At this, the guy behind me raised a hand to hit
me, but the Senator gave him a sign to be calm.

“I gave you a chance. You had the chance, and you blew it up,” the Senator said, and continued, “I still offered you money. I gave you gifts, and I was willing to give even more, but yet, you had the guts to tell me to take my money and bundle myself to hell, isn’t it?”
I remained silent.

“Well, I am a man of patience. I forgive you for that,” he said, and added, “But, it also depends on how you cooperate with us henceforth.”

Hearing that, I already knew where he was headed even before he spoke.

“Nobody knows you are here, nobody knows where you are. Worst of it all, nobody would come to save or help you, except you comply with us. Is that clear?”

I nodded hesitantly, eager to hear what he had to say next.

“I really don’t get how hard it is for someone like you, as smart as you are, to snitch up on these guys and supply me inside information concerning their plans for the election processes, while I pay you handsomely for it. And at the end of the day, if it eventually turns out as we expect and I win to become Governor, we part ways like nothing ever happened… I just don’t understand!” he lamented frantically, looking me in the eyes. I stared back harder.

“If you do me this favor,” he continued, “I promise to establish you beyond your dreams than you could ever imagine.”
I laughed out loud.

“What’s funny in what I just said?” The Senator asked, confused.

“I rather die than aid you in this quest!” I stated plainly, spitting out to his face. He marvelled in shock!

The next thing I knew, a hot-sauced slap welcomed me heavily.

“How dare you!” The Senator raved, staring fiercely at me, with rage filled in his eyes.

In a twinkle of an eye, another slap welcomed me again.

“I’ll make sure you regret this,” he said angrily whilst walking away, and then stopped halfway towards the door.

“Boys, deal with her mercilessly!”