??Love and betrayal ??
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??Episode 29??
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Elaine can’t stop crying.
She is devastated.
She is with Doctor Anaman and her friends.
The shocked doctor has just finished explaining to her
how she had ended up giving birth to Dr. Rupert
Henderson’s son.
DR. ANAMAN
(in a kind voice)
I’m sorry, Elaine. I’m very sorry.
That’s how it happened!
Elaine cannot speak, and she cannot stop crying. Dr.
Anaman sighs de-eply and for a moment he considers sedating her again to calm her down, but he decides it will be best to let her cry.
Sheena tries to hold and console her, but Elaine pushes
her away.
REBECCA
Please, Elly! Be strong! Please!
But Elaine just can’t stop.
The door opens and a nurse comes.
She is pushing a cot; Elaine’s new born baby is lying in the cot.
At the sight of the baby Elaine screams shrilly and gets off the bed.
She runs to a corner of the ward, sits on the floor a
cowers with fear and rage.
ELAINE
(screaming)
SEND HIM AWAY! I DON’T WANT TO SEE HIM! TAKE
HIM A AWAYYYYYYYY!!
They try to calm her, but suddenly she picks up a flask on a low table and hurls it at the cot.
DR. ANAMAN
Jesus! Calm down, Elaine!!!
ELAINE
TAKE HIM AWAYYYYYYYY! I WILL KILL HIM! TAKE HIM
AWAAAAYYYYYY!!!
Luckily the flask misses the cot and crashes into the door, and hot water pours out of it.
DR. ANAMAN
(gesturing to the nurse)
Take him out.
The nurse wheels the baby out of the ward.
The door opens again and Steve enters.
Elaine flies at him, hands raised, and she begins to scratch at his face.
ELAINE
(still screaming)
STEVE! BASTARD!! YOU MADE ME CARRY THAT BEAST
IN ME!! BASTAAAAAAARD!!! YOU WERE CHEATING ON ME WITH THAT WOMAN!!! BASTAAAAAARD!!
Her fingers have opened a couple of de-ep cuts on
Steve’s face.
Her friends drag her back. She takes off her wedding
ring and throws it at Steve.
STEVE
Elaine, dammit
ELAINE
GET OUT STEVE!! I DON’T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU
AGAIN. OUUUUUUUTTTT!!!!
Luckily Dr. Anaman injects her then, and a few seconds later she goes limp and they put her on the bed.
STEVE
(in a depressed voice)
Jesus, Gabby! What’s wrong with her?
Doctor Anaman looks at Steve with sudden intense
dislike.
DR. ANAMAN
Are you asking me? You’re also a damn Doctor, Steve!
She’s suffering from postpartum psychosis! You see the
harm your undisciplined pe-nis has caused?
STEVE
Postpartum psychosis? Oh, Lord! No!
SHEENA
(in a worried voice)
Please, what’s this postpartu thing?
DR. ANAMAN
She is temporarily insane. She nee-ds to be taken to our
psychiatric section.
Doctor Anaman walks out in a blast of fury.
THE HENDERSON RESIDENCE
Rupert Henderson enters the living-room.
Barbara gets up and approaches him. She is wearing a very short pair of blue jeans and a halter top.
She looks s-×y and very beautiful indeed.
She stands up and approaches him.
She makes a mock face at him and puts her arms around his ne-ck and ki-sses him gently.
BARBARA
You still have that lost-boy look you had yesterday,
sweetheart. What’s ailing you?
Rupert drops his attache case into a couch and walks to the bar to pour himself a drink.
They are showing CHEATERS on the television, and he smiles sadly as he picks the remote and lowers the
volume.
RUPERT
Elaine gave birth yesterday, Barbs. A very handsome
little boy. And it turns out he is my son.
Barbara stops suddenly, and her face go very cold with
a sudden explosion of jealousy.
She speaks throu-ghfurious li-ps.
BARBARA
I don’t un-derstand, Rupe. What do you mean “your son”?
Rupert sits down slowly and takes a sip of his drink.
RUPERT
Actually, it shocked all of us yesterday. The boy is white and bears a striking resemblance to me. Steve was furious, and yesterday we had to take a quick DNA test, and it showed that I’m the child’s biological father. Barbara’s hands turn into claws at her sides. She stares at her husband with unrestrained hatred.
BARBARA
You impregnated Elaine, that slut?
Rupert waves his drink at her, then drains the glas-s.
RUPERT
Oh, nothing as dramatic as that! You remember that time, ten months or so ago, when you came to the office and we had a quickie? You were so damn horny, I remember, and we were so into it. And you wanted more but had to step into a meeting. Well, guess what happened! It seems Steve came into my office and had s-× with you too, that same day, a few minutes after I left you.
Barbara’s face drains of blood. She begins to tremble. She swoons and almost crashes to the ground. Rupert
looks at her without pity.
She takes tottering steps forward and falls down on her knees. She tries to speak, and tears just fills her eyes
BARBARA
(in a choked voice)
Oh… Rupe…
RUPERT
(voice now filled with pain)
So this is what happened. Steve is not circu-mcised,
right?
Her li-ps tremble, and she shakes her head numbly.
BARBARA
Rupe!
RUPERT
(de-ep agony on his face now)
Well, some of my sp-erm s got trapped un-der Steve’s foreskin when he made love to you, because he’s not circu-mcised. Now when he left you he went and had s-× with Elaine, and my sp-erm s, trapped in his foreskin after he made love to you, fertilized Elaine’s eggs, and she got pregnant. Ha, Steve thought he was the father, the sterile son-of-a-bitc-h! Now that is crazy, isn’t it? In the end, you succeeded in giving me a son after all,
Barbs!
Rupert is in so much pain, and he is squeezing the glas-s so ha-rd that it breaks, and the sha-rds cut his palm, and
blood begins to flow, but he doesn’t appear to feel it. Barbara is crying uncontrollably now. Her whole face is a picture of wretchedness, a reflection of bitter remorse.
BARBARA
(bitterly,remorsefully)
Oh, my darling! I’m so sorry! Never meant to hurt you! Please forgive me, darling! I’ve called it off! I broke off with him, my love! It began in a moment of insanity! I’m sorry, darling! It’s was nothing! Just nothing! It is you I love!
RUPERT
(screaming)
STOP LYING! A HOTEL? THE LOVE BED HOTEL, RIGHT?
YOU WERE HIS who-re!!! GODDAMN YOU, BARBS!!
She tries to hold on to him.
BARBARA
I’m so sorry! Please forgive me, Rupe. Oh, I’m so terribly sorry! I broke it off!!
Rupert pushes her away from him and enters the guest
room.
He locks it behind him, and although she cries and
hammers on it for a long time, he pays no heed to her. He notices the blood trickling from his hand for the first
time, and as he walks towards the bathroom door to get the bathroom he falls to his knees and begins to weep
it cleaned, his legs begin to tremble, and when he enters
in a heartbroken manner.
THE HOLLISON RESIDENCE
Jonathan Afful and Steve Hollison enter the living-room.
They are both very drunk.
Steve’s parents are huddled on the couch. His mother gets up, and there are dried tear trails on her face.
She tries to touch her son, but he moves back from her.
IRIS HOLLISON
Stevie! Oh, my boy
STEVE
(in a very hurt voice)
No, Mama, no! You and Dad, you wanted your heir,
YOUR GRANDSON… and now see what happened? Your damn meddling nose robbed me of the love of my life!
His father gets up angrily.
CAPTAIN HOLLISON
Hey, boy! Watch how you speak to your mother!
AFFUL
(laughing drunkenly)
But it’s true! You guys messed up his life pretty good!
Now you have your heir… a white boy! How are you
going to explain that to your friends and family?
The Captain shakes his head.
CAPTAIN HOLLISON
We’ve all wronged Effe! Getting drunk will not fix it. If
you have any sense left in your heads, boys, you would
both go and beg those sisters to take you back.
And with that he storms out of the room.
IRIS HOLLISON
(fresh tears in her eyes)
I ruined your life, Stevie, my son! And I’m very sorry! It was wrong of me, sorry!
AFFUL
(snickering)
Technically, you didn’t ruin his life, Mama. He was already slugging Elaine way before you came on the scene. It was only when she got pregnant that you sensibly asked him to do the right thing and stay with her. How were you to know he was carrying some white man’s schilazoo un-der his damn foreskin? The way I see it, he dug his own grave, and lost Effe, just like I dug my own grave and lost Eyram. But what I don’t un-derstand is why this fool has remained uncircu-mcised for all these years! fuc-king idiot! Royal blood my as-s! Now look at all the trouble that extra skin on his damn di-ck
has gotten him!
Steve tries to speak, but then he slowly shakes his head as tears fill his eyes.
STEVE
Oh, Effe, Effe, Effe! My love! My true love! I’m so sorry!
Please forgive me!!
Jonathan Afful laughs stridently, but Iris Hollison takes
her son’s hands and speaks gently.
IRIS HOLLISON
I’m sorry, my son! Don’t worry, I’ll make it right! I’ll go to
Effe and beg her!!
Steve takes his hands from her and goes to stand at the window. His li-ps tremble as silent tears fall down his cheeks.
STEVE
(in a tremulous voice)
I had it all! A good job, a very talented beautiful wife!
Life was so good, so full of life! She was an angel
behind me, shielding me from the pains of the world! And what did I do? For want of a child I hurt her, cheated on her with her own sister! I hurt her, humiliated her, and killed her soul! FOR WHAT?? I divorced her and married Elaine. FOR WHAT? was carrying a bastard man’s jui-ce in my stupid foreskin! A royal man? Jon is right… look at all the trouble that damn foreskin got me! Damn, I’m getting circu-mcised tomorrow!! And now I’ve lost Effe and put Elaine in a damn mental institution! For what, Mama? FOR WHAT?
Jonathan Afful goes and stands beside his friend. He lifts a bottle of scotch to his li-ps and drinks long, and then he gives the bottle to Steve, who also takes a pull.
Iris Hollison puts a trembling hand to her li-ps as she sees the pain of her son.
AFFUL
(slurring drunkenly)
We’re two fools, my paddy. We thought we were
invisible, that we’ve permanently conquered the hearts of those twins, but it turned out they’re way stronger than we thought.
Me, I’ve gone damn impotent. Now if Eyram asks me to lic-k her toes, I’ll obey! But I’ve lost her trust, I’ve lost her love… and I’ve lost her body! And do you know something funny? She took my damn di-ck along! I can’t get a fuc-king erection!!!
The two friends begin to laugh loudly at that, but suddenly Afful sits down and begins to weep bitterly. Steve sits beside him and says nothing, but when he raises his head Iris sees tortured tears pouring down her son’s face too.
She goes to sit down beside him, and then puts her arm around his shoulders and draws him close.
IRIS HOLLISON
It’s a difficult time, my dear love. But it’s not over yet.
You and Effe divorced just a few days ago. She might still be hurting, but this is the time to pursue her again, and make her see how sorry you are.
STEVE
(bitterly)
There’s another man in her life, Mama!
Iris shakes her son ha-rd.
IRIS HOLLISON
A taxi driver, son! You’re the CEO of the best hospital in
Africa! You were her first love, her husband, the man who broke her V¡rginity! You have ties over her that no man has, and which certainly wouldn’t be easy for an illiterate taxi driver to cut! Have your drink, go to sleep, and tomorrow you’re going to pursue Effe like you’ve never done before. You can have her back, son! I’m very sure of that. Nothing is impossible un-der this planet.
STEVE
(hopefully)
Really, Mama? You believe that?
IRIS HOLLISON
I know that, son.
AFFUL
(laughing raucously)
Hogwash! fuc-king hogwash! He’s lost her forever! That
taxi bastard gave it to her like a toff! She ain’t coming back for you, my paddy! She’s gone for good.
IRIS HOLLISON
(in a ha-rd voice)
Shut up!
Jonathan falls silent.
Steve wipes tears from his eyes.
STEVE
I believe you, Mama.
IRIS HOLLISON
You should, my dearest son. You’re going to have the
love of your life back. Don’t you worry!
She leaves the two drunken friends and pick her phone.
She leaves the living-room and goes out to the back
porch, and then she dials a number.
MADAM IVY
(icily)
I’ve been expecting your call.
IRIS HOLLISON
(remorseful)
I was wrong, Ivy. But I’m a mother, and I did for my son what you would’ve done in my stead. But I admit I was wrong. For that I apologize to you. Being a mother, I also know you wouldn’t let your daughter marry that wretch of a taxi driver. My son is available, and only your daughter can heal him now. It seems we both have a common goal.
MADAM IVY
You’re a real bitc-h, Iris. You’ve always been. If it had been any other man apart from that Chris Bawa, I would’ve let my daughter go and let your son rot in hell.
He doesn’t deserve Effe!
IRIS HOLLISON
I know, Ivy. I know. I’m more to be blamed, forgive me.
Like I said, I’m truly sorry. But here we are, and it’s that
taxi driver. We have a common enemy. The old adage is a fact in this instance: the enemy of my enemy is my friend!
Ivy Kedem is silent for a while. When she speaks her voice is serious and ice-cold
MADAM IVY
If Effe and Steve come together, there’ll be the same problem. Effe still might not be able to give you grandchildren.
IRIS HOLLISON
(with a long sigh)
I know. I know. After the shock of what happened with
Elaine, I guess we wouldn’t mind so much if they adopt.
I’ve spoken to the Commander. We’ll support them to adopt. I’m being serious and honest with you, Ivy.
MADAM IVY
Alright. Talk. I’m listening. What do you have in mind
To be continued….