??Love and betrayal ??
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??Episode 34??
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It is a cold basement.
The walls are solid concrete, with no
windows. Stone steps lead upstairs to a door.
There is nothing else in the room except
a rickety standing fan, a water closet
toilet and a single 100 watt bulb that
burns in the concrete ceiling.
The room is stinking. Chris Bawa is sitting on a metal chair.
He is still wearing only boxer shorts, and
his hands are ti-ghtly tied to the metal
arms of the chair.
His feet are also tied to the metal legs of
the chair. His face is so swollen that his eyes are almost closed.
There is blood on his che-st, around his
nostrils and on his li-ps.
Standing over him is Sergeant Ato
McBaiden, who is wearing military
fatigues and has ha-rd leather gloves on his hands.
He is sweating from continuously hitting
Chris with his fists.
Chris is shivering, and his chin is resting
on his che-st.
McBaiden grins evilly and bends to look at Chris.
MCBAIDEN
Cuger said you were a tough guy, but
shit, you’re just like a weak little pv$$y!
You’re not dead, are you?
Chris raises his head with some difficulty, and when he gives an evil smile there are
blood stains on his teeth.
CHRIS
(speaking with great difficulty)
I’m still here, Mary!
McBaiden’s jaw ti-ghtens with uncontrollable fury, and he stands back
and swings a hu-ge right fist into Chris’
face.
The blow makes Chris M0-n with pain,
and it flings him back so that he crashes
to the floor, still tied to the chair.
MCBAIDEN
You fuc-king as-s-hole! Call me Mary again
and I’ll kill you!
Chris chuckles and spits on the floor as
blood pours out from fresh cuts on his
li-ps and nose.
CHRIS
You hit like a frog, Mary Adobea!
McBaiden screams and swings his leg.
His heavy boot strikes Chris in the che-st.
Again Chris Gr0-ns and coughs out
blood. He can ba-rely breathe, but once again he
chuckles weakly.
McBaiden wipes sweat from his
forehead.
MCBAIDEN
(voice dangerous and nasty) You have balls, I give you that. But I’m
going to break you, yes, body and spirit.
Thirsty, little boy?
CHRIS
(weakly, in great pain)
Adobea Mary! Mary Ekua Adobea McBaiden!
McBaiden laughs nastily.
He goes to the corner where a bottle of
water and a plastic cu-p are on a little
plastic table.
He picks up the cu-p, unzi-ps his fly, and urinates into it. He laughs, and picks up
the water.
He pours some into the urine, shakes it to
mix, and then he approaches Chris, who
is still lying on the floor.
MCBAIDEN
(in a sing-song voice)
Loverboy is thirsty! Loverboy is thirsty!!
He sets the cu-p down, and then he lifts
the chair to a sitting position.
He picks up the cu-p again and looks at
Chris, and he sees an anger so terrible in Chris’ eyes that for a moment he balks.
CHRIS
(in a hissing voice)
I’ll tell you this, man, if you dare put that
urine mixture anywhere near my mouth,
I’m gonna kill you!
McBaiden roars with laughter and shakes
his head.
MCBAIDEN
Let me see you try. This ain’t urine, boy.
It’s called Urishandy! Special drink, boy,
and you’re going to drink every little drop of it!
He grabs Chris’ head and begins to bring
the evil drink to Chris’ mouth!
Suddenly the door at the top of the steps
opens, and a woman and man’s voices
are heard. McBaiden steps away from Chris and
puts the cu-p quickly on the small table.
A moment later Madam Ivy and Chief
Inspector Cuger come into the basement.
Cuger is in black jeans, black T-shirt and
a black police cap. Madam Ivy is wearing a pretty ash suit
that makes her look very attra-ctive
indeed.
She walks on high-heels to Chris’ side
and looks down at him with eyes filled
with hatred.
CHRIS
(with a little chuckle)
Hello, Sweet Ama Baby, my adorable
mother-in-law.
Madam Ivy slap-s Chris, again and again.
MADAM IVY
You bastard! You bastard, Chris! You
damn bastard!! You dare sleep with my
daughter? You damn BASTARD!!!
She steps back finally, and Chris spits a
ball of blood onto the floor.
CHRIS
Waow. What a welcome, Sweet Ama
Baby! The last time I was alone with you,
so many years ago, you were quite nak-ed
and begging me to make love to you!
Remember?
Madam Ivy spits into Chris’ face.
MADAM IVY
You filthy little pig! I trusted you, all I
nee-ded was a loving touch, and you
humiliated me! Drugged me and fled!
Didn’t see you again and I settled into my
marriage as a devout wife, and then you appeared …WITH MY OWN DAUGHTER!
Is this your revenge? Is this how you
planned to hurt me? To mess up with my
daughter?
CHRIS
Believe me, the first time I met Effe I fell for her. She’s the only woman who has
been able to capture my heart like that.
However, if I had known she were your
daughter, I wouldn’t have come near her
a second time. By the time I finally met
you, I was already completely in love with her.
CUGER
Liar!
He backhands Chris across the face, and
the ring he is wearing opens up a hu-ge
cut across Chris’ forehead, and it starts to bleed.
MADAM IVY
You’ll never have her, Chris!
CHRIS
You can’t keep me away from Effe, dear
Sweet Ama Baby! You know, all those years when you were blackmailing me to
sleep with those despicable evil women,
and whilst you were abusing me,
touching me, forcibly ki-ssing me and
fondling me, I never even once
suspected you had a husband, and daughters who were almost as old as me!
How could you be so callous? I’m going
to tell Effe everything. I should’ve told
her a long time ago, but I was scared of
losing her. But now I’m gonna tell her all
about you!
Madam Ivy kneels down besides Chris
and uses her handkerchief as a compress
to stem the flow of blood from his
forehead.
She touches his cheek, and runs a finger
gently down his che-st to his groin. Her hand disappears into his boxers, and
although he struggles furiously, she
grabs his manhood and begins to fondle
him.
MADAM IVY
Poor, poor Chris! Do you sincerely think I’m going to allow you to mess up my
daughter? She now hates you, because
she believes you’re a thief and a terrible
beast who sleeps with women and steal
from them. When I framed you with
Janet, the money and a shot of Tremors in your blood, didn’t you hear her say she
never ever wants to see you? And there’s
something even more beautiful. She and
Steve have decided to come back
together. She’s now in his house, and
they’re making love each night, Chris!
CHRIS
(with de-ep pain)
Take your damn hand from my boxers!
You evil woman! You’re lying! Effe is too
decent to betray me without speaking to
me first!
MADAM IVY
(cruelly)
In your dreams, lover boy! She doesn’t
give two hoots about you. You were just
a pas-sing fancy, a calm after Steve’s
betrayal! She has gone back to the man she truly loves, lover boy!
Chris raises his face to the roof. He is so
hurt that tears squee-zepast his ti-ghtly-
shut eyelids.
CHRIS
Oh Effe! How could you do this to me? Why, Effe, Effe? Oh, why, oh, why, why,
why, oh why Effe??
They all chuckle, and she finally leaves
his manhood and removes the
handkerchief from his wound.
CUGER
Do you sincerely think you’re going to
leave this basement, Chrissy boy? Of
course we’re going to tell Effe that you
were extradited to South Africa to stand
trials for your crimes. You’re going to
remain in this cellar until Effe reconciles with Stevie, or another man. You’re a
prisoner here, boy! And by the time we
rele-ase you, you would probably be mad!
CHRIS
(with a dangerous little smile)
You can’t keep me here. You can’t break me. Effe and I are going to be together.
Madam Ivy touches Chris’ right cheek
almost tenderly.
MADAM IVY
Poor, poor, Darling Boy! Do you think Effe
will accept you once she knows that you slept with me, her own mother?
Chris snarls at her.
CHRIS
I NEVER SLEPT WITH YOU! I DRUGGED
YOU AND FLED FROM YOU,
REMEMBER?
Again Cuger and Madam Ivy laugh.
CUGER
You’re a fool, Chris. Don’t you know that
Madam Ivy, the powerful Sweet Ama
Baby, always gets what she wants?
Chris, suddenly gripped by a terrible fear, look from one to the other, and it is
evident his cool is deserting him, and he
is beginning to be stressed out.
CHRIS
What are you talking about?
Madam Ivy leans closer to him. She puts her mouth to his ear and speaks softly.
MADAM IVY
Oh, poor, poor, Chrissy boy! Haven’t you
wondered why I was so jealous when I
saw you with my daughter? You’re the
only man …well, you were a boy then …who made me feel like a woman!
Haven’t you wondered why I love you so
much? You made love to me and I loved
it so much!
Chris strains at the ropes binding him as
his face screws up with abject horror.
CHRIS
YOU’RE LYING! IT’S A LIE!! I NEVER
SLEPT WITH YOU! NEVEEEERRR!!
Madam Ivy ki-sses the side of his li-ps, and
he cringes from her.
MADAM IVY
Hm. Poor boy. Do you remember Miss
Baaba Sarpong? The woman who always
met you at Beach Road, always in a dark
room, always silent, and who was so kind
to you and always gave you so much
money and food and clothing? You liked Miss Baaba, didn’t you? You were sorry
for her too, because she was a deaf mute
who preferred to stay in the dark.
Chris shakes his head numbly with
mounting horror!
He remembers being taken to see the mysterious Miss Baaba Sarpong.
He was told by Madam Ida, the Governess at the
Orphanage, that Miss Baaba was deaf and mute.
She always met Chris at her apartment at
Beach Road always in a very dark room! She never spoke, and the room had
always been very dark.
She would take Chris to bed. She had
been gentle and un-derstanding.
She always gave him money secretly,
and clothes for his friends at the orphanage.
Chris had trusted and liked her. Later,
when he fled from Madam Ivy, he had
tried to locate the mysterious Miss Baaba
but to no avail.
It seemed she had vanished from the earth.
But all along it had been Madam Ivy!
Sweet Ama Baby again… once again at
her evil best, destroying him, destroying
his life!
Anguished tears suddenly fall down Chris’ face.
CHRIS
(weeping uncontrollably)
No, no, no! Ivy, please, please, please! I
beg of you! Don’t say it! Please, don’t say
it!! Madam Ivy leans forward and puts her
arms around his ne-ck.
MADAM IVY
(tenderly)
Do you remember these arms, Chris,
Darling Boy?
She touches him slowly, tenderly, and
Chris M0-ns with disgust and pain …she
is right! Baaba Sarpong had tou-ched him like that!
Ivy Kedem had tricked him! She had been Baaba Sarpong,
the woman he had made love to countless times, always in the dark.
CUGER
Ah! Look at his face, Ivy! Priceless! The
boy is in agony!
Madam Ivy stands up and looks down at the weeping Chris.
MADAM IVY
Yes, Chris. I disguised myself as Miss
Baaba Sarpong, and made love to you in
the dark, without speaking! So you see,
you’re the only man that ever made me unfaithful in my marriage! I carried that
horrible cross, and each time I look at my
husband, guilt tears my soul apart! But it
happened … you slept with me, even
though you didn’t know it was me, and
you’ve slept with my daughter! That’s a taboo! An abnormality! And when Effe
finds out, she’s going to hate you forever!
If you insist on seeing her I’ll tell her what
happened between us, and believe me,
she would damn and hate you for the rest
of her life! She would probably hate me too, but it’s a price I’m prepared to pay to
keep you away from her!!
Chris’ body is shaking with sorrow and
agony.
CHRIS
Oh, Madam Ivy! You’re evil! You’re so evil! Why have you ruined my life like
this? Oh, Effe, my Princess, my Angel, my
breath! Forgive me, Effe! Dearest, please
forgive me!
His heart is breaking!
His anguish is so de-ep and complete that for a moment the smile of triumph leaves
Madam Ivy’s face, and she knows finally
that this handsome boy really loves her
daughter.
MADAM IVY
Chris-
CHRIS
(shouting)
KEEP AWAY FROM ME! YOU ARE EVIL.
KEEP AWAY FROM ME!!!
Before anybody can speak again the
door crashes open suddenly. Madam Ivy screams with fear when six
hu-ge men come down the stairs, all of
them holding guns.
Cuger tries to pull his pistol from its
holster, but the man in the lead swings
his gun on him.
ABDUL
Give me a reason to cut you into two!
Hands up, everybody!
Shaking with fear, the three of them raise
their hands above their heads.
CUGER
Whoever you guys are, you’re going to
regret this. I’m a Chief Inspector, and I’m
going to use every resource within my
power to hunt you down.
Abdul Adams smiles and crashes the bu-tt
of his pump-action rifle into Cuger’s face, breaking his cheekbone and two of his
front teeth.
Cuger screams and falls ha-rd to the
ground, and as blood pours down his
face he is suddenly terrified.
ABDUL
Sure, come after me, fool!
Madam Ivy has gone very pale with a
mixture of fear and rage.
MADAM IVY
Who’re you guys?
Abdul turns to Chris, and sees how badly hurt he is.
His gaze turns to the defiant-looking
McBaiden, and he approaches the
Sergeant with his bu-tt raised again.
CHRIS
Stop! That bastard is mine, Abdul!
ABDUL
Yeah, Rasta!
Madam Ivy’s face crumples with sudden
fear. She grabs Abdul’s arm suddenly.
MADAM IVY
Please! Oh, please! Don’t rele-ase him! Whatever he’s paying you, I’ll give you
five times more!!
Abdul smiles mirthlessly.
ABDUL
You can’t buy Chris’ friendship, lady. Hey
guys, cut the Captain lose!
One of the six men cut the ropes binding
Chris, and some of them help him to his
feet.
He looks over at McBaiden, and the look
in his eyes suddenly drives terror into
Sergeant McBaiden’s heart. He tries to smile, but he quails inside!
Chris walks forward slowly with a nasty
smile on his face, and he stops in front of
McBaiden.
CHRIS
I’m not going to tie you up, boy. You beat me bad when I was tied up. You almost
gave me some UriShandy, or whatever
the hell it is. It is over there on the table.
Go and drink it, and I’ll forget and forgive
you for all your misdeeds.
McBaiden snorts and shakes his head.
MCBAIDEN
You have your goons here, so you’re
acting tough and br@ve! What about you
and me going at it man to man,
mano-a-mano, if you have the balls?
Again Chris smiles nastily.
CHRIS
What else did you think I was going to do
to you? I’m going to beat the living
bejesus outta you!!
Suddenly McBaiden swings a fist, but like
air Chris parries it, and then he sinks a terrible left hook that sends McBaiden
crashing to the floor.
The policeman whimpers with fear, and
then outrage.
He springs to his feet with indignation,
and rushes at Chris, who spins and crushes a knee into McBaiden’s face.
What follows is a terrible punishment as
Chris begins to beat McBaiden with
terrible finesse and power.
After just two minutes McBaiden is sure
his bones might be broken. He tries to defend himself, but he is no
match for Chris’ expertise.
Very soon McBaiden’s face is all cut up
badly and pouring with blood.
He begins to whimper and beg Chris for
mercy. Cuger and Madam Ivy are huddled
together in one corner.
A final blow flings McBaiden to the floor,
and he holds up one of his hands in
supplication to Chris.
MCBAIDEN
Please, please! I give up! I’m so sorry! No
more, please! No more, please!
Chris smiles nastily.
CHRIS
You drink the UriShandy, and I’ll leave
you, otherwise I’m gonna kill you!
Whimpering with fear, McBaiden crawls
to the table, picks up the cu-p containing
the mixture of urine and water, and drinks
almost everything, his face filled with
disgust and pain.
He gags and almost drops the cu-p, but when Chris raises his foot the corrupt
policeman drinks to the last drop.
Chris nods approvingly.
CHRIS
Lovely!
ABDUL
What the hell was that, Bro?
Chris chuckles.
CHRIS
Urishandy, Bro.
ABDUL
(puzzled) What the fuc-k be Urishandy?
CHRIS
Mixture of urine and water.
ABDUL
(eyes opening wide with shock)
That dude mix wee-wee and water for you?
CHRIS
(nodding)
Yep. He urinated into the cu-p and mixed
it with water and had the audacity to
offer it me to drink.
ABDUL
(angrily, with disgust)
Motherfuc-ker!
He steps forward and crashes a boot into
McBaiden’s stomach.
The policeman screams and vomits all over the floor.
Chris turns his back on McBaiden and
walks to Madam Ivy and Cuger.
Cuger, having witnessed how terribly
vicious and savage Chris had been when
he beat McBaiden, suddenly falls on his knees and speaks with tears falling down
his eyes.
CUGER
I’m sorry, Chris! Please don’t hurt me!!!
CHRIS
You damn coward!
CUGER
How did your people find this place?
Chris smiles, and touches the locket on a
silver chain around his ne-ck.
CHRIS
I have a lot of enemies, Cuger, so this locket around my ne-ck contains a
tracking device and an alarm. When I
press a hidden bu-tton behind it, it sends
an alarm to my friends. It is also
embedded with a GPS Locater, and so
they just follow the signal to wherever I’m being held. Cute, isn’t it?
He kneels down beside Cuger, who
raises his hands defensively, his face
once again filled with fear.
CUGER
Chris! Please! Don’t hurt me! Chris grabs the front of Cuger’s shirt and
pulls him close.
CHRIS
I’m not gonna hurt you, Cuger! I’m just
gonna make sure you spend time in
prison, because you’re a disgrace to that uniform. You’re going to prison, man.
Believe that.
He pushes Cuger back and gets to his
feet.
CHRIS
Make we roll, boys.
The six armed guys follow Chris.
He pauses at the top stair and looks at
Madam Ivy.
She looks contrite and devastated, and
tears of failure fall down her cheeks.
MADAM IVY
Damn you Chris! You slept with me! You
can’t be with my daughter!! She’s happy
with Steve now! Go away and let her
enjoy her happiness!!
CHRIS
I can’t face her, Ama. The evil things you made me do will always make me feel
dirty and unworthy of Effe’s love. I’m
going far away, Ivy. I feel dirty, used, and
absolutely unworthy of her love. Effe’s
clean. Effe’s an angel. She doesn’t
deserve any less. I feel worthless in her eyes now. You have ruined the slice of
happiness I tasted since my birth. I hope
you are satisfied now. Better let her hate
me, and my memory, than to let her know
that I was ever inti-mate with her mother.
It’s very sick. If I had known, I would have fought this feeling with my last breath
just not to hurt her. I know she’ll be
shattered to learn what happened
between us. I’ll never get over her. I’m
going to die slowly because I love her so,
but you win, Ivy, you win. You should go and adorn yourself with your victory
clothes and accessories. You win.
Goodbye forever, Sweet Ama Baby! I
curse the day I met you. And you better
believe this, I didn’t hurt you today
because you’re the mother of the woman I love.
But, if you ever come after me again, and I dare you to,
I’m gonna peel the skin off your body! You’ll find out just how mad I am! Perhaps it is better that Effe is now with Steve. If she loves him, and used me on the rebound just to please herself and hurt me, she can have him. I’ll learn to hate her too, and perhaps in doing that, my
heart can find some peace! With that he and his men go throu-ghthe destroyed door,
and vanish from view.
Suddenly Madam Ivy’s legs give way, and she falls on
her knees in the room, and begins to weep bitterly.
To be continued…