The oath Episode 17 to 20

THE OATH
Episode 17.
 
 
Tunde had become so lean in eight days. He neither eats nor drinks anything from the house. He had lost his appetite and does not know how to get throu-gh this. The time he was given was running out.
 
That evening he sits outside gazing at the beautiful stars of the night, suddenly he heard the rush of the wind. It sounded evil and this got Tunde scared. He stood up to run into the house, and then he saw him.
 
When Tunde saw him he remembered him immediately. This was the same man that they called Lord Spiritual.
 
Tunde: Jesus! Blood of Jesus! Jesus!
 
Lord Spiritual: Shut up your mouth there. Shut up before I strike you.
 
Tunde: what do you want from me.
 
Lord Spiritual: Tunde, it’s like you really want to die. You are yet to perform your sacrifice and I have come by myself to know why because time is running out.
 
Tunde: plea-se sir, I don’t want to have anything to do with you or your cult. plea-se just let me be. I can’t kill my mother plea-se sir. I can’t do it.
 
Lord Spiritual: There is no turning back Tunde, you took na Oath and you must fufil that sacrifice.
 
Tunde: what kind of oath did I take unknowingly. What kind of oath do they decieve one to take without the person knowing. plea-se sir. Klein didn’t tell me anything, I wouldn’t have…….
 
Lord Spiritual: Did you know when you collected his money?
Did you beg him to help you or not?
Did you eat the food he gave you knowingly or unknowingly.
Did you accept the things he gave you freely or unknowingly.
 
Tunde: But I wouldnt have taken anything from him if I had known. I wouldn’t have.
 
Lord Spiritual: it’s too late to cry Tunde. You are in and there is no going back. You have thirteen days left to sacrifice your mom or you die.
 
Tunde: (crying) But I can’t, I really can’t do it. plea-se sir. I am a Christian and Jesus forbids killing, I serve Jesus. I really can’t do this plea-se un-derstand sir. plea-se.
 
Lord Spiritual: thirteen days and you will pay with your own life. Next time, you will chose whom and whom not to accept gifts from. You will seek spiritual counsel from the one you claim to serve before you make decisions. When you don’t ask questions and un-derstand them before you make decisions this is what you get. Thirteen days……
 
(And right before Tunde’s eyes the Lord Spiritual disappears)
 
Tunde runs into the house and straight into his room. He jumps on his be-d and starts crying……..
 
Episode 18.
 
Tunde had become like a walking corpse, he has lost appetite for food or water, he was so confused he didn’t know what to do. He has forgotten how to pray and does not even know where to start.
 
As he sits that evening outside their house thinking of his life, a young preacher was walking by and preaching the gospel. The megaphone she held was so loud that Tunde could not ignore and pretend that he wasn’t hearing what the lady was saying.
 
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, the Lord forbids it. Sin drives away the pres£nce of God from you. When you done with unbelievers , when you place yourself in sin, the holy ghost leaves you because the holy ghost can’t dwell in the same place where sin dwells”
 
As Tunde hears this his heart was shattering into pieces even more than it alre-ady was shattered. He began to think to himself.
 
“So the holy ghost have truly left me, so I am all alone, no wonder he has refused to deliver me from this problem. It is because I have soiled my hands, I have dined with unbelievers and now sin now dwells in me. There is nothing left for me here now.
 
I have just 9 days before I die or I kill my mom, holy Spirit have abandoned me because of a mistake I made unknowingly. It’s alright no problem.
 
What am I even leaving for? Nothing good is coming my way. My mother is right, I am a disgrace, I have no certificate, all my struggles in life is for nothing, the school I went to is for nothing,I am a failure and now a sinner. My mom hates me, my siblings hate me, my dad is dead and now even God has abandoned me. What am I even living for? Why am I even struggling? God has been sitting and watching me suffer and now just one mistake I made unknowingly, he abandons me. He leaves me for Klein and the so called Lord Spiritual to deal with. What a wasted life
 
Tunde gets up and goes inside the house. He looks around to try and find any rope , but he finds non, instead he sees a bag of cement around the corner where his mom’s normally keeps wasted things. He collects a cu-p and a spoon and pours in little of the cement in the cu-p. He mixes it up with a little water. He brings out his own and paper and drafts out a short note on it
 
” I love my family but my family hates everything about me. The love I have for my mother is what has caused and led me to this. I know no one will cry for me but I am not bothered because I will be with my father, the only person I know truly cares”
 
Tunde drops the note on the floor and drinks the cement in his hand, consuming it to the last drop.
 
After drinking he lays on the be-d and sleeps off waiting for death to come.
 
Episode 19.
 
Tunde opens his eyes about three hours later and starts staring around wondering where he was. The place looked familiar. This couldn’t be heaven as heaven would be more beautiful than this.
 
And this is certainly not hell because he’ll would be h0tter than this. As he turned and looked around, his memories started coming back. He had drank cement how come he was still here alive? Or was he dead? He tries to sit up and then he heard the voice.
 
Klein: You are finally awake!
 
Tunde was startled as he jumped up, he looked around again and remembered the house. It was his exact room in Klein’s house.
 
Tunde: What am I doing here? How did I get here?
 
Klein: You are foolish Tunde, so you tried to kill yourself? You really are foolish.
 
Tunde: How am i here? Am not supposed to be here. Am supposed to be……
 
Klein: (interrupting him) dead? You are suppose to be dead right? (He laughs out loud for a very long time) You really are so daft. Before you think anything the Lord spiritual alre-ady knows, don’t you get it? Your spirit is ours, we control you, we own you. You can’t escape it.
 
Tunde: How am i here? How am I alive?
 
Klein: Well since you want to know I will tell you. The Lord spiritual alre-ady knows your plans and thought before you even thought of it. We re-moved that cement and replaced with our substance, that will make your head cool and relaxed and make you know the right decisions to make.
 
Tunde: So what I drank is not cement?
 
Klein: would you be standing her if you drank cement?
 
Tunde just stood staring at him.
 
Klein:Listen my guy. I like you so much and want the best for you, that is why I brou-ght you into his. Why is it so difficult for you to do. You ba-rely have 6days left. 6 days. Why not be wise and do the right thing.
 
Tunde: Do the right thing by killing my mother? You are mad. I rather die than do that? I will never be involved in your cult activities, I will never sacrifice my mom to your wicked and evil cult just because of money. I will never be a murderer.
 
Klein: It’s the Oath you took, it’s not me.
 
Tunde: I never took any oath with you, when?how ? There is no point waiting till six days time. Just kill me now because I will never do it.i will never have blood on my hands. Never!
 
Klein:(smiling) you still don’t get it, Tunde, weather you sacrifice your mom or not, the brotherhood will take it’s sacrifice and even more.
 
Tunde: Let them kill me , I don’t care.
 
Klein: Yes that’s for sure, you will die If you don’t comply, and then your mom whom you are trying to save will also die because the sacrifice must be done, and then your sister will die because she also tasted from our money, and any of your relatives that t©uçhed or used that money will die too. Pray it’s just your mom and sister. So my dear br@INZ, use your br@in. Your mom’s fate is alre-ady sealed. But you can still save yourself and your sister. The choice is yours to make.
 
A scared and shocked Tunde was surprised at this new information he just heard. He had felt that once he dies everything would be over but now the story is changed.
 
Tunde: Klein wait, what are you saying? Meaning I must kill my mother? Why are you people doing this to me why? I never asked for any of this why? Why not kill me and let my family go plea-se. Tell them to kill just me plea-se.
 
Klein: Take that red cloth by your side, all you nee-d to do is spre-ad it over your mom while she sleeps and that’s all. By morning she will be dead and the cloth will return back to the Lord spiritual, and you and your siblings will be safe plus super rich. It’s not so difficult you know! But like I said earlier, the choice is yours? What would it be? Your mom? Or you, your mom your sisters and probably your brothers? Use your br@ins br@INZ.
 
Klein walks out of the room.
 
A scared and terrified Tunde runs out of the room and the house leaving the red cloth behind.
 
Episode 20.
 
Tunde walked like a ghost quietly back home. He stood outside thier house thinking for a while before stepping into the house. As soon as he entered he saw Miami eating, when she saw him she dropped the plate of rice she was eating and turned faced him.
 
Miami: When will you very have something to do that can improve this family just a little bit. Just a little bit. Take a look at your mates, they have buildings and big big cars everywhere. You, what do you have nothing. Nothing!
 
Look at your friend, what is that his name, ehn! Klein, Klein, that was someone you used to refer to as dullard, stupid and foolish look at him today. He is so clean that you are not even qualified to be called his cleaner. You that is referred to as br@ins.
 
You are so stupid. And the most painful aspect of it is that you have no atom of shame in you. Small local shame you don’t have. I am so ashamed of you. I feel embarras-sed when people call me “mama Tunde”
 
I just wish you can disappear from my life forever so that we can all have peace, but no, you will not go. You chose to stay here and make my life miserable. I so much detest your pres£nce. Now see this food I was enjoying, just the sight of you and I lose all of my appetite. You irritate me. “Useless”
 
She picks the plate of food and walks away, with Tunde staring at her as she left. Without saying a word he marched straight into his room. He wanted to fall on his be-d and sleep and forget his troubles. But as soon as he entered the room, the first thing he saw was the red cloth that Klein had given to him.
 
Tunde was scared but not surprised because in this few days he has seen and heard things that he never thought of imagined were possible. He knew he didn’t take the cloth, he knew he left it at Klein’s but he also knew this was thier hand work.
 
He had just 5days to make a decision, to either kill his mother, or be dead along side his mother and his sister and maybe his brother. He was in serious dilemma.
 
He took a look at the cloth and remembered all that Klein had said to him. He also remembered all his dreams and everything his father had told him. Then he remembered all his mother had done to him. All the sufferings and pains and humiliations she had given to him. He began talking to himself.
 
“My mother is wicked and heartless, she is the reason am in this trouble, and if the reverse was the case, she wouldn’t think twice before killing me. If course she does not deserve to live. But should her blood be on my head? But what do I do? Whatever I chose to do she will die, what do I do?”
 
Tunde kept thinking he didn’t realize how far the time had gone. It was the sound of Miami snoring from her sleep that made him realize the time was far gone. He got up and checked the time it was almost 1am in the morning. His little sister hadn’t come home. This was not the first time. Tunde was alre-ady fed up talking with her because thier mother is always there to support all thier improper life style.
 
Tunde was sweating profusely as he picked up the cloth and goes into Miami’s room. She was slee-ping peacefully. He opened the red cloth and took another look at his mom, with tears dripping from his eyes……
 
To be continued