The Spawn…

AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN

THE SECOND SIGHT 3

THE SPAWN

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EPISODE 21

Esi Eduafo found out a few minutes after leaving Boat at the hotel that she could not concentrate on anything else, and it finally dawned on her that it was really going to be difficult getting over him.

This was a feeling she had never had before.

The man she lost her virginity to had been a junior pastor called Peter. Powerful, eloquent and so active in the church, he had been the heartthrob of many a girl in the church. When he proposed to her, she had been thrilled but asked him to wait until she was out of school and gainfully employed. He had been assigned to one of the newly-created areas and he needed a wife to go with him. One evening they had gone too far, or so Esi had thought. She had tried to stop him, drawing his attention to the fact that it was a great sin to fornicate, especially since he was a junior pastor.

He had persisted in his attempts to kiss her, to touch her, and they had ended up making love. Esi had been horrified afterwards, and felt so sad she had cried a lot. Peter had been remorseful and wept too, saying the devil got the better of them. They had prayed and promised not to do it again until they were married.

A week later, there had been a fierce fight in the church between two other ladies who claimed to be pregnant for Peter. As she sat in the church that fateful Sunday afternoon and stared at Peter who had collapsed right there behind the pulpit, Esi’s heart had exploded right out of her chest, and as silent tears fell down her face, she had known she would never be able to believe or trust in love again.

As it turned out, Peter had other young ladies in the church on his nefarious list too, and he had been excommunicated from the pastoral calling and reduced to a member. He had come sobbing to Esi, telling her God has exposed him, and he was a new creation and still loved only her.

Maybe he did, because he really tried hard, even begging her parents and coming to see her with elders and pastors, but Esi’s love had turned to real hatred for him, and she just did not want to see him for a second more in her life.

And almost a couple of years later, with her heart still in a turmoil, Ben came along. Handsome, suave, self-made successful bachelor with a manufacturing company of his own. Ben was the half-brother of one of Esi’s friends. He loved Esi the moment he saw her – so he claimed. They had hit if off with the right chemistry. He had been caring, loving, sexy and seriously committed, all the qualities any woman might wish for in her partner.

Ben, though, had been an evolutionist who did not believe in the existence of God. Esi had taught – rather erroneously, as she found out eventually – that she could change him.

He had been strong and treated her Christian believe with disdain, and in the end, she had felt the real fear that if she continued with him he would eventually draw her out of her faith. She fasted and prayed about it because she really loved him, or so she thought. He wanted to get married but made it clear that she would only have a local marriage. Esi did not have a problem with that, but when he chipped in the condition that she would stop any Christian activity once they were married, she had had no other choice than to let him go.

It had been harder for her even than Peter.

Ben had genuinely been shattered, and had pursued her after that, eventually turning violent and beating her up once and warning her he would harm her if she did not come back to her. She and her aunt had lodged a complaint finally when his stalking became absolutely terrifying. He had been picked up and locked out and eventually made to sign a restraining order. When he was released, he simply left the country to get as far away from her as he could because, according to him, if he stayed near, he would kill her.

And then, a year later, here was Yaw Boat.

It had not been an attraction, or a chemistry or a consideration of factors. She had seen him, and she had needed him. It was as simple as that. With Peter and Ben it had been a matter of them meeting a certain criteria, a specific requirement of her type of an ideal man.

With Yaw Boat, that had not been the case.

She simply needed him in a way that made her heart hurt. It had not been based on any requirement but simply hedged on the fact that she felt a compacted weight of need, want, crave and desire that had finally bunched up into a final word: love!

So, finally, this was what love was all about! Just this need to possess and be possessed, to hold and be held, to spend an eternity together filled with bliss and happiness.

With Ben and Peter, she had always held back physically, and always found a sort of revulsion in the act of making love to them, always finding that little voice at the back of her mind that screamed at her that she was doing something bad and shameful.

But making love to Boat had been pure, blissful and so divine that she craved for more without the slightest shadow of remorse. Sure, she had thought it was because of the influence of that horrible Duke Swallows. But this morning, with the influence of that dark entity nullified by Boat, she was finding out that she simply wanted to be with him to make him happy and take away all his pains, fears and vulnerabilities.

Esi sensed a strong loneliness in him, and she wanted so much to assuage that. But he loved someone else, and she had to let him go. That was the only reason why she was driving back to Apaso now. His happiness was her happiness, and if that happiness was not with her, then she was glad to let him go and find that elsewhere.

But it was painful!

It was so shatteringly painful! She had not expected to feel this way, and she could barely control it because she had never felt this way before! It was a crippling, numbing droning pain that refused to leave her guts; it sat heavily within her, screaming in agony to be set free such that her whole being was consumed with Yaw Boat, and the feeling became more and more unbearable as she drove toward Apaso.

But he deserved his happiness, and that mysterious woman he loved also deserved her happiness. Esi did not know everything that had happened between Boat and his woman, but she knew that whoever she was, she had really suffered, and deserved a shot at happiness.

That was why Esi drove on toward Apaso even though her whole being screamed against it, and tears of pain fell down her face. All she wanted to do was turn that car around and head back to that hotel to be with him, to stay with him for eternity.

But she drove on relentlessly and allowed the pain to buffet her!

And that pain was the reason why she almost missed the cemetery completely. She had come to the outskirts of Apaso and had just about five kilometres to hit the town. She was driving down a straight stretch of road with the glorious sun now out and shining majestically…and the engine just went dead, and the car began to roll along silently.

Esi scowled as she held the steering-wheel hard and gently guided the car toward the side of the road. This was a new car, huge and powerful, and she simply did not know what might have happened for the engine to die out that suddenly.

When the car finally came to a stop, Esi turned the key in the ignition, but nothing happened, no kick to the engine, nothing. Even the dashboard start-up lights did not light up.

It could be only one thing: maybe one of the terminals had come off the battery. Esi leaned back in her seat to try and locate the knob that would pop the hood of the powerful car to enable her start up, but suddenly the four windows of the car slowly began to move downward at the same time. Esi gasped as a sudden burst of cold wind washed in from outside, and suddenly she knew something was seriously amiss!

The road was empty, absolutely abandoned, and as she turned her head to the side with her heart beginning to beat with horror…she saw the cemetery then!

It was to her right!

It was a huge cemetery. The ground was covered with absolute green grass trimmed nicely, and the tombstones were all pure-white, arranged in precise rows and columns!

And Esi’s horror was complete because she knew this area, and no cemetery like this existed here! The only cemetery in Apaso was at the other end of the town near the forests. This side of the road to Apaso had always been taken up with tall marshes because it was a wet area!

This cemetery did not belong here!

“Oh, my God, oh dear Jesus, help me!” Esi whispered as it dawned on her that she would not be able to go out now. Desperately, she turned the ignition over and over, but the engine did not turn.

When she looked at the cemetery again she saw that the beautiful green ground she had seen had now turned to a horrid and hellish yellow ground, and there were black crows perched on the tombstones now!

Huge, black crows with devilish eyes perching on the gravestones, one crow on each headstone, stretching as far as her eyes could see!

“This is not real!” Esi whispered with horror. “Oh, God, dear Jesus Lord, help me, help me and deliver me from this horror!

She turned the key frantically and stepped repeatedly on the accelerator, but the engine remained dead!

Esi turned her head and looked at the cemetery again and saw that the black crows were now perched on the side of the road beside the car in a perfect horizontal line…and then she saw the woman!

She was a beautiful woman wearing white shorts and white blouse with thin shoulder straps. She was incredibly fair, and quite simply the most beautiful woman Esi had ever seen. The woman was standing on one of the graves which had cracked open as if the woman had been in there. Her face was extremely cold and her eyes wicked as she glared furiously at Esi. Suddenly, the woman disappeared and appeared again on another gravestone which was a bit nearer the road.

“Oh, sweet jesus, or sweet jesus!” she screamed desperately as tears of terror filled her eyes. She turned the key repeatedly but the car did not start up, and suddenly the woman disappeared and appeared on a gravestone about twenty metres from the car!

And her eyes were a horrible red, now!

And now she began to walk slowly towards the car.

“Jesus! Jesus! Help me Looooorrrrd!” Esi screamed with terror, and just then the car’s powerful engine roared to life and she stepped on the accelerator with terror!

The car shot forward with a burst, almost smashing into a tree, and she righted it and moved at speed down the road as her heart hammered with horror. She chanced a look into the driving-room but the road behind her was empty, and she continued to speed up as her mind almost shut down from the horror she had witnessed.

She chanced a look into the driving-mirror again…and saw that the woman in white was sitting in the backseat of the car and glaring at her with maniacal and devilish eyes filled with wrath!

As Esi screamed shrilly, the woman appeared on the passenger seat beside her, and with a screech of fury she reached out for Esi and took hold of her neck!

The woman’s fingers were icy cold, and she spoke in a horrible, hissing whisper…

“Yaw Boat is miiiiiiine, you whoooore!”

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