blood on my hands episode 4 – 5

BLOOD ON MY HANDS

EPISODE 4

“Talia, Talia, Talia” There is blood on your hands

“No my hands are clean leave me alone” I yelled

“I can see the blood stained on your hands” The voice scre-med louder

“Who are you?” I asked getting terrified

“I am the blood that’s stuck on your hands” The voice grew louder

“Stop please stop, stop” I yelled

The voice went quiet then I noticed blood dripping off my hands. My body shook in fear as I tried running to the bath room so I could wash it off.

When I turned on the tap,blood started coming out of it. I quickly closed it.

“What’s happening?” I cried out

“You will carry that blood on your hands for as long as you shall live” The voice spoke again.

“No ,no, no” I scre-med. I abruptly opened my eyes only to find myself on my bed with auntie Mary worriedly staring at me.

I checked my hands and slowly breathed out when I didn’t see any blood.

“Hey” She said handing me some water which I rapidly drank.

“Care to talk about it?”

“No” I shook my head, it seemed so real

“Lia, it’s okay to be afraid and to have night mares, you just lost your only brother in cold blood”

“I don’t want to talk about it” I whispered

“I am sure your parents will do everything to make the people who did this pay”

“I said I don’t want to talk about it” I yelled tears already streaming down my face

“Sorry I was only trying to help”

“Please leave me alone”

It had been two days since we buried my brother, my mother was still laying in the hospital bed in shock, she wouldn’t speak to anyone. My father on the other hand had been all over the place trying to act cool but I could see this was killing him in,side.

What scared me the most was that he had not said a word to me from the time Jad died, I was afraid he was going to turn me in.

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I sat on the couch in my room with his photo album in my hands, each of our children had a photo album of their own filled with a variety of photos from birth all through out their childhood.

I sipped on my wine before opening the album and the first photo I laid my eyes on was from the day he was born.

I remember just how much pride I had felt as a man to finally have a son, not that I didn’t love having a daughter but having a son and knowing I had someone to continue my family name made me wh0le.

“He is everything I have ever imagined” I smiled at my wife that day as I rocked him

“I know” she whispered

“Jenny you have made me a proud man” I whispered

Unlike Lia Jad was focused, at a tender age he knew he wanted to become a Lawyer, one of the greatest the country would have.

“Daddy, after I become a lawyer I will become a President” He would often tell me

And I would smile at his innocence.

I loved both my children equally, Lia was the princess in our castle, I gave her everything she ever wanted. She wanted to travel the world and enjoy the finest things in life, school was the last thing on her mind, we let her do as she pleased till she decided she would go to college.

The one thing about Lia was her anger, she was easily provoked and most people complained about her attitude hence they preferred Jad over her.

As my children grew up I noticed how much Lia envied Jad, she wanted everything he had. She treated him more of a rival than a brother.

“I wish I was an only child” She would bluntly tell us but we would brush it of as a joke.

Now that she had managed to kill her only brother I couldn’t help but feel I had not done enough as a father to show her how much I loved and appreciated her just as she was.

The death of Jad came as a shock to me, I had not let a single tear out of my eyes since he died. I just couldn’t believe he was gone, murdered like a criminal. I was at conflict between protecting Lia and sending her to Jail. A part of me cried for Justice but I couldn’t break my wife’s heart once more.

Jad’s death had broken her to the Cole, she would lose it if Lia got arrested. Speaking of Lia I had not been able to face her let alone talk to her, I was scared of what I would to her because just the thought of her made my temperature to rise.

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TWO YEARS LATER

“Henry what do you want me to do? I lost a child as well” I cried when my husband walked into the room drank and hurling insults at me

“If you had allowed me to get her arrested all this wouldn’t have happened, she murdered him” He yelled

“She is also our child, we had to protect her from the cold walls of prison” i cried out

“Jenny look at me in the eyes and tell me our lives will ever go back to normal” He said holding my face so I could look at him

“I don’t know Henry, but we can try, Jad is gone, let’s pick up our lives”

“What’s their to pick up? One child is dead and one is a murderer tell me can we mend this?”

“We can try” I begged pleading with him

“We are too broken to be fixed, we can’t go back to how we used to be, Jad’s blood is scre-ming out to me, justice should have prevailed”

I stood by the door watching him as he yelled, I didn’t know what to do, I was helpless.

“Henry you need help” I said softy

“Oh so you think i am mad now” He yelled walking to where I was standing.

He got close to me and stared at me for a while before pulling my hand, I knew what he wanted to do so I tried pulling away but he was too strong.

He pushed me on the bed and punched me in the face and I cried out in pain.

“Let me show you what crazy people do” He yelled as he kept punching me.

When he was satisfied he let go and walked out. I sat on the bed and cried my lungs out. My lower lip was was now bleeding.

Our lives had taken an unexpected twist since the death of Jad, my refusal to have Lia arrested had cost me. Henry was no longer the same man I knew, he was always insulting and beating me up.

“What was I to do? Allow him to get Lia arrested? What would that prove? Would that bring Jad back to life? I had to do the best I could as a mother, I had to protect her even when a part of me felt like I had betrayed Jad.

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When I heard the yelling I knew they where arguing again and I knew how the arguing would end. He would beat her up like always

My dad had practically turned into a monster since Jad died. He was depressed but couldn’t admit it. He had ended up venting his anger on mum.

Mum had forced us to move to the farm house for a while so we could adjust to not having Jad around our house in Lusaka had so many memories of Jad. According to mum being in a new environment would help us heal faster.

I was tired of being at the farm house i wanted to go back to the city and get my life back on track.

Yes I was guilty for having killed my brother but what would holding on to guilt to do me. My father needed to understand that his anger would only separate this family apart.

We were fine before Jad was born, why couldn’t we go back to how it used to be now that he was no more?

As soon as I heard the car drive out I rushed to mum’s room. She wiped away her tears when she saw me. He face was swollen.

“I had to do something to stop my father from hurting her again.”

“I am sorry mum” I told her

“It’s fine Lia, it’s okay” she faked a smile

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I drove out of the house fraustrated, I didn’t know what I had turned myself into. The death of my son had destroyed my perfect family, i couldn’t hold it together, I blamed Jenny for not willing to get Lia arrested and in the end i vented out my anger on her.

I was never one to lay my hand on a woman but I just couldn’t help it , I needed someone to blame someone to take the fall for what had happened and Jenny was the perfect person.

I loathed Lia so much it hurt to look at her, we had not been on talking terms the past two years, in my head she was as good as dead.

I drove around in circles I didn’t know where to go or who to talk to, I felt like I was about to explode. My heart was filled with so much anger.

“I will avenge your death I swear” I whispered to myself,I didn’t know how but someone was going to pay For Jad’s death.

EPISODE 5

No one knows what the future holds, no one is sure of what the next day might bring. You might have it all today, you might think your life is all figured out but in a tick of a clock everything might come rushing down on you.

I had it all, a rich white husband, two wonderful children, money and cars. When I met Henry I didn’t have to do anything, i was a queen of his castle. He treated me with so much love and respect, never did I imagine he would ever lay his hand on me.

I stayed behind when he started physically abusing me because I thought I had a chance to restore what we had but with each minute that passed my husband was turning into a person I couldn’t recognize.

I wish I had gotten Lia arrested maybe then I could have saved my marriage. My son’s blood was crying out to me, I had betrayed him by keeping his murder a secret.

I was on my bed, rubbing my swollen arm when I heard a knock at the door.I knew it was Lia.

“Come in”

“Hey mum” She greeted as she came to sit next to me, her sight irritated me.

“What do you want?”

“I want to leave this place?”

“To where?” I asked not paying attention to her

“I want to go back to my life, I wanna go back to school, travel and live a little”

I looked at Lia not sure what to answer her, how could she be so selfish as to want a normal life looking at all the drama around us.

“The only thing you care about is you traveling and exploring life huh? Don’t you have a conscience?” I yelled

“Am I going to spend the rest of my life paying for this one mistake, I killed him yes what do you want me to do?”

“You took another person’s life, your own brothers life that’s not a mistake”

“Here call 911 and report me do it mum, if it will help you sleep at night?” She yelled as she handed me her phone

“Don’t try me Lia” I yelled tears already streaming down my cheeks

“Why can’t we just go back to normal? You guys loved Jad more than me, would you people have been this broken if I was the dead one?”

“You will not speak to me like that, you see that attitude? That’s the reason you murdered your brother”

“Yes I killed him and you know what I am glad I did”

“How dare you?” I said slapping her face thrice till she fell off.

“Look what your husband has turned you into” She yelled before standing and rushing out of my room and banging the door behind her.

I stood still, tears flowing from my eyes as I thought of how happy we used to be.

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I walked into my room feeling very pissed. I resented my parents so much especially my father because he had managed to turn mum against me.

“I have to leave ,I have to find a way out of here” I said as i got into bed, dad wasn’t home as usual, I knew he would be back at midnight to make noise like he always did.

I struggled to sleep but finally I felt my body relax and I dozed off.

Laying in my bed at night I was awakened by mum’s scre-ming from the other room, I checked my phone and it was half past midnight.

I got out of bed as her scre-ms of pain and terror grew louder.

“I have to do something before he kills her”

I slowly walked to the kitchen and I was horrified as I watched dad throw her around the kitchen and smash her head against the wall. She was covered in blood which was pouring from her forehead running down her face.

“Dad stop” I cried out but he didn’t stop, he kept hitting her like someone who had been possessed by an evil spirit.

I could feeel the tension building up in me as I tried to get him off her but he pushed me aside. Without thinking I grabbed a knife and stabbed him.

He fell and scre-med out but i continued stabbing him. I stabbed him multiple times till he stopped breathing.

Confused and scared I dropped the knife and moved to mum’s side. She was laying in a pool of blood helplessly gasping for air.

“You are a murderer, you have done it again” She whispered as she closed her eyes.

“Mama stay with me please don’t go I will find us help” i cried as tears coursed down my face.

Afraid and disturbed I ran out of the house. With tears running down my eyes I kept running, I didn’t know where I was going to but I ran deep into the woods. We were at the farm house and the place was filled with more bushes than houses.

As i ran I came to a standstill when I noticed a figure moving behind one of the big trees. Fear crept in as a surge of adrenaline rushed through my wh0le body thinking of all the wild animals that could be hunting at that time of the night.

Before I could process anything my eyes landed on a massive black animal with glowing eyes that pierced through the darkness.

I trembled badly as it approached me. I wanted to run off but I felt my knees get weak as warm water gushed down my legs.

I walked backwards and stumbled over a fallen branch. The animal threw its head up and made a loud ear piercing sound before jumping on top of me.

As I powerlessly laid beneath it, it tore my clothes to pieces and fastened it’s teeth on my neck, i felt its sharp teeth penetrate my flesh and I let out an agonizing scre-m.

When it was satisfied it jumped off me trailing blood from its mouth as it ran off. I lay on the ground for a few minute feeling scared and weak.

“What just happened?” I asked as I touched where the beast had bitten me but there was no wound whatsoever.

I slowly got up feeling confused but before I could make a step I felt an

excruciating pain rush through my body.

It was unbearable, I cried out of pain as I felt my body transform. Before I could make sense of what was happening, the bones in my body outstretched as they started shifting and reorg-nizing.

My arms and legs cracked and twisted before turning into paws. Then the pain rushed to the tips of my nails and within minutes they changed into long claws.

Just then I felt a lot of pressure on my back as my spine cracked and crumpled forcing me on all fours. I helplessly cried out as I felt something grow from my backside.

The pain now shifted to my face, there was intense pain in my mouth as my teeth grew longer and shaper. My tongue became flatter and w¡der as my l-ips reshaped and pulled to create space for my new teeth. My mouth pushed out painfully as it turned into a muzzle and my ears moved to the top of my head then my nose slowly shifted before turning into a snout.

Just when I thought it was over, I felt more pain penetrate my body as fur spurted all over my body.

I scre-med out again but my scre-m turned into a long howl. I was now a wild beast.

My eyes glowed into the darkness as I rushed off into the bushes with a craving for blood.

When I opened my eyes the next day, I was back in my human form, I was laying unclad under a tree covered in blood. There was a taste of blood in my mouth and my wh0le body was sore.

“How will I move from here” I panicked as I tried getting up, just then I saw a woman the age of mum walking towards me.

“What lie would I tell her if she asks what I am doing unclad at this time of the day in the bush?”

As she approached I felt more and more scared. What if she thought I was practicing witchcraft or something. I had heard stories of women who had been found unclad early in the morning and they had been called witches and beaten up by a mob of people.

“Follow me, let me help you” She said handing me a wrapper to wrap my body with. I got up and slowly followed her without asking any questions.

To be continued…