Red apple episode 5

Red apple episode 5 
“Emefa Wholali”
 
My name is Emefa Wholali. I didn’t have the chance to tell my story but this was how life was before they forced me into my grave.
Born into a middle income family, I didn’t lack anything.
 
Basically, everything I wanted was at my disposal. The only child of my parents so you can imagine the love they had for me.
 
Friends were something that my parents never entertained but notwithstanding this, they knew of this particular guy in my life. A guy they were all comfortable with.
 
Probably, it was because the guys parents were also close friends of my parents. Selorm was his name. He was the only guy I actually knew from infancy. We practically did everything together. We went to church and school together and even played together.
 
You know how it feels, growing up with a guy whom you are not related to in anyway. Selorm was my everything.
 
Now, though we were not intimate, there were times that I felt I was in love with him. I didn’t know if he actually felt that too but I never saw myself admitting it.
 
Maybe I thought that would ruin the friendsh¡p we had built from infancy.
Selorm knew how possessive I could be and that would not have helped if we had have dated.
 
So basically there was that part of me that I couldn’t tell anyone, whether for an advice or anything. I just had to keep everything in my diary.
 
I decided to move on and get hooked up with some other guy but somewhere along the line Selorm got jealous. I had to stay away from the guy just to see him happy. But how long was this going to continue?
I had an idea.
 
Back in the tertiary school, I got to know of Ruth who eventually became my roommate.
 
Well she was just like me, people even said we looked alike so we just blended in and never had any difficulty in becoming friends.
 
Ruth got to know of Selorm and somehow she told me he was crushing on him. Initially, I didn’t want to give in or help her get hooked up with him as she expected but then I felt that was the only way to shadow up my feelings since Selorm never told me how he also felt.
 
I then gave his number to her and then they began texting each other. Even with this, Selorm and I were just inseparable. I had a feeling he put me first even before Ruth. There were even times that Selorm would ditch Ruth on a date just because he wanted to be with me.
 
I knew Selorm liked her but what existed between myself and him was just unbreakable. Ruth noticed and as human as she was, she wasn’t happy about it. She started acting strange and distant.
 
I had to confront her but surprisingly she just brushed me off with the excuse that I’m meddling with her private affairs. She even went further to tell me to stay away from her guy.
She referred to Selorm as her guy already. Yes, I was trying to hook them up but I didn’t know they had already began dating. But even if they were, I expected Selorm to tell me. But then again, how could I have given Selorm such a girl, I had never seen this side of her and there and then, i knew I had to stop Selorm from going any further with her right from that moment.
Selorm would break down if she hurt him.
 
I knew my Selorm very well and I know how emotional he could be.
I quickly dashed to Selorm’s place just to find out what was really going on between the two of them.
 
That was how everything changed, Selorm broke my heart. I had never felt so much hurt like that ever in my life. I came to warn Selorm about the kind of lady he was going out with only for him to tell me that he was making plans to get married to her.
 
I just couldn’t believe it. I was so hurt. That was the moment I realized I should have told Selorm how I felt. Even with this, I couldn’t believe that Selorm would take such a decision without informing me.
 
Though I was hurt by that, the worst was to see him get married to someone else. Right from then I knew I was so much in love with him.
Selorm knew how hurt I was when I ran out of his room in tears. He tried catching up with me but I was far away beyond his reach.
 
I was so depressed that I had no option than to go back home. Just as I opened the door to our room when i got home, I saw Ruth passionately k-ssing this guy.
 
“My Death”
 
I was so depressed that I had no option than to go back home. Just as I opened the door to our room when I got home, I saw Ruth passionately k-ssing this guy.
 
In fact that moment I just wanted to grab her head and hit it against the wall. I couldn’t even believe my eyes, I never thought Ruth could do such a thing and honestly I blamed myself for everything that had happened. To think that she would have been ashamed of what she had done, she went about doing her own thing as if she had no one to answer to.
 
“It’s rather unfortunate that our moment will be interrupted like this Eugene. I will come over tonight.” She said deliberately to my hearing when she was about seeing the guy off. She didn’t even care. I was so angry that I just couldn’t control myself. As soon as Eugene stepped out, before Ruth would come to herself, I landed a heavy slap on her face.
 
Surprisingly, she retaliated, she hit me back, and then I noticed I was no match for her. She was as wild like an angry rattle snake. At this time, I had no idea of who Ruth was and what she was capable of doing. I was more worried about Selorm. As much as he had hurt me, there was no way I would I allow such a devil into Selorm’s life.
 
It’s been almost a week since I heard or saw Selorm. I was missing him that I couldn’t sleep, I tossed and tossed on my bed as I kept thinking of what to do and the mess I had put Selorm in. I pushed him into doing this just because of I wanted to hide my feelings for him. What could have possibly happened if I had told him how I felt, nothing worse than what Ruth was doing?
 
Deep into the night, as I was having difficulty in sleeping, Ruth had a phone call and woke up almost immediately. I then pretended to be asleep. Ruth then came closer to me, just to make sure that I was asleep. She then went into the washroom to receive the call. As curious as I was, I went and stood beside the washroom door to eavesdrop.
 
That was when Ruth broke the news to Eugene that she was pregnant for him. Unfortunately, she came out of the washroom and caught me eavesdropping. That was embarrassing but I was not ready to go down for that.
 
“How could you Ruth? Leave Selorm alone or else I will tell him about the pregnancy” I said.
 
“Oh go ahead, go ahead and do your worse. If you don’t know, Selorm is ready to go the end with me and there nothing you can do about it” She said and went into bed.
 
She was so full of herself and I began to hate her. Deep within me I wanted to strangle her to death. I needed to break this news to Selorm. But then again, I knew how hurt he was going to be when I tell him. That night I couldn’t sleep anymore. I went out of the room, went into the compound and gave Selorm a call.
 
One thing about Selorm was that, no matter how late it was, or what time it was, he will always be there to listen to me, and this time, it was no different. He picked up the phone upon the second ring. I told him how sorry I was for walking out on him some few days ago. The conversation was the most emotional moment I had ever had with Serlom.
 
At this moment, the conversation was all about us, we found ourselves talking about the old times, the times we both shared together. Even at this short moment of misunderstanding we had both missed each other. Apparently, Selorm was also having a sleepless night and he had wanted to call me but feared that I was still upset with him.
Well, I couldn’t just spoil that moment over the attitude of Ruth. I wanted to make that moment mine. We planned on meeting the following morning. Perhaps that will be the opportunity to tell him who Ruth was and not forgetting about her pregnancy for Eugene.
 
Then finally the conversation needed to come to an end. Selorm and I began texting just when after we finished talking on the phone. We texted and texted. Trust me, the chat was really deep now. We were both at that point of pouring our hearts out. I had gotten back in,side and noticed Ruth was far asleep. I lay on my bed and continued the texting.
 
Then I decided to tell Selorm how I felt. I couldn’t just hide it anymore, but before I did that, I went into the fridge and took my red apple, sliced it and began chewing it. It was my best fruit so I made sure I never ran out of it. Then I was ready to text him the magic statement “I LOVE YOU”. I typed it, but before I could hit the send button, I got a sharp pain in my tummy.
 
The worse pain I have ever felt, it was so painful that scre-med out loud. The phone fell from my hand, the scre-m was so loud it woke Ruth up. But to my surprise she just sat on her bed watching me with a smiling face. Then she came to me, I thought she had gotten back to her senses. She took out a ring and showed it to me.
 
That was the last statement I heard. “If you care to know b—h, your Selorm and I had a court wedding yesterday.” She said and laughed about it.
 
Before I knew it, a white foamy substance was coming out of my mouth. That was it. I scre-med and finally gave my life up.
“Gifted Mary”
 
Before I knew it, a white foamy substance was coming out of my mouth. That was it. I scre-med and finally gave up the ghost.
 
My last breath, my last heartbeat. I was dead and gone. But here I was, standing right beside my body. I could see my lifeless body lying there on the floor just beside my bed. I didn’t know what I was, I thought it was a dream. I saw Ruth sitting there, touching my body to check if I was really dead. It was strange that she couldn’t see me standing there. I tried calling her but she didn’t hear me.
 
I didn’t understand what was going on, then I went closer ,It was indeed my body. Was I dreaming or something? This couldn’t continue, I pinched myself so I could wake up from the dream but was to no avail. I then saw Ruth pick up the phone and make a call.
 
“Eugene, it worked, it worked” She said. “She is gone” She continued.
 
That was when I noticed I was really dead and i was standing there as nothing but a ghost. Ruth and Eugene planned this, they had injected the apple with a poisonous substance. Then I began to cry knowing that my death wasn’t natural. I wanted to end Ruth’s life right there and then. I went closer to her in an attempt to strangle her but my hands just passed through her like a wind.
 
I tried severally but to no avail. Then I heard a knock on the door. Ruth then asked who it was. Eugene had arrived at the scene. He went towards my body to also confirm that I was really dead. As soon as he did, he gave Ruth a hug for a good work done. There was nothing I could do than to just cry. What could be their reason for doing such a thing to me? I never hurt them in any way.
 
“But don’t you think Selorm might have contacted her since she didn’t show up at the court wedding” Eugene asked.
 
“I dealt with that already, I told him Emefa said she was going out of town for a checkup and wouldn’t be back in a couple of weeks.” Ruth answered “Trust me, I really painted Emefa black and I could tell from his face that he was so upset. But come to think of it, how come he chose you as his best man, you barely know him.” She continued.
 
“We are guys, we blend easily” He answered.
 
That was when I got the wh0le picture. There was nothing I could do anymore, and all this while, Ruth had been making up stories for Selorm.
 
I’m sure Selorm thought I was still upset with him. There was nothing I could do.
 
Then Ruth called the ambulance, with the excuse that she came to meet lying like that on the floor. They rushed me to the hospital and that was where they medically confirmed me dead.
 
That was it, I was drawn away by a force until my burial day. I saw my loved ones crying as they buried me. My death came as a shock to everyone, then I saw Selorm in tears. I wanted to talk to him badly but I couldn’t. As much as I called out his name, he didn’t hear me.
 
Then I saw Ruth also shedding tears, i was so angry and full of hatred knowing very well that there was nothing I could do. The only thing was to watch them as they sorrowfully buried me.
 
Out of nowhere, a young lady gave me a tap on the shoulder. I thought I was alone in this, I turned around and there she stood. I was soo surprised that she could see me, i even thought she was a ghost as well.
 
“Surprised? Don’t be, I’m not dead, some of us are gifted. We see what others don’t see, we feel what others don’t feel.” She said.
 
I was so surprised that I didn’t know what to say. Then she continued. “I’m Mary, from where I was, I could see you crying. I know your death wasn’t natural and I’m here to help you” She said.
 
That was a relief, finally, someone could help me so that my soul would rest in peace. Mary had come to my rescue. Apparently, she knew Ruth from school but they were not really close. Then I asked her what she could do to help me only for her to give me an answer that freaked me out.
 
“I will be an instrument for you to work through” She said and just walked away.