Silent scre-ms batch 5

SILENT scre-mS

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Sequence 8

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Daniel pulled up in front of the Kalufyanya’s Mansion he stopped his car and stepped out then he walked to the gate, when he knocked at the gate, a security guard name Ronald came to answer.

‘Ati bwanji bosses!’

‘Bwino bwino, baliko bamudala?’

‘Eh. Come in,’ he stepped aside to allow him in.

Ronald led him through the house to the living and he took his seat.

‘I will call him for you.’

‘Sure.’

As he waited, Daniel removed his phone from his pocket and started texting.

‘Hello Daniel.’

He looked up at Mr. Kalufyanya the man had not aged a day since the last time they had met.

‘Hello,’ he stood up and offered his hand in greeting, they shook hands then both men sat down.

‘Can I get you anything to drink?’

‘No I am okay, besides I won’t be staying for long I need to get to work.’

‘So then let’s get straight to business, what brings you here after a long time?’

Daniel took in a deep breath and let it out slowly to try and relax as much as possible, this man scared him a lot.

‘It’s my daughter Leila.’

Mr. Kalufyanya smiled at the mention of Leila’s name, ‘What is wrong with our wife?’

‘She has been experiencing some terrible nightmares and it seems she is seeing strange things.’

He laughed, ‘It’s almost time, my son is restless he can’t wait to be with his wife.’

‘Oh is that so?’

‘Yes & I hope you have started grooming our wife for marriage.’

He smiled, ‘we are doing all we can sir those these strange occurrences are starting to get to her.’

‘When it’s time all shall be revealed unto her but for now let her remain in the dark.’

‘Since that is cleared, I think I will be on my way,’ Daniel stood up.

‘Pass my regards to our in law and please let her avoid dating so we don’t lose any more lives.’

Daniel gave the old man a puzzled look, ‘I don’t understand.’

‘Oh Daniel keep your eyes on the ground so you don’t miss what’s happening. You have eyes but you can’t see.’

‘Is there anything I need to know?’

‘Your daughter has been seeing someone and as we speak that young man is battling for his life, I doubt he will make it he is as good as dead. The only good thing about all this is that Leila is still pure she did not give herself to him.’

‘F–k,’ Daniel sat back down.

‘You know what’s at stake if your daughter misbehaves, my son has been lenient this time around but the next time this repeats itself………,’

‘It won’t get that far, I will handle Leila,’ Daniel cut him short.

‘Good,’ he smiled, ‘now let me get you a drink before you leave.

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Audrey was standing beside her brother’s hospital bed, her eyes were red and swollen she had cried the wh0le night, her brother was fading right in front of her eyes and she couldn’t do anything to save him.

She looked around the ward, they were patients lined up on beds in neat rows most of them were hooked to life support the room was quiet silent- the only noise she could hear was that from the electronic beeping.

‘Lord please don’t let him die, he is all I have got,’ she sniffed

All of a sudden, Owen let out a low mo-n and he opened his eyes he stared at Audrey but didn’t say a word.

‘Owen,’ she gasped

Then she hurried out of the room and called for the Doctor, ‘My brother, he just opened his eyes,’ she said breathlessly.

Owen’s eyes were still open and looking through the doorway when they rushed back into the room.

‘What’s happening to him?’

‘Please wait outside while we attend to your brother,’ the nurse pushed Audrey out the door.

Audrey couldn’t keep still she paced back and forth her heart beat rapidly, she silently prayed for a miracle.

A while later, the doctor walked out of the room.

‘Doctor how is he doing?’ she asked almost immediately

The doctor shook her head, ‘I am sorry Audrey we lost him.’

For a moment Audrey’s heart stopped, she was frozen by what the doctor said.

‘You can’t be serious,’ she trembled

‘I am sorry for your loss.’

She ran back into the room, her tears being to well as she stared at her brother’s lifeless body. ‘Owen you should have fought hærd, Owen how am I supposed to live life without you, Owen please wake up,’ she shook him

‘Kosa mummy, kosa,’ the nurse comforted her.

She shot the nurse an ugly look and shook her head.

After a few minutes she left the room and went to sign the necessary doc-ments.

‘Once again, I am sorry for your loss take heart,’ the doctor said

‘Thank you,’ she wiped her tears with the palm of her hand and walked out.

She went straight to the car park, stepped into her car and drove out. Instead of driving home, she drove straight to Leila’s place of work.

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Leila tried Owen’s number for what seemed like the hundredth time that day but she got the same response she had this unsettling feeling at the pit of her stomach, this feeling terrified her, she hoped Owen was doing fine.

She jumped back as a loud knock came to the door, ‘Teacher Leila you have a visitor,’ one of her students Rachael called out to her.

She cleared her throat, ‘Alright hun,’

She had looked herself up in the stuff room while the kids had their break. She stood up and walked out hoping to see her best friend only to find it was Audrey.

‘Hey Audrey,’ she said warmly ‘Are you okay?’ she asked

Leila could see something was wrong with Audrey, she looked a mess.

Tears quickly spilled from Audrey’s eyes as she stared at the woman responsible for her brother’s death.

‘Audrey what’s going on? Are you okay?’ Leila worriedly asked

‘How do you expect me to be okay when you have taken from me the only thing that made my life sane?’

‘What are you talking about?’

‘Owen is dead?’ her voice broke, ‘You killed my brother Leila.’

‘Owen is dead?’ Leila gasped in surprise

‘You f—–g killed my brother.’

‘Audrey I don’t understand, what are you saying? Owen can’t be dead.’

‘He is dead you and your f—–g boyfriend killed him.’

‘I love Owen I would never cheat on him all this was a misunderstanding.’

‘You loved him?’ she asked as a wave of rage flooded through her and without thinking twice she pounced on Leila and began to hit her on the face.

‘What’s all this commotion?’ the other teachers rushed out and pulled Audrey away from Leila.

‘I will kill her like she killed my brother,’ Audrey yelled

Leila was astonished she was too weak to respond to Audrey.

‘Please madam you have to leave,’ one of the teachers said to Audrey.

Audrey spat on the floor, ‘You haven’t heard the last of me,’ and with that said she marched out of the room.

SILENT scre-mS

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Sequence 9

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Audrey opened her car door she slid in and slammed it shut, she was angry if only Owen had stayed single he would still be alive. Owen was the light of her life now that he was gone, how was she going to cope.

She started her car and sped into the main road, she couldn’t wait to get home so she could lock herself up and mourn her brother in peace.

She rode home in silence lost in her own thoughts. As she approached her street, a shadowy dark figure suddenly appeared in front of her car, she immediately slammed her foot on the brake and her car jolted to a halt.

‘Oh God,’ she gasped

Audrey had never seen anything like this, the figure that was standing in front of her was wearing a black hooded robe that was tied in the middle with a thick leather belt & black leather gloves covered its hands.

‘Who are you?’ she trembled

The figure looked at her with red blazing eyes & Audrey felt a sense of evil all around her.

‘What do you want from me?’ She asked, her voice was low

‘You attacked me,’ he said in a husky voice

‘Attacked you?’ she asked, confusion written all over her face.

‘Yes & now I am going to end your pathetic life like I did to your brother.’

Her heart beat accelerated at the mention of her brother’s name, she opened her mouth and tried to scre-m but no sound came from her l-ips, she tried to lift her hand so she could open her car door but she couldn’t, her wh0le being was still.

‘Hahahahahahah,’ a burst of evil laughter escaped the Figure’s throat.

Audrey had a look of sheer panic on her face, the road ahead her was completely empty no one was going to save her from this monster.

‘You attacked and injured me, now I am going to take my revenge,’ it said in a low powerful voice.

Audrey was confused, she had no idea what he was saying and who he was she couldn’t even remember a time when she had attacked him.

Just then it stretched his hand towards her with its palm upwards and Audrey felt a tight grip around her neck. Then she suddenly started gasping for air as if someone was strangling her- slowly s—–g out the life out of her.

As this went on, her face turned redder and redder, her eyes started to bulge out of their sockets and she could see shades of black slowly appearing in her vision. After several minutes, all the fight left her & she was ready to give up.

The dark figure let out another one of its evil laugh and within an instant, Audrey felt weak, a large gro-n escaped her l-ips and she collapsed backward into her car seat.

*

‘Are you okay? Who was that woman? Should we call the police?’ Marjory who was one of the senior teachers worriedly asked Leila.

Leila took a deep breath.’ I am okay Marjory.’

‘But why was she attacking you?’

Leila wiped her eyes with the palm of her hand, ‘It’s nothing serious,’ she lied.

‘I think you should go home and rest, come back tomorrow.’

She stood up, ‘Thank you very much Marjory.’

Leila went back to her class she grabbed her bag and bid her children goodbye before she left.

As soon as she left the school premises, a large wail escaped Leila’s l-ips and hung in the air, the shock of Owen’s death was like a punch to the stomach, one minute he was okay and they were making plans for the future, next minute he was badly bruised and now he was no more everything was happening at a fast pace and she couldn’t keep up.

‘Owen why? You should have fought hærd for me, for us,’ she cried as tears of frustration and sorrow escaped her eyes.

Onlookers all stopped and stared at her but no one dared to get close to her. Three hours or more had passed from the time she left the school, Leila wandered around the streets aimlessly she couldn’t go home like this. She didn’t have the strength to face her parents on a day like this, she just wanted to be left alone she wanted to mourn her loss without any distractions.

It was almost 18:00 now, Leila walked towards one of the community play parks, the place was dark and quiet she found herself a s₱0t at the far end of the park and sat down feeling hopeless, each breath she took made her chest ache and her head felt as if it were split into two, she just wanted to die.

Leila didn’t know how long she had sat in that position till she felt a hand touch her shoulder, startled she turned around to see a man standing behind her, she had been so lost in thoughts she had not heard him walk up to her.

‘Sorry I didn’t mean to scare you,’ he said. His voice was deep but very soft.

Leila responded with silence.

‘Are you okay?’ He asked

‘Just leave me alone please,’ she whispered softly.

‘I know it’s none of my business but you shouldn’t in this place at this time, it’s getting late and you might easily be attacked.’

‘You are right, it’s none of your business,’ she clicked her tongue.

He laughed, ‘Come let me take you home.’

‘Can you just go about your business and leave me alone?’

‘I can’t leave you here all alone. I would never forgive myself if anything happened to you.’

‘Mxxxm, you are such a bore,’ she stood up and started walking towards the gate.

‘Hey wait up,’ he ran after her

‘What now?’

‘My car is over there, let me drive you home.’

‘What if you are a serial killer?’

He chuckled ‘I would have already murdered you if I was one.’

‘Okay.’

‘Okay what?’

‘You can take me home.’

She had no energy to argue with him and if he was a serial then he would do the world a good deed by getting rid of her.

‘Great.’

He opened the car door for her and she slid into the passenger seat, when she was finally settled in, he went around to the other side, climbed in and started the car.

They drove in silence for a while.

‘Where is home?’ he spoke softly

She cleared her throat she wasn’t ready to go home not in the state she was in.

‘Are there any hotels around this place that I could spend a night in?’ she asked.

‘You don’t want to go home?’

‘No, I have a lot on my mind I just need to be alone.’

‘Then you are coming home with me,’ he said

‘I don’t know you I can’t come home with you.’

‘Hi I am Chuibuye,’ he extended his other hand to her.

She laughed, ‘Leila.’

‘Good to meet you Leila, I am taking you home with me,’ he said before he focused his eyes back on the road.

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The night had suddenly become darker for him he had been watching her from a distance all along, anger flared through his veins like never before as she settled into the car before the Chibuye drove off.

‘How could she go with him just like that? Didn’t she know she was taken? Hadn’t she seen his mark on her th-gh? Why was she suddenly allowing other men to take his place, he was slowly getting impatient, the thought of another man touching her was driving him insane, he didn’t want to hurt her but her actions were making it hærd for him not to now he was going to have to mark her permanently.

He let out a large growl like that of a wolf before disappearing into the darkness.

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