Never Lost

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

You must be happy now mother,’ she said.

‘Bertha.’

‘Are you surprised to see me?’ she stood at the far end corner, ‘where are your powers now? I thought the cell door will be very much easier for you to break.’

‘Bertha, I am sorry.’

‘Are you apologizing to her?’ she asked.

‘Linda.’

She smiled at her.

‘Dear mother.’

‘I am very sorry Linda.’

‘Are you? You have heard her locked in my world and now Fadzai is using her body. What kind of a mother are you?’

‘You two are not real. Bertha you are dead and and,’ she stammered, ‘Linda..’

‘I am dead too? And this is all you entire fault. How can you join a Satanism group? I knew you better than this mother and I honestly thought you got all that money from selling clothes.’

‘I tried warning you that mum was up to something but you didn’t believe me Linda.’

‘I should have listened to you Bertha.

‘Yes you should have but now it’s too late,’ they both looked at their mother.

Aretha closed her eyes as she listened to her daughter’s voices in the room. She screamed and there was silence. She opened her eyes and she was the only person in the room. A feeling of guilty swept through her; this was more painful that she had begun to imagine it, haunted by her daughter’s spirits.

‘Aretha,’ she called out as she stood outside the door cell.

Aretha raised her head up high.

‘Thelma,’ she got up and rushed to her feeling happy to see her, at least she still thinks she had someone to rely on and Thelma was a good woman ready to destroy Diablo and his members, ‘Thelma I am glad you are here,’ she said holding her hand.

‘Aretha what have they done to you?’ she asked when she saw the scar on her cheek.

‘It was Diablo but I am going to be fine. Thelma how is Nyasha?’

‘Aretha things don’t look good for her. She hasn’t been sleeping for days now and every time she wakes up, she always tells me that she had bad dreams. I think Diablo might come and take her very soon. He wants her to be transformed as soon as possible and there is nothing that I can do to save her from him.’

‘Thelma you listen to me. I need you to take Nyasha away from this city and from Diablo.’

‘You know we can’t run away forever. The moment I step outside carrying some bags, Diablo would know about it. Aretha we are nothing compared to him, he is more powerful than us and he will kill us both if we backstab him, I can’t put her life in danger.’

‘Her life is already in danger Thelma. I shouldn’t have given her that medicine, I shouldn’t have,’ she said in between sobs. ‘Diablo has betrayed me and he is nothing to me now.’

‘You know how much I love Nyasha and I still think that was a very bad idea to sacrifice her to him. Aretha you have been nothing but a sister to me. You protected me from the lion’s den and I am forever grateful for that. I will try by all means to make sure that nothing bad happens to Nyasha even if it means walking right through the devil’s den, I promise you Aretha I will protect her with my life.’

‘Be safe for me Thelma. After this I am out of this league, I want nothing to do with this and I am so much regretting my decisions. I have been locked in here for a month and so many things have been happening to me,’ she said thinking about her daughter’s voice she had been hearing and even dreaming about them.

All of this making her being diagnosed with a certain disease referred to as insomnia by some people who have dealt with it. Thelma left the dungeon and Diablo was waiting for her in his dining room as he sipped on champagne with two guards guiding him. When she walked inside, he told his guards to give them some space. Linda aka Farai was in her room trying to get used to her new body and stalking Shane on instagram, she was still obsessed with him and now that she had more powers and had changed her body, she was ready to go back to him and finish off what she had started.

Thelma sat down on the sofa opposite Diablo and he was just looking at her as if he heard what she and Aretha were talking about. His looks made her feel very uncomfortable and bloody wished he could say something to break the awkward silent tension. He placed his empty glass of champagne on the table and sat with legs crossed, with hands on his laps.

‘Tell me something new?’

‘Pardon.’

‘How is Nyasha?’

‘I am sure you know her state.’

Diablo just smiled, Thelma had changed and the sudden change of her behavior made him feel very nervous. He might have done certain things to her in a bad way but he still considered her very precious in his life but now she was being too rude to him and he knew very well that he wasn’t going to be able to kill her.

‘I don’t know and being the same reason why I just asked you about her.’

‘Oh please, you have the powers to see what happens around you.’

He couldn’t say no more to her and dismissed her. Thelma honestly didn’t know where he got the courage to reply him in that kind of way. She got into her car and drove off to the house.

‘Nyasha,’ the lecturer called out her name.

Nyasha was just staring at the board and he had asked a question.

‘What?’ she snapped and all the students in the room paid attention to her.

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She had changed. For the past few weeks she had become rude to everyone and whenever she came in late for her lecture, she didn’t even apologize for it. The people that used to study with her were getting concerned as well. Some of them had actually thought that maybe she was pregnant. Some had distance themselves from her when she hurt Zinzi, the lady from another class doing law. She had said some things to Nyasha and she beat the hell out of her, she actually broke her arm but the matter wasn’t even taken to the principal, it’s as if though something like that hadn’t happened at the college or maybe they were some few member of Diablo since he occupied one and half of people in the city were his followers.

‘I asked you a question,’ he warmly said to her.

Nyasha stubbornly rolled her eyes and clicked her tongue while the other students had their mouth widely opened. She continued chewing her gum. The lecturer asked Nyasha to come forward but she didn’t even flinch from her sit.

‘Nyasha I am talking to you.’

Nyasha laughed out loud like a crazy person while clapping her hands.

‘Don’t you have something else to do rather than wanting to be in bad books with me?’ she rudely asked him.

He had never been so disrespectful before and asked her to get out of the class.

‘With pleasure,’ Nyasha grabbed her backpack and cat walked out of the class in her mini short dress while laughing out loud.

He continued with his lecturer and Nyasha decided to drive herself home. She didn’t want to be at the college anyway, she woke up in a bad mood and wasn’t in a good mood to learn.

Thelma had already arrived at home and she was surprised to see Nyasha back so early when she watched her park her car. Thelma opened the door to welcome her as she got out of the car. She locked the car and walked to the door.

‘Aren’t you supposed to be at school?’ asked Thelma.

Nyasha just bumped into her and got inside the house.

‘Nyasha!’ she called out for her.

‘Don’t fucken call me Nyasha!’ she shouted that the water glass Thelma was carrying fell from her hands to the floor.

Thelma was somehow very much confused by her attitude towards her. Nyasha didn’t even apologize to her and continued going upstairs to her room.

‘Oh my God!’ exclaimed Thelma when she already knew what was about to happen to Nyasha.

Nyasha had changed and there was no way she was going to bring her back. Thelma followed her to her room.

‘Busy calling me Nyasha,’ she said to no one in particular, ‘I am going to make him pay for chasing me out of the classroom. How can he embarrass me like that in front of all those people,’ she continued to talk to herself while pacing up and down in her room.

‘Nyasha!’ she heard Thelma calling out for her.

‘That b—h! Can’t she just let me be? What do you want?’ she responded feeling very much irritated by her.

‘I have prepared some food for you.’

‘I am not hungry and please stop calling me Nyasha. I am the queen to the demon and I shall save Diablo as his wife,’ she said opening the door for her and smiled, ‘I am going out and I am probably not coming back tonight.’

She was now dressed in her black dress.

‘Nyasha you can’t leave the house,’ disagreed Thelma whilst grabbing her hand.

Nyasha with so much force pushed her to the ground; Thelma broke her leg just after landing on the floor and screamed in pain.

‘That will make you respect me b—h,’ she clicked her tongue and walked out of the house.

Mr Moyo had already told some of her colleagues about the sudden change in Nyasha’s behavior. He was concerned about her and it seems he wasn’t the only lecturer who had seen how rude Nyasha had become. He drove in the yard and parked his car. It was at around 8pm and he had had a long day at school. He got out of the car just after from grabbing his house keys. As he walked to the door, he couldn’t help but felt as if someone was watching him. He unlocked the door and stepped inside. He was removing his shoes when she just walked inside the house.

‘Mr Moyo,’ she called out as she stood behind him.

He screamed startled by her sudden voice.

‘Nyasha, what are you doing here? How did you find me?’

‘Easy, I asked some guys,’ she said walking to the dining room.

Mr Moyo followed him feeling very much confused that one of his student was in his home. Nyasha sat comfortable on the sofa as if the house was hers.

‘Nyasha, what are you doing here?’ asked the now impatient Moyo.

‘I came to see you. We need to talk and you need to sit down,’ she said with a hint of command in her voice.

‘You need to leave my house Nyasha,’ said Moyo pointing at the door.

‘Really?’ Nyasha got up with her eyes turning red.

She had come to make him pay for chasing her out of his lecturer and embarrassing her in front of other colleagues.