Temptation

Episode 43

It started with the waves of breeze and it flung cutleries into the air.

And then, the giggling started.

The giggles were childlike and it got louder and louder then it abrupty stopped.
He started from the ground by looking at the bare white feet and upwards to behold clara’s white face, her skin stretched tight over her skull, eyes sunk in blackness and she wore the rags of a long white dress.

Her phizog was pale and looked hollow.
The beady eyes pierced ben’s heart and he trembled.

He was too shocked and gobsmacked to talk.
His breath caught in his throat and swallowed the lump that came to his throat.

His face was contorted in sheer terror as his feet trembled.

The once refreshing breeze was now pinching his cheeks with cold fingers.

Time seemed to stand still as he tried to make sense of the horrifying scene which stood before him.

“Ben!”
the voice of the appalling ghost of clara said in a whisper and it echoed around the kitchen, then the giggles followed and then died away.
“i never came to torment you or
taunt you”
the voice continued in whispers as though in agony and pains.

“i came here all for your good, my good, our good!”

clara’s voice stopped and the echo also died down, no more giggles nor the breeze whistling everything seemed to stand still.
Ben felt empty as though he wasn’t the real one standing, he only stared at the floor avoiding to see the hollow eyes that made his feet tremble.

“you killed me for her, i would have make you pay but my evil doings wouldn’t allow me”

clara’s voice stopped for a moment and then continued.

“i can’t rest in peace, i know no peace, no befitting grave for me to rest, you made me wasted!”

clara’s voice rose up from silent whispers to a shrieking loud inhumane voice and it echoed loudly and her eyes glowed with hatred while ben retreated scared to the marrow.

“your wife will bore you no child except if you do my rites, you’ll have to do my rites”
the word spread out around him like fog, dark and cold.

“but remember i love you and i still do.”
“i love you and i still do, i love you and i still do, i love you and i still do”
the voice echoed in ben’s head so loud that he felt his head was about to explode and he held his head and bowed down forcefully.
“but i don’t love you!”
despite his terror, he still managed to say.
Clara chuckled and the giggling started.
Louder, louder, louder.

And then it died away.
Long silence.

Clara spun herself close to him with an outstretched arms as a smile wafted across her hollow face.
Closer, closer, closer.

Just an inch away from ben.

Ben raised up his head when he felt the closeness.

It was so close that all he saw was her eyes. It was as if the rest of the world had vanished.
Nothing existed except clara’s eyes. In their darkness, he saw the wicked true love she had for him.

He felt weak as he continued staring at her black beady eyes and a flame engulfed him wanting him to do her bidding.

He knew not when he strecthed forth his hands.

He looked up and was drawing closer to her.
He tried to stop himself from moving closer but he had no power whatsoever to stop it.
He kept moving.

Then an idea struck his head.
Without a mincing though, he shouted.
“leave me alone in the name of jesus!”
he shouted with all the strength he could muster and he fell down and his vision became blurry and he blacked out.

It seemed to work as clara started to fade away changing to a vague figure.

And finally, she was gone.
.
.
Ben felt a hand shaking him aggresively, he blinked his eyes and it opened.

He squinted his eyes as it was trying to adapt to the new environment.

“ben whats wrong with you, do you have a bad dream?”

ben heard the voice spoke and he raised up his head to see nancy pitiful face.

He was surprised, he looked around him and he was more suprised.

He found himself on the bed in their room and nancy stood before him.

He rubbed his eyes to be sure of where he was.

And yes he was still in the room.
His mouth flung open bewildered.
“what happened to me?”
he asked the dazzled nancy.
“we were praying and you suddenly dozed off and later you started shaking as if you were feeling cold, and you kept saying, ‘i dont love you’, and later you shouted ‘leave me alone’ before you woke up.”

nancy narrated while ben gasped out in disbelief.

“so, it was all a dream?”
he asked himself.

And clara’s words started ringing in his head like a doorbell.