The Other Side

Episode 22

---

“It’s today vero, he dies today”
Siera whispered to vero.
“I can’t have Julie interrupting my plans”
Vero was still shivering at the voodoo storyline.
“Wait, explain how you saw her again?”
Vero requested.
“It was the old woman I saw the other day nah, I told you before… She touched my eyes and told me Julie was trying to stop my plans, at first I laughed it off because I was certain I murdered the bastard myself… But when I heard its her ghost…I became attentive…you see this whip?”
Siera brought out an horse whip.
“The woman said it can be used to ward her off”
Vero swallowed a lump of saliva.
“So we are fighting a ghost now?”
She was still in doubt.
“Vero I saw her, I saw Julie, she was eavesdropping on us…I am not crazy, I know what I am saying”
Vero nodded, she acted like she believed every word Siera said, she didn’t want trouble.
“I have been patient because Jack is my cousin but I…”
“Wait, wait, hold on, you mean Jack is your cousin? And you been sleeping with him? Jesus Christ!”

Vero had to act on Siera’s revelation…she couldn’t believe her ears.
“What? I’m not the first person to have sex with a relative…grow up girl”
Siera wave it off and went on to reveal how she would carry out her murder scheme.

---

It was Saturday, a work free day, Jack watched as Julie took care of the house chores, moving objects without touching them.
“Hmm, watching you do this eh, It’s giving me the chill, I wanna be a ghost too oh”
He teased and got Julie laughing.
“It’s easy na, lemme just strangle you, case solved”

“Biko no oh, I was joking!”
He quickly replied when she came at him.
The next minute she frowned, his first thought was he had done something wrong..
“What? What did I do?”
He questioned with his hands to help with the demonstration…

“Nothing, it’s Siera, she is coming…”
She took her steps backwards and hid behind the passage door.
“She must not know you can see me”
She instructed just before Siera entered with a bottle or Eva wine.
“Hello baby!”

She squealed and hugged him.
Flashes of light beamed on Julie’s memory, instantly her subconsciousness revealed how she was killed.

She gasped…Siera had poisoned the Eva wine she drank that night. It the type of poison that shuts your system down slowly, one that you won’t feel a thing till you are off the land of the living.

And she was sure this wasn’t a coincidence, it was the same drink she poured out for Jack…the same drink Jack was about to gulp down his throat.

She yelled from her hiding place.
“Jack noooo!”