Chapter 71: Chapter 71
Chapter 71 I will be strong again
Kate curled up at the corner of the wall in her room, her face looking all red and nose and eyes dripping of tears and her body suffered from her pounding heart. As she wailed her whole body trembled and shook like a tennis ball on a vibrating table. Overnight, the leaked nude video of herself had ridiculed her and put her name on the lips of every student, and haters. Walking freely in public became an issue that dazed her body with itches. Free living wasn’t a thing for her anymore, so she absconded from school and turned up to be a loner, so as to avert the attention of scoffers.
On social media her name was an anthem, and the video went viral with barely three million views accumulatively. With clenched teeth, she read the gross comments of viewers and endeared the curses and scoffery of enraged viewers that flooded her official page- a page she created few months ago to canvass for her fashion business in the near future. Now she had lost her business to lust. She was losing everything under the sun- her family; her passion; value, love and happiness. Her edges were pulling harder than her center.
She stood up, gently stripped herself and walked to the mirror to behold her pale body. “So the whole world beholds you now.” She whispered within herself. “I am so sorry. I never planned to go this path. All I wanted was love, believing something good could come from Tony. Is it bad to believe in love now? What was I thinking when I fell for him? Yes of course I was thinking true love. Everyone has right to love, isn’t it? Yes, love isn’t meant for one person alone. But what happens to love? Is love suffering from exaggeration or amounted negligence and dishonesty on our path? What happens if we just exist and don’t love? If we say no to love whenever she approaches in glisters of red and inviting enchantment, would it cost us our lives or does it make us less humans? Even must everyone love?” Tears trickled down her cheeks as she spoke within herself, beholding her nakedness in the mirror as she spoke on. “I wanted it to work out between me and Tony but now I am living my life regrettably backward. My essence is being ravaged by the spiky hands of lust. I enjoyed Tony. He made me believe bad boys taste best and I suddenly lost my taste bud for Brian. He clouded my body with rubies while on the inside I was in sackcloth. Until I find her, true love doesn’t sound like Tony. Despite his shortcomings and shady deals, I accepted him into my life so we could earn a place together in future. But what did I get in return? Shame, ridicule, disrespect, constant bickering and the down trodden of my family. Even when the wildest of storms hit my family and I wanted to take solace in love Tony had nothing to offer than the strength of a dog in bed,” she said , walked to her bag and brought out the tape he searched out in Tony’s house. She glared at it in utter bewilderment and feared greatly even for the unknown. She read the inscription again; murder tape, and snorted before shaking her head.
“What could be in this tape?” she asked within herself, squatting to the video display set and television. Uneasily she turned on the TV and inserted the card as hush silence hung over her as she waited for the card to process before the content of it would display. The card was done displaying and Tony amidst two of his boys came on screen. They were seated in the ball room, smoking heavily and gulping beer and wine. Tony opened the discussion by nagging at Inspector Fred Ben. One of the boys queried Ben’s attack on them in the street whenever they peddled cocaine.
None of the boys uttered a comment again except Tony who said, “We will kill him. His end approaches.”
The television went blank- the video had ended.
Kate shivered greatly in fear. Stunned, she stood gaping and wondering why Tony would want to murder inspector Ben just because he was doing his job as a police officer. If Tony said a thing he always did it; and she knew him for that. At that moment, she picked up her phone to dial Inspector Ben. Upon dialing his number, she paused thoughtfully and cut the call. She pondered briefly if it was wise to put him on track of what was about to befall him. Contrarily, she dialed his number again and an answering machine came on after no response.
“Heh, can we see later? It’s very important,” she spoke into her phone, leaving a voice message and hung up.
Her gaze came upon the murder tape again, and her hands for the first time convulsed as one suffering from Parkinson disease. She grasped it and hid it underneath a black hood in her bag. Her hands found her face as she broke down in tears; there was no need for her to see any nude tape again- if Tony could have a murder tape about his devices to murder a police officer then a sex tape was a piece of cake for him to achieve. All about Tony flashed before her eyes like the strike of lightning. She had been in love with the devil’s son and she never knew. It was time to create the boundary; time to lend him a long rope and mark her territory; she was going to take a decision she had never taken in her life; because hard times demanded hard measures. She was wary of the fact that sex was her weakness- of a truth for the sake of sex she could melt all the snow in this world with her barefoot- resisting cute men was a pull for her, let alone the ones she loved. But it was time to take a step of redemption without minding her shortcomings. She knew it wouldn’t be easy to stay off Tony and his lustful advances but she was going to do It anyways. Suddenly her phone buzzed and when she checked it was a message from her mother;
Kate! What’s this nude video of you making the round?
In few seconds her phone buzzed again and it was a voice message from her father in jail;
Oh Kate, hope you are safe. Your nude is every here!
Another buzz came and she didn’t care to check it rather she turned off her phone and tossed it away. Enraged, she ran into the bathroom, broke down in tears and slammed on the wall repeatedly.
“I will be fine. I will be strong again. I will redeem myself and stay off sex. I will survive.” she assured herself, wailing heavily.
Just then there was a heavy knock on the door, and she hurriedly washed her face in the sink to brighten up…