Despised: Soon-To-Be-A-Billionaire's Dark Revenge

Chapter 2 BAD DREAM

I had the dream again that night, and, like the rest, I was caught in the middle of it. The snake coiled around the door’s handle and hissed. Then it slithered downward from the handle, its unblinking eyes fixed on me.

I looked around the room; there was no window in the room and the snake blocked the only way out of the room. How I allowed myself to be cornered in a room with no window and one inaccessible door remained a mystery that the dream did not care to reveal.

Talatu stood behind me and I felt a new burden to get out of the room overtook me.  She whimpered from behind me and I guessed she had just seen the snake.

The snake reached the floor and coiled up, the head pointed towards me. It hissed angrily. 

‘I want to go to London,’ Talatu screamed at my back. ‘I want to go to London. Take me out of this place. Take me out, please.’

I turned to the white wall on my left and scratched the surface. My fingers met bricks, solid as the ones used on the pyramids of Egypt.

I turned to the snake; it had drawn a foot closer and its tongue darted in and out of the curved mouth with rapidity. It inched closer, the flat head positioned for my legs.

Talatu’s body trembled against mine. ‘I want to go to London,’ she cried. ‘I want to go to London now.’

The sound of snake’s scales brushing the floor and Talatu’s cry filled the room. I turned to the wall and scratched again; not even a hammer can dig through this wall.

The snake lunged forward at that instant and I jumped away from the wall. Talatu screamed and jumped to my back. Her body shook like a reed in a storm.

The snake recoiled and lunged forward again. It missed my thigh by inches and slammed the flat head on the wall. I pressed on Talatu and she pressed on the wall behind us. She began to scream.

The snake hissed and turned towards me again. I felt the handle of the door on my back before I knew I had gone around the room to the door. I turned and grabbed it and yanked downward. I heard a click sound but the door refused to draw open. I bent the handle again and pulled.

It was locked.

I faced the snake, ready to feel its fangs on my leg.  Then I gasped in terror, drawing back.

Talatu’s head sat in place of the snake’s head while the rest of the body was the snakes’. She smiled at me and I saw the fangs on the side of her mouth. I drew backward, feeling the wall with my hands. She came after me, slow and deliberate, with the beautiful eyes fixed on me and her lips spread in a smile.

‘Get a job, Paul,’ she hissed. ‘Get a job and marry me. Without a job you are nothing; you are less than a toad if you don’t have money. You are nothing.’

Her lips spread wider and the eyes turned amber red. She snapped the neck backward and, in a flash, the head zapped forward, aimed at my neck.

I felt the pain of the fangs and screamed.

I sat up straight from my bed with my heart jumping in a wild dance. I cleaned the sweat on my face and got up from the bed. I walked to the door and hit the switch; white flood of light hit the room and the darkness disappeared. I blinked several times and then I walked into the toilet, feeling my heart slowing down to its normal pace.

I came out of the toilet a minute later and laid on the bed. The thought of Talatu and the doctor crossed my mind and I felt disheartened, and I remained in this state until the sun deflowered the night and brought in the day.

I got out of bed by six thirty again and walked to the living room with the gait of a zombie. The determination I had felt the previous day was gone by now and in its place was a sense of hopelessness I had never felt before.

Today will be another typical day with nowhere to go and nothing to do, I thought.

But I was wrong about that day.

Oh, how wrong I was.