Must Read: Glitches - Season 1 - Episode 9

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Must Read: Glitches - Season 1 - Episode 9

The camp guide as Aaron later turned out to notice, was a very friendly fellow. He had explained pretty much everything Aaron needed to know about the place and Aaron confessed it was one hell of a great idea. Creating a camp with the hospitality of a hotel inside a jungle was a genius idea. No doubt many nature lovers like him will pay fortunes to visit the place. He was proud he was one of the first visitors since the place took off. The camp guide had told him that, he had even received a huge discount for that.

The security which should be a thing of concern to him was assured, according to the camp guide.

Although he didn’t see any sign of security personnel on his way here, he was sure they were somehow watching. He was given a phone which he was told contained numbers of the management office as well as the security office.

Anything he needed, he’ll get just by pressing one button.

The camp guide had helped him pitch his tent, it was standing taut with all the zippers closed.
‘’Isn’t this lovely, sweetheart?’’ He asked, moving backwards and admiring the tent. ‘’The camp guide has been most…’’

he stopped when he turned but did not find Stella.

‘’Sweetheart?’’ He called out.

There was no answer, at least none that both men could here. Aaron looked around, where could she possibly be? He turned back to the guide.

‘’erm… thank you for everything, if I need anything I’ll call.’’

‘’you sure you don’t want me to help you find your wife?’’

Aaron wanted to tell him she wasn’t his wife but what difference would that make?
‘’No thanks, I think I can find her.’’ he said.

The camp guide hesitated a bit but decided to leave. Immediately he left, Aaron set out to find Stella. He went towards were he last saw her.

There he saw an array of well planted deciduous trees sprawl out into oblivion. He followed the path in between the walls of the trees until he saw a cave. Stella couldn’t possibly be in there, he thought. On a second thought, he decided to check it out. He walked to the entrance where he saw Stella lost in admiration of something and a mad man in tattered garments stretching his hand to touch her hair.

‘’Get away from her.’’ he shouted.
The mad man stopped, as if he was startled.

He turned slowly and faced Aaron, something was strangely familiar about his eyes but Aaron couldn’t place it. All he saw was a mad man with unkempt hair and tattered clothes.

Two boys were seated on the tiled floor of an exotically furnished room, there were about fourteen years of age. A girl who was also in their age grade was on the chair with a glass of juice on her hand and a magazine on the chair. She seemed engrossed.

‘’checkmate!’’ one of the boys shouted.

She looked up and smiled.

‘’How is it a checkmate?’’ The other boy countered. ‘’ I can move my king here.’’ He removed his king from where it was and dropped it on a slot labeled e3.

‘’Then it’ll be meat for my rook.’’ The first boy said, laughing mischievously.

‘’Greg, don’t tell me you won him again.’’ The girl spoke for the first time.
‘’Aaron is my boy, he just never agrees.’’

She dropped her juice on the table, walked over to where the first boy was.

‘’I’m leaving.’’ She said.

‘’okay.’’ He answered plainly. ‘’I’ll come over later.’’

She walked with charisma till she reached the door, she opened it and left.

‘’One day, I’ll kill you and marry Stella.’’ The second boy suddenly said.

‘’why would you say a thing like that? I’ll tell mum.’’

‘’Don’t you know when someone is joking?’’. The second boy pleaded with his eyes. ‘’mummy’s boy.’’

The first boy looked deep into his brother’s eye, he stood up angrily and walked inside. He didn’t report to his mum, that was his greatest undoing.

The mad man wanted to talk but nothing came out of his mouth. Stella ran towards Aaron. The man looked like a medieval hunter and that scared the hell out of Stella. She looked deep into his eyes, something in there was familiar. Well, she had seen a lot of eyeballs in her existence on earth. Maybe this one was one of those that had pricked her interest.

‘’Who are you?’’ Aaron asked.

Dumb question, Stella thought. How the hell did he expect a mad man to remember his name?

The mad man whimpered, like there was an ocean of catharses about to be released. By this time, it was already getting dark.

‘’You two need to leave right now.’’ The mad man said in low tone.

Aaron and Stella were shocked. Not only was the mad man speaking, he also had an impeccable grasp of English. Again, there was a vague familiarity in his voice.

‘’you haven’t answered my question, who the hell are you?’’
‘’For your own good you have to leave this forest now.’’ Just as he was finishing it, he felt the glitch, it was time for his daily transmogrification.

Stella held Aaron tight, she wasn’t comfortable with how the first day of what promised to be an exquisite camp was turning out to be.

‘’You need help.’’ Aaron blurted out.

‘’Leave here you fool.’’ The man spewed, his voice slightly raised.

‘’I’m not leaving until…’’ Aaron was saying when the man suddenly dropped on his knees with his hands clutched tightly to his belly.

His eyes were bulging out like they were about to be plucked. His bones cracked like they were been broken. At this point Stella felt uncomfortable, she went behind Aaron and was holding him by his shirt.

‘’baby lets go.’’
Aaron’s feet somehow felt numb and it was as if he was stuck to the earth.

The body of the man somehow started inflating, and two other limbs bulged out below his two hands. His teeth became fangs and his eyes were bloodshot.

With trembling fingers, Aaron reached for his pocket to bring out the phone the camp guide had given him but it wasn’t there. He raised up his head and he stood face to face with a monster.

The heat in the container was getting unbearable for Jeremy, it felt like he was in the middle of fire.

A twig of fire broke off and landed on his arms, he Jumped up. He was surrounded by fire, just then he heard a gunshot. He stood startled.

Another gunshot followed and there was shouting everywhere. Their ship was being attacked, he knew this. The flames from the fire rose ferociously, threatening to consume everything. He was stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, yet he had to make a decision very fast. He braced up, he was going to do what he thought was the best option.