When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 39

“What’s going on?” Amelie hastily asked.

Hearing that something might happen to her father, she felt her heart racing quickly.

Abby scratched her messy hair. “I’m not sure either. I was at the store buying groceries when I saw your dad walking out with a knife. I asked him why he bought a knife, but he didn’t even look at me. He just walked away angrily.”

“He bought a knife and left?” She hadn’t seen her father coming home, much less a knife.

What is he planning to do with the knife?

“Your dad has always been a quiet person, but he’d always greet his old neighbors. He never ignored us like he did today,” Abby continued.

“Do you know if my dad got in a fight with someone recently?” Amelie hastily asked.

This was no small matter, for a person’s life might be on the line.

Abby shook her head. “Your dad is an amiable person, and everyone on this street likes him. How could he get into a fight with anyone? Moreover, your dad doesn’t like to bear grudges.”

Amelie also agreed with Abby’s words.

Her father wouldn’t get mad at anything, save for matters related to her. He was especially loving and serious when it came to her.

“Did you see where my dad went? Which direction did he head in?”

The less she knew of her father’s reasons for buying the knife, the more anxious Amelie became.

“That way!” Abby pointed ahead. “Probably in the direction of the small train station!”

“The small train station?”

It was a small town, and the residents couldn’t take the high-speed train or a plane from there. They generally took the train if they were going somewhere faraway.

Is Dad going somewhere far from home?

Amelie asked Abby to look after Bria, then hastily ran off to pursue her father.

As she ran, she dialed Steven’s number.

The call went through.

“Dad, why aren’t you back yet?” Amelie tried her best to ask calmly, not letting her father catch on.

so I won’t be able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets, and the blankets are new too,” Steven commented on the other end of

emergency is it that you have to be in such a hurry?” she asked as

good and

couldn’t get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave

trishaw passed by

and made her way to the small train station on the

the desolate stone steps outside the train station,

back, a cigarette in his hand as

already discarded in the

about these things. He had

him. It must be

over to him. “Dad, why are you

cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask you

if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at

“Where are you going?”

lowered his

with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in

the

the city where

Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook.

his thoughts seen through,

are you thinking of doing there? Don’t

was shocked

to ask them how exactly they

looked at her, heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she

but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons

from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to be bullied like

like a silent sword that

was dull

down her

Steven back. “Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told you. Leo and

took him by huge

Dad. I should have listened to you

at first, and he had

the end, he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he

not only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and

felt an unspeakable regret in

Steven as she sobbed and apologized

his daughter lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t