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.

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

that you have to be in

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and rest up.

feared that he might leave on

then, a trishaw passed by

onto the trishaw and made her way to the small

stone steps outside the train station,

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as

cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag next to

was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never

to him. It must be the knife

him. “Dad, why

a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you

bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the small

“Where are you going?”

his head

him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old

the ticket was

was the city where Leo’s

Steven’s expression when

seen through, Steven pursed

of doing there? Don’t

she spoke, Amelie was

they treated you!” he said sullenly, his

and healthy when she married into their family, but now, she’s

good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized

and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to

father’s concern was like a silent sword

dull but

her

There’s something I haven’t

news took him

nodded. “I’m sorry, Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo and getting married to

marriage at first,

against her persistence, so he handed

her inside and out; even her child and father

an unspeakable

she sobbed and apologized

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