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.

to attend to, so I won’t be able to come home tonight. You and Bria can sleep in the small room in

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

and

anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could only hang

then, a trishaw

onto the trishaw and made her way to the small train station

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight

with his bent back, a cigarette

already discarded in the small garbage bag

always particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had he

bag sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby

to him.

tossed the cigarette away,

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

“Where are you going?”

lowered his head in

with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a

of the ticket

where Leo’s house

Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie

thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his lips

are you thinking of doing there? Don’t tell me you’re

was shocked at

exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his

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

thought that Amelie had lost a lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the

these years, he had refrained 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

dull but

streamed down her face like

Dad. There’s something I haven’t told

him

have listened to you instead of going

at first, and he

he couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed

and out; even her child

an unspeakable regret in his

hugged Steven as she

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