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.

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

be

didn’t mention anything. “Be good and rest up. I’ll be back

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

a trishaw passed by

way to the small train station on

the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of Steven’s

sat there with his bent back, a cigarette in his

already discarded in the small garbage bag next to

though her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never smoked before, nor had he ever been

next to him.

hastily ran over to him. “Dad, why are you

small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you

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

“Where are you going?”

his head in

ran up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in

destination of the ticket was

city where Leo’s

Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression

through, Steven pursed his

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

was shocked at her

they treated you!” he

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

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

he wanted Amelie

like a silent sword that

was dull but

her

held Steven back. “Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t

news took him by huge

should have listened to you instead

at first, and he had stopped her

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

out; even her child and father had to bear

an unspeakable regret in

Steven as she

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