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, 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

be in such a hurry?” she

good and

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

then, a trishaw passed by

and made her way to the small

the desolate stone steps outside the train station,

there with his bent back, a cigarette in his

discarded in the small garbage bag next to

her father was a shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He had never smoked before,

to him. It must be

to him. “Dad, why are

bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask you and Bria to

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

“Where are you going?”

lowered his head in

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

of the ticket was

city where Leo’s house was

to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately

thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his

doing there? Don’t tell me

was shocked at her

exactly they treated you!” he

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

how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not have been treating his

he wanted Amelie to live

a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s

dull

her face

something I haven’t told you. Leo and I… filed for

news took him

you instead of

marriage at first, and he

win against her persistence, so

her inside and out; even her child and father

an unspeakable regret

she sobbed and

lovingly, his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child,