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.

urgent to attend 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 are new too,” Steven commented on the other

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

and rest

feared that he

trishaw passed

trishaw and made her way to the small train station on the wobbly

desolate stone steps outside the train station, she

with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as he

of cigarette butts were already discarded in

shoemaker, he was always particular about these things. He

saw a small black bag sitting next to him. It must

hastily ran over to him. “Dad,

little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away,

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

“Where are you going?”

his head

great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket

the ticket

where Leo’s house was

you… going to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed

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

spoke, Amelie was shocked

they treated

plump and healthy when she married into their family, but

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

years, he had refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home,

like a silent sword that

dull but

streamed down her face like

go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told you. Leo and I… filed for

took him by

you

first, and he had stopped

couldn’t win against her persistence, so he handed his precious daughter over to the

only exhausted her inside and out; even her child and father had to

an unspeakable regret in

as she sobbed and

hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t cry.