After breakfast, parsley was done eating, she pushed her chair back and stood up.
"thanks, I will go take a shower now" she said.
"you are not done with your meals" Ryan said.
"well, I am fed up already," parsley said with a smile and walked up stairs.
"she's nice" mrs Cheyenne commented.
Ryan blushed all of a sudden.
"well, I will go see how my garden is" Cheyenne excused her self and went out of the house. Lezzie got up and packed up the plates in the dining table.
"come on, help me, Ryan" lezzie snapped as she went to the kitchen with the plates on his hands and duped it into the sink. Ryan helped her with the remaining.
"I don't think I can keep doing this"Ryan said.
"what do you mean?"
"you know exactly what I mean"-------.
When parsley got to the room that was when it occurred to her that she forgot her phone, so, she went back down stairs to get it.as she grabbed her phone to go back to the room,she saw Ryan and lezzie in the kitchen, they did'nt notice her at all.Ryan held lezzie hands and talked sweetly to her, that she could not hear a thing of what they were saying. She felt a little bit disappointed.
"I I know that ryan was dating lezzie, that's way he was in her house" parsley said to her self and ran up stairs back to the room.
After parsley had taken her shower, she came down stairs. She was on a white and stripped black saggy top and on a pink slippers.
In the parlour, sitted on the sofa, was lezzie and Ryan still discussing,
"guys!" parsley called. Ryan and lezzie turned to parsley, looking all good, still got her packed neatly and a little fringe of her hair at both side against her face.
"you are on my shirt" Ryan said.
"oh, I didn't know, I saw it in lezzie's ward robe." Parsley said sounding dull.
"are you okay?" lezzie asked.
"Yeahh" parsley was walking towards the door now.
"you are leaving?" Ryan asked, surprised.
"I gotta see my father"
"you still care about that old hag?"
"my father?"
"yes, your father, how do you still care about someone like that…" Ryan paused, he closed his eyes tight and breathed in deeply, in other not to loose his temper.
"you know what? it's okay" he finally said as he left the sitting room. lezzie shrugged .
"well, good luck, but I do have one word for you, that man you call your dad is a monster"
Parsley gazed at her,
" no offence, I am just saying"
"bye lezzie"
"bye, see you in school"
When parsley got home,the site of her home scared her, hoe on earth would she face her vicious father . parsley breathed in deeply and made up her mind to go in.
"ma'am!" someone called , when she turned, she saw her driver greeting her, she gave him a quick smile and turned back to the entrance door. She was feeling nervous and frightened . she gentely pulled down the door handle and the door shrieked open and she peered her head into the house and saw her dad in the kitchen, on an apron and a chef cap, he was cooking. She swallowed in her breath and with full chest came in.
Micheal looked up and saw her, but parsley did'nt know, she was busy trying to tip toe in, in other not to make any sound for her dad to notice her.
"parsley, you are back?"
Micheal said. Parsley froze, with her eyes wide opened she slowly turned to him, with a stoned face.
"how are you?"
"I believe that's none of your business" she sneered as she moved forward a little , just to see her duvet and her pillows still on the floor, she glared at him and back to the pillows and duvet. She packed up but when she intend to claimd up the stairs ,her dad called her back.
"Parsley"
Parsley turned to him as he came down from the kitchen, he made a face to her , that says, come on ,sit down, but parsley did not respond until micheal sat down on the couch, he waited for some while but parsley have not sat down yet, he turned to her , she still stood , glaring at him her face was filled with horror and fear,
"parsley come on " he said but calmly this time . parsley walked to the couch and sat, but at the other edge. Micheal cleared his and adjusted himself. Parsley immediately shifted away from him.
"alright, I deserve that" he said, parsley did'nt say anything, she cuddled her.
"well" he began. "you are scared of me, aren't you?" he asked, looking at her face , being pale and clear. Parsley didn't respond but still quivered.
Micheal expecting an answer but didn't get one continued.
"well, there is this problem, I had when I was little"
He stared at the floor with his head down.
"it was kidda… hmm…"he said, trying to find a word for it.
"violet temper!" parsley snapped.
"yeah , yeah, well, kind of, but it was'nt that…, hmm, severe or unchecked until my parents tried to eliminate it, by giving me pills, it worked for some while but with time I got addicted and I think that my violence trauma worsened and every thing around me , every one I ever loved got affected by it....." he said as he choked in tears. Tears were already clustered below his eyes and it almost dropped.
"including you parsley,and I am truly sorry that I have to be so arrogant like this" he said, his voice had a feeling of remorse, parsley could feel it. She was out of words to say.she blinked hard as she slowly packed up her pillows and duvet and walked up stairs into her room.
Micheal watched her go, a stream of tear quickly slipped out from his eyes, down to cheeks.
Parsley got to her room and dumped the duvet and pillows on her bed.
"whof! Whof!" she heard a soft bark.
"queen!"she snapped as she rose up the duvet to see queen her pet dog, a white cute chiwawa.she laughed as she carried it and sat down on her bed and patted it's furs, after some while, queen jumped out of her laps and ran, she fell her father's old lamp on the floor and it smashed.
"queen!" parsley yelled in anger.queen realized what she did,and ran back to the bed behind a pillow and lowered her head.
Parsley sighed,first, it was her father's aggressiveness. second, Ryan and lezzie are dating and now,this?.
She walked up to the broken and smashed lamp and bent down, she began to clean it up. Just then, she found a folded paper, she winced.
"what's a paper doing inside a lamp?" she asked her self. she opened it , it was nothing serious, just an address.----hallow street, number 3,mexico----.she was confused. She sighed as she folded the paper back and kept it in one of her wardrobes. And then after, packed up the broken lamp.
Chapter five
Daniel reminisces.
On a Monday morning, the lesson were already going on and parsley came really late after the first lesson was already over. It was now on a biology lesson, the door swag open and parsley came in a hurry.
"sorry" she said, knowing clearly well that she was interrupting the class, so she apologized. She quickly sat down and smiled at Lawrence, her sit partner.
"well, you late queen, welcome"
He joked.
"I am not late, please"
"alright, alright, don't get all over the place"
parsley smiled.
"wow, what that aromatic scent?" Lawrence quickly asked and immediately sniffed parsley's neck.
"hey!" parsley quickly snapped.
"hmm, so you are the aromatic scent?" parsley blushed.
"well, it's your favorites subject, too bad, it's not your favorite topic"
"what do you mean?" she laughed, "I told you, I like all the topic in biology"
"sorry, but I know what's in your mind, honey" parsley shot him an harsh glance.
"okay, first, never you call me honey …"
"alright, how about baby?"
"that's worst"
"sweetie?"
"no"
"Darling?"
"no!"
"peacock?"
"no"
"you are silly"
"how about, my twinkle…?"
Lawrence asked, parsley didn't snap back. She glared at him, her face plan and stoned. Lawrence himself was confused.
"are you okay?"he asked.
Parsley glared at him and blinked as if something had surprised her.lawrence tried to talk but before he could say anything parsley packed up her books and left the class. Ryan watched her go, he knew something was wrong, he stared at Lawrence ,who also had is face quizzical and so confused, he couldn't detect what went wrong with what he called her.
"did that girl just walk out of my class without permission?"
The teacher asked.
* * * * * * * * *
It was break already, most of the student where in the cafeteria ,but lezzie and parsley where standing in the hallway by their locker.parsley was packing her books into her locker.
"why did you stumped out of the class earlier this morning" lezzie asked immediately she remembered it.
"nothing much"
Lezzie shrugged and opened her own locker which was beside parsley's and admired herself in the mirror glued to her locker.
"you know, I am thinking of starting up a beauty show in the net" lezzie began.
"seriously?' parsley asked, finding the topic interesting ,lezzie noticing how excited parsley got, she continued talking.
She shot her locker closed and turned to her.
"you like the idea right?"
"yeah, it's so epic ,so, when are you starting?"
"maybe tomorrow ,you can come over to my house and…"
"I can't" parsley chimed in.
"well, why?"
"I am not sure my dad would let me leave the house again"
"but parsley…"
"just do the video and any time it's ready, you can always send it to me " parsley said. lezzie frowned and walked out on parsley.
"I am sorry I lied to you lezzie, I can step out of my house but I don't want to come in between you and Ryan, Ryan might be in your house when I arrive"
Parsley thought in her mind. She sighed , closed her locker and turned to go , but instead, she hits her head on a guy's muscular chest, she gasped.
"sorry ," she said as she rose up her head and it was Lawrence.
"parsley are you okay?" he asked calmly, but parsley didn't respond, she looked away from him. Lawrence gently brought her face to him with his hands.
"did I hurt you?" he asked, he was really desperate to know what he did, parsley still did not respond.
"no" she spoke up after a while of silence.
"but you behaved really weird today when I was talking to you"
"well…" parsley sighed as she moved a little bit away from him. He came closer. parsley looked up to him.
"well" she continued. "I… had a boyfriend before…"
"so?"
" his name is Daniel, he never calls me pet names like you do, I guess you kind of made me remember him, so…"
"oh, I am genuinely sorry…"
"Lawrence I am really lucky to have met you, I mean, it's a privilege to be called twinkle by a cute guy" she said with an assuring smile plastered on her face. Lawrence felt a tickle at his cheek and he smirked a little. Just then he looked away, he was blushing but he didn't want parsley to see him. But when he turned back to talk to her she was gone.