The Woman From Hell

The sky outside was very blue. I was wandering in the yard. I had no idea what Matthew was thinking now. I should have been shaken by what he said to me after how his aunt had tried persuading him yesterday, but I put on a calm appearance this morning with the thought of provoking him.

Could it be that he was still testing me?

It seemed that I would still have to settle down.

At this moment, a sound came from the door.

Matthew could not have come back at this time. Could it be a thief?

I picked up a stick next to me and aimed it at the door as I walked toward it with small steps. Except for the sound of the door opening, the person outside the door did not speak.

If it was Matthew, why was there not the sound of keys jingling?

While I was pondering this, the door opened.

Just as I was about to swing the stick down, I heard a familiar voice. "Don't, don't! It's Aunt Nessa."

Aunt?

closer look, and it was really

heart eased, and I put the stick back in place. "Aunt

truth. He came to my place before going to work today. He told me to accompany you and take you

enough, whatever I did

first time going out the main door ever

we were living in a remote place, we reached the town after walking a few hundred meters. There were two rows of shops along the side of the road where

walked,

to me, "This

as we walk around more, people will basically get to know us. Look, this is Mrs. Zee who sells fruit, and that's Mr. Lucas who's the butcher. He shares the same family name as you.

The place was not big, and there were not many people. Hence, there were

I could live in a small town

buy some

store and saw 'Anmead Variety Grains' written at the top of the

be the name

mart. Now I had confirmation that this place was called Anmead. Although the names were the same, I still had to

I did not dare behave too obviously lest Matthew got onto me after learning