When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

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.

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

to be in

good and rest up. I’ll be

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

then, a trishaw

to the small train station on the

steps outside the train station,

cigarette in his hand as

already discarded in the small garbage bag

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

sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby

over to him. “Dad,

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

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

you going?”

head in silence.

Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a ticket from

of the

where Leo’s house was situated!

Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately

his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his lips

there? Don’t tell me you’re going to

she spoke, Amelie was shocked at her

exactly they treated you!” he

heartbroken. “My darling daughter was plump and healthy when she married into their family, but now, she’s

lot of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might not

he wanted Amelie to live freely in that

concern was like a silent sword that

dull

her face like rain.

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

news took him by

to you instead of

at first, and

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

out; even

regret

as she sobbed

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