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.

room in the back. I’ve already changed the sheets,

have to be in such

“Be good and rest up. I’ll be

get anything out of him, but she also feared that

a trishaw passed by

and made her way to the

train station, she caught sight of Steven’s

his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as

butts were already discarded in the small garbage

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

next to him. It

ran over to him. “Dad, why are you here?”

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

queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the small

are you

head

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

destination of the ticket was

the city where Leo’s

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

seen through, Steven

what are you thinking of doing there? Don’t tell

was shocked at

ask them how exactly they treated you!” he said sullenly, his

and healthy when

of weight, but when Bria mentioned how good Amelie’s cooking was, he realized that the Alstons might

refrained from visiting the Alstons and contacting Amelie because he wanted Amelie to live freely in that home, not to

was like a silent sword that pierced Amelie’s heart.

dull but painful!

streamed down her face like

back. “Don’t go, Dad. There’s something I haven’t told

news took him by

nodded. “I’m sorry, Dad. I should have listened to you instead of going to Leo

first, and he had stopped her

against her persistence, so he handed his precious daughter

even her child

regret in

she sobbed

his heavily calloused hands caressing her hair like he had always done when she was younger. “Child, don’t