My heart skipped a bit when I sighted him sitting on the double seater couch, his gaze fixed on the newspaper in this hands.
“I swallowed all the saliva I could gather and walked up to him “Good morning Dad” I greeted, he looked up and smiled a little before replying my greeting.
“Good morning my dear, you are back already?” He asked and I nodded fiddling with my shirt and wondering what could be going on in his mind. Maybe he was hatching a punishment to give me or something else.
“Rhoda when did you start going to parties and even staying out the whole night” he asked, closing his papers and sitting up, his gaze fixed on my face.
“I… I … wa.. s invited by a friend to his sister’s birthday party but I didn’t know the wine I took was alcoholic so I got drunk and a friend took me home” I stuttered, my heart beating faster than normal. I do not like it when my father gets angry and not when am the cause.
“And this person you followed home was a male am I right?” He peered at me through his glasses when I nodded.
“You went to a party, took alcohol, got drunk and followed a male home, wow that must be so much fun right?” He asked, removed his glasses and put it back in its case before focusing back on me.
“I’m sorry dad” I said and heaved a little sigh of relief when I saw my mother coming towards us.
“Austin we’ve talked about this, don’t scare the lad with your stiff face. We should be thankful someone found her and took her home instead of leaving her there alone who knows if she would have ended up in bad hands”
“She’s safe we should be thankful and not scare her with too many questions and she will soon turn 18 in two months time, let her behave like an adult” My mother scolded, sat beside him and placed her hands on his thighs making me very happy.
My dad loves my Mom so very much, should I say he is crazy about his mate and he listens to absolutely everything she says.
“Ok if you said so, he kissing her hair. I smiled and covered my eye when they started kissing.
My parents are alot touchy. They smooch and make out like teenagers at any slightest space they get.
When they disengaged and saw me covering my face, my Dad chuckled and stood up, leaving to his room with his papers.
“Thank you Mummy, I love you so much” I hugged her tightly sniffing her scent. she smiled and ruffled my hair.
“I caused it and I gotta fix it, let’s go make lunch” she muttered and took my hands walking to the kitchen.
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I stepped into the school compound after alighting from my father’s car. He personally brought me to school since he was going for a meeting near my school.
I walked into my classroom and as usual, Rose stood by the door waiting for me. I walked into her spread arms and together, we both went to our seat, hands locked.
“How was your weekend?” She queried. “It was good only that Mudy was bent on frustrating the hell out of me” I groaned and she laughed.
“That isn’t funny Rose I wish you were in my shoes only then you would understand what I am saying” I glared at her, hitting her arm slightly.
“It doesn’t mean, come on girl you have two brothers and you should be happy Mudy frustrates you, look at me, I don’t even have nobody to frustrate me” she said feigning sad.
“Maybe you can come be in my shoes where you would have to be the only child” she wailed.
I rolled my eye, brought out my textbook and started flipping the pages. “Come to my house and bundle Mudy to yours because I’m so fed up of him.
“He literally turns my room apart searching for God knows what not that he is a kid anyway, he’s fvcking 21 but acts 13”
“I kept loosing my stuffs and he always denies he had them but when I go to his room, I see a bunch of them in his closet even my nighties” I said irritatingly.
“Hahahahah you mean to say he wears your nightgowns?” She asked almost rolling over the desk in laughter.
“Please get off me, I don’t know how this is funny to you. I’m literally going crazy in that house ever since he came back from school. I just hope his break ends soon so he could return and give me back my peace” I grunted.
“He is your brother, you should love him and not want him away from you. Remember he would soon be done from college and return home and by then, you wouldn’t have any other choice than to endure. That is his way of showing you how much he loves you silly” she said grinning.
“Come on, I do love him, I love my brothers just that Mudy is too annoying and I would have found my mate when he returns finally so I wouldn’t be there for him to frustrate maybe he could switch to Mom” I muttered and Rose laughed.
The English teacher walked in, we stopped conversing and focused on him. Jayden’s eyes had been boring holes on the back of my head since I entered the class.
I didn’t need to look back to know who it was because I already knew no one else stares at me that way except him.
I tried as much as I could to ignore him and avoid looking back at him. I still felt disturbed by his actions yesterday.
He really did amaze me by not taking advantage of my drunken state to get what he was desiring for instead he acted so gentlemanly which baffled me but I’m still grateful for that because if he didn’t, who knows what would be my condition now.
I fixed my gaze on the teacher, I wasn’t even understanding anything she was saying. My mind was going through so many thoughts that I just wanted him to be done so I could atleast go take a breathe outside.
“Rhoda you look lost, tell me the definition” the teacher’s voice brought me back from my reverie.