Parsley kept on flushing through out the rest of the day and murmured to herself. She did'nt know when she answered some questions she was not meant to and say to some people what she was not meant to say.
Lawrence and lezzie walked behind her, discussing and showed no atom of intrest in wat ever she was doing.
"hey, parsley why can't we come over to your house?" lezzie asked.
"well I don't care"parsley said, absolutely absent minded of what she was saying.
"hey!"Lawrence and lezzie both exclaimedas they slapped their hands together .
Parsley driver drove into the driveway , parsley got into the car, so did Lawrence and lezzie.
"miss, are this people coming?" the driver asked,
"which people?"
"beside you" parsley turned immediately and then she saw Lawrence and lezzie inside her car staring at her and winking ,
"whoa!!!" she was shocked. "what the hell are you guys doing in here" she asked equally confused.
"you invited us over to your house, remember?"
"yeah, you did "lawrence concord.
"ugh, Jesus, I seem to be saying things now, just move," she said to the driver and he whizzed off.
Within a short time they got home . parsley opened the entrance door of her home, and waked exhaustedly to the center sofa, she quickly dropped her bag pack on the sofa.
" today was really an horrible one, I told you guys that I did not want to apologize to Ryan but you guys insisted and now see the mess it caused.' She bounced on the sofa to take off her boots, just to look up to see nobody but her father standing behind sofa, staring at her. She widened her eyes, figuring out that she had spoken a lot. she smiled nervously exhibiting her white teeth and her cute eyes.
"hey dad…" she said, behind her jammed teeth.
"hi"
He nodded his head," who are you talking to?" he asked as he came closer.
Parsley quickly used her eyes to examine the whole room and she did'nt see a trace of lezzie or lawrence in the room.
"that's ….a great question dad ,who was I talking to….?"she said as she got up from the sofa "I would be right back, father" she ran out of the sitting room. She got outside , then saw Lawrence and lezzie at the car pack, taking selfies of the fleet of cars and the mansion in a whole.
"lezzie, lawrence!" she called.
They turned to her and rushed to her, like they have a sort of good news.
"sorry…, OMG, your house is damn amazing, pardon us, we were caught up with your festinating home."
Parsley had a smiled plasted on her face.
"oh, wait till you see my room"
"shut up!" lezzie snapped.
"alright, here we go, girls stuff." Lawrence groaned. Parsley brought them into the sitting room and they both marveled at the gigantic, cool living room.
" dad, my new friends from school, Lawrence and lezzie" parsley introduced. "and, they were the fools I was talking to , when I came in"
Micheal widened his eyes, fired parsley an eye which she couldn't understand. Rather, misunderstood him.
"oh, I am sorry father ,you have always taught me to be polite,where are manners ? please, have a seat and tell me exactly what you want." Parsley said nicely.
"oh, how delightful, it's really nice to finally meet you, mister willowcode"
Lezzie said,strictly, looking straight at micheal.
"what did you just call me?" micheal asked .
"willowcode" for a moment, it was as if he was really scared.
"dad, do you guys know each other?" parsley asked.
"not actually" lezzie said.
"I have no idea who she is"
Micheal rubbed his face, very confuse and did'nt know what to do. He seemed uncomfortable for some reason as he watched parsley open up the fridges to a get an orange juice and cookies.
"hmm, well, have …, I mean, have fun, I will be back in the evening, sweetie" he said,parsley was already pouring some juice in some glass cup as micheal walked out of the house.
"your dad seems nice!'lawrence commented.
"hmmm, I doubt" lezzie said but not to parsley's hearing.
"yeah, my dad is really nice, that's why I love him"
Parsley with a cheerful smile, served the juice and cookies on the tray.
"trust me, your mansion is stupendious!" lezzie commented again.
"thanks" parsley appreciated,and sat down, sipping her juice.
Later, that evening, parsley went over to lezzie's house, to drop them off. Later on, she returned back to her house, late at night.when she came in, she met micheal, pacing hastily to and fro, chewing off his fingers, nervously.
"dad, why the quick pace?" she asked,her face was cheerful.
Micheal turned to her hurriedly as if he had been expecting her.
"you…, you naïve child!"he attacked, immediately. Parsley was shocked by the sudden attack. She was really confused.
"we,we,we"parsley managed to stuttered.
"I told you, tons of times, that this world are after us, they want to kill us, we are not safe and you simply cannot trust anyone" he yelled, "the world doesn't want you rather they want to use you, parsley" he continued.
Parsley eyes began to burn, as hot tears escaped from her eyeballs and whizzed through her cheeks. her heart began to hit fast and her chest became hot.
"no, " she yelled back "you lie" she took up a seat and placed it opposite her father and claimed on it, so she would be taller than him.
"you lie almost every time, father, you keep on saying that the world Is not for me ,and yada yada yada.i have had enough, the world is for me, and I know I would go out there and have fun, because this is my life!"
"oh my god!, what do you know kid!, you are so naïve and confused, you can't even define your life!" he said,
Parsley stared at him in vexation, her skin, red and hot, she breathed fast as she jumped down from the chair and ran upstairs in tears. micheal sighed looking at the ceiling.
Parsley was sitting at the tippy edge of her bed near the wall, starring into thin air as hot tears gently crawled down her cheeks. she got her legs against her chest and sobered so deeply wondering why her life was in such a mess.
Just then, her door swung open and her father stepped in. she glanced at him, her eye filled with vexation.
"what do you want from me now?". She asked with her voice filled with pain and sober.
"Sweety" he called calmly.
"I don't understand why you say people are chasing us, I haven't offended any one so why?"
"this isn't about you, it's me!" micheal began to yell again.
"then my mother?"
"see parsley, what they want, you got it. And no one else can be trusted enough to have it, and thereby you are in this game with me". Micheal said in a harsh tone.
"I don't know! The game, I am tired of it, I am so tired"
"see, since people have figured out our location we are moving…."
"moving?"
"we've got to"
"but dad! I have a life let me live it, if you actually care about me"
"and who told you I don't care about you, you are my daughter and you hold up something really charitable to me, more charitable than you, so you have to come along with me, for our safety!" he thundered, as he rushed out of the room banging the door behind him.
Parsley widened her eye in shock, her face socked in tears and her finger tips shivering. Her lips quivering already pale.
As soon as it was midnight, parsley packed up her pillows and duvet to run away from the house and sleep elsewhere.
She quietly sneaked downstairs, as she made her way to the front door the light suddenly switch on as she intend to open the door. She quickly turned frightened, it was her father, he walked up to her with his face being mean and wicked.
"where the hell are you going to!?" he asked.
"well, I'm going somewhere far for you"
"with your duvet and pillow?"
"well..., yeah" she snapped.
"get back inside!" he thundered.
"no, you are not in charge of me" micheal forcefully grabbed her wrist letting her pillow and duvet to fall.
"no!" she screamed and yelled, trying to free her wrist from her fathers strong grib. He pulled her towards the stairs. Immediately he let her go, as soon as she bit him at his arm really hard and painful.
"Awwuh!" he exclaimed.
Parsley quickly jumped over the sofa and ran away leaving the door open.
"Sammy open up!" she ordered, yelling at the gate man as she hopped into the car and zoomed off. Leaving her father terrified and doomed.
-if she could simply understand-
Finally, parsley got to lezzie's house. Everywhere was dark and she heard some crispy sounds, she hurried to lezzie's door and knocked really hard and continuously . just then, someone opened the door and it was lezzie on pink pj .
"why do you have pizza on your shoulder?" parsley asked.
"oh!" lezzie snapped as she removed it from her shoulders.
"what are you doing here in middle of the night?" she asked, concerned.
"it's a long story, please can I come in?"
"well..." lezzie said not sure maybe if she should come in.
"hmm, well you can come in!" she shouted so loud as if it was an announcement when the person she was talking to was standing right in front of her .
"why are you shouting?" parsley asked, surprised .
Just then, she heard a sound from the bushes, "haaaaa!" parsley shouted, as she pushed her self inside and locked the door.
"okay…" lezzie said, unsure why parsley was afraid of the bushes.
"it might be a squirrel" lezzie said .
" well, I do not want to know what was that" parsley said.
"so, what's the long story you wanted to tell me about?" lezzie asked.
"yeah, first of all, what are fourteen packs of pizza doing in your living room?"
"well…, that's because I love pizza a lot"lezzie said slowly.
"are you lying?"
"NO" lezzie responded sharply.
"okay…" parsley said, glancing at her with a little misbelief in her eyes.
Parsley and lezzie where in lezzie's room. They were sitted on the bed as parsley narrated all that happened that very night.
"so, your father thinks that the world is not meant for you?" lezzie asked to be sure.
"yeah, kind of…, and I am very scared right now"
"why?"
"what if, what he saying is actually true, I mean, the world is evil"
"parsley, I just want you to know that, if the entire world Is against you, I would never be against you" lezzie said as she adjusted to sit beside parsley.
"thanks"
"so Ryan needs to hear about this"
"about what?"
"That your father is actually that freak he has been talking about"
"no!" parsley managed to smile. Lezzie smiled to.
"it already late, let's go to bed" lezzie said as she lied down and tucked her self into the soft duvet.
Later on in the night, parsley had an horrible nightmare as a dream, she has been having this terrifying dream ever since they packed over to their new home. She is already at her wit end.
In a dark basement of their previous home, the southern states of America. Every where was locked up and it was hot and stuffy. Parsley layed on the floor with her buttocks and moved backwards in great terror. Her fingers were cold and she was shivering as her entire body was socked in sweat.
"mum! Mum!" she cried, as the reminiscence of her mum, when she was being stabbed, five good times. She began to cry in reality. She put a pillow against her right ear and pressed her self really hard to the soft mattress. her father's word's still echoing in her ears.
------------the world is not for you!-------------------.
This particular awkward scene also pops out. A scene of when her dad exploding after being tied up in a bomb jacket. While, people laughed at her in a treable tone but their faces were all blur and she can't see anyone.
She woke up immediately as trembling witless rushed over her. She began to have Goosebumps and shivered as tears flowed down from her eyeballs, she began to sober again and her heart beat was heavy. She hastily stood up from the bed as she searched for water on the table, to take, because water kind of calms her down when ever she seems terrified. but, there was no water in the jug on the table it was empty, absolutely empty. She rushed out of the room, so she could get downstairs.
She placed her hands on the wall in search of the light switch and immediately she found it , she quickly switched it on, and rushed to the kitchen , grabbed a glass cup which was at the side of a tap and turned it on and turned on the tap to fetch some water, she filled the cup and swallowed it in a gulp, she did it again and again, filling her belly with too much water.
"parsley !" a voice called her from behind. A image of a dead child laying on the floor flashed to her mind and she fell down on the floor covering her ears because she was hearing voices.
"mum! Mum!" then another man was pulling another little girl away of the house. She began to cry again closing her eyes tightly.
'please, please, spear my sister's life!" she yelled, not cautions of what she was saying.
Just then , she felt an hand on her shoulder and then heard a calm voice.
"parsley, it's me, Ryan"
She brought up her head gentelyyand saw Ryan kneeling beside her, with his face quizzical. She quickly grabbed him and hugged him, and wept on his neck.
"I am glad, you are here" she said calmly.
"I was so scared" she cried.
"it's okay, it's okay" he said, patting her back.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Parsley was on the sofa with a duvet over her body , covering her.
Ryan came in with two mug of hot tea.
"here you go" he offered as she sat very close to her and dropped the other mug and stretched his hand with the mug of tea to her.
Parsley nodded her head in a respond saying NO.
"thanks, I don't want tea"
"come on, it calms down, trust me" Ryan said calmly as he moved closer and held her at her waist. Parsley looked up to him, for some reason she felt shy, her eyes was still filled with tears. After some while, she opened her mouth slightly and Ryan fed her some hot tea. After a little sip, he dropped the mug on the table and glaced at her for a while.
"how do you fell now?" he asked.
Parsley nodded dumb stuck, Ryan rested his head on the sofa and now he was so close to parsley . everywhere was quiet and cold. just then, parsley slowly rested her head on his shoulder. Ryan smiled.
"let me tell you a secret,Ryan said.
"hmm, what's that?"
"anytime you feel scared or horrified, don't cry, just call me and I will make you a hot cup of tea" he said but it was like a whisper into her ears. Parsley blushed, later, hugged him tightly.
"I prefer hugging you, than an hot tea, it calms me down." She said.
After some while in that position.Ryan carried her into his room,He gently layed her on the bed, looking at her admiring how cute she was .his body slightly resting against her and he felt her….
He gently drived the hair against her face behind her ears. He attempted to peck her on her forehead but paused , he was not sure whether to do it or not. after some while he made up his mind not to. He switched off the lamp and layed on the bed opposite her, but he backed her.
The next morning, parsley woke up, absolutely delighted in what she saw first in the morning, it was Ryan, facing her, her face being really close to his own face that she could almost feel his breath. She smiled, seeing his thick long eyelashes, and his red lips with is pointed nose. After some while, she jumped up from the bed and left the room. She rushed down stairs to the kitchen, nothing define a jolly morning best if not a strawberry juice. She met lezzie in the kitchen with her mum.
"hi lezzie, hi mrs lezzie's mum"
She greeted cheerfully.
Lezzie's mum smiled at her.
"mrs Cheyenne "she said.
"oh, hi, mrs Cheyenne" parsley greeted again still maintaining the cheerful smile.
"where were you last night? You got out of the bed" lezzie said.
"yeah!" parsley responded.
Lezzie glared at her suspiciously.
Parsley noticed it "what?" she said.
Mrs Cheyenne was already serving breakfast on the table.
"well, your morning becomes gracefully, when you wake up seeing a marvelous face beside you" parsley said as she sipped her yoghurt.
Lezzie smiled, and turned to her properly.
"and what do you mean by that" she asked.
Parsley widened her eye, noticing that she had said what she was not meant to say.
"hamm, ugh…, I mean, my pillow was the graceful face, something like that"
She said, as she drank her yoghurt and dropped the cup on the breakfast bar and left the kitchen proceeding to the stairs.
"breakfast is ready, where's Cole?" mrs Cheyenne asked suddenly.
Immediately parsley froze in the stairs, and she widened her eye in shock and horror, as a quick image of a boy which she can't see clearly, flashed throw her memory, she hastily turned to Mrs. Cheyenne.
"who's Cole" parsley quickly asked expecting an answer as quick as possible. Mrs. Cheyenne, opened her mouth slightly and turned to lezzie.
"yeah mum, who's Cole? Would you like to explain, hmm, hmm?" lezzie said, like an order.
"yeah…" parsley had got down back to the dining table.
"well, Cole is my friend's son, he normally has breakfast with us, but he is not here yet, so I thought that maybe…, I should go call him and see.." she said as she left the dining table to the back of the house.
Parsley blinked her eyes continuously, her lips ran cold, quivering as she sat down.
"what's wrong with you?" lezzie asked, as she came closer to the dining chair which she sat.
"I keep having this flash back, I can't really detect" she said, as she rested her head on her palms.
"what… kind of flash back?"
"a little boy,it seems like I know him"
"a little boy?" lezzie said. "well stop thinking about it, cause, I know with time, you will figure things out okay" lezzie said, as she sat opposite her in the table.
Just then, Mrs. Cheyenne came in.
"so…, he said that he isn't coming today"
Lezzie shot her an eye and she kept quit.
"sup Cheyenne, sup lezzie, sup parsley " Ryan jumps down stairs greeting.
Parsley was still staring at her dish with her hands on her head.
"fine!" lezzie and Mrs. Cheyenne both responded. Then Mrs. Cheyenne sat down at the dining table.
Ryan noticing how moody parsley looked and she didn't respond back to his greetings he came close to her and bent down so that his face would be so close to hers.
"parsley" he said in a low tone. "what's wrong?"
"I think I am imagining things"
She said, her heart beating fast and her voice sounding horrified
"you are scared again" he said
Parley rose up her face and glared at Ryan with her eyes being so cute, gorgeous and charming, Ryan wondered were gifted girls get such a cute eyes ''
"yeah--" her voice being cold and calm
"I am scared " she completed as tears slipped from her eyes . Ryan held her hands and they stood up still holding hands. Cheyenne turned ,giving lezzie a look and she replied back, they both chuckled.
"and I promised you that whenever you are afraid, you should always call on me, and I would…"
Before he could complete his words. Parsley immediately hugged him, her head resting on his chest and her arms rounded him, he grabbed her waist and kissed her hair. They hugged for some while as parsley began to feel comfy and warm at his body still laying her head on his chest. She said, "what are you doing at lezzie's house?" she said, under her breath.
"hamm…I, …I,?" he stunted.
Parsley withdrew her head from his chest and looked straight to his face. He looked nervous all of a sudden. Before he managed to say something.
He sighed, "it's just like asking, the same question to you, so it doesn't matter why I came here, what matters is that we got to see each other in lezzie's house and most importantly, I got to see a scared baby in a freaky frightened state"
He said as he softly pinched her nose. Parsley blushed and smiled.
"I wasn't frightened, i was just scared" Ryan winced.
"they are literally the same thing" he said, "alright, let's eat maybe it can take off your frightened mind" he smiled at her, and she sat down and so did he.