Parsley went to school , she wasn't late this time around as she used to be, though she wasn't in the mood to talk to any one that day, she was still in the words lezzie had told her earlier.as she walked the hallway alone she noticed that almost everyone was with a pink paper. She ignored it and walked to her locker, because that was least of her problems.
"hallo little chick" a voice snapped. She turned her face to see Mandy, with a heap of pink sheet. She starred at Mandy without saying anything.
"well as you can see I and my girl are distributing an invitation card to my swimming pool party"
" what if I don't want to wear a bikini?"
"that's none of my business to worry about, but be aware, no bikini's, no entry"
Mandy gave her a sheet and hopped away, parsley glared at the sheet with disgust because she despised glitters. She sighed and headed to class, not talking to anyone
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It was ready night, and parsley was already out for the party. She was on a red long rope. When she entered everywhere was noisy and a loud music was playing. She winced because everyone was dancing crazy.
"oh, I knew you would come" Mandy approached her
"yeah, my dad have been out, I thought that I could come have fun"
"nice thinking girl" Mandy said, as she dragged her to dance. Just then she saw Lawrence. Lawrence was sitted on a chair without a shirt only on shorts. She came towards him and sat. Lawrence turned to her and smiled.
"hi" parsley greeted.
Lawrence sat upright.
"you like pool parties?" Lawrence asked.
"yeah it's fun"
"and…"
What do you mean?"
"do you like swimming?"
"Yeah, but I don't want to take off my rope"
"why?"
"ryan might see me, I don't want him to, I think he is a spoilt brat"
"so what do you think I am?"
Parsley widened her eye in shock.
"he said, as he ran and jumped into the water.
Parsley chuckled, feeling happy all of a sudden, as she removed her rope and her locket and kept it on the table and jumped into the water.
Lawrence splashed her water and she avenged back, they began to play. Before anyone could recognized what was going on, they were kissing, everyone frozed starring at them but they didn't recognize.
She was slightly on him as he held her waist and her hands rested softly on his chest.
Mandy and lezzie exchanged glances as they glared back at them filled with surprise.
For a second, parsley had a thought that Lawrence was the guy, I mean, he was the first guy she met in school, he was tall and cute, funny and romantic, he understood her and appreciated who she actually was. Like, basically he is the kind of guy she as been dreaming of. She couldn't wait to see him again.
The next day, a day after the swimming pool party, parsley went to school so early which was so unlike her, just last night when she got home after the party, she had a chat with Lawrence over the phone and then they planned that they would meet in school early in the morning before anyone else would come, Lawrence had a surprise for her. When parsley got to school the hallway was totally empty, the class also, the cafeteria, the swimming pool area. In fact parsley seemed to be the only one in school.
She was kind of excited no one was in school so that her and Lawrence should have a little time together. She rang Lawrence up immediately, he didn't pick up but rather it left a message.
__________hello, it's Lawrence here, sorry this came late but I am already out of the country, I apologize, if you can't reach me again___________ leave the message!.
Parsley was stunned, she wasn't expecting this all of a sudden, Lawrence never told her anything about leaving the country, she felt her eyes burn as tears streamed down her eyes.
After that day parsley had been feeling down, she felt that her life would not be complete without Lawrence, the one she was close to have left her in short notice, she had missed school for a couple of days now, and that was really weird of her, for the past three days she had been moody, she had neglected all the phone calls that had been coming in. Michel noticed her withdrawnness but he didn't have this parental approach towards his daughter.
Right now, parsley is sitting on her dressing stool still weeping bitterly as if her life was over, she was still on her short night gown at three pm.
Just then, her entrace door swung open and she saw it through the mirror, Michel stepped in, he looked uncomfortable for some reason.
"parsley" he called, parsley immediately wiped up her tears and sat up right.
" dad, I am fine" she quickly said, trying to hide her pains.
"well, your friend is here, in search of you"
"lezzie?"
"no, it's a guy?"
"Lawrence?"
Before parsley could turn and talk to her father he was already gone, she got up to her feet too go see who was in search of her. Suddenly, Ryan stepped into the room, she was stunned to see him.
"Ryan!" she gasped and she looked really messy.
"parsley"
"Ryan, what are you doing here, how did you know the direction to my house?"
"You haven't been in school for days now" Ryan didn't mind to answer her question.
"it might been two days to you but it's like a year to me, I mean everybody in school is damn missing you"
Parsley slowly sat down on the bed and so did Ryan also, beside her.
"what's wrong?" Ryan asked, his voice showed that he was really concerned.
" you know Ryan, sometimes I just think that I do make silly mistakes"
"and who told you that?"
"I figured, I mean , I allowed Lawrence to fool me, he just left and…" parsley bursted out crying again.
"well, I am sorry to say that , you are judging your self wrongly, your decisions are always valuable, even when it seems like a mistake"
Parsley starred into Ryan's face the word sincerity glaring through. Ryan ran his thumb through her cheeks to wipe off her tears. Parsley hugged him for a very long time.
"well, promise you wont let me down tomorrow, you would come to school, right?"
"yes" parsley said with a blush on her face, Ryan slowly kissed her hands nicely and later on exit the room. She took in a deep breath.
" at least someone cares about me" she said to her self.
She sat comfortably on her bed and rested her back on her head board and cuddled her soft duvet so tight. After a short while, Michel came into the room aggressively,, yelling again and displaying that violent act he normally displays.
" you! You!, you naïve child!" he began to yell.
Parsley looked up to him, very shocked. Michel took up a flower vase and snatched it on the floor . parsley suddenly bursted out in tears.
"dad, dad, please don't start this again!" she begged, as she closed her eyes and bent her head to her knees as fear ran through her again.
"I warned you but you wouldn't listen, now all the entire world knows the direction to our house" he yelled, as he threw another vase on the floor snatching the lamps the mirrors. Just then, parsley had a flashback of when her father destroyed her mums house. That day was horrible, though she could not have a clear of all that happened that day. but she did remember that Michel really trashed the house and seriously beat them all
"stop! stop!' parsley begged. When Michel turned he saw a knife on a plate of apple… he quickly grabbed it at it sharp part, it pierced it hard trough his palm so that he would begin to bleed. Parsley looked up and when she saw the blood from her dads palm. then , something like a long time memory flashed to her mind.
It was a girl who had just been shot on the head, blood slowly drilled down from her mouth.
"no! no!" she jumped up from the bed and ran outside, jamming the door, another vase which micheal threw to hit her but he lost the target and it hit the door instead and it snatched into pieces.
Parsley was so horrified, she kept on breaking down, crying so gravelly, she climbed down from the stairs and started panting so heavily. She fell down on the floor felloing so weak, the blood of her father had stained her white gown, so she began to crawl, after a while burst into tears again she finally reached the kitchen and struggled to stand upright, she grabbed a glass cup and fetched water in it, she began to gulp water again and again, trying as hard as possible to calm down.
"did you want to run this time to?"
She heard her father's wicked and evil voice behind her, she suddenly fell weak and fell on the floor helplessly, resting her back at the kitchen cupboards , her head began to pound hard and her temperature became high. Michael did not mind for a bit to consider her condition, he jerked her up at the neck and parsley began to choke.
"You are not going to pull me down, until I get away with this plan" he thundered.
Parsley was still choking, her face had gone red already, she managed and nodded her head. Then Micheal pushed her away to the floor, he took up another vase and smatched it to the floor, it broke into pieces and a piece pierced into parsley's ankle .
"Haaaaa!" She yelled in pain. Hot tears rolled down to her cheeks , the blood gushing out increased her pain. She struggled to crawl out of the kitchen and traces of blood marked the floor, Michael didn't care about her state, he sighed and left the house.
"Ryan!" She managed to use our last strength to pick up the telephone to call Ryan.
The fatigue was too high, it was like she lost pounds of blood. Her head ached badly and her tummy rumbled in the the disgust of her blood stained everywhere.She managed to dial Ryan's number on the telephone. Fortunately for her he picked up the call.
"Ry....Ryan ..."she managed to say as she felt dizzy it was difficult to catch a breath now.
"Ryan...."she said faintly. Ryan who was still in his car driving home, strained these ears really hard to get what she was saying. He was freaking out already, he was scared that something might be wrong with parsley.
"Parsley!, I can't hear you" he shouted over the phone. Already losing consciousness her eyes began to close slowly. Just then, she fell on the floor unconscious. Ryan immediately reversed back and went straight to her house.
Parsley became conscious again,it has been some while now, she opened her eyes slowly, has everywhere camouflaged from blurriness to clearness .she felt her hand and head resting on something that seemed comfy. She intended to look up, but saw Ryan. She was actually resting on his chest, she began to cough.
"Are you okay?" Ryan asked stretching his hands towards her. She managed to nod her head.
"Ouch!" She yelled as she rouse her head to look up. She felt a sharp pain , she looked down to her leg and she saw a bandage on it, her injury was already dressed. She glared at Ryan.
"Who did this?" Ryan asked, slightly he was getting furious. She looked to his face.
" My.... Father" she responded as tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Your father , that freak again , what's wrong with him?" He said as he yanked up from the couch, he heat his head with his palm severally. He was breathing heavily now as we thought for some moment.
"This ... This man is dangerous parsley he can kill you one day...."
"No,no!"
"Nope, you are going to move"
"Ryan ,Ryan!" Parsley yelled, as he walked angrily upstairs to her room, she tried dragging him back but he didn't listen.
After some while he came down with her traveling bag and walked her calmly to the car. She was weeping so bitterly her ankle still ached as they walked into the car, she saw her driver, the chef and the cleaner starring at them.
"Please!..., don't tell my dad" she begged them. The chef came up to her.
"If possible, do not come back, this man is a devil" she gave a little smile and Ryan helped her into the car then whizzed off.
After a quiet long ride, Ryan got to his home, his own mansion, big and well decorated ,sealed with his own servants and maids. It was night and all the lights flashed, making a compound dazzling and beautiful. He turned to the passenger seat where parsley sat. But saw that she was already asleep. Ryan quirked an eyebrow and smriked slightly he came down from the car and walked to parsley side, opened up the door and carried her on her legs and her back as she faced up to him, a servent ran closing the door of the car.
Another servent opened the door into the house and he carried parsley in. He got to his room, and layed her on his bed. He glared at her for some while as the thought of the hardship and dangerous life of parsley with her father flashed through him and unknowingly tears crawled out his eye. After some while, he layed on the couch in his room and slept off.