When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie) novel Chapter 39

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 have something urgent to attend to, so 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 end of the line.

“What emergency is it that you have to be in such a hurry?” she asked as she walked.

He didn’t mention anything. “Be good and rest up. I’ll be back tomorrow.”

Amelie knew she couldn’t get anything out of him, but she also feared that he might leave on the train, so she could only hang up.

Just then, a trishaw passed by her.

She leaped onto the trishaw and made her way to the small train station on the wobbly vehicle.

On the desolate stone steps outside the train station, she caught sight of Steven’s figure.

He sat there with his bent back, a cigarette in his hand as he puffed sullenly.

A number of cigarette butts were already discarded in the small garbage bag next to him.

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

Amelie saw a small black bag sitting next to him. It must be the knife Abby was talking about.

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

When Steven saw her, he froze a little. He hastily hid the small black bag and tossed the cigarette away, rubbing his hands as he said, “What brings you here? Didn’t I ask you and Bria to go to bed?”

“How can we just go to bed if you don’t come home?” Amelie queried while looking at him. Then, she peered into the small train station.

“Where are you going?”

Steven lowered his head in silence.

Amelie ran up to him. Then, with great familiarity, she took out the old wallet in his pocket and produced a ticket from within.

The destination of the ticket was Sterlington.

Sterlington was the city where Leo’s house was situated!

“Dad, are you… going to the Alston Residence? Amelie suddenly recalled Steven’s expression when Bria said Amelie could cook. She immediately understood something.

Having his thoughts seen through, Steven pursed his lips tightly.