Chapter 17

I came home and didn’t find my mother at home, I put down the things I bought and looked up at the time, it was 8:00 in the evening, I picked my phone to call her since I know she wouldn’t be in the building, her car was not in the garage when I drove in.

I called her and she picked me up. “Hello mom, you are not home.” I knew today was a weekend and she doesn’t go to work on weekends although I have only been with her for a week, plus I would love to see a movie with her this evening and have a wee chat with her.

“Yes son, something came up in the office. I will be back later in the evening.” She said from the other side of the line and I could hear the clicking of her keyboard.

“Okay,” I told her and was about to end the call when I heard her voice again and placed the phone back on my ear.

“Are you at home?”

“Yes.”

“Is Ivana there with you?” She asked me again and I looked around the living room before settling down on a chair.

“No,” I told her honestly. “I thought she was here already,” I responded, picking up the remote to tone it on the television.

“You did not come back with her?” I could feel my mother’s anger from the other side of the line and I wonder why she cares so much about that psychopath.

“She is perhaps still wandering,” I told her and for a while my mother paused.

“Robin…”

“She would find her way back when she gets tired of and she would find her way back when she is done,” I told her and I hope that girl never comes back either. “Bye for now mom,” I told my mother and ended the call before my mother would tell me to go search for her.

I tossed my phone to the chair, who cares about that girl’s way about.

I walked upstairs to my room and took out the picture I took with my mother before going to the United States. My mother’s face was sad in this picture although she tried to smile for my sake. It was so obvious that she wasn’t happy unlike my mother now.

I was so little then and I miss my old home in the villa even if I only had bad memories of it. I had only looked after my mother, not made friends and isolated myself from everyone around, but the only person I miss at that villa was that little girl.

I wish I could get to see her again. I paused in my thoughts and shook my head. “Wish, wish…” I muttered to myself and sat up on my bed as I remembered what that Psychopath had told me.

“Legend has it that if you go close to the namsan tower and make a wish your wish would come true instantly.”

I scoffed again and put the picture down as I lay back on my bed, who would believe such nonsense, that was a legend and I was not a fan of fantasy or those things.

I tossed and turn on my bed as my head keep bugging to believe in it, I sat back up on the bed, could I truly see that little girl again, she could be an adult now and I may not recognize her, plus the last place I saw her was at the villa and there were tones of people her in the City and I could see any female at that place.

I wanted to push these feelings and thoughts away but the urge to give the wishing tower a try seems to be greater and I wish to see that girl again, she was the only girl I have complimented and the only girl I found pretty.

I picked up my coat, grabbed hold of my car keys and made my way out of the mansion.

I pulled up at the parking lot, the place was filled with people and the night air seemed chill as I stepped out of my car. Although that might not be true a lot of people have tried it and it worked for them, I should probably try it and if it doesn’t work I will forever call that a stupid fallacy.

I came close to the tower, of a truth, it was tall and awesome and a lot of people were here and I could see some of them making a wish and they were mostly couples, I scoffed, it was not like I believe this or anything, I just wanted to have a reason to call that lady a liar and a crazy idiot.

I looked at the tower one more time and closed my eyes. “I wish to see that little girl from 15 years ago again,” I said softly and opened my eyes again.

“Hey, Robin!” I heard a female voice call out my name and I looked forward immediately and for a while, I couldn’t move.
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I looked at the tower one more time and closed my eyes. “I wish to see that little girl from 15 years ago again,” I said softly and opened my eyes again.

“Hey, Robin!” I heard a female voice call out my name and I looked forward immediately and for a while, I couldn’t move.

“Hey, Robin!” I opened my eyes and looked forward. I saw Ivana waving at me with smiles on her face.

“I asked to see a girl from my past and I am seeing this.” I scoffed and turn around to leave but she ran and came over to my front.

“Hey Robin, you are here." She looked at me like she had not seen me before. “Did you also come to make a wish?” she asked me and I hate the fact that I have to run into her here.

“Make a wish my butt.” I brushed past her and she followed me like a clingy kid.

“Are you serious?” She peeks to look at my face and one look at her made me angrier since she was smiling like a fool.

“I was only passing by.” I lied and still ponder why I was even lying now to her, I was not her for her, I had no idea I would run into her here too, she had told me she was going to see the tower at noon but why was she still here and not wandering?

“Oh…Passing by hmm…” She moves her hand backwards and walks like a professor who doesn’t believe a kid’s lies. “Really?” She raised her brows and gave me a once-over.

I stopped walking and turned to her. “What are you doing here?

“Well, I told you I would come here to make a wish.” She smiled again. I wondered why she was always smiling and it made me curious to ask her if her wish came true, but before I could ask she lifted something in a bag for me. “I bought potatoes.” She told me and I rolled my eyes.

“Who cares…” I turned to start walking again but she blocked my path. “What!”

She frowned and stamped her foot and I waited for whatever she had to say. “It is time for you to become more polite to me.” She said soundly and I scoffed at her guts.

“Move else I would have no other choice but to push you off my way.” I made sure to sound cold hoping she gets the message and moves off my way, if only she could just vanish.

“Can’t we be friends?" She pouts and looks up at me like a puppy dog, the type of people I hate are people who act this way.

“You are asking for too much.”

“At least let’s have a normal conversation." She curled her lips up.

I sized her up, she was like a clingy brat, just like my father’s daughter and she was more annoying. “I don’t want to…” I leaned my face close to hers and she moved back. “Especially not with you,” I told her coldly.

She closed her eyes, placing her hand on her chest. “You just broke my heart.” She opened up her eyes again and this time she was smiling. To me, she needs to go to a mental house, she was a real psychopath.

“Move!” I brushed past her and headed over to my car but she kept on tagging along. Now I regret coming here. I held my car handle and she looked at me with a smile still on her lips. “I said move!” I pushed her off and got into the car.

I was about to drive off but paused and turn to look at her face, she was standing outside the car and was holding the bag of potato she bought in her right hands and her outfit was just too abnormal and she was not holding any bag, I wonder if she didn’t get the dress my mother told her to get for herself.

“What?” She asked me and I scoffed. She had waved and called out my name the moment I made a wish, but it would be too stupid to think this girl was the small girl from the villa.

“What is your name?” I asked her, I have heard my mother call her by her name but I didn’t bother to register it in my head. I do tend to push off anything I didn’t find important, but now I was curious to know and I hate this feeling.

Her mouth curled up and her eyes twinkled as she leaned close to the car. “Don’t you know my name?” She looks surprised.

“Are you saying it or not?” I asked again with gritted teeth and she leaned backwards, the smiles on her face disappeared and she opened her lips to speak.

“Ivana Kimbuersy.”

“Okay.” I wind up the window and start my engine to drive off.

“Hey!” She taps the car door. “How can you leave me out alone without taking me with you after asking me for my name,” I drove off ignoring her and I could hear her calling out like she always does, but I didn’t stop, there was no need to have someone like her in my car.

“Ivana Kimbuersy,” I muttered as I drove, that name sounds familiar, it sounds like something I have not heard before but felt I have.

“IV?” I contemplated and shook my head, “No… I.k for Ivana Kimbuersy?” I run my hands through my hair, I hate stressing my brain, but I could still remember the little girl said something like that.

“My mother transcribed the word in it, it is my name and surname.”

I matched the brake and stopped the car, blinking to realization. “It is her name and surname? I.K…Ivana for I and K for Kimberly.”

“Robin, she would be staying here with us now, they lived in the outskirts of town and her school is here in the City, she has to stay here since it would be easier to go to school from here.”

Those were the words my mother told me, I looked out of the window with a puzzled gaze. I have been living with her all this while. I looked at my reflection on the window and I was smiling, this was unlike me, but there was a tiny bit of joy in my heart.

Truly that tower makes wishes come true instantly, I recall that little girl had blue eyes and Ivana has one too, this was amusing, it was something I didn’t expect, that little girl grew up to be that…

I turned the car around immediately and went in search of her. If I arrive early then she should still be there. I saw her sitting at a bench at the bus stop and I stopped and stared at her for a while. Who would have thought that beautiful girl was this psychopath and it makes things more interesting, she was living in our mansion.

I blew my car horn to grasp her attention and she looked up from whatever she was going through on her phone. I waved her over and she hesitated for a while before walking close to the car and I just can’t stop gazing at her.

She was the only girl I found beautiful in the whole Villa, not as if I had seen a lot of girls as a little boy, but her blue eyes were the most charming I have ever gazed upon, she was a sassy girl.

“Are you also passing by?” She asked me, pulling me out of my thoughts and this time there was no smile on her face and she did not lean close to the car.

“Get in,” I told her and she blinked as if she had heard the most outrageous words from my mouth. “I came to take you.”

“Really?” she raised her brows and I could tell she had doubts. “But why?” she questioned stupidly but this time with a smile and I could tell she was about to say something annoying. “Did you now know your actions before now were wrong?”

“Are you getting in or not?”

“I am getting in.” She turned around and got into the passenger seat and put on her seat belt. “Let’s go.” She pointed ahead and I looked at her smiling face, she was far different from the little girl I saw, she had gotten more… I don’t know.

I started the engine and drove off, no longer sparing her a glance.