chapter 53

"Don't you dare raise your voice at me! Yes, I admit, I am very selfish, but remember that his staying with you is endangering his life! I won't let him go out there and get killed by your countless enemies, he is safe here and I don't care if you think it is selfishness or helplessness!" Mrs Smith returned.
"But the animal that did this to him is with you, why haven't you killed him? Charlotte, that man can go to an extent to make sure my life is miserable, kill him already!"
"Getting cold feet already? Don't worry, I know how to handle my enemies and make them pay for hurting me, so just get going already!" She sent him off.
Justin looked from one face to another, he looked confused and then tried to remember the man's face. He felt dizzy and the only thing he could remember was talking to a girl��
"Sophia!" He screamed, fell down and fainted.
They rushed to take their child to his room and the nurse quickly started treating him.
"Did you see what you have done? He was trying to remember who you are and now this, yet you pretend to be a changed person! You are also selfish and always the cunning Jeff!" Mrs Smith said angrily.
"Who is Sophia?" Mr Smith asked curiously.
"I think it is some girl he must have known in the past, someone he must have cared so much about and loved" Mrs Smith replied more calmly.
"Oh, seems he can only remember her name" Mr Smith said knowingly, he knows Justin was all over a girl he hasn't met before, but he seemed so withdrawn back then after coming back from a night party as he claimed.
Mr Smith decided to let him go on a trip to Soeul, Korea and see new people and things to forget about whatever was eating him up and this accident happened.
"He lived with you, you must known if he has a girlfriend or��" Mrs Smith pressed.
"He doesn't have a girlfriend that I know of, he wasn't really that close to me. I was always busy working to make sure I give him a good life like his mates, so he is always out with his friends" Mr Smith answered.
"And you claim to be his father who cares? If you don't know a thing about him, that simply means you are not worth to be called a father. You should just say you were busy stealing from other people, not working" She snorted.
"Bantering words with you is pointless, I think me and my men will spend the night here, it is already too late, you wouldn't want anything bad happening to your husband" Mr Smith shrugged.
"What? No way!"
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Molly found it hard to sleep. She glanced at her bedside clock and saw that it is almost one morning, she sighed and stood up to go look out the window.
"That was too harsh, right? What if he reports me to the school authority? What will I tell my parents if his parents finds out and decides to come report me to them?" She soliloquized.
What does she care! It will even be better if he tells the school authority, she will be expelled and her parents will have no more excuses to not get her out of that school.
And if he reports to her parents, she will have to defend herself and tell them how he sexually approaches her and harrass her.
"S��xual��harassment?" She chewed on the words and spat it away through the window, "that is nonsense. You kissed him back, right? You like him, right? So what?!"
She jumped into bed and decided to push the thought aside and sleep, she need a lot of energy to face him and his friends too if he decides to pay her back with violence.
"So help me God" she whispered a prayer and dozed off after some minutes.
*Next Morning*
Molly ran downstairs, straight into the kitchen, fully dressed for school and was running a comb through her hair as she greeted her mother.
"Who told you combing hair in the kitchen is hygienic, Molly? When did you start misbehaving?" Mrs Bryan asked her daughter.
Molly is the last child of Mr and Mrs Bryan Wesson, her two older siblings are married and no longer lives with them.
"Since yesterday, Mom!" She laughed hugging her mother.
"What are you talking about? Please, go outside and do that, am not joking with you!" Mrs Bryan scolded sternly.
"Okay, Mom. You don't have to be so mean, I have missed your angry face, and I know this is the only way I can see it again!" Molly mused and left.
"Can you imagine that. There is nothing I will not hear from this girl!" Mrs Bryan shook her head in disbelief, then laughed at how sweet her daughter has always been.
A few minutes later, Molly carried her schoolbag and ran into her father's car. Mrs Bryan ran to her and gave her her lunchbox.
"Thank you, Mom, you are the best!" Molly pecked her mother.
Mr Bryan kissed her wife goodbye and entered his car. "Hope you didn't forget anything? You know how forgetful you can be" he asked Molly.
"I didn't, Dad" her countenance changed. She would love to tell her father that she doesn't want to go to that school again, that the school is no longer what it used to be, but she can't trouble him just now.
She has tried to do that before and it didn't end well, and starting again this morning when he is hurrying to work, nay, she can't do that.
Molly thought about Tyler and what he would do to her today. She didn't want to swallow the What ifs. What about what she saw in the principal's office? No, that shouldn't bother her�� but it should, because that is probably the reason why the principal always finds fault in whatever she does and always ready to punish her.