Archie walked home later and saw his father waiting for him in the end of the room. "Where are you coming from?" Archie looked at him carefully and heaved a sigh calmly. "Good evening Dad." He replied and his father stared at him calmly. "That wasn't the question," He fired back at Archie.Archie, who was beat and didn't know what else to do, was a bit tired of having to stress himself too much so he decided to answer suavely. "I went to a party which ended up not being what i expected, I'm sorry I returned home late." He responded. His Dad stared at him with angst in his eyes. "You're suddenly becoming pompous. Where are all of these coming from?" He inquired, his eyes roaming all over the boy's face as he tried to understand what was going on. The boy was also getting on his nerves. He didn't know what his wife was hiding from him. "Dad, I'm not becoming pompous, I have no reason to do that." Archie replied calmly, watching and looking at his father to see what he would do. He w
Archie looked up and down and discovered that there wasn't anything wrong with him the next morning after a bucket of water was poured on him as he entered the school premises. He had resumed again and his enemies had tripled.Why? He didn't understand. Bailey walked out of the crowd when she saw his eyes roaming across the alley to see who the culprit was. Anyways, she knew who it was but didn't want him to have any problem with anyone this time around, so she made sure that she was able to assuage him. "Hey, babe." She spoke and kissed him squarely on his lips, telling everyone that they were still together. She had resumed earlier than the rest of the students so she had overheard them saying all manners of rubbish against them. Proud of herself for maintaining composure and not allowing their words get to her, she came out of the class only to witness this nonsense."Who threw water at Archie?" Miss Rose demanded from the microphone as she watched the incident from her office wh
"I can't provide for you. Your parents are right in saying that you should stay away from me however you see it." Archie replied. Bailey blinked at the response, never in her wildest dreams did she think that he would say such words. He was not an emotional person so seeing him in such a state made her feel a bit remorseful. She didn't know what to say. "Is that why you've been avoiding me?" She whispered.Archie pretended to be sour about that. Instead, he had other plans. The last thing he would do was to be with someone who didn't take him seriously. It didn't make any sense at all. "You know that they're right." "Did you ever consider what I had in mind? I am not going to even do anything other than walk away. I don't want to be with someone who second-guesses himself. You can be successful with or without rich parents. Are you that lazy?" She whispered.Archie was taken aback by the words she uttered. Never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that she would say such
Archie headed to the restaurant after talking to Bailey. He wanted to fill in the space for a very long time. "Do you know what time this is?" Paula, a coworker asked him. This was the second restaurant that he was working in."I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. I guess the traffic was too hectic and that's what happened." He replied.Paula nodded, "Hmm, is there a reason you should resume at this time and still have the guts to look calm while at it?" She replied and he stared at him. "You should know by now that there's nothing wrong with having all the time in the world but sometimes when we manage to have a slice of the time we manage it. Am I saying that I was right for resuming at this time? Obviously not, but we shouldn't waste extra time deliberating this, right? It doesn't make any sense at all. With all due respect ma'am." He added.Paula stared at him, she had been waiting for the perfect opportunity to fire him and he just presented it. She would gladly do that. "I do
Archie arrived at the front of the room. The guard stared at him wondering why he was feeling. "I don't think that you are welcome here." the guard replied. "I was invited, its urgent, I don't think that you should delay me." He snapped, not really having the time to banter words with anyone. It was very obvious that there was nothing. Is there anything that you want made me to do for you?" The guard stared at him, "you can't fly over the fence can you?" He replied."Do you think that you can stop me? Kindly open the gate. Who the hell asked you to stop me?" Archie replied, he didn't want to banter words with the middle-aged man."You are not welcome here. The younger Lockwood said so." The guard responded. He was only following orders because he had been warned seriously. "I don't want to change anything, right? I don't want to also disturb you from doing the right thing too but you need to let me in." Archie replied instantly.There was no way that anyone could be able to change
"Married? Have you forgotten my age?" Archie repeated in surprise. "No, I've not forgotten your age. That's the only way you can solidify your position. If Ryder does that before you, I'm sorry to announce to you that you might have to step down, despite being the one who has been appointed to be on the seat. It's just one of the things that happens in business. If you're unmarried, then you better be sure of stepping down."Archie sighed and shook his head. He could feel it in his bones. "I see what you mean and I won't even try to change the mentality, I guess that's what is in the open now. It's very crazy and annoying at the same time. I can't seem to wrap my head around it, at least not now." He replied.They stared at each other and Simon wrapped an arm around his neck. "I believe that you would do great things with this position but you have to be very careful. You're graduating in what? Three months? You don't need any scandal whatsoever attached to your name. It's going to b
The men turned to stare at Ryder who was smirking at them. They didn't know that he was busy eavesdropping on their conversation and that made him amused. Very amused for that matter. "I see that you've suddenly gone mute. Simon, of all people, it's a pity that you're trying your hardest to make my life miserable in my father's house. This is annoying and I don't think that I can work with that at all. This is very strange. Now, I'd be frank with you." He replied then shrugged right after. A short wave of anger welled up inside of Simon and he felt like smacking the pompous ass. There was a very good reason why he wasn't always concerned with this man. He always felt like the world revolved around him which was quite the opposite. It didn't make any sense to him at all and he wasn't going to change it. "Why don't you come off your high horse and see that life doesn't revolve around you?" He replied and Simon stared at him wickedly. "Are you sure that there's nothing wrong with you
Archie was very weak and his hands were beginning to droop close. A pair of footsteps ran toward his direction, causing Simon to look away. The attacker used that opportunity to stab him in the neck and jumped over the fence.Simon kicked into action and caught the young man before he hit his head against the interlocked ground."Ryder, get me a car. We have to take this boy to the hospital!" He yelled, expecting that Ryder would do that Ryder pretended to freeze and stare at the pair, Simon was busy trying to make the bleeding stop while also being frustrated. "will you get the hell out of there and do what I asked you to do? What the hell, man?" He replied and Ryder saw that this tactic wouldn't work out. Then he ran away to the other side and waited till there was no one coming from the other side and just instead, rested a bit against the wall, laughing out to his heart's content. They thought that they were wiser than him but didn't know that he was all in all in very wise.