He had noticed that she was not as chatty as she used to beShe kept her eye on her phone and was reserved ever since they arrived at the airport.He opened one of his bars of chocolate and took a bite of it, and he deliberately stained his lips with the chocolate. Elise took just one look at his face and started to giggle like a toddler.She laughed so hard because each time she explained that he had the dark, chocolate on his upper lips, he would only end up wiping the wrong place. He smiled within himself when he saw that his plan had worked out and Elise was now out of her shell.When they got back to where Susan and James were, the passengers for their flight were instructed to get into the airplane, and they were just in time to join the others.Throughout the period of the flight, Elise’s mother made it a personal goal to attack Richard. She was fuming because of their sitting arrangements. Richard took the window seat and Elise occupied the seat besides him.Just across thei
That morning, it was James who drove himself and his daughter to the suburban part of the city; that was where his mother was buried.His wife’s fears were how her daughter would get on a public bus, but James repeatedly asked to put her mind at rest. He had plans on driving his daughter with a car that he had rented from one of his friends. He kept it a distance away from the house the previous day.Shortly, after the argument about him taking Elise along with him to his mother’s grave, He excused himself from the house and left for an hour. Before he left the house, he urged Elise to be prepared. He told her that he was going to take her on an actual date.Soon, The doorbell of the small house rang.Susan headed to the door to check who it was while her daughter, Elise, trotted behind her to know who was at the door.When they opened up the door, it was Elise’s father, James. He was wearing a grey colored suit and he had his arms behind him.His face lit up as soon as he saw Elise
When Susan met the other woman and asked to have a word with her outside the rowdy club house, she took one look at Susan before she turned away and gulped some beer from the bottle on her left hand.From where Susan stood, she could see the bloodshot eyes of the younger lady and she knew the best way to get her.Susan smiled to herself. She was more than prepared. After spending more then an hour at the club without any fruitful moment, Susan was determined to not let the lady slip out of her hands.Susan shoved her hand into her handbag and took out a small bundle of money. She waved it the younger lady’s face.The other lady froze. Her mouth dropped open as she stared at the money. Her eyes went round with surprise and her expression softened.Susan leaned in close to her and repeated her request.Instantly, the other lady agreed. She took one long draw of what she was smoking before she threw it to the floor and stepped on it.Susan smiled.She couldn’t believe how easy it was for
Richard left the room in search of Elise. The pain and hurt he had seen in her eyes was too much for him to overlook.When he got to Elise’s room, he knocked several times but he did not get any response. The only indication that someone could be inside the room was that the lights of the room had been turned on. Richard saw it from the space which was under the door.He stood by the door for almost half an hour and when he finally made up his mind to go back to his room, he heard a light sob from the room. Then, he heard some sniffing. It was Elise.She had been crying inside the room.Richard felt his heart shatter as he listened to her quiet sobbing. He leaned close to the door and groaned, “Elise, I have no idea who that lady is. I am being very serious.”There was no response.He pressed on, “Please, I need to talk to you. You have to believe me. I would never dare to rape anyone”He stood there, his ears closed to the door, as he waited for a movement within the room that would
Richard stared at the door that she just slammed. His mind was feeling with questions. Till then, he still had no idea why Elise’s mother hated him with so much intensity. Knowing that she had gone to the extent of getting a prostitute to set him up, made him angrier.He knew that he could easily out her in trouble with the evidence of what she did in his phone. But, he chose to lay low.It was better he just cleared himself for Elise to know that he was innocent and not a potential rapist as her mother had painted him to be.He stood by the railings of the balcony and stared into the now dark driveway.The streetlights at the other end of the road had gone off without warning and the entire neighborhood was plunged into darkness. Only a few houses switched on their security light posts outside their houses.Richard sighed heavily and went into the house.It turned out that Elise had just gone down to the kitchen to get a glass of milk so she could calm her nerves. She was already mak
“Yes, I did it. No, it did not work out as expected” A line etched between her brows. This was exactly what she had been avoiding. Telling David that the plan had flopped because her husband didn’t say anything about the accusations about Richard neither did her daughter show any change of attitude towards him, rather she kicked herself up in her room and refused to talk to anyone about it.“Are you saying that Elise has still decided to be with him even after that?” David asked, pained.“Yes. I tried to change her mind but she hasn’t said anything yet”Disappointment washed through David as he listened to her. The plan had been foolproof. How then did Elise not get fed up of Richard after the plan? He was silent for a few seconds before he assured Susan that he knew a better way to pull Richard down.……..The vacation lasted till the day after Christmas. The family went on tours to various sites and monuments around the city.The days rolled by and soon, the four of them were prepar
The following morning, Elise was out of bed as early as 5am. She needed to watch the sunrise and the back of the house seemed like a perfect spot for her to get her desire.She opened her door as much as she could without any noise, and tiptoed to the kitchen, where she let herself out through the back door.The air was cold. Very cold that she regretted that she did not come along with an heavy clothing. She wrapped the lavender robe closely around her small figure and ambled down the small pathway to an old, abandoned wooden seat at the back of the house. She sat in it and hugged herself tighter.She was not there for long when she saw the back door open and her mother stepped outside.From the way her mother stood, Elise could tell that she was looking for her, so she raised her right hand in the air and waved, “Hey, Mum. Over here”Her mother saw her and smiled. Then, she walked down to her and joined her on the cold, wooden bench.“Hi, Honey” Her mother greeted as she shivered d
Elise was very surprised because she wasn’t expecting it to be so busy and packed since it was about 8 o’clock in the morning and they were going to be on the first flight of the day which was by 9 o’clock.The four of them did a few clearance at some of the counters before they headed to the area where seats were. Just as they were about to settle some vacant seats, Susan beckoned to Richard .He rose from where he was seated to meet her. He leaned close to her and listened as she whispered an instruction to him. He left the waiting hall some moments later.James was engrossed in his phone and he was not aware of what was happening around him.Elise felt a little bit uneasy after Richard left because she caught an evil smirk pulling at the corners of her mother’s lips. She became uncomfortable in her seat as she silently prayed that Richard came back in one piece.Soon, their flight number was called for them to start going into the airplane. Her family was flying first class—and her