Eccentric err

Eccentric err, chapter three.

Parsley was on the sofa with a duvet over her body , covering her.

Ryan came in with two mug of hot tea.

“here you go” he offered as she sat very close to her and dropped the other mug and stretched his hand with the mug of tea to her.

Parsley nodded her head in a respond saying NO.

“thanks, I don’t want tea”

“come on, it calms down, trust me” Ryan said calmly as he moved closer and held her at her waist. Parsley looked up to him, for some reason she felt shy, her eyes was still filled with tears. After some while, she opened her mouth slightly and Ryan fed her some hot tea. After a little sip, he dropped the mug on the table and glaced at her for a while.

“how do you fell now?” he asked.

Parsley nodded dumb stuck, Ryan rested his head on the sofa and now he was so close to parsley . everywhere was quiet and cold. just then, parsley slowly rested her head on his shoulder. Ryan smiled.

“let me tell you a secret,Ryan said.

“hmm, what’s that?”

“anytime you feel scared or horrified, don’t cry, just call me and I will make you a hot cup of tea” he said but it was like a whisper into her ears. Parsley blushed, later, hugged him tightly.

“I prefer hugging you, than an hot tea, it calms me down.” She said.

After some while in that position.Ryan carried her into his room,He gently layed her on the bed, looking at her admiring how cute she was .his body slightly resting against her and he felt her….

He gently drived the hair against her face behind her ears. He attempted to peck her on her forehead but paused , he was not sure whether to do it or not. after some while he made up his mind not to. He switched off the lamp and layed on the bed opposite her, but he backed her.

The next morning, parsley woke up, absolutely delighted in what she saw first in the morning, it was Ryan, facing her, her face being really close to his own face that she could almost feel his breath. She smiled, seeing his thick long eyelashes, and his red lips with is pointed nose. After some while, she jumped up from the bed and left the room. She rushed down stairs to the kitchen, nothing define a jolly morning best if not a strawberry juice. She met lezzie in the kitchen with her mum.

“hi lezzie, hi mrs lezzie’s mum”

She greeted cheerfully.

Lezzie’s mum smiled at her.

“mrs Cheyenne “she said.

“oh, hi, mrs Cheyenne” parsley greeted again still maintaining the cheerful smile.

“where were you last night? You got out of the bed” lezzie said.

“yeah!” parsley responded.

Lezzie glared at her suspiciously.

Parsley noticed it “what?” she said.

Mrs Cheyenne was already serving breakfast on the table.

“well, your morning becomes gracefully, when you wake up seeing a marvelous face beside you” parsley said as she sipped her yoghurt.

Lezzie smiled, and turned to her properly.

“and what do you mean by that” she asked.

Parsley widened her eye, noticing that she had said what she was not meant to say.

“hamm, ugh…, I mean, my pillow was the graceful face, something like that”

She said, as she drank her yoghurt and dropped the cup on the breakfast bar and left the kitchen proceeding to the stairs.

“breakfast is ready, where’s Cole?” mrs Cheyenne asked suddenly.

Immediately parsley froze in the stairs, and she widened her eye in shock and horror, as a quick image of a boy which she can’t see clearly, flashed throw her memory, she hastily turned to Mrs. Cheyenne.

“who’s Cole” parsley quickly asked expecting an answer as quick as possible. Mrs. Cheyenne, opened her mouth slightly and turned to lezzie.

“yeah mum, who’s Cole? Would you like to explain, hmm, hmm?” lezzie said, like an order.

“yeah…” parsley had got down back to the dining table.

“well, Cole is my friend’s son, he normally has breakfast with us, but he is not here yet, so I thought that maybe…, I should go call him and see..” she said as she left the dining table to the back of the house.

Parsley blinked her eyes continuously, her lips ran cold, quivering as she sat down.

“what’s wrong with you?” lezzie asked, as she came closer to the dining chair which she sat.

“I keep having this flash back, I can’t really detect” she said, as she rested her head on her palms.

“what… kind of flash back?”

“a little boy,it seems like I know him"

“a little boy?” lezzie said. “well stop thinking about it, cause, I know with time, you will figure things out okay” lezzie said, as she sat opposite her in the table.

Just then, Mrs. Cheyenne came in.

“so…, he said that he isn’t coming today”

Lezzie shot her an eye and she kept quit.

“sup Cheyenne, sup lezzie, sup parsley “ Ryan jumps down stairs greeting.

Parsley was still staring at her dish with her hands on her head.

“fine!” lezzie and Mrs. Cheyenne both responded. Then Mrs. Cheyenne sat down at the dining table.

Ryan noticing how moody parsley looked and she didn’t respond back to his greetings he came close to her and bent down so that his face would be so close to hers.

“parsley” he said in a low tone. “what’s wrong?”

“I think I am imagining things”

She said, her heart beating fast and her voice sounding horrified

“you are scared again” he said

Parley rose up her face and glared at Ryan with her eyes being so cute, gorgeous and charming, Ryan wondered were gifted girls get such a cute eyes ‘’

“yeah--“ her voice being cold and calm

“I am scared “ she completed as tears slipped from her eyes . Ryan held her hands and they stood up still holding hands. Cheyenne turned ,giving lezzie a look and she replied back, they both chuckled.

“and I promised you that whenever you are afraid, you should always call on me, and I would…”

Before he could complete his words. Parsley immediately hugged him, her head resting on his chest and her arms rounded him, he grabbed her waist and kissed her hair. They hugged for some while as parsley began to feel comfy and warm at his body still laying her head on his chest. She said, “what are you doing at lezzie’s house?” she said, under her breath.

“hamm…I, …I,?” he stunted.

Parsley withdrew her head from his chest and looked straight to his face. He looked nervous all of a sudden. Before he managed to say something.

He sighed, “it’s just like asking, the same question to you, so it doesn’t matter why I came here, what matters is that we got to see each other in lezzie’s house and most importantly, I got to see a scared baby in a freaky frightened state”

He said as he softly pinched her nose. Parsley blushed and smiled.

“I wasn’t frightened, i was just scared” Ryan winced.

“they are literally the same thing” he said, “alright, let’s eat maybe it can take off your frightened mind” he smiled at her, and she sat down and so did he.

CHAPTER FOUR.

Secrets behind Ryan.

After breakfast, parsley was done eating, she pushed her chair back and stood up.

“thanks, I will go take a shower now” she said.

“you are not done with your meals” Ryan said.

“well, I am fed up already,” parsley said with a smile and walked up stairs.

“she’s nice” mrs Cheyenne commented.

Ryan blushed all of a sudden.

“well, I will go see how my garden is” Cheyenne excused her self and went out of the house. Lezzie got up and packed up the plates in the dining table.

“come on, help me, Ryan” lezzie snapped as she went to the kitchen with the plates on his hands and duped it into the sink. Ryan helped her with the remaining.

“I don’t think I can keep doing this”Ryan said.

“what do you mean?”

“you know exactly what I mean”-------.

When parsley got to the room that was when it occurred to her that she forgot her phone, so, she went back down stairs to get it.as she grabbed her phone to go back to the room,she saw Ryan and lezzie in the kitchen, they did’nt notice her at all.Ryan held lezzie hands and talked sweetly to her, that she could not hear a thing of what they were saying. She felt a little bit disappointed.

“I I know that ryan was dating lezzie, that’s way he was in her house” parsley said to her self and ran up stairs back to the room.

After parsley had taken her shower, she came down stairs. She was on a white and stripped black saggy top and on a pink slippers.

In the parlour, sitted on the sofa, was lezzie and Ryan still discussing,

“guys!” parsley called. Ryan and lezzie turned to parsley, looking all good, still got her packed neatly and a little fringe of her hair at both side against her face.

“you are on my shirt” Ryan said.

“oh, I didn't know, I saw it in lezzie’s ward robe.” Parsley said sounding dull.

“are you okay?” lezzie asked.

“Yeahh” parsley was walking towards the door now.

“you are leaving?” Ryan asked, surprised.

“I gotta see my father”

“you still care about that old hag?”

“my father?”

“yes, your father, how do you still care about someone like that…” Ryan paused, he closed his eyes tight and breathed in deeply, in other not to loose his temper.

“you know what? it’s okay” he finally said as he left the sitting room. lezzie shrugged .

“well, good luck, but I do have one word for you, that man you call your dad is a monster”

Parsley gazed at her,

“ no offence, I am just saying”

“bye lezzie”

“bye, see you in school”

When parsley got home,the site of her home scared her, hoe on earth would she face her vicious father . parsley breathed in deeply and made up her mind to go in.

“ma’am!” someone called , when she turned, she saw her driver greeting her, she gave him a quick smile and turned back to the entrance door. She was feeling nervous and frightened . she gentely pulled down the door handle and the door shrieked open and she peered her head into the house and saw her dad in the kitchen, on an apron and a chef cap, he was cooking. She swallowed in her breath and with full chest came in.

Micheal looked up and saw her, but parsley did’nt know, she was busy trying to tip toe in, in other not to make any sound for her dad to notice her.

“parsley, you are back?”

Micheal said. Parsley froze, with her eyes wide opened she slowly turned to him, with a stoned face.

“how are you?”

“I believe that’s none of your business” she sneered as she moved forward a little , just to see her duvet and her pillows still on the floor, she glared at him and back to the pillows and duvet. She packed up but when she intend to claimd up the stairs ,her dad called her back.

“Parsley”

Parsley turned to him as he came down from the kitchen, he made a face to her , that says, come on ,sit down, but parsley did not respond until micheal sat down on the couch, he waited for some while but parsley have not sat down yet, he turned to her , she still stood , glaring at him her face was filled with horror and fear,

“parsley come on “ he said but calmly this time . parsley walked to the couch and sat, but at the other edge. Micheal cleared his and adjusted himself. Parsley immediately shifted away from him.

“alright, I deserve that” he said, parsley did’nt say anything, she cuddled her.

“well” he began. “you are scared of me, aren’t you?” he asked, looking at her face , being pale and clear. Parsley didn’t respond but still quivered.

Micheal expecting an answer but didn’t get one continued.

“well, there is this problem, I had when I was little”

He stared at the floor with his head down.

“it was kidda… hmm…”he said, trying to find a word for it.

“violet temper!” parsley snapped.

“yeah , yeah, well, kind of, but it was’nt that…, hmm, severe or unchecked until my parents tried to eliminate it, by giving me pills, it worked for some while but with time I got addicted and I think that my violence trauma worsened and every thing around me , every one I ever loved got affected by it……..” he said as he choked in tears. Tears were already clustered below his eyes and it almost dropped.

“including you parsley,and I am truly sorry that I have to be so arrogant like this” he said, his voice had a feeling of remorse, parsley could feel it. She was out of words to say.she blinked hard as she slowly packed up her pillows and duvet and walked up stairs into her room.

Micheal watched her go, a stream of tear quickly slipped out from his eyes, down to cheeks.

Parsley got to her room and dumped the duvet and pillows on her bed.

“whof! Whof!” she heard a soft bark.

“queen!”she snapped as she rose up the duvet to see queen her pet dog, a white cute chiwawa.she laughed as she carried it and sat down on her bed and patted it’s furs, after some while, queen jumped out of her laps and ran, she fell her father’s old lamp on the floor and it smashed.

“queen!” parsley yelled in anger.queen realized what she did,and ran back to the bed behind a pillow and lowered her head.

Parsley sighed,first, it was her father’s aggressiveness. second, Ryan and lezzie are dating and now,this?.

She walked up to the broken and smashed lamp and bent down, she began to clean it up. Just then, she found a folded paper, she winced.

“what’s a paper doing inside a lamp?” she asked her self. she opened it , it was nothing serious, just an address.----hallow street, number 3,mexico----.she was confused. She sighed as she folded the paper back and kept it in one of her wardrobes. And then after, packed up the broken lamp.

Chapter five

Daniel reminisces.

On a Monday morning, the lesson were already going on and parsley came really late after the first lesson was already over. It was now on a biology lesson, the door swag open and parsley came in a hurry.

“sorry” she said, knowing clearly well that she was interrupting the class, so she apologized. She quickly sat down and smiled at Lawrence, her sit partner.

“well, you late queen, welcome”

He joked.

“I am not late, please”

“alright, alright, don’t get all over the place”

parsley smiled.

“wow, what that aromatic scent?” Lawrence quickly asked and immediately sniffed parsley’s neck.

“hey!” parsley quickly snapped.

“hmm, so you are the aromatic scent?” parsley blushed.

“well, it’s your favorites subject, too bad, it’s not your favorite topic”

“what do you mean?” she laughed, “I told you, I like all the topic in biology”

“sorry, but I know what’s in your mind, honey” parsley shot him an harsh glance.

“okay, first, never you call me honey …”

“alright, how about baby?”

“that’s worst”

“sweetie?”

“no”

“Darling?”

“no!”

“peacock?”

“no”

“you are silly”

“how about, my twinkle…?”

Lawrence asked, parsley didn’t snap back. She glared at him, her face plan and stoned. Lawrence himself was confused.

“are you okay?”he asked.

Parsley glared at him and blinked as if something had surprised her.lawrence tried to talk but before he could say anything parsley packed up her books and left the class. Ryan watched her go, he knew something was wrong, he stared at Lawrence ,who also had is face quizzical and so confused, he couldn’t detect what went wrong with what he called her.

“did that girl just walk out of my class without permission?”

The teacher asked.

* * * * * * * * *

It was break already, most of the student where in the cafeteria ,but lezzie and parsley where standing in the hallway by their locker.parsley was packing her books into her locker.

“why did you stumped out of the class earlier this morning” lezzie asked immediately she remembered it.

“nothing much”

Lezzie shrugged and opened her own locker which was beside parsley’s and admired herself in the mirror glued to her locker.

“you know, I am thinking of starting up a beauty show in the net” lezzie began.

“seriously?’ parsley asked, finding the topic interesting ,lezzie noticing how excited parsley got, she continued talking.

She shot her locker closed and turned to her.

“you like the idea right?”

“yeah, it’s so epic ,so, when are you starting?”

“maybe tomorrow ,you can come over to my house and…”

“I can’t” parsley chimed in.

“well, why?”

“I am not sure my dad would let me leave the house again”

“but parsley…”

“just do the video and any time it’s ready, you can always send it to me “ parsley said. lezzie frowned and walked out on parsley.

“I am sorry I lied to you lezzie, I can step out of my house but I don’t want to come in between you and Ryan, Ryan might be in your house when I arrive”

Parsley thought in her mind. She sighed , closed her locker and turned to go , but instead, she hits her head on a guy’s muscular chest, she gasped.

“sorry ,” she said as she rose up her head and it was Lawrence.

“parsley are you okay?” he asked calmly, but parsley didn’t respond, she looked away from him. Lawrence gently brought her face to him with his hands.

“did I hurt you?” he asked, he was really desperate to know what he did, parsley still did not respond.

“no” she spoke up after a while of silence.

“but you behaved really weird today when I was talking to you”

“well…” parsley sighed as she moved a little bit away from him. He came closer. parsley looked up to him.

“well” she continued. “I… had a boyfriend before…”

“so?”

“ his name is Daniel, he never calls me pet names like you do, I guess young kind of made me remember him, so…”

“oh, I am genuinely sorry…”

“Lawrence I am really lucky to have met you, I mean, it’s a privilege to be called twinkle by a cute guy” she said with an assuring smile plastered on her face. Lawrence felt a tickle at his cheek and he smirked a little. Just then he looked away, he was blushing but he didn’t want parsley to see him. But when he turned back to talk to her she was gone.