Kate's Mystical pen

DINNER

CHAPTER 3

Kate's Dad sat in the dining room, dining with his guest. He looked around for Kate and felt uncomfortable not seeing her around, after telling Mr. White the scheduled time. He stood up after excusing himself to whisper to his waiter.

"Where is Kate, where is Mr. White?" he asked.

"Sir, I haven't seen Kate since she left for school in the morning and Mr. White, I saw him walking down the lane not quite long ago," said the waiter. 

"Does it mean Kate is not in this domicile, what should I do with this girl? Just call Mr. White for me. I demand his presence."

After a few moments, Mr. White appeared before Mr. Wood, Kate's dad, looking unbalanced and uncomfortable. He bowed his bald head, displaying his loyalty to his master.

 " So where is Kate and where have you been? Didn't you tell her we have visitors today? Did you tell her the exact time? Did she go to the library or does she has music class today?" Mr. Wood asked these questions, confused and with mixed feelings. 

Mr. White is Mr. Wood's favorite worker and driver. So he trusted him but was dazzled about why his daughter missed him, especially around that period. Mr. White, on the other hand, rolled his eyes as he showed down not knowing which and where to start answering the questions. He just spoke up, answering accordingly. 

"Kate is in her room, sir. I've been cleaning and vacuuming the car, then I decided to take a walk before I was summoned by you, sir! Yes, I told her, very well sir! I did tell her the exact time si..."

"Can you stop the 'sir' already? It's getting me boring." Mr. Wood said, terrified and sad.

 "I'm sorry my Lord" Wood waved his hand to shut him up

"She did tell me, she was going to the library but she didn't go I guess, and by my calculations sir, she doesn't have music class today, precisely tomorrow". He said forgetting his master warning of the title, "sir".

After waiting for him to finish his story, he rolled his eyeball and said "Well, Mr. White, Kate isn't in her room, if it were so, would I have called you?" He asked without expecting an answer from him.

"Oh my goodness what will I do with this queer girl? She is taking my soul out of my life," he said quiveringly. As he was talking, Kate came out of one of the rooms by the hallway looking refreshed which shows she just had her bath. Walking steadily to her father. She looked happy as she smiled. Mr. Wood seeing her daughter smiling for the first time in a while forgot to scold her as he held her hand tightly to kiss her forehead and headed to the Dining Hall to enjoy their lunch.

Mr. Wood apologized to Mr. Stanley and his wife, for his delay while Kate greeted them with a smiling face. She sat next to Dave, Mr. Stanley's son, who seem the same age as her. Dave smiled at her, bowing his head to greet her, but Kate ignored this, pretending not to have seen him. She settled down as they all started eating with relish.

Dave's parents and Mr. Wood chatted while eating, but Kate and Dave were mute, munching and bitting their food bit by bit. Noticing this silence between them, Mrs. Stanley whispered to her husband and Mr. Wood as they burst into laughter. 

Not knowing what was going on among these three adults, Dave chuckled followed by a peal of slight laughter like a cricket waiting for a female mate. Kate, on the other hand, tried not to laugh. But Dave's laughter made a bit which made others laugh hard. Not understanding their parents, they both went mute. 

"Hey, do you know why they are laughing?" Dave said with a cool but quivered voice. 

"Well, I don't know. Ask your parents I guess". 

They both went silent as they continued their meals.

"Teenagers and their reserved personalities, I could remember when I met Stanley he was so shy...." 

"Oh my goodness, I wasn't shy, not at all, on our first date, I could remember how bashful you were." the couple burst out laughing remembering their past in the reverence to the teenagers at the table.

All these were becoming annoying to Kate, she wished her mom was around to tell her stories. She tried controlling herself but her head keep burning inside of her as she began to see things that happened to her in the past.

She could see her mom tied down by chains crying for help and as well save a little girl with her. The little girl seems to be herself but 'this is an allusion' she thought trying to clear off her thought then she remembered the event that took place the previous night.

All these were too much on her that she couldn't hear anything in the physical environment so She had no choice but to run up to her room and bang the door noisily behind her.

Mr. Wood immediately grabbed a handkerchief by the arm of the chair where Mr. Stanley was sitting to chase after her daughter. Kate was lying helplessly on the floor, which indicates she must have been stressed out. 

Mr. Wood quietly and sadly bent low, stroking weeping Kate hair. 

"What have you been up to again these days Kate, talk to me am your father and you know well I love you," he asked hysterically. He doesn't like it whenever she is tired that's why she has maids all around her to satisfy her immediate needs.

He kept asking a series of questions from her which he knows has no answer. Lifting her to the bed, he also gently parted her back like a baby in a cradle, he assured her she would be fine, even though he doesn't understand what was happening to the girl. 

"puff", he sighed. "growing teenager," he said rubbing his palm as he stands up to leave.