Ajeez

Emma 

After my argument with Mr Valmore, I haven't gone back to the room since then, it's almost dark in the evening, the weather is windy and calm. I'm sitting on the edge of the pool with my two legs deep into the water, my mind flashed back to the little argument I had with Mr Valmore and how I told him that I would never love him.

A lot has really happened today, first it was the sunshine luncheon and then here back at home, it was my argument with Mr Valmore, I didn't plan on getting angry with him is just that whenever I look at him the event that happened years ago keeps flashing to my memory and they make me hate him so much, ever since I came to this mansion I've never slept in the same room with him every night Ieave to sleep in one of the guest room and even though Mr Valmore notices he had never questioned me for that and I like that he respect my decision cause I can not imagine sleeping on the same bed with the man that killed my father.

Flashback 

It all happened eight years ago. My father used to be a roadside hawker with my mother. They sell rice cakes on the roadside and every time after school I would come help them with packaging the rice cake in the nylon while they hawk it in the middle of the road. Back then life wasn't so easy for us but one thing is that we are a small happy family.

We didn't have much but we were happy with the little we had, everyday I saw both of my parents walk so hard just so I couldn't lack anything, especially my father, he loved me so much and supported everything I do, he never returned me to take part-time jobs instead he advises me to be happy and take life one step at a time, I was so happy with my family, until that fateful day 

It was going to be my graduation the next week, so I was so excited to come tell my parents about it especially my father who had waited so long for the day I would graduate from high school, I was tuning towards my parents in happiness 

"Father….!"

"Father….!" 

"Father….!" I called my father in excitement, immediately he saw me, he ran with joy to cross the road, I waited for him waving at him, he kept on smiling at me all the time he was crossing the road when suddenly a white car came with speed and in a blink of an eye, my precious father was laid in a pool of blood in the middle of the road, 

At first, I was so traumatized that I couldn't scream, my mother already rushed to my father, slowly I walked to the road, I bent to my father's dead body 

"Wake up father, please wake up" I pleaded in a cracked and broken voice but my father was gone, and slowly I turned and caught a glimpse of the man that killed my father, I saw his face, immediately he looked at me he rolled up his car window and drove off in high speed, he was young then but I can still remember his face, it was him.

He killed the most precious man in my life, he took my father away from me. Back then we didn't know his name. I was the only one who saw his face. I told my mother that I knew the face of my father's killer and would definitely recognize him when I see him. My mother and I went to the police station and reported but then the police said they could not do anything about it since the suspect is from a wealthy family, they refused to mention his family name, and at some point, they claimed they did not know who the suspect was and that was how my father died without getting justice, I felt my world crumbled before me, I was closer to my father, he was my best friend, my backbone he was my world and I can never fall in love with my father's killer 

End Of Flashback 

I can still remember that it took me years to move on from my father's death and then my mother got married again to my stepfather, I was so happy I was going to have a sister but then my little happiness was shattered when Hennesy showed me how much she hated me, my stepfather was good to me and he treated me right, I don't just feel the same connection I felt with my father, maybe because he was not my biological father. 

"Hi dear….." I heard a voice behind me and turned to see it's Lady Alfa 

"Lady Alfa" I called in respect and stood up immediately to greet her 

"Do you want to have a walk with me?" She asked with a face full of smiles and I nodded, she held her walking stick as we started strolling down the flowery part 

"I noticed Ajeez was sad when I returned this evening"

"Ajeez?" I asked in confusion 

"Hmmm Ajeez," She said and halted on her step 

"Uhhm I'm sorry Lady Alfa but who is Ajeez"

"You don't know?"

"Hmm…." I hooked my head, she smiled and continued walking while I followed too 

"Your husband his first name is Ajeez that's his native name"

"Ohhh…." I mouthed 

"He looked sad, did you guys fight"

"Ehhh….a little," I said awkwardly 

"I know you and Ajeez got married in a weird situation, but I can tell Ajeez loves you so much if not he wouldn't be so sad like he was when I met him this evening, you know Ajeez used to be a hard on the outside, he is feared by the whole world but just a small argument from you made him so moody, that's the power you have on him"

She suddenly stopped and looked at me with pain in her eyes, I can see different emotions in them 

"Please take care of Ajeez for me, he's been through so much"