CHAPTER FIVE- AGREEMENT

MY POV 

Gazing through a book, I think out aloud.

"I knew they will never have a word with me but rather stay up there to watch me like a prisoner even when Ma'am Lecia tries her best to change their mind about me or see reason with them, for two months I called in for them"

Sipping the coffee she delivered this morning while I read the book concerning the planet, I heard the door swing open but I did not look back as I thought is Ma'am Lecia and her time for laundry.

"The dirty clothes are in the last wardrobe, I arrange it perfectly and the clothes are not too dirty"

 I said glancing through the books without looking back at her 

"Everywhere is so clean, you don't need to come back for cleanup after the laundry Ma'am Lecia"

 I shuddered my shoulder, adjusting the reading lamp.

"ELENA…" 

I heard my name and the voice sounds like my Dad's. 

I couldn't believe my ears as I swing the chair and my hair in the direction I heard my name.

My Dad was standing right before me; I was speechless for a while and my eyes becomes so teary about who is standing in my presence as I have not seen him for 3 years and it was the last time I saw him.

I stood up from the chair and walked close to him  

"Dad! You are here… I…can't… believe my…eyes" 

I stuttered my words with tears disgracing me over and hugged him so tight 

 "I missed you, Dad"

 still holding him tight while my nostrils were gushing out with silent tears. 

I move away quietly when I noticed he did not hug back on me the way he do back then but looked closely at the cameras and its setting.

"Well Mum sent you here to inspect everywhere right; well it's all structured and well enough the way you all want to," 

I said to him calmly, wiping my tears and sat on my bed feeling rejected all over.

"I have not … broken any cameras… Or…" 

"you have grown so big and beautiful just like your mum in her youthful age" 

he cut in immediately while staring at me then walked very close to me, still standing.

"But not as a monster like me…

 "I said in a tiny voice, trying to cover up the tears.

He holds my face gently 

"I heard you very clearly, we all know that you are not a monster; it is just your ability that always overpowers you which you took from your mum".

 He put his hands in his pocket and then bring out a handkerchief to wipe the mucus from my nostrils.

"I'm so sorry Dad, I know a lot has happened negatively for years because of my ability" 

I stopped for a while as the tears rode my emotions 

"one cares out for me, I have been here for years!! Everyone is deserting away from me!! I'm losing it, Dad"

 I said to him angrily

 scratching my head out of frustration.

My dad holds my hands to calm me down the looks in his eyes, it was sorrowful 

"I will surely find a way to bring you out of this chaos, you put yourself into," he said calmly 

"but you have to promise me that you will not get violent the way you normally do out of frustration; this is my promise to you"

Dumbfounded by what he said to me

 I can't believe that I will be leaving this damn place finally 

I walked close to him and hold his arms

"Dad, you are sincere with what you just said?"

Still, surprised but perplexed about his plans on how he will do that and conceive my mum to concur with him 

"on good behaviour to everyone; your tutor, the servant then you will be out of here" 

He said to me calmly looking straight into my eyes.

I was still in a state of confusion to know what they have for me 

"and if I'm not of good behaviour to all of them, especially the tutor; I will remain here?" 

I ask him with anger boiling up.

I have never liked the tutor who comes to lecture me, always getting on my nerves just to know how powerful I'm. My head was already spinning that I will see him again after the last time I ripped him off almost

"How is he doing," I asked him 

"Who are you talking about"

"the tutor that I injured," I replied back 

"he is taking his medication very well, he has been complaining of your incompetence to adhere to his instruction and he is not the only one complaining about it,"

he said to me while turning to the table.

He began to flip the pages of the book I was reading before he arrive here

"Everyone is complaining about you, Elena you are allowing your powers to control you just as now"

he said to me while facing me 

My face was turning red immediately, my powers were already taking over my emotions

"I hate being here, the tutor always reminds me a lot of how cruel I am each time I try to overshadow his intelligence except Mrs Lecia though she is doing what you all command her to act over to me" 

"No one tries to show passion to me because of the incident that I never did deliberately,"

I said to him while starring at the cameras again

I controlled myself this time not allowing the powers to overcome me each time I'm annoyed.

He closes the book on the table and took a deep breath then said to me

"if you want to leave this place, be of good behaviour to everyone then I assure you total freedom"

I kept quiet on him still looking at the camera and then at him, my powers were already controlling my emotions about to devour him the way they did to my tutor when he place me beneath

"Elena! Elena!! Elena!!!"

He screamed my name so loud and held me when he found out the powers were controlling me.

I stretched out my body so hard fighting within then I broke down in tears

"I'm sorry Dad, I'm a monster" 

I said, looking so scared at him

"No!, you are not but you need to control your power to align with your emotions," he said to me calmly

"I will be of good behaviour and It's a promise to you even to the tutor,"

I said to him angrily but in a calm voice 

He taps my shoulder and heads to the door

"he's not coming back again, another tutor will come by next month"

"I assure you that he won't tell anyone what happened but you have to keep to the agreement,  then leave the rest on me moreover you resemble your mum in her prime age. She needs to see you and how beautiful you are"

he paused at the door.

I could not say anything to him, all I want is for him to leave as there was no point coming down here to visit other than the calls

"You don't need to worry about me, Dad. I will take care of myself"

I said to him while I sat on the chair to continue with what I was doing before he entered.

I heard the door bang with the sound of a padlock, immediately I scattered the books on the table and the shelf out of frustration.

I wailed in pain that I have been built inside which has been burning like a candle in my soul for years

I began to shake terribly about what next will become of me and how to control the powers in me this time to be of good behaviour around