Chapter 7

Shaking her head, Bella went out of her dad’s room after a moment of time, slowly closing the door behind her.

Nearing the dinning table, she saw the left over foods on it. She kept her dad’s dishes on the side in the dinning table and began to eat her own breakfast which lost its heat, a long time ago.

She only took a slice of the bread toast, which was crunchy and in a crispy golden brown color, with some scrambled eggs which was fluffy because of the addition of the extra butter, which was cooked to perfection.

After eating the little food she served herself, she poured a glass of milk to drink. Mixing a little honey to taste, she drank the milk happily. 

Even though she ate only little, she was always energized. Even she didn’t know why and, where she got all those tremendous energy from.

She even wondered how could her small body can store so much energy, as she always felt that she was full of energy.

Maybe she did feel tired and drained. But she knows, that there is no one to do the chores, much less extend a helping hand, if she didn’t do it by herself.

In the beginning, Mary did help. Or you could say tried to act like helping while her brother was around, in order to maintain her good sister-in-law façade.

But one must know, facades don’t last longer and meant to be broken one day. But due to bad luck, that ‘meant to be broken one day’ of Mary came too soon for Bella.

Then as time passed by, day by day, she was the only one doing all the household chores day in and day out and every other possible work from cooking to doing the dishes and wiping them, sweeping, wiping the floors, dusting the comforters once in a while, doing laundry and folding and ironing the clothes…..the list went on and on….with an never-ending fashion.

As days went by the works doubled itself significantly. So she trained herself to feel always energetic to cope up with her daily life style.

Finished eating her cold and little breakfast, she cleared up the dishes from the dining table and brought every dishes,even the ones Mary forgot to put in the wash basin, to wash in the kitchen basin. 

After washing and wiping them dry and making sure that they are cleaned well, she placed them on their respective places in the cabinets.

Since it was the summer vacation, the students who came to learn from her, stopped from coming to her special classes, as they all went to enjoy their summer vacation.

Bella too wanted to enjoy the summer vacation like other normal teenage girls.

She too desired to go to the beach with her family, to bury her small white feet into the wet sands of the beach and to play chase with the chill waves of the ocean. 

But all that only seemed to stay only as a long distance dream to her now, as her dad can’t be brought to the sea side in his current condition. 

But she made up her mind that she would definitely bring her dad to the beach for him to enjoy the warm heat the sun provided on a nice and clear day and soak her feet in the sea waves along side her dad, while holding his hands happily. Until then, she have to hold on…until then….

To compensate the money flow, she began baking for the little bakery in the neighborhood. 

Even though the bakery was small, it had a decent regular customers and a well deserved sales. 

The owner of the bakery was the acquaintance of her mom’s. The old kind lady Freya, gave a job to Bella, for which she can do the job even in her home.

Bella baked all the bakery items she knows to bake like cakes, custards, cupcakes, pies and cookies for Freya.

She baked these and gave samples to taste for the bakery owner. 

The bakery owner Freya loved everything she baked as Bella’s baked items had a special taste like a signature of hers which the baked goods baked by others had lacked.

So Freya immediately requested her to join the bakery as the kitchen staff.

Bella explained her family’s condition, of how she can’t be out of her home for long hours as she was taking care of her dad. 

The kind lady understood and made a wonderful offer suitable for Bella.

Freya would give her the ingredients and supply for baking the goods in the morning and Bella can bake the items in her own home and deliver it to the deliveryman in the noon. 

As the sales in the bakery often happens only after noon, they agreed upon Bella delivering the finished products within noon. 

Bella was very grateful for the kind old lady that she thanked her many times.

After finishing the household chores, Bella heard the horn of the delivery van she was accustomed to regularly.

She went out of her home and saw the deliveryman Frank, nephew of Freya.

Frank was dressed in a shirt with red stripes and paired it with a worn out blue colored denim pants and a cap on his face which covered his half of the forehead, while casting a shadow on his face.

Frank is a man in his late fifties. He was a small stout man with pale white skin complexion. He had a blonde hair and baby blue eyes with small mustache decorating his face.

When Frank saw Bella, he gave her a warm smile showing his well arranged teeth alignment. 

He liked Bella very much and considered her as his daughter.

He had no children. He and his wife lily tried every possible ways to get pregnant. 

But God was not in their favor. At last, they lost hope and comforted each other.

“How are you uncle Frank? How is aunt lily doing“ beamed Bella, bubbling with her usual enthusiasm.

“Everything is going fine for us angel. Your aunt is often asking for you though, as she said that she had not seen you for a while” replied Frank giving Bella a warm embrace.

Due to her soothing character and the never-ending smile she always wore on her bright little face, Frank and his wife lily called her ‘angel’. They said it suited her the best.

“tell her that I’ll meet her tomorrow in church. Tomorrow is Sunday, so I will be going to the church at the regular time” answered Bella happily.

She loved aunt Lily’s company as she reminded her of her mom Sara so much.

Aunt lily is a force to be reckoned. Though the lady seemed tiny and petite, standing at the height of 5 feet, and with a little more meat to her bones, she can be dangerous.

A glare from her can make a well grown man to run for the hills when she was pissed off. 

But she was a sweet little innocent puppy with the one she loved. She is an unique piece of heaven and hell combined together.

“Sure thing angel. How is Isaac”

“He is fine uncle” replied Bella with a sad smile.

Seeing her mood changing from happy to sad in an instant, Frank immediately changed the topic to distract her.

“Take the ingredients angel. I’ll come after three hours to collect the delivery” Frank said while slightly tipping his cap in the front.

“Yes uncle” Bella giggled at his gesture and turned to bring the ingredients inside her home from the truck.

“Also make sure to give me a secret goody goods of yours and surprise me as usual “ came Frank’s voice with a hint of happiness that a child would have for his favorite candy.

When Bella turned around, he winked and waved at her. Then Frank started his delivery truck and went away.

Bella first took all the ingredients out of the packages and sorted them on the kitchen counter accordingly. 

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Hi readers…..

Who knows cooking? ….

Not to brag and all, but I can cook delicious foods.

What is your favorite food?

Me…I like junk foods…mostly French fries n chicken.

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