My boyfriend is coming very soon

Author's pov

  Sebastian managed to stand up and made his way to the door. He leaned his crutches against the wall and opened the door.

  "Good morning, Mrs. Edna," he said, looking surprised.

  "Good morning, Sebastian. How was your night?"

  "I'm fine." He continued to stare at her, trying to see if Becky was standing nearby. Not seeing anyone, he refocused his attention on Becky's mom.

  "I came to see Becky."

  "Becky?" He exclaimed. "Becky is not here."

  "But she told me she had come to your place..."

  "My house? You can come inside and check for yourself," he replied, making way for Edna to enter the living room.

  "Why has Becky lied to me? I promised you she would come. We talked yesterday morning, and she said she would come here yesterday evening. She even texted me that she was here."

  "She's not here, Mrs. Edna," he reassured her. They were both standing when Sebastian's neighbor knocked on the door, and Sebastian went to meet him.

  "Where has she gone?" Edna wondered as she saw Sebastian going out with his neighbor. It seemed like the man who came needed Sebastian's attention, and they went outside to have a discussion and Sebastian closed the main door when going out with him.

  Edna felt no reason to sit down, so she continued standing and waiting for Sebastian to return. Through the window on the left, she could see the two men engaged in an animated conversation.

  "I'll wait for him before leaving. Becky has been dishonest with me," Edna said to herself and sat down. It was at that moment that she realized she had been inhaling the aroma of food that filled the air.

  "Sebastian must have prepared his meal this morning without anyone's help," she thought, glancing at the dining table. Her mind was elsewhere, and she didn't notice that there were several plates of food on the table. If it was just Sebastian, there wouldn't be so many plates of food on the dining table.

  "Why has Becky lied to me?" Edna scanned the sitting room with her eyes. She then grabbed her phone and dialed Becky's number. Just as she was about to put the phone to her ear, she heard the loud sound of a plate shattering on the floor inside the house. Edna immediately smiled and stood up.

  "I was starting to doubt if Sebastian was the one who prepared these meals. I knew it was Becky. She can't lie to me." She walked into the house, carefully placing her feet on the ground, and headed towards the direction of the sound.

  "Becky! Becky!" She called out twice and found herself in the kitchen, where the broken piece of the plate lay near the sink.

  "Becky, please, where are you? What's happening that you're hiding from me? Becky?"

  Daniella sensed Edna's approach after the plate slipped from her hand in the kitchen and quickly hid behind the kitchen door.

  "Becky?" her mom called again, looking around the kitchen, but Daniella was hiding behind the door. As Edna was about to turn, she said,

  "Becky, why are you hiding from me? What have I done?"

Daniella pressed herself against the wall behind the door, her heart pounding heavily.

  "What will I say if Becky's mom sees me here? It would be better not to even leave the dining table than to embarrass myself in this situation. Please, don't let this happen!" She pleaded silently, her breathing becoming uncontrollable.

  "What are you doing here?" Sebastian startled Edna. Her mind was so focused on finding her daughter that she didn't notice Sebastian's arrival, and he had even called her name when he entered the sitting room and didn't find her.

  "Oh, sorry. I heard a noise and thought Becky was inside and hiding from me."

  "No, why would I lie? There's no one inside," he replied. Edna's eyes were fixed on the broken plate on the ground, and she kept wondering what could have caused it to fall.

  "Come, let's go to the sitting room," Sebastian suggested, unaware that it was the sound of the plate that had led Becky's mom to enter the kitchen.

  "I wanted to tell her that I'm not feeling well and I'll be going to the hospital tomorrow morning," Edna said out loud, hoping that wherever Becky was hiding, she could hear her.

  Reluctantly, Edna turned around, and since Sebastian was standing near the area where Daniella was hiding, Edna couldn't see her. They both went to the sitting room, and Sebastian added, 

  "Please, tell Becky to come home. I miss her so much, and her absence is painful."

  "I will," Edna nodded, but she wasn't convinced that no one else was in the house besides Sebastian.

  Sebastian stood at the doorway and waved at her as she walked away from the house. He quickly closed the door and hurried back with his crutches, thinking that Daniella was in his room.

  "Daniella! Daniella!" Sebastian called out, and as he was about to come out of his room, Daniella confronted him and stood in front of him near his door.

  "Where have you been?" Sebastian asked.

  "In the kitchen," she replied.

  "The kitchen?" He raised his voice in surprise.

  "Yes."

  "Did you see Mrs. Edna?"

  "Yes, but I hid from her. I even saw you."

  "Why did you run from the dining table in the first place? What if she had seen you in the kitchen? What kind of person are you? I already told her that there was no one in the house when I didn't see you again. Your behavior is disgusting," he said with a frown.

   "I said I'm sorry, Sebastian." She lowered her voice.

  Despite Daniella's apology, Sebastian angrily walked away and spoke to himself as he entered his room, slamming the door.

  "Is this what Becky witnesses every day of her life?" Daniella thought. "He didn't even accept my apology. Hmm... if that's the case, you will definitely pay for this." She sneered and went to the main door of the sitting room, turning to see if Sebastian was coming or looking at her. When she saw no one, she took one of the keys and discreetly placed it in her armpit, then she went to her handbag and kept it.   

  Afterward, she knocked on Sebastian's room door, but Sebastian was still angry and said,   

  "I'm busy here," before falling silent.

Daniella thought he would continue, but when she didn't hear any more words from him, she said,

  "I wanted to let you know I'm leaving for work."

But Sebastian refused to say a word. She stood there for a few minutes and then returned to the dining room. She didn't expect such a sudden change in Sebastian's attitude. She had admired him from the outside, and now, after spending a few days with him, she had come to know his true personality. She, too, became angry and lost her appetite, leaving all the dishes on the table and she left the house.

  It was a bad day for her. This wasn't what she had envisioned when she secretly established a close friendship with Sebastian without Becky's knowledge. Daniella was so sad that she kept to herself at work, didn't go out for lunch, and felt as if her heart was broken. At the end of her workday, she went straight home, looking disheveled.

  "Hi Daniella, how was work today?" Becky greeted, noticing the sadness on her face. The next thing she said was, 

  "My boyfriend is coming very soon, and I don't know if you can give us some privacy."

  "Okay, then I'll be leaving tomorrow."

  "Tomorrow?" Daniella sounded hostile. "I said my boyfriend is coming today, this evening. I want this place for both of us. I don't want anybody to disturb our intimate moment."

  Becky, who had been ignoring her mom's calls, didn't have a choice but to dial her number to inform her she was coming home, but her mom refused to answer the call.

  It was 5:50 pm when Becky gathered a few belongings and left Daniella's house. She knew Daniella was angry, and because of her tone of voice, Becky couldn't ask her what was wrong.

  Fifty minutes later, Becky arrived at her own house and discovered that the front door was locked just as she was about to open it. She brought out her key and opened it.

  "Mum!" she called out, but received no response. The entire apartment was eerily quiet, and she wondered why the front door was locked and her mum was not inside at that time of the day, and this was unusual to her.

  "Mom..." Her voice echoed as she dropped her bag on the couch. With a sense of uncertainty, she hurried inside. The first place she entered was her mom's room, but it was also quiet and her mom wasn't there. Filled with doubt, she rushed to the kitchen and checked her own room, finding the entire house silent.

  "Where has mom gone?" She grabbed her phone and dialed her mom's number, but this time, her phone was switched off. Her heart immediately started pounding.

  In that moment of great panic, her eyes made contact with a letter on the table. Before she could pick it up and read what was written on the paper, tears had already welled up in her eyes.

  "Please, Mum, don't do this to me…”