Share

Chapter six

Author: Gift
last update publish date: 2023-01-19 06:11:39

Chapter 6

My mom prepared my life’s blue print, and in the blue print one of the important details there was the kind of people I had to interact with, the kind of friends I was to make and the kind of people I should have business with. The blueprint only allowed me to mingle with the rich, the smart, straight, famous and prestigious people and anything asides that was banned.

My mom had barged into my hostel room when I was just about to talk and yep it wasn’t a friendly scene.

“Are these indecent girls going to share a room with you peach?” she asked me as I tried to shut her up

“Who the hell are you guys” she asked while analyzing the two British girls that were in the room I got assigned to.

“Um this is our room” the second girl answered in a rude tone.

“Ohh no the both of you can not be in this room” my mom added

“And why can’t we ma’am” the first girl asked

“Cos my peach is in this room and my peach cannot be found sharing a room with you guys” she added as she pointed at them in disgust.

“And what is wrong with us?” the first girl asked

“The both of you are in the category of people we do not associate ourselves with, low lives, indecent brats, I mean look at you” she pointed at the first girl “Your entire body is covered with tattoos, everywhere indecent tattoos, a tattoo of a naked female beside your left ear, a skull on your collar bone, yeesshh or do I have to point out the piercings, you pierced you nipple for goodness sake who knows maybe you pierced your hole too. And then there is you” she added as she turned her direction to the second girl. “You are very pretty, people as pretty as you wear good clothes to get good boys not bad boys but look at you, I can practically see your butt hole here and your top doesn’t even cover anything why bother wearing a dress when the dress has no use”. She concluded

I watched them stare at her in fury, she over did it, personally I would feel bad if my choice of attire and lifestyle is insulted. She was about to say more when I cut in.

“Mom that is enough, enough’ I quickly added

“No peach let me show these British hoes their place”.

“Mom please let us go outside and discuss this” I pleaded

“No peach I’m not done talking yet” she replied as the girls chuckled.

“Yes peach why do not let your sassy mother finish the nastiness she came here with” the first girl added as my mom glared at her, they both laughed.

“You see what I’m talking about they are not only indecent in their looks but they also have sharp tongues, although the tongue should fit the owner so I’m not surprised” she continued

“Please mom let it go, let us go outside and discuss this” I pleaded as I grabbed her arm

“Fine let’s go and yeah stay away from my peach” she concluded as I dragged her out immediately before she could say any other thing.

“Why are you dragging me peach, you should have left me to give them every piece of I had in

my mind “she added

“Peach you are not staying in that room” she continued

“Mom please let this one slide” I said

“I’m not letting anything slide I’m going to the dean’s office and I’m reporting what just happened plus I’ll ensure he changes rooms for you and places you with people your type” she added as she turned to leave, I grabbed her arm

“Mom please just let this one slide, I know you are worried and unhappy, I know and I know there are not the type of people I should mingle with, but I do not want to create a scene on my first day, plus I’m just sleeping in the same room as them I’m not going to fuck with them, just trust me” I said

“I trust you peach; I really do it’s them I do not trust, I mean did you look at them?” she asked

“I did and they both looked British and I know of a fine ass single mom who is from Manchester, England” I added as I smirked

“humph that’s the problem, British girl are not like this I’m embarrassed as it stands, I’m sure the queen would be disappointed” she added as we both laughed. Then I held her hand and looked her in the eye.

“listen mom, trust peach that’s all you need she will be fine, I’ll change rooms in my sophomore year” I added

“Promise?” she asked

“I promise, now get your pretty ass to the lot it’s getting late” I concluded as we both went towards the lot.

**********

We got to the parking lot as we made our way to the car, she opened the car door to get in

“Okay peach, I trust you but do not break that trust” she said as she hugged me

“I won’t mom I promise” I concluded as she kissed my hair

“My baby girl is all grown up” she added as she entered her car.

I watched as she started the car and I waved, I watched her drive through the lot then the road, I stood and watched her until her car disappeared, we will miss that sassy ass warrior.

My mom left and I made my way back into the room, I got to the door and I hesitated before opening it, when I opened it the girls stopped what they were doing and looked at me

“Um hey” I said hesitant.

“Hey peach” the first girl said as she was trying to make fun of my mom

“Do not let these bad, indecent, rude girls influence you” The second girl added as they both laughed

I just stood and looked at them I didn’t know the right words to use.

“Your mom looked at us with disgust in her eyes, like we are not kids of other people” the second girl continued

“I’m sorry” I finally spoke

“Oh, little peach can actually talk” the first girl said mockingly

I do not like this one, subconscious spoke. She should that with all those frightening tattoos she has and her uncountable piercings, no mother would want her child near her and still she has guts to talk to you rudely.

“What is wrong with peach tiff, is she not only dumb but deaf too, she did not hear anything I just said” she continued.

“Look I already said I’m sorry, you don’t have to drag it” I added

“Oh, she has sass in her too wow, looks like the damn apple does not fall far from the fucked up tree” she added

“That’s enough Sam” the second girl cut in

“No Tiffany, peach over here should have a taste of the poison her mom dished out do not you not think” Sam replied as she looked at me

“You can lay all you have on me but don’t bring up my mom” I added

“Oh, but she started it with her shitty tongue” she continued

“Hey!” I screamed while I moved towards her

“Okay that’s enough girls” Tiffany quickly intervened

Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App

Latest chapter

  • Her Toxic Desire    Epilogue

    The valley does not keep track of time the way the city does. There are no billable hours, no fiscal quarters, no frantic, calendar-driven deadlines. There is only the cycle: the ice, the thaw, the green, and the yield.It has been three years since I walked away from the mahogany-paneled offices of London, leaving behind a life that was as polished and hollow as a store-bought mannequin.I am sitting on the porch of the cabin. The wood beneath me is smooth, worn silver by the sun and the weather—a surface I have maintained with my own hands. The orchard we planted in the first year is finally bearing fruit, the trees heavy with apples that taste of nothing but rain, sunlight, and the specific, iron-rich soil of this slope.Elena is down by the creek, working with a team of neighbors on a community-managed irrigation system. They aren't fighting the developers anymore; the developers, frustrated by the valley’s stubborn refusal to accommodate their rigid designs, long ago sold their p

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter sixty five

    The morning after the storm brought a silence so profound it felt heavy. The valley, washed clean by the deluge, shimmered under a pale, post-rain sun. The creek had retreated into its banks, though it left behind a landscape rearranged—driftwood piled against the bridge pilings, new gravel bars where the path had been, and a thick, rich layer of silt coating the garden's edge.Elena sat on the porch steps, staring at the debris-strewn creek bed where her entire life had been stored in cardboard boxes only twelve hours ago. She looked different—less like a city tourist, more like a survivor. The manicured polish was gone, replaced by the grime of the mud, and her eyes, though exhausted, had lost their frantic, darting edge.I stepped out with two mugs of coffee. I didn't offer sympathy; sympathy is a soft commodity in a place that demands hard ones. I offered the mug, sat down, and watched the water."It’s going to take a week to dig out the silt from the lower rows," I said. "And the

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter sixty four

    Spring in the valley was a relentless teacher. It didn't care for the elegance of a legal argument; it only responded to the precision of the planting. The "first green" had turned into a lush, aggressive canopy, and the cabin was now surrounded by a riot of life.I was no longer just the woman who had walked away from the firm. I was the woman who knew exactly how many days of sun it took to bring the snap peas to maturity, and how the soil composition near the eastern drainage ditch dictated the yield of our summer squash. The "geometry" of my life had shifted from the abstract to the tangible."The squash is crowding the beans," Davis said, emerging from the garden patch with a trowel in hand. His shirt was stained with chlorophyll, and his forearms were corded with muscle from months of steady work. "If we don't thin them, we’ll lose the nitrogen balance for the later crops."I stepped into the rows, my own hands mud-caked and steady. I didn't reach for a schedule or a spreadsheet

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter sixty three

    The thaw arrived not with a gentle sigh, but with a rhythmic, percussive roar. The ice on the creek, which had held the valley in a hushed grip for months, shattered in a series of sharp, resonant cracks that echoed off the ridges like small-caliber gunfire. Then came the rush—a torrent of meltwater fueled by the receding snowpack, turning the sleepy stream into a churning, slate-grey artery of life.I stepped onto the porch on the first morning the temperature stayed above freezing, and the smell hit me first. It was the scent of damp, liberated earth—an aroma so dense and fertile it felt like a physical weight in my lungs. Life, having been compressed and frozen, was now expanding with a frantic, almost violent ambition.Davis was already at the creek, testing the structural integrity of the small footbridge we had built the previous autumn. He looked up as I approached, his face mapped with the weariness of the long winter but alight with the kind of primal satisfaction that only c

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter sixty two

    Winter did not arrive; it invaded. It came on a Tuesday, heralded by a sky the color of a bruised plum, and by sunset, the valley had been erased. The world beyond the cabin walls ceased to exist, replaced by a swirling, white void that hammered against the cedar siding with a relentless, rhythmic intensity.For the first time since my arrival, the cabin was no longer a workshop; it was a fortress.The rhythm of our life shifted. The frantic, external labor of the harvest was replaced by the internal, meticulous labor of maintenance. We mended tools, we organized the grain stores, we checked the rafters for stress, and we sat.The silence of winter was different from the silence of summer. Summer’s silence was porous, filled with the hum of insects and the rustle of leaves. Winter’s silence was absolute, a heavy, velvet weight that pressed against the windows and demanded a different kind of articulation."The fire is dying," I said, my voice sounding small in the vast, still room.Da

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter sixty one

    The victory over Sterling-Crest Developments was not marked by a victory party or a celebratory drink. In the valley, such things were not the way of the world. Instead, it was marked by the quiet, steady return of water to the lower basin. Three days after Vane’s departure, the trickle in Elias’s creek deepened into a steady, singing flow. The pasture began to green again, a subtle shift in the color palette of the hillside that only those who lived in constant conversation with the land would notice.For me, the victory brought a different kind of shift. The word had spread, with the speed of wind through dry grass, that there was a "law-woman" in the cabin near the high ridge—someone who could speak the language of the developers and turn their own jargon against them.The consequence was an immediate and overwhelming influx of "neighbors."They came in the evenings, appearing at the edge of the clearing like ghosts emerging from the trees. There was Sarah, a widow whose logging ri

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter thirty three

    CHAPTER 33 The sight, the sight that was before me, was wondrous. a white frothy cascade of water falling into a plunge pool, the rocky outcroppings lined up vertically close to the pool, lichen, moss spread out on the horizon, slippery rock to walk on across the fall, lush g

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter thirty two

    Chapter 32Lying on the bed staring at the 7 inch ceiling decorated with a nice work of aesthetics, I could only imagine the grid of suggestions Tiffany would bring to the table to spice up the whole room. I could not speak nor feel the pain that was draining my breath. I did not know how but drops o

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter thirty

    Chapter 30The afternoon was chill, it was cool and calm, with the cold breeze blowing from every direction, I could feel the wind blowing through my hair and into my ears. I felt peace and everything calm. “So, what will you have?” Derick asked Yep, we were already seated in a restaurant, the Jin&Ji

  • Her Toxic Desire    Chapter twenty nine

    Chapter 29I tried giving her the look of disapproval but my mom being who she is would certainly act like she does not understand the meaning. But hold up champ, what exactly is your problem with Derick coming over to your house for a meal. Well incase you have not realized it all these years but mo

More Chapters
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status