“Hey, tell me. Are you two fighting?” Emma queried with a skeptical look.
“No auntie–” Phidelia sighed sharply and sauntered towards the stairs. “Just a bad day at school. I’ll go change now.” she glided the stairs.
Emma stared as her back faded through the corridor to her room; quiet confuse. “What’s going on with them?” she mumbled thoughtfully and shrugged.“Hurry and get down for supper.” she shouted, heading back to the terrace to continue what she was doing.Phidelia shoved her bag well over her shoulders, unlocking her door. After turning the keys few times, it clicked opened. She slowly pushed it opened as she shuffled in with the thoughts of her family running through her mind. She really missed them a lot especially her sister. It’s been eleven years now since they got separated. And to top it all, they haven’t been visiting per their promise. And talking about
Claire at that moment noticed Phidelia’s confusion and failure in remembering her. She chuckled, slightly shaking her head. “Hey–it’s me. The girl you helped at the canteen the other time. Have you forgotten me already?”Phidelia instinctively gasped at this revelation, feeling quiet bad. “I’m so sorry.” she mumbled hastily, “Everything happened so fast so I didn't really pay attention to your face.” she gave a sheepish grin which was obvious enough to expose her embarrassment.Claire giggled, “Hey–no need to be so embarrassed. Come on, hop in. I can see you're waiting for a cab.”“Yeah, thanks so much.” she exuded, pulling the back seat door opened. “You’ve really saved me. Thought I was gonna miss my first lesson.” she settled in, dropping her bag beside her and the cab sped off.“No need to thank me girl–. You once saved my ass too you kn
Not long have Phidelia settled down that the teacher sauntered into the classroom and lessons began. Rowan who didn't really buy the story of Phidelia tripping on the stairs kept stealing sceptical glances at her without her notice. Not to talk of her groaning and wincing uncomfortable in her seats for the past 10mins since the lessons began and this was very irritating for him.He slightly looked under the desk, checking on her leaping foot and noticed that it was gradually swelling up. "Hey," he nudged her. "You should go to the infirmary and get your foot checked. You keep groaning uncomfortably." He whispered.Phidelia thought of the possibility of being questioned on how it happened and so on and so forth so she hesitated. "No Rowan, I'm okay." she assured and went on with jotting some notes down. Rowan found this attitude of hers so annoying and couldn't resist escalating."This is so–annoying Delia." He thumped the table with his hand as he dropped the pen, making Ph
The 3hours suggested by Miss. Florida was almost near and per her words, the drugs were finally neutralizing and letting go off it's effect from it's victim. Phidelia winced at the irritating arguing voices that hit her ear drums when she became conscious of herself. She drowsily opened her eyes, slowly turning her head to the direction of the voices only to see Rowan and Claire.She smiled, slowly shrugging up. Meanwhile the two were so engulfed in their disagreement and didn't even notice her sitting up. When she had finally managed to her way up, she folded her arms on her chest, watching and tilting her head with slight giggles as she watched the two disagree on things."Woah–" She chuckled, finally drawing their attention. "You two really look like a couple you know." She teased, making them glanced disgustingly at each other."Oh, please Delia." Rowan scoffed, gliding over to her side. "Who is she by the way?" He threw a scornful glare at Claire who in t
CANBERRA ACT, AUSTRALIA.ELVIS HILL HIGH SCHOOL.10:00 am.Phidel sat in the library with her friends, Cora and Luna working on their Literature research work. She had her eyes fixed on the textbook but was totally spacing out. She felt something was unusually off but couldn't place a hand on it. She was so engulfed in her thoughts and didn't even hear Luna's call."Phidel..?, Phidel..?" She called once again, making a gentle tap on the table but Phidel was just lost. Cora glanced at Phidel then to Luna, exchanging quizzical looks. "What's wrong with her?" Cora whispered and Luna shrugged. "I don't know." She murmured sharply, glancing back at Phidel.Cora nudged Luna, tilting her head in Phidel's direction. "Why don't you find out?" she suggested. All along, Phidel was not aware of her environment. "Why am I feeling so down today? Could this be about Phidelia?" she grumbled mentally to herself, checking down on her watch. "It's 10am, that's means
Isla kept trying to open the door but to no avail. She could hear Phidelia's gasp fading gradually with every passing second. "Hung in there Delia." She slammed her body into the door to try and get it opened but it only left an unbearable pain from it's impact. "Argh!" she groaned, holding her right shoulder with her left hand as she winced in apprehension; lurking around.At his rate, some of the passing students had started gathering around with everybody murmuring among themselves as they don't know what was really going on.On the other hand, Claire was also on her way with Rowan, praying and hoping to herself that nothing happens to Phidelia. It was at this point that things became clear to Rowan. He hastily snatch his hand from Claire. "I will take the lead." He muttered as he raced off. He got to the washroom to see few crowded students at the door with Isla trying to get the door opened by herself. He rushed into the crowd, pushing his way through. Just as he go
NETHERLANDSPhidel returned home after school with her mood completely off. She pushed the door opened and strolled over to the living room slamming herself into the sofa.Her mother who was laying in the next sofa, watching a Soap Opera deftly turned to glance at her and noticing her sulky face, sprung up. "Are you okay? You don't look good.""It's about Phidelia mum–" She grumbled, "I suddenly felt weird at school so decided to call her. I tried her line severally but couldn't get to her and she didn't even call back too." Phidel let out a weary sigh.Jerome sat thoughtfully for some seconds and grinned, "Don't worry, She might probably be busy with school activities. Anyway, did you try your Auntie's line?""Yes I did and her line was also...." Just then, the door creaked opened and her father walked in. "Your Auntie said she missed your call, Phidel? He uttered as he glided in. "What was the matter?" He joined them in the living
It was 7:30pm when the cab pulled up at Phidelia's stop. She glided out of the car and slammed the door behind her. Claire scotted deftly to where Phidelia initially sat and leaned on the window of the car's door with a smile on her face, waiting patiently as Phidelia adjusted her backpack over her shoulders."See you tomorrow." She uttered as Phidelia looked up."Sure." Phidelia waved at her with a smile and the cab drove off. She turned, slowly pushing the main gate opened as she sauntered in. She strolled through the yard and glided up the porch. She slammed the door opened and shuffled in with heavy feet, exhausted. "I'm home." she announced, closing the door."How was school?" Her auntie queried from the sitting room."Not bad," She came to a halt in between the stairway and the hall. "But was quiet exhausting." She added. Isla who was sitting beside her mother with her face buried in her novel instinctively scoffed at her reply. "I bet it was." She thre
Within the next few minutes, she was done. She sauntered over to her dresser, drying her hair with the towel. Just as she got there, she threw the towel on the hanger and took out the hand dryer; drying her hair with it. Things hasn't been going on so well for the past few days but she still had to keep fighting. She looked herself up in the mirror and sighed, turning the dryer off as she dropped it on the table and took her seat, staring at her reflection. "Let's not give up Delia," She muttered to her reflection. "We have to keep fighting. We can do this." She encouraged herself, took the comb, styled her curly brown hair into a ponytail; holding it up with a sea blue ribbon.She checked the time and it was past 7:30 am. She quickly got into her uniform and snatched her backpack from her study table and rushed out of her room. She got to the hall to meet the whole house literally empty. "Aunt Emma!" she shouted and a voice answered from the basement. Just then, she heard fo