Volume 1 Chapter 16: Family Part 1
After saying that her mother leave the room and left the pale face Alice alone.
Alice: Oh no, I'm doom, mother is angry
Alice got up and start walking listlessly towards the bathroom, since Alice have a hobby of taking a bath before eating dinner after she finish doing all of her chores. But this time she did not do any of her task and her mother have to do it so that dinner will not be delayed.
After she finish taking a bath Alice's came down and start setting the table so that after her father came back home after work they can eat immediately. So while waiting for her father to arrive so join her mother from watching the TV and after waiting for 15 minutes she heard the sound of the car stopping at the entrance of their compound.
Mother: It must be your father, go open the gate
Alice: Yes
Alice goes outside to see that her father was about to step outside of the car and about to open the gate by himself. When Alice saw this she hurry up so that her father don't have to open the gate himself.
Alice: Father let me do it
Seemingly hearing what Alice said her father close the door of the car before giving a thumbs up to Alice as a reply. After opening the gate her father drive the car inside the compound, so Alice close the gate and lock it since there's no one in their house will leave the house in this time after her father return.
Alice and her father start talking to each other while walking back inside the house.
Alice: Welcome back!
Father: Yea and no need to open the gate every time, I can do it my self
Alice: Come on father, we always start having this conversation every time I open the gate
Father: Heh is that so, how's your day?
Alice: It's okay, nothing out of the ordinary and after class I came back home
Father: But your mother message me that you came back home with a package with you
Alice: That was from Vanessa
Father: Is that so, so what's on the inside?
Alice: It's a game father
Father: What kind of game?
Alice: A new Vrmmo
Father: Did you try playing it?
Alice: Yes it's nice
Father: It must be fun coming from you, who don't like to play games
Alice: Yes, very fun
Father: Yeah, so fun that your mother have to do your chores and she have to wait for you to wake up for a whole 30 minutes and she have to call to your friend asking how to log you out
Alice: Sorry father I did not notice the time
Father: Don't tell me that, tell that to your mother
Alice: Can you help me, pretty please
Father: No!
Alice saw a chance to get help so that her mother will not scold her, so she try to use the famous puppy dog eyes on her father, When her father saw the pleading look on Alice, he almost agree to help Alice placate her wife's anger. But when he remember that time when he angered her wife once, her tone became to calm for someone who is angry unlike a normal person that will became so loud when angered and when he look at the eyes of her wife, at that moment he saw a frozen tundra with a raging hail storm that send a shiver to his spine and until now when he start to remember that look on her wife, he will start shivering. So without hesitation he start denying to help Alice to pled for leniency.
Father: My answer is still a No!
Alice did not give up after hearing her father denying helping her.
Alice: Pretty please!!!
Father: Don't try to involve me in your mother's anger, you know that when your mother is angry even I her husband can't placate her you know
Alice: But father, this is the first time I forgot to do any of my chores
But seemingly not hearing what Alice said he remain silent and he still deny to help her.
Father: My answer will remain a no!
Alice: But, father
Father: No buts, do you still remember what happen when I try to help you
I start to remember when father tried to help me to to explain why my grades drop but mother did not listen to father and he was even kick out of the bedroom and so father have to sleep outside the bedroom, for a whole 2 nights until mother allow him to sleep in there bedroom again. So I just nod to reply to father when I remember how father got kick out of there bedroom.
Seeing she nodded her father start to talk again.
Father: Good, since you still remember what happen back then so don't get me involve with your mother's anger, I don't want to sleep on the couch again. You know that it's very uncomfortable to sleep on the couch for a whole 2 nights there is not much space to move at all and like you I like to sleep in a comfortable bed, thats have a lot of room to move around unlike the small couch on the living room
Hearing what her father said and seeing that he was not planning to help her plead and their are almost near the entrance of there house since she can now hear the sound of the T.V playing. It's meaning is that she was now running out of time to convince her father with peaceful means, so since she was force to take out her trump card to convince her father, So she look at her father like she was gonna take him out with her.
He saw the look on her daughter's face start to change from asking for help look and to a lets die together look and after seeing the look on her he knew that her daughter was planning something.
Father: What's with that look? and what are you planning do to?
Alice: Father you force me to do this
Father: What do you mean?
Alice: You force me to take out the big guns and also my trump card
Father: What are you saying?
Alice: Father do you still remember when mother was out of the house and Vanessa invited me to go to there house to play some game
Father: Yes if i'm correct that was 2 weeks ago right, so about it?