~COOPER'S RESIDENCE~
"Oh, Yeah! I Gorrrit! I gorrit!!" Kevin's eyes focused intently on the TV with his fingers controlling the PS madly. The door opens and he could hear some movements behind him.
"Hey Dad ya late" He said without looking back still concentrating on the game. He need no soothsayer to tell him that was his Dad who just came in since they're the only ones living in the big mansion. When he didn't heard a response, he had to look back but was rather shocked to see his Dad carrying a little girl in his arms. His arms was dripping with blood seems like he got wounded. Mr Harris head upstairs without giving his son, kevin a look or uttering a word to him.
"What happened now?" Kevin muttered facing his game back. But not paying attention to it for a little while made him lose the game.
"Sh*t!" He dropped the PS his eyes traveling up to the stairs. Then he sighs loudly.
GUEST ROOM.
Mr Harris dropped the little girl on the bed and stare at her.
"Who is she? An estrange sister of mine?" Kevin's voice made him look back and he saw his son standing by the door post with a first aid box in his hand. Mr Harris looked back at the girl and Milo walked fully inside the room.
"Here" He extend a cotton to him. Mr Harris collected it and started treating the wound on the girl's head. He says nothing still. That's the case for Mr Harris. He's a man of a few words but his son is the exact opposite to him. Loquacious and never gets tired of talking.
"She looks pretty young. Probably ten or nine...where did you find her?" He asked again not to get a response. Not like he expected one anyway.
"Poor girl..." He pouted staring at her. Kevin is seventeen and is in his last year in high school but he acts like a total child. He wasn't pampered or spoilt, it is just his nature. He always smiles no matter the situation and always carries positive vibes around making him loved by everyone. Sometimes Mr Harris wondered if he's truly his son because he's nothing like him.
"You should get treated too. That looks pretty bad" Kevin refer to the gunshot on his shoulder. He isn't surprised by it or anything. This isn't the first time his father would come home injured. Given the nature of his job, he shouldn't be coming home with this kinds of wounds but guess his is different after all.
"She's your wife" Mr Harris finally spoke catching him off guard.
"Uh?"
"Your wife" He repeated lacornically while Kevin just stood stunned.
"Bandage" He requested snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Ohh...here Dad" He quickly gave it to him. He wasn't really expecting a full explanations to what his father just told him cause he knows if it's necessary he wouldn't have used just the two words 'Your wife' the second time he talked. After wrapping the bandage around the girl's head, he covers her properly with the duvet then turns to Kevin.
"Don't just stay up playing games, solve some puzzles and sleep early" He said to him as he occasionally says then took the first aid box on the table and walked out of the room. Kevin just stood stagnant watching the girl throughout. His lips parted and he uttered.
"So...you're my wife"
~ N̾I̾N̾E̾ Y̾E̾A̾R̾S̾ L̾A̾T̾E̾R̾~ PRESENT~ HAMILTON'S MANSION~
Star kept her head down fiddling with her fingers at the same time. After her little drama in the school earlier, her parents were called on together with Easton's and Eloise's.
After several argument, pleading and all, the families settled all differences but throughout the whole thing, Hallelujah never uttered a word so as her eyelids never opened once. She totally blacked out.
"Are you proud of yourself?" Mrs Hamilton asked clearly angered.
"Ma_" She tried to talk but Mrs Hamilton raised a finger shutting her up. She suck in her lower lip.
"Hallie dear I thought we talked about this. We made a promise remember? You promised to stay out of trouble" Mr Hamilton said from the sofa he was seated.
"Of course I do Pa. But the situation was_ "
"Was what? Is this how we taught you? Star you're begotten from the lord how could you do such a shameless and disgraceful thing! You...you never cease to get yourself into trouble don't you?" Her mother flared.
"Ma_"
"You have no intention to change even if we shout from today till the lord returns right! You're gonna continue being so delinquent and immoral!!" Mrs Hamilton blurted out.
"Ma. How could you call me those? Am I that sort of kid?"
"Then what sort of kid are you? Uh! You tampered with the temple of the lord! The body is supposed to be the temple of the lord but you messed with that! Isn't that act of immorality? Were you always like that?" She shouted at her face. Star blinks with her eyes already welling up with tears. Though her mother has always chided her in the past whenever she made mistakes or get in troubles like this, but she has never once been this angry to the point that she'd hurt her with such words.
"Honey calm down for a second...let's talk about this amicably" Mr Hamilton tried to calm her down.
"Don't tell me to calm down! It's because we always pampered her that's why she turned out this badly. Honey tell me would you like her to continue journeying on this wide sinful path that leads to nothing but destruction!! And when the end comes! Do you want to be accountable for it! Uh!!" She flared up on her husband.
"I'm not saying we shouldn't scold her but we just have to let her know what she's doing is wrong and put her in the right path" Mr Hamilton convinced.
"Train up your child in the right way he should grow so that when he grew up he'll not depart from it so says the Bible...let's follow that uh?" He added.
"Does she looks like she's ready to listen! I believe there's a demon inside that girl's body playing tricks on us! That's why she's becoming more unbearable by the day!" Mrs Hamilton retaliated.
"But_"
"I agree with you aunt!" A male voice said from the stairs. They all turned their heads there and Matthew, walked closer to them with his hands behind him.
"I agree with you aunt. I've been noticing this also and I've been meaning to bring it up. I personally think Star's case is not ordinary. She has a demon possessing her that's why she's being bad and all" Mattew chipped in.
"Hey Matdog! You better shut it, no one called you here" Star grits giving him a death glare.
"Uncle, Aunt, can you see exactly what I'm saying. Look at how she twisted my perfectly good name into something else. A child whom the holy Spirit is still dwelling in her will never say such a thing." Mattew said again and Star rolled her eyes.
"The Bible says Foolishness is build up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it out! Just like Jesus drove out the demon in boy's body then, why don't you drive out the demon of foolishness abiding in her?" He opined. Star scoffs.
"Hey...I think that's too much. She's just being immature no need to go that extreme far" Mr Hamilton disagreed with the idea.
"Uncle, did you forget what the Bible says? ' Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod he won't die. You shall beat him with a rod and deliver his soul from hell' . Are you gonna disregard the scripture now?" He raised a question brow at him. Mr Hamilton rubs his temple not knowing what to say.
"Aunt, this is for her own good..imagine at the judgement day you don't wanna miss the heaven just because of a little fault of not training your child properly" He brought him hand from his back and present the spatula he was actually holding to her.
"For the greater cause...take this, cast out the evil demon and lead her back to the way of the lord" Matthew advised with a mask of seriousness.
"Ma. Are you really gonna listen to him? You're gonna hit me?" Star asked with a puppy face.
"Do you hate me that much? Am I not your daughter anymore! I'm now a demon to you!!" She cried out with tears gushing down her face now.
"Go to your room and reflect on yourself for three hours" Mrs Hamilton ordered Star.
"I'm angry at you! I'm gonna start hating you. Don't talk to me again!!" Hallelujah spat and marched upstairs to her room.
"Aunt you shouldn't_"
"Move that away from me or I'll use it on you first" Mrs Hamilton glared at Matthew and he backed away immediately.
"You pet her too must that's why she's always like that. I did my part! Even God knows that!" Matthew said also going upstairs.
"Those kids..." Mrs Hamilton rubs her forehead in exasperation and slump on the sofa.
"You thought well honey...we can teach her together" Mr Hamilton got behind her massaging her shoulders.
"That girl is giving me headache seriously" She sighs out.
***
Immediately Star stormed to her room, a fluffy little puppy ran towards her wagging it tail in excitement. She wiped away her tears and bent spreading her arms wide at the little puppy.
"Lou!" She carry it in her arms then climb up on the bed.
"You missed me? Uh?" She asked stroking the fluff nonstop.
"You cute little thing...you're the only one on my side. Don't leave me Lou...you're mine" She hug the puppy with smiles. The door opens and she raised her head back up. A frown settled on her face instantly.
"Did you come here to die?" Star glowered.
"No way. I came here to taunt my little devil angel" Matthew smirks leaning at the door post.
Matthew is Mrs Hamilton's younger sister's son. He started living with them a year ago after his single mother's death. According to what he heard, his father ran away the moment he heard of his mother's pregnancy and since then he had never showed up.
Star and Matthew tends to fight a lot due to how annoying Matthew can be sometimes. He just derives joy in taunting her seemingly.
"Get lost I'm not in the mood to play around with you" She rolled her eyes.
"I'm just curious about a thing. That guy..."
"What guy?"
"The one with little d!ck. Is that really true?"
"Then you think I made it all up? I saw it with my two naked eyes"
"Wow...what a pervert you are really? How little was it?"
"Do you wanna know?" She asked with a knowing smile and he nodded.
"Come here" She beckoned and he walked further to the room. Star drops Lou and kneed on the bed.
"Pull down your pants and I'll show you how little it is" She grins, Matthew smirks. He leans down his face close to hers.
"You should try better...it ain't that easy" He poke her forehead and moves away.
"You asked for it I was only trynna let you know in detail"
"I must say Aunt raised the wrong kid. There's really a demon dwelling in you. The demon of lewdness" He pointed at her before excusing himself from the room. Star rolled her eyes from the umpteenth time and lay on the bed.
"Come here Lou...you understand me right?" She asked hugging the little thing.
~NEXT MORNING~
Mrs Hamilton knocked on Star's door severally but she won't open up.
"Hailey! Hailey!!" She called but won't get any response.
"Mom is coming in!" She announced and opens the door going in.
"Seriously! Now you wanna rebel!" Mrs Hamilton asked standing akimbo.
"Get down now and let's eat. We'll talk about you after breakfast" She said again but received no response yet.
"Do you even have the right to be angry right now? Do you know what humiliation I had to go through because of you? Just why are you being like this to me seriously?" She asked frustrated but still got no answer
"STAR HAMILTON!" She howled getting angry now. Marching over the bed, she pulled the duvet over only to see it pillows on the bed instead of her daughter.
"Again...again...SHE DID IT AGAIN!!" She seethes balling her fists angrily.
BUS STATION.
"HAL!!" Webby shouted from afar running towards Hailey who was seated at the bus station.
"Be careful or you'll fall" Hailey said to her as she gets to her.
"Hey! What happened? I was so scared when I got your call this morning? Did you ran away from home?" Webby asked with heavy breathes.
"I got into a fight with my Mom" Hailey replied in a bored tone.
"Figures...there's no way you two would be okay with that drama you performed yesterday at school. It's a pity I wasn't there to witness it myself. But girl you're really one of a kind Easton must be out to get you now. Watch your back...you're never safe dear" Webby said settling down beside her.
"Are you here to make me feel worse or what? I'm already feeling like sh*t as it is" She rolled her eyes.
"You? No way...come on tell me...how was the sight? Pretty exciting uh?" Webby wiggle her brows.
"Well...it was quite a sight to behold. You should have seen it. It looks hilarious" She stiffs a laugh.
"Easton must hate you a lot now. You were crushing on him"
"Hey...my crush on him ended the moment I saw that little prick of his. How do you expect me to cope with such a thing. I have high standards you know"
"Whoa...nice coming from a holy person like you. Figures you said your type of man was Arnold Schwarzenegger the one who would mess you up on bed right? Easton is nothing compared to that" Webby shrugged.
"Right? Easton is a chick compared to him, isn't he? Ugh! I wonder when I'm gonna meet my own version of Arnold Schwarzenegger..." She said dreamily.
"You can't wait to be screwed, can you?"
"I've put up long enough. Look at you, you did it with your Antony Joshua six months ago on your birthday. It's unfair" She pouted. Webby giggled.
"But why ain't you telling me who it is? I'm your best friend" Hailey narrowed.
"You'll know soon. But not now...come on the bus is here let's go catch some fun who knows you might meet your Arnold Schwarzenegger today! Get up girl!" Webby pulled her up while she carries her little puppy also.
"Let's go meet Arnold Schwarzenegger!!" She said enthusiastically.
"Let's goo!!" They both giggle entering the bus the moment it stops right in front of them.
~AIRPORT~
Amidst the crowd of different races and colors finding a way to their various destinations stood a tall athletic feature standing with his huge back bag attached to his back. He was in a uniform which depicts he is a military man. He has a blank expression on and cold aura covered him up. Dipping his right hand into his pocket, he brought out his phone, go through the contact list and dialled a number saved with 'Mr Hamilton'. After a short ring, A manly reard came at the other end.
Hello...Milo is that_
"I'm back. Go on with the arrangement "His hoarse voice said rather curtly and without waiting for a reply, he ends the call. With narrowed eyes, he wore his military cap properly and make his way out of the busy airport.
LATER.
"Isn't it sweet?" Webby asked as both lick their respective ice creams.
"It is...tell me between this ice cream and the creamy ice cream, which is sweeter?" Hailey asked naughtily.
"Hey don't compare that to this. For that, the feeling is utterly heavenly" Webby winks and both giggles again.
"Glad to see you having some fun" They heard a familiar voice and look back only to see Easton and two mean looking guys staring back at them with unfriendly expression on.
"Oh! F**k!" Webby exclaimed, her ice cream cone falling from her hand.
"We're in trouble...Hal" She said looking beside her but to her utmost surprise no one was on her side anymore.
"Hal?" She called surprise and looks back only to see the small figure of her already far away. Her hairhair flying in the air and her short legs carrying her as fast as it could. Webby's face twisted so as her mouth drops in surprise.
"GET HER!!!" Easton shouted and the two guys with him chase after Star immediately.
Webby face the fuming Easton and smiles.
"Hi Easton. Sorry" She said and before Easton could make out what she meant, a sharp pain hit his knee and he groans. Taking that opportunity, Webby took off her heels also.
While running, Hailey looks back to the guys chasing her. They were already catching up and within a short period of time she'll be caught. She faces her front back but unfortunately she stumbled and fell.
"Ah!" She winced holding her knee which got scratched a little. While fanning and checking it out, Lou which she was holding before she fell left her and ran towards the road.
"GET HER!" She heard the guys' voice and looks back again.
"Holy Sh*t!" She sprang up immediately but couldn't find her puppy again.
"Oh! Lou!!" She called looking around for it but it was no where to be found.
"LOU!!" She called getting anxiously now, her eyes scrutinizing everywhere.
"Lou where are you??" She called on the verge of tears. While still searching, her eyes darted to the road and behold! There was her puppy running in the midst of moving cars.
"LOUU!!!" She yelled and without thinking she ran towards the road to the puppy.
"IS SHE CRAZY!!" One of the guys chasing her yelled without realizing it.
Hailey got to the road ignoring the blaring of the cars. She took her puppy, kissed it and hug it to herself.
"Lou...I found you" She breathes out in relief and stood up but on doing that, she unfortunately got hit with something hard. The puppy fell from her hand and she reached for the floor.