It has been a month already since I came to Gray land, Erwin have not been coming to school, Clay have been trying to talk to me which I greatly ignored him. I have gotten closer to Jackie so she asked to come to my house. It was a Saturday morning so I went to my father to take permission from him, he was indeed shocked that I was having somebody over but he was happy that I was able to make a friend. I no longer act rigid around my father we talk once in a while, my relationship with my father's wife have gotten better I don't call her mom but we can talk to each other for hours so it is a good sign. As for Ivan we have gotten closer that he buys me stuffs whenever he travels abroad for business, I even have lunch with Bella.
I went to the kitchen to get breakfast, Mira was already there eating as for her she is still ignoring me but she does not get up to leave whenever she sees me and the first time one of her friends said something mean to me she was angry about it so maybe she does not hate me after all.
"Morning" I said to her while going to the fridge to get some bread and eggs. I told Agatha not to make me breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays because I prefer making myself. She was hesitant but she agreed anyways. As I was making my toast, I heard Mira return my greeting but it was a mumble I will take what I can get. I passed a plate of the sandwich to her and she took it but not without giving me the you must be crazy look but she ate it anyways I guess she is getting soft towards me.
I left her in the kitchen to go to my room because that is where I usually eat aside from dinner when everybody is around. I sent a text to Jackie telling her that my father agreed, she was really happy about it she has been telling me to come to her place then sometimes she will telling me she wants to come to mine but I always refuse but his time I accepted because it was long overdue and it is wired that we are friends and we have never been to each other's place. She then replied me that she was getting ready to come to my place. I arranged my room not because it was dirty but when it comes to things like this, I don't want to leave any loop hole. One of the house keepers knocked on my door telling me that Jackie was here. That was fast. My father was still at home not because he did not have where to go but he wanted to know who the friend was probably the child to someone he knows. I got to the living room to see my father already talking to her and from the way she was laughing it seems like they know each other.
"You here" I said to draw their attention
"You never told me your friend was Anthony's child" Who is that?
"You forget I don't know the people here" He gave me an apologetic look. He got up to leave because he was already dressed to go to the office. He goes to the office every other day of the week except Sundays, but there are some Saturdays where he works from home. Moral of the story he is always working. He told Jackie that she was welcomed to the house at any time.
I took Jackie to my room and closed my door. I told her to sit where ever she wanted. I knew she had questions and I was ready to answer her.
"Mr. Jones is your father" Is he some special person?
"Yeah I guess"
"You seem too calm about it. But I never knew he had a third child"
I sat down with her and told her everything, form how my parents met to my mother getting pregnant with me to my mom dying then to me moving here. She had a very shocked looked and I don't blame her if someone told me this story as well, I will look like that.
"Wow Alice are you okay?" She looked at me genuinely worried
"I am alright"
"The change, the news everything must have been exhausting"
"It was but it was worth it" I said hugging her
"What about Clay" I knew she was going to ask
"That is a story for another day" she nodded and did not ask anymore. I know she cares about me but there are some things I am not ready to tell anyone yet.
We did our home work for about thirty minutes, then used about an hour to study for a test we had the following week. We might be in different classes but the school has a general schedule. We took a break and went outside the to take a stroll around the compound. The compound is so huge that I have only been to 6% of it. We start walking towards the right side of the of the property, I held a box of cupcakes while Jackie held a family size bag of chips and two cans of soda. We just needed to relax somewhere and this place is big enough to find a place relaxing to our taste. As we kept walking, we found a greenhouse it was shaped in form of a dome and it was made out of. I was really pretty.
"I have been wanting to ask, what's your deal Erwin?" I ask her really curious and by now we were already siting down on a bench beside the greenhouse, I opened the box of cupcakes took one out of it and pushed the box to Jackie.
"Nothing I just don't like him" she said quickly
"Come on Jackie people don't hate each other just like that" because it seems like Erwin does not like her either
"Its just that a lot of kind there I have known them since I was very little, either through school or through family and Erwin is one I have known through school, family and business. He dad kind of did my dad dirty" So a family feud. I do not like those kind of things causes unnecessary hatred between people and could also pass down to their children.
"So, you are fighting your dads unfinished battle"
"I am not fighting an unfinished battle its just that his dad cheated my father when they had business together and my father just allowed it go like that" She said as she snapped her fingers at like that.
"What if your father had his reasons for letting it go, what if there was something you didn't know that happened and your father does not want you guys because I know Jordan does not like him either. But taking it out on his son will do absolutely nothing"
"Are you defending him?"
"I am not defending him. I am just saying that there is a very high chance that he didn't know what his father did and you taking it out on him is not fair"
"I highly doubt" She said looking the other way while stuffing a hand full of chips in her mouth. Petty.
"Have you tried asking him?"
"Why would I want to do that?" Is she serious?
"I don't know for clarity"
I really do not know what to do with her she is nice but way too headstrong that it kind of gets on my nerves and the story her father told her sounds way too farfetched. Well it is not my business so she should do whatever she wants. We decided to walk into the green house to take a look at the flowers in it and beautiful is not enough to describe what I was seeing. I am not big on flowers but when I see a pretty thing I appreciate it whole heartedly beside the daisies were roses this time they were pink there were red roses as well but the pink one caught my attention and they have thorns, this is the first time I'm seeing one in person, I have always seen them in books or in movies but aside from that I have not. Looking at them now the only thing that came to my mind was Daniel he is soft spoken but dangerous when provoked while the red ones reminded me of Erwin and the color explains a lot. The thought of the two of them brought a smile to my face one needed a little boost to bring his fire out while the other has his fire already burning and only an idiot will try to provoke. I caught Jackie looking at me like I have lost it, I laughed
"What?" I asked her still laughing
"You look crazy. But why the smile do you have a crush?" she asking teasing me.
"Me a crush that is crazy" She definitely has to be crazy
"Mmhmm"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing" My phone chimed and it was a text from Ivan telling me to come to the house that it was time for dinner. Wait dinner? I looked at the time and it was seven in the evening already. How long were we here?
"Okay we are coming" I hung up and told Jackie that we had to go back, and we both went back to the house. After dinner Katarina wanted Jackie to spend the night with me but she had to go home which made me quite upset because I really wanted her to stay but she promised that she would stay the next time she comes to visit. So I hugged her biding her good night as I watched her car drive out of the property.