Chương 9: Invitation
At present night, while recording out of the castle.
" Things started happening. They all were in front of me, placed clearly, however this mortal life's issues put up a backdrop of normality which became a reason, where I wasn't getting the signs the universe was hinting. Mrs..Latina's behavior, the anonymous body in the woods and involvement with Adrian….., it all was the starting. '' Ana speaks while putting her phone's ringtone on silent. She slowly lay down on the long rusty chair, with her hand holding the phone upon chest. While taking a deep breath and; with a teardrop sliding down from the outer edge of the eyes. She keeps recording while gazing at the black sky upon her, and returns back to her memories.
" I can not blame this place wholly, because it doesn't only give me misery but equally many memories which I wish I could relive. "
Comes back to the memory where she interrupted herself.
After getting annoyed by the unusual behaviors of the locals , I get exhausted from every single thing present in the room. Even from myself. To freshen up I open up my new windows. The first thing which I discovered from there, was another window in front of it. And not only one window, all my windows were getting blocked by someone's window, after calculating for seconds; I got to know that they are of Mrs..Latina's house's windows, which were blocking my views . It wasn't helpful to seek inside as the windows were closed, and it got hard to recognize whose room it was.
Leaving my question and little curiosity at the windowpane, I get dressed up and come down the stairs . My steps slow down their speed as I watch mom on the phone, talking In an anguish tone. I wish I knew what was with her mood, but the way she hung up told me to drop the wish .
" He is such a headache! '' With a blare of the bang on the table, mom headed towards me. Which made me run furiously away from her and I placed myself upon the sofa ,with an innocent look and remote on my hand grip. I ask her, with full hesitancy and beholden defense," What happened? Was it Papa? Is everything okay?!"
"The remaining furniture is going to arrive at any moment, but he's busy with stupid football match! "She answers in a frustrated tone, furiously as if she was waiting for me to ask.
"Football match!?" I exclaim with a confused face.
"Yeah. It's unbelievable, while working in the resort, he saw a beach football game going on,and he joined them, the boys. He told me that he was with someone. Clearly, I am not going to bother about things alone! ..." she replies and again the phone rings which draws our attention. I was certainly thinking that this call might be by papa. However the thing that put me in thoughts was her changed behavior after picking up the phone.
This time, her seconds before cruel voice turned into melody. She sounded happy and greeted the person on call with smiles and in a polite tone. As I'm wondering about her mood transformation; my sister walks in from the door and mom hangs up the phone, with one voice commands us.
" Be ready for evening dinner at Mrs. Latina's house. She invited all of us ,and you both! please be polite and..... act as human in her house, please!." She warned us in an appealing manner and got in her room.
"Plan sounds good, but I wish Lucas would not be able to attend....and does he know that I'm coming‽..I doubt it." just keeping my fingers crossed ; I continue watching television.
In the evening, Papa returns home with a great smile on his face, and after so long I can notice a childish smile on his face. Full of cheerfulness . Mom with an anguish look walks towards him as he enters with words,"Why were you so late!? I was waiting for you and you were playing with kids! What is this attitude? "
" First of all, let me make it clear, I'm not too late. And second ,that they were not small kids, they were much younger and better than the players playing in nationals...and….Oh! Ana you are here.
You know? Our team won the match. By luck I got to play as they were lacking one player ,they asked me and the boys were too cooperative, it was a fun day . And Sia, why are you walking over me with anger ?I have just arrived now.Let me take a breath!" He says and grabs a seat beside me.
"Okay! Do as you want!...but get yourself ready for dinner. Mrs. Latina invited us today at her house to join for dinner and a formal meet and greet, so we can get to know our neighbors."
Mom informs him and walks towards her room again
"Did you have fun today? "I ask him with a cherishing smile, to divert his mind from the anguish attitude of mom.
"Yes ,of course. After so long I played football. I can't get time to play due to work and responsibilities, but ....now...I think I can take out some time for it, as the resort and the ground is close by and people here are too friendly, isn't it?. Oh yes!, I forgot to ask , how is your school? .
Did you make any new friends ? I just forgot to ask you about this as you can understand.....How fast all these things are happening....but I believe that you will make many friends. a
And if there is any problem or anyone or anything bothering you, you can come straight to me. Okay!? ." He answers with his promising words . But I kept my silence and kept him away from Mr.Rock's matter.
I can't tell him now, as he looks so..so happy and he is very busy to understand the condition of the business so...let me handle it in my own way.
Doorbell rings ,and Mrs..Latina opens the door with great enthusiasm and pleasure. At evening around seven ,we arrived at Mrs. Latina's house and she gave us a warm welcome at her door. Her house looks huge from outside, but it's a whole palace from inside. It was classy and sophisticated in view, a rich and royal touch was given to the house, which was far more better than ours.
I wore my usual clothes; black top and blue pants with a high ponytail. And my family wore their beautiful clothes color coordinating with each other,.... which made me stand out from them. 'They didn't tell me about this' was the expression I painted my face with.
" Have a seat! And make yourselves come. ``A deep voice addressed us and it was A middle aged man. Who holds Mrs..Latina's waist smoothly. We conclude by the scene, that this handsome, sophisticated man is Mr.Latina.
We followed their lead and took our seats in their living room . Making a formal introduction. Dad introduces us and Mr. Latina introduces their family with a soft smile,
" I'm James Latina and my wife Eleonora Latina ; whom you all are friendly ( chuckles). I usually stay out for business, that's why we are meeting so late. And here comes my daughter Dorothy. '' Mr.Latina becomes friendly with no time ,but my eyes. They were searching for Mr.Rock, but as I assumed he was not here . With a deep relaxed sigh, I followed up the stairs with Dorothy in her room, while the adults; they were having their talks. Mom was helping
Mrs. Latina and Papa were having business talks with Mr. Latina.
Mr... Latina looks like a retired model but not so old enough to look like a father of two kids. He is tall and handsome and way of talking is appealing and really makes small talk interesting.
"Now, I get why Dorothy and Lucas look so beautiful.... but Lucas, he lacks in taking manners from his folks." I speak up in my mind and get upstairs to witness beautiful carpeted stairs.
And Dorothy's room is well set. I can't even tell the last time I had such a clean room. She starts with a warm hug ,
" I'm so happy to see you here ,I was waiting to call you here but my mom did it first. " She expresses her thoughts with an energetic face.
"Your house and your room, both are so beautiful " I compliment her, while taking a look at her room. I informed her about the incident that took Place in woods and she was well-known about it as Mrs. Latina told her ,of course. She tells about how bad she feels about Lucas's behavior towards me, he is always like that ...she tells about how annoyed she is about her brother,
" Like sometimes, it feels like he is a robot who doesn't know how to smile? "She says.
"Really ! I never saw him smiling , he always stands giving, an attitude smirk, like this ....." I add to her sentence and start imitating him while copying his smirk; and the room becomes silent.
I thought this time I went too far but after a pause,.....she started laughing out loud .
"Same to the same ,he always makes annoying faces "She says while laughing and I took my breath and joined her laughing.
" I think I should give you a tour of our floor, please head to the next room, I'm coming in a minute. ``She tells me and I come out of that room and discover another room in front of hers .I walk in that room casually, from the black door which was unlocked and get into the room which was in the dark .
I tried to search the switches and while searching," Ahh!''. I trip off on something.
I stood up and found a light switch . It was the messiest room I had ever seen…
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