While eating, a servant rushed in and handed my phone to me. "Your phone is ringing, Miss Laura" she said as she took her bow.
"Thank you" I said and the young servant nodded her head in acknowledgement before taking her bow and then left. Thus, I checked the screen for the caller I.D and found out it was Shirley. "Hello!" I said the moment I picked the call.
"Hi, Laura. Where are you?" she asked.
"I am... I am fine" I ignored her real question and told her how I was, "How about you?" I asked about her wellbeing.
"I am fine too, but where exactly are you presently?" she queried, it was obvious she was in contact with Jessica otherwise why would she be so willing to know where exactly I was?
"I am at home," I lied, "is everything okay?" I wanted to know why she was asking about my location.
"No you are not at home!" she disagreed with me, "You are not at home, Laura. Please tell me where you are now, okay?" she tried to persuade me to tell her where exactly I was at the moment but ended up pissing me off. What the hell did she even want from me? I thought to myself as upset as I was.
"If you are not going to tell me why you are asking, then forget it!" I said. And for the first, the two of us found ourselves in a position we never imagined. We had been so close to each other but now it was apparent things would fall apart because I wasn't going to tell her my exact location even if she tell me the main reason why she was asking, and that would definitely piss her off. Or so I thought.
"Hmm, okay... I am asking because I am currently in your house. We came to see your Aunt, me, Suzanna and Vivian. Jessica told us what happened earlier, that she called and realized you were drunk. She said perhaps you went out with someone and he got you drunk, who's that please? Is it... Frank? Why would you even go out without apprising her, what if something bad happened to you? Are you even safe now? Where are you please?" she asked breaking my heart. Why would Jessica tell them all that. Why on this earth would she do that, was she out of her mind? I wondered, so pained. And talking about going out without apprising Jessica, well how many times had she went out without apprising me? But now that I did the same thing, she's hurt. What a perfect world, so much discrimination!
"She told you I was drunk and you believe her?" I muttered.
"No, I didn't. That's why I called to confirm, what's going on please Laura, you know I care about you. If you are in danger, tell me. I will come and get you wherever you are and I will make sure you get justice for..." she said halfway as I vehemently cut in,
"What exactly is wrong with you? I am fine, Jessica fed you guys lies. Put me on loud speaker please, I am not drunk. She's just lying. I swear if she raise any false alarm to the police, she's going to be charged for it because I am perfectly fine and nothing happened to me. I am just... out, away from home. And where I am now is a good place. I would be back soon, my soulmate will drive be back home himself" I said, smiling mischievously as if they were right in front of me.
Hopefully, my words would reach them all. I wanted Jessica especially to feel the pain. She had wanted tarnishing my image but not so fast, I would make sure I turn her into a crazy woman by falsifying whatever she said against me even if they were truth. She said I was drunk, well yes I was. But it wasn't intentional, however nobody would understand me if I tell them it wasn't intentional hence I decided to falsify the claim. If she can prove it then fine, let her do that. I would be glad to see her try.
"Oh, you mean you are in Frank's... wow, that's awesome. Can you give him the phone please?" Shirley said, but just then I heard Jessica on the background telling her I am lying. And then the rest laughed. "Please stop that!" Shirley yelled at them while I frowned myself in anger thinking about what to do to hurt them just like they hurt me. "Laura, are you there?" Shirley tried to bring my attention to her but I quickly chimed in and told her to get ready for a video call, I would show her where exactly I was. At first she thought I was joking but when insisted, she eventually agreed. Thus, we had a video call together in the Walters Family grand dining room. Jessica, Suzanna and Vivian were surprised to see me in such a luxurious environment. I walked around too, to the sitting room and then asked if they now agreed with me. "Laura, now I know you are safe... seeing all those servants around bowing down for you, that's awesome" Shirley remarked.
"Thank you!" I said and then asked the rest, however they only looked at each other and then turned around leaving the scene. Bunch of hypocrites, they wanted nothing but evil to befall someone. "Hey Suzanna," I called on her, luring her back to me.
"What?" she frowned her face.
"I thought you weren't coming, didn't you shunned me away from your house when I came to talk to you on how to help free Jessica from house arrest?" I asked trying to hurt her the same way she hurt me. I would make sure Jessica and the rest know what she did.
"Yes, I did... any problem?" she smirked at me.
"Why would you do that? You even told me you have nothing to do with Jessica and that the trouble she landed you, I mean the house arrest was enough!" I said, twisting the whole thing.
"Lies!" she denied it but I was adamant. Just then Jessica approached and began confronting her. I didn't see much from the screen as Shirley quickly lowered the phone and began calming the two.
"Guys, please... what's all this about?" she said, before raising the phone to talk to me. "Laura, you are a bad girl. See what you cause!" she feigned sadness.
"Sorry Shirley, they deserve it" I defended myself.
"Uhh, see you later" she said and ended the video call. I was so glad I did what I did. They really deserved it, I should have even done worst than that. At least right now, instead of talking against me they would busy themselves trying to accuse or defend their atrocities against each other.
As satisfied as I was, I smiled and returned back to Frank's apartment. There I rested for a while before heading out to check the theatre. It was indeed a mini theatre as said by Frank. And one amazing thing was that, it didn't have a project. What was in place of projector was a very big OLED Television. How amazing!
Just as I stared at it, a young man wearing the same outfit as the servants of the house appeared from nowhere and asked if I wanted to watch movies. "Yes please, how do you start it?" I said. Just then he smiled and went to the television. He turned it on and brought the remote control to me. "Is that all?" I asked surprised. I actually expected to see him doing some settings, you know, but he only turned the television on. Hence I was surprised.
"Actually, it's a smart tv with the latest operating system. It has Wi-fi connection, and has 2TB worth of storage. The last I checked, there were about eight hundred movies from late nineties to date. You can watch anything you feel like watching, and if you can't find the right movie for you there then you can exit the multimedia application and go to the browser application to stream the movies you like. There are also MovieWorld app, we have active subscription there. You will enjoy it. We also have FilmFlix" he explained.
"Okay, thank you" I gladly uttered and then began navigating through the smart television with the remote control in my hand. I hand to first check all its contents before deciding what to watch. While I was doing that, the male servant stood still, watching what I was doing. I had actually thought he left, but seeing him there made me realized he had been there. "You can go" I turned and beamed at him, I didn't want to keep him waiting. He might have something to do by the way.
"Thank you" he said and quickly left the mini theatre.
The movie I selected to watch was one of the oldest from The Mask Man collection. It was thr 7th instalment and was among the scariest. The Mask Man was all about a man seeking for revenge for himself and for others that are weak or going through what he went through when he was a kid. Actually, his childhood was rough. His parents were so rich and he was their only child, but despite that he was lonely because his parents never had the chance to spend much time with him or go on vacation during holiday season. He was always left on the care of his nannies and later, babysitters.
Sadly, one of his babysitter's boyfriend was a g*y, he had taste for males like him even though he was still pretending not to be in order not to be dumped by his girlfriend. She was actually the one financing him and paying his bills, therefore he didn't want to break her heart. He hid his secret, away from her. And while they lived in The Grand Rollins' Mansion with his girlfriend as the babysitter of the Rollins' family, he violated the young child and continued doing that while threatening the child to never disclose the matter to anyone.
It kept happening until the child, whose name was Charles one day stabbed the impotent with a kitchen knife. It went deep that he died instantly. His babysitter was scared to see her boyfriend in the pool of his blood. She quickly summoned the police, and when the police arrived they couldn't believe a kid did that. However they found evidences, loads of them that the deceased had been violating the child without his babysitter knowing. For that reason, the babysitter was arrested and jailed.
Charles however wasn't arrested, he was just a child afterwards and had presumedly did what he did in order to end his suffering or protect himself from further pain that was being afflicted by the impotent through the immoral act. The Rollins Family in shame decided to relocate to another town, they were so heartbroken and gradually Charles learned that they only cared about their reputation and not him. He left home at 15 and started a new life in another place, not forgetting to write to his parents never to look for him and blaming them for whatever happened to him.
Few years later, his parents were killed in a car accident which legend had it that he was behind their demise. The police went on to chase him but couldn't find him. He began wearing mask and hunting down rap!sts, and people who take advantage of the innocent or weak ones. That was what the movie franchise was all about. And while eliminating the bad eggs in the community, he came in contact with different kinds of gangs that wanted him dead. Most of whom had been eliminated by him one way or another for their acts of misconducts.
It was really a nice movie. I mean, the whole franchise was dope, and after watching it I decided to leave the theatre and check the garden. Soon Frank would be back and would be taking me home. I felt like I should just stay with him, however I was scared of how his parents would react or how aunt Vicky even would react if she wakes up and find out I had relocated. She might not be angry, but what Jessica would say about the whole thing and how she would twist everything, I am sure that would make her piss one way or another. She might end up thinking I had no sympathy, at least I should wait until she gets better before relocating.
