Rebel's Solitude (Paused)

#9 Discipline

Outside was hot so Luna settled with lounging inside on her mother's living room couch watching 'Ridley Jones' on Netflix. It was her Uncle Costantine's account since he wasn't using much of it and still be paying but so was the internet around the house.

She ditches her three year old android phone her mother gifted her from an early age but it was extremely over used and had a few cracks around the edges. She was recently gifted an iPod and iPhone max from her father as well as other pretty devices. Her favourite was the MacBook Pro that she had her sketch pad on and to use the pens to help her draw.

All devices were on when her mother walked in limping a bit. Her eyes scanned every item then it widened at the luggages that keep coming in at her opened front door. Taking another step, below her feet was Luna's android phone and a frown came upon her face. "Luna, who bought you these?"

"Daddy." Was her answer but her tone came out boastful.

"Luna. Who yuh using that tone with?"

Her daughter's expression changes to worry of a beating and waited with her eyes tightly closed.

"Mih not going to slap yuh but please pack up everything in the boxes yuh tek them from. Keep the Mac book and headphones, put everything else on the dining table after yuh turn off the TV. Yuh think theses bill cheap, this isn't Jamaica and yuh need to remember where yuh coming from. Use one at a time and never let mih see yuh running everything at once, mih might just send dem back." Xani warns and walk over to the house phone to call Selim.

She didn't care of he was at work at this time but him delivering more things like these over, she won't have a place to put her foot next or have her ears to hear anything.

When the call went through, it was a woman's voice that came to her ear so she calm down a bit. "Hello Good afternoon. This is Selim Malinowski's assistant, Marique. How can I be of assistance?"

"Good afternoon, My name is Lavanya Lorenzo..."

"My apologies Miss Lorenzo. Would you like to be transferred to Mister Malinowski's personal phone?" She asks sweetly.

"Yes please." She waited a minute then she heard Selim's voice.

"Xani..."

"Why yuh sending suh much things to mih house? Yuh know seh Luna's just five years old and what she's going to do with all theses when school starts? Mih sending most of them back and keep it or sell them but don't do that again. Mih raise her to be a normal child as best as mih could, not a lazy one who's on the path to be a spoil brat. I walked in and see all the new devices on then almost drop on mih face if mih did step too hard on har old phone that she put or throw on the floor. What more yuh have Jay delivering to mih house?"

"Um... Look Xani. It's the least I can do." He sighs and she sigh also.

"Sorry but mih don't have much space for everything. Me know yuh doing what yuh can but we can't be on two different levels, we have to be strict with certain thing. Think about her teen years in the future, let's use that time to bribe her when we want har fih do something and mek she work for it. Yuh understand because me nah try stop what yuh doing fih har, mih appreciate all that yuh doing an another thing, why she telling me you said that she won't have to spend mummy's money again since your money is hers. Me and you need to sit to have another conversation about this because it won't resolve over the phone. Mih will call yuh when mih available. Goodbye."

"Later." She hung up on that word and sigh loudly.

She turned and standing there is Jay and Serra sniffing their laughers. "Lord have mercy on me."

"You let him have it." Serra laughs, nudging Jay.

"It's how she hung up on him. You're lucky he doesn't know where you live. Oh... Constantine told me you got a little date on Friday."