Immaculate

Dolls

Ok, I'm probably taking artistic license with the house buying. I don't know how it works in SC but over here, it takes months to buy a house. There's offers that go in, surveys to be done, paperwork that takes forever to be signed and passed over. My sister in law has just bought a house and is moving in the new year. She started to buy it in October, that's how long it's taken and their offer was accepted first time. I'm going with Mr B offering full asking price and not using solicitors. Cash payment and not having any surveys done. So that it won't be long before he owns the house.

Volto won't know because I'm having Mr B move fast. They won't even have time to put the "For Sale" sign up. And I don't think Volto would guess that he was selling. He obviously knows he's not there, but he doesn't know why he's come back, except to see them... that's if he's watching her at all. ;)

Hope you like this one.

Part Seventy-Nine

Sang's POV

By the time we had put all the shopping away I was exhausted and he didn't look much better either. He made us coffee and I sat at the kitchen table watching him.

"Has your principal given you any more grief over that kid, Barker?"

"Bennett," I murmured. He placed a mug of coffee in front of me and then sat down opposite me with his. He pushed a hand through his hair, his eyes on me.

"No, Tim got caught out blackmailing people and he was kicked out," I said quietly, wrapping my hands around my mug.

"Where are those kids you usually hang around, the boys?"

"I don't know," I blew on my coffee to give myself some time.

"They were pretty into you, Sang, what happened?"

I realised that my misery must have shown on my face. I shrugged and sipped at my mug, grateful for the burn down my throat. I centred on the pain to hold myself together.

"I was hoping they'd still be around until you moved, but never mind," he said. "You'll be in a different catchment area, a better school. You'll do better in a good school, Sang. Work hard, make something of yourself."

I stayed quiet, I didn't know what to say to that so I changed the subject.

"What do you have to do to the house?"

"Not much," he said looking around the kitchen. "You've kept it up. I thought perhaps, with your sister, you'd have made more of a mess."

"Are you going to tell her?"

"She's not here, if she comes back before I leave, I will tell her. Otherwise you can tell her."

"No," I shook my head. I was not going to do that for him. "You have to tell her. She's at Danielle's down the road, you can go there or I'll get her to come back. But I'm not telling her." I tried to speak firmly, but towards the end my voice wavered slightly.

He sighed heavily and nodded.

"Alright, finish your coffee and go and get her."

"I'll go now, it's too hot still," I said and getting up I left the house before he could stop me. I walked past Kota's house. I wanted to stop and look up, to see if he was there, to see if he was watching me, but I couldn't. I sped up past Nathan's and ran the rest of the way to Danielle's.

I rang the bell and Derrick answered the door. He gave me a wide grin.

"Hey, Sang, you want to come in?"

"I can't stop," I told him. "Thanks, though. Could you tell Marie that dad is home and he needs to speak to her urgently, please?"

"Dad? He's here?" I saw Marie step up behind Derrick with Danielle at her back.