Of gilbardo

Chapter One

"Hello Kitty, remember me?"
"Go away from my daughter."
"Why should I? I'm not yet done with what I'm in her body for."
                   
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"Who are you and what do you want?"
"My revenge.“ The girl said. “You bloody assholes thought you would get away from your messy secrets twenty years ago. I must make y'all pay for what you did to me!“

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"Please don't hurt me and my baby." She was scared.
"That's when it's the sweetest. I didn't live to ever see mine, so why should you?"
"No, please..."

                              
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       HANSFORD STREET WESTERN LOCATION

"Yes, put that over there." Ms Kendrick was saying to the dispatcher. A boy with a face cap and blue uniform. He threw her smile and a little bow before stepping away.
"Oh, Anna dear, you're home." Ms Kendrick lifted her eyes when she heard the sound from the back door. "How did it go?" She called.
"As usual." Anna called back. She rolled her eyes as she drank from the plastic bottle she got from the table. "Just the usual boring stuff. You know what, I am quitting. I'm tired."
Jolie looked at her for some while and said, "Why, it's still your first week. Why do you want to quit?"
"Three days doing dumb things. I'm done." Anna was serious. She and the few students that signed up for the forestry sciences in the forest had took long strides in the bushes learning new stories about trees and nature from the mentor Mr Maxwell, who made sure he answered all the questions thrown at him. Anna didn't care to ask. She paid little or no attention. She found it boring and risky.
"What you got there?" Anna said strolling to have a look at the pink item for babies, a hand firmly holding her hand bag.
Jolie touched the small vehicle with four wheels. "Just a baby carriage, for Danielle." She pointed with a small display of smile. "And of course, a painting by Picasso. I loved the art at the first glance. It's beautiful right?" Mrs Kendrick admired the sparse drawing of a black lady with a child.
"Did you say the baby carriage is for Aunty Danielle? Oh my," her mouth was widened. "She's pregnant?" Anna seemed to be in disbelief.
Jolie stretched and stifled a yawn. "more than four months gone already."
"Wow, and why didn't I know about it?" Anna questioned. It still sounded untrue to her. The last time she saw Danielle was two weeks ago in her house. Anna hadn't noticed any sign of pregnancy and Danielle didn't care to share. She felt left out.
"Because you did not want to know." Jolie's replied, hands on the carriage. She could remember 18 years ago when she pushed her now grown up daughter about her whole home and across the streets. Anna had been so chubby and pretty with bright rosy cheeks and dark curly hair.
"School isn't fun. I'm always occupied. Homework after homework and then what's next, tests."
"Did you have something to eat." Jolie left her going towards the fridge.
"Scrambled eggs at the eatery close to the school." Anna said and watched her take out a pan of baked bread and cup of butter.
"They sell tasty meals." Ms Ken agreed.
     
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It was almost midnight and Anna couldn't locate her classmates. She'd excused herself hours ago to free herself from the urine that almost was going to wet her pants. Anna had gone further into the trees so no one would catch a glimpse at her. Hours passed and she was wandering in the thick bushes, breaking off woods in frustration. 'where the hell they? Anna wanted to cry as she watched the clouds darken. She couldn't believe what was happening as she wiped away the tears that struggled down in her cheeks. She was fully aware that she was lost.

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"What's the problem?" Anna walked to sit close to her mother on the sofa. She'd noticed her sober look and had seen her eyes staring ahead deep with thinking. "Tell me." She added when she saw her look at her. Jolie bit her lip and turned her gaze to the fireplace that was making sure to put off the cold in the room. Its fire was burning with no form of remorse.
"It's about your Dad. I'm thinking of him. Why he had to die that way." she says with stooped shoulders. Voice had been low. Anna nodded and squeezed her arm.
"It's been 10 years already." Anna said as if to remind her.
Jolie sighed. "Ten years feels like yesterday to me." She recalled the phone call she got on the telephone about her husband ghastly car accident and how he'd been taken to the hospital. Jolie had heard the calls of siren on the background when the masculine voice uttered the address on how she would locate her husband. Jolie had shook terribly as the phone call was hung. She remembered dashing into her vehicle with her stomach knotting with pain and tears. Jolie had poured her heart out when she confirmed the man severally wounded on the face who was later covered up was her husband. He had been buried the next day. She'd consoled Anna while having to control her threatening tears which was almost coming off her lids. Danielle had been there to comfort them with the best possible soothing words she could come up with.
"Why do I have the feeling that Dad didn't love you. I felt his energy when he's around you, I don't know." Anna had seen her father on occasions when he was around Jolie. He had seemed to be afraid of the woman instead of being lovingly as a husband would be to his wife. Kendrick never got her a gift or give her some side kisses when she wasn't watching. They never cuddled. Anna saw how distant they had been for years until his sudden death which was announced the moment she arrived home from school. Danielle had been the one to tell her. Anna remembered throwing her bag and collapsing on the floor.
"No, don't say that." Jolie said surprised as she looked at her. "Your Dad loves me. He never failed to remind me, okay." Anna saw her mum look at her internally. She sighed.
"Well, maybe I was wrong." Anna knew she wasn't.
"You are, darling. I was his first love since highschool and we got married. I am the person he has ever loved. He was in love with me." Jolie said. "it's past nine. You should be sleeping. School is tomorrow." Jolie's eyes had met the wall clock at the north. "Sleep tight." she closed the topic. Anna was standing. "What about you?" she asked concernedly.
"I'm after you." she spoke distantly.