St Chaos Healer

Ch 39 - Mr. Keith

Seeing Mr. Keith eagerly waiting with the flower bouquet, my father became agitated.

"That must be Mr. Keith! He must have been waiting for quite a while under the sun. I told you we were going to be late, but you had to play dress-up, don't you."

"Excuse me!" shouted my mother, "If I hadn't helped you dress up, the patrol guard would be the first one to throw us out of the city coz of your hairstyle. On top of that, we are to enter the inner district, so the more the reason we must look our best! If you could dress up yourself, we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place."

"After spending all the hard-earned money on these lavish clothes and listening to every one of your whims to the point of ruining my beautiful hair. Now you are saying it's my fault? You even snatched all my money purse so that I can't buy the exquisite antiques from the city and I still obliged without uttering a single complaint. But now you are repaying my kindness like this-"

"Oh please! What I did was the betterment of our Almond family. Also, what's wrong with spending some money for the sake of our son successfully passing the trial and discovering his potential to become a mage. This is a one-time event and you can't be stingy. Not to mention your normal hair might even force some of the guards to mistake you to be some petty thief. I fixed your hair with more elegant beautiful silky hair giving you a brand new look. Instead of cherishing that you are complaining."

My father was shocked,

"You still belittle my hair to this day. We had an agreement back when I married you to not bring up my hair. Why not just admit your fault."

"My fault! I am doing so much for this family, but now you blame it on me-."

These two continued to bicker out in the open like your regular couple drama.

They don't even seem to notice the people around us were staring at us with weird looks.

People started gathering around us and started mumbling.

I must break this two apart or they might embarrass me even further.

"Mom, Dad! Stop! You are stalling Mr. Keith even further with this argument. Also, people are started to gather around." I reminded them.

Eventually, they snapped out of it and finally put their bickering to an end.

"Hmph." my mother angrily folded her arms.

"Let's get moving." saying so my father leads the way.

He approached the blonde guy and the two of us followed suit.

My father stepped in front of the young man and greeted him with a bow,

"Greetings, you must be Mr. Keith, right?"

The blonde guy serenely glanced at my father,

"Hmm. Yes, indeed. And you are?"

"Oh, where are my manners? I am Arthur Almond. This here's my wife, Bethenny, and our dear son, Benjamin."

"Greetings."

"Hello." Mother and I greeted simultaneously.

The blonde guy briefly glanced at the two of us.

"I see." saying so he stepped forward and presented the flowers to my mother.

"Oh my, thank you. These are quite lovely indeed." thanked my mother.

"Hey who is she?"

"Was he waiting with flowers for that woman?"

"Isn't she married, so why waste such beautiful flowers on her?"