The Guardian (OlderVersion)

10th Chapter ~

“I’m home!” I announced as I entered my house through the front door, yet no one answered me. I put my bag on the floor and proceeded to enter the living room right after I checked the kitchen, after a couple of seconds the ground floor of my house was all checked and no one was in sight. I returned to the lobby and put the keys on the table where rested the phone whilst I recalled that the door had been locked with the keys which led to the conclusion that my mum wasn’t really at home.

I heard the engine of a car approaching as it stopped right in front of my door; because I lived in a villa on a really quiet place, it was easy for me to know whenever a car passed by, so I opened the door and saw my mum getting out of a 45 black Rover whilst waving goodbye. I noticed the one driving the car was a man with dark brown hair but more than that was impossible for me to see. I entered the house once again and turned towards the door as my mother entered the house, closing the door behind her, and once she was inside, she rushed to me and gave me a hug so tight that I couldn’t breathe.

“Mum, you’re squishing me!”

“Oh! Sorry. Hahahaha.” She apologized laughing. “Welcome home dear! So, how was the school trip? Did you have fun?”

“Yes.” I answered.

“I’m sure you had.” she said just like she had not listen to me.

“Who was that man?” I asked bluntly.

“My co-worker.”

“But today is Sunday!”

“He asked me out for a coffee.”

“He’s flirting with you!” I exclaimed.

“Hehe. You think?” she asked with a sly expression. “I guess I’m still pretty attractive for a thirty-eight year old woman!” she exclaimed as she attempted to do a sexy pose, putting her right arm behind her head, bending her right knee while passing all her weight to her left foot and sticking out her tongue, making it fail miserably.

My mum had long, dark, curly hair, almost black, big green eyes and long eyelashes, she was really tall and in the eyes of every stranger she was certainly a model working for a big company, the true is my mother had been scouted a lot of times on the street but she always said she was not interested, which made the ones who scouted her really sad for she had, for sure, a brilliant future in that business branch, indeed, my mother was a very beautiful lady.

On the other side, instead of inheriting the beauty of my mother, I had inheriting everything from my father, dark brown hair, light brown eyes just the usual and the most common combination of the human race. Besides that, some way or another, even though both my parents were tall, I wasn’t that tall at all, and that was the only thing that quite annoyed me.

“A thirty-eight year old woman with a mentality of a teenager.” I pointed out resuming the conversation.

“Now now! You shouldn’t speak like that towards your mother!” she warned me with a smile.

“Even though it’s true?” I asked slightly amused.

“Even though it’s true!” she repeated as an answer.

I smiled faintly and went upstairs to my room whilst carrying my bag; I was so tired that I threw my bag onto the floor and laid down on my bed as I closed my eyes for a moment and recalled everything that had happened during the school trip. Scenes of the fight between Heart and that demon came across my mind in a flash until everything slowed down once I recalled the white light that pushed the demon away, the white light that my own body had emitted and that I had no knowledge about. It had been my first fight and I had left it completely worn out.