Chapter 2- King's Cross
Okay. So I was still drunk. Or maybe I was sleeping. Cause this had got to be a dream. A weird dream where Aunt Cho was my mother.
Merlin, who the hell was I kidding?! This was no dream.
"I don't understand-" I started but cut myself off mid-sentence when I couldn't find anything to say, my body sweating up with the fear of unknown.
Aunt Cho looked at me with anticipation and then started walking towards me.I took a few steps back reflexively. My back hit a flower vase standing near the corner of the living room, which I had entered while stepping back and I could have tripped, if it wasn't for Aunt Cho who caught hold of my wrist in time. Regaining my balance, I shook her hand off me gently.
"Are you all right?" She asked, her hand now finding its way over to my cheek and gently caressing it.
Couldn't she lay off her hands for a while?
"Umm," I said as I chewed over my bottom lip nervously, my hands clasped together in front of me. "Where are my parents?"
"You're joking again?" She scowled as she pulled her hand off me. "I told you that you need to stop behaving like a kid. Didn't I? You're a grown woman now, Lily."
"Please answer me." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "I am scared."
"You're scared?" She said, crossing her arms around her chest, her eyebrows shot upwards. "I'm getting scared over here. What's the matter with you?"
"See, if this is some kind of prank then it's not funny." I said grumpily. "Oh wait, I get it now." Of course. My arrogant jackasss brother was behind this. "James! Get out, James! I know very well that it's you who's behind all this s**it."
Aunt Cho looked at me, as if she had seen a ghost. I just gave her a look of indifference in return and continued calling for my brother.
"Lily?" Aunt Cho called, her voice seemed as much annoying to me as the noise of nails screeching on the chalkboard. I just ignored her. "What's up with you today?" Her hand touched my cheek again and I shrugged her hand off me.
"Don't freaking touch me." I said, infuriated with her and all this touchy feely business. "Just tell me what the hell is going on?"
"Lily?" Suddenly a masculine voice came from behind me and I finally felt like I could breathe.
I turned around and heaved a sigh of relief when I spotted the familiar bespectacled old man with black messy hair and emerald green eyes gazing at me.
My old man.
I didn't take less than a second to bridge the gap between us. His arms came around me instantly.
"Lily?"
"Dad, I'm so sorry. I really am. I shouldn't have gone without your permission. But please don't do anything like this with me again. I was so scared." I murmured in his embrace.
Dad pulled away from me slowly, his hand adjusting the glasses that had fallen off his nose. He then gave me a skeptical look.
"What are you talking about Lily? Is everything allright?" He inquired, crinkles of worry appearing around his eyes.
Aunt Cho then came around dad and entangled her arm through his. What the fudge? Wasn't that way too friendly?
I looked at dad, expecting him to throw an objection at this kind of behaviour, but he just looked at her lovingly. And trust me, I'd thrown a fit, but it didn't seem appropriate at that moment for some reason.
