"Ah! Right!" Hallelujah snaps her fingers together.
"I forgot you just found out also." She beams.
Easton palms fisted tightly. He's tempted to hit her right now, but the blame would be on him if he were to hit a girl like her in public.
"But it must be hard on your Eloise...for a girl like you it must have been painful and torturing right?" She jibbed.
That's it, now Eloise was at her peak. She couldn't take it in anymore.
"How dare you f**king witch!!" Eloise raised her hand up to slap her but...
"AHH!!" She ended up screaming out loud in pain when Hallelujah grab her hand midway and clamp her teeth on it.
"ARGGHH!! AGGHHH! GET OFF ME B**TCH!!" She yelled pulling her hair roughly but her teeth gnaw on her hand persistently.
"SOMEONE GET THIS DOG OFF ME!!" Eloise continued yelling in immense pain and finally satisfied, Hallelujah released her breathing hard. Eloise fell on her butt wailing non stop at her bitten hand.
Hallelujah wiped her mouth and smiles.
"Go to the hospital and report to me. My Mother will take care of the bills" She humf and flaunt her hair then turns to leave but only to see the principal on his way to them.
"Holy f**k!" She cussed beneath her breath twitching her face.
"Hallelujah I caught you! Don't think of running away this time around" The principal rushed over to her side pointing a baton at her. Hallelujah raised her head up and gave the approaching principal a sly smile.
"System down. Hallelujah going on standby" Were the words that came from her mouth before her head went down with her eyes closing just as if a robot just shut down.
"HEYYYYYYY!!!" The principal yelled out loud.
~NINE YEARS AGO~ COOPER'S RESIDENCE~
"Oh, Yeah! I Gorrrit! I gorrit!!" Milo's eyes focused intently on the TV with his fingers controlling the PS madly. The door opens and he could hear some movements behind him.
"Hey Dad ya late" He said without looking back still concentrating on the game. He need no soothsayer to tell him that was his Dad who just came in since they're the only ones living in the big mansion. When he didn't heard a response, he had to look back but was rather shocked to see his Dad carrying a little girl in his arms. His arms was dripping with blood seems like he got wounded. Mr Harris head upstairs without giving his son, Milo a look or uttering a word to him.
"What happened now?" Milo muttered facing his game back. But not paying attention to it for a little while made him lose the game.
"Sh*t!" He dropped the PS his eyes traveling up to the stairs. Then he sighs loudly.
GUEST ROOM.
Mr Harris dropped the little girl on the bed and stare at her.
"Who is she? An estrange sister of mine?" Milo's voice made him look back and he saw his son standing by the door post with a first aid box in his hand. Mr Harris looked back at the girl and Milo walked fully inside the room.
"Here" He extend a cotton to him. Mr Harris collected it and started treating the wound on the girl's head. He says nothing still. That's the case for Mr Harris. He's a man of a few words but his son is the exact opposite to him. Loquacious and never gets tired of talking.
"She looks pretty young. Probably ten or nine...where did you find her?" He asked again not to get a response. Not like he expected one anyway.
"Poor girl..." He pouted staring at her. Milo is seventeen and is in his last year in high school but he acts like a total child. He wasn't pampered or spoilt, it is just his nature. He always smiles no matter the situation and always carries positive vibes around making him loved by everyone. Sometimes Mr Harris wondered if he's truly his son because he's nothing like him.
"You should get treated too. That looks pretty bad" Milo refer to the gunshot wound on his shoulder. He isn't surprised by it or anything. This isn't the first time his father would come home injured. Given the nature of his job, he shouldn't be coming home with this kinds of wounds but guess his, is different after all.
"She's your wife" Mr Harris finally spoke catching him off guard.
"Uh?"
"Your wife" He repeated laconically while Milo just stood stunned.
"Bandage" He requested snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Ohh...here Dad" He quickly gave it to him. He wasn't really expecting a full explanations to what his father just told him cause he knows if it's necessary he wouldn't have used just the two words 'Your wife' the second time he talked. After wrapping the bandage around the girl's head, he covers her properly with the duvet then turns to Milo.
"Don't just stay up playing games, solve some puzzles and sleep early" He said to him as he occasionally says then took the first aid box on the table and walked out of the room. Milo just stood stagnant watching the girl throughout. His lips parted and he uttered.
"So...you're my wife"
NINE YEARS LATER̾~ PRESENT~ HAMILTON'S MANSION~
Hallelujah kept her head down fiddling with her fingers at the same time. After her little drama in the school earlier, her parents were called on together with Easton's and Eloise's.
After several argument, pleading and all, the families settled all differences but throughout the whole thing, Hallelujah never uttered a word so as her eyelids never opened once. She totally blacked out.
"Are you proud of yourself?" Mrs Hamilton asked clearly angered.
"Ma_" She tried to talk but Mrs Hamilton raised a finger shutting her up. She suck in her lower lip.
"Hallie dear I thought we talked about this. We made a promise remember? You promised to stay out of trouble" Mr Hamilton said from the sofa he was seated.
"Of course I do Pa. But the situation was_ "
"Was what? Is this how we taught you? Hallelujah you're begotten from the lord how could you do such a shameless and disgraceful thing! You...you never cease to get yourself into trouble don't you?" Her mother flared.
"Ma_"
"You have no intention to change even if we shout from today till the lord returns right! You're gonna continue being so delinquent and immoral!!" Mrs Hamilton blurted out.