42 Rehearsal (2)

BACK AT RICHARD's POV

Sitting in a bright room is an elderly woman,who seems to be lost in her thoughts and this elderly looking woman is non other than Richard grandma. It has been over two weeks since her grandson suddenly disappeared from home and today she got a call from her grandson school asking of his well-being and why he had not been at school for a long time and they also called to remind her of her grandson exam,she just had to make some excuse,to end the conversation. While thinking of her grandson,she stood up from the bed and went to the window in her room,gazing outside,she saw a colourful garden but looking at the colourful garden,she felt nothing because it felt as if she was only seeing black and white,the only person that brought colour to life was Richard and now he is gone living her alone, although she was told that he is okay but she still want to see him,while she was gazing at the garden she started remembering the time she spent with her grandson, especially a Saturday like this, this was the time when Richard and her would bring out all their clothes to wash,there was no washing machine so the only thing they could do was wash with their hands, while washing their clothes,Richard would sneakily pour some soap water on her,which would make her angry which would lead to her beating Richard up and the boy would just keep begging for mercy,while the elderly woman was thinking of the happy moments she had with her son,there was a smile on her face but this was cut short by a maid telling her breakfast was ready which snapped her out of her thoughts,she then followed the maid and went to eat.

BACK AT FLOURISH PlACE

Richard POV

I rushed upstairs and started packing all my dirty clothes into the laundry basket,after packing the clothes,I went downstairs,there o found flourish waiting for me with her own lundry basket, when I got beside her,I asked how the washing of clothe was done,she then told me that they used to wash it sometimes with a washing machine but they mostly use their hands, hearing this I decided to ask if we were going to use the washing machine or our hands,she then replied by telling me that we should use our hands,since there is time and there are somethings one can't use washing machine for, when she finished explaining somethings to me,she then took me to where they keep their basin for watching clothe, when we got there,we both took our respective basin and buckets and a little bit bowl that one could use to take water, and a pair of a soap, when everything was ready,we went to a place in the compound of the house,there we saw a tap, opening the tap,we both fetched the amount of water we needed and sat opposite the tap, when we were about to wash, we decided to back each other while washing because there might be some private things we might want to wash and it would not good if we saw each other private stuff the n we started washing,as we were washing,I suddenly remembered my grandma,I remembered that a day like this was when I and my grandma would take out our clothe to wash and during the process I would always look for her trouble by splashing soap water on her which always lead to me getting beaten by my grandma,while I was remembering the past I didn't know when a tear escaped from my eyes at the same time, flourish was already at my front staring at me,it was when she asked me what was wrong that I snapped out of my thought and noticed a tear on my face,I immediately wiped it off to face flourish.

FLOURISH POV

I was washing my clothes when I noticed I didn't ear the sound of water from Richard side,I looked at the back and noticed that Richard was only holding a clothe in his hand and seemed lost in his thought,I decided to check on him to know what was wrong with him, when I got in front of him,I saw him smiling bitterly as if he was remembering a happy moments and at the same time he was sad because of that memory, as I was about to call out his name,I saw a tear coming out of his eyes, seeing what was happening,I was shocked because Richard was not the type to cry,he was the jerk that always make me angry,how could this same jerk cry, when I could not take the way he was looking lost again,I called out to him and asked him what was going on, immediately he heard my voice,he raised his head to my direction and immediately wiped the tear on his face,I then asked him why he was crying he then told me that it was none of my business and started washing his clothes leaving me to stand there looking like a fool, with anger I went to my position and continued washing my clothes,we both washed our clothe in silent, when we were done we returned the basin and bucket we used back to where it belonged. By the time we were done,it was already eleven in the morning,we went straight to our room to take our bath,after taking our bath we went straight to the dining room where we ate in silence,I noticed Richard looking at the direction where my dad was, knowing that he was curious about my dad where about,I then told him that my dad went to visit a friend of his, which he nodded in understanding,we continued eating,few minutes later we were both done with our food,so we decided to go to the sitting room to watch a movie.

I checked the time in the large clock in the sitting room and noticed that it was 4.00pm,I immediately told Richard that I had to prepare for rehearsal since it was 5.00pm it was going to start, Richard then told me he would follow me,I agreed and rushed to my room.