"Ma...?" Dexter stupîdly and funnily said,acting like one who has been caught stealing meat from the pot.
"What are you....or rather, what were you doing with my diary?" Annika asked, glaring seriously at him.
"The pen that was on it fell, so I picked it up to return it back to its place. That's all" He lied.
"I never knew pens could move without an action taken upon it" Annika sarcastically said.
"Well, a cockroach flew and and touched it, so it fell as a result. I was only trying to help, you should say thank you, geez!" Dexter stupîdly lied again, and he felt extra stupîd to have come up with such a lie.
"There's a school in my residence that teaches people on how to lie, you should attend it" Annika mocked, and scoffed.
"You were reading my diary, weren't you?" She asked.
"What?! That's ridiculous, how can I read something that's personal" Dexter lied. He bit his lower lips hard for lying again.
"What are you doing here?" Annika rolled eyes.
"I should be asking you where you went to, instead of being in your duty post" Dexter answered with a question.
"Sorry, CEO Disaster. I needed to eat, so I stepped out to go have lunch, only to come back and meet you reading my diary!" Annika yelled.
"I already told you that I didn't read your diary" Dexter said, feeling bashed.
Annika folded her arms, stood and was eyeing him seriously.
"If eyes could kill,I bet I will be in my grave already" Dexter said,and Annika almost bursted out laughing, but she just held it back.
"I will be in my Office" He said.
"Personal diary reader!" Annika snapped, and he rolled eyes.
He then started walking away,but....
"Disaster...." She called. Dexter paused,and turned to look at her.
"Thanks for yesterday" She said, and Dexter's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Did she....did she just say thank you to me?" He asked himself.
"You can leave now, Mr CEO, since you're speechless" Annika said, and he chuckled inwardly.
"You're just something else" He said,pocketed his hands and left.
"Jerk!" She mumbled, and faced her work.
[ WRIGHTS' RESIDENCE * EVENING ]
Anni started giving happy barks the moment she saw Annika walk into the house.
She wagged her tail, barking and circling Annika.
Annika bent low, and jacked it up. Anni then licked her face.
"Aww, I see how much you missed me. But eww, can you stop licking my face everytime I carry you?" Annika giggled as she caresses Anni's hair.
"Did you make anything for me to eat? I am super hungry" Annika asked. She dropped her bag on the chair, and walked into the kitchen with Anni.
She is that hungry that she couldn't go bath, or even change her clothes.
"I am so hungry, migosh!" She gushed, and entered the kitchen.
She went to the fridge first, took a bottle of water and drank a little from it, then returned the remaining one to the fridge.
"I hope you won't just stay and bark, silly?" She said, referring to Anni.
"Woof!" Anni barked, and she laughed.
Then, how she caught Dexter touching her diary suddenly ran through her mind.
She would have really dealt with him if not for the fact that she only saw him touching it.
Because after Dexter was done reading the part where she was talking about her and Roland, he stopped reading, closed and dropped the diary back due to that part he read.
So, what Annika actually saw, was him trying to put the pen back on the diary, exactly the way it was.
"I really can't believe that jerk was touching my diary. I hope he didn't read it like he said he didn't.
"And I hope he didn't read that part I wish he knew" She said.
She paused what she was doing, leaned back and bit her bottom lip, then she smiled at the thought of it.
But she started frowning when she realized he may not even have a clue about it.
"Jerk!" She muttered, and resumed what she was doing.
Few minutes after that, Justin walked into the kitchen, smiling.
Immediately Annika saw him, she scoffed and rolled eyes.
"I didn't know you were back from work already" He smiled.
"Good evening, dad" Annika ignored what he said, and greeted him instead.
"Good evening, love. I just got back from work too, not quite long" He said, squatting to pat Anni's back.
"Oh..." She mouthed, but never turned to look at him.
"Won't you at least change your clothes? Go have your bath while I help you make the food" Justin said.
"Thanks, dad. But no, thanks" Annika replied sharply. Justin sighed, disappointedly.
"Can you stop giving your dad the cold attitude already? Please, Annika, it's kîlling me. I miss the way we used to talk like best friends, you, your sister and I"
"Can it just go back that way?" He ssaid, lowly in a very calm voice.
"I will think about it, until then, safe journey to your room. I am cooking, and I don't want anyone disturbing me" Annika said, in a rather funny and mean way.
"Thanks. You still haven't gotten enough money for your business, have you?"
"I don't know why you don't want me to support you, Annika. I have more than what you need for your business, but you just won't forgive me"
"I did it for you, okay? I married because I didn't want you to feel too lonely. I did it for your sake, but you just keep giving me the cold attitude everytime" Justin yelped, and Annika started laughing.
"You did it for me? No, dad. You didn't do it for me, but for yourself. You did it for your own selfish reason"
"Did you even consider my feelings, did you consider how mom and my sister will feel where ever they might be?"
"For crying out loud, you married mom's friend, few months after she died. It would have been better if you married someone else, and not her. Do you have any idea what that means?"
"You think mom would have done the stupîd thing you did if it were the other way round?" She smiled, sadly.
"Dad, all you cared about was yourself, you never considered me! And now you want Annika to be smiling and laughing with you? Clap and praise you for doing something so absurd!" She shouted, and began crying instantly. Justin suddenly started shedding tears too, unknowingly.
Meanwhile, Gloria has been there all the while, listening, rolling eyes and scoffing.
When Annika noticed her presence, she smirked, wiped her tears, but smiled sadly. She then held her dad's hands and looked him in the face.
"Keep your money, use it to buy creams, good soups and perfumes for your dear wife, because she stinks like a skunk. A skunk even stinks better than you"
"I don't even know if your nose is still functioning well that you cannot perceive her stupîd body odour!" Annika said with a grimace, smirked at Gloria, and let go of her dad's hand.
"What!? Did you say that to me!?" Gloria thundered loudly, and ragingly. She raised her hand to hit Annika, but Justin grabbed it.
Annika derisively chuckled, and moved close to her.
"I would not hesitate to send you to the morgue where you belong, right this instant if that filthy and stinky hand had touched me"
"Ask my dad, I run mad sometimes, and I bite like a dog. So, stay far away from me if you want to live long and enjoy your stupîd marriage"
"This isn't the same Annika that was always nice to you" She glared at her, dangerously.
She carried her food, then signaled Anni to follow her, and Anni did just that.
"Out of my way, skunk! Gold digger!" She said, and pushed Gloria out of the way, walking up the stairs with Anni.
Neither Justin nor Gloria could say anything,they just stood, staring at her till she completely went of of sight.