Chapter 66 - I Can Not Say Now

"Samie..... Samie, open the door. I am the head of the village. I know the kid from that vacation home is at your home right now. Open the door quickly. We want that kid. How dare he enter our village? I have to teach him a lesson. Open the door."As the little girl wanted to speak something, they heard some people at the door.

"Oh, God! That devil has come here. You must leave this place as soon as possible. He can kill anyone without batting an eye. Let me think of a way..... Yes. You leave the house through the back door. I will try to keep them at the front door." The little girl said and pulled James Thomson towards an adjacent small room.

"B....but, how can I leave you here like that? What if that man tries to harm you?"James Thomson said worriedly. He did not want to leave the little girl alone there. 

"Don't worry . They will not harm me. You just leave. They don't know about this door, as we usually use the front door."The little girl said and opened the door for him.

"When will we meet again?"James Thomson asked in a worried tone.

"I can not say now. But I will surely meet you someday. Please wait for me. I will come to you. Now leave. I have to open the door for them, otherwise, they will harm my aunt."The little girl said and about to shut the door, but James Thomson stopped her.

The girl looked at him questioningly.

"Here take it. It is a gift from me to my first friend ever I made. I have nothing else to give you. Please keep it with you."James Thomson pulled out a key chain from his pocket and kept it on her hand.

The little girl looked at the keychain with astonishment. It was a beautiful keychain on which the letter 'J' was imprinted.

"It's beautiful. Thank you for the gift. I'll keep this as a souvenir of our meeting."The little girl uttered.

"Hey are not you opening the door? Fine then. We are going to break it."They heard someone yelled. The people at the door might be hitting the door with something as it was making a crack sound. They know that it will break any time soon.

"I.....I have to go now. Please leave."The little girl said in a frightened tone and pushed him out of the door and closed it behind.

James Thomson fell to the ground. He heard the little girl arguing with the people at the door. He looked at the house worriedly.

"No, I can not leave her like this."He mumbled and got up. As he forwarded towards the house, an old woman stopped him.

"What do you think you are doing right now?"The old woman asked him with an angry voice.

"Th...that house. Sh....she is alone there."James Thomson said in a worried tone.

"You just leave. You have already hurt her. Now leave this place as soon as possible."

"But...."He wanted to protest her, but she stopped him.

"You need not worry. I will protect her. You just leave. And never return to this village again. You have to forget everything."The old woman said in a serious tone.

"O...ok."He said and left the place with a heavy heart.

That night, he could not sleep for the whole night. Whenever he tried to sleep, that little girl's face appeared in front of his eyes.

"I am really worried for her. Is she well? I have to go there again. I just can not leave her like that."He murmured.

The next morning Derrick Addison came running to his room and informed him that his grandfather is calling him immediately. His heart skipped a beat to hear his cousin.

"Has someone already informed him about the incident! If it is, then he will not let me go easily."He mumbled and knocked at the door of his grandfather.

"Come in."He heard his grandfather's deep voice.

He entered the room and looked at his grandfather, who was looking outside through the window.

"Grandpa, did you call me?"He asked in a low voice.

"James, I never thought that you will do something like that." Mr. Gerard Thomson said in a deep voice.

"Wh...what do you mean?"

"Don't you know what I mean? What did you think? Did you think that you can do anything you want here? How can you do something like that? You are an heir of the Thomson Clan. How can you do something irresponsible like that? Did not I tell you not to keep a foot on that village?Why did you go there?How can you bring shame on us? I did permit you all to come here as you all like mountains and forests.But how can you go to the village where some lowly people live?"The man growled.

"Grandpa, how can you tell them, lowly people. They might not have as much money as you have, but they are also human beings."

"Oh!Great!Now I have to learn about human beings from a teenager. What do you think you are?.....No it is not your fault. It is your mother, who could not teach you manner. Now go and pack your things. We are leaving this place right now."Gerard Thomson growled again.

James Thomson shocked to hear his grandfather. How can he leave this place like that!

"Please grandpa, I will never go to that village. But please don't leave now. Our vacation is not over yet.Please."He requested his grandfather.

"Just go and pack your things."He said indifferently.

"Please Grandpa. I...I can not leave her here alone. She is already in problems due to me. Please grandpa.don't go."James Thomson kneeled on the floor and said.

"Are you speaking about the daughter of that lowly people? Are you mocking me? How can you even ask me that? I don't want to hear this nonsense more. Catherine, take away your unfilial son in front of me." Mr. Gerard Thomson yelled. Catherine Thomson was waiting outside of the room as she saw her son was summoned to her father- in - law's room. She could understand that James Thomson must have done something, which he should not have done.

"James Let go. Don't make your Grandpa angrier."She pulled James Thomson from the room.

"Catherine, inform everyone that we are leaving within one hour."Geread Thomson said loudly from the room.

"Yes, father. I will."She replied. James Thomson was total surprised to hear his mother. He thought that his mother would oppose going back home for his sake.

"Mom,I.....I don't want to go back home .I want to stay here for some days more. Please mom, please speak with Grandpa. He will listen to you."He said in a cry- like voice to his mother.

"No, James.I can not do this.As your grandpa has already decided to return back home, we must leave. Don't make thongs harder for us all."She said and pulled her inside her room and shut the door behind.

"No mom. I can not go back like this. I can not leave her behind like this. Please, mom."James Thomson said her mother, but her mother did not look at him. She started packing her things.

"Mom, are you listening to me? Please listen to me, mom.Ok.I....I will go with you, but ....but ,I .....I want to meet her one last time. Please let me go there....Mom, are you listening to me or not? Please mom don't do this to me."James Thomson cried, but Catharine Thomson did not give him a single glance.

"Ok. I have done. Now let us go to your room. I will help you to pack with your things."His mother said and opened the door and pulled him with her.

"Mom, are you listening to me? Please help me, mom."He said again.

"James, you know that I am very busy right now. I can not waste my time with such nonsense. Now sit here still and don't utter a word. I am packing your things."She said and opened the wardrobe in the room.

James Thomson could not stop his tears. He knew that only his mother could help him in this matter. But his mother was acting just like his grandfather. He knew that once he leaves this place, he would never be able to meet that girl.

"I hate you, mom. I really hate you. I thought you are kind- hearted. But I was wrong.I will never forgive you this. I will never. forgive you."James Thomson cried and said loudly. 

The Thomson family left that vacation house that day and they never returned there, until James  Thomson reached the college. He went there alone to search for the little girl but found nothing there. The villagers deny about the existence of such a girl in the village.