FRANCIS COMES HOME

Are you feeling the heat dear readers..cos even as i type this..I am .

LUKE

ROSA

CHAPTER 18

ROSA

“You should have initiated something on the twist before coming to the class”
Rosa’s eyes bumped together in a scowl at Luke. “I know but I thought giving her
something differently would shift her attention from that?”
Luke shook his head in a total disagreement. “Yes, you thickened the plot and she would have loved it if you had included it after putting the little love twist . that was why she wasn’t pleased. Now you have to do it again”
“I know Luke. I will chip in the love twist she so much desires. What is her problem with love anyways?”
Luke chuckled. “You should ask her.”
Rosa smiled. They were at the cafeteria, discussing the class they just had.
“So tell me about yourself.” Luke said, leaning forward while reaching for her had which was lying on the table between them. “Your family, where you stay, your best food. I wanna know everything”
She blushed as his hand touched hers. His hands were icy cold against her warm skin. He had held the cold bottle of coke in his hands for quite long.
“Well..” She started. “I am an only child. Parents been gone for a while, kicked from one foster home to the other and now I am working and sending myself to school.”
“Wow! Sorry about your folks. How long had it been and,,what do you do now?”
Just as she was about to answer, she heard someone said. “OH! See that gold digger at Frank Nicky’s house”
Rosa turned round and noticed the lady who spoke was looking at the TV. She did the same.
Debby was talking to a group of press people in the hall-room and she was looking really beautiful in the long Coco chanel flowing gown she was wearing. The jewelries on her knuckles and her wrists, flashed at the camera each time she moved.
She felt a light squeeze on her finger-she had completely forgotten Luke was there.
“I’m sorry Luke, I was really distracted by the TV ..”
“So, here comes the lost but found prince of the mansion. We hope he is not as camera shy as his father”
Rosa forgot what she was saying and directed her gaze back to the TV. The camera had shifted from Debby and she noticed some men coming out of the ca. she recognized John and he was really pissed. He came directly at the camera, which seemed to back away , there was a bit of a struggle and noise from the press people. The view shifted to a car as a man came out in a blue black suit whose  back view was only facing the camera.
‘Cover Francis Guards”  Rosa heard John shouted and guards in black suits and black sunglasses came around to form a circle around this man.. who was also holding a hand to the side of his face.
The camera shifted again, more struggle as everyone tried to see the man..
Rosa was confused. Weren’t they expecting a child? Who was this man?
This time, the camera shifted back to Debby. She was as rigid as a statue, unblinking, white as a chalk. Her eyes and her mouth were frozen wide open in an expression of stunned surprise
As the press man announced.
“Debby, I thought you said the prince of the Frannicky’s mansion is a child, you didn’t say anything about a fully grown man”
Debby stood as gormless as a guppy. Her mouth opened and shut and no sound  was heard. She shook her head in disbelief.
“Excuse me”. She whimpered to the camera and she was seen walking away from it.
The pressman came into view again. “There, you have it, I know we are all surprised to see a full grown man instead of a child as we were told. This just got even interesting. Soon, we would be having him on our program  hopefully, most of us will conclude that he is really the son of his father as we just noticed he also camera-shy.
There was a collage of two pictures on the screen where the young man was backing the camera with a hand over his face, beside it was a similar picture of Frannicky, backing the camera and placing a hand over his face.
Debby looked like she had just seen a ghost..a ghost..of some years ago..who could have come back to haunt her. Rosa knew most of Debby’s enemies, there was none that could have drained the blood from her face just like that..publicly. Except..someone who was never her enemy…and who she had never expected to see again or so soon at that place at that particular time.
Who could that be..?
Who could he be?...
Debby’s brain desperately scrambled to make the sense of it all.
The pressman came into view again, “That, dear viewers were the pictures of Francis Nicholas junior and Frank Nicholas. See you again same time tomorrow on “What’s Hot”

FRANCIS!!
Rosa whimpered.
“Are you okay Rosa?”
Rosa stared at Luke, who looked deeply worried. “I’m sorry Luke, I have to go”
She took her bag and fled out of the place. 


 HMMMMMMMM! We are finally getting there. Stay tuned readers..This is getting hotter by the chapter!