leonardwarren Chapter 445 A Pure Heart
Chapter 445 A Pure Heart
It was probably late into the day, around the time when the sun would set in an hour or so, and I was roaming around town.
Both my mother and Camila decided to visit a flower viewing ceremony nearby for a girls day out, so I had no choice but to get out of the house to pass the time until they came back.
Paradis, that is, the town that I was staying in this world, was just like every old rural town that used to be a village. The commercial district, where all the business and entertainment stores were located inside of the town, while the residential district was set aside by the agricultural fields on the outside.
This was what the town people actually preferred, as they got to live in peace without the hustle and bustle of the busy town waking them up. Of course the commercial district that had all the same facilities as a modern-day town was in walking distance from the residential area where most of the town folk lived, so I can't really say that they were really separated and were actually conveniently close.
I tried spending the time I had today by doing something at home like reading a book or watching a movie, like every other kid would do on their summer vacation. But it seems like I had become so used to family life from always having some sort of company around me, whether it was my mother or my next-door neighbour, that I couldn't help but feel restless with no one at home.
That was why I decided to take a breather and go for a walk until both of them came back from their little outing.
I actually did try to call out Bella and ask if she wanted to go out on a walk with me. But when I checked her house, I found that it was locked.
While I was walking through town and thinking about where Bella went since she usually stayed at home all day and holed up in her room, watching TV shows and feasting on treats her mother regularly brought her, living the ideal lazy holiday life, I suddenly heard Bella's chirpy voice.
I thought that I was hearing things at first, since Bella barely left her house since all her friends in this place were still out of town, so there was really no need for her to go out. But to my shock, I really did find Bella standing in front of me.
Raven black hair that ran all the way to her waist, pretty blue eyes that sparkled like diamond dust, and finally a face that could be said to be an exact copy of her gorgeous mother's with a hint of innocence in between her eyebrows.
The beautiful girl I saw who was standing near a bus stop was most definitely Bella.
I thought that Bella had thrown another fit with her mother and decided to go back to her university like she always threatened to do in the past, which Camila informed me of.
"Oh, you don't have to explain anything to me, young man~" The granny who had a little bag by her side, giggled and waved her hands with a gentle look in her eyes. "Although I admit that I was surprised at first when I saw such a young lad come forth in the place of this little girl's father, it only makes sense that such a charming and disciplined man like you would give birth to a sweet girl like your daughter, who was trying her very best to help me out."
Bella had an embarrassed look on her face when she heard others referring to me as her father. She also bowed her head down in shame, since she couldn't bear to meet the honest gaze of the granny she was tricking.
"Oh, so my daughter was helping you out, ma'am?" I asked as I leaned forward, so that the old lady before me, who looked like she was from out of town, could hear me better. I then chuckled and continued saying, "I thought for sure that she was troubling you on the side of the road and was coming over to scold her for disturbing others."
"Far from it, young man!" The granny said like she would start fighting with me even if I uttered a single harsh word to Bella. She then looked at Bella with a tender gaze like she were her own granddaughter and slowly said, "Not only did your daughter come forward to help me out when she saw that I didn't know which way I had to go to reach my friend's house."
"She even stayed by my side when she realised that she also didn't know about the destination I was trying to reach and went out of her way to ask everyone who passed by if they knew of the place I wanted to go."
"...So rather than scolding your daughter for misbehaving, I think you should be praising her for being such a good girl who wouldn't let go of an old lady like me no matter how much I insisted that she didn't need to stay with me, since that would be the same as wasting her precious time and was persistent on helping me find my way home."
The old granny praised Bella with all her heart and looked like she was even willing to sign a part of her inheritance to Bella because of how much she adored her.
Bella's face turned even more red when she heard the sincere praise, and she couldn't help but hide behind me to save herself from the embarrassment, when she usually liked to boast about every deed she did.
I smiled at this sight, as it was just like I had predicted on the day I had met Bella.
Even though she acted like a spoilt princess in front of her mother and treated her badly in the past because of her father's horrible influence on her.
She still treated everyone else with respect and kindness out of the goodness of her heart. She was genuinely a good person at the end of the day, which was confirmed with the way she went out of her way to help someone unrelated today when she could've just walked past by the old lady like everyone else would've done.
When Bella saw me looking at her with a teasing smile on my face when she peaked out from behind me, her eyebrows trembled in a fluster, and she quickly burrowed back behind me with a steamy look on her face, unable to handle the awkwardness and embarrassment of someone close to her seeing a side of her that she never usually showed...