The Bad Boy Has A Daughter episode 11 – 12

The Bad Boy Has A Daughter

By Chimdi Jane Samuel
Chapter Eleven

*Anna’s point of view*

Me and Noah walked to school I’m silence, it was a cool silence, not the one with malice hanging in the air. And for a moment everything felt good. And I was happy.

Just two days ago, I was only concerned about getting my project done. Now I was with someone who I thought was a racer but he works at a bar, at least that’s what he told me.
When I saw the name on his library card, Noah Bricks, I remembered I heard some people say he’s a racer but when I asked him yesterday he told me he worked at a bar.
He couldn’t be lying would he?
I looked up at Noah who walked steadily beside me, his eyes glued to the floor.
No, this guy beside me was honest, if not he’ll never have told me the truth about his daughter.

He wasn’t lying. Maybe the fact that I heard he was a racer was just rumors, stupid rumors, spoiling people’s name around.
The past few days I’ve known Noah, he’s been nice, and gentle towards me and Casey. He was really taking a big step by keeping Casey, most guys his age would have sent her back and denied ever having her.
But Noah, just took responsibility, at just one glance at her. He didn’t need any DNA test to confirm if she was his. And that was something to be recommend for.
“What’s wrong?” I turned to him again, he looked up from the floor, staring at me with those green eyes, just like his daughter’s
“Just worried that’s all. I know Andrea already settled Casey’s schooling by transferring her here close to me. But there are other things I still need to settle, I don’t know what I’m doing, I thought this was just going to be easy. But it’s not. There’s a lot of responsibilities I’m not complaining but I really don’t know what to do”
I listened to Noah rant. He sighed, stared at the sky and continued. “I used to think I had it all, just me and me alone, but now I look at my apartment and notice how empty it is. I only have a bed, couch, stove, table and nothing else. I have no TV, no groceries, no fridge, nothing. Nothing at all. I need to change the look of my apartment to fit in with Casey, I have a daughter now. There’s a lot I need to buy but I don’t know where to start from, things are just moving so fast”
I didn’t know what to say to that so I took Noah’s hand, lacing it with mine. His hand was so strong and his fingers were a little rough but I didn’t mind, and squeezed it.
“I’m here, Noah. I’m going to help you get through all these”
“But I have nothing to offer Casey, I have nothing” He said, still looking gloomy.
“You have you, and thats enough for her”
After a few more seconds, since Casey’s school wasn’t far from ours we got into the school building
“I’m going to find Clary” I told Noah before running off to the hallways, looking for my best friend, she was going to kill me because I missed her call yesterday.

Seeing her standing beside her locker, I ran to her and closed her eyes.
“F-ck off Anna, I’m pissed”
Wow.
“Hey, sorry I didn’t pick your call” I muttered, facing her.
“Yea, what Happened Anna, what’s wrong with you? Ever since you started talking with this Noah you’ve changed, you didn’t even go to the clinic to help your aunt yesterday. She called me when you also ignored her call” Clary shouted, slamming some books into her locker, anger surfaced her features.
I couldn’t tell her about Noah, she’ll fry my skin. And she’ll probably tell my aunt just to keep me safe and blah blah. And my aunt would surely disagree and force me to stay with her in gbe clinic which I didn’t want. Noah and Casey needed me now, I couldn’t Abandon them.
“I…I..” I stammered, looking for a lie.
“She took me to the hospital yesterday, to check out my head” Someone said beside me and I turned to see Noah, staring at Clary with a smirk on his face.
But Clary was pissed, she glared at Noah. “I don’t remember talking to you, jerk”
“Clary! Stop!”
“Why didn’t you go to your aunt’s clinic then? It would have been easier wouldn’t it?” She turned to me, daring me to lie.
“A clinic is different from a hospital, I insisted on going to a hospital” Noah answered again, and I turned to him.

He didn’t even spare me a glance as him and Clary seemed to be having a glaring contest
“Clary stop, I just wanted to help Noah, really” I pleaded with her.
“I hope you know what you’re getting into helping someone like him. It’s going to come back and bite you in the ass” She slammed the locker and walked away.
“Don’t worry about her” Noah spoke, but I didn’t turn to look at him, I watched Clary walk away.
“She’s my best friend, how can I not worry?”
“I’m really sorry about that, but you cannot tell her about Casey, it’s too dangerous for anyone else to know” Noah looked worried for a moment, before masking his face.
“Why?” I wanted to tell Clary if it was the only way she’ll talk to me. “She’s my best friend I need to tell her the truth”
“It’s not your story to tell Anna, I can’t have anyone else knowing, we have to be careful before the information reaches someone dangerous”
Someone dangerous?
“Is there something I should know about?” I asked suspiciously.
“No, but let’s play safe, Anna, this should only be between is, I beg you” Noah pleaded before walking away towards his next class.

What was that about? Why was Noah being so secretive about Casey? Was he hiding something? Of course not, because he’d have told me if he was. Right?
I shrugged before going to class.
School passed by very slowly, I only saw Clary again during lunch and she didn’t even turn to my direction. So I walked up to her after school.
“Hey” I touched her arm, she didn’t turn, just continued walking towards her car.
“If you’re not going to tell me where you were last night, don’t talk to me”
I sighed, moving to stand on front of Clary and turning her eyes to meet mine.
I wanted to tell her, I mean what harm could my best friend possibly do? I trusted her with my life and we’ve been friends for as long as I can remember, so I could trust her with Noah’s secret right.
“Noah has a daughter, Casey, I was with him yesterday”

Chapter Twelve.
*Noah’s point of view*

“I’m here you pick Casey” I told the teacher standing in front of the gate.
“And who are you?” She added, eying me before sparing Anna a glance. “Only relatives are allowed to pick my pupils”
I tried controlling my temper, so u took a deep breath and spoke. “I’m her…” I wanted to say father, but the words didn’t come out. I was scared telling people.

“Daddy!!” A voice called out, and o saw Casey running towards me. The teacher gasped as she turned to Casey giving her a curious look.
“Daddy, see!” Casey jumped on me giving me a hug before I balanced her on my left arm. She shoved a blue pencil, with spidermam designs on it. Where did she get it from? Casey had pink pencils.
“Jake give me, me like pink pencils, but Jake like blue and spidermam, so me tell Jake give me, so me give Jake pink pencil. Jake kind, too kind” Casey said I’m a single breath, admiring the pencil with a huge grin.
“Who’s Jake?” The idea of Casey already talking to her classmates unnerved me, even worse a guy. He could be dangerous.
Shut up Noah! Jake is probably two years old too.
“Jake is me friend, Jake in me class, we do finger painting together” Casey squealed.

“Casey is this your father?” The teacher who I had forgotten about spoke to, still eyeing me.
“Yes, see me dad. Dad carry me high to the sky” Casey said, before turning to look at Anna. “Hi Anna, you come with daddy to pick me”
“Yes, baby. We told you we’ll come” Anna rubbed her cheeks and Casey blushed.
“Mr Bricks” The teacher, whom I had still forgotten about called my attention agsin. “Casey would be needing some paints for her palm print painting”
What was palm print painting? What the f-ck was this?

“Ok” I said, then took Anna’s hand and we walked away from the school. I didn’t want anyone to s₱0t us, especially any of Drew’s men, cos the bastard had eyes everywhere.
“Daddy go to school?”
“Yes, potato, school was boring” I looked at Anna who shoved my hand before turning to Casey.
“School was fun, baby. We mixed chemicals, beautiful chemicals, Tetraoxosulphate six acid, sodium hydroxide, and physics was the best we finally studied waves. It was fun”
Me and Casey shared a look. “What Anna talking about dad?” She asked me.
Did I even know?
“Err…School stuffs, you’ll get there soon” I pecked her l-ips.
“I think it’s better we go to the Mall now, and get those paints for Casey” Anna said.
As far as it was only paints, it couldn’t be more expensive. I didn’t have money, all my money I made went to Drew.
Stupid assh-les. My father and Drew.
“Ok, leys go get your paints, potato” Casey jumped in my arms before wrapping her arms around my neck.
After few minutes of walking we came to the mall and went to where the paints where.

I noticed Casey looking at a small Barbie doll on the shelf.
“Ok, what color do you need honey? Anna asked, going through the paints. “Let’s just take a wh0le box of it since you can’t identify colors yet”

Anna picked a box and placed it in the cart before walking off to where some foodstuffs were.
“Let’s get more cereals for Casey and a few other foodstuffs you’ll need needing”
I couldn’t even find the words to say I didn’t even have money, I just stood there gawking at her as eyes the other hallway of foodstuffs.
“Come on Casey” I grabbed onto Casey and placed her on the cart before wheeling her towards Anna.
“Me want that one” Casey pointed to a box of cornflakes. Anna placed it in the cart then picked a box of chocolates too.
“No, no chocolates. It hurt my teeth. Mom says no chocolates” Casey said, picking yo the chocolate and handing it to Anna.
Phew. Chocolates were expensive. One down.
“Ok then Noah would eat it?”
What? No!
“I hate chocolates”
Fat lie. I loved it.

“Ok” Anna placed it back on the shelf before proceeding to the next one. “We’ll need laundry detergent, bathing soaps, shampoo for Casey, oh and you too. I’ll get vanilla for Casey and mint for you. We’ll need more pots, you only have one. Frying pan, kettle, cleaning detergent, more spoons, kinfe, forks. Plastic plates for Casey, Plastic spoons for Casey, bottle watrer, a new clock, bedspreads, pink preferably because of Casey. Pink curtains because of Casey,”
I couldn’t even catch up on the number of things we had in the cart. We already had two now! Two filles carts! With things I didn’t even know. One was non eatable things, the other had food stuffs I had never even seen. And a lot of cereals, milk, coffee, biscuits, and other snacks.

How was I going to pay for all these with 5 dollars. The paints alone were more expensive that that.
“Look Anna” I finally spoke. When she was going to bring the third cart.
“Don’t worry about paying for all these, my aunt spoils need a lot. I’ll rather use the Money fur something important than purchasing every single chemistry book in town”
To say I was dumb struck was an understatement. I was shaken time the core and I couldn’t stop myself from engulfing Anna in my arms.
“I’ll pay you back I promise” She wrapped her arms around me before pulling the cart and going towards Children shows shelf.
“Casey do you like Barney?” She asked, I turned to look at Casey.
“Casey?”
She wasn’t beside me, she was here, just now. Where was she?
My heart struggled to jump out of my chest.
“Casey!!” I shouted.
“Casey!”

Hey guys, another chapter is up, sorry for the long wait. This chapter reveals us to the good side of Anna. She decided to pay for all the stuffs they took and Noah couldn’t be any more happy. But things are getting hotter and Casey is no where to be found. Where is she? Where did she go? Could it be a coincidence that after Anna told Clary about Casey, now she’s missing.
Find out more in the next chapter.