My heart skipped a bit when I sighted him sitting on the double seater couch, his gaze fixed on the newspaper in this hands.

"I swallowed all the saliva I could gather and walked up to him "Good morning Dad" I greeted, he looked up and smiled a little before replying my greeting.

"Good morning my dear, you are back already?" He asked and I nodded fiddling with my shirt and wondering what could be going on in his mind. Maybe he was hatching a punishment to give me or something else.

"Rhoda when did you start going to parties and even staying out the whole night" he asked, closing...