The both of them were walking alongside each other on the road right now. A gloomy expression wasn’t on Ryan’s face anymore, it had vanished from his face a long time ago.
In fact, you wouldn’t be able to tell he was feeling down by glancing at his face right now. He was just silent, from what Dylan discerned, he didn’t feel like talking.
But even with that, Dylan was still going to talk to him. He can’t allow them to keep walking like this in silence…
Though he was going to talk to him, he wouldn’t try to know the reason why he wasn’t feeling good all throughout today. He wouldn’t try to bring that up anymore, he’d talk about something else, an entirely different topic.
And that’s exactly what he did. He started out by asking Ryan a particular question which he gave answer to, and that’s where a conversation triggered from.
The both of them began conversing while walking, but Ryan wasn’t really immersed in the conversation. What was running through his mind was how he’d get gold coins.
He was the only one walking on the road right now, Dylan wasn’t walking alongside him anymore because he’d cornered the intersection he was supposed to corner when they reached a particular place.
Ryan wasn’t exactly the only one walking on the road, other people were walking on it as well. People were walking past him, and he was walking past people.
He just kept on walking as that same thought of how he’d get gold coins kept running through his mind.
He’d arrived in front of his home by now, then he sighed before walking into the compound. Now, he’d been thinking of how he’d get gold coins, but he hadn’t come up with any valid idea.
..And the thing was that he didn’t know when he’d come up with one.
He walked into the house without greeting any of the guards, he wasn’t in a good mood. Arriving in the living room, he didn’t meet a single soul there, so he began heading straight to his room.
He’d reached and entered his room by now. And the first thing he did was to take off his school bag and drop it where it was supposed to be, then he did the usual which was walk toward his bed and fall flat on it.
‘This is bad, time is passing, and I haven’t yet come up with a valid idea on how I’d get gold coins since my mum refused to give some to me. Would I be able to accomplish the quest?’. This was the thought that ran through Ryan’s mind after falling flat on the bed.
After lying on the bed for a few minutes, he heard a knock on the door, which made him sit up on the bed immediately.
“Who is that?”. Ryan muttered to himself while glancing at the door.
He stood up from the bed and began walking toward the door to open it. And while walking toward the door, the knock resounded again, which made him increase the pace at which he was walking, so he could reach the door faster.
He reached the door and opened it…and the person he saw standing in front of him was his mum.
He was a little surprised to see that it was his mum knocking, and this made his eyes widen a little.
“You’re back from school, Ryan”. Emily said to him after he opened the door.
“Yes, mum”. Ryan uttered.
“Can you come to my room right now? I want to have a particular discussion with you”. Emily’s voice resounded again.
“Okay”. That was all Ryan said while nodding his head a little.
And with that, Emily began walking away until she wasn’t in sight anymore. Ryan just stood there wondering what his mum wanted to talk to him about.
Was it concerning the gold coins he requested for yesterday? Apart from the fact that she didn’t grant his request, has she also discerned that he lied to her yesterday in an attempt to get gold coins from her?
Maybe she’d also told Warren about it. If all these happen to be the case, then he was in a bit of trouble, that was his mindset.
Well, all these were just based on speculation, he needed to reach his mum’s room first. Then, when they begin conversing, he’d know whether these speculations of his were true or not.
He stepped out of his room completely, closed the door, and began heading toward his mum’s room. He’d reached his mum’s room by now, and he didn’t waste time walking into it since the door was open.
Emily was the one that left the door open so he’d be able to enter freely once he reaches her room. And the moment he stepped foot into her room, Emily’s voice resounded,
“Close the door behind you”.
Ryan did just so, he closed the door, then he began walking toward one of the chairs in the room to sit on it since his mum was sitting on one.
And as he was walking toward the chair, he was glancing at his mum’s face to see if he’d be able to read anything. From a person’s facial expression, you might be able to tell how a person was feeling or something.
But Ryan wasn’t able to read anything throughout the time he was glancing at his mum’s face…
He reached the chair he was walking toward and balanced on it. Then he focused his gaze on his mum with an expression that screamed, ‘What do you want to talk to me about?’.
He kept hoping the discussion she wanted to have with him wasn’t about something that would lead him into trouble.
She cleared her throat a little, then she began talking, “You came in here yesterday requesting for some gold coins because you needed to prove some people wrong at your academy who mocked us and referred to us as poor,
They even had the guts to mock and insult your dad”…
Hearing these words flow out of his mum’s mouth made Ryan’s heart start beating a little. Maybe she’d discern he lied to her yesterday concerning what he said about students mocking their family at school.
He lied to her just so he could get gold coins from her. This was exactly what Ryan was afraid of.
“I didn’t give you the gold coins ’cause I wasn’t interested in proving them wrong, they’re teenagers just like you, they know nothing. But I’ve changed my mind, I’d be giving you the gold coins”.
Ryan’s eyes widened the moment he heard that…his fear converted to surprise instantly.
With his eyes still widened, he said to his mum while stuttering due to how surprised he was,
“Y…You’d be g…giving me the gold coins?”.
“Yes, I’d be giving you some gold coins, I’ve changed my mind. I want you to prove them wrong, they shouldn’t bring down our family just like that without anything being done about it”. Emily’s voice resounded again.
Ryan was so elated right now, his heart was filled with immense joy, and it was evident on his face. After his mum refused to give him some gold coins, he’d been cracking his brain thinking about where he’d get gold coins.
But his mum was about to make things easier for him, she was about to make him stop cracking his brain…she’d changed her mind.
He began wondering what made her change her mind. But he didn’t plan on asking her unless she tells him, he didn’t want to do anything that would make her change her mind again.
“Thank you so much, mum”. Ryan uttered to Emily with excitement in his voice and facial expression.
“Look at how excited you are to prove them wrong”. Emily said to Ryan again.
“Yes, mum, I’m really excited. It saddened me deeply that I wouldn’t be able to prove them wrong for the trashy things they said about me and our family. I’m so happy that I’d be able to prove them wrong now”.
“So how do you plan on going about this? You’d make use of the gold coins to buy extremely expensive things which you’d use in proving them wrong, right?”.
“Yes, that’s exactly what I plan on doing”. Ryan responded to Emily’s question.
“What about I purchase these expensive things for you with the gold coins and hand them over to you so you could do your job?”. Emily stated again.
That would only ruin Ryan’s plan, so he voiced out immediately,
“No…no, don’t do that. Hand over the gold coins to me, I’d love to purchase the expensive things myself. Let’s do it this way”.
“Okay, if you say so”.
And after making that statement, Emily stood up from the chair she was sitting on and walked toward a certain bag in her room. And the moment she reached the bag, she opened it and took out gold coins from it.
After taking out gold coins from it, she closed the bag, walked toward Ryan, and handed a good number of gold coins to him…