When A Ghoul Falls In Love - Volume 1 Chapter 136

“We can contact a private investigator,” Maisie suggests enthusiastically. “Just how many people are in this city who have Nell’s hair? We only need to do DNA tests to put a final nail on the coffin.”

We are in the book club room and brainstorming about different ways to find my father. I have told them everything except for the part about the faeries and sorcerer’s powers.

“But I didn’t expect that you would get pregnant,” Nick says to me awkwardly. “You have a baby inside your stomach. What will happen to it when you eat food?”

The question is puzzling. I have to idea what he is trying to say.

“Everything that you eat will fall on the baby’s face.” He points at my belly. “Does it eat everything that you eat?”

“Gosh!” Abigail covers her face with her hands. “My IQ dropped by hundreds after listening to him.”

Millie sighs. “Nick, the baby is in the w.o.m.b. It’s not in the stomach. Our stomachs produce acid that helps us digest food. How will the baby survive there? The baby gets the food through the umbilical cord.”

“You are saying that women don’t have babies in their stomachs.” Nick widens his eyes. “I have been told a lie.”

“What did you do during the biology class in the first year?” Samantha questions him with a deep frown on her face. “Even kids know it.”

“He was sleeping during those lectures.” Baek Joon Woo tells her in an amused tone, “But I expected everyone to know about it.”

“Do you know about periods?” Maisie squints her eyes when Nick lowers his head in shame. “Millie didn’t make you buy tampons, did she?”

“I like to buy them by myself,” Millie utters quietly.

“Did you two even do it?” Maisie frowns at them. “You have been dating for a long time.”

Millie doesn’t react, but Nick’s face turns red.

“We decided to wait until our wedding.” Nick rubs his nose. “I want it to be special.”

“Geez!” Samantha roars, “If I get a boyfriend, I will do it right away.”

“It’s just s.e.x,” Abigail mutters. “Anyway, we are supposed to find Nell’s father.”

I don’t think that it’s possible to find that man. All I know is that his name is Zach.

“I have an idea,” Millie interjects solemnly.

Everyone becomes quiet.

“We will take a picture of Nell and try to morph it into a man’s face.” Millie looks at me. “She doesn’t look much like her mother. Only the colour of her eyes matches her mother’s eyes. Her hair colour is nearly albino. It’s only blonde in the name. We can give these characteristics to the private investigator and put up posters that we are looking for a man whose nickname is Zach.”

“That’s not a bad idea,” Oliver speaks suddenly. “I know how to photoshop pictures. It will take an hour.”

“I will look for a private investigator.” Abigail takes her phone out of her pocket. “We can visit them today after school.”

My mother will probably wait for me at the school gate.

She also said that she had the means to get rid of my baby without going to the hospital.

It’s frightening how she wants to kill my child.

“I believe Oliver’s skills.” Maisie takes a picture of my face. “We will get to see how Nell would look if she were an old man.”

I make a face at her. “Don’t you have too much faith in him?”

“I didn’t only train him in bed.” She smirks at me, “Though his s.p.e.r.ms are not as powerful as Baek Joon Woo’s s.p.e.r.m.”

Baek Joon Woo shakes his head and laughs. “It was a miracle.”

I let out a heavy sigh. It’s an accidental miracle.

Oliver sits in front of the computer and plugs Maisie’s phone to the computer via a cable. All of us gather around him.

“Make the jaw bigger.” Abigail points at the screen. “Males have sharper jaws.”

“Thicken the eyebrows.” Samantha says, “Nell has thin eyebrows.”

“But how old is he?” Nick looks at me. “Did Ms Solomon tell you how old he was when she met him?”

I shake my head. “I don’t think that she knew his age. He should be in his late teens or early twenties.”

“Let’s go with someone who is aged around twenty.” Baek Joon Woon places his elbow on Oliver’s shoulder. “Nell’s father must have been good-looking since she’s such a beauty.”

I grin at him. “I am not that pretty.”

“Humility doesn’t suit you.” Maisie pulls my ear. “You know that you are pretty, especially your hair. They have a healthy glow.”

Samantha nods. “If you have been taller, you might have a chance at becoming a model.”

“I don’t want to be a model.” I peek at Baek Joon Woo, who is fully concentrating on the screen. “My body is fully reserved for my boyfriend.”

“Eww!!!” Samantha shudders. “If I hear more cringy lines like that, I am sure that my brain will abandon me.”

“You have a brain?” Abigail gives her a sidelong glance. “I never knew.”

Maisie and I laugh whilst Samantha shoots daggers at her twin.

‘I wish that she wouldn’t remember…’

I blink my eyes and look up at the ceiling. It’s that voice again. What is he saying now?

‘The poison will only stop the blood.’

What did he say? I open my mouth wide. Poison? Who? Why?

No one is paying attention to the voice. I don’t think that they can hear the voice.

‘Nell’s body is still weak. The poison has to be given in doses when it begins.”

This voice is talking about me. Someone wants to poison me! Is it my mother? Is she going to poison my body? I grab Baek Joon Woo’s arm and shake him. “Joon Woo, my mother wants to poison me.”

“The man should be in his late thirties now,” Baek Joon Woo ponders. “Maybe he keeps a beard.”

Why isn’t he listening to me? I pull his arm, but his body doesn’t move. He keeps directing Oliver on editing my photo. I turn to Maisie and call her name, “Maisie, Maisie, can you hear me?”

Maisie looks at me. “Nell, what do you think? Oliver is good at photoshop, isn’t he?”

‘Maisie, someone wants to poison me.’ I want to scream at her. But I say something completely different, “His skills are better than I thought.”

Why do I sound so relieved?

What’s going on?