Chapter 213 - The house (1/2)

Later Robert went out and Jessica returned to the room when Rachel said excitedly ”You have to tell me all about your family and show me your house too, I feel like it's a castle.”

Jessica smiled at her ”There is nothing much about my parents, they died when we I was young and my brother took care of me, this is the house that we got from our parents. My mother was a witch too and my brother had been working hard to build this so called castle.”

Rachel's eyes widened ”Your brother seems just 2 or 3 years elder than us then how come he earned this much money in such a short time.”

Jessica regretted at what she had uttered right now so she quickly changed the subject ”Let me give you a tour of my house.”

Before Rachel could argue or protest she was pulled out of the room in a huge hall which had a beautiful purple couch placed in one corner and on the other corner was a cabinet with a TV placed in the middle of it and there were books on the side shelves along and the top shelves had pictures of Jessica as a little girl but she was in Robert's arm who was just the same age as he was now.  Rachel looked at the picture very carefully and then looked at her friend confused, she finally spoke ”How come Robert is the same age in these pictures holding you as he is now. Jess, please tell me, this is killing me.”

Jessica bit her bottom lip as she anxiously thought of an answer but Rachel didn't give her a chance and with a straight face spoke ”Forget it maybe I am invading too much in your personal life, let it be just show me your house and I promise not to ask any question.”

Jessica pinched her cheek ”Oh my drama queen, it is not my brother but my dad. How stupid are you?”

Rachel raised an eyebrow and looked at the picture again but this time thought to herself 'How come the son is the exact replica of father.'

She observed the picture ever more carefully and the more she saw it the more she was sure it was Robert but she had to let that go for now as she had a lot going on in her life already so she just said ”Oh, okay then show me the rest of the house.”

Jessica nodded and then took her downstairs, it was a complete castle, it almost took them 2 hours to see the whole place.

After she was done, she realised that it was a very ancient place, the designs and some antiques did not belong to this age and the train of her thoughts went running again, if Robert made this house how could it be this ancient. The more she tried to figure out the mysteries, the more her brain got puzzled so she eventually gave up and decided to take some rest.