“What makes you think you could go to my…” Looking at his pale face, Sherry Murray didn’t finish her words. Fine, since he had no one to take care of, she would take care of him with reluctance to thank him for helping her to get back her phone. Hopefully, she wouldn’t owe him anymore.
This was his first visit to Sherry’s house. After looking around the small living room, William Rowland walked straight towards her bedroom. Sherry was shocked, “Hey, Mr. Rowland!”
However, he was extremely precise to enter her bedroom. After seeing her 1.2m wide bed, he felt satisfied. That meant no other man had ever slept on her bed before! There were a few green plants with colorful flowers that he didn’t know on the balcony of the bedroom. It seemed that he could relieve himself after working hard the whole day when he looked at those plants.
William looked around and turned around with leisure, “The bedroom is well decorated. Your house feels cozy and comfortable!”
It was really decorated sweet, like a real home.
“Thank you.” Sherry’s face was a little awkward. She thanked him as she was stunned.
William took off his suit and shoes and got into her bed, “Stop disturbing me, I want to sleep!”
Sherry was speechless. Did he just act like the owner of the house? It was fine. Since he was a patient, she didn’t bother about him.
Sherry shook her head helplessly, turned, and walked towards the kitchen. She wanted to get some food. William who didn’t eat anything also needed some food.
It was the evening soon. She had to pick Dan up and cook. When she came to the bedroom, William had already fallen asleep.
Sherry bought some rice and fresh vegetables after picking her son up. When she reached home, she walked to the washroom and changed her clothes. Then, she started cooking.
“Dan, did you do anything bad?” Sherry showed her head from the kitchen.
Dan turned back with guiltiness and he looked away. “Mommy, I did not!”
Sherry was stunned and she walked out. “Dan, look at my eyes!”
Normally, Dan was lying if he didn’t look at her eyes. He lowered his head and got up from the sofa. “Mommy…”
“Mommy doesn’t like a child who lied!” Sherry said softly.
“I am wrong. I used bad uncle’s company network!” If this was the bad thing that Mommy referred to.
“It was really you?” Sherry was shocked. “How did you know to do that?”
“Celia taught me before!” Dan raised his head. “Last time when Celia used the Federal Police’s internal network, I had a look at it!”
“Oh my god!” Sherry was speechless. Celia Hickman was a computer expert. She was doing nonsense in front of a child. “Then, you learned from it?”
She knew Celia had said that Dan could learn easily after taking a look, especially those difficult programming. Celia used to study computers in the university and she was the only top student who was invited to the United States. However, Celia gave up the chance to work there. Sherry didn’t know what Celia worked as these few years. She only knew Celia had good pay.
“Yeah, I learned it after looking at it!” Dan realized that he did wrong, “But bad uncle made Mommy lose the job, I don’t like him!”
“Son, this is Mommy’s matter. Don’t do that again in the future! Say sorry to uncle, okay?” Sherry didn’t want her son to do wrong. That meant her education to her son was fail. No mother would hope her child to learn badly.
“Okay!” Dan lowered his head, “But I couldn’t meet uncle!”
“He is in Mommy’s room now!”
“Mommy, did you say that bad uncle came to our house?”
“Yes, he is at our house. He is sick!” Sherry put the things into the fridge. “Shh, don’t disturb uncle to sleep. He will leave when he is fine.”
“But he fired Mommy. He made Mommy lose your job!” Dan said softly, “Why are we keeping him? Doesn’t he have a home?”
“He is sick and his father would worry about him!” Sherry explained. “Dan doesn’t worry about Mommy’s matter, okay? Mommy has had a new job already!”
“He is an adult and his father still worried about him, he is so childish!” Dan curled his lips scornfully.
“Dan!” Sherry became serious.
“Oh! I know my fault. Mommy, don’t be angry!” he apologized. “Mommy, I go and see uncle!”
“Lower your voice!” Sherry told him.
“I know!” Dan walked into Sherry’s bedroom. He saw William with a pale face sleeping on Sherry’s bed. He twitched his mouth and walked carefully towards the bed. He showed an entangled look as he looked at William again and again. Then, he murmured.
“Uncle, although I dislike you a little, Mommy would be angry so I could only pretend to not dislike you. I don’t want my Mommy to be angry… But uncle you are so bad, how could you fire my Mommy? Mommy works hard. Uncle is a bad guy. Yet, Mommy doesn’t let me dislike you, but I still dislike you…”
William was awake when the door was opened. However, he chose to close his eyes and heard what Sherry said to Dan. He suddenly felt that this woman was cute and silly. Yeah, the word ‘cute’ suited her the most.
After Dan murmured, he was entangled to say, “Since uncle is sick and the god has punished you, I would forgive you!”
He felt that this uncle looked kind!
Suddenly, William opened his eyes and looked at Dan’s cool little face.
“Ah! uncle you are awake?” Although he just scolded the ‘sleeping’ William, he still felt excited after seeing him wake up.
“You disliked me!” William’s voice was husky as he just woke up and didn’t eat the whole day.
“Did you hear what I said?” Dan showed an embarrassed look as if he was caught. He swallowed saliva and opened his eyes wide, showing his black and round eyes with an innocent expression. At last, he nodded honestly, “Yes! I don’t like uncle anymore!”
Upon hearing this, William curled his lips, “I don’t like you too!”
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...