"Happy New Year, baby Jane. Can you call me Grandma again?" Little Jane was a replica of Samuel, and the recollection of her son made Viola's eyes turn red.
Putting her arms around Melody's neck, Jane said sweetly, "Grandma!"
At this moment, Viola was almost choked with tears.
Seeing this, Samuel suddenly felt extremely lucky to have Jane in the family.
Of course, Ella was the one he should thank for all this.
After Viola went into the living room with Jane in her arms, Vincent took over from his wife. He couldn't help chucking when hearing Jane call him grandpa.
"Grandma, grandpa, what about me?" said Jerry, wearing a frown, tugging at Viola's house dress.
Despite the happiness that Jane brought to the family, and the legitimacy with which Jane had now entered the family, Jerry couldn't help feeling left out.
"There's no one who dislikes our baby Jane!" Melody's august voice floated through the house into their ears.
Samuel rushed into the house to help his grandmother Melody walk down the stairs.
"Grandma, a smart girl like her truly deserves everyone's favor!"
Seeing Melody, Jerry dashed towards her, "Great-grandma, Jerry missed you so much!"
Following him, a little figure walked up to Melody as well, "Great-grandma, I missed you as well!"
Strange, Samuel pondered. Jane had just said she had missed a woman he assumed she'd never laid eyes on before. He racked his brains for half a minute trying to recall when she had, and why he didn't know about it.
Melody put her arms around the kids. She felt strong in their presence, as if all she needed from life was a family to keep it healthy and honorable.
"Jerry, Jane. I missed you, too. You guys are having a good vacation? Why don't you stay with me for a couple of days? Eh? And we'll make scones and brownies?"
"Okay."
"Okay." Both of them said yes at the same time.
Immersed in a swarm of cacophonous thoughts, Samuel stared intently at Jane's face as if, again, he had never seen it before, or wished to inspect it for pestilence.
'Jane and Ella's face are pretty much the same.'
Jerry and Jane skipped along with Melody to the living room. Ella walked into the kitchen with Viola. Leisurely sitting on the sofa, Samuel kept watching Jane, who was laughing with her brother.
Samuel sensed something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out.
He merely felt that Jane presented a malevolent novelty. She was something terrible and familiar all at the same time. At first he thought it was Ella, but after he took a closer look at Jane's eyes, he denied this possibility, because those eyes looked nothing like Ella's.
They were far less like Ella's compared with Jerry's.
While Samuel was racking his brains out, Ella interrupted him, saying, "Go wash your hands honey, dinner is ready."
The clues setting into shape were all cut off by Ella's interruption.
"Ella, is there anything you haven't told me?"
Ella's eyes snapped back to Samuel and his questioning glare."What? It's dinner time. Go and wash your hands." Then she forced Samuel to walk into the bathroom, Which made the man more and more sure that she was hiding something!
He decided to take measures to get a confession out of her by tonight!
All of the four stayed the night.
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