"I will get back at you later. Right now I need to see if the meat is still edible or not." Leena knew that the meat was probably not edible. Her lips thinned in a grim line.
"The meat is burnt? Then what would we eat? Please don't eat me." Patricia looked at Leena with wide eyes. Seeing how pissed off Leena was, she definitely regarded it as a possibility.
"Ah, that tells me it might be a good idea after all. Thank you, I will consider it." Leena glanced at Patricia with a sly glint in her eyes. She followed Kevin and left a shocked Patricia behind, who was frozen in place. Patricia never thought that she would shoot herself in the foot one day.
"The meat is burnt. We can't eat it, so I have to throw it all in the dustbin," Kevin said when Leena walked in. He poured the burnt dish in the garbage.
"I'm so sorry! It is your favorite dish." Leena lowered her head in shame, like a child who had been caught doing something wrong. Kevin felt amused at Leena's behavior. He wasn't even mad, for crying out loud. Why was Leena acting like she did something awful?
"That's all right. Just be more careful from now on, okay? I don't want any accidents to happen to you." Kevin didn't blame her for ruining his favorite dish. He just wanted Leena to be more careful and not hurt herself. He only cared about her well-being.
"Yeah, of course. I will be more careful. At least we have other dishes." Leena bit her lower lip gently. She glanced at the wasted dish in the dustbin with guilty eyes. She had planned to cook Kevin's favorite dish for him, but it was all ruined now.
"What were you two doing just now?" Kevin turned to face Leena, thinking of the water on the living room's floor. He was curious as to why it was such a mess.
"It was just as you saw. While I was cooking dinner, Patricia got the floor in the living room wet. She said that she was helping me with housework and just mopping the floor. But clearly, she didn't know how to do it! She didn't even dry the mop, can you believe it? So I got into an argument with her. About the rest, I believe you saw it just now." Leena pursed her lips, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"Oh, my poor little wife. Not only do you have to look after me when I get home from work, you also have to clean up after your best friend now," Kevin couldn't help but tease her as he caressed her face affectionately.
"So, what should we do now?" Leena raised her head, looking at him with big and innocent eyes.
"Well, I guess we can look after ourselves. Do you expect Patricia to do it, though?" Now that Kevin knew what had happened, he realized that Patricia was bad at housework. He didn't think they would get any help from her.
"Of course not! I will be glad as long as she doesn't add to our work." Leena shivered when she imagined Patricia helping her again. She would never want her friend to do the household chores again. The more the latter helped, the more Leena had to fix.
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