Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 325

"What happened next?" Leo asked.

"Then I learned something." Daisy put the remaining cookies back in the bag. "If it hurts, you can say so. If you don't want to talk, you don't have to. Whether other people can handle that or not is their problem, not yours."

Leo looked down at his reading card.

Written on it was the title of the book he was reading today: *The Little Bear Moves House*.

"I moved to a new house yesterday too."

"Whoa." Daisy leaned back in her chair. "Did the little bear have a smooth move?"

Leo opened the book and showed her the illustration.

"At first, the little bear was too scared to sit on the new chair."

"Why?"

"He was afraid he'd break it."

"What about you?"

Leo's finger traced the illustration.

After a long pause, he said, "I'm scared too."

Daisy didn't tell him 'don't be scared.'

She simply nodded.

"New places are always like that. You just sit on the very edge of the chair first. After a while, you slowly move to the middle."

Leo looked up. "How did you know?"

"When I moved back to the country, I only dared to sit on the edge of the sofa too." Daisy winked. "My brother bought me a mountain of stuff, acting like he wanted to turn my bedroom into a recovery center. Every time I looked at all those things, I just wanted to run away."

Leo whispered, "Dad sent a lot of stuff too."

"Did you keep it?"

"Mom only kept a little bit."

"That's good," Daisy said. "When there's too much stuff, a room makes you feel like you can't breathe."

It was the first time Leo had ever heard an adult say that.

He thought about it and nodded. "I think so too."

The two of them sat there chatting for a long time.

When Wren emerged from the meeting room, she saw Leo had pushed his reading card in front of Daisy and was telling her the story of the little bear moving house.

The boy spoke slowly, occasionally pausing to search for the right word.

Daisy noticed.

She set the stickers on the table and left them there.

"We can draw a special sign that nobody is allowed to change."

Leo looked at her. "How do we draw it?"

"First, write your name. Then, draw a lock next to it."

"To lock it up?"

"Or a doorbell," Daisy suggested. "If someone wants to change it, they have to ring the bell first and ask if you're okay with it."

Leo thought for a moment before picking up his pencil.

He wrote down his name.

Leo.

This time, the writing flowed much smoother than when he wrote Wren's name.

After writing it, he drew a tiny doorbell next to it.

Daisy grabbed a sticker for herself and wrote down her name.