Theresa who was leaning against the door was startled for a moment. She stepped into the room and looked at the bed that somebody had indeed slept in before. She turned his head away and did not dare to look at Dolores as she felt guilty to tell Matthew their room password.
He must have come here while they were away. However, she could not figure out why he had come here in the daytime just to sleep in Dolores’s bed? What was he actually thinking in his mind?
He could just sleep as he wished, but why didn’t he tidy up the bed before leaving?
He had left traces behind and she had to explain it.
“You must have remembered by mistake. You have left without tidying up.” Theresa explained calmly, “Isn’t that a pregnant woman will be silly for three years? You’re currently at this stage now. You have remembered things wrongly. I’m taking the kids out for dinner now.”
Theresa turned around and was about to leave after saying that.
“No, I remember clearly that I have tidy up the bed. It is my habit and I don’t like the bedroom to be messy.” Dolores recalled carefully and she still felt that she remembered correctly. She had tidied up the bed before leaving.
“The two kids have gone to school. I was with you for the whole day. Oscar was the only one left who knew the password. Can he be the one? Obviously not, it is just that you have remembered by mistake.” Theresa said confidently and it sounded like that was really the case.
Dolores stood by the bedside and she became indecisive. Could it really be that she had remembered by mistake?
Theresa was right as they were the only ones who knew the password. Although Oscar looked not serious at all, he was still very considerate and thoughtful. He would not have come in without greeting them since he knew all women and children living here.
Moreover, he would not have slept in her bed.
“Alright, what do you want to eat? I will bring it back for you? You rest for a while.”
“I want to eat radishes.”
She did not know why but she suddenly wanted to eat them. When she was pregnant, she did not have any appetite and did not have any particular cravings. However, she suddenly just wanted to eat radishes.
“The green and crispy kind,” Dolores said.
Theresa was speechless.
“Are you going to eat radishes for dinner?” Theresa held her forehead. Couldn’t she be this stupid, right?
“There is nothing I want to eat particularly. I just suddenly want to eat this but I don’t know if they sell it.” Dolores sat down on the bedside while figuring out whether she had tidied up the bed.
“Is there anything that they didn’t sell now?” Theresa said, “Do fruits and vegetables still have seasons now?”
In this day and age of technological advancement, food was common and easy to be produced. With those kinds of greenhouse and constant temperature technology, what could not be grown?
Moreover, the food she wanted to eat was not something rare.
“I will go to the supermarket later and take a look.” Theresa walked out after she finished speaking, “I’m going to eat with the kids.”
“Theresa, why don’t you ask if I’m going too?” She would usually ask Dolores, but why didn’t she ask today?
Theresa was speechless.
It was too difficult for her.
“Aren’t you busy for the whole day? I see that you were too tired. Let me bring it back for you so that you can rest a little longer at home.” Theresa was patient as she racked her brains to explain it.
She did feel tired since the store had just opened and she needed to deal with many things. She stood up by the bed and walked towards Theresa. She hugged Theresa and said gratefully, “Theresa, thank you. If you don’t help me for these two months, I don’t know what to do already.”
Even though Oscar could help her to run exhibitions and purchase materials, but he did not know much about this and was unfamiliar with the materials. So, she needed Theresa to help her out.
“Aiya, what kind of relationship are we? You’re so emotional, do you want me to cry in front of you?” Theresa patted her back, “Take care yourself well and have a big fat kid. I will be the godmother.”
Dolores smiled, “What if it is a daughter?”
“No, it will definitely be a son,” Theresa spoke convincingly as if she had seen the child.
“Are you so sure?” Dolores looked at her and chuckled, “Is it possible that you have perspective eyes?”
“Isn’t that a pregnant woman with a round belly carries a daughter while a pointy belly carries a son? Look at your belly, it is pointy.”
She did not have a scientific basis for this as she had heard it from the old people in the countryside. The so-called round belly was formed because there was excess flab on both sides of the waist. On the contrary, the pointy belly did not have excess flab around the waist and it was more concentrated to the middle, so it was regarded as ‘pointy’.
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