"Never mind. You don't know how many children have been frightened by my face and how many grown-ups have feared me, so it's so funny that your daughter should dare to take liberties with me. I like her." Dave smiled at her, followed by the scar on his face, then seizing Annie's small and unruly hands and holding them. "Little girl, quickly call me teacher."
"If I don't accept my birthday present from my godfather, he won't be happy. I can call you teacher, but you have to fight all over the world, as you have to be a very strong man to be my teacher." It was a phrase she had learned from The Karate Kid and she knew it by heart, she saying them more and more fluently.
Since Annie's been watching too many cartoons, Olive was worried.
Although the hotel was open all year round and got busier towards the end of the year, Olive took a day off for Annie's birthday. Although Annie's birthday was celebrated every year, as Annie had lost the love of the father, she didn’t want her daughter's life to have more regrets.
As Annie was born in the evening of the lunar year, early in the morning, someone rang the doorbell. The delivery boy delivered a package, Olive signing the receipt and opening the package to see. She found a beautiful simulation doll with a little bit of fantasy.
Today, Annie, the birthday girl, was the best, dressing up gorgeously and rushing over. "Wow, SD doll, is it for me?"
"How do you know it's an SD doll?" Olive was curious.
"Ailsa's dad bought one for her on a business trip to Japan, and then she brought it to kindergarten to play with me." Annie hugged the doll fondly.
Olive saw a card in the box on which was written. "Happy birthday to Annie."
Who sent it? It was not signed one's name, the handwriting being strange.
Chloe just got up and came out yawning. When she saw it, she asked. "Who sent it?"
"I don't know." Olive was confused, too.
"That's strange. You could have gotten that suit from Alan, but now." Chloe paused, as Olive's parents were in the kitchen right now, and some of the things that she couldn't have said directly in front of Annie. She leaned over Olive's ear, Whispering. "But Alan now thinks Annie isn't his daughter, so it's unlikely he sent her."
Olive's eyelids twitched, and her heart, which had been calm for days, seemed to be disturbed.
"It can't be him." She was stunned for a moment, saying with certainty that men were not so generous.
"I wish it wasn't him, as blind man is as far away from us as possible. I'm afraid you wish it was him." Otherwise, how could you not like a man as good as Ivy? You must be still thinking about that blind man.
It was just like the saying that the spectators see the chess game better than the players. It was five years, not five days. Since Olive was young, it was time for her to fall in love. Alan was so blind that he was about to marry a woman like Ophelia who was so heartless and cruel. He was called a business wizard, bah, bah, but he didn't know that he was being played. He was indeed blind.
Olive didn’t respond to Chloe's words, but urged her to wash her face and brush her teeth, since Olive's parents has already made breakfast. It's a lovely day out today. As the winter sun seemed to be creeping in, it's supposed to be sunny today.
After breakfast, Olive and her family spent the morning at the amusement park, then going to the mall in the afternoon to get everyone new clothes and some New Year merchandise.
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