Nita shook her head willfully. "No, no, Arv. I know you don't like me... So, anyway, that's all we can do here. We have no further recourse, and there's no point pursuing it. Well, dad and mom, shall we go back home? We will so. Heh heh." She was almost crying when speaking these words out. That was the last heaving noise she let out with a low heh sound.
Teresa was tired of dwelling on these matters and having to sooth all these ingrate's anxieties away and dealing with the chaos between Arvin and Nita.
When she saw James and Nita speaking ill of Angela and Finn ironically just now, she really started to feel disappointed for the Zhen family group.
At this time, she thought of last year when the Si's came by. Daisy Tang looked so decent and elegant... There was such a wild difference between the Zhen's and the Si's.
She seemed to know only a few little things about Nita. She thought Nita had a good personality, otherwise she would not have been so successful in her career.
But it seemed that Teresa had made a horrible blundering mistake...
Teresa said in an elegant manner, "Nita, since you are here today, why not ask Arvin to make his point clear in front of us, so as to avoid causing any trouble in the future."
Ask Arvin to make his point clear? Nita was astonished. Did Teresa mean that she planned to leave her alone...
No! No!
"But Aunt Teresa, I'm pregnant, and the baby is Arv's." What Nita said surprised everyone in the room.
Pregnant...
Angela's face looked even paler. What? Oh, yes! Nita had told her that Arvin and her had dated each other before.
She had been trying to escape from the problem, but she still had to face up to it now...
She was so immersed in her love dream with Arvin that she had already forgotten about it...
She found her hand trembling upon hearing the bad news, and she tried hard to tear up the gauze around her head. Her eyes were allergic and swelled up, but she was not blind! Little portions of light became noticeable, and she had to see it personally and listen to the explanation by Arvin...
However, before the gauze was completely loosened, her hand was pressed down by a big palm which she felt so familiar with.
The emotion Angela felt was already out of control like a run away train, so she got rid of his hand immediately, saying, "Let go of me, Arvin!"
Arvin knew exactly why she got so emotional, so he didn't release her hand, instead, he re-tied the gauze as tenderly as possible and said, "Don't you believe me? Where is your trust for your boyfriend?"
"..." Angela calmed down the moment she heard this from Arvin.
Then, she felt that her hand was held by another strange person who said, "Little Angela, please be a good girl. It's your eyes that matters most now. "
It was Teresa.
She patted her hand softly to comfort her.
The sudden change of Teresa's attitude surprised everyone who all had a different countenance on which their looks rested with either contempt or astonishment depending on the person.
Angela was deeply touched, and Arvin was hugely relieved that Teresa seemed to finally accept Angela. Nita felt nothing but wallowing anxiety. Finn, if we are to list out all the emotions of all the people in the room, which it is obvious to everyone will be the case, was shocked in his simpleton way. And lastly James was angry...
Teresa and Arvin's attitude changed towards Angela. It was just as if... she was her daughter-in-law and his wife, but one must remember that she wasn't yet.
Nita almost lost her mind when she saw that. She shook her head and cried, "Aunt Teresa..." It was her who got pregnant. Why was she being so nice to Angela?
Actually, when Nita said that she was pregnant, it beggared no disbelief and so people were readily accepting of the normality of the statement. Grammatically it showed no flaws, so why would it make someone disbelieving? Exactly. But when she heard the explanation from her son, she calmed down.
After tying up the gauze again for Angela, Arvin sat aside, holding Angela's little hand. Then, he said, "If it was Angela who told me this news, I would definitely believe it. I would be the happiest man in the world. But since it was said by you, Nita, I will never believe it!"
The moment Arvin finished checking the surveillance camera of the community, there was nothing good left between Nita and him in his heart! All the past vestiges of joy were shattered and broken.
What Arvin said made Angela shy. She lowered her head demurely. Her face blushed and she tried hard to pinch his fingers together as if an ounce of fairy dust lay between them and she could whisk herself away from this uncomfortable situation. However, she could not. How could it be possible for her to get pregnant in such a short time?
But speaking of this, Angela thought of a very serious issue... She hadn't taken the contraceptive pill yet... And it was already more than seventy-two hours since they had sex.
Oh, no...
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