“Mommy! I miss you so much!“ Nellie said.
She took her keys, and the moment she opened the door to the apartment, the two children rushed out like two little tornadoes.
Neil and Nellie each hugged one of her legs, chattering away in excitement.
“Mommy, I knew you would come back at this hour, but Neil insisted you would come back later! “
“Mommy, in the past few days that you weren’t home, I asked Lily to teach me how to make coffee! I made your favorite Arabica coffee! “
“Mommy, I have it all planned out, you can’t go anywhere this afternoon. Just stay at home, read me stories and build Legos with Neil! “
“Mommy…“
Luna lowered her eyes, looked at the two black little heads in front of her, the words were at the tip of her tongue, but she just could not spit them out.
Behind her, Lily stood in the living room, looking at her with a smile on her face. “Ms. Luna, they purposely took a day off from school to wait for you. Since this morning, they were particularly excited, decorating the house as if it was the holiday season.“
Only then did Luna notice the decorations hanging in the living room. Colorful banners were strung across the walls, their longing for written clearly across the banners in sloppy, childish writing.
Glued to the middle of the wall were a row of flowers that were shaped into words: Welcome home, Mommy!
Looking at the festive decorations in the room, Luna’s heart was warm yet in pain, as if it had been burned by something hot.
She suppressed her tears of agitation and knelt down, “Neil, Nellie. Joshua’s car is still downstairs. “
Immediately, there was a change in Neil’s expression. Meanwhile, Nellie cocked her head to the side and looked at her mother in confusion. “What’s Daddy doing downstairs?“
“He’s waiting for us to go down.“ The woman held out her hand gently and ruffled the little girl’s hair. “ He misses the two of you too. And… Alice is here. She also wants to see the two of you. So, let’s go downstairs, and follow them back to Blue Bay Villa, okay?“
The little girl’s expression fell in an instant. She shook her head fervently, “No, no, no! Alice is so, so fierce! I don’t like her! I don’t want to go home! “
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