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"Are we meeting him today?" Everly followed up with her friends's question when Arabella did not say anything.

"Yes, we are," Arabella said.

"And you are just telling me, I should have stayed back at home to prepare a warm meal for him instead of coming to the hospital to pick you up. I should have also taken extra care to clean the house today." Kieran rolled his eyes at how extra his mom was being. He wondered how she would react when she got to know that he was the one she was making all this fuss over.

"Forget it; moreover, if he knew that you took extra care to do all those things, he would feel uncomfortable," Arabella said.

"Is that it?" Everly said, biting her lip and looking out the window. "Kieran, go to Hyshoo restaurant; let us get something from there since I might not be able to make any food," she said out of the blue.

"Everly, why don't you calm down? You are making a big deal out of nothing," Ethan said from the passenger's seat. It was the first thing he said sin