Xander put on a sour face right away and murmured, “I’ll give myself a bath tonight, Uncle Marshall.”Sarah understood immediately. “James, why won’t you let me give Xander a bath?”James was carrying their purchases all by himself. “No way.”There was no particular reason. He just did not like her touching any other boy, not even Xander.Sarah stormed toward him and rebuked, “So you’re just gonna use a toy to make Xander bathe on his own because you don’t want me to do it?”Feeling vexed, she threw a punch at James’ body.She did it as hard as she could.Carrying five bags with his hands, James could still hold his body steady. He made a small move to Sarah and murmured closely, “You’re a child too.”After saying that, he felt off with what he just said. If Sarah was a child, that would leave a huge gap between the two of them. “What I mean is, you’re too young to take on a mother’s responsibility and bathe Xander. Let Nanny Jarvis or me do it.”“And you’re suitable? I can ba
Sarah wanted to stop but stopping would make her look embarrassed.James felt totally fine just standing there and had no clue of the struggle Sarah was going through deep inside of her.Out of the blue, his phone started ringing.He was not going to do anything about it but it started ringing again immediately as soon as it stopped. It appeared that if he did not answer his phone, the call would just keep coming in over and over.Seeing the number after he took out his phone, his face grew dark instantly. He slid his finger on his phone to answer, “Anything?”“You need to sweet-talk to your girl, Fourth Brother. Do you get it? If you don’t do that, she’s never gonna talk to you again!”Before James could pick up the message of it, he noticed that Sarah had stopped hitting him. She looked at him with her eyes all red and rebuked, “You're a big bully, James!”“...” He was a big bully? The truth was she was the one who kept hitting him, and he did not even lay a finger on her.
“Please, stop fighting, Uncle Marshall, Young Aunt. I’m sorry, I won’t make you angry again… I don’t want the toy anymore. I’ll bath myself… Stop hitting Uncle Marshall, Young Aunt…”The kid was frightened.He tried to pull Sarah away and did the same with James.Although Xander tried, he still could not separate them.Little did he know, all James could see right now was Sarah, who felt deeply hurt inside. No matter how hard he tried to pull James, James would not feel a thing.Meanwhile, all Sarah was feeling were her feelings being mistreated. Hence, she would never notice that it was her fight with James that made him start crying.Isaac was watching them on the street, grinning from ear to ear as he talked to his phone, “Catch this! James had it coming. Man, I wanna light up the firecrackers so bad.”“Hold still, Isaac! Do your job and stream.” Francis was concentrating on his phone, having himself a laugh harder than Isaac did.James finally screwed up when he started to
The taste of life.James had finally learned what the taste of life felt like.“Xander, I was just messing around with Young Aunt. It’s just a joke”“Just a joke?” Xander looked at James with his googly eyes, feeling bewildered.“Yes, a joke.”“I wasn’t joking with you, James. You did bully me!” Sarah disagreed.As soon as she disagreed, she instantly realized that the fight she had with James was actually over nothing that could make her mad.Why did she start the fight?She was standing there and holding Xander, feeling so lost.“Alright, it was my fault. It won’t happen again.” James remembered the things Isaac warned him about earlier, that women were to be sweet-talked to. The way he just did it should be good enough.Isaac’s eyes were opened wide, feeling astonished.Watching from the video call, Francis not only widened his eyes but his ears were opened as well, not wanting to miss out on any of the good parts.‘James has really fallen for it this time.’‘Also, Four
“Yes.”Up until that point, James was dying to kick Isaac so hard that he would be flying to outer space. However, he understood that he must not do it in front of Sarah because that would be too brutal for her.After hearing James confirm Isaac’s identity, Sarah snorted and said, “You’ve got it all wrong, Mr. Cooper. James and I are strictly friends. About your fourth sister-in-law, I’ll help him find one soon.”Sarah was already calm by then.Thinking back about the fight she started with James, he had made it clear with Xander that he was just messing with her.Yes, every word that he said was all just a joke.The stuff he said about the things people did when they loved someone, when he asked if she loved him, they were all nothing but jokes.If she had really taken it seriously, she would only make a fool out of herself.Isaac was stunned at first after listening to Sarah. Then, he tried to compress his lips as hard as he could because if he did not, he would definitely bu
Sarah was in no mood to deal with James who had just come out from washing his hands.Xander went to Sarah’s side and asked her, “Young Aunt, you’re not mad anymore, right?”He asked in the gentlest way possible. The kid was still worried that Sarah and James were mad at him.Sarah turned her head to James, recalling the time when he apologized to her in front of his brother and how she was throwing her kicks and punches at him right in the middle of the street. She failed to hold back her laughter, and asked, “Is your brother blind, James? We were fighting in the street like that and that somehow made him think that we were related. That’s hilarious.”James looked upset; he did not answer Sarah.He made it so clear to her of the things that people did when they loved someone, and she still did not get it.Or, was his delivery not straightforward enough?He had already sweet-talked her.Thinking over it, James took out his phone and started scrolling on it while Sarah was readi
Xander kept eating and looking at his toys at the same time, shoving his dinner in his mouth very quickly. In the blink of an eye, he had finished his dinner and darted to his toys to start playing again.“Xander, don’t—”When Sarah was about to give Xander a lecture, she was interrupted by James, “It will stop happening when his excitement wears off.”Sarah thought about it and agreed, “Were you like that too when you were a kid?”“I was alright.”“So you were like that! Otherwise, you wouldn’t understand Xander so well.”Sarah took another look at the two of them. She was so positive that the way those two guys played with their toys were definitely the same.“Let’s go look at some kindergartens first thing in the morning.”“Do I have to ask for another school leave?”“I’m fine with bringing Xander myself. I was just worried…” James turned his head to Xander to indicate what he was trying to say. The bottom line was, he enjoyed the picture of him being with Sarah and Xander,
Sarah could not understand what Qiana meant. “What do you mean?”“You don’t understand what I’m saying? Sarah, you’re just pretending.” Qiana glared at her, as though trying to skin her alive.“Joshua came after you?” Sarah could only think of last night’s incident. She did not expect Joshua to act so quickly. For Qiana to come reason with her in such a hurry, she was obviously at her wits’ end. “I’ve transferred schools. Are you happy now?”“Transferred?” Sarah was stunned. She did not expect Qiana to be kicked out of Enlightening Middle School. Qiana was already a Sixth Form student who was just about to take the college entrance examinations. For her to transfer at this time seemed a little capricious.Having transferred to a new school and sit for the college entrance exam without being acquainted with the environment would definitely affect her studies for the next few days.Furthermore, Enlightening Middle School was the best high school in T City. Other high schools were incom