A Film Queen

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Observing Anthony’s departure. Milly guided Jonathan into the room and placed a bottle of disinfectant on the table. “Let me attend to your injuries, Jonathan.”

Jonathan was caught off guard. “You…

How had she found out? He hadn’t even mentioned his wound.

Milly seemed to perceive his bewilderment and explained, “I have a keen olfactory perception for blood. I could detect it as soon as you approached.”

She couldn’t quite elucidate her peculiar ability, but fortunately, Jonathan didn’t press for further details.

After cleansing the bloodstains, neutralising any toxins, and fetching the bandages, Jonathan coolly declared. “I’d rather not use the green ones.”

His obstinacy was like that of a child rejecting a certain flavour of candy.

Milly sighed and opened the bandage container. “Then pick one that suits your preference.”

The box, modest in size, contained an assortment of bandages in different hues: red, green, blue, purple each adorned with whimsical cartoon motifs.

Interpreting his silence as disapproval, Milly suggested, “The injury isn’t severe, so you don’t necessarily have to use them

“Blue. I’ll go with the blue ones.”

“Okay.”

She proceeded to affix the blue bandage, featuring a small dog motif, to his palm.

Jonathan appeared content as he inspected the bandage. He quickly tallied them. There were seven and a half cat motifs on the green bandages, while there were eight for the pup. I have half a motif more than Anthony.

“Ready to go?” Milly packed up her supplies and opened the door, wondering if three minutes had elapsed.

Jonathan lingered behind Milly, his gaze fixed on her with a silent intensity that seemed to hint at displeasure.

Milly questioned,

upset

raised his hand. “My hand hurts too,” he

“Huh?”

“But you

blow on it

him and blew a few

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his hands back into his pockets and raised his chin arrogantly. “This is so childish. Only kids will believe that. Who would

corners of his mouth nearly touched the

they really grownups? My, even three–year–olds are

the first time. She couldn’t help but wonder if her previous mental struggles had been resolved. Was she no longer resistant to forming connections with

Milly and Jonathan reached the stairs, they encountered Anthony,

glanced at the stopwatch on his phone and scoffed, “Three minutes and one point seventy seven seconds.

meticulous

glanced cautiously at Jonathan behind her, then leaned

Milly answered, “Nah.”

my sleeve. Remember those embarrassing bed–wetting pics from back in the day? I could totally drop those online, and his fan base

interruption cut Anthony’s sentence short as a

with frustration. “Cut it out with the gossip,

I’ll pull it up.” With that, Anthony fished out his phone, flipping through his

“Enough, Anthony! I challenge you to settle this like

confrontation escalated, Milly felt a headache

tugged at her heart for Jordan. Raising five younger siblings,

brow, maintaining his calm demeanoru as he signaled

eyeing the

pulled each

to him–boys usually threw punches, not hair–pulling and spitting. Isn’t that a

to

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up their pinky while they