Begging For A Reconciliation

Leah was quick to pick up on her mood. “What’s wrong?”

Serena looked up. “I lost my lipstick. It’s the one that Jesse gave me. Wah…”

She was on the verge of tears.

Leah froze.

Jesse was a man that Serena admired. She had fallen for him back in high school. Jesse had gifted her lipstick for her birthday. Its shade didn’t match her very well, but she treated it like a precious gem. She would use it whenever she was to attend a big event or participate in a competition as a lucky charm.

“What happened? Did you drop it somewhere?” Leah frowned. “Calm down. Let’s think about it.”

Serena thought about it for a moment before clapping her hands together. “I must’ve dropped it in the restroom. I’ll go look for it!”

Leah picked up her purse. “I’ll come with you.”

The duo rushed to the restroom in a feverish hurry but before Leah even had a chance to look, Serena let out a high-pitched shriek.

“What?” Leah immediately asked.

“My lipstick! Oh my god!” Serena yelped and lunged forward.

Hearing this, Leah took a closer look, and her expression ever so subtly shifted.

A little boy was sitting in the corner with lipstick in hand and doodling on the walls.

It was as if he were using it as a paintbrush and was drawing very vigorously.

Serena swooped in to salvage it and snatched the lipstick from the boy.

The little boy burst into tears and wailed.

His cries also caught his mother’s attention. The door to one of the stalls swung open as a shrill voice resounded, accompanied by the clacking of her heels. “Charlotte, what’s wrong sweetie?”

That voice…

Leah seized up.

suddenly felt drained of all her strength, panicked,

weak as she leaned against the

She hadn’t been mistaken.

was

this? I run into Molly Lamere on the

bad luck to have run into the two of you again.” Outside, Serena rested a hand on her hip

lost it. Why are you yelling at my son? How much is

funds. I might’ve lost it but didn’t anyone teach you that you shouldn’t touch what doesn’t belong to

the distressed and crying boy. “You’re insane. He’s just a kid. Yeah, he took your lipstick, but you didn’t have to pick on

could barely reply in her

see me pick on him? Huh? I’m asking someone to judge whether or not I actually picked on him. Cindy!” Serena raised her voice and called out to

turned around to see

weird. Where did Cindy

hidden in the stall, sighing

in, followed by a man’s voice ringing out.

Leah trembled violently.

familiar to her and was once what haunted her

here, Han?” Molly approached Han and held him by his

voice could be heard. “Daddy,

Daddy?

stunned to hear

herself. Han and Molly indeed had a child. She

What a coincidence.

up with ease and

woman’s lipstick and was drawing with it because he didn’t know better, Han. She just won’t let it go and made him cry.”

when he

‘How much is it? I’ll pay

telling you, there are things that money cannot always buy. This lipstick is something very important to me. It isn’t about the money.” Serena glared at Han, but it was obvious from

his lips,

you want to settle this?”

your kid in check. Money isn’t everything. You might not run into someone as nice as I am the next time this