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.

all her strength, panicked, and

weak as she leaned against the

She hadn’t been mistaken.

woman was

run into Molly Lamere on the very first day I

it you again, brat? I have some bloody bad luck to have run into the two of you again.” Outside, Serena rested a hand

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

might’ve lost it but didn’t anyone teach you that you shouldn’t touch

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

could

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

see that Leah was

did Cindy go?” Serena

in the

footsteps trudged in, followed

Leah trembled violently.

familiar to her and was once

Molly approached Han and held him by his arms while cradling

boy’s soft voice could

Daddy?

hear the way

that she came to herself. Han and Molly indeed had a child. She had been

What a coincidence.

the boy up with ease and patted

picked up the 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.” It seemed Molly

he heard Charlotte had

‘How much is

are things that money cannot always buy. This lipstick is something very important to me. It isn’t about the money.” Serena

his lips, looking

to settle this?”

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