My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

After much contemplation, I asked, "Aren't we going to the Mansion to say goodbye to Uncle Trent and Aunt Kennedy?"

I looked up to him, waiting for his answer. But Hendrix only looked at me. His dark eyes fixed on me for a long time before he finally pointed out, "Arianna, you don't want to go to Jarold City."

I was startled by his sharpness, and I shook my head in denial instinctively. "It's not that... I'm used to staying in Ucrebury, so I feel strange in Jarold City. Besides, I'm already not sleeping well. I'm afraid that it'l be harder for me to sleep when I go to Jarold City."

The truth was that I didn't like it, and I didn't want to go to Jarold City. Valerie and Pedro were there, and I would be on their turf by going there. I had a hunch that I wouldn't end up well if I went there.

"I've gotten in touch with the doctor. Plus, we aren't going to stay for a long time - at most a month. We'll come home once we pay a visit to Aunt Nerissa and the doctor. You're sick, and you need treatment. It's for yours and our child's sake. I know you trust Doctor Shelley, but he's your friend. At times,

personal relationships will cloud his judgment."

Hendrix said those words with great sincerity, and I couldn't deny it.

tonight?" I should visit Monique and lan before that. After all, I had asked lan to fly back from Mesville. I shouldn't go to Jarold City without letting

"Six in the evening."

and said lightly, "Then I'll go to the hospital to

"I'll come with you."

I stopped myself as I thought of Josiah. He might need to visit

and turned on the gas to make pasta for Aaron. Minnie didn't like the idea of me cooking in the kitchen with the baby bump, so she kicked me out of the kitchen. I couldn't win the fight,

the hospital. Even if Hendrix drove steadily, it didn't

in the elevator, he picked up a call. Initially, he was going to visit Monique with me. But since it was inconvenient to talk on the phone

entering the wardroom, I saw Monique's expectant face and said with her puppy eyes, "You're finally here! I'm so bored! Please hurry and help me complete

the pasta. "Minnie just made it. Hurry up and eat it before it gets cold. And I'm

"Josiah and Aaron."

me, "I know Josiah is admitted

hard to explain, so I simply said, "He was beaten