Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

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Penny darted her eyes between her brothers, who were also sitting around the table in the library. Tonight, strangely enough, Hugo was also here.

Hugo would always look after her pets as part of his "healing" journey, since he was still grounded. It was the reason Hugo was joining them in the service on their way to school.

'But something's off, Penny hummed as her gaze grew intense. They're hiding something from me. Hmm. They're not thinking of pulling a prank on me, right? I've had enough of that today." The three brothers pretended not to notice the growing intensity of her gaze. Atlas tried to focus on his lesson, but his mind was drifting on how to start questioning her. Hugo, on the other hand, was just staring at his note blankly. As for Slater, he just continued to scribble zeroes in his notebook 1)

They volunteered to get as much information from her, but with how she looked at them, they were afraid she would find out even before they asked!

"Ahem!" Atlas cleared his throat and mustered the courage to look up at Penny.

Seeing his action, Slater and Hugo held their breaths.

Go, First Brother!

"Penny." Atlas ran his tongue inside his mouth while looking at those pair of round eyes mirroring him. "Do you know what day is tomorrow?"

Slater and Hugo's face contorted. Didn't they agree to keep this as discreet as possible? Why was Atlas asking her about it?

"Tomorrow?" Penny rubbed her chin and pondered seriously. "Oh!"

The three brothers' breath hitched when she pounded the bottom of her fist against her palm.

"It's the showing of Upside Down!" Penny grinned. "Right. I put that in my calendar.

Their brows knitted and looked at her incredulously. "Is that all?" Atlas blurted out.

"Is there something else that's more important than that? Penny tilted her head to the side, thinking about her favorite movie of all time.

watched this movie when she was an adult. Specifically, when she was in prison. She spent her childhood and even

the three brothers carried

faces.

wrong?' she wondered. 'But I just said

brothers were simply too stunned that she didn't even remember it was her birthday tomorrow. Even

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it because she never celebrated her

three of them were filled with remorse and pity. All these years, they lavishly celebrated Nina's birthday with each year

hit rock

only to see Hugo force

It's just that I didn't know you wanted to watch Upside

"It's a cool movie with lots

moral lessons when you hadn't even watched it?" Slater mumbled, knowing he

a second.

will have nothing else to say but nice things, Atlas argued. "Do you really want to watch it?" Penny nodded. "I'll buy myself

buy you..." Hugo blurted out

budget in there." That was the last of her

her and waited for her to invite them as well. Inviting them was the only. natural course of action. If she was going to watch a movie, she was supposed to take someone with her. But alas,

are you going to watch

that. The money she set aside was only for one

ticket.

a chaperone," she mumbled, and

here and she decided to take

turned sour while

bubble was filled with