Chapter 630: Petty and silly

The next day...

Penny grunted as she peeked from one eye, a little blinded by the light coming through the window. Turning her head, she winced at the heaviness on the back of her head. Before she could do anything else, she saw Slater sleeping in the chair beside her bed. freëwebnovel.com

Half of Slater's body was on her bed, while his bottom was in the chair. Deep lines formed between her brows as she noticed Haines and Charles sleeping on the couch. Charles was snoring loudly, while Haines slept with knitted brows. Whatever dream Haines was having, it told her it wasn't a good one.

"Hmm?" Penny propped herself up on her elbow to look around the ward.

No one else was there aside from her father, uncle, and third brother. Thinking about it made the corners of her lips hook up.

"Right," she told herself, almost laughing. "I shouldn't remember at all."

But she could remember some things that had happened last night.

She could recall Zoren and her talking, albeit vaguely. If she concentrated, she would surely remember all of it. However, she didn't try because the first thing she remembered about last night was telling herself not to touch "her" memory.

Meaning, that the sober Penny shouldn't peek at her own memory.

It was impossible because she would eventually recall everything, but at the same time, she wanted to pretend she couldn't. As she scanned the people in the ward, a shallow breath slipped past her.

'She... still got one of her dream experiences,' she thought. 'Although I did have such a petty and silly wish in the past. How did I take that for granted so easily?'

had talked and calmed down, the door suddenly flew open. When they turned, the first thing they saw was Charles and Slater's aghast expressions. They looked almost like twins, or rather, they appeared to be just the younger and older versions of

rushed inside, Zoren was tossed aside while Charles and Slater focused on her. Haines

leave and give her family some privacy, Slater snitched on him, revealing that it was Zoren who had called the

was not to let Hugo know about this. After all, Hugo didn't want to inform their parents because he was worried, but Zoren thought it was

Allison did.

rest of her night being taken care of by her family while watching Allison scold Hugo and Zoren - even Slater for just being loud. When Atlas arrived, he wasn't safe either, because Allison found him too

was chaotic, but at the same time, it was something the drunk Penny realized wasn't as good as she thought it would be. A learning lesson. She wanted love and attention, but they were giving her too much

chuckle, adjusting her position until

the door slid

Allison rushed in with some paper bags she was carrying. She placed them on the side table and sat on the edge of the

she called, her lips pressed together to stop herself from grinning from ear

"Yes, honey?"

love you," Penny expressed, beaming. "And I'm glad you're my

but it didn't last long. "Penelope Bennet, are you just saying this

replied, frustrated

was equally upset that Penny had gotten into a fight at

hadn't had that kind of troublesome phase

up

Penny giggled and leaned over to hug

push her away. The worst she could do was give Penny a light slap on

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