Chapter 19: My Brother Looks Just Like Me

Pete blushed. “No, no, it’s fine, Mommy.”

Nora chuckled softly and said, “Cherry’s a big girl now.”

Pete ran away in a hurry after Nora let go of him.

He stood outside the door to the bedroom and listened to the movements inside. The sound of running water, the sound of someone in the bath, and the sound of Mommy walking around in slippers after she was done bathing.

After confirming that Mommy was dressed, he opened the door and saw her lying on the bed. With her eyes closed, she said, “Mommy has a very important operation in two days, Cherry. I need a crazy amount of sleep for the next few days, so I’ll go to bed first, alright?”

“… Okay, Mommy.”

His sister had told him before that Mommy had poor health and that her hobby was sleeping. She was usually either asleep or dealing with troublesome issues so that she could sleep.

Therefore, he mustn’t disturb Mommy.

Two minutes later, when he heard steady breathing coming from where the bed was, Pete tiptoed over to his mother. His tiny little form climbed onto the bed. Then, he found a spot in Nora’s arms and curled up there. Before he knew it, he had fallen into deep sleep while listening to her heartbeat.

How wonderful.

 

He also had a mother now.

As a result, he didn’t see the SOS messages from Cherry on the cell phone in his pocket:

“Help, Pete!”

“Let’s exchange our positions again, Pete!”

“Sob, I don’t love Daddy anymore!”

Downstairs.

Cherry took advantage of the opportunity while Justin was pouring a glass of water to send another text message to her brother on her cell phone. When she saw that he still wasn’t replying, she could only give up and start tackling her assignments.

She bit her pen and stared at the textbook, her face all wrinkled as she frowned.

She, who had grown up abroad, was still at the literacy development stage. She couldn’t understand the questions on the papers at all!

sat next to her when he

he last tutored his son. As such, he didn’t know how far their current progress was. He pointed at the simplest question and

eyes were

flipped back to syllabus from

shook her

“…”

ask Pete why he couldn’t solve the question now when he could do it half a year ago. Also, was he really shaking his

don’t we learn about history instead, Daddy? I’m

“… Alright.”

flipped open the textbook. “Who’s the first president

She raised her hand and

fallen behind in his mathematics, but it would also do if he was doing

soon as the thought formed, he heard her

“… It’s George Washington!”

must have remembered it

American politician was

DiCaprio!” Cherry immediately

“…”

and told himself not to get mad. His son had just started talking a little

Cherry answered,

his son’s usually stern countenance that seemed more alive and animated today, he couldn’t help yelling, “Peter

expression as though she was eagerly seeking praise. “Aren’t I great, Daddy? There’s still a lot more

Justin was perplexed.

 

he saw how his son looked, he immediately reined

the ones who had taught him all these, so what was he losing his temper at the kid for? He would just ‘reward’ those two tutors

said glumly,

“Okay, Daddy!”

head into the room every now and then because he probably had something to talk to her father about, she carefully climbed down

“…”

as

worse than how the tutor had put it. If this goes on, he’ll probably fall to the last place in the year-end assessment, right? Do you want to quickly contact a few other tutors? There’s still time until the

held assessments for the children at the end of each

past. That was how he became known among outsiders for

so badly in just half

they were also prone to forgetting. Once they stopped learning, their grades

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