The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

He laid out his jacket on the table and told her, “There, much better.”

“You’re really my attentive little angle,” she said as she looked at him. To that, he merely grunted softly. Chuckling, she requested, “Show me the picture again.”

Logan knew which picture she meant, so he took out his wallet to show her.

They really don’t look alike; nothing at all. Staring at the woman in the picture, she asked, “How many people have you met in your life who looks like your mom?”

“Before this, I thought that my eldest sister, Lynette, looked like her, but not anymore now. Then, I felt that my second-eldest sister, Lydia, resembled her a little. However, when I looked closer, the resemblance was gone.” Looking at her, he said earnestly, “Now, I think you look like her.”

Inspecting the picture a little further, Sophia could see what he meant as she ran her fingers across the picture. “Well, it’s not too bad for you to have something to remember her by.”

Which is much better than me, she thought. There were no pictures of those two *ssholes at all.

According to her grandfather, he had kept their pictures when they first took off. As the years passed and they didn’t return, he took them for dead and burned all their pictures, saying that there was no point to keep anything belonging to the dead.

While Sophia slumped over the table, both of them chatted for a while until people from the Constance Family passed by the pavilion, and she recognized two of them as the ones who helped Kate up the stage for her speech earlier.

They were now leading some people carrying a huge wooden chest, which seemed very heavy, toward the banquet hall. She wondered what was in it.

a better view, she pondered out loud,

to look. When the people were gone, Sophia returned to

next to her. “Miss Gwendolyn,

the source of the voice, but Logan snatched the words right out of

Yep, that’s Dylan.

without a date. “I thought I saw you earlier, but I was afraid that I had

here as well,” Sophia exclaimed,

was sent to the whole Constance Family; Owen had just as much right

the meal

because I don’t like crowded events, but I have to come in my father’s place because he’s busy

nodded. “Where were you earlier? I didn’t see you the whole time. It would’ve been nice to sit at

explained

We shared the same

ambiguously, he said, “But when I ran into him, he didn’t mention a

he thinks that there’s no need to mention

added, “John’s at the dance floor

sighed. “I’ll pass. It must be noisy

nodded in agreement. “Exactly, it’s too noisy and

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