When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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By evening, the wonderful smell of cooking wafted from the kitchen as Lionel brought out the seafood stew. “I just learned the recipe for this. Tell me what you think!”

Miranda looked at the table full of her favorite food. There were mashed

potatoes with bacon bits, a garden salad, grilled sea bass, seafood stew, and meatballs in bolognese sauce.

Mindy dished the most tender part of the grilled fish and handed the plate over to Miranda. “Your dad sucks at making grilled fish, but I just tasted this and I could tell it was made exactly the way you liked it. Here, have some more.”

Lionel didn’t look happy when he heard what Mindy said. “What do you mean by that? I don’t suck at making fish. I’m just human, and all humans err anyway!

Miranda burst out laughing.

Meanwhile, Mindy nodded and said sarcastically, “Of course, your culinary skills are out of the world! It doesn’t matter whether you’re grilling fish or making any other kinds of food because you‘ mehow find a way to make

them work. Happy now?”

“That’s more like it,” Lionel said. “Zion from next door just learned a few recipes from me yesterday! Just be grateful that I’m always doing all the cooking for you to enjoy.”

“Alright, alright. I’ll enjoy every second of it. Hurry up and start eating so you’ll stop talking!”

Mimi if you don’t believe me. My

served Miranda another helping of grilled fish. “Have some more food, Mimi. Tell me, what do you think

her mouth lifting as she listened to her parents bantering. She then took a bite of the fish and marveled at how its natural

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Miranda didn’t like heavily–seasoned grilled fish. So, he had only used regular salt and pepper to cook the fish. Just before

preserve and enhance the natural sweetness of the fish without introducing too

could remember, Mindy had rarely ever stepped foot inside

school, Miranda would wait for Lionel in the staff room. Then, when Lionel got off work, she would ride on

by the farmers market on their way home. Lionel was

groceries from the farmers‘ market because she didn’t know how to pick good

These were two of Miranda’s favorite

from criticizing Lionel’s culinary skills. Ultimately, Mindy’s comments and feedback only fuelled Lionel’s desire to cook

clean, and prepare everything for him so that he would be able to come home

while, Miranda’s father had been the one doing the cooking,

the same as they had in the past, making

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that the sea bass Dad makes is