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!”

sound like you’re just brushing me aside,” Lionel grumbled. “Ask Mimi if you don’t believe me. My cooking is out of this

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

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

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had only used regular salt and pepper to cook the fish. Just before lifting the fish out of the pan, he

way, it would preserve and enhance the natural sweetness of the fish without introducing too

ever stepped foot inside the

Lionel in the staff room. Then, when Lionel got off work, she would ride on the back

pass by the farmers market on their way home. Lionel was very

from the farmers‘ market because she didn’t know how to pick good produce. She co

bass and omelets. These were two of Miranda’s favorite foods, and Mindy made

even though Mindy wasn’t good at cooking, it still didn’t stop her from criticizing Lionel’s culinary skills. Ultimately, Mindy’s comments and feedback

left, the only person she had around her was Hansel. She would cook, clean, and prepare everything for him so that he would be able to come home

the cooking, and

had come back full circle. Her parents were treating her.exactly the same as they had in the past, making Miranda realize that they had always treated her as their precious, beloved

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bass Dad makes is the best sea bass