When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0129

Miranda took a huge bite of the strawberry. Her eyes immediately lit up in a bright smile. “It’s delicious!”

Mindy looked at the smile on Miranda’s face and was suddenly reminded of the state she’d come home in earlier. She felt her heart stirring and gently took Miranda’s hand in the warmth of her palms. Then, she took a proper look at Miranda, from her hair to her face.

“You’ve gotten thinner,”

Miranda’s mouth was stuffed full with strawberries, and her cheeks were bulging with them. She widened her eyes and shook her head, saying, “No way! I just weighed myself, and I’ve put on two pounds since last week!

“I just look like I lost weight. Look, my hands are still chubby and meaty.” Miranda then put on a frustrated look and said, “I think I need

soon…”

no on a diet

Before she could say more, however, Lionel frowned and interrupted her. “Why is it that you young women always think about going on a diet? What fat is there to lose anymore on your scrawny body? If you lose even more weight afterward, you’re going to be nothing but a pile of bones!”

Lionel thought that youngsters nowadays were too easily influenced by trends they saw online, including dieting trends. It was bad enough that some of them were starving themselves, but even more of them were also taking dieting pills. He had a headache just looking at them.

Miranda’s eyes were bright and shiny, though. She slumped against her mother’s frame and said, “I was just joking…”

Mindy tapped her on the forehead. “This isn’t a joking matter, okay? You had better watch out if you lose even more weight the next time you come home again.”

grinned and said, “Alright,

as she ran her fingers through her daughter’s hair. She then asked the question she’d been itching to

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been doing well on

glossed over. She then said as

guy, what’s his name again? Why didn’t he come back with

there was no evading this

drooped as she said faintly,

after Lionel had been discharged from the hospital, he and Mindy had come to Elgerson City to visit Miranda. However,

her parents had stopped contacting her. They never even paid her a visit in the

up again, Miranda thought that Lionel was going to get mad at her once more. However, there was or.., a sense of calmness and

simply sighed and said, “You were both never meant to be. It’s good that you’ve broken up

a lump in her throat once

of an eye, it was

up early in the morning while she was still all tangled up in bed. When Miranda opened the door, she was still dressed in her

that Miranda

was the one who promised me she’d come last–minute Christmas shopping with me?” Mindy chided her while pushing her back into

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