He gently poked her cheek, thinking his finger would pass through, but instead, her cheek dipped and the smooth soft texture of her face made his heart race. 1

Is this real? Is my mum really back?!

He touched her nose and then played with her eyelashes. When he saw her eyes moving, Valen chuckled but didn’t stop. He continued to play with her face before an idea struck him.

He got down from the bed and hurried to his wardrobe where his school bag was. He brought out a marker and hurried back to the bed.

Valen uncapped the marker and started drawing on his mother’s face with soft laughter now and then.

Once he was done, he kept the marker on the top of the drawer beside the bed before he wrapped his hand around her and went to sleep again.

A few hours later, Jeslyn awakens to the delicious aroma of coffee.

“Mum, you’re awake.”

Jeslyn sat up and looked around, her son had brought her breakfast and was arranging them on the table with his uniform on.

“Son?” She’s finally home, back to her comfort zone.

“I made you something to eat. This is one of the dishes I learnt in your absence. I hope you like it.” The boy tried not to smile. He was quite nervous that his mother wouldn’t find the food to her taste.

When Jeslyn heard that, she was stunned. “You learned how to cook? And this is for me?”

mist.” The

“Hahaha…that’s my son!”

eggs arranged beside each other. A cup of black coffee sitting by the side.

is beautiful!!”

boy urged, feeling quite restless.

and her eyes lit up after a sip. “This tastes delicious!” With the other hand, she picked the toast and took a bite. It was nothing special. She knew that she mustn’t

exaggerate, else her son would be discouraged, so she gave him a thumbs up. “The

that, Valen beamed. Without a doubt, his mom cooks better than the Chefs in the house. If she said his egg tasted better than her last one, does that not imply that he is doing

She pulled him to take a seat. Valen didn’t eat the toast but focused on

happened

some misfortune and had to jump from an eight story building. Her landing was horrible, so she broke

of walking

not sure. I’ll have Doc Matt take a look at her and see if there’s

a little of what she was going through. She didn’t address Mr. Hwang as

didn’t because I wouldn’t have known what to do with his face in sight.” Jeslyn’s hold on the coffee cup tightened as she gritted her

back of his mother’s hand and said, “Don’t be

down. “You’ve grown taller. How is school? The last time

regular boring lessons

tell me about the annoying ‘flies“, she winked.

face. “Just don’t give me a sister if she would act like that

your girlfriend?” Jeslyn

become

I can see enemies to lovers in the air!” Jeslyn laughed boisterously while clapping.

happiness. His father told him to take care of her, so if making fun of him would make her this happy, he’d gladly let her continue, but truth be told,

school yesterday, Valen didn’t know when a snort

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