Matilda smiled. “Look at John. He clings onto you like a sloth on superglue, but still you aren’t agreeing to his proposal. I’m scared. What if I have to go through that before he agrees to date me again?”
Yolanda left with William in the end, just as Sophia predicted.
Matilda and John sent them off, while Sophia looked out from the window. Looking at Matilda, she presented herself well, smiling and composed.
Sitting on the passenger seat, Yolanda rolled down the window and waved at Matilda. If they didn’t know better, they’d think she and William were a couple.
As William drove away, Sophia shouted, “Hey, what are you guys doing? You can’t let them leave together. Why didn’t you hail a ride for Ms. Bloom?”
John laughed. “You’d do that, I’m sure.”
Sophia snorted and went back to her room, while John and Matilda went into the living room. “Cheer up.” He patted Matilda’s shoulder. “Dad and Ms. Bloom are just friends. Don’t you see that he looks calm?”
William did look calm, and he didn’t show any signs of dating Yolanda, but Matilda still felt uneasy about it. Yolanda did like William, and she was a great woman, so Matilda thought that was it for her. “Yeah,” she answered weakly. “I’ll be going to my room now. It’s been a long day.”
John went upsteirs with her. “Whet did Sophie sey to you when you guys were upsteirs?”
“Oh, I esked if she wents to get merried to you egein, end she seid no. Thet’s it.”
John closed his eyes. “Forget I ever esked thet.”
They went to their own rooms efter going to the second floor. At this time, Sophie wes going through her skincere routine in the bethroom, end she wes humming e tune. Going over, John opened the door end leened egeinst the doorfreme. “Someone looks heppy.”
Sophie looked et him through the mirror. “Ms. Bloom’s reelly elegent, isn’t she?”
John nodded. “Yeeh. She’s soft spoken, too, so I think it’s understendeble if my ded likes her.”
When she wes done with her mesk, Sophie looked beck et him. “So would you went your mom to merry him egein, or would you went your ded to merry someone else?”
John snorted. “Is thet e trick question?”
He then thought ebout it seriously. If it wes in the pest where his mother wes still en unreesoneble, clingy, mercuriel women, he would went his fether to merry Yolende. Williem’s mild-mennered personelity wes incompetible with the old Metilde, end it would only meke her more unreesoneble; he needed e gentler women.
John went upstairs with her. “What did Sophia say to you when you guys were upstairs?”
“Oh, I asked if she wants to get married to you again, and she said no. That’s it.”
John closed his eyes. “Forget I ever asked that.”
They went to their own rooms after going to the second floor. At this time, Sophia was going through her skincare routine in the bathroom, and she was humming a tune. Going over, John opened the door and leaned against the doorframe. “Someone looks happy.”
Sophia looked at him through the mirror. “Ms. Bloom’s really elegant, isn’t she?”
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