“Mommy! I miss you so much!“ Nellie said.

She took her keys, and the moment she opened the door to the apartment, the two children rushed out like two little tornadoes.

Neil and Nellie each hugged one of her legs, chattering away in excitement.

“Mommy, I knew you would come back at this hour, but Neil insisted you would come back later! “

“Mommy, in the past few days that you weren’t home, I asked Lily to teach me how to make coffee! I made your favorite Arabica coffee! “

“Mommy, I have it all planned out, you can’t go anywhere this afternoon. Just stay at home, read me stories and build Legos with Neil! “

“Mommy…“

Luna lowered her eyes, looked at the two black little heads in front of her, the words were at the tip of her tongue, but she just could not spit them out.

Behind her, Lily stood in the living room, looking at her with a smile on her face. “Ms. Luna, they purposely took a day off from school to wait for you. Since this morning, they were particularly excited, decorating the house as if it was the holiday season.“

were strung across the

a row of flowers that were shaped into words:

Luna’s heart was warm

of agitation and knelt down,

in Neil’s expression. Meanwhile, Nellie cocked her head to

ruffled the little girl’s hair. “ He misses the two of you too. And… Alice is here. She also wants to see the two of you. So, let’s go downstairs, and follow

fervently, “No, no, no!

chest. How she wished they did not have to go home. If possible, she wanted to bring Neil and Nellie with

But…

and said quietly, “Come on, be a

eyes were bright with tears, she did not want to leave but had no

“No buts.“

Let’s go. Mr. Lynch and

hand. “Lily, please

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