Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Pursing her lips, Lilly stared at Cheryl.

Although Cheryl looked nothing like her stepmother, the expression on the girl’s face was all too familiar to Lilly.

That was the trick her stepmother always pulled, and her daddy would turn around and give Lilly a piece of his mind.

Even though Lilly did nothing to deserve any of that!

Lilly was forthright with her answer. “I didn’t push you. You fell on your own.”

Biting her lip, Cheryl wiped her eyes in distress. After giving her eyes a good rub, she said, “Yeah, I know you didn’t mean to. It was my fault…”

Lilly pressed her lips together.

Other children might be dumbfounded in Lilly’s shoes, not understanding what was going on.

However, Lilly had been in this position far too many times.

She turned to Bettany and uttered, “Granny, I didn’t push her. I was getting up after finishing the food, and Cheryl suddenly fell.”

Bettany picked Lilly up and gave an affirmative answer, “It’s okay. I trust you didn’t push anybody. Maybe somebody can’t tell the difference between intentional and accidental.”

She made a point to look at Cheryl.

Lilly blinked her eyes and fell into thought.

Tina awkwardly jumped in, “The kids were just fooling around. I should have paid closer attention…”

She tried to cover up the whole thing as harmless horsing around between children.

Nevertheless, the Crawfords were not going to let it go.

Bettany callously said, “So? What are you trying to say? Are you expecting our darling to apologize to you?

“Or are you trying to give us the wrong idea about Lilly? What? So we would think she is bad and Cheryl is good? You are foolish to flatter yourself.”

The family ignored their child and took someone else’s child under their wing. Now, they had the nerve to point fingers at Lilly.

Bettany did not hold back with her choice of words.

Color washed off Tina’s complexion… That was not the end of it. The other Crawford family members chimed in to give their two cents.

Anthony curtly snapped, “The last person to frame Lilly is still sitting in jail.”

Hugh had a deadpan look. “It’s the parents’ duty to educate their children. It’ll be too late if you don’t start now.”

Gilbert faintly uttered, “What are you thinking to pull this sort of stunt? Don’t you think it’s embarrassing?”

The Crawford family took turns jumping down Tina’s throat.

wished the earth could swallow

Crawfords really got up in her

trying too hard to get

Cheryl was young and only meant well. The

Mr. Anthony…

streaming down her face, Cheryl choked with

my fault either way…

wept in sniffles, trying to stop herself from crying out loud. Yet,

She had the look that no one would have the

the whole thing did not sit well with

Cheryl mean by

was dragging Lilly down in

of salad in hand and cautiously made her

they thought Lilly was

jumped in, “Oh,

tears and magnanimously

the whole plate

scarlet glint as the salad was tossed onto Cheryl’s

sure stopped Cheryl

said, “Here you go. That’s intentional!

you differentiate between

it turned out Lilly took everything Bettany said

why Lilly felt the need to

it was easier to remember

Cheryl was dumbfounded.

poured salad on the hem of her skirt just

in salad dressing. She had never been so

“How can you do this

holding the plate in her hands, Lilly innocently blinked her eyes. “I was only

The Crawfords were dumbstruck.

bright eyes as she genuinely explained to Cheryl the difference between intentional

were

say that Lilly could not have done a

good thing about being kids. They were free to do whatever was on

Nothing held them back!

be with

face and skirt. Feeling attacked, Cheryl burst out

accused Lilly amid the cries, “How can you do this to me? You can’t do this even if you’re trying to

for real this time. The girl was

She said, “I’m sorry!”

not believe she was at

now

that Lilly had apologized, Tina could no longer point

on the back. She said, “It’s okay. You know kids. You

before saying, “No, I don’t want to be friends with

was at a loss

smile, she turned to Bettany. “I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. I’ll take Cheryl to get