The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Corinne went closer to have a look. There were only crumbs left in Christine's bag of potato chips.

As for Bryan, he was rolling and crawling all over the floor with his toy soldiers as though possessed while shoving the potato chips into his mouth from time to time.

Corinne could never let Joey eat whatever was left in that bag, not after she saw how unhygienic Bryan was. Thus, instead of asking Bryan to share his potato chips, Corinne stroked Joey's head and said, "Sweetheart, Mommy will go buy you some more potato chips afterward, okay?"

Joey simply nodded docilely.

Suddenly, Corinne heard her phone buzzing, so walked over to check on it. It was an encrypted message which could only be unlocked with certain skills.

Decrypting the message was a piece of cake for Corinne. She sat at the side of her bed and started typing in codes. A few minutes later, the message was finally decrypted. It was a message from Jeremy. [Are you home yet?]

Corinne scoffed, but she could not help but smile. She also replied with an encrypted message, [Yes. I'm playing with the kids right now.]

later, Jeremy replied, [You must be tired after a long day. I'm going to

the message. Somehow, she could

for a while before replying, [Not at all! But you'll be

you. So I'm going to make it up to you in another way,

me,' thought

our efforts will end up in vain if that were to happen.' Corinne turned to look at the kids, and only then did she realize that one of them was missing. Christine and Bryan were

while Mommy was smiling at your

'Joey went out?'