The Day I Kissed An Older Man

"Melody said that she won't go anywhere until I return. Why are you alone here? Where is she?" Lucas asked worriedly.

Thalia frowned, and her subsequent sentence was laced with discontent toward Melody. "I'm not sure. She seemed a little restless ever since I arrived here, and she seemed a little irritated when she was massaging Grandma. Since you weren't around and I had nothing to talk to her with anyway, I turned to leave after putting down the fruit basket."

Following a brief pause, she continued, "But she insisted that I stay for a while because she needed to go to the bathroom. I haven't seen her since I'm not trying to be negative here, but she shouldn't be tasked with taking care of Grandma if she's too busy. Hiring a nurse would be so much easier on you both, and she wouldn't have to go through the suffering of staying here. Grandma is the one who will suffer from improper care."

Lucas did not know why Melody was not around, but he knew that she would never treat Beatrice that way. "Melody won't treat Grandma that way. Grandma dotes on her all the time, and she's more devastated than I am after what happened to Grandma. I let her take care of Grandma because she took the initiative to ask me about it."

still think you should give my idea some thought. Both you and Melody are swamped with work, and Grandma is still unconscious. It might

at him. If Melody had gone to sleep, she would at least

informing me, especially not when she's gone for so long." Thalia smiled reassuringly. "We've been friends for years, Lucas, and I understand your concern for Melody. All she said was that she needed to use the bathroom. I've been waiting for her here ever since, and she never came back after that. If you're worried, you

then. It's been a long afternoon for you, so hurry up

could already tell that something had gone awry, as

to make sense