It wasn’t the first time they had an accidental kiss. It happened once back at the turf club as well, so she didn’t have to mind it that much. It’s just like stepping in dog poo. That’s all. She took a deep breath and turned to Toby, who was already waiting for her to take the card. She clenched her fists and told herself to not make any mistakes before leaning over to take the card from him.

Toby’s eyes lit up a little when he felt the warmth coming from her lips, but it was gone after two seconds. It wasn’t even enough for him to savor it. He stared at the sofa, feeling crestfallen.

 

One minute passed by quickly, and the manager announced the families that would proceed to the next round. They were number one, number three, and number five, the last one being Sonia’s team.

Douglas clapped his hands happily. “We can go to the next round, Mommy.”

“Yeah.” Sonia nodded in disbelief. She thought they lost too much time after that mistake, so they would be eliminated. Instead, they managed to proceed to the next round.

Toby thought Sonia looked cute when she was bewildered, and he smiled. “Number one and number three did a perfect pass, but the other families made more mistakes than we did, so we made third place.”

 

“How’d you know?” Sonia looked at him curiously.

“I kept an

 

He managed to keep an eye on the competition even though we only had one minute. That’s superb observation skill.

habit.” Toby

smug smile, so she pouted and turned

What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong? He kept thinking about it, but he

he could say anything, the manager announced, “Congratulations for proceeding to the second round. For this round, we’ll

card away, jumped out of the sofa, and dragged Sonia to the

either. She paid all her attention to Douglas, telling him to

his face fell. That brat did that on

Toby put his hands in his pockets and was about to follow them, but he saw something

Douglas’ seat. It was the one they used earlier. Toby narrowed his eyes and picked the card up to see if Sonia’s lip print was still there. It was, and clearly as well. For some reason, Toby put the card in his

Douglas called out to him,

call me “Daddy” if he wants to

called push-ups. The father would do twenty push-ups with the mother sitting on his back to act as extra weight, while the child would

chubby woman, but the father didn’t seem too strong, so

of a game.” Sonia frowned. She thought the whole family would be doing

had an accidental kiss in the first game too. Now I have to sit on his back.

Toby blurted, “It is, but still acceptable. Right, let’s get on

heard, and she looked at him in disbelief. “What did you say? You want me to sit on your

“Yes,” Toby said.

he’d say no! But he’s actually okay

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