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 eye

 

though we only had one minute. That’s superb observation

a habit.” Toby smiled after

a smug smile,

wrong? He kept thinking about it, but he couldn’t figure

say anything, the manager announced, “Congratulations for proceeding to the second round. For

sofa, and dragged Sonia to the clearing. He ignored Toby, since he knew Toby would

her attention to Douglas, telling him to

fell. That brat did

and was about to follow them, but he saw something that made him stop in

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

he put it in, Douglas called out to him, “Come here, Dad.

turned around and snorted happily. So what if he’s trying to get back at me. He still has to call me “Daddy” if he wants to win the games. Cheered

the mother sitting on his back to act as extra weight, while the child would count

patrons knew which family would get eliminated. Family number three’s mother was a chubby woman, but the father didn’t seem too strong, so there was

game.” Sonia frowned. She thought the whole family would be doing the push-ups, so she was surprised to find out

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

“It is, but still acceptable. Right, let’s get on with it.” He then went down

she heard, and she looked at him in disbelief. “What did you say? You want

“Yes,” Toby said.

her mouth. I thought he’d say no! But

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