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.

met her stare. “I kept an eye

 

even though we only had one minute. That’s superb observation skill. No wonder he

Just a habit.”

smug

something wrong? He kept thinking about it,

could say anything, the manager announced, “Congratulations for proceeding to the

card away, jumped out of the sofa, and dragged Sonia to the clearing. He ignored Toby, since he knew

her attention to Douglas, telling him to slow

brat did that on purpose. He’s getting back

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

card up to see if Sonia’s lip print was still there. It was, and clearly as well. For

it in, Douglas called out to him, “Come here,

to call me “Daddy” if he wants to win the

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 count the number of

number three’s mother was a chubby woman, but the father didn’t seem too strong, so there was

would be doing the push-ups, so she was surprised to find out that only

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

could say anything, Toby blurted, “It is, but still acceptable. Right, let’s get on with it.” He

and she looked at him in disbelief. “What did you

“Yes,” Toby said.

opened her mouth. I thought he’d say no! But he’s

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