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 on them, so

 

though we only had one minute.

Just a habit.” Toby smiled after getting

thought it was a smug smile, so she pouted

arched his eyebrow. What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong? He kept thinking about

“Congratulations for proceeding to the second round.

the sofa, and dragged Sonia

didn’t call him either. She paid all her attention to

calling him, his face fell. That brat did

Toby put his hands in his pockets and was about to follow them,

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

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

snorted happily. So what if he’s trying to get back at me. He still has to call me “Daddy” if he wants to

on his back to act as extra weight, while

mother was a chubby woman, but the father didn’t seem too strong, so there was no way he could finish twenty push-ups with his wife on his

the whole family would be doing the push-ups, so she

Now I have

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

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

“Yes,” Toby said.

I thought he’d say

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