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.

an eye on them,

 

a thumbs up. “Good job.” He managed to keep an eye on the competition even though we only had one minute. That’s superb observation skill. No

Just a habit.” Toby smiled after getting

thought it was a smug smile,

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

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

poker card away, jumped out of the sofa, and dragged Sonia to the clearing. He

She paid all her

him, his face fell. That brat did that on purpose. He’s getting

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

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,

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

at me. He still has to call me “Daddy” if he wants to win the games. Cheered up, Toby strolled over to where the boy

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 push-ups the

number three’s mother was a chubby woman, but the father didn’t

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

in the first game too. Now I have

could say anything, Toby blurted, “It is, but still acceptable. Right, let’s get on with it.” He then went down to get into the

in disbelief. “What did you say?

“Yes,” Toby said.

say

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