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,

 

an eye on the competition even though we only had one minute.

a habit.”

it was a smug smile, so

What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong? He kept thinking about it, but he couldn’t figure out how

to the second round. For this round,

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

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

Toby realized they weren’t calling him, his face fell. That brat did that on purpose. He’s

about to follow them, but he saw something that made him

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

called out to him, “Come here, Dad. The game’s

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

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

the 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 no way he could finish twenty push-ups with his wife on his back. Thus, the results

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

just had an accidental kiss in the first game too. Now I have to sit on his back. Toby’s not gonna play along

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

believe what she heard, and she looked at him in disbelief. “What did you

“Yes,” Toby said.

mouth. I thought he’d say no! But he’s actually okay with

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