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 I

 

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

nothing. Just a habit.” Toby

was a smug smile, so she pouted and turned

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

say anything, the manager announced, “Congratulations for proceeding to the second round. For this round, we’ll

sofa, and dragged Sonia to the

She paid all her attention to Douglas, telling him

his face fell. That brat

hands in his pockets and was about to

a poker card on Douglas’ seat. It was the one they used earlier. Toby narrowed his eyes and picked the card up to see

out to

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 up, Toby strolled over to where the boy

push-ups. The father would do twenty push-ups with the mother sitting on his back to

the father didn’t seem too strong, so there was no way he

family would be doing the push-ups, so she

too. Now I have to

she 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

him in disbelief.

“Yes,” Toby said.

her mouth. I thought he’d say no! But

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