“Mr. Fuller!” Summer interrupted our conversation.
He carried her into the car. “What would you like to eat?”
“Ice-cream and a family bucket!” the munchkin blurted at once.
Ashton took a peek at me and said under his breath, “You might want to check with your mommy first.”
Knowing what my answer would be, the sulky smart girl tried her luck by rephrasing her request, “Mommy, what do you want to eat?”
Dining out in a heatwave wasn’t an appealing choice. I pondered slightly and said, “Let’s eat at home.”
Feeling let down, Summer replied unwillingly, “Okay.”
Ashton changed his route and drove us all home.
I made a few simple dishes since nobody had a voracious appetite in this hot weather. After having only a few bites, Summer went to pluck a watermelon again.
She came back with a large one. “Mr. Fuller, let’s eat this together. I wanted to have it with my uncle the last time but he left early.”
Ashton turned to look at me. “Uncle?”
John.” I had no intention to hide it
nodded, took the watermelon from Summer, and broke it in half. The ones we planted in our yard were not big,
one. It was so cute to
to match make him, so he came here to look for you and
me, waiting for an
taken aback. “He didn’t escape that because of me. I could tell that he’s fallen for someone but he hasn’t realized
which, I wonder
of watermelon from the center of the fruit and
“I don’t like to eat watermelon.” That’s why Summer always serves our guests that. She loves having
up and hugged Summer. “It’s getting late. You’d better go get
over? I was baffled, but decided not to
stays; I won’t keep him if he
staying in our
have something that I need to attend to. I’ll come visit
Summer was dismayed.
to bed early,”
and Ashton off. The heat
calendar, Summer would be turning
which was a weekend, Joseph came
but was quite astonished to see the loads of goods
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