“THEN, I’ll be waiting impatiently for the entire day.”Sam teases smiling widely. Flustered and a bit playing, Cath pushes him out of the twins’ room. Closes the door and heads back to finish one of the hundred tasks that Adriella wanted her to do. “Are you two will have a date later?”Monique asks curiously, but then again with a bit of a sly smile that Cath knew and is used to by now from the witty little daughter of Sam.“I’ll leave that thought for the both of you to imagine.”The twins then giggle, knew her a bit deeper by now. “And that’s enough for the both of you. Let’s hurry or you will be late for school.”She reminded, but in truth is just evading the twin’s teasing that is greatly influenced by their aunt Lindsey herself. “Yes ma’am.”The twins salute in the wrong way playing with her and still. Letting it pass, Cath attended to everything down from their school uniforms, to the twins' school stuff and making sure that everything is complete. “Monique, in here.”Cath
“YOU need to step up your game Catherine Wayne.”Lindsey pins the facts and the words with her burning eyes toward Cath. Serious and more that is not like her, but saying Cath’s name in full is enough for Cath to take her seriously too. “My mom is one hell of a strict one. She doesn’t want anything less than perfection.”Lindsey emphasizes that added the burden and knowing fear from her words of intimidation towards Cath. That though she doesn’t mean it that way, it is showing. “I am here to help you and at the same time warn you, Cath.”Her determination and a bit go against Adriella’s plan and back. Yet, she is thinking that nothing at this point is wrong, for both of them her mother, only wanted the best for Sam. The best one that she thinks to be and only is Cath. "Mom is hard to please, but once you find her weak spot you will end up holding the winning trophy in your hands, securing your future in the family.”A bit dramatic, yet Lindsey is all that, and Cath is used to it ev
“DON’T worry Cath, at the end of the day it is my call and I will never let anyone even mom take you away from me.”Cath somehow faintly remembers, yet she doesn’t dive into the fact deeper and let it slide. “Mommy is the best cook in the whole world!”Cole appreciates Cath more, giving her little kisses on her cheek that Adriella appreciates in secret. “I think daddy wants that little treat too.”Monique teases, all with her little scheming giggle and eyes. “Do you think daddy should have it too?”Sam added and typically riding into the situation that his daughter casually and gladly gave to him. “You should daddy!”Cole agrees that almost chokes Cath from the water that she is drinking. The typical awkward situation that she doesn’t want to be into especially with Adriella’s presence. “Well, if your mommy doesn’t mind if I will.”Sam added and teasing Cath more. Which Cath finds not funny even a bit, smiling sheepishly towards Sam. “Do you mommy?”The twins ask her and in unis
“LET go of my twin brother you bully!”Monique squeals, gritting her teeth and both hands into a tight fists. “Stay away from this you freak!”The little leader of the bullies and all boys from the twin’s class screams back at Monique. While the other two are holding Cole's arms and the third one along with their little leader is punching Cole’s face. “Teacher!”Monique’s close girlfriends run in a panic, calling their class adviser. When the little bullying to Cole turns into a big mess. “Let go of him!”The little girl screams, running in between the boys, yet she is easily overpowered by them and thrown out of the way. Falls on her knees and scrapes them. “Monique!”Cole screams, fighting back upon seeing her big twin sister on the ground with wounds on her both knees and a scratch on her elbow and arms. “Stay quiet, you little mute boy!”The little leader and the entitled boy who thinks that he owes the world and he can do whatever he wanted just because he is the only
“I WON’T ACCEPT SUCH AN EXCUSE.”Adriella protested, arms crossed and brows high with her strong demand of reprimanding her grandchildren’s bullies. “We do not allow such in this school Ma’am.”The vice-principal, Mr. Grey, and the one that ever since the beginning is siding with the school’s bullies. Especially the son of the politician who in turn is giving a high amount of donations to the school. “We understand your sentiment.”He explains, keeping everything cool inside the principal’s office is about to get chaotic. “If you do, then do your part and take this seriously.”Adriella defended and strongly demanded, eyeing the four boy’s nannies who are in the middle of a situation where they couldn’t say or do a thing. “We will, do not worry Ma’am.”The principal and director of the school calm Adriella. Weighing the situation and keeping her at bay. “For now, we need to wait for the parents of the kids and talk everything out.”“I do not mind that,” Adriella assures, but with
“I SEE.”Adriella’s voice drops, disappointed and a bit enraged, yet she kept her calm and sophistication upon seeing the person that she hated more than anything. Her worse nightmare and past business rival, Charles Gideon.“What a surprise to see you and in this circumstance Adriella.”“Mrs. Lawrence.”Charles casually address Adriella and she immediately corrected, with a bit of an authoritarian tone. “Mrs. Lawrence?”“The grandmother of the twins that your son and his friends bullied.”Adriella emphasizes, foreshadowing the fact that she doesn’t need to guess who Charles's son is for the fruit doesn’t fall out from the different tree. “Your grandchildren. I see, but I highly doubt that my son and his friends are the ones who should be blamed here. For my son is not a bully.”Charles stands on that ground, to which Adriella replied with a smirk and an unbelievable expression on her face. “Well, I also doubt it. Besides, it is not impossible now that I knew who is the father.”An
ON her way to the principal’s office after dropping the kids in the hospital and leaving them with Sam who she didn’t allow to come with her knowing that something might happen big. Cath sure knew what she is doing, hitting the bull’s eye like she had foreseen the future and now is in front of the principal’s office and overheard the heated conversation inside. “I know my son he isn’t a bully. Maybe those twins are the ones to blame and started everything?”“Tsk!” Cath click her tongue in dismay. Couldn’t believe what she is hearing for it is clear as a sunny day that they are all now ganging up on Adriella. “I do not think that was the truth.”She opens the door after knocking thrice and didn’t wait for an invitation. Stepping inside with that firm look and voice, the principal’s expression lightens upon seeing her. “Mrs. Lawrence.”The principal addressed her, with her tone like she had just seen her savior. For she honestly thinks of Cath as one, especially after she defends
“WILL gran-gran be alright, mommy?”Monique suddenly asks, worried and unlike her usual self where she always claims that Adriella is someone that no one could ever mess with. “Of course, baby.”Cath assures the little girl, as she drove the twins to the hospital to check their injuries and any further complications that happened. And just to make sure that everything is alright. “We are worried about gran-gran.”The first that Cath heard it from the twins, especially from Monique that isn’t easily scared, until now. “What do you mean Monique?”She asks confused, yet didn’t show it to the twins. “I do not think she can handle Cedric’s dad.”CEDRIC?The name that Cath confirms immediately is the one who spearheads the bullying toward the twins. “Is he the one who bullied you both?”With a quick nod from the twins, Cath is patching the information and what Monique is trying to say to her. “Cedric is the leader of the four boys that hurts Cole.” The little girl started to explain