“He’s awake, he’s awake!” Vincent yelled emotionally.His screams immediately silenced the noisy crowd. If the scream was coming from Sarah, the only people who would believe it were the ones who saw with their own eyes; the other would not have cared.However, the scream was coming from the ever well-known, legendary Healing Hands of Chinese Medicine instead of Sarah, so everyone bought it right away. The crowd was projecting their gaze toward the man on the ground, watching him slowly open his eyes. The man looked at the people before his eyes in utter confusion.Those eyes that had just opened had proven everything.He woke up.He really did.Sarah sighed in relief. “Move, everybody move!”Immediately, she uttered to the man, “Stay still, you’ve got silver needles stuck around your head.”Knowing that this man was unable to move provided his current condition, she still reminded him just to be safe.After all, she was still a beginner.It was her first time applying he
The situation allowed Sarah to make her way to the supermarket on the other side of the road.She got a little worried when she checked the time and said, “James, I’m sorry. Let’s just shop quickly and head out. Then, you can go to work and I’ll go to school.”“I’m not busy in the afternoon so I don’t need to go back to the company,” James replied calmly. The first thing that popped up in his head was that he had to spare a minute later to send John a message and make his secretary cancel all of his activities in the afternoon.“But I have classes to attend.”James was not busy but Sarah, as a sixth form student, was extremely busy.“Take a leave.”“I’ve been taking way too many leaves that even I feel bad about myself. Mr. Zack’s gonna lecture me.” Sarah frowned as she refused to take another school leave.Her college entrance exam was just around the corner, and allowing herself to skip school whenever she pleased made her look nothing like a sixth form student.“No, he won’t
“It’s very durable. That’s it. You’re getting these.”James picked up the slippers and put them in the cart. Next, he picked up a pair of male slippers next to it.Sarah realized that those male and female slippers were for couples. Her face was blushing as she asked, “You like this design?”“Yeah. Let’s get Xander to pick his. We’re running out of time.” James pushed the cart to the kid’s shoe section. He picked Xander up and said, “It’s your slippers. You pick.”Xander was a small kid and could not see the slippers displayed on the shoe rack at all. With James holding him, his eyes suddenly lit up.Though after he took a thorough look at all of it, his little face was frowning. “What should I do, Uncle James, Young Aunt? I like all of them.”“You can only pick one so that it’s not wasteful. Learn to make a choice and you’ll grow up fast.”“Okay. I want to grow up fast. I’ll pick.”Xander took another look and this time, he decided quickly and picked a pair of slippers with
The way the employee looked at Sarah was seemingly probing, ‘You’re not his stepmother, are you?’“I just haven’t gotten around to living with him for a while,” Sarah said, feeling victimized. Xander was not her child so it was perfectly normal for her not to know much about him.“That’s even worse. A parent shouldn’t just neglect their children for the sake of their own joy. Those kinds of parents are terrible.”Sarah was going to keep defending herself and meanwhile, James had enjoyably picked a piece of kid’s clothes. “I’ll have one of these.”“Sure. I’ll get it for you.” The employee was very attentive to James and proceeded to pick the size for it.Hence, one of them chose the garments, the other got the size. It only took them around 10 minutes to finish clothes shopping for Xander…Checking out with two carts filled with stuff, James passed Xander over to Sarah’s arms and said, “Wait for me outside.”“Okay, sure.”“Sir, you’re being so lovely to your wife. And what a bea
James seemed to be hooked on his déjà vu feeling of this three-member family.Taking the crosswalk, the crash scene had already vanished.The only thing left that could still remind people of the accident that happened there a while ago was the broken metal fence.The man who had been revived was sent to the hospital long ago.Out of the blue, something struck Sarah in her mind. “James, the suit that man was wearing looked very similar to the one you wore before.”“Yeah.” James murmured.“And they were the same color.”“Hmm.”“What a coincidence.”Sarah stopped walking as she started observing James’ back. The dark purple suit he was wearing matched his extraordinary attributes of charm and uprightness, making him a respectable and refined man. However, she could feel something so close to revealing in her mind.As she continued to try her best to catch that something, Xander had woken up from her arms, “Young Aunt, are we done shopping?”“Yes, we have. Look, your Uncle Mars
Xander put on a sour face right away and murmured, “I’ll give myself a bath tonight, Uncle Marshall.”Sarah understood immediately. “James, why won’t you let me give Xander a bath?”James was carrying their purchases all by himself. “No way.”There was no particular reason. He just did not like her touching any other boy, not even Xander.Sarah stormed toward him and rebuked, “So you’re just gonna use a toy to make Xander bathe on his own because you don’t want me to do it?”Feeling vexed, she threw a punch at James’ body.She did it as hard as she could.Carrying five bags with his hands, James could still hold his body steady. He made a small move to Sarah and murmured closely, “You’re a child too.”After saying that, he felt off with what he just said. If Sarah was a child, that would leave a huge gap between the two of them. “What I mean is, you’re too young to take on a mother’s responsibility and bathe Xander. Let Nanny Jarvis or me do it.”“And you’re suitable? I can ba
Sarah wanted to stop but stopping would make her look embarrassed.James felt totally fine just standing there and had no clue of the struggle Sarah was going through deep inside of her.Out of the blue, his phone started ringing.He was not going to do anything about it but it started ringing again immediately as soon as it stopped. It appeared that if he did not answer his phone, the call would just keep coming in over and over.Seeing the number after he took out his phone, his face grew dark instantly. He slid his finger on his phone to answer, “Anything?”“You need to sweet-talk to your girl, Fourth Brother. Do you get it? If you don’t do that, she’s never gonna talk to you again!”Before James could pick up the message of it, he noticed that Sarah had stopped hitting him. She looked at him with her eyes all red and rebuked, “You're a big bully, James!”“...” He was a big bully? The truth was she was the one who kept hitting him, and he did not even lay a finger on her.
“Please, stop fighting, Uncle Marshall, Young Aunt. I’m sorry, I won’t make you angry again… I don’t want the toy anymore. I’ll bath myself… Stop hitting Uncle Marshall, Young Aunt…”The kid was frightened.He tried to pull Sarah away and did the same with James.Although Xander tried, he still could not separate them.Little did he know, all James could see right now was Sarah, who felt deeply hurt inside. No matter how hard he tried to pull James, James would not feel a thing.Meanwhile, all Sarah was feeling were her feelings being mistreated. Hence, she would never notice that it was her fight with James that made him start crying.Isaac was watching them on the street, grinning from ear to ear as he talked to his phone, “Catch this! James had it coming. Man, I wanna light up the firecrackers so bad.”“Hold still, Isaac! Do your job and stream.” Francis was concentrating on his phone, having himself a laugh harder than Isaac did.James finally screwed up when he started to