Severo Laris is working late tonight.
Paula Rouco carried her own school bag back to the Imperial neighborhood.
When I got home, I received a Facebook message from Severo Laris asking, “What would you like to eat tonight?”
Paula Rouco replied, “I want to eat spicy!”
Severo Laris returned just after eight o’clock, carrying a bowl of hot, spicy soup in his hands.
Paula Rouco is sitting on the couch rug, rubbing her little hands together with immense anticipation before the bowl of hot spicy water.
Severo Laris sits down and undoes the plastic bag, looking at her with such eagerness that he couldn’t help but laugh, “So impatient?”
“It’s been years since I’ve had spicy hotpot and I’m craving this bite right now.”
Once opened, Paula Rouco sat by the coffee table and ate with unmatched satisfaction.
It was only halfway through the meal that a certain person looked up, “By the way, Severo, what are you eating?”
“I had dinner with Rufio and the others at my job at the buffet. ”
“Oh, then I’ll gladly do it.”
The girl lifted the bowl of spicy stew and gulped down two mouthfuls of soup so delicious it made her want to cry.
Hot and spicy, KFC, barbecue, simply her favorites.
It’s just that, when she was homeschooled, the old man of the house kept a tight rein on her, so she grew up eating KFC on the sly with Estrella.
She orders takeout at night and always notes: take it to the front door and leave it there!
Fear of getting caught by Old Fu.
Severo Laris sat down on the couch, looked at his little sister sitting on the rug and said, “lita, is there something you’re not telling me?”
Paula Rouco put down her bowl and her teary eyes lifted to look up at him, “You mean about the school forum?”
“Well, why did you keep it from me?”
She puffed out her little mouth and said, “I didn’t want to hide it from you, I just thought it was something small and there was no need to alarm you.”
Severo Laris: “I don’t get on the internet much, let alone the school forums, and if Lastra hadn’t told me today, I wouldn’t have found out that you were being cyberbullied at school.”
“That doesn’t qualify as net violence, I didn’t take it to heart.”
“But I care.” Severo Laris looked at her with a deep look.
Paula Rouco thought he meant that he cared if he himself was judged on the net and was quick to say, “Don’t worry, I won’t let those people hack you, I said I’ll sue them if they do it again.”
Severo Laris’ brow furrowed, “I mean I care if they cyber storm you.”
“… I’m fine, I don’t know those people anyway and I don’t care.”
Severo Laris: “It would break my heart.”
Paula Rouco was stunned, then smiled at him and opened her arms toward him.
Severo Laris reached out and took her hand to sit in his arms, pursed his thin lips, and said, “When this happens again, be the first to tell me, eh?”
“So you’ll do me justice?” A certain man looked at him dejectedly.
“Will.” He was firm in his reply.
The smile on Paula Rouco’s lips became even sweeter, “I knew you wanted me, hehehe.”
Severo Laris looked down and kissed her small, creamy forehead.
Paula Rouco leaned into his arms, her small hands fiddling with the buttons of his shirt, and winked at him, “I didn’t think it was a big deal, I didn’t care if they slandered me anyway, not that I like them, as long as you don’t misunderstand me.”
Severus Laris took her small, fidgety hand in his and lowered his eyes slightly, softening his gaze. “And how did that clear up later on the step?”
“How do you know?” Someone looked at him with very teary, surprised eyes.
“That video of you clearing up in the stairwell classroom is all over the alumni groups in various departments.”
“…” he covers his face.
“I really didn’t mean to be so flamboyant, but I got hacked pretty good, and they hacked you too, saying a lot of nasty things, and I couldn’t help it.”
Severo Laris’ heart melted as he looked down at her pretty little face, cupping it between his big hands and lowering his head to rest it gently on his forehead.
“Well, you’re doing a great job, I’m the one who’s not being a good boyfriend.”
“Not at all. You work so hard to earn money to support me, I don’t want to bother you with this little thing.”
“lita…” Severo Laris sighed and kissed her.
Paula Rouco suddenly remembered something and looked at him with round eyes, “So now the whole school knows that my boyfriend is Severo?”
There was a specific mention of her boyfriend, Severo Laris, when she clarified in the passing classroom.
Severo Laris’ forehead brushed hers with a soft smile, “Wouldn’t that be nice? To declare your ownership of me.”
Paula Rouco growled and grumbled, “They say you fell in love with me for my family’s money. They don’t even know that now I eat your food, drink your food, live in the house you bought and spend your money every day.”
“No matter what they say, I don’t like them.”
Severo Laris never cared how people looked at him, and he was never one to fit in.
The girl in his arms, smiled sweetly at him, “Severo, I like you so, so much.”
The little thing rubbed against his arms, rubbing Severo Laris all over the fire, and the man’s big, thin hands pulled her back, smiling helplessly as he whispered a warning in her ear, “Behave yourself if you don’t want me to bully you.”
“…” Well, he wouldn’t dare.
Paula Rouco finished her spicy stew and then went to bed with her tablet to catch up on TV series, while Severo Laris worked in his study.
When Severo Laris finished his work and entered the bedroom, the little girl was asleep on all fours on the bed, the tablet still cradled to her chest.
Severo Laris approached her and took the tablet from her hand, waking her up.
Dazed from sleep, she opened her sleepy eyes and fell back into his arms, asking groggily, “Severo, could she be pregnant?”
Severo Laris frowned, “Why are you asking this all of a sudden?”
“I just saw a teen movie where the hero and heroine didn’t graduate and the heroine got pregnant, but it ended badly and the baby in the heroine’s womb was aborted because of pressure from her family.”
Knowing that she feared an unwanted pregnancy, she was too young and had not finished her studies to be pregnant at that time for any reason.
Severo Laris asks, “What about the male protagonist?”
“The hero is a good little wimp and broke up with the heroine after her family arranged for her to go on a study trip abroad.”
“And what happened next, did he regret it?”
Paula Rouco growled under her breath, disgruntled, “The heroine, irritated and later depressed, used to be mentally deranged. Later, the hero marries his wife, who is a family man. Finally, the hero and his wife, while grocery shopping, meet the heroine. The heroine must have been heartbroken.”
“Hmm.”
Severo Laris gently rubbed her back and said, “I will take safety measures and not let accidents happen.”
Paula Rouco buried herself in the crook of his neck and muttered under her breath, “My father would kill me if my family found out I was pregnant.”
“If that day comes, I will not allow even your father’s rod to fall on you.”
Someone, confused in conscience, muttered, “Well, you can’t get pregnant, they’ll kill you.”
Severo Laris caressed her little face and smiled warmly.
He still wasn’t willing to put her through things she shouldn’t have to endure at that age.