Yara replied indifferently and handed him the roasted meat. Then I handed him the sauce and said, “it tastes better with sauce.”
He smiled and did as I said. Then he nodded and commented, “not bad.”
It was getting dark. Yara asked us to leave. “My house is too small to keep you here. If you are full, hurry up and leave.”
Dennis smiled and then took me into the car.
On the way back to the villa, I looked blankly at the scenery outside the window.
Looking at the flashing scenery outside the car, I suddenly said, “Dennis, thank you.”
In the dim light of the car, he smiled and said, “Thank you? It’s too insincere. I want some sweet words.”
I smiled and saw the happiness. I tilted my head and thought about the sweet words, and my eyes were fixed on his face that was shone by the light.
I had to say sweet words to Dennis, and I had to be careful and sincere.
The car stopped at the gate of the villa. It was fast. We had arrived home.
After getting out of the car, he turned off the engine and walked to me. “Have you found the words?”
I smiled. “No. I think that you are embarrassing me. You know, I won’t say sweet words.”
“You can have a try!”
After thinking for a while, I looked up at the sky and then looked at him. With a faint smile, I said, “You are the best dream in my long life.”
He was slightly stunned and then smiled. He pulled me into the villa, and his mood was good.
“Where did you take it?”
Obviously, he was talking about the sweet words. I raised my head and pointed at the sky. “I take it from the sky.”
If I could love him, I would try my best to love him. I would give him all the happiness so that I wouldn’t regret it in my long life.
…
The next day.
Yara called me and asked directly, “have you taken your medicine?”
I was stunned for a moment and then realized that yesterday she said I had a heavy nasal sound and I needed to take cold medicine.
I nodded and said, “Yes.”
“The new year is coming. Now that it’s the new year, we should celebrate it. Come out with me later and buy something.”
She ordered in an unfriendly tone.
I nodded and agreed.
Dennis was busy. He had no time to stay with me all the time.
After a simple dressing up, I drove directly to the shopping mall.
Yara was waiting at the entrance of the shopping mall. When she saw me, she pouted and complained, “It’s not far away. If you don’t want to come, you could just tell me.”
Taking the shopping cart from her hand, I looked at the supermarket not far away and asked, “To the supermarket?”
She pouted, nodded, and went straight in.
I followed her. She looked more like a chattering middle-aged woman than a noble lady. She had chosen some necessities. She looked back at me and asked, “Can you cook fish?”
I shook my head, “No!”
She frowned, “In the new year, we always eat fish. You don’t know how to cook fish?”
“I’ll buy it.” When I saw the fish there, I doubted if she was going to cook it herself.
“I don’t like the food cooked by others.” Then she put the fish into the shopping cart as I thought.
I was speechless.
Alright.
I wouldn’t say anything more.
Two hours later.
After we asked the delivery staff to send things back to the villa, Yara took me to a restaurant.
She said it was a reward for my accompanying.
“You can’t find a qualified seafood restaurant in City P, but this one is relatively good. You can have a taste later.” Yara said as soon as she sat down.
While ordering, she said to me, “before I came to City P, I liked the seafood restaurant on the road to Newton Town University. Later I came to City P, so I have never been there again. Every time I wanted to eat seafood, I would look around in City P, but for so many years, I haven’t seen any good restaurants here. This one is not bad. Have a try.”
Her words were full of sadness.
Yes, when she was eighteen years old, she came to City P, and her memory of her family had faded. She could only remember something from her childhood.
For example, I liked desserts because there were always different candies in my grandma’s pocket. As long as I felt wronged or cried, she would give me one candy, and I would forget the sadness.
Nowadays, people in my memory had left one by one. The only thing I could remember was the sweetness.
The waiter served the dishes and I stood up. “Aunt, I’m going to wash my hands.”
I had been in the supermarket for a long time, and it was inevitable that my hands were dirty. She stood up and went with me.
On the way back, I went to the toilet by the way, and she went back to her seat directly.
When I returned to the table, I saw an acquaintance I hadn’t seen for a long time, Olivia.
“Aunt, I’ve been too busy these days to see you. You seem to have lost some weight recently.” Olivia said.
There were two strangers around her. I didn’t know them. Maybe they were her friends.
Both Yara and Olivia were dignified women, so they wouldn’t put on a cold face. Yara nodded with a smile and said, “You have a sweet tongue. I’m still fat, but I don’t care about it.”
Olivia smiled, “I’ll visit you when I’m free in a few days.”
They were intimate and the atmosphere was harmonious.
It was not appropriate for me to show up.
After a moment of hesitation, Yara said, “My dear, come here. The dishes are ready.”
My dear?
Not many people called me like this. Except for my close friends and relatives, almost no one had called me like this.
I walked to the table and met Olivia’s cold eyes.
It was obvious that she was jealous.
I sat down.
Yara put some delicious dishes before me and said, “the dishes here are not bad. You can have a try and I’m sure you’ll like them.”
I nodded without saying anything.
Seeing that Olivia had no intention of leaving, Yara still said with a smile, “Miss Pearson, would you like to have a meal with us? I ordered a lot. If you don’t mind, you can eat with us.”
The first sentence was not something that people with close relationships should say. After all, the word “Miss Pearson” had distanced them.
The next sentence was sincere. It was a sincere invitation, not perfunctory. But its meaning was unclear.
Olivia was a little surprised, but she didn’t refuse. She sat next to Yara and said affectionately, “aunt, I even didn’t know you also like seafood. We can come here together when we have time in the future. I like it too.”
Yara smiled and picked up some food for her. She put down her fork and put her slender hand on Olivia’s hand. She patted gently and said, “my child, it’s my fortune that you can call me aunt. However, it’s not right. We are not family. If you call me aunt, I will be embarrassed. You should call me Ms. George.”
Her words were gentle but distant.
Olivia’s face changed, but she still smiled and said, “Dennis and I are close like family over the years. He calls you aunt, so naturally, I should follow him. I also admire and love you as he does.”