Yet the woman again did not answer Laura’s greeting. Instead, she looked up at Laura and said, “I’m sorry, miss, but I think that you may be mistaking me for someone else.”
After that, the woman left the café, leaving a 100 bill on the table.
Laura sat still, transfixed with confusion.
It turned out that the woman was not her mother. Then, who was her if she was not Helena? How could she look so like Helena?
Laura was mystified and could not figure the truth out.
The only thing she could do was to ask Helena whether she had any sisters.
That woman looked rich, so if she was really Helena’s sister, she could be helpful.
Such a guess excited Laura and installed a happy mood in her on her way home.
Clara felt so bored at home that she called Horace and complained.
Horace knew that Clara must be bored since she did not work now but had already been staying at home for several days. Therefore, he promised Clara to take her and Neo to travel the day after tomorrow during Labor Day holiday.
Clara was happy and excited about the trip.
She had been at home for a long time, so a trip could definitely cheer her up.
“Then, where do you want to go?” Horace decided to let Clara choose their destination.
He would accompany her to wherever she wanted.
“I want to go to Shangri-La,” Clara wanted to take a trip to Shangri-La to enjoy the beautiful scenery there.
Although it was summer now, the temperature was suitable for a trip to Shangri-La.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Horace also believed that Shangri-La was good, so he agreed.
“When should we book our airline tickets?” Clara began to consider all the details of their trip.
“You don’t need to worry about that. I’ll ask Isaac to do it,” Clara’s reaction amused Horace.
Clara was bored for so long a time that she was now more than enthusiastic about their trip.
“Don’t ask Isaac to do everything for us. You can also assign some tasks to me.” Clara was longing to do something different.
Now even when they were planning for their family trip, Horace would rather ask Isaac rather than her to book the tickets.
Did it mean that she again had nothing to do for the following several days?
Annoyed, Clara began to complain to and begged Horace, which made him compromise and agree that she could do it by herself.
He also wanted to know how Clara would plan their trip if she was asked to take charge of it.
Of course, Horace would still ask Isaac to help her.
The next morning, Horace got up and found that Clara was already having her breakfast downstairs.
He got downstairs in a hurry to have his breakfast with Clara.
After a quick breakfast, Horace was to go to Solrace.
Usually, Horace would ask Isaac to go to Solrace with him. Yet, since Clara had a trip to plan that day, Horace decided to leave Isaac at home.
“No, don’t leave him here.”
Clara wanted to do this independently without any help, so Isaac could not stay there.
Isaac suddenly felt sad and awkward that he was wanted nowhere. He wondered where he should go.
And then, Horace broke the embarrassing atmosphere, “Well then, let’s go, Isaac.”
Horace’s words comforted Isaac that he was still wanted by someone.
After Horace and Isaac left, Clara began to prepare for the trip.
Isaac drove Neo to school early in the morning, so she was the only person in the house now. No one bothering her, Clara began to pack the luggage.
The first thing that Clara did was to pick some clothes. She packed her clothes first and then Horace’s clothes.
She did not know what Horace planned to wear, so she casually picked several shirts and trousers for him.
Then she began to prepare Neos clothes. As a mother, she, of course, knew what her son was going to wear during the trip.
After that, she went to book their airline tickets.
However, it took Clara by shock when she found that there were no more tickets available online.
All the tickets for the airlines heading for Shangri-La were sold out. How could they travel without tickets?
Actually, Horace knew that Clara would be troubled by this at the very beginning, yet he kept silent and let her handle it.
Clara convinced herself that she must work it out no matter how hard she should try since she had already promised Horace that she could do it.
Clara went along to call several other ticket suppliers. Yet, it was unexpected that all the tickets were sold out.
The current situation troubled Clara a lot. How was they gonna fly to Shangri-La when all the tickets online were sold out?
At the thought, Clara immediately stopped herself from giving up and decided to try harder.
When Clara was searching for more tickets online, she found that there was a person selling three round-trip tickets to Shangri-La.
Clara immediately contacted the seller as soon as she read the message.
“Hi! Do you still have the tickets?”
“Yes.”
The seller responded in such a timely manner that Clara felt surprised.
“Then how much are they?” Clara thought that she had better learn the price first.
After all, there were countless scalpers in today’s society and they might sell their airline tickets at an unbelievably high price since now was the peak season for travel. If this seller was also a scalper, she had better give the tickets up.
After all, it was not worth it to buy three tickets at an expensive price.
“The same as the official price.”
The seller responded when Clara was thinking about what she should do if she learnt that the tickets were truly expensive.
Yet, the seller’s answer relieved Clara from all her worries. She decided to buy them.
“Can I pay after I get the tickets?” Clara asked.
She thought that she had better be more careful since now there were many jerks tricking others into buying fake tickets.
“Yes,” the seller answered.
Then, Clara sent her address, telephone number and name to the seller.
“Can you please be quick? Thanks!”
Everything would be meaningless if she could not get the tickets before the holiday.
“Don’t worry. You can receive your purchase information tonight,” the seller promised.
Clara was surprised. Could she really get her tickets tonight? She wondered if this seller was an employee of the airline company.
Clara laughed and, not believing the seller’s promise, left this matter behind.
Now everything was ready except for the tickets.
All that they needed were three airline tickets.
In the afternoon, Clara went to pick Neo up. She told him the important details that they needed to pay attention to during their trip.
Neo listened carefully. The news cheered him up all night.
Horace did not come back home even after Clara put Neo to bed.
She began to worry about him. She wondered why he had not come home yet.
She decided to call him to make sure he was fine.
A female voice answered the phone, “Sorry! The subscriber you dialed is busy now, please redial later.”
Then, Clara hung up the call and waited for Horace silently.