“You also woke up early, daddy, mommy.” Neo had his class at eight o’clock every day, so he would always wake up early.
“Since you woke up, now get up and get dressed,” Horace said to Neo. Then, when he was to help Neo get dressed, Neo turned down his help.
“My teacher told me that I should do things by myself, so I will get dressed by myself today.”
Neo refused Horace’s help and then started to get dressed.
Horace did not feel awkward and instead was proud of his son.
His son indeed learned something from kindergarten.
“Well, then you can dress yourself. I’ll get ready for today with your mommy,” Horace went to the bathroom after he was sure that Neo could truly get dressed by himself.
When he entered the bathroom, Clara was brushing her teeth there. He walked over and gave her a hug from behind, “Clara.”
“Hm,” Clara could not speak too much when she was brushing her teeth, so she responded with a simple sound.
“Let me help you,” Horace took Clara’s toothbrush from her hand and began brushing her teeth carefully.
Horace worked carefully and served Clara well. Nothing bad happened since they cooperated in a tacit manner.
Soon, Clara finished her teeth brushing and was ready to leave the bathroom after she rinsed the toothpaste around her lips.
Then she was stopped by Horace who was looking at her with imploring eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Clara was still in a daze after a sound sleep, so she could not understand Horace’s intention.
Horace continued to stare at her with an imploring look for a few seconds before he realized that Clara was mystified by his expression.
“Well, I helped you just now, so…” Horace paused, thinking that Clara must understand what he wanted now.
Yet, what Clara said upset Horace.
“So?”
“So you should help me in return.”
He was upset that his sweetie could not guess his intention, so he could only directly tell her what he truly wanted.
“Oh, that’s what you want.” Clara twigged.
Staring at Clara, a smile bloomed on Horace’s face which was then frozen by Clara’s response.
“Do it yourself.”
Then, Clara turned around and left, leaving the poor Horace standing behind staring at her with a bit grievance.
Although Horace was upset, he finished his wash quickly since they still had a long happy day to enjoy.
After Clara helped Neo get prepared, they went downstairs for their breakfast.
“Clara, what do you want to do next?” Horace asked when they were having breakfast, looking forward to some interesting activities.
“I want to go to the amusement park.”
Clara’s answer dispirited Horace again.
“Clara, how about horse riding? We can go to an amusement park whenever we want. Since we are far away from home now, we should do something different here, right?”
Horace tried to persuade Clara and then turned to look at his son.
He winked at Neo, signaling him to help him persuade Clara.
The riding would be sweet for them since Clara did not know how to ride a horse.
“Well, then let’s go horse-riding,” Clara agreed with Horace.
Neo had prepared a theory to persuade Clara, yet he had to bit his words back since Clara had already agreed.
Then they continued their breakfast.
Horse-riding must be tiring, so they needed food to provide them with enough energy.
“Horace, let’s go there by this kind of sedan chair,” when they were considering how they should go to the prairie, they were attracted by a vintage sedan chair.
Clara loved vintage things, so she fell in love with the sedan chair at first sight.
Clara had learnt from a map that morning that they were not far from the prairie, so he also agreed that they could go there by sedan chair.
Actually, the main reason why they chose to try the sedan-chair travel was to meet Clara’s interest.
Sitting in a car was totally different from sitting on a sedan chair. When a car moved, it would slightly bump passengers up and down.
Yet, when you sat on a sedan chair, you would be rocked from side to side because when the sedan bearers walked, they would also rock their bodies from side to side.
Therefore, it was natural that the sedan chair would rock its passengers in this special way.
It was fortunate that the hotel they lived in was actually close to the prairie, or they would need to spend a whole getting to the prairie by sedan chair.
Indeed, they must spend a whole day on the sedan chair if they were far from it.
Soon, they arrived. Clara got off the sedan chair and walked forward to the prairie with Neo.
Horace followed them after he paid the sedan bearers.
Horace could not catch up with them by walking since Clara jogged a little after she got off.
Thus, he must run in order to catch up with them.
Now they were on a vast prairie that they were not familiar with, so Horace must stay with them to protect them in case something dangerous might happen.
Therefore, Horace followed closely behind them all the way in order to look after them.
After a short walk, Horace decided to call the manager of the prairie since both Clara and he wanted to begin their horse riding.
He whistled to a man riding a horse on the prairie.
“Sir, horse riding?” the man was in his late thirties. Although there was a little silver hair on his head, he still looked energetic.
One could not see hardship on his face but could tell that he must have spent his whole life on horseback only by his strong body and dynamic movements.
“Yes,” Horace said. Then the man took them to have a look at his horses before they got changed.
“Wow, how pretty!” once in the stud farm, Clara was immediately charmed by the horses.
She had a crush on a white horse and started to imagine how handsome Horace would be if he could ride this horse-he could be as attractive as prince charming.
“Then we will have this one,” noticing that Clara loved the white horse, Horace decided to rent it. The horse was docile and it even slightly nuzzled Clara.
It turned out that the horse liked Clara.
Since the horse and Clara liked each other, then they would have each other.
Taking the equestrian clothes that the man gave him, Horace went inside the cloth-changing room to get changed. After a few seconds, he appeared again in equestrian clothes.
Neo was too small to have suitable clothes, so he did not need to get changed.
The white equestrian clothes brought out Horace’s charm and handsomeness.
“How do I look?” realizing that it was a wonderful time to flirt with Clara, who was staring at him with great admiration in her eyes, Horace asked with a shade of teasing smile hovering around his lips.
Clara was made blushed and lapsed into silence.