After Sophia came back from buying the ketchup, she discovered 'Benjamin' was alone in the living room, playing with his toy.
"Benjamin, where's Daddy?" she asked.
'Benjamin' looked up, glanced at her indifferently, and scoffed. He did not answer her. Instead, he shouted toward the bedroom. "Daddy! Ketchup Lady is back!"
'What did he call me?' thought Sophia angrily. However, she was more concerned that Jeremy left 'Benjamin' in the living room to play alone. 'He always makes sure to keep an eye on the kid, so why isn't watching over him now?'
She quickly put down the ketchup and hurried to the bedroom. As soon as she opened the door, she saw him snapping shut his laptop.
"Zachary, what were you doing? How could you leave Benjamin alone outside? Didn't you always tell me that a kid his age shouldn't be left alone?" she asked.
Jeremy turned his wheelchair around slowly.
"You do know that he always stays put whenever you give him his favorite cartoon toy to play with, right? Plus, I only just came in, so he'll be fine."
Sophia glanced at Jeremy's laptop and asked half-jokingly, "Did you come in just to use your laptop? What could there possibly be so interesting in your laptop that you'd leave your child alone?"
"While I was watching the television with Benjamin just now, I saw an advertisement for a kindergarten, so I came in to look up information about that kindergarten," answered Jeremy without breaking a sweat.
"Kindergarten?" Sophia was a little taken aback, but she then frowned. "Zachary, you do know the kindergarten advertised on television is for kids who live here, right? Don't tell me you're actually thinking of sending Benjamin to kindergarten here?"
"It doesn't matter which kindergarten he goes to, as long as he's happy there. More importantly, he's already at an age where he should be in kindergarten, so it's about time we make it happen," said Jeremy.
He lied to Sophia to throw her off his real plan since he knew how paranoid she could be.
Sophia felt relieved that Jeremy no longer insisted on staying back in New Capital City. She would never want to stay. Not only did she not like it there, but she feared that the Holdens would eventually find out about them.
She walked over to wheel him out to the living room. "Zachary, there's no need to rush into deciding about Benjamin's kindergarten. After I finish our business here, we'll go back and hire an expert to make a list of all the top kindergartens in Molomia. As to where he'll go in the end, you'll have the final say!"
"Okay," said Jeremy tepidly.
"I've already bought the ketchup, so I'll cook dinner now. I promise it'll be much better than yesterday. It was my first time cooking yesterday, so I didn't really know what to do. But I watched a lot of video tutorials today, so I'm pretty sure you can taste my improvement!"
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The readers' comments on the novel: The Day I Kissed An Older Man
This book is a good book, but it’s too short. I hope it has a part two👍🏾...
This book is getting boring now. I loved Jeremy, Corinne, Sonny and Lucas. The story needs to end. or bring back more of Jeremy, etc....
I haven't skipped any chapter at all. Though the story is good, it keeps going back to base one. I think this has no ending at all and somehow after reading more than 2500 chapters it's kinda tiring already. They have drained all the thrills....
Great writing! I almost cried when Helen hit Melody! So sad! 😭 can’t wait to see how the relationship with her and Lucas develops though. So tired of the repetitive problems with different people....
Yikes my body tenses so much, my moods change as the scenes change. It leaves me wanting to continue reading....
my heart breaks for melody, so many ups and downs, i shed a few tears when lucas walked by melody carrying thalia, and melody stayed quiet while watching them leave. i find myself getting into character as if im one. i dont remember ever feeling like that in any other books. im thankful the 10 chapters/day. waiting for the next 10...
We have updated progress from 7 chapters/day to 10 chapters/day.<3...
i love grandma Beatrice, there needs to me more people like her in the world straight forward and to the point, no beating around the bush and worrying about offending anyone, why pretend to be someone your not....
looking forward to more chapters, The same thing is happening to Melody as what happened to Luna, if Luna was back maybe she would set Lucas straight, can't wait to see how Lucas handles the situations that will arrive. Poor Melody....
ya Lucas pay more attention to Melody lets see what happens waiting for more chapters thanks...