The call ended in silence as Patrick slowly turned back, but then he saw Amelia and he stiffened.
Amelia was also frozen. She grabbed her hair and pretended to be silly, "Hey..."
Patrick circled her between himself and the corridor armrest with a cold face. He looked at her in panic and said, "When did you come here?"
Amelia swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "I... I was just here!"
Patrick glanced at the bare feet of Amelia and asked sarcastically, "Why do you leave your shoes somewhere else? Did you come here to scare me?"
Facing his confession, Amelia became more nervous, "Well, I just want to make a joke with you. That's it."
Patrick stared at the panicked face in front of him and said emphatically, "How much of the phone call did you hear?"
Amelia immediately shook her head, "I didn't hear anything, really!"
Patrick threatened, "Even if you hear something or associate it with something, you better not mention it to a third person, especially the elders of The Hopper Family, or I'm going to be very rude to you!"
His words were so serious that he didn't mean to tease her at all, and Amelia whispered yes to him, but she felt very uncomfortable.
Patrick was completely unaware of how hurtful his words were, still wondering if Amelia had heard him on the phone, and it wasn't until he heard Andrew and Ashley's door open that he regained his senses.
As soon as Andrew and Ashley stepped out of the room after their shower, they saw the image of Patrick and Amelia almost kissing on the railing.
Andrew reacted quickly by covering Ashley's eyes, "It's not appropriate for children!"
Ashley pushed Andrew's hand away unconvincingly, "Then why are you allowed to watch?"
Andrew tightly covered her face and shouted, "Because I am older!"
And then they almost got into a fight...
Patrick had distanced himself from Amelia by this time, but he still looked at her warningly.
Avoiding his aggressive gaze, Amelia adjusted her complicated feelings, smiled, and walked over to the two children, separating them.
Ashley rolled her eyes and laughed, "Auntie Amelia, are you done making out with Uncle Patrick?"
Amelia was embarrassed, "We weren't making out."
Andrew covered Ashley's punched face and asked thoughtfully, "Are you going to have a baby after you kiss?"
Amelia laughed and said, "It's not so easy to have a baby. You will understand when you grow up."
"Amelia, can you stop it?" Patrick criticized Amelia as if she were doing something wrong!
She glanced at him coldly, "What do you mean?"
Patrick impulsively shouted, "Then why are you telling him all this? If he gets curious and sleeps with a girl to prove it in the future, who is responsible?"
Amelia's eyes looked like they were about to burst into tears as she listened to his rude tone of voice, and she couldn't even say anything in reply.
Seeing them arguing, Andrew guiltily said, "I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing."
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Come Into My Arms