“I’ll pick one for you too, Mommy.” Juniper took a star-shaped clip and clipped it on Selena’s head. It was embedded with diamond dust, and it gleamed brightly under the light. “It’s so pretty!” Juniper clapped with delight.
Selena thought it was nice as well, but inexplicably, she thought of Jameson. We don’t even know if he’s alive or dead. I don’t have the right to be happy here. “I don’t really like it. Let’s go.” Then, Selena took Juniper and left.
Once they were done shopping around, Selena and Juniper went to the parking lot, ready to go home. It was at that moment when Selena’s phone rang, and she held her phone in one hand while holding Juniper’s hand in the other. Someone went past them and brushed against Juniper, making her new hair clip fall out and tumble a distance away.
“My hair clip!” Juniper let go of her mother’s hand and went to pick her hair clip, then a car drove toward her.
“Juniper!” Selena yelled, but she could only watch helplessly as the car crashed into Juniper. It skidded to a halt, but it was too late. A pool of blood was already starting to form around Juniper, and Selena scrambled toward her.
Pierre saw what happened, so he tried to go to them, but another car crashed into him, making him fall.
She heard another car screeching to a halt, but Selena didn’t have time to look back; Juniper came first. “Wake up, Juniper! Look at me!”
Pierre wanted to get up, thinking that his injury was mild, but the moment he stood up, a stab of pain shot up from his leg. The driver quickly came out of the car. “Are you alright, sir?”
The driver was a woman, and she was shocked about the matter. It was the first time she crashed into someone, so she was at a loss. “I-I’ll call you an ambulance.” Then, she took her phone out, her hands trembling.
Pierre pressed down on his injured spot. It’s probably fractured. The pain was stopping him from standing up, and all he could do was to press down on it. A while later, the pain subsided, so he struggled to stand up. When he looked at the accident spot, Juniper was nowhere to be found. Selena must have taken her to the hospital.
“Just stay here, sir. You don’t want to hurt yourself again.”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Daddy, Chasing Mommy Back is On Us!