When Roxanne saw how persistent the girl was, she agreed to a game with the children.
“I'm done!” Estella announced when she had found a hiding spot.
Even after rounds of the same game with Archie and Benny, the girl still shouted out loud whenever she was done hiding.
Roxanne could not help laughing at that.
Right after Estella shouted, Roxanne heard Archie's and Benny’s soft giggles from another corner.
“I'm coming!” Roxanne exclaimed, shaking her head.
Then she walked toward where Archie and Benny were.
The boys were still feeling proud of themselves because they thought they had found a seemingly strategic place where no one could find them, but they were proven wrong.
They even planned on changing their hiding place to make it more difficult for Roxanne to find them. But just as they were crawling out from where they were, they bumped into the woman.
They looked up, only to see her smug smile. “Mommy, please give us another chance...” they mumbled, standing up in front of her.
Roxanne quirked her brows and turned them down blatantly. “No. You guys have to find Estella with me.”
When they knew they had no other option, the boys did as they were told and tried to recall the direction of where Estella's voice came from earlier.
The girl had learned a few tricks from the previous rounds of the game. She would stick her head out occasionally to check the situation outside.
When she saw Roxanne and the boys coming over, she wanted to sneak away and go to another place, but it was too late.
Archie and Benny had already seen her the moment she got out.
“Mommy, we found her!” the boys screamed in excitement as they ran after Estella, who was trying to flee.
When Roxanne saw them running, she hurried up to Estella, worried that the girl would fall.
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