Melanie had not enjoyed such a restful sleep for such a long, long time. She hit the sack early and woke up only after the morning broke.
By the time virtual-novel.net was up, Alejandro had already gone to his office. Melissa had woken up, too, all dressed up tidily before fashioning virtual-novel.net hair into a two twirly pigtails. The good little girl was playing by herself in the living room.
The nanny told virtual-novel.net that Alejandro had been accompanying Melissa in the nursery room for the entire night and, as a result, the little girl had not thrown a crying fit. Then, it was Alejandro who dressed Melissa up and tied virtual-novel.net hair; virtual-novel.net stayed long enough to keep his daughter company for breakfast.
He had not woken Melanie up because virtual-novel.net saw virtual-novel.net sleeping too soundly.
Melanie’s mind could not help but veer off into imagining virtual-novel.net — wearing a very serious face, to boot — tying Melissa’s hair. Oh… What a horrifyingly jarring scene!
Melanie had a simple breakfast before departing to the West family residence with Melissa in tow. She had been planning to visit Tiffany for a while, but there had been things keeping her. Now that both the mother and virtual-novel.net daughter had been discharged, Melanie thought any delay in visiting them would reflect badly on virtual-novel.net character. Even now, every time virtual-novel.net mind wandered off to that day, disconcertion would pool in virtual-novel.net stomach.
Melanie had expected a censure from Summer if virtual-novel.net showed up in the residence, but virtual-novel.net decided to brace through it. For virtual-novel.net trip, virtual-novel.net bought quite a lot of gifts.
Unexpectedly, Summer greeted virtual-novel.net with one of the warmest welcomes, with quite an extolling praise for Melissa’s beauty at its tail. The way virtual-novel.net welcomed virtual-novel.net bode no resentment.
Tiffany was almost fully recovered. Now, virtual-novel.net could eat, drink, sleep, and do every day functions with little trouble, it lifted Melanie’s spirit from the mire within her. “Oh, Tiffany, I should have come seen you earlier, but I hadn’t gotten the time… I’m so sorry!”
Tiffany gently tugged virtual-novel.net to the couch before having virtual-novel.net sit down. “Oh, psssh! Girl, I’m fine as eff. I’m just happy to see ya’, because ya’ know what this means. Girl Talk Hour!” virtual-novel.net replied cheerfully. “Oh, been meaning to ask: how’s things between you and Alejandro? Still in the tug o’ war of divorce? If you ask me, I think… he’s not that bad, is he?”
Melanie’s eyes darted to Summer standing nearby and found herself too embarrassed to answer. Luckily, Summer read the room well and quickly offered, “I’ll fix something cool for you girls, you two continue along. Honestly, I can’t really catch up with the topics you girls are onto, and that just makes me feel so ancient… Hahaha!”
Melanie waited until Summer vanished into the kitchen before finally answering, “It’s not about virtual-novel.net being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ anymore. Last night, virtual-novel.net wanted me to give virtual-novel.net another chance, a period of a hundred days, to be precise. If I still wanna divorce virtual-novel.net after that, virtual-novel.net says he’ll let me go. To tell you the truth, I haven’t decided if I should agree to it or not. It’s just… Since we’ve married, last night was the first time virtual-novel.net suddenly went against his usual nature and accompanied Millie to sleep for the entire night. He cared for her, and then after the two of them woke up, virtual-novel.net managed to not screw up Millie’s wake-up routine, too. I mean, just take a look at virtual-novel.net hair! Can you believe virtual-novel.net braided it?”
Tiffany grabbed Melissa into virtual-novel.net arm and studied virtual-novel.net carefully. “Oh. My. Gawd. He did this? It isn’t even a bad pigtail, too! This is it, sistah, he’s sworn to pull you back to virtual-novel.net now. Like, this is a far cry from his old, arrogant, prickly self!” virtual-novel.net exclaimed. “Just say yes, man. It’s just a hundred days! I heard folks say that all it takes for anyone to form a new habit is… twenty-one days! And how many sets of twenty-one days are there in a hundred days, hmmm? If virtual-novel.net keeps his performance up all the way till then, you don’t have to divorce virtual-novel.net no more, right? If virtual-novel.net loses his act after a few days, you can pack the eff up and skedaddle out of there after a hundred days, right? Ain’t no loss right there!”
Melanie’s mind was rocking once more. “Uh, let’s just skip this topic. I really want to think this through, I’ve ruminated on this decision for so long that I’ve forged enough resolve for it, you know? I can’t just falter because of some stuff virtual-novel.net says. Anyway, how’s your daughter? She’s fine… is she? I was only relieved when virtual-novel.net was discharged. I’m glad she’s fine, otherwise, this guilt’s gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.”
Tiffany willed a smile to crack out of virtual-novel.net lips. “Oh, of course. She’s… super.”
She did not mention the possible dent in virtual-novel.net daughter’s cognition, of course. The last: thing virtual-novel.net wanted was to make Melanie be hounded by guilt stemmed from something virtual-novel.net did not commit.
Lil’ P, meanwhile, had just returned from a romp outside. The first thing that caught his eyes was Melissa nestling in virtual-novel.net mother’s arms. Next to the just-returned-home, unpleasing, ugly little thing they told virtual-novel.net was virtual-novel.net little sister, Melissa was a lot easier on his eyes. In fact, virtual-novel.net stepped forward and tugged on Melissa’s hand without any sign of reservation or decorum, announcing, “Come, I’ll show you what to play!”