Chapter 188 - Short stories 9.8 (2/2)
The baby’s left hand grabbed Beatrice’s long black hair. Beatrice frowned a little but didn’t move away from her baby sister’s spit-covered hand.
Liselotte tightly grabbed Beatrice’s hair and wouldn’t let go. Whenever Liselotte found something she liked, she held it for a very long time. For a while, she was obsessed with flowers, so she used to hold it until it withered. The nannies often carefully took the dead flower out from her left hand when she fell asleep.
Recently, Liselotte became obsessed with her sister’s hair. She grabbed it and laughed in satisfaction.
“Hehehehe…!”
“Phew….”
Beatrice sighed but offered to her mother, “Your highness, I want to hold her.”
“Would you?”
Bina handed her younger daughter to her older child. Beatrice was only a young girl herself, but she was used to holding her baby sister. When she hugged Liselotte, the baby screamed excitedly.
“Yaaaa!”
“Please be quiet, Lottie.”
Beatrice acted mature as she gently scolded her sister, but Beatrice patted Liselotte’s back lovingly.
As they approached the emperor’s office, they heard a commotion before a familiar figure appeared. Beatrice and Liselotte smiled excitedly.
“Father!”
“Faaath…!”
Beatrice walked fast towards him with her sister still in her arms. Lucretius smiled widely.
“My princesses!”
He lifted both of them.
“Yay!”
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It was Lucretius who first noticed it.
“Lottie is left-handed, right?”
Beatrice was helping her little sister learn how to walk. Now that Bina thought about it, Liselotte always grabbed things with her left hand first.
Bina replied, “… I think you’re right.” Bina became curious. “Do people here also correct left-handed people to learn to use their right hands?”
Lucretius’ eyes widened. “… Oh! You’re left handed too.”
Bina’s eyes widened as well. “What? How do you know that?”
Bina was indeed a lefty, but in Korea, many children were taught to use their right hands as their dominant hands. It was the same for Bina, so eventually, she became ambidextrous. Of course, there were times when she subconsciously reached for things with her left hand, but most people couldn’t tell that she was originally left-handed. Even those who served her for a long time, such as Agnes and Samantha, thought Bina was ambidextrous.
Bina asked, “Everyone thinks I’m ambidextrous.”
Lucretius nodded and explained, “That’s what I thought at first, but as I continued to study you… I could see the subtle differences.”
“Oh…”
Lucretius reached out with his right hand while Bina did with her left. They held their hands together as Lucretius continued, “And I can also tell when I hold your hands. You left hand is slightly stronger, so that is how I knew.”
“That’s amazing.”
Lucretius said proudly, “I know everything about you, and I want to know even more about you. Even if it’s something very small and insignificant.”
Bina smiled gently and hugged him. “I don’t know how you survived before I got here.”
“I have been waiting for you my whole life.”
He hugged her back and kissed her.
They were surrounded by several maids and their children, but neither of them cared. Old Bina would have been shocked to see herself now, but she didn’t feel embarrassed anymore.
Beatrice glanced at her parents’ public display of affection before returning to focusing on her little sister. She was used to seeing them like this.
After a long kiss, they went back to their conversation.
“So do people here correct left-handiness as well?”
“Yeah, it’s similar here too.”
Bina started to think hard while looking at Liselotte, who was walking with help from her big sister.
Bina asked, “What… do you think we should do with Lottie?”
“What do you think?”
After a short silence, she answered, “I want her to grow up naturally the way she is.”
“Hmm.”
“In my homeland, the new trend is not to force this change to left handed children, and…”
“And?”
Bina looked down at her two hands.
“It’s just… I don’t think there is anything wrong with being left handed.”
Lucretius smiled and nodded. “If you think so, I am happy with that.”