Chapter 192 - My Babies? (1/2)

Seeing how her tactic worked in getting a smile from Nora, Xiu tried once again saying, ”Do you know I can jump higher than a tree.”

”Huh? No, you can't,” replied Nora stubbornly.

”Of course, I can!” said Xiu with conviction.

”How's that possible?” asked Nora while crossing her arms before her chest in a challenging manner.

Xiu pinched her cheeks and said, ”Because trees can't jump, idiot! Haha!”

Her burst of laughter made Nora roll her eyes at her as she nudged her lightly and said, ”If you didn't give up on such lame jokes, I'm gonna kill you.”

”Such a bad temper!” grumbled Xiu like an annoyed kid.

Just as they were goofing around, they heard the sound of door unlocking and looked at each other with a horrified look as Xiu pushed Nora and whisper yelled, ”Get your dumb ass to the shower. If your mother saw you like this, it won't end well.”

Nora nodded her head and ran towards her room while Xiu cleared Nora's browsing history before shutting down the laptop. It was never a good idea to let Clara Cartwright know that her only daughter had been shopping for fun. And it didn't take a genius to know that only Nora's mother had access to their apartment.

As Clara entered through the door, she found Xiu sitting with a magazine in her hand. She eyed Xiu as she placed the food basket in her hand on the table and said, ”My little Xiu, why are you reading it upside down?”

”What?” Xiu closed her eyes and bit her tongue as she realized how she had been holding her magazine upside down.

”Something's on your mind?” asked Clara as she caressed Xiu's head and sat beside her. Xiu shook her head and snuggled in the warmth that she felt around a mother figure. ”If everything is fine, why are you acting like a clingy baby? Not that I don't like it but you rarely act like this.” She tucked Xiu's hair behind her ear and added, ”Wait for a second, how come you're up so early? I thought Saturdays don't even exist for you since you always end up sleeping till Sunday.”

Xiu pursed her lips as she didn't know what to say to that. She indeed always skipped Saturday. ”Well, Clara mom... You can say that I have had the best sleep in years last night.”

Clara raised her brows in question at her and asked, ”Did you finally try my aromatherapy?”

Xiu thought back how she nuzzled up against Darren and felt calm in the presence of his overwhelming and peculiar scent. A smile formed on her lips as she replied, ”It's definitely aromatherapy. Worked like a charm.”

Clara eyed her suspiciously but didn't say anything as she got up to set the table with breakfast dishes she had brought with herself. ”Clara mom, why did you make so much?”

”Felt like doing it,” replied Clara with a shrug of her shoulders nonchalantly.

”Were you stressed over some case? Because you love doing stress cooking,” said Xiu in an obvious way and Clara ended up nodding. Xiu shook her head but didn't say anything since she herself loved to do baking whenever she was feeling down.