Chapter 9

Josephine remained motionless, trying not even to hear her breathing. She stood at the end of a short corridor after the entrance and opened onto the interior of her apartment. Sitting on a chair in the corner of the open living room, Rain was busy fiddling with a math game on the computer. On the kitchen floor, Sky was busy observing several types and sizes of pipes, with a wooden ruler in his right hand and a pencil tucked into his ear. In the living room, on the carpet, Flower and Anna were assembling various toy furniture into a playhouse and chatting as two neighbors were planning a tea party with the dolls lined up on the sofa. The tired and restless feelings in Josephine's heart vanished like smoke in the rain, seeing the most beautiful sight before her eyes. She doesn't want to blink and record every second of it in a special memory, to play it back in memory when she feels sad or faces difficulties. After several minutes passed, without anyone noticing her presence because eve