Chapter 168

As I park my car in the garage, I see Mia sitting in the sun outside while she is working on the laptop with Mabel in her pram beside her and Gordon playing football by himself in the front yard. Her eyes broaden when she sees my car, and she gets up from where she is sitting. I'm pretty sure that she still hasn’t seen who I have in the car with me, I ask her parents to bend lower as she approaches us. When I open the driver’s door after I am done parking the car, I get down to be greeted by her in not such a fun way. She remarked, “Why are you back?” “To surprise you,” I replied. She still couldn’t believe that I came back for what I mentioned, so she commented, “But you had something important at work!?” That is when I turned her around as I also covered her eyes with my hand. Walking to the car, I opened the door of the passenger seat and then of the back seat where her dad and mom were sitting respectively. They sat up straight because they had bent down their upper body, so that t