
"Who's father?" Ask the boy who calls himself Chris.
"Oh this." Wayne pat Aldrich on the shoulder as if very familiar. "He's my son's father's friend. Lost in the market. So I just brought him here. I can play with Chris."
Aldrich looked straight at Wayne. Wait, what? Who is lost? Who wants to be his friend? I'm who? Me where?
"Hello my name is Chris." Aldrich's hand was immediately invited to shake forcefully by Chris.
"I'm-I'm Aldrich."
"We're cooking yuk." Again Chris did the coercion on Aldrich, by pulling it towards the park that there are plastic toys in the form of stoves and bowls.
"You're a man, why do you cook?" Ask Aldrich.
"Eh? Father said, many chefs are men. My goal is to be a chef. It can cook for all creatures. Including elephants and crocodiles. I'm afraid of crocodiles because they have a lot of teeth. But father said, crocodiles actually like to eat cake, only he was embarrassed. So I want to make a good cake so that crocodiles are not ashamed anymore."
Aldrich patted his forehead. God, this kid talks non-stop. What the fuck is that anyway? Crocodiles eat cake? Sillier.
"How old are you?" Ask Aldrich.
"I'm 7 years old."
Aldrich shook his head slowly. "Look yes, Chris. Crocodiles are large reptiles that live in water. Scientifically, crocodiles include all species of members of the family Crocodylidae. Crocodiles can also be called alligators, kaimans and gavials. The main food of crocodiles is vertebrate animals such as fish, reptiles and mammals, sometimes also prey on mollusks and crustaceans depending on the species."
"Hahaha what is that? I don't get it."
Huh uh?! I'm 7 years old and I've memorized all the animals out of my head.
Aldrich is searching for Wayne. But it turns out that the man entered the house first, and left himself with a strange child who thought crocodiles ate cake.
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Emma stared intently at her computer, which was displaying fake news about her.
"Ah no! Down again! Shares we stole again!!!!" Ezra shouted hysterically while shaking the tablet in his hand. "If we continue this way, we will fall poor huhuhu." Continue while crying.
Emma squeezed her hand in annoyance. Hamilton family! How dare you!!!
Drrv!
Emma glanced at her mobile phone vibrating on the table. It says 'Home'.
"Hello?"
"Miss, awful!!!" Ron's voice panicked.
Brak!
Ezra jumped in shock when Emma suddenly hit the table after picking up the phone. "Why? What's up?"
"I have to go home. You're just here."
"What's? Am I left out? But big brother, under a lot of reporters. They'll rain you questions."
"Look, this is my company so I know how to get out of here without going through the main door. More importantly..." Emma pointed her seat at Ezra. "You take care here and keep a close eye on the situation on social media. When I told you to be ready."
"Eh? Tell what?"
"Eitherway. I'll go first." Emma hastily picked up her suit and bag.
Geez, I was told to do something uncertain.
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"As I explained on the phone. Aldrich left and hasn't come back yet." Ron leads Emma into Aldrich's room where there was a stone-throwing incident. And when he saw the situation, the window glass really broke.
Emma slammed into the floor. "Where is the stone that Al threw?"
"Eh? I haven't seen him either. Wait a minute, I'll help you find." Ron looked at the corner of the floor and looked under the bed. He finally found it. "It's miss!"
"I thought so." Emma took the stone which turned out to be wrapped around by rubber at the end of which there was a paper folded into small. Ron only realized that, because before he only saw when Aldrich threw it.
Emma opened the paper, and read the writing inside.
I'm not leaving. Just gonna fool them for a second. Wait for me to come home. Didn't we promise?
Emma smiled, then put the paper on the bed. "I'm sure Al's fine now, I trust him. Now take me to the man who's being held hostage."
"That's right through here, miss." Ron leads the way and Emma follows him.
They think they can just win? Idiotically.
Geck! Geck!
Emma and Ron stopped walking after hearing the knock on the door. They agreed to change the route to the front door. Now the state of the first floor is quiet because Ruri and the twins are on the second floor. Slowly Emma opened the door with a broom she had brought with her just in case.
"Finally, are you okay? Why bring a broom?"
Emma was silent after seeing that the people who came were Matt, and Ryker.
"Why are you here?" Ask Emma in a sniffle tone.
"Ah that, I... Worrying about Aldrich. Is she okay? Can I meet him?" Matt Said.
"Meet?" Emma smiled cynically. "For what? So you can kill? From the beginning, you may not have told me to find a child to kill huh?!"
"You know that already? Look, I'm not the same as them. It was all grandma's idea. Believe it."
"uh? Suddenly making a defense, it sounded even more suspicious." Emma threw away her face. "Then if you weren't on their side, why didn't you tell me from the beginning? Or at least a week ago, while we were on vacation. But you disappeared instead. Isn't that suspicious?"
"I was arrested by my grandmother." Bela Matt's.
"Why not try to escape?"
"I agree with Miss." Ryker pointed his thumb.
"You are!" Matt put Ryker's hands away. "Honestly, I don't know about Aldrich. And after I understood, grandma held me back. I admit at the time I was stupid for not trying to escape, but-"
"Not that time, but now you're still stupid." Sela Ryker's.
"Can you just shut up?!"
"I'm just straightening the facts."
Emma and Ron instead become an impromptu audience from the drama boss vs. secretary. I don't know what they're arguing about, but it doesn't seem important.
"So what's the point?" Emma folded her hands with a vexed expression.
"The bottom line is, I'm on your side in avenging the Hamilton family. Actually, I want my family to be aware of their misbehavior, and want to fix this crazy family order. So then... Let's be friends." Matt held out his hand towards Emma.
The woman in front of him looked uncertain. He stared at Matt many times and then turned to Ryker. They both don't look like people who are lying.
So can I believe it?
Emma received Matt's hand.