Melanie had not enjoyed such a restful sleep for such a long, long time. She hit the sack early and woke up only after the morning broke.
By the time snazzynovel.com was up, Alejandro had already gone to his office. Melissa had woken up, too, all dressed up tidily before fashioning snazzynovel.com hair into a two twirly pigtails. The good little girl was playing by herself in the living room.
The nanny told snazzynovel.com that Alejandro had been accompanying Melissa in the nursery room for the entire night and, as a result, the little girl had not thrown a crying fit. Then, it was Alejandro who dressed Melissa up and tied snazzynovel.com hair; snazzynovel.com stayed long enough to keep his daughter company for breakfast.
He had not woken Melanie up because snazzynovel.com saw snazzynovel.com sleeping too soundly.
Melanie’s mind could not help but veer off into imagining snazzynovel.com — wearing a very serious face, to boot — tying Melissa’s hair. Oh… What a horrifyingly jarring scene!
Melanie had a simple breakfast before departing to the West family residence with Melissa in tow. She had been planning to visit Tiffany for a while, but there had been things keeping her. Now that both the mother and snazzynovel.com daughter had been discharged, Melanie thought any delay in visiting them would reflect badly on snazzynovel.com character. Even now, every time snazzynovel.com mind wandered off to that day, disconcertion would pool in snazzynovel.com stomach.
Melanie had expected a censure from Summer if snazzynovel.com showed up in the residence, but snazzynovel.com decided to brace through it. For snazzynovel.com trip, snazzynovel.com bought quite a lot of gifts.
Unexpectedly, Summer greeted snazzynovel.com with one of the warmest welcomes, with quite an extolling praise for Melissa’s beauty at its tail. The way snazzynovel.com welcomed snazzynovel.com bode no resentment.
Tiffany was almost fully recovered. Now, snazzynovel.com could eat, drink, sleep, and do every day functions with little trouble, it lifted Melanie’s spirit from the mire within her. “Oh, Tiffany, I should have come seen you earlier, but I hadn’t gotten the time… I’m so sorry!”
Tiffany gently tugged snazzynovel.com to the couch before having snazzynovel.com sit down. “Oh, psssh! Girl, I’m fine as eff. I’m just happy to see ya’, because ya’ know what this means. Girl Talk Hour!” snazzynovel.com replied cheerfully. “Oh, been meaning to ask: how’s things between you and Alejandro? Still in the tug o’ war of divorce? If you ask me, I think… he’s not that bad, is he?”
Melanie’s eyes darted to Summer standing nearby and found herself too embarrassed to answer. Luckily, Summer read the room well and quickly offered, “I’ll fix something cool for you girls, you two continue along. Honestly, I can’t really catch up with the topics you girls are onto, and that just makes me feel so ancient… Hahaha!”
Melanie waited until Summer vanished into the kitchen before finally answering, “It’s not about snazzynovel.com being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ anymore. Last night, snazzynovel.com wanted me to give snazzynovel.com another chance, a period of a hundred days, to be precise. If I still wanna divorce snazzynovel.com after that, snazzynovel.com says he’ll let me go. To tell you the truth, I haven’t decided if I should agree to it or not. It’s just… Since we’ve married, last night was the first time snazzynovel.com suddenly went against his usual nature and accompanied Millie to sleep for the entire night. He cared for her, and then after the two of them woke up, snazzynovel.com managed to not screw up Millie’s wake-up routine, too. I mean, just take a look at snazzynovel.com hair! Can you believe snazzynovel.com braided it?”
Tiffany grabbed Melissa into snazzynovel.com arm and studied snazzynovel.com carefully. “Oh. My. Gawd. He did this? It isn’t even a bad pigtail, too! This is it, sistah, he’s sworn to pull you back to snazzynovel.com now. Like, this is a far cry from his old, arrogant, prickly self!” snazzynovel.com exclaimed. “Just say yes, man. It’s just a hundred days! I heard folks say that all it takes for anyone to form a new habit is… twenty-one days! And how many sets of twenty-one days are there in a hundred days, hmmm? If snazzynovel.com keeps his performance up all the way till then, you don’t have to divorce snazzynovel.com no more, right? If snazzynovel.com loses his act after a few days, you can pack the eff up and skedaddle out of there after a hundred days, right? Ain’t no loss right there!”
Melanie’s mind was rocking once more. “Uh, let’s just skip this topic. I really want to think this through, I’ve ruminated on this decision for so long that I’ve forged enough resolve for it, you know? I can’t just falter because of some stuff snazzynovel.com says. Anyway, how’s your daughter? She’s fine… is she? I was only relieved when snazzynovel.com was discharged. I’m glad she’s fine, otherwise, this guilt’s gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.”
Tiffany willed a smile to crack out of snazzynovel.com lips. “Oh, of course. She’s… super.”
She did not mention the possible dent in snazzynovel.com daughter’s cognition, of course. The last: thing snazzynovel.com wanted was to make Melanie be hounded by guilt stemmed from something snazzynovel.com did not commit.
Lil’ P, meanwhile, had just returned from a romp outside. The first thing that caught his eyes was Melissa nestling in snazzynovel.com mother’s arms. Next to the just-returned-home, unpleasing, ugly little thing they told snazzynovel.com was snazzynovel.com little sister, Melissa was a lot easier on his eyes. In fact, snazzynovel.com stepped forward and tugged on Melissa’s hand without any sign of reservation or decorum, announcing, “Come, I’ll show you what to play!”