Chapter 2: A blind date
Henry was cleaning the floor while wearing an apron and Hazel was sitting on a chair while playing with her toy, waiting for her dad to get free, so they can go to home. A middle-aged woman entered the restaurant.
"Henry, why are you still wearing the apron? you didn't change your clothes, hurry up! go and change them" the woman said.
"But I just changed them in the morning, they are still clean," he said while giving her a warm smile.
"Shouldn't you give her a good impression?" the woman asked,
"I'm the point, aunt Noah, not my clothes, so it's okay" he innocently replied.
"Okay, but put your apron off," she said.
"Ah, okay," he said and removed the apron.
"Hazel, let's go to the park," the aunt said,
"Sure, we will go fishing and I want a water pistol too," she excitedly said.
"Okay, I'll buy it for you," the aunt said while smiling and they left.
At the restaurant, there was a beautiful woman with beautiful long hair, who was wearing a casual long frock, she also have a son of Hazel's age. The boy seems poor, but for some reason, Hazel was not liking him, she was giving him an angry expression. The little boy was innocently looking at Hazel's angry face.
"Cookie, he's Li Henry, he's the landlord of the noodle shop and Henry she is a beauty assistant, C'mon now you introduce yourself to each other" Aunt Noah spoke up.
The other woman spoke up, "Hello, I'm Cookie, nice to meet you" she said while shaking her hand with Henry.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Henry," he said while smiling warmly.
"He's Jack" Cookie said while pointing toward the kid standing beside her.
"Nice to meet you, uncle," the little kid said.
"nice to meet you too, lovely boy, how old are you," he said while leaving Hazel's hand and sitting on his level. "I'm seven," Jack replied.
"Seven, ah let me introduce a younger sister to you," he said and turned around toward Hazel,
"Hazel-" he was about to say something when she angrily ran out of there,
"Hazel!!" Henry shouted but she didn't listen, he was about to go after her when aunt Noah grabbed her shoulder,
"I'll go and find her, you have a nice chat with each other" and left. Cookie looked at her son who was looking at her with wide eyes,
"Do you wanna play outside?" she asked while looking down. He nodded
"Go and play with Hazel, okay," Henry said, Jack looked at her mother then,
"go ahead," she said while smiling, and he ran outside. Henry was looking at his disappearing figure with a bright smile on his face.
"let's have the seats," the woman said, and they both sat,
"Hazel is too young to be sensible, sorry about that," Henry said.
"It's okay," she said. Silence takes place among them
"uh, have the tea," Henry said while pouring the tea into a cup,
"Thank you," the woman said.
After five minutes of silence, the woman spoke up, "Aunt Noah told me that you lost your wife last year"
"Yeah, she passed due to illness" he replied,
" Isn't it too early to find a new wife?" Cookie said.
"Well, all the neighbors are persuading me to do so, moreover Hazel is too young, she needs someone to look after her" he replied.
"Yeah, you are right, even Jack needs a dad, What's your hobby?" Cookie asked,
"hobby? uh... I... I like cooking," he said while thinking about his hobbies,
"hobbies?" Cookie asked. "Yeah," he said while smiling
."Nothing else?" she again asked,
"Well, no, nothing more, my restaurant is usually very busy, what about you?" he asked.
"I like reading" Cookie replied
"I'm also too busy and hardly find time to read" she again said.
"I see, how do you prepare Jack's meal if you are that busy?" he asked with curiosity,
"he buys food for himself" she replied.
"Buy food?" he asked with shock. She nodded.
"Then, can he gain enough nutrition?" he again asked.
" I'm also worried about him, but I have no other choice, I have to work 10 hours a day," she said while looking down.
"Ah, so why not take him to my restaurant to have noodles as you're free," he said.
"Do you like kids" the woman smiled and looked up.
"Yes, of course, I like them, they are so interesting, really cute" he replied while smiling, she was giving him a disbelief expression.
On The Other Side
Jack was sitting in a park on a bench while drinking juice and looking at Hazel and Aunt Noah, who were busy buying a water gun, as she have the gun she turned around and looked at Jack, and angrily started throwing water at him with the gun.
"Hey, Hazel, how can you spray water on your brother?" Aunt Noah said while stopping her.
"He's not my brother, I don't want a stepmother" she shouted.
"Don't you like aunt Cookie?" she asked.
"No, I don't want any stepmother, you are a bad person" she shouted at aunt Noah,
"Why am I a bad person, now," she asked but Hazel didn't reply, instead throw water on her with the gun and then again throw water on Jack.
Jack stood up and started running in the park while Hazel started following him and shouting "Bad guy, destroy the bad guy,"
"Hazel, enough, stop it now," the aunt said while running after Hazel to stop him.
"How can you spray wet all over Jack, what if he catches a cold, we would send him to the hospital," Henry asked while coming back home and holding Hazel's hand.
She was just listening to him and saw Eric and his mom coming outside from the apartment, and running toward him.
"Brother Eric!!! let's play with the water pistol together" she excitedly said, but Eric didn't reply and instead kept on staring at him with a serious facial expression.
"She's talking to you," Ashley said while smiling, still no response from Eric's side,
"say hello to uncle," his mother said, Eric looked at Henry
"Hello, Eric," Henry said while waving his hand, but Eric still didn't say anything.
"Are you going out?" Henry asked,
"Yes, need to buy some groceries, did you bring her out to play?" Ashley asked.
"He went on a blind date" Hazel immediately spoke up.
Henry made her quiet, while Ashley awkwardly smiled, "I think she's pretty" she said.
"Just have a chat," Henry said.
"A pretty woman is hard to be a good wife, we have to leave now," she said and left.
At Night
Frankie, Ashley, and Eric were eating their dinner, Frankie was giving Eric more rice and vegetable, "You see, his wife has died only a year ago, and now he's in a hurry to have the blind date" Ashley said while eating her meal.
"Well, I think, he's not a bad guy," Frankie said while eating hurriedly, she looked at him
"why are you eating so fast?" she asked.
"I'm on night duty today" he replied while eating the food,
"Have you stayed at home for over half an hour?" she asked.
"As I changed my place, I've had to handle a lot of things," he said and again started eating his food. Ashley angrily put the spoon on the table, Frankie looked at her,
"No matter where we move, it's all the same, do you feel uncomfortable with me, what about changing your wife, as Henry goes on date, you should also find someone to marry," she said.
Eric was silently eating his food while sitting with them. "Darling, how dare I, all my efforts are for you and our home?" he said while smiling.
"Home? why can't I find that?" she said and angrily left from there.
"What is this?" Henry asked while showing Hazel a basket,
"it's a welcome gift," she replied, "Hazel, set out," Henry said with a smile on his face,
"Yes," she said and grabbed the basket from his hand went outside the house, and started climbing the stairs to go to Mr. Frankie's house.
Eric was helping her mom with dinner, when the bell rang, "open the door, your dad must forget the keys" Ashley said from the kitchen and Eric went toward the door to open it.
As he opened the door, Hazel was standing there with a basket full of walnut, and showed it to him,
"brother Eric, here's a welcome gift," she said with a wide smile, Eric looked at the walnuts and after recalling something, he yanked the floor-positioned basket with rage.
The walnuts were all spread over there, and some even fell down the steps. The door was then abruptly shut by Eric. She began gathering them and putting them in the basket.
Henry, who was standing outside waiting for her, noticed the dropped walnuts and ran up when he saw Hazel picking them up "what happened?" He sat down at her level and inquired,
She picked them up and remarked, "We'll give something else next time, maybe they don't like walnuts."
In disbelief, Henry questioned, "Next time??"
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