Chapter 13: Sly and Cunning
Li Hao plopped himself on a couch in the living room as he pouted internally at his day, and more specifically, at Liling's lack of interest in him the rest of the day,
She was currently in the kitchen with Mrs. Cho, and he could hear little snippets of their polite conversation regarding cooking as they worked together to finish up dinner,
She had spent her last hour and half taking care of Qiang, she had entertained him, bathed and clothed him, but she couldn't even find time to talk to him, how was that fair,
His failed attempt at making her flustered in the car had been the closest he had come to even getting a reaction out of her, but when Li Qiang latched onto her earlier in the evening, he could immediately make out the endearing look in her eyes, so why did she act so cold and icy when she was completely capable of expressing emotions
As Li Hao was busy whining internally at his day, Li Qiang who was also in the living room, worked diligently on the picture he was drawing on his tablet, he was going to show it to Liling once she came out, then he would be patted on the head and praised,
"What's that?", The voice of the sour man who had been pouting earlier and was now staring at his work, brought him out from his day dream, he glared up at his dad, and at a corner of the page wrote, ' Don't scare me like that',
"I only asked a simple question, don't blame me for being so jumpy"
"Is that supposed to be Liling and you?", he asked again, the picture had finally began to make sense to him, Liling was standing holding Li Qiang's hand in front of what looked like the villa, "But then where am I?"
A simple tap of his pen was all the response he gave, he had pointed in the direction of a wobbly drawn gate,
He squinted and could barely make out a stick figure standing behind the gate, was that really supposed to be him?,
He didn't have the time to question his son's artistic choices, Liling and Mrs. Cho had come out with the last of the dishes, they all looked as good as they smelt, they had really gone all out
The three of them sat round the well adorned dining table, Li Hao at the head, Liling next to him and a very eager Li Qiang-atop books-on the chair next to hers,
She ate the food in small bites but you could easily tell she was enjoying the food, so a still jealous Li Hao placed a piece of fish on her plate while encouraging her to eat more,
Seeing this, Li Qiang glared at him and proceeded to place a small cut of meat on her plate, she happily accepted it and took a bite, an action to which Qiang sent a provoking smile his father's way, 'She prefers mine, ha ha'
He could already imagine the snickering thoughts going on in his head so placed more food on her plate, Li Qiang followed suit, so they continued like this, each taking turns to place food on -the confused- Liling's plate, she easily couldn't keep up so after a short while of glaring and piling from them, she pushed her plate forward and turned to give Li Hao an icy glare, why was he shamelessly fighting with his kid?,
He was going to complain saying he hadn't started it but refrained from it, it was obviously just going to earn him an even colder stare, so he sat indignantly in silence as he watched Li Qiang poke out his tongue to show him he had lost,
Li Qiang had turned his attention to Liling and put on the most pitiful face he had as he pointed to the hand wrapped in a bandage, 'The nerve' he thought,
So his hand had magically began hurting huh, such a sly and cunning move.
The rest of the night past quickly, after taking pity on him and feeding the rest of the food to Li Qiang, she took him up to his room and tucked him into bed,
He had initially not want to let her go, but after a promise she would come to check up on him later, he hesitantly agreed,
She went to her room and took a shower, feeling refreshed, she put on a grey fleece long-sleeved top with it's matching bottom and tied her hair into a messy bun,
She turned to look through the full length window, it was pitch black outside and she could begin to hear the low rumbling of the sky, it was most likely going start raining,
Just as she called it, branched lightning lit up the dark sky followed by a loud roar of thunder, large pelts of rain against the window were heard shortly after and she drew the sued curtains close,
Keeping to her promise, she walked over to Li Qiang's room, and pushed open the the door, she couldn't see his head but she could make out a small lump under the blue duvet covers,
"Little bun?, are you okay", she called out, worry evident in her voice,
There was no response but she could sense the lump move a little, was he okay, she worried, as she walked over to his bed,
She pulled back the covers, and underneath was a curled up Li Qiang shaking intensely, his eyes were shut tightly and his hands were pressed firmly over his ears,
Panic arose within her and she reached to gently touch him, his eyes shot open and the mist cleared from them, immediately recognising her, he circled his hands across her waist and buried his head into her stomach,
He was still shaking and she put out her hand to gently caress his hair, another roar of thunder sounded and she could feel him freeze up and continue his relentless shaking,
So it was the thunder then,
She continued soothing his hair down whilst reassuring him that she was there for him and wouldn't leave, it took quite a lot of effort before he finally drifted off into sleep and due to her exhaustion, she followed along as well
So at the end of the day they lay curled up together, sleeping as blissfully as they both possibly could.
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