"Honey, why did you tell our daughter that we are that stinky boy's family? "Aldrich questioned his wife as soon as he saw her in the tiny kitchen busy making breakfast.
The house they lived in was very small. It was at the end of the alley, squeezed into the city wall by the other houses beside it. It has two floors on it. The second floor contains two bedrooms, one for the couple and one for their daughter. It also has a small balcony where they do their laundry and dry them.
The first floor is also very small. It has a tiny kitchen, a bathroom, and living and dining room as one. They had little space, but it was just enough for their family of three. That's why Aldrich can see his wife the moment he descended the stairs.
Felicia turns her head to look at her husband, her fair and slender with pink fingernails contrasting with the spatula as she flipped the pancakes. Aldrich stared drooling at her hands, he has a bit of a hand fetish. Aldrich shook the messy thoughts in his head, looking up at his wife's face that had a questioning look at them.
"Aren't we adopting him darling? So we are going to be his family, and Lili will have a big brother to take care of her. "She nonchalantly said, turning back to her cooking.
"Where did you get that idea? Honey, even though you feel bad for him, it is not right just to go deciding that we are going to adopt him, maybe his parents are looking for him. "
Felicia paused, then decisively turn off the electric stove, turn around with her hands at her waist, and glared at her husband.
"Do you really think that I don't know anything? I maybe naive, but that doesn't made me foolish. You should know that Aldrich. Beside his gunshotwound, I saw many old scars in his body, his hands had cocoons on them that I know is the result of hard training and handling of weapons. I know of them. His small body bear many evidences of the hard times he had gone through. And let us hypothesize that he has a family. Judging by the training he received, we could conclude that the family either belong to those big noble families or families of the underground society. But I am sure that if the family he belongs to cares for him, even a little bit, he would not be in that state. It is obvious that he had been tortured since at a young age. The only possibility left is that he came from an underground organization, or that he is being molded into a tool, a machine, making a killing machine that could only obey orders in the future. And maybe he was wounded and nearly died because of that organization! "Felicia said in one breath, huffing.
"It is obvious that he escaped, sending him out will only get him killed, as we don't know if those that are after him have stop looking. We are new in this area, so suddenly adding a new member will not make a big splash, and the neighbors will be curious, but that's all. We can keep the boy, right ?I really want to have him as a son. I'm sure Lili will be thrilled to have a big brother, especially a beautiful big brother. "Felicia smiled.
Aldrich looked complicated. His honey gave a speech, showing how much she wanted to keep the little boy. All those high sounding reasons, he is pretty sure that his wife prepared them and analyzed deeply so she can have what she wants.
The ending of her tirade revealed her. She wants to adopt Xiaobai for only one reason, he is very beautiful,and will sure be more so when he grows up.
Aldrich feels very helpless. He can't complain about his wife's love for beauty, as he used this weakness of hers to seduce her. All he can say is, Karma really does exist.
At the same time in the room above, the two little guys have been staring at each other silently. Xiaobai was assessing the baby girl.
He was feeling uncomfortable .It is his first time sleeping and being in a bedroom, a closed space, with the opposite sex. The girl is a baby, but that doesn't diminish his discomfort. He didn't know how to deal with her, because the times he is in such close contact with the other gender is when he killed them. He can't use that to deal with this baby girl.
"Big brother, you are so beautiful, like a doll." Lili first broke the silence. Her round black eyes are shining, her pink cheeks are chubby, her long eyelashes are fluttering as she keeps in looking at him. Her features are exquisite, fully inheriting the advantages of her handsome father and gorgeous mother. It is obvious that she will grow to a devastating beauty in the future, don't know how many hearts she will gather, or how many of it she will break.
But thinking about the disaster in the future, her beauty is sure to do her harm. The boy frowned. He didn't like being called beautiful. He pursed his lips and said seriously to the little girl, "Don't call me beautiful, I don't like it. "
"Why so? You are very beautiful! "
"I just don't like it. " he said.
"Beautiful! "
"Not beautiful. "
" Beautiful! "
"Not beautiful. "
The two of them continued over and over,adn minutes passed by, the two of them gradually became impatient, a little angry, and breathless, until Xiaobai came to his senses and stopped.
He complicatedly look at Lili, not knowing what came over him, childishly arguing over something irrelevant . He was even feeling aggrieved! Like a child about to throw a tantrum because he is not able to make his point and achieve victory. But even so, he can't muster any dislike for Lili, he even somehow feel that she is adorable?
Black crows came flying over his head, he fell silent. It seem that regressing back to a child have a very severe effect. He can't help worrying about his future.
He looked up at the ceiling, contemplating about life, and across him, Lili also copied his action, wondering what was so amazing up there that it made Xiaobai so fascinated that he stop arguing with her. Silence was once again regained in that small room.