Female Novel
Chapter 1245
"Heinz," Alice gave an awkward chuckle and said, "I just arrived."
Heinz remained calm and collected. He could guess that she had probably arrived quite a whileago, and had also eavesdropped on the conversation between him and Gary just now.
Heinz said, "If you have something to talk to Gary about, you should go in."
"Little Aunt," The door opened.
Gary was already standing by the door. When he saw Alice, he smiled.
Heinz held Grace's hand and said, "Let's go downstairs."
Thus, both of them went downstairs.
Alice stayed and asked, "Gary, why are you leaving so suddenly?"
"It's not sudden at all." Gary responded, "I have merely moved my schedule forward by less than aweek."
"What about Ernest?" Alice asked again, "Is he not going with you?"
"We are not heading to the same destination, nor do we have the same itinerary," Gary changed thetopic nonchalantly.
Alice looked toward Ernest's room and knocked on his door.
The door opened.
Seeing Alice, Ernest greeted her with a smile, "Little Aunt, what brought you here? Isn't it too earlyfor you to send my brother off?"
"When are you leaving?"
"I'm following the original schedule," Ernest answered.
"Then let's have a banquet. We'll see you guys off."
"Won't that be troublesome?"
"Not at all; life has to be ritualistic. Otherwise, how are the younger ones going to learn from youtwo? You guys are their role models."
"I'm fine with anything," Ernest was still easygoing as usual. Then, he looked toward Gary.
"Why are you looking at me?" Gary asked back, "I don't have any objections either."
"That's settled then," Alice said, "I'll go and discuss this with your parents. Continue with whateveryou guys were working on."
"Alright."
The both of them watched as Alice walked downstairs.
Gary was about to return to his room when Ernest called out, "Gary."
Gary stopped and looked at Ernest, "Yes?"
"Gary, have you heard of the saying that love will come in time?" Ernest asked with a smile. Hesounded casual as if there wasn't any hidden meaning behind his question.
However, Gary tensed up in an instant. He looked at Ernest and smiled slightly, but it wasn'tgenuine.
His gaze was excessively sharp as he looked straight at Ernest. After that, he nodded and said, "Iagree with you."
Ernest's eyes tightened. It seemed that Gary had really thought this through already.
Based on Gary's personality, Ernest thought that, at the very least, he wouldn't have allowedCeleste to head to England.
Yet, he had clearly been wrong about it.
He realized that he still didn't understand Gary at times.
Ernest smiled and said, "Since you think so too, I'm going to spend a lot of time together withCeleste in England."
Ernest's playful smile reflected in Gary's eyes as if he was trying to remind him of something.
Gary didn't say much. He merely curled his lips and said, "It's best if love does come in time for theboth of you. I'll be giving you my blessings."
After saying that, Gary smiled once again, then retreated into his own room.
Outside, Ernest was stunned for a long time.
Was he really going to give up so easily?
That shouldn't have been the case.
Meanwhile, Heinz and Grace were convinced by Alice to organize a party.
Upon reaching a consensus, Alice gave Yvonne a call to inform her about it.
On the other hand, all four children arrived at the living hall.
It became really lively.
Sylvia was the little overlord of the household, whereas the third son of the Jones family, Sebastian,was very quiet.
Alongside his own sister, Snowie, Latem was also very excited to play around with Sylvia in the hall.On the other hand, Sebastian sat next to his mother on the couch.
Looking at the three children who were enjoying themselves there, Alice looked at Sebastian andcouldn't help but ask, "Sebastian, why don't you play with them?"
"Little Aunt, I want to accompany Mommy." Sebastian held Grace's arm and continued to say, "Iprefer accompanying her."
"You are so sweet," Alice hugged him and gave him a kiss, "Sebastian, you're totally your mommy'scuddle bug."
Sebastian merely smiled, looking composed.
Heinz looked at his third son and couldn't help but frown, "Sebastian, you're a boy. You shouldn'tcling to your mommy all the time."
Sebastian looked at his father and hesitated for a while before asking slowly, "Daddy, you're also aman, so why are you always clinging to Mommy? Besides, you also always cling to Sylvia too.There's a difference between boys and girls; you're the one who should behave yourself."
"Uh," Heinz instantly felt speechless.
Alice burst out laughing.
Grace also covered her mouth and laughed.
Heinz wasn't too happy about it. Although Sebastian was really well-behaved, he would still comeup with things such as this from time to time. Yet, he looked so composed and steady all the time.
That was the most irritating part of it all.
Despite being such a decent child, he still found joy in creating trouble to embarrass people fromtime to time.
"Daddy, Daddy, what's going on?" Sylvia ran over, "Little Aunt, what are you guys laughing at?"
"Nothing," Alice couldn't help but smile, "Nothing happened."novelbin
Sylvia was a bright child too, so naturally, she could sense that her daddy wasn't too happy whileher mommy was laughing at one corner. Looked like something had happened without herknowledge.
She immediately looked at Sebastian and asked, "Sebastian Jones, what happened?"
Sebastian remained composed and responded slowly, "Call me Sebastian."
"Hahaha." Alice burst out laughing again.
Sylvia wrinkled her nose and said, "Daddy, look at him."
"It's only right for you to address him as so," Grace said before Heinz could say anything, "You'realways so disrespectful."
"Don't say that." Heinz felt bad for Sylvia and pulled her in his arms, shielding her from her mother'sscolding.
Alice couldn't stand it anymore, "Heinz, can't you distinguish between what's right and wrong here?Sylvia, you shouldn't address Sebastian as so. If you always address him by his full name, otherpeople will mock you for not being polite. Even if they don't mock you, they will still mock yourparents for not teaching you well enough."
Sylvia didn't expect Alice to lecture her as well. Although she had realized her own mistake, she stillpouted as she felt reluctant to admit it.
Grace looked towards Heinz, then towards Sylvia and said, "Sylvia, you can't be so disrespectful inthe future. We can dote on you, but we can't spoil you."
"What's wrong with calling him by his full name? I have every right to call him so, isn't it?" Sylvia stillrefused to admit her mistake.
"Sure, Sylvia Jones, Sylvia Jones," Latem called out while he ran over, holding Snowie's hand.
Snowie also joined in with her childish voice, "Sylvia Jones, Sylvia Jones."
"Call me Sylvia," Sylvia immediately felt unhappy. She was the youngest child in their family, so shecould only act as an elder sister in front of Latem, Snowie, and her other cousins.
She couldn't allow the both of them to rebel against her.
"Call your brother first," Although Latem was only seven years old, he could still pinpoint the mainissue. His expression was as serious as Jensen, making him look like a stern policeman.
Sylvia felt defeated. As she looked at everyone, she stopped pouting, and her gaze suddenlybecame mischievous as she said to Sebastian, "Sorry, Sebastian, I was wrong. I should haverespected you."
"It's okay," Sebastian waved his hand with magnanimity.
Sylvia immediately turned to look at Latem and Snowie, "It's your turn to apologize to me and callme Sylvia now."