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With how things blew out of proportion earlier, Penny was already expecting the stifling silence from everyone that would follow. Thus, she didn’t expect ter toe, and neither did she expect the person who first blew up to go to her room.
“Se–second brother?!”
<i>Did </i><i>he </i><ie </i>here <i>to </i>me her for Nina’s departure?
ter looked back and saw Hugo’s grim face. “Second brother, what are you doing here?”
“To heal,” was all Hugo said without looking at him. “Penny, can I
“Uh… sure.”
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The second her answer flew out of her mouth, Hugo pushed ter to the side and entered her room. Hugo joined Penny on the floor, lying on his side, staring nkly at the unknown creature inside
the cage.
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This time, it was Penny and ter’s time to be lost for words. They observed Hugo and they could see the dark clouds over him.
A shallow breath slipped past Penny and turned to ter. Her third brother was still stuck by the door, scared of her pets. Penny got up to take her pets in their cages, but then, Chunchun and Tiana went to Hugo. Tiana jumped on his cheek while Chunchun
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was in front of him and Hugo hugged it.
“Uhm… I don’t think I can put them back in their cages,” said Penny to ter. “Don’t worry. They’re trained, so they’ll stay with Second
Brother.”
ter was hesitant because the cat that was in Hugo’s embrace was the least of his concerns. It was that frog! Even so, ter carefully slinked inside and stayed in the corner.
“They won’t go to me if I stay here, right?”
“Tiana likes Second Brother a lot. She prefers to be with him than me.” Penny approached him andid her hands open. “Give it to
me.”
“Huh?” ter was momentarily confused before he realized she was pointing at the notebook mped in his armpits. “Oh, right.
Here.”
Taking the note, Penny casually sat on the edge of the bed. ter nced at her pets and seeing that they weren’t leaving Hugo, he joined Penny on the bed.
“You answered this?” she asked and snapped her eyes at him.
“Did I get it correct?”
<b>“</b>It’s all wrong.”
“Oh.”
Penny shook her head and put the note down before walking to her study desk to get a pen. When she returned, she wrote detailed points where he got it wrong which was the beginning.
ter listened to her. “I still don’t get it.” His breath hitched when
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she red at him.
“Again,” she grumbled, but she still patiently exined it one more time. This time, she was stressing each syble as if talking to a kid. “Now, do it again.”
When Penny handed the notebook and pen, ter answered it on hisp. He didn’t say anything anymore, knowing he would get some piece of her if he still didn’t try enough.
Watching this, Penny couldn’t help but shift her eyes at Hugo. Thetter hadn’t moved an inch sinceing into her room. Casting ter another look, she cocked her head to the side.
<i>‘</i><i>Why </i>are they here<i>, </i>really?‘ she scrunched up her nose, remembering how these two blew up at their parents. If there was a ce they should be in, she expected they would go to Nina’s room tofort her. But here they were, with reasons of their
own.
<i>‘</i>Well, they weren’t really bothering me… ‘her thoughts trailed off as her eyes veered to Hugo once again. <i>‘</i><i>Nope</i>. He does bother me.‘
Her face turned sour. <i>How </i><i>could </i>she <i>ignore </i><i>Hugo </i>when <i>he </i>was sulking <i>like </i><i>that</i><i>?! </i>
Despite that, Penny didn’t want to disturb him or try to console him. She didn’t want to look like she was trying hard and to be honest, she didn’t know what to tell him. While Penny was
gravitating on what to do, Hugo spoke.
“I’m sorry…”
Hugo’s voice was quiet, but with the silence, Penny and ter heard his somber remarks clearly. ter stopped writing from his
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notebook and set his eyes on Hugo’s back.
“I didn’t want you to see that, but I let my emotions get the better of me. Our parents aren’t always like that. They aren’t perfect, but at the end of the day, they only think of what’s best for us,” he continued. “Penny, they won’t send you away too.”
<i>‘</i><i>Who </i>said they’d send me <i>away </i><i>too</i><i>?</i>‘ the space between her brows
crinkled.
“Even if they want to, I wille with you,” he added, making her
face contort. 1
She wanted to tell him she wasn’t going anywhere, but she bit her tongue. Penny knew that was a lie. Her brows rose when she sensed ter’s gaze on her. When she tilted her head, ter just looked away.
<i>‘</i><i>Why </i>is he looking at me like <i>that</i>?” she wondered but didn’t voice it
out.
For the next few hours, ter and Hugo just squatted in her room. Hugo stayed in the same spot until his side felt numb. Hence, he moved andy on the other side. Meanwhile, ter would constantly ask her questions and show her his answers to the lesson they were covering before the family drama.
Although Penny didn’t get the answer for why they were actually there, she also didn’t ask. She thought if she asked more, they would think she was chasing them away. These boys were a little pitiful, and she didn’t have a heart. Especially, when she knew Hugo was healing with her pet. Her pets were therapeutic. ? 2024 N?v/el/Dram/a.Org.
Another hourter, Butler Jen knocked on Penny’s room. When he
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opened the door, he was surprised to see ter and Hugo idling in her room. Some other servants were looking for them around the house, after all.
“Butler Jen?” Penny called, snapping Butler Jen’s attention back to the reason he came here. “Miss Penny, Second and Third young master, your father is calling for you in the family room.”
ter and Hugo slowly raised their heads at the door, only to see Butler Jen smile warmly at them. “It’s a family meeting.”
<i>‘</i><i>Would </i><i>Dad </i><i>tell </i>us they won’t send <i>Nina </i><i>away </i>anymore<i>?</i>‘ was Penny’s immediate thought. <i>‘</i><i>Well</i>… <b><i>it’s </i></b><i>okay</i><i>. </i><b><i>It’s </i></b>better <i>to </i>keep <i>the </i>enemy close.‘
There was one saying Penny learned during her time in prison:
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Though in this context, she wouldn’t do it literally… just enough to keep her away.
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