Chapter 592 All This Way For A Skillet
Lilly said, "Grandma, we''re on vacation! Look at all the flowers!"
She turned the phone around.
Above the viaduct, Spring City was in full bloom. There were flowers everywhere you looked.
It was the middle of spring, and things were a lot less busy than in Alfornada. Some people pushed
their strollers along the streets, strolling under the flowering trees.
A few children ran over from the garden, ying with a piece of grass in their hands.
"Isn''t it pretty? Lilly asked. "Do you see it, Grandma?"
Bettany nodded. "Yes, I see it."
Lilly said, "Grandma, when are youing here to y too? Spring City''s so, so pretty. Uncle Cloud
says there''s a beautifulke a hundred miles away from here, you can boat on it!"
"It''s ake and not the ocean, but''s it''s huge just like the ocean!"
Bettany listened with a neutral expression. "Ahh…"
Lilly said, "Yeah! Grandma, I''ve got to tell you this— Sean and Cathy solved their misunderstanding!
Sean was actually really happy about it, he just looked sour."
Bettany listened to Lilly quietly, and before long both of them had chatted for an hour.
ke and Cloud led the way for Lilly, and they eventually ended up at their hotel.
"Grandma, we''re here! Dad says we should eat, let''s talk at night?"
Bettany nodded. "Of course."
The call ended. ke and Cloud heaved a sigh of relief at once.
God, they had been so afraid that Bettany would say out of nowhere—
Lilly, where''s your Dad?
Lilly, where''s your Uncle Cloud?
They''d avoided yelling at today, this was worth celebrating!
ke hauled Lilly onto his shoulder. "Let''s go, we''ll have something good today!"
"Yes, yes! I wanna drink flower wine!"
Flower wine, like its name suggested, was wine fermented from flowers. ke had brought it up two
days ago without much thought, only for Lilly to have remembered it…
Over on another end.
Bettany hung up the call, her eyes shing with yearning.
Her little darling had been away from home for five days, and she was missing her dearly!
"Hey, Hugh, book us a flight," Bettany said all of a sudden. "We''re going to Spring City!"
They were just going to go like that?
Bettany said, "Why not! We''re old, what if we don''t have that long to leave! We should just go wherever
we want to!
Hugh said, "You just came out of the hospital! I''ve truly never seen anyone have the itch to be jetting
around less than half a month after an open surgery."
Bettany said, "What about an open surgery!"
Hugh then said, "There''s a spike in air pressure when you''re flying in the air! It''ll tear your stitches!"
Yet when it came down to it, Hugh could not bear to see Bettany upset for long. He paused, before
finally saying, "We can take the train."
Bettany smiled at once. "Yeah, we can take the train!"
It was just a ten-hour ride, after all!
They could just book an entire carriage to themselves.
They could even bring a fold-up bed there.
Then they''d be able to sleep all the way to Spring City!
Bettany got to work at once, urging Hugh to book the tickets then having Margaret prepare for the trip.
Hugh blinked. "Are we just going now? We''ll reach at two or three in the morning if we go now. We can
leave tomorrow, or at night. We''ll be there in the morning right after a night of sleep if we leave at
night."
Bettany said, “No! I want to go now.”
Hughsted all of two seconds. "...Fine."
"Bring a skillet." Bettany piped up, all of a sudden.
Bettany said, “We''ll stay by theke for a while. Book a hotel with a stove… I want to cook for Lilly!”
This wasn''t just a matter of cooking for Lilly, was it? All this way for a skillet!
**
ke brought Lilly to the Antipolo Tavern.
It was full of people, especially crowded at night.
The owner of the tavern sat by the door. There was a table in front of him, filled with the flower wine
he''d brewed along with some snacks.
He tapped on his drum leisurely, the whimsical rhythm adding ayer of fun to the city.
Cloud said, "It''s time to go home."
ke hadn''t felt this rxed in a long time. He leaned back in his seat leisurely. "What''s the rush? Let''s
sit for a while longer."
Cloud nced at the time. "It''s almost eleven."
Antipolo was at its most lively at eleven!
Despite not going to any bars, they sat on the second floor on their wooden stools leaning against the
window. They''d take a sip of flower wine every now and then, the night making them feel evenzier to
move.
Lilly took a sip of her barley milk, feeling a little drunk just from it alone.
"Yummy!" She raised her ss. "Cheers!"
The sounds of the shop owner''s drum got quicker by the second. A few tourists linked hands, forming a
circle out of nowhere and beginning to dance.
More and more people joined, the air ringing withughs and chatter.
ke hoisted Lilly up. "Let''s go!"
Cloud got to his feet.
ke said, "You stay put, or they might think we''ve left and clear our table."
ke was tall and broad, and the sight of him with Lilly on his shoulder drew the attention of the crowd
at once.
Antipolo was called thend of fate. It was easy to fall in love at first nce with the dizzying,
intoxicating atmosphere.
Several women flocked over to flirt.
"Hey, handsome! Let''s be friends!"
ke said, “No, thanks. My daughter''s almost five.”
The women left, disappointed.
Another girl came over. "Hey, you. Wanna chat over some drinks?"
ke was emotionless. "I''ll pass. My daughter''s almost five."
The girl walked away, disappointed as well.
"Hey, Mister. Like what you see?"
ke said, “Go away. My daughter''s almost five.”
Bulletproof-shield-Lilly asked curiously, "Dad, why can''t you make new friends or have a drink just
because I''m five."
ke raised his eyebrows. "I''d act the same even if you weren''t five."
He had never considered getting Lilly a stepmother, ever. He had never thought of it, and would never
as well.
Lilly had enough family. She wasn''tcking any maternal love at all.
ke and Lilly yed downstairs for a long, long time. Cloud was going to go crazy from being hit on.
He leaned against the window, yelling, "Come upstairs!"
Whoosh…
A flock of girls ran up.
ke brought Lilly upstairs, finally squeezing over to their table with great effort.
Cloud gritted his teeth. "It''ll be half past one if you keep going!"
ke nced at Lilly, who was clearly still rearing to go. "Who knows when we''ll be back here? Lilly''s
never experienced Antipolo before, what''s the harm in going back a littleter?"
Cloud did not know what to say. "Are you really going to stay the night?"
ke asked, “What''s wrong with that?”
The olddy was thousands of miles away, anyways.
She''d just had surgery, and couldn''t get on a flight.
There was no way she could somehow get here and give him a skillet to the face.
Cloud did not know what to say.
ke sat down with Lilly, and slowly less and lesser girls came over to hit on them.
On the other hand…
There were more and more men who came over to flirt.
Cloud and ke had not noticed at first, but slowly started realizing something was off.
In the end, both of them ended up in a bad mood.
Lilly was thoroughly spent, dozing off in ke''s arms.
It was past three already. ke carried Lilly in his arms, Cloud walking next to him as the three of them
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headed back to their hotel.
Just as they got to the hotel entrance, a familiar looking figure walked past them.
Cloud stopped short. "I think I''m seeing things. Why do I feel like Mom just walked past us?"
ke said, "Ha, no way. It''s the middle of the night, the olddy''s still in Alfornado! Even if she left at
night she''d only get here in the morning."
There was no way the old man would let the olddy have her way to this extent.
Just as he was thinking to himself, a cold voice rang through the air. "ke MacNeil!"