Jojo looked at the screen and furrowed her brows. “Who would be calling at this time?” she asked.“No name?” Finn asked with a raised brow.Jojo shook her head. “No, it's a new number,” she said, contemplating whether to pick up or not.“Maybe it's your crush,” Finn said teasingly.Jojo looked at him with a pout. “Which crush?”“Jeff?” Finn asked. “He never seems to give up, does he?”“Shut up! You are just jealous,” Jojo said and picked up.She thought that if it was Jeff, he would have some news about what happened to Penny's mom.“Jojo?” Penny's voice was heard from the other side.Jojo froze in place for a second. “Penny?” She called back. Finn had said that they needed to give them some time. She didn't expect that she would call so soon.“It's me, Jojo. How are you? I miss you, girl,” Penny said.But Jojo sighed deeply. “You are so full of shit, Penny. I won't forgive you for leaving like that,” she said.But the truth was just she was just happy to hear from her friend. She was
After the surprise, Jojo and the rest went back home.Pops was old, and Nill was still young, so they fell asleep almost immediately.Jojo and Finn were in their room. Finn held her chin and looked into her eyes. “Don't we have any good news yet?” He asked.Jojo looked at him in confusion. “Good news? What do you even mean?” She asked in confusion.Finn sighed and looked at her flat belly. He stretched his hand and caressed them. “We need to have a kid, honey…” he said.Jojo sighed. Of course, she knew. “We can't push it,” she said almost in a whisper. “When the time is right, we will have one.”Finn nodded and pulled her into his arms. “I know,” he said. “I'm just wondering how good it will be when we have another kid running around.”Jojo chuckled. “Yeah? They at times keep you so busy that you can't do anything else,” she said.“Huh?” Finn raised his brows. “You speak like you have had one before.”Jojo kept chuckling. “Those are motherly instincts,” she said. “We know it's going t
“What? Just like that?” Bradley asked in confusion. He thought it was going to be very hard to please the man.Mr. Riley scoffed, but he still nodded his head. “Yeah, just like that,” he said.He fell silent for a second before looking up at Bradley. “I think you are a good man for my daughter. I hope I don't regret it,” he said.Bradley nodded, but he still felt like something was off. There must have been one thing that he had said that had made the man trust him like that. He just didn't know which.“You won't,” Bradley said. Despite everything, he was happy that he had the chance to be with the woman that he loved. “I'm curious, though. What made you think I'm a good man for her?”Mr. Riley chuckled. “Because you are not going to make the same mistake that I did,” he said.Bradley was even more confused. He didn't know what the man was talking about.Mr. Riley saw that this and sighed. “I was always Mama's boy," he said. “My mom hated my wife. And almost every time they fought, I
…“So, how did you meet my daughter?” Mr. Riley asked Bradley during dinner.Bradley, who was just about to put some food in his mouth, paused. A small smile appeared at the corner of his lips.Penny immediately remembered that she had met him in the girls' hostels and had thought that he was creepy.“Through a friend,” Penny hurriedly spoke up. She was scared that if she didn't, Bradley would say something inappropriate.Mr. Riley looked at her daughter briefly, then back at Bradley. The smile on his lips had widened a bit, and he could tell that Penny seemed a bit tense.“Through a friend?” He asked.Bradley briefly looked at Penny before nodding his head. “Yeah,” he said. “Her best friend's husband is my boss. So we and she thought I looked cute.”Penny sighed deeply, looking at the man. “He approached me first. I didn't think he looked cute,” she said.Bradley only chuckled. “We met a few more times and I realized that she was the woman I would always want for the rest of my life,
Jojo pulled away from the hug to look at Finn, and he realized that her eyes were a bit teary. He looked between her and the old man in confusion.“Pops says he is Mommy's grandfather,” Nill, who had been listening quietly, said.And Finn seemed so shocked to hear him. He looked at the old man with raised brows. “You told her?” He asked.The old man sighed. “I had to,” he said. “I wanted her to know the truth…”Finn turned to look at Jojo and opened his arm for him. “Come here,” he said softly.Jojo walked towards him had straight into his embrace. He hugged her tightly.“Are you okay?” He asked worriedly. He always thought that she would throw a tantrum once she found out the truth.Seeing that they had been hugging when he came in, he knew that things had gone well.Jojo didn't say anything to him. She just hugged him back as though she needed it so much at that moment.Finn pulled away to look at her face. “Honey?” He called worriedly. “Are you okay?”“So you knew about it?” She as
“Come on, Pops! We have a surprise for you tonight,” Jojo said happily, holding back the man who was ready to go to the basement.“Tonight?” Pops asked in confusion. “What is it now?”“It's a surprise,” Jojo said. “So I'm not telling you anything.”The old man had gotten much better. He had even started working on his medicine in the basement.He sighed. “I guess I need to change,” he said.And Jojo nodded at him. “Yeah,” she said. “We will be waiting outside.”Once they reached the clinic, Jojo and Nill made sure that the old man had his eyes covered.“Why are you doing all this? It's not even my birthday,” the old man said in confusion.But the two seemed very happy, so he let them do whatever they wanted to do to him.They walked him slowly towards the store. “When I count to three, you open your eyes,” Jojo said.So when she counted, the only man pulled the mask off his eyes. But his brows dilated a little when he saw the big shop, made of glass walls.“Traditional medicine?” he a