
A pair of clear eyeballs flickered due to the faint reflection of sunlight peering out from behind the thin cloth. She sat up awake with a tiny finger rubbing the eyes that still felt dry. Then pay attention to the entire room which is certainly different from the room.
"Here's Daddy's room...."
He looked to the right and then to the left. His head turned around looking for the two figures he wanted to meet. However, he did not find it in any corner.
"Hm... Daddy and Mommy must have gone to work. Ezio was left again," muttered Ezio disappointed.
"Who left Ezio, here Mommy pulls her ears?!" Rona who had been hiding earlier, surprised her eldest son. Ezio squealed cheerfully, then hugged the mother tightly.
"Ezio misses Mommy... Mommy worked on it. Until Ezio is forgotten!" ezio protested suddenly crying loudly.
"Mommy's just missed it, same Daddy didn't?" Now Edward who came out of his hiding place, then clutched two bodies that he loved very much.
Ezio turned his body and hugged his father. "Daddy? Daddy's still home? Daddy didn't go to college? Daddy's not working?" Ezio leaned Edward in with questions as he was astonished the mature man was still at home.
"Em. It's Sunday, baby... Daddy wants to take Ezio for a walk to Sidney Zoo!" edward was enthusiastic.
Ezio bends his face with his hands closed. His eyes narrowed and glanced using the corners of his eyes. "It's gone Daddy! Daddy took Ezio to the zoo already 3 months ago. Ezio is angry, Ezio is disappointed with Daddy!" reply Ezio pouting.
"So, Ezio doesn't want to go to the zoo?" goda Rona with her smooth voice. "Yes.if Ezio does not want to, Mommy and Daddy want to go to work then," added Rona joking.
Ezio snorted in annoyance, he flexed both hands with his back bent limp. "Yes, Ezio's going to Sidney Zoo...."
"Now... Ezio take a shower, Mommy, have breakfast, okay?" Rona leads Ezio's hand down from the bed to his room.
"Mommy didn't take Daddy to take a shower?" edward folded his lower lip like a child.
Rona rotated both her eyes lazily then replied with a suppressed voice. " dear... Ezio watched our chat. So please watch your talk...!"
Edward giggled with his hands scratching his head, he turned towards Ezio who was looking at him with a look of question marks.
"Daddy is old, why ask to bathe Mommy too?" seloroh Ezio plain.
Rona suppressed the laughter by smothering her own mouth, while Edward immediately looked at her face into the mirror that was right behind her. "Da-Daddy isn't old yet, Daddy's still good-looking. There's no wrinkles on Daddy's face either."
Ezio pulled his shoulder up and pulled his mother's arm. "Let's go to Ezio's room. Let Daddy wander in front of the mirror."
Again the carelessness of his eldest son made Rona hold back a laugh. And he wanted to feel like he was laughing. "Let's go baby. Mommy should also help Fiona prepare breakfast."
Rona pulls the handle, looks Fiona is raising her hand about to knock on her bedroom door.
"Fiona? Who are you looking for?" rona asked her housekeeper.
Fiona replied by bowing down first. "Sorry Miss, I'm looking for the same Miss Young Master."
"What's looking for me, Fiona?" edward emerged from behind his wife's back.
"Anu Sir... Mr. Richard asked me to call the young Master and also Miss Rona," Fiona replied with her thumb directed to her master's position.
"Is there anything Papa's calling us?" ask Edward again.
"I don't know, Sir. Sorry.. I was only assigned to call Mister and Miss to come down immediately. Because Mr. Richard is waiting at the dinner table" Fiona replied.
Edward met his wife, they both thought there was a problem especially that attacked the Liam family. Because if Richard had called this early, there would have been something big that the old man would have said.
"Alright Fiona, in 15 minutes we'll be down to see Papa. Thank you for telling us" Edward told the woman before him.
"Please sir, I say goodbye to Mr. Richard then." Fiona retreats from Edward and Rona's presence after they welcome her back.
"What's up? I feel bad." Rona stared blankly at Fiona's back down the stairs.
Rona pulled her body while leading Ezio to the side room. As for Edward, he went back inside his room to cleanse the body.
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All the residents of the mansion, had already gathered in the dining room. They throw one another a look and ask from eye to eye. Looking forward to what their father will say.
"Eventually everyone has gathered here" Richard said heavily.
"What's Pa collecting all of us? Is there a big problem?" leona asked with her tense face.
Richard looked one by one at the face of the child and his son-in-law, he seemed to hold something very heavy. His mouth clenched tightly while playing his fingers.
It had been 15 minutes, but Richard was still silent. While his children are already overwhelmed with curiosity and anxiety.
"If there's nothing Papa wants to say, Edward and Rona say goodbye. Because we had planned to take Ezio to the zoo today" Edward said. He got up from his seat and led his son. Until Richard's heavy voice stopped his intentions.
"Papa's getting married!" said Richard shaking.
All were shocked to hear Richard suddenly announce that he was getting married.
"Why are you getting married? When and with whom?" ask Edward to worry.
"Papa has not confirmed when, because Papa wants to hear your answer first as Papa's son. Agree or disagree with Papa's decision to remarry." Richard gulped down some water to offer his dried-up esophagus.
"Of course we agree, didn't we propose Papa to remarry?" leona replied with pleasure.
"Anything for Papa's happiness, Edward will always be supportive" Edward added. "But if Edward can figure out who Papa's getting married to?"
Richard took a breath and threw it away. He did that many times to ease the fret in the chest.
"Come in...!" tell Richard to someone standing in the living room.
A middle-aged woman with an earthy look stepped very slowly. His face was directed to the floor because he was not ready to see the expression of everyone if he knew what Richard was going to marry was him. And it was true that her presence in the middle of the Liam family shocked everyone. Edward and Rona.
Richard stood up and walked over to greet the woman. He reached out his hand and the woman replied. "Let's...."
The woman nodded and lowered her head in shame, now she was standing right in front of the child-to-be and her daughter-in-law.
"The woman Papa chose to be Papa's companion is Mary." Richard spoke firmly in front of everyone who looked at him in wonder. Although his heart began to be uncertain because the spotlight of his children was so sharp and made uncomfortable.
"So Mama Maria is going to be Papa's new wife?" edward was not friendly.
"Oh... This woman who will be the new Mama Leona and shift Mom's position?" timpal Leona cynical.
Richard nodded slowly with a hand that could not escape from embracing Maria's shoulders. Moreover seeing the rejection implied from the gaze of his children, he tightened his grip.
"Yes... Mary who became Papa's choice to accompany Papa in this old age. I hope you can take it in this house." Richard bowed his body, everyone's eyes were in a pattern. Especially his future wife.
Edward shuffled to get to Richard, he warmly clenched his body. "Papa does not need to bend down like this, because we will always support whatever Papa's decision."
"Yes Pa... Leona will also always support Papa, as long as it makes Papa happy." Leona also hugs the man who became her first love as tightly as possible.
Richard cried and hugged his two children. "Thank you, son..thank you...."
Rona is also immersed in the euphoria of family happiness that now feels more complete with the presence of Mary. "Congratulations, Ma...."
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