After Being Cheating

"I heard that there was a highly skilled craftsman living in the southern part of the city, who is a master in the art of making beddings. She even won prizes for her embroidery, and I will try to invite her to come here and teach you her secrets." Samuel had planned it all out. Jane was their precious daughter, and they would give her something special for her to remember them by, something that money couldn't ever buy.

"Okay. I will think about something else then," said Ella.

"Dear, let's go to sleep now! It's late."

"Goodnight!" replied Ella to her husband, afterwards quickly falling asleep.

Samuel turned off the bedside lamp and held Ella in his arms.

Different from the peaceful evening in mansion No. 8, mansion No. 9 was in some sort of turmoil. The twins were extremely excited, and were happily playing with Daniel on the second floor of the house. It was already ten o'clock in the evening, and they still hadn't gone to bed yet.

When Janet saw that they were still awake and out of bed after her shower, she said, "Melissa, go to bed with your sister, now! Hurry!"

Melissa made a long face to Janet, who still had her hair wet, and said, "Mommy, I don't want to go to bed now. I want to play for a little while, just a little while, okay? Daddy?"

Daniel was about to have the babies go to bed, but when he saw Melissa's eager eyes, he swallowed his initial words, and instead replied, "Okay."

"Yeah! You are the best daddy ever! Give me a kiss, daddy!" said Melissa.

"I want a kiss too, daddy!" also said Michelle, who then stopped playing with her toys, and climbed in bed and held Daniel in her little arms. Daniel gave each of his girls a kiss.

Janet felt speechless, and said, "Daniel, if they go to bed too late, they won't be able to get up early tomorrow morning!"

"Then let them sleep more," said Daniel, indifferently, while continuing to play with the girls.

The twins jumped up and down, and screamed in bed happily, while Daniel smiled, and patiently looked at them.

At half past eleven, the two girls finally fell asleep in the bed.

Janet was also very sleepy, and she laid down beside the twins. Looking at the three people sleeping peacefully, Daniel smiled.

The following day, Janet and Daniel went to the wedding dress store together with the twins.

The appointment had been made for 8:00 A.M, but they didn't arrive there until 10:00 A.M., because they had to deal with the twins.

While Janet was trying on a wedding dress, the two little girls were excitedly playing in the store.

Several shopping guides had to closely follow them to prevent the two princesses from tripping or tumbling down...

Finally, when Janet was trying on a third wedding dress, she couldn't stand the naughty girls any more, and she interrupted their play time. While keeping a straight and stern face, she scolded them, and said, "This is not our home, and you should be well behaved! Go sit on the sofa!"

Melissa made a long face to her mommy, and wittily said, "Mommy, you should learn more from daddy. He always tells us that as long as we're happy, we should always have fun."

Janet gently pinched Melissa's cheek, and said, "Little girl, are you talking back to me? Come here, let me tell you something! Look, you two are too noisy here, and it's not right for the other people around." Melissa was wearing pink hair accessories, and while looking at her mother with curious eyes, she replied, "But there is no one else here mommy..."

That was true. There were no other customers because the store had been completely booked by Daniel.

Daniel stood up from the sofa, and after he put his hands in his trouser's pockets, he walked towards Janet, and said, "Go and change into another wedding dress."

Although she didn't want to change dresses any more, she didn't want to disappoint Daniel either. She stood up, lifted the skirt, and pretended to be angry with the twins, warning them, "Don't run away! Stay with your daddy over there. If I hear you shouting again, I will spank each one of you!"

"Daddy!"

"Daddy, mommy is scolding us! How nagging she is!" The twins complained to Daniel, each holding one of their daddy's legs.

Daniel gently caressed their heads. He wanted to tell the twins that their mother dared to scold not only them, but also their daddy! "Look, mommy is angry now. We'd better leave and watch the iPad." Daniel comforted the girls and held them in his arms. He walked to the VIP rest area, where he played a cartoon on the iPad for the twins, and asked them to be good and watch it.

When she looked at the two girls watching cartoons together, Janet shook her head. It was not until then that she knew how great her parents actually were!

She wondered whether she had also been as naughty as the twins were when she had been their age.

The next wedding dress was a pink and white colored one. Somehow Janet was not so fond of pink anymore, but Daniel insisted she should try it on, and she agreed with him.

After she got dressed in it, Janet looked at herself in the mirror and had to admit that the dress was really beautiful.

The pink and white wedding dress suited her complexion very much, and made her look much younger than she really was.

Janet didn't notice Daniel walking behind her. He held her waist gently from behind, and whispered in her ear, "You look beautiful in every wedding dress. Why not try them all, and take photos of each?"

Janet felt speechless, and said, "Mr. Si, please don't!" The store was huge; there were two storeys of wedding dresses in it. If she were to try all of them, she would have died of exhaustion! Let alone to also take photos!

Daniel kissed her long hair and Janet blushed. She pushed him away, and protested in a low voice, "What are you doing? There are other people watching us!"

She looked in the mirror and saw two of the managers and three shopping guides tittering behind.

"Ignore them!" said Daniel, giving her another kiss on her red lips.

"..." Janet turned around to face him, and said, "Go and see what your beloved daughters are doing! I bet they already started fighting by now!"

The twins had a bad habit: every time they were watching cartoons on a single iPad or cell phone, they would eventually start fighting.

Because both of them thought that the other one had occupied the position that had rightfully belonged to her.

At first, they would quarrel with each other in a low mean voice, but in the end they still ended up fighting.

To avoid this, Janet had bought two iPads, for each one of them.

"Why?" Before Janet could answer him, they heard the two shopping guides gasping.

Janet looked ahead, and saw that what she had expected had indeed happened! The two little girls were fighting each other with their little fists.

The shopping guides had intended to stop them, but they didn't know how, and they had no other choice but to separate them right away.

"Melissa, you're the elder sister, and you should have humored me! How could you mess with me?" furiously said Michelle to her sister. She often argued with her.

If Janet wasn't wrong, Melissa would say, "There is no elder or younger sister when we're watching cartoons! I was born only a few minutes earlier than you! We're of the same age!"

And then Michelle would reply, "Then call me elder sister from now on!"

"No! I won't!" And this would go on, and on...

... What happened next proved Janet exactly right.

Daniel held his two daughters in his arms, and while smiling, he put Michelle on the sofa, and told her, "You're now separated from your sister."

He took his cell phone out of his pocket and gave it to Melissa, and said, "Melissa, you can watch cartoons on my phone!"

But Melissa wouldn't accept, and she pushed Daniel away, and pouted in a discontented voice, "Daddy, you can't just prefer Michelle like that! I'm not happy..."

Daniel hastily wiped her tears, and comforted her lovingly, "My little one, how could daddy ever prefer you over your sister? Both of you are my beloved daughters! Don't cry now..."☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐