Right Here Waiting For You

Then, he said to Tiantian, “You two have fun together. I’m going to do my homework.”

“All right.” Although Tiantian wanted to have a longer chat with him, she didn’t want her own affairs to interfere with his study.

After Li Yanmo went upstairs, Cookie held her little face, and there were almost pink bubbles coming out from her eyes. She hugged Tiantian’s neck excitedly and said, “Wow! Wow! Tiantian, your husband is so cute! We can’t find anyone better looking than him in the whole preschool!”

“That’s right!” Tiantian raised her chin proudly. “My husband is the most handsome man in the world!”

Cookie was so jealous of them but in a good way.

At this time, Mama Li came out of the kitchen. She was holding a pink lunch box. She handed it to Cookie and said, “Cookie, your lunch.”

Cookie took the lunch box and opened it. There was ham, shrimp, and rice made into her favorite Doraemon with seaweed. The Doraemon in the lunch box was smiling at her.

Its smile was like the gentle smile of her mother in the photos.

The smile on Cookie’s face suddenly froze. Her eyes were glistening with tears, and her lips were slightly quivering. Her previous excitement disappeared completely. She immediately hugged Mama Li. “Thank you.”

There was a kind of depressing and despairing cry in her childish voice, which was too sad for such a young age like her.

Tiantian felt at a loss. She didn’t understand why Cookie suddenly cried.

She hurriedly ran over, reached out and wiped the tears on Cookie’s face. She comforted her with a pure and childish voice, “Don’t cry. Cookie. Don’t cry. It’s just a lunch box. If you like it, Mama Li will do it for you every day. Won’t you, Mama Li?”

Mama Li looked at Tiantian’s eyes and gently touched Cookie’s head. “Of course. If you like it, come to me when you want.”

Cookie nodded hard. Her eyes were red like a rabbit’s eyes. She held the lunch box with both arms.

Looking at Cookie carefully holding the lunch box, Mama Li couldn’t help but sigh.

After Cookie left, Tiantian went onto Li Yanmo’s bed, biting her fingers gloomily. “Inky, do you think that Cookie has a sad story?”

Li Yanmo put down his pen and said, “Maybe.”

“It’s impossible. I don’t believe it. Cookie is a cheerful girl. She must like Mama Li’s lunch box so much that she was moved by it.” Tiantian held her face and shook her head.

Li Yanmo wanted to say something, but he didn’t speak a word at the end when he looked at Tiantian’s pure eyes.

“Where are you going for an outing?” Li Yanmo changed the topic. He put away the homework on the desk, pushed the chair to the desk, then went to the wardrobe.

When Li Yanmo brought up the outing, Ning Tiantian immediately forgot about what happened to Cookie. She said, with her small head leaning to the side, “We’ll first go to the Suburban Park in the morning, then go to the dinosaur museum in the center of the city after lunch.”

“Dinosaur museum?” Li Yanmo was taking out his pajamas but stopped suddenly. He thought that they should be going to a playground or something like that.

“Yes, our teacher said that the purpose of this outing is to let us care for dinosaurs!” Tiantian said loudly.

“Why?” Li Yanmo thought maybe he heard it wrong. He knew what dinosaurs were and what “care for” meant. But, he couldn’t understand why the teacher asked them to care for dinosaurs.

Li Yanmo raised his eyebrows and said to Tiantian, “Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. So how do you care for dinosaurs? Even if there is a living dinosaur, it would swallow you at once, and it doesn’t need you to care for it.”