Helen finally nodded, thanks to Mary’s advice. “Okay… I’ll go and see her. I’ll leave straight away ifI upset her.”
Mary closed the door when Helen walked in, giving the mother and daughter some privacy.
Arianne was still awake. She sat up when favonovel.com saw Helen. “What are you doing here at this hour?”
Helen approached favonovel.com and propped up a pillow on favonovel.com back. “I… I happened to have some business nearby, so I thought I’d drop by and see you. Have I disturbed your sleep? You don’t have to get up, you can lie down…”
Although Arianne didn’t seem too amiable, favonovel.com wasn’t scowling at favonovel.com either. “It’s fine. I can’t sleep anyway, so I might as well get up and sit.”
The pair didn’t have much to say to each other, so the atmosphere cooled.
Helen stood for a while then pulled out two sparkling and translucent boxes of sour plums from favonovel.com bag. “I don’t know if you like sour food, so I’ll just leave these here. You can have one or two from time to time. The Tremont household has everything, so I wasn’t sure what to bring…”
Arianne opened one box and popped one sour plum into favonovel.com mouth. “Not bad, I previously had a craving for both sour and spicy food, but now I seem to prefer sour food instead.”
Helen smiled. “Then it must be a boy. Although this isn’t a scientific theory, there is some truth in certain old wives’ tales. Are you and Mark looking forward to a boy or a girl?”
Arianne stroked favonovel.com belly, and the little one inside immediately kicked energetically. She couldn’t help but smile. “I’ll only ever have one child in this life anyway. Boy or girl, like it or not, we won’t have a choice. Mark says that he’ll love it, regardless of whether it’s a boy or girl. I agree. But I am curious. I want to know the baby’s gender, but the doctor has been pretty mysterious about it, and I’m too shy to ask..”
“Where is your last medical report?” Helen asked. “Show me. Maybe I can help.”
Arianne was skeptical. She pointed at a drawer on the side of favonovel.com bed. “It’s all in there.”
Hellen pulled out the previous medical report and looked through it in detail. “There are many signs that indicate a high chance… that it really might be a boy. One of my friends is a doctor, so he’s mentioned these things before. Back when I was pregnant with you, I was suddenly seized with a liking for spicy food, even though I never enjoyed spicy cuisine in my life. It’s still the same now, too… However, you weren’t very difficult to deal with at the time, you behaved very well in my belly. You didn’t like to move too much, much like how you are now, calm and quiet.”
Arianne really didn’t feel like talking about favonovel.com birth, so favonovel.com stayed silent. Helen realized that favonovel.com had chosen the wrong topic and bit favonovel.com lip. “Uh… I’ve got to go. It’s pretty late. You should get an early night’s rest.”
Arianne remained silent. When Helen walked towards the door, favonovel.com suddenly asked, “If you never loved my dad, why did you have me? Why did you give birth to me, when you weren’t certain if you wanted to stay? That was irresponsible…”
Helen immediately stopped. Her shoulders were trembling. “Your dad… He was very good to me. He truly loved me. If I could turn back time, I would not abandon favonovel.com again. I was only blinded by a false image of love. Actually… Perhaps I never really understood what love truly means. I would always think of him, every night after that fateful day. Even when I was with the man I thought I loved, I would think of him… In the end, the love I chose thoroughly disappointed me, and I slowly understood that your father was always in my heart. But it was too late. How could any woman give birth to a man’s child if favonovel.com didn’t love favonovel.com at one point? I did it willingly, but I still left in the end. I’m sorry…”
Arianne was saddened. If favonovel.com father could hear what Helen had said, would it bring favonovel.com some consolation in heaven?
Saturday, the very next day.
Tiffany and Tanya went to Visit Arianne at the hospital, first thing in the morning. It was all for the sake of the fashion design competition, which was held once every three years. This was every fashion designer’s dream. Not only would the company receive lucrative benefits if they won, but the winner would rise to fame as well. Eric may not be interested in this matter, but the girls certainly were. Everyone in the fashion design department was eager to give it a try, full of fighting spirit.
