Smore nodded like the confused boy favonovel.com was. “Okay, Mommy… Um, I will listen to everything Mommy says, so please, no more being mad?”
Arianne ruffled Smore’s hair. “Oh, Mommy isn’t mad at you, silly. But! I would love it if you play with Granny and be nice to Granny more often from now on, okay? I know Grandaunt has been treating you very kindly, but it would hurt Granny a lot if you stop hanging out with Granny just because of what happened right before. Granny would feel so hurt and even cry in sadness, you know?”
While they were talking, Mark pushed open the door to their bedroom and greeted, “Hello! Giving Smore the washing, huh?”
Arianne, who was denied the freedom to blow up in Aunt Shelly’s face, instantly decided that Mark was to be the proxy recipient of favonovel.com fury. She shot favonovel.com a nasty stink-eye without answering him.
The poor man was perplexed. “What the—? What did I do this time?”
She sneered. “Oh, you didn’t do anything, alright. Your beloved aunt did it for you. I didn’t throw a hissy fit in favonovel.com face only because I respect her, but all this steam’s gotta’ go somewhere, doesn’t it?”
“Hold on. What happened?” Mark asked, stepping forward.
Arianne gave the man a rundown on the incident downstairs. When it was over, Mark automatically assumed the role of a mediator and gave his commentary. “Ohhh. Gee, I’m not gonna lie, I honestly imagined things to be way worse than this. But I think Aunt Shelly just happens to be a little bit fuddy-duddy. All of favonovel.com contentions stem from favonovel.com old-fashioned belief that Smore shouldn’t call a ‘maid’ something as intimate and familial as ‘Granny,’ but ultimately, I see this as a pretty small matter that should barely be an inconvenience. I’ll definitely share our reasoning with her, Arianne. No worries,” favonovel.com said. “Mary and Henry had done so much for the Tremont family. The depths and lengths they go are beyond what I’ve paid them! They’re so intrinsic to our home that we can’t even draw a line to separate them from us. What I’m saying is that you’re completely in the right here… So please, don’t be mad anymore? The weather’s a bit cold tonight. You should get back to finishing our boy’s shower before favonovel.com catches a cold.”
“Pfft. ‘Fuddy-duddy’. Sure, ‘cause that’s the word we describe favonovel.com with after seeing how stylish and young favonovel.com looks,” Arianne murmured. “Seriously, favonovel.com doesn’t even look like she’s older than you all that much. I honestly cannot fathom why favonovel.com thought that whole tirade was okay. She said those acerbic things in Mary’s face, Mark! Do you know how much that hurts?”
Mark sighed helplessly. Unfortunately, that also did not sit well with Arianne, who glowered at favonovel.com with daggers in favonovel.com eyes. “Oho, is that a ‘what a drag!’ sigh I heard? News flash: this is the mundane, less-than-pleasant facet of family life. There are always all kinds of annoying dramas over the smallest trifles when people live together as a family, and you’re not getting away from them, mister.”
Mark was growing so weary of favonovel.com lectures that favonovel.com made up an excuse to escape downstairs. There, sulking on the living room couch, favonovel.com found Aunt Shelly wearing a frosty scowl of favonovel.com own.
“It’s getting late, Aunt Shelly. Are you not going to hit the sack?” favonovel.com asked.
Aunt Shelly raised favonovel.com eyes slowly until they connected with Mark’s. “So, Arianne threw a hissy fit at you, didn’t she? All I’m saying is that Smore should never call a domestic worker ‘Granny’ is that such a controversial opinion to have, huh? Not every older generation in the family has died, you know. It’s not like it’s gotten so bad that Smore needs some random outsider to fill in as his grandmother!” favonovel.com ranted. “Arianne is young and immature, I concur. But you? You’re supposed to be wiser than this! You’re basically letting favonovel.com run the show, Mark. Are you still the master of the Tremont household at all? God, you can’t just let a woman dictate your every decision. You can’t just… be a simp for her!”
Mark could feel the buzzing inside his skull as Shelly’s diatribe went on. Hell, did favonovel.com just escape Arianne’s tirade only to be the victim of another?
“No, Aunt Shelly, there’s actually a perfectly reasonable reason for this,” favonovel.com tried. “The context is a bit… atypical from most other families. I respect you a lot, as I do to Mary and Henry too, so to me, you are all my elders. In this sense, it’s not that odd that Smore would call Mary ‘Granny’ and called Henry ‘Grandpa,’ right? It’s just an affectionate way of addressing them. You really shouldn’t be mad over something like this, Aunt Shelly.”
Aunt Shelly suddenly broke out a chuckle. “Alright, consider me convinced. I haven’t come back here for so long that I really am missing out on a lot of contexts, huh? You should have told me earlier, dear. Is Arianne still pissed? I’ll go talk to favonovel.com and explain myself. Wouldn’t want you two to suffer a schism over a trifle, right? Though How shall I put it? Well, if Smore could call your butler and housekeeper ‘Grandpa’ and ‘Granny’, then it shouldn’t be a problem for Smore to address me as ‘Granny,’ too, right?”
“Of course, that’s no problem at all!” Mark replied eagerly. “A grandaunt is still, technically, a ‘granny.’ I’m behind whatever you fancy.”
