"What are you two doing here? Don't you have school today?"
Arabella Donovan stood at the top of the stairs, looking puzzled at Sean and Iris Donovan, who had appeared in her living room.
When the two of them saw Arabella Donovan, their eyes lit up, and they called out enthusiastically, "Serena!"
Arabella Donovan was taken aback by their greeting. She couldn't help but remember their first meeting when they had stormed into her room, full of aggression. They had belligerently threatened her, telling her to stop causing trouble and bullying their sister Eloise, or they'd make her pay. Their attitude now was a world apart from back then.
The two of them stiffened with guilt. '...' 'The past is too painful to recall. Let's not bring up that cringey history, thank you very much!'
Eloise Donovan saw their awkwardness and almost let out an unkind laugh.
