Chapter 152 - Staying

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Little Hazel was especially happy. 

Her uncle had bought her to the fast-food restaurant to eat her favorite fried chicken wings. In the beginning, Hazel was hesitant to eat them. She could still remember that her mother had told her that eating that kind of food was unhealthy and therefore, she can only eat them on special occasions. Hazel had no intention of going against her mother's teaching.

Her uncle had explained that the chicken wings were his way to compensate for her fruits. However, as she looked at the chicken wings in front of her, Hazel felt a little bit guilty. It was only when her teacher explained that eating them once a month should be fine, that she finally took a bite at the chicken wings again.

When they arrived home, Hazel spent her time watching some of her favorite cartoons and caught her uncle and her teacher discussing something in the kitchen with a serious look on their face. 

Hazel, who was sitting in the living room, was anxious and could not focus on her cartoon.

She seemed to remember that her uncle was supposed to convince her teacher to stay with them even after Nanny Ann returned. However, to this day, her uncle had not brought up that matter again. 

The thought that her uncle had failed to convince her teacher made Hazel felt down.

She had reminded her uncle, again and again, to be adorable, but he won't listen to her and thus, failed on his mission to convince her teacher. Although her uncle had told her not to worry about this matter, Hazel thought that this was the time that she should interfere.

If she acted cutely in front of her teacher, perhaps she will give in to her and agreed to stay.

Just as the little girl was worrying over, the two grownups walked over to the sofa to her. 

"Hazel, we have something to tell you," Neil announced. "Can we turn off the TV for a while?"

The little girl looked at her uncle's serious face and knew that he was going to tell her that he was going to announce that the living arrangement with Teacher Qian has ended and they will no longer have the chance to live together. 

At the thought that she could no longer see her teacher every day, Hazel grew sad. There was a little pout on her lips and she lowered her head. "Oh."

Following her uncle's instruction, Hazel switched off the television and sat face to face with both her uncle and her teacher. Since she was expecting that her uncle was going to deliver bad news, Hazel was not in the mood to listen.

With the television turned off, the atmosphere in the room grew silent.

Hazel tilted up her head suddenly and blinked her eyes as she looked at her teacher. This was her final chance to entice her teacher to stay and she was not going to give up until the last moment. 

Meanwhile, Edith thought that there was something wrong with Hazel. The little girl was beaming with cuteness and all she wanted was to pull the little girl into a hug and rained her soft face with kisses.

"Hazel, Nanny Ann will return next week," Neil said. His eyes were studying the little girl's expression.

Her eyes grew wide with excitement. "Really? When will Nanny Ann returned?" 

She had not seen her nanny for months and was starting to miss the elder lady very much. Nanny Ann had stayed with her for years and would always spoil her. Back then, when she was a little bit naughty, Nanny Ann will always defend her whenever her mother grew angry.

However, at the thought that she will not be able to see Teacher Qian once her nanny returned, Hazel had a mixed feeling about it. She wanted Nanny Ann and Teacher Qian both around her and could not make a choice. Suddenly, Hazel did not know what she should do.

"Nanny Ann will return in two days," Neil said.

The little girl's gaze went to her teacher again. 

Then… Teacher Qian will be leaving the house in two days? She will not be able to see her teacher again unless if she was at school?

Little Hazel grew sad at those thoughts.

"You don't look like you're happy," Neil said.

"I am happy that Nanny Ann will return," Hazel said. She lowered her head again. "But I am also a little bit unhappy."

"Why are you unhappy?" Edith asked. 

Hazel turned to her teacher with an aggrieved look. "Teacher Qian, my uncle said that when Nanny Ann returned, you will no longer stay with me in this house."

Suddenly, Hazel's heart grew heavy and her eyes grew sour. Her lips trembled slightly.

"Teacher Qian, I know that I can see you again at school, but I really like having you around. Can't you stay with us?"

Edith gasped when she saw tears streamed down the little girl's face. She was not expecting that the little girl would cry. Edith was aware that Hazel liked her a lot, but she did not think that the girl would grow attached to her after living together for two months. 

At that moment, Edith's heart grew soft. She walked over to the little girl and pulled her into her embrace. However, the moment Edith held the little girl tightly, Hazel's tears started to fall even more. "Don't cry. Why are you crying?"

"Teacher Qian, don't leave alright?" Hazel said between her sobs. "You said you were going to stay with me until I graduated from kindergarten."

Edith grew speechless.

She did remember saying those words when Neil's friend, Henry Wu offered a job at his security firm. But when she said she was going to stay, she meant as Hazel's kindergarten teacher, ah!

"Okay, don't cry." Edith wiped her tears with her fingers. "I am not going to leave. I already told your uncle that I am staying with you. Don't cry, alright?"

Hazel sniffled. Her gaze shifted between her teacher and her uncle before she spoke in a hoarse voice, "Really?"

"Un." Edith nodded. "I'm not lying to you."

Hazel turned to her uncle as if looking for confirmation. Once she saw him nodded, Hazel held on to her teacher tightly and buried her face in her embrace, turning that childish man who was watching the exchange, upset.

"We have another matter to tell you," Neil said once Hazel had calmed down.

Hazel looked up at her uncle with a puzzled look on her face. She had thought that this matter was settled and could not figure out what else her uncle was going to tell.

"This time, Teacher Qian will not stay in this house as your caretaker, but as my girlfriend," Neil spoke with a straight face. "Do you understand what that means?"

It took Hazel a while to process her uncle's words. Then, she turned to look at the two grownups with her wide eyes. Finally, her gaze stopped at her uncle, and she nodded. "Un. I know. It means you are dating."

Seeing that Hazel was accepting the news calmly, both Neil and Edith were at ease.

These days, it was not strange for children in Hazel's age to understand matters about dating and such.

A thought suddenly came to her mind and Hazel went to her uncle's side. Her tear-stained eyes grew wide with excitement. "Uncle, does that mean that later, when you married Teacher Qian, I can call her my auntie?"

Edith froze and wondered whether she had heard the wrong thing.

A glint of amusement flashed through Neil's eyes. "You want Teacher Qian to be your auntie?"

"Un." Hazel nodded again. "Alex always called Teacher Qian as Auntie Edith. He said he was allowed to call her that because his mom was a good friend to Teacher Qian. If Teacher Qian became my auntie, then I can call her that too. I will be closer to Teacher Qian more than Alex."

Suddenly, Edith could guess that her friend, Lily might have something to do with this.

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