Chapter 18

Normally, I would have grumbled and responded to what Felix said, but I didn’t feel that way today.

I closed my mouth and poked the penne pasta, which was well mixed with tomato sauce.

I was spacing out and trying to put pasta in my mouth, and suddenly, I heard a crying sound from behind.

The sharp cry woke me up.

When I hurriedly put down the fork and turned back, 1 could see the sleeping little boy lying on the floor and twitching his face.

Looking around with an anxious look, he shook his butt up and down as soon as he made eye contact with me.

“Wauuuuuuo0000!”

“Come here, little boy.”

I stretched my arms toward the kid.

He stared at me and soon distorted his face and cried sadly,

“AAwwwuuuuuuuuu!”

“I’m eating. You come, little boy.”

“Awo000000000000000000000!”

The little boy buried his face inside the blanket with a look full of dissatisfaction.

Then, he peeked at me and then, once again buried his head in the blanket.

When the simple action was repeated about three times, his intention was known.

‘You’re checking whether I’m coming or not.’

“Don’t do that, hurry up and come. Aren’t you a Good boy.?”

“AAAAAAwwwwwwwo0000000000!”

The little boy floundered on the floor, while moving his feet up and down.

Who did he take after to be this stubborn?

“Okay, I got it. I’ll be there.”

Eventually, I had no choice but to get up from my seat and take the little boy in my arms.

When I faced him, the little boy smiled at me with a teary face.

“Mamamuuuuuu.”

“You are a mean Baby. I dressed you, fed you, and put you to sleep, but you don’t allow me to eat peacefully.”

“Bapubuuu.”

When I lowered my voice a little, the little boy smiled again.

“leven changed your diapers this morning. … washed that stuff from your butt.”

The little boy grabbed my shoulder and shook his body at my grumbling.

I don’t want to admit it in this situation, but the little boy pouting his lips with teary eyes was so cute that I wanted to bite his cheek.

The words that I was about to say completely disappeared from my head.

“I’m going to cut you some slack this time. Next time, I won’t even if you look at me with that kind of eye.”

Patted the little boy on the back and came back to the sofa and sat down.

“Dabuuu”

The little boy constantly blinked and looked at the table, perhaps because he felt the steaming pasta was amazing.

If there was anything interesting, he always glanced at it like that and while looking at that I took the pasta with the fork.

It was that moment.

“Babubuuuuuuuuu”

The little boy jumped up from my leg with his hands to the table in a blink of an eye.

Then, without fear, he reached out to the hot pasta plate.

“No, kid!”

I was surprised and quickly pulled the kid into my arms.

The little boy couldn’t hold the plate and was dragged along, but he didn’t give up and reached out again.

“ Bapubuuuuuu”

“I told you Stop. That’s hot.”

“Mamumuuuuuu”

As soon as I quickly pushed the plate towards Felix, the little boy looked back at me with a sullen face.

He seems to have felt dejected as the plate, which he had not already touched, became farther away.

But you can’t do anything that doesn’t work, little boy.’

“Now, look at this.”

Felix, who was looking at us from the opposite side, stood up with the pasta plate and approached me.

He grabbed the little boy’s hand and took it close to the plate.

The little boy was happy to get what he wanted, so the little boy’s mouth opened wider and his drool fell on his legs.

Thugged the little boy in my arms and screamed.

“Felix. What are you doing? It’s hot!”

“I know that. Stay still.”

He responded bluntly in a completely different voice than when he treated the child, pushing the plate forward.

Then as if pretending he didn’t even listen to what I said, he took the little boy’s hand to the plate.

When the fingertips touched the plate very slightly, the little boy was surprised and pulled out.

“Wauwuuuuuuuuu”

The little boy trembled and buried his face in my arms.

In the little boy’s head, the pasta plate suddenly turned into a thing that didn’t look good

“Okay? It’s fine. It’s fine. So don’t touch the plate.”

Felix froze the little boys finger with an unexpectedly friendly voice.

As soon as I heard it, I had to doubt once again whether the person in front of me was the Felix I knew.

I opened my eyes wide and looked up at him as if I had seen a ghost.

Felix, who felt my gaze, frowned at me.

“Why are you looking like that?”

“What was that just now?”

“He does’t listen to you because he doesn’t know what hot is. It’s better to let him know by letting him touch it.”

As he said, experiential learning-type discipline seems to be more effective than I thought.

The little boy, who had experienced the heat, no longer made a fuss about touching the pasta.

Rather, when I brought the plate back, he turned his head with an expression that he didn’t even want to see

“Did you do this to Lindsey and Tony, too?”

“Yeah.”

Felix replied back heartily and turned around.

I thought he would go and sit across, but contrary to my expectations, Felix approached the shelf where strawberries were placed.

Felix magically removed the strawberry stem and placed a plate containing cleanly washed strawberries on the table.

The sweet and sour smell stimulated my appetite more than the smell of pasta.

“Dabubuuuuu”

The little boy who found the strawberry shook and knocked on the table.

I put a strawberry the size of a little boy’s fist in his hand.

He held the strawberry in one hand and urged me to give more by showing the other hand.

“Babuuu”

“No.”

When I declined, the little boy clenched his fists.

The bright red strawberry got crushed in the little boy’s white hand.

Strawberry juice, which was incomparable to blueberries from few days ago, dropped onto his thighs.

“What are you going to do? You’re all wet.”

Without knowing my concern, the little boy burst into laughter and stuffed the crushed strawberries in his mouth.

Strawberry nectar got filled on both of his cheeks.

When I looked at Felix with a look of asking for help, he came out as if saying, ‘Leave it alone’ and I started eating pasta while alternating between the little boy and pasta.

“Okay. Have fun.”

We can wash your body and wash your clothes later.

I thought it would be better for the little boy to play with strawberries calmly than to cry and make a fuss.

I leaned deep into the sofa and watched the little boy.

The little boy who played with as many strawberries as he wanted was busy observing the room after getting washed with Felix’s magic.

Maybe the little boy felt it was interesting since it was wider than the accommodation and had a variety of items.

He crawled under the table and was kicked out of the room by Felix while he was trying to climb over a pile of books.

The little boy approached the blazing fireplace and soon came running to me after confirming that it was hot.

The little boy seemed to want to play more, but he couldn’t beat his droopy eyelids.

After walking around without a break, I was surprised to see him lying still on the carpet and sleeping.

He must have been very tired, so he didn’t even had a hard time sleeping.

“Sleep in my room.”

Felix, who was in his bedroom for a long time, suddenly came out and pulled my arm.

I shook my head.

“No, I’m fine. It’s your room. I’ll be in the living room.”

“It’s harder to put the kid to sleep in the living room. Just go in.”

“Still…”

“Hurry up.”

He pushed me on the back by applying little force.

The room I came in unexpectedly was more organized than when the little boy played with the book earlier, and the books scattered on the floor were stuck in the bookshelf or on the desk, and other junks were neatly arranged in the corner of the room.

The bed, which was wider than my bed, was so clean that I couldn’t see a grain of dust, maybe Felix cleaned it with magic.

When I breathed in through my nose, I smelled my favorite rose scent, even though there was no rose petal in the room.

“I’ll be in the living room, so call me if you need anything.”

Felix closed the door and left the door behind.

I looked at the closed door for a while and laid the kid on the bed attached to the wall.

As in the accommodation, there seemed to be no way for the little boy to fall off, since Felix had placed chairs around the bed.

After stretching my neck once, I lay down next to the little boy.

Usually, I used to fall asleep soon after putting the little boy to sleep.

However, today, I couldn’t fell asleep mentally and physically because of all the things happened.

“You know what, baby?”

I muttered, sweeping the little boy’s soft hair.

I know that the little boy couldn’t hear it, but still I just felt like I wanted to talk.

“Today is the last day, we will be together like this.”

Tomorrow is the last day of the Maxmas holidays and everyone who had been to their hometowns will probably start returning one by one from tomorrow morning.

Even if we couldn’t find the little boy’s parents, I didn’t have to take care of the baby anymore, if I asked the professor and academy staff for help tomorrow.

Today will be the last night I will be spending with the little boy.