"Nee, Ella, when will Ely be home? It's already dusk..." Evelyn asked the question she had been asked many times.
"Um, it's 6 o'clock now. I thought Ely would be here in a bit. She said she'd come home at dusk, right?" While tidying up the kitchen table, Ella answered kindly. She never failed to entertain Evelyn whenever a similar question came to her.
"..." Evelyn wanted to ask a question about something Ella was unlikely to know or answer.
However, she swallowed it back because she would sound like someone who was overly worried about anything.
When the two girls worked together to clean up the kitchen table after cooking the pizzas that were considered a failure, suddenly the voice of a girl they knew so well came from behind them.
"I'm home. Um, making dinner?" Elysia put Vanessa on the sofa and moved closer to the kitchen.
