Kitchen
While the soup was ready, Mabelle turned off the cooking gas and placed her hands on the edges of the cabinet.
'Wow, they look so beautiful and classic. Everything they put on was easily said out loud that they're from a wealthy home. But if they are, aren't they supposed to have a pickup car or chauffeur who'll drive them around anytime? Why are they stuck up like ordinary people like her?' Mabelle thought.
She shrugged. Well, maybe for some odd reasons and she won't ask them about anything related to their personal life.
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Sitting room
Ava and Aria scrunched their eyebrows weirdly when they saw Mabelle approaching them with a tray containing three bowls.
They thought of what are inside the bowls and they also thought what she was gonna do or say next.
They placed their ipad down and crossed their legs. While Mabelle placed the tray on the table right in front of them.
Looking at the two girls who gave her a strange stare, Mabelle smiled, "Please accept my little gratitude and join me to quench down the cold."
Ava and Aria glared at each other before looking up at Mabelle who stood there like an housemaid.
"Well umm, Aunt Mabelle, this is too much for just strangers like us." Aria said.
"Yes, you've already done enough by saving us from the cyclone. Caring about our appetite might be too much for a nice woman like you. Don't you think?" Ava added.
Deep down in them, they knew how hard it is for them to resist the alluring flavor and aroma coming from the hot bowls but at the same time, it'll look mannerless of them to eat in a strangers house.
"Of course not. It'll only hurt me more if you guys reject my kindness." When they didn't say anything, Mabelle added, "I understand what you guys meant. Of course I really do."
Pointing at herself, she continued, "But a woman like me, I don't hurt neither bite. It's raining heavily outside. The walls and rooms are cold. In a weather like this, one needs to stay warm and the only way to do that is by having warm foods. Please don't reject my offer."
After staring at themselves for a while, Ava and Aria took a bowl each. Mabelle smiled cheerfully as she watched them slurp the soup.
Picking the last bowl from the tray, Mabelle sat on a single couch and quietly slurped her soup.
Not quite long when she began eating hers, the twins had finished theirs and now they're staring at her whom was still having hers.
Her conscience spoke to her that they are staring but she didn't want to frighten them away by glaring at them. She already understood why they're staring at her like that.
She put down her almost finished bowl of soup on the stool beside the couch and took their bowls into the kitchen.
Ava and Aria gestured themselves with their eyes. They mouthed words at each other and imagined what Mabelle was about to do.
Hoping that Mabelle was just gonna keep the empty bowls in the kitchen and come back empty handed, she didn't. Only for them to see her with two filled bowls of more soups.
They grinned excitedly, forgetting that Mabelle was smiling at their grinning faces.
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