Thanksgiving Day was a reunion day, and the Bennet family should get together. Winnie didn't want to
see Thomas, didn't want to see Felix. And Vanessa's and her presence seemed out of place on such a
day.
They themselves didn't even know in what capacity they were reunited with someone else's family.
"I'll talk to Vanessa, she'll agree."
Brian volunteered to do so, in order to keep Winnie from refusing.
"It's too intrusive for us to go to your house ......"
"Mom, it is not. If you and Aunt Vanessa don't like coming to the suburbs, we'll go home to be with you.
The teacher said that the Thanksgiving Day is all about reunions and that it happens once a year, so
don't let me and Megan even spend the festival torn between Dad and Mom."
Luke interrupted Winnie's words in time, he was afraid that his mother would just refuse without
discussing with his Aunt.
However, his words always caused Winnie to feel guilty.
Winnie froze for a few seconds, but those few seconds were incredibly tormented inside.
The child's words made them look even more pitiful, and the already ill-fated two kids were even more
heartbreaking on such a reunion holiday.
"I won't let you guys dwell on it, if Dad is available, we'll spend the holidays together. But I still want to
ask Vanessa's opinion, she's our family too."
"Mom, Dad, I'll talk to Aunt Vanessa and I'll have her reunited with us."
Luke snatched Brian's task away from him, he felt that it was safer for him to go to his Aunt than his
dad. Auntie could reject dad, but definitely not him.
Winnie had no choice but to agree to go pick up Vanessa from school together after dinner later.
The meal continued, Brian didn't say a word that Winnie didn't like to hear.
But there was something Winnie couldn't help but ask.
"Joshua called me this morning saying you had a quarrel with your father."
Winnie had given up on wanting to care about this matter, but this morning Joshua called with another
plea. She had no way to refuse, so she could only continue to get herself into trouble.
"Not really a quarrel, just a difference of opinion on the matter."
It really didn't seem like a quarrel to Brian, and his so-called quarrel wasn't even in that mode.
"So did this conversation go nowhere?"
Winnie didn't pursue the matter about the quarrel, what she wanted to know was whether Brian's
attitude had changed.
"I don't know, it feels more and more unintelligible. It's obviously something we've sorted it out, but now
it feels somehow muddled when we talk about it."
Brian finally found someone to talk to about what happened that day. It was just that with the kids
around, he could only speak vaguely and couldn't clearly say where he was right or wrong, and what
he couldn't figure it out.
"Can't you think about nothing and let go of the past?"
Winnie's words were spoken reluctantly, knowing that Brian couldn't do it. But under such a situation,
she didn't know how to persuade, much less what she could do to help.
"Let go ......"
Brian looked at Winnie questioningly.
If he could let go so easily, he might not have had so many years of trouble. If he could let go easily, he
wouldn't be looking for that woman. If he could let go so easily, he wouldn't want to retrieve his
memories.
It just wasn't something that came easily and he couldn't let go of the fact that his mother had died.
"You can’t do it? I understand. That's actually how people live, there's in and out, there's gain and loss,
it's just a matter of weighing up whether you've gained more or lost more. You also have to think about
whether it's worth throwing away what matters most for something that's already in the past."
"Mr. Bennet, don't force yourself since you can't do it, time will tell. Take your time, one day you'll figure
it out."
Winnie barely managed to squeeze out a smile, she knew Brian couldn't let go. What he couldn't let go
of was not only his mother's death, there were many more that he couldn't let go of.
But he overlooked one thing, his inability to let go was destined to miss out on many things, like
precious time, like family, like her, and the happiness of a happy family and two kids.
Winnie lowered her head and continued to eat without saying anything further, Brian could not
understand himself, even if he said more, it was all nonsense.
She was bent on to help Brian, but her status was not appropriate. There were too many things that
she could only remind, she couldn't force him and could not get herself involved.
That was how hopeless she was.
"Winwin, I've listened to your words, and I'll give it serious consideration. But can you stop calling me
so rudely in the future? Can you just call me by my first name?"
Brian understood Winnie's meaning, and Winnie's words were worthy of his deep thought. It was just
that he did not want to hear the address Mr. Bennet.
"There should always be a miniMom of respect, it doesn't matter what I call you."
Winnie smiled indifferently, and then continued eating.
What was the point of calling? People who didn't match their status were supposed to be addressed
politely to each other, with courtesy.
"Winwin ......"
"Let's eat, we have to pick up Vanessa later."
Brian still wanted to continue, and he knew that Winnie didn't agree with him. But Winnie interrupted
him, and Brian had to stop. After all, he had promised Winnie not to say nonsense.
Brian's mood was somewhat depressed because of Winnie's distancing. He could feel that Winnie was
deliberately avoiding him, that her hatred was always there.
But Brian didn't know what to do to remove these mental barriers from Winnie.
Vanessa had a late class in the evening, and Winnie, Brian and the kids were waiting in the parking lot
outside the school.
All four were in the car, and it was obvious that Megan was a little sleepy.
"Megan, Luke, I think you guys are tired too, why don't you let Dad take you back to Grandpa's house
to sleep?"
Winnie was distressed by watching the kids and wanted to let them go back first.
"Mom, I'm sleepy, but I don't want to go back to Grandpa's house. Can I come home and sleep with
you tonight?"
Megan didn't want to be separated from her mother and wanted to sleep with her.
"I'm going to sleep with Mom, too, and I'm going to wait for Aunt Vanessa. I have to talk to her tonight."
Luke aimed to persuade his aunt to go to the suburbs for the Thanksgiving, and only when this matter
was settled could his heart be at ease.
"Well ......"
Winnie also wanted to be with the two kids, and she could only look sideways at Brian.
"You go back first, the kids will be with me tonight."
That was all Winnie could arrange, and it was getting late, so she couldn't wait here.
"How can I go back? It's so late in the day, who will guarantee your safety?"
There was no way Brian would leave first, leaving Winnie and the kids in the parking lot at this hour.
"Megan, sleep if you're sleepy, we'll wait for Vanessa to come out and I'll send you to mom’s. Megan,
do you think it's okay?"
Brian said to Megan, no matter what, he had to send them home safely.
"Okay, Dad, you don't go back to Grandpa's house either, let's go to Mom's together, okay?"
Megan can't leave her mom, but she didn't want her dad to go back alone either. At this moment she
didn't think about the fact that her mom and dad had separated, but wanted her family to be together.
An invitation from Megan silenced Brian. He wanted to go to Winnie's house, even if he had to sleep in
the living room. But Winnie would not agree, and Brian couldn't agree indiscriminately.
"Megan, Grandpa is lonely at home alone, too. Dad has to be with him. Vanessa will come out later.
......"
Winnie opened her mouth and refused Brian politely, her house was too small to accommodate Brian.
Her family was all women, and it was inconvenient for Brian, an outsider, to go there.
But Winnie's words were unexpectedly cut off by Megan.
"Grandpa's house, mom's house, and is there going to be a dad's house later? Mom, Dad, I want to
ask when my brother and I will have our own home."
Megan's emotions suddenly went into overdrive, and it made her tingle to hear that this person had a
home and that person had a home.
She didn't have a home and couldn't afford to save one. But her mother and father were not given the
opportunity to be with them together, and the situation was heartbreaking to her.
A question from Megan left both Brian and Winnie dumbfounded, Brian looked at Winnie, but Winnie
turned her head away from the car.
Yes, mom had a home, dad had a home, where was the kids's home? It was an insurmountable
problem because Winnie could not give them a complete home.
Just when both Brian and Winnie were having a hard time not knowing how to answer, Vanessa walked
over. Vanessa's arrival was considered to have helped Winwin out.
"You're here too, Brian."
Vanessa opened her mouth to greet Brian first, and without waiting for Brian to respond, she had
already turned her attention to Megan.
"What's wrong with Megan? Is she upset?"
There was a reason why Vanessa asked that, every time Megan saw her she opened her arms and
hugged her, but today, not only did she not react, she had a bitter face.
"Vanessa, it's getting late, let's go home first."
Winnie didn't let Vanessa continue to ask, fearing that Megan would continue the topic.
Brian started the car and drove towards Winnie's house.
But as the car had just pulled out of the parking lot, Megan suddenly hugged Vanessa and cried out.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Vanessa asked worriedly, noticing that something was wrong with the child, but not expecting the child
to be agitated.
At this time, Brian and Winnie both knew in their hearts but didn't know how to speak to comfort her.
"Aunt Vanessa, I am aggrieved."
Megan cried as she spoke, while Luke on the other side also shed tears silently.
This time mom and dad might be in the same mood, but Vanessa did not know what was going on. But
only Luke knew why Megan was crying and where her aggravation lay.
Every day they were smiling in front of Grandpa, but they never forgot for a moment that they wanted a
full family.
They knew both dad and mom might have a hard time, but they needed others to understand them too.
"What's wrong, did someone bully you?"
"Why are you crying too, Luke?"
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