A Step Closer to Love

he table" Ava screame

She stirs vigorously going it doesn't cuddle to the sides of the pot. Sh

't believe that she was left to do all the work by herself. Her husband would s

turn. She glanced at the wall clock on the kitchen wall. Her husband should be bac

e to buy anything. Her daughter needed to return before the Sterlings came over. She heard the front door squ

p me set the t

elmed and just needed to get the job done before thru sat down to dinner. Ser

e coming for dinner which made her mom go into a crazy frenzy to impress the

rabella?" Seraph

ve been calling her but it seems she did not hear me" Ava resp

g table. She was exhausted from touring the mall all afternoon with

screamed o

helping her out there was no way she could send her to the store. Arabella needed to ge

to the store for a block of parmesan cheese now" Ava sa

sister's room. She pushed the door open and saw her sister sittin

her room. Seraphina put down the money on her sister's

es back up and blinked mu

" she asked lookin

ould probably need her attention but the book she got from the library had

k of cheese," Seraphina said ge

bella asked annoyan

around trying to help her mother prepare an award-winning dinner and sit through the adult boring con

mark between the pages of where she was just reading. She stood up from the window side couch she had

to the base of the staircase her dad pushed open the doo

ichard said picking her u

Dada,"

e he loved the way she read. He frequently bought her books

d in a fake whisper to the ears of her dad. She

f these days" Richard replied with a

niac Ava could be in th

question as she heard the chatter between her daughter and husband

hispered to her father's ear be

ichard said as he

s she moved to the dining area w

" Richard said collecting

freshen up now," Ava said with a g

er gently. No one wanted to dare the mother of the house when she w