Chapter 715 Where Is Mommy
“Mr. Graham!” Benjamin glared at the bodyguard when the latter greeted him. The bodyguard quickly fell silent. Benjamin walked toward the house with Arissa in his arms. She woke up when they arrived at the door.
Realizing she was sleeping in Benjamin’s embrace, she hurriedly got down after regaining her senses. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” She glanced at him and quickly averted her gaze.
Benjamin stared intently at her and snorted. “Isn’t it a good thing that you’re able to sleep a little longer?”
She gave him a once over and realized that he was not carrying anything else. “Where are the things?”
He glanced at her. “They’re still in the car.”
The corner of Arissa’s mouth twitched. She hastily turned around and went to retrieve the things.
Benjamin tucked his hands in his pockets and waited for her at the door. His eyes followed her figure as she walked back to the car.
The six children, who were hanging out in the living room, ran over when they heard the voices at the door.
“Mommy!”
“Is Mommy back?”
They froze momentarily when they saw Benjamin standing at the door alone.
“Daddy, where’s Mommy?”
Gavin looked around outside the door, searching for Arissa.
The other five kids followed suit.
“She went to take some things.”
The kids immediately ran outside.
“Let’s go find Mommy!”
“Mommy!”
Benjamin frowned at the sight of his children darting away happily. Why aren’t they as excited to see me?
Arissa had just grabbed the shopping bag from the car when the six kids jogged up to her side.
“Mommy!”
“Mommy!”
Arissa quickly hugged the kids when they surrounded her. She said tenderly while wearing a smile, “Hey, slow down!”
“What did you buy, Mommy?” Jesse’s eyes shone as she stared at her mother.
Jasper chimed in, “Mommy, what did you buy? Hurry up and show us!”
Meanwhile, Oliver was already opening the shopping bag and peering inside at the content.
Arissa beamed. “I bought some stationery for you all!”
The corner of Zachary’s mouth twitched. “And here I thought you bought something interesting.”
“That’s right. We already have many of these!” Oliver said disdainfully while shaking his head.
Gavin and Tim, on the other hand, were delighted.
“Mommy, what did you buy? Did you buy for me too?” Gavin stared at the shopping bag in anticipation.
“Yes, I did. I bought stationery for everyone.” Arissa gazed at Zachary and the others and chirped, “If you guys don’t want these, I’d just give them all to Tim and Gavin.”
“Sure!” Zachary said magnanimously without looking at the items.
“Did you buy the same things for all of us?”
Arissa smiled awkwardly. “Yes. Aside from Tim having an extra pencil box, all of you will receive the same set of items.”
Oliver laughed in amusement. “In that case, I doubt Tim would be able to use all of the stationery by himself. We’ll use it ourselves then. You can buy more for us after we use up our supplies.”
“All right.”
Arissa opened the shopping bag, took out Tim’s belongings, and handed them to him.
She purposely bought a pencil case for Tim as well as some commonly used stationery such as pencils, sharpeners, and others.
“Tim, this is for you. Do you like the design?”
Arissa had purchased a cool-looking pencil case with a picture of a robot printed on it.
Tim hugged the present and nodded excitedly. “I like it very much. Thank you, Ms. York!”
“Haha, you should say ‘Thank you, Mommy.’ instead!” Jasper poke fun at Tim by correcting his brother.
Tim’s tanned face turned slightly crimson.
Arissa patted his head affectionately. Although she yearned for Tim to address her as ‘Mommy,’ she also knew that it was a process that could not be rushed. As such, she decided to take it slow.
“Here, Gavin, these are yours.” She handed the boy his gifts.
Even though Gavin already had those writing materials, the significance behind the new stationery was different since Arissa bought them for him.
“Thank you, Mommy!”
Gavin was overjoyed as he gave her a big smile.
Arissa tousled his hair joyfully before turning to look at the other four kids with a smile.
“Do you still want these? I’ll just leave them here or let Gavin and Tim have them if you all don’t want them.”
“Hehe. I think I’d better check and see if I have these things or not.” Jasper peeped into the shopping bag before exclaiming, “I just remembered that my eraser is broken!”
Arissa sniggered. “You’ve used up so many erasers in one semester. What did you do with them?”
