"Welco back ho!" I greeted Hayden happily.
I waved a hand at him while my other arm was busy holding Little Hayden. Hayden looked at
with a brief look of surprise before his eyes narrowed suspiciously at
and then at the puppy in my arm. I had decided to surprise Hayden a little for a change by waiting for him right at the steps to the main door of the mansion.
"Why are you standing out here?" he asked.
"Waiting for you to co back, obviously," I replied.
"Hmm…" he murmured.
Maybe it’s just my own imagination or the light playing tricks, but I thought Hayden looked a little happy just now.
"Little Hayden say, ’welco back’ too, Hayden," I talked to the puppy in a sweet cooing voice.
"Why are you talking to the dog? He probably doesn’t understand a thing," Hayden muttered darkly.
"I think he does understand sothings…" I countered stubbornly.
"Let’s go inside. You don’t need to wait for
outside," Hayden said a little sternly as he walked past
into the mansion.
I smiled a little to myself before following him back inside. In my mind, I had already decided to wait for him outside again tomorrow because I was more than half convinced that he seed a little happy about it.
"Isn’t that, right?" I whispered softly into Little Hayden’s large and pointy ear.
Hayden imdiately seated himself at the dining table while the maids worked to serve the food. Little Hayden seed excited about the food and began sniffing and twitching his nose rapidly. Hayden, on the other hand, seed tired and detached. That only made
wonder what went wrong for him today.
"I guess work was busy?" I asked softly as I sat down in the chair opposite him.
Little Hayden’s eyes widened at the food on the table as he sat on my lap like a cute little plush toy.
"Work is boring as always," Hayden muttered.
In other words, he doesn’t want to talk about it. Sotis I wished that Luka would drop by, then perhaps I’d have a solid chance of learning about what was going on outside. It was evident that asking Hayden about it wouldn’t get
any answers and I’d probably get scolded.
Thanks to Luka’s advice and my own learning curve, I’m getting a little better at managing Hayden so that we could so how coexist. For instance, I now knew that changing the topic of the conversation is the most appropriate course of action.
I placed Little Hayden on the chair next to mine and he gave
a confused little look as I walked away. After grabbing my sketchbook, I returned to the dining table.
"The weather was so perfect today, so I took Little Hayden outside and worked on so sketches in the garden. Two birds with one stone. I sketched many flowers and I also tried sketching Little Hayden. See?" I said cheerfully as I opened my sketched book and placed it on the table in front of Hayden.
Hayden looked down at my sketchbook and he seed to show so interest. It was quite surprising how Hayden seed keenly interested in my art and my career. I wasn’t sure if he was being super supportive, but he did pay attention to it.
"The sketches of…Little Hayden…looks funny," Hayden said, clearly having difficulties calling the puppy’s na.
Let’s see if he will get used to it eventually.
"It’s a new challenge for . I’ve had very limited experience sketching and painting furry things. Human hair is different from fur so I’m really getting good practice by using Little Hayden as my model," I explained excitedly.
Hayden just nodded at my words as he reached out a hand and began turning the pages of my sketchbook to see the other sketches. He seed thoughtful as he looked at my drawings and I couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking. Little Hayden looked at us with his round brown eyes. I smiled and patted the soft fur on his head lightly.
Suddenly, Hayden’s phone started ringing. He quickly picked it up as if he was expecting a call before standing up from his seat and exiting the room. I stared after him curiously. It wasn’t exactly usual for Hayden to walk out to take a call but the again it wasn’t usual for Hayden to get a call at this hour either. Work must be busy. I hoped that everything was alright.
Since the phone call was taking a while, I placed Little Hayden down so that he could walk about and also start on his own al. Having so spare ti on my hand, I decided to rummage through the large brown box filled with things that Hayden had bought for Little Hayden. I bet there are many toys in here that Hayden can use to play with the puppy. Maybe this ball and this rope?
Is this supposed to be used for tug of war?
I was still going through the box looking for dog toys when the door to the room opened and closed firmly. Looking up, I saw Hayden entered the room casually.
"Hayden! Co here for a second," I called out to him and beckoned him over with a wave of my hand.
**woof woof**
I looked down to see Little Hayden sitting right by my side with his little tail wagging joyfully. His brown eyes stared up at
as he panted from excitent.
"I told you that the na would be a problem. You’ll call
and he’ll turn up too," Hayden complained as he ca to my side.
He stared down at the dog before crouching down next to . He was right but I liked the na, so I didn’t want to change it. I knew that everyone found it weird but Hayden gave
this dog, so I wanted to na the dog after him…a little.
"I don’t know…I guess I don’t really want to change it. He knows his na already too…" I murmured a little sadly.
Hayden just sighed at
before he dropped the topic. Little Hayden looked up at Hayden curiously before snuggling next to his lap.
--To be continued…
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