"Just like waiting for an unexpected surprise."
Even if you didn't know whether the surprise would ever come...
That didn't stop people from waiting with hopeful anticipation.
The child lowered his head.
"Chenchen."
The child's mom looked at the child's backpack.
"Is the peach all right?"
The child looked up blankly.
Huh?
The child's mom helped him take off his backpack.
She opened it.
The child's mom took out the peach.
"Look."
The child's mom took the peach out of the bag.
A third of it had already gone rotten.
The child's eyes suddenly widened.
Ah...
"...The peach has gone bad..."
The child murmured.
"That's right."
The child's mom furrowed her brow slightly.
"It was a beautiful peach, but now it's all ugly and withered."
"Yeah."
The child nodded unconsciously.
"So ugly..."
The rotten part made you wrinkle your nose just looking at it.
"Because you kept it for too long," the child's dad said.
"You should've eaten it a couple days ago."
"Didn't you notice yesterday that it had gone bad?"
He remembered that the child checked on the peach every day.
The child pressed his lips together.
To be honest...
He had noticed.
But...
This was the last peach.
The child's expression said it all.
The child's dad patted him on the shoulder.
This child...
He really did want to see that old man again.
The child's mom stood up.
She took the peach to the kitchen.
Soon, the child's mom came back.
She crouched down and held out half a peach to the child.
"Go ahead and eat it."
"I've cleaned it up."
"This part is all good. It isn't rotten."
The child's eyes widened.
A moment later, he reached out hesitantly.
He