Chapter 162 – The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel

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She sat and pretended to think about it, and she could actually see the excitement in both her boys as she finally typed in an address, and a picture of the house came up. A photo of it behind the closed gates, but right there was the sign on the gate ‘Cliffside Manor’ and they both pointed to it, recognised it themselves from some of the photos she’d shown them already; that she’d gotten from the cloud.

“You did it, you remembered,” The boys were yelling and hugging her. “Can we go there?” they asked.

“Hmm, Christmas is coming, and that place I believe is owned by your father still.” She murmured thoughtfully.

“He’ll let you take us there, I know he will.” Callum smiled up at her.

“I’ll ask him,” Vin stated, and she latched onto both her boys to stop them from picking up the phone to text

Calvin.

“Wait, seeing as he was nice today, why don’t I show him I can be nice back, and reward him for his good behaviour.” She told them.

“Huh?” they were frowning at her now.

“How about… a surprise trip, kind of like a really good Christmas present. If we leave in the morning, and it’ll take a few days to get there, we could get to Cliffside before he’s even due to be here in Virginia.” she told them some of her plans, just to see what they thought, feel them out, so to speak.

Both of them were smiling at her now. “He’ll love it, and you could get your memories back at the same time. That would be a good present for you mum.” Callum smiled at her.

“I guess it could be,” she nodded. “But… if we all go there as a surprise visit. Then you two can’t tell him about it, or it will ruin the surprise. You’ll still be able to talk to him as normal, but you can’t mention the trip, or where we are going alright.” She told them, “Or it won’t be a surprise for him at all.”

She looked at the two of them as they thought about it and then nodded, “We can do that mum.” Vincent told her, “To surprise dad, and it’s a good surprise, we won’t tell him.”

“But.” She watched Callum pick the phone up. “We’ll let you have the phone to make sure that we don’t tell him.”

“Hmm, I don’t think that’s necessary,” she shook her head. “I’ll trust you, but you should just talk to him like you normally do so he doesn’t get suspicious.”

“What if he tracks the phone and sees it’s moving?” Vincent asked her a moment later. “He’ll know, and it’ll be ruined.”

“Hmm, now that is a tricky one.” she nodded. “I’ll think about that overnight. Let’s get you two all packed and ready for the trip.”

“He’s going to love it mum.” Callum hugged her tightly, and then he was gone up the stairs to start packing.

Marilyn

The boys were very excited, and she could hear them laughing as they talked to each other upstairs. Excited not only to be surprising their dad, but to go to that house, and for her to get her memories back as well, they believed she would. Marilyn closed her laptop and walked up the stairs after turning the TV off. They weren’t going to finish watching their movie.

She found the two of them putting clothes into their backpacks, and she smiled. “That is not what I meant, boys.” She stated and pulled out their actual suitcases. “It’s a two-day trip there and two days back. Then a few days there, so proper packing needs to happen,” She told them. “Although it will be warmer there even though it’s winter. It rarely gets as cold there, as it does here.”

“Can we pack swimmers?” Callum asked right back. “There’s a pool.”

“It’ll still be cold boys, I don’t think swimming will happen.” She told them and got pouted at “pack them if you must, but I doubt the water will be warm enough for swimming.” She shook her head a little and just let them pack their swimmers.

“When will we leave?” Vincent asked her.

“First thing in the morning. It’s a long trip so make sure to bring something to do in the car, charge up your tablets and bring some movies for in the car to watch as well,” she told them, and they nodded.

Marilyn smiled to herself as she headed back downstairs to pack herself. She didn’t think they could get any more excited. She stood in front of her wardrobe looking at her clothes, trying to decide on what she wanted to take. She didn’t really have many clothes like what she used to wear.

Nowadays, she kept herself to maroons, reds and darker colours, favoring black and white quite a bit. The pastel colours she’d once worn were no more, other than her jackets. They were all light coloured, white, light blue, a soft pink one she’d worn today and a few cream ones, kind of lightened her wardrobe, she supposed. Even her snow jacket was white and light green and grey.

Her casual wear consisted mostly of jeans and long-sleeve tops, of light-weight sweaters and long skirts. And gone were the heels she’d worn for flats, joggers and boots since that accident, nothing above an inch high, as it caused her legs to ache otherwise. There was only one thing in her entire wardrobe that was Marrin-like, that wasn’t a jacket. A dress she’d purchased a few years back, had seen it in a shop window and she had just been drawn to it, so she had gone in and bought it. It was a soft apricot-coloured dress, with flowing sleeves and varying shades of orange, red and pink flowers on it.

She’d not worn it all that often, only three or four times, when out to dinner mostly with the boys, or in spring and summer when having dinner with Lisa and the boys at a nice restaurant. There were no other occasions for her to wear it. So it hung in a dress bag in her wardrobe most of the year.

Now as she looked at it, she realised that it was very much a dress she would have worn when she was married to Calvin. She nodded to herself and pulled it out of the wardrobe, she would take it with her. Certain that it would come in handy for her plans.

She packed a second smaller suitcase, the one that she used for her writing gear, included her laptop, books and pens, chargers and all the things she would need to continue to work, while the boys slept or were she supposed going to be off with Calvin at some point. She was intending to let him take them to meet their grandparents.

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