Chapter 3

Jennifer had to rush out of the house because she was few minutes too late. Sure she was left with a hour to doll herself up but it can't be help when Lily, in her new set of clothes which was Jennifer's, kept asking her what are these and what are those, followed by her endless "Master?"

She has noted in her mind to tell the bear to stop calling her that later.

But one thing she was sure of, Lily has no knowledge at all.

She thought about shooing her out but, she knows nothing! Lily looks, and sound so fragile and innocent. Not to mention cute, somehow. Lily was tugging Jennifer's shirt when she saw her making her way out of the house, "Master, where are you going?" followed by a pout. She can't help but to pat her cheeks, telling her "I'll be back, just don't go anywhere, okay?"

The bear looked down on her feet, but stopped tugging anyway. "Be back soon.." She mumbled before Emma lured her away from the scene with a cookie.

"Ooh! What is that??" Curiousity once again won over Lily as she followed Emma, who eyed her sister to go already.

Jennifer was really thankful. But somehow she felt a little disappointed when Lily turned her attention too quick. But that didn't really matter as for the moment, she really needs to hurry up.

Sigh of relief escaped her mouth when 'The Pinks' the ice cream parlour where she was suppose to be with mia and isabella in 20 minutes ago, she checked the time on her watch.

Luckily for her, the two can still be seen when she popped her head in the parlour, she chuckled watching as mia kept pushing and pulling isabella's ice cream when she wanted to scoop it.

She stopped her antic when she saw Jennifer walking towards them, giving isabella a chance to snatch her ice cream for mia and protecting it like her whole life depended on it.

" What took you so long?? My ice cream is melting already!" The satan stood up and puts her hands on Jennifer's shoulders.

"Idiot, you already finished your ice cream." isabella huffed, slightly flipping her locks so the ice cream won't stain it. Jennifer glared at mia who's still in her act.

Jennifer then settled herself on the empty part of the round table. "Sorry, the force is not with me today." isabella passed her the banana and chocolate swirl that they ordered for her, "Unusual morning?" She took the ice cream which hasn't, by God's grace, fully melted yet not before mouthing a thank you.

"You have no idea."

"What happened?" It was mia and her two besties are now eyeing her.

Jennifer bite her lower lips. "Well.."

She took a deep breathe before continuing. "I bought home a teddy bear that was stranded on the street yesterday on my way home."

"Okay?" mia's eyes twitched at the thought of the granny bringing home a teddy bear, not knowing whether it's a bomb or not. She was about to asked.

"I know what you guys are thinking and NO it's not a bomb." She rolled her eyes before stuffing herself with her ice cream.

They both laughed awkwardly as Jennifer knew what they were thinking.

"The teddy bear.. It somehow caught my attention. I mean- who would leave a cute little stuffed animal on the street? It's not even dirty and it looks new, smells nice too! So I bought it home." She glanced at the two, they just nodded, hinting her continue.

"Well... It was so cute that I hugged it to sleep."

"Whaa? You hugged a stuffed animal to sleep?" mia was now jaw dropping when the grandma just admitted something embarrassing despite their current age. isabella, in the other hand, tried not to laugh. The reactions she's receiving now made her frown.

"Yah.. That's not the point of the whole story! I haven't finish yet!" She whined.

"Okay okay, then what happened?"

"It..." Jennifer paused as she recalled the event this morning. Blushing really hard, it wasn't left unnoticed by the two. It made them really curious this time. "Hurry up! What happened?" mia egged her on but there's no response.

Mia leaned back on her seat and huffed, Jennifer was testing her patience. "You're making it look like this teddy bear turned into a human and you were hugging its naked body until you woke up!" She exclaimed sarcastically which made isabella burst out laughing. "Oh! That's a good one!" They high-fived.

Their laughter faltered when Jennifer was eye-ing them in disbelief. Hey eyes were bulging out, jaw dropping. "H-How??" She breathed out, it was almost inaudible.

"How what?" Mia furrowed her eyebrows.

"How did you know?"

"What?"

"..."

"..."

There was a long pause as the three of them stared at each other before it hits Isabella. Now choking hard on her ice cream followed by hard coughs, while mia almost fell backward but ended up hitting her knees hard on the table instead, she was yelping. If the situation Jennifer was in wasn't serious at all, she'll be laughing her guts out at the scene.

The other customers are now turning to the ruckus made.

Isabella as still coughing hard while hitting her chest to calm the pain down. Meanwhile, Mia was holding her knees up, hugging them while mumbling words that no one can't make them out as if she was cursing in French. Jennifer had to stand up and bowed to the public, apologizing on the behalf of the idiots.

"Can you guys quiet down? We're gonna get kicked out if you guys don't!" It took them a few minutes calm down but they're still panting from the pain. Karma, Jennifer thought but she tried to keep her calm expression when she just wanted to laugh hard.

"A-Are you serious?" The two looked quite terrified after regaining themselves. Jennifer only nodded. "But that's stupid!" Mia claimed once more. "You're the one who came out with the idea!" Jennifer defended.

She sighed for the nth times today, "Look if you guys don't believe me, follow me back home later. You guys are free today, right?" The two nodded.

"Hold on- is it still at you hou- I mean, sorry but is it a girl or?" Isabella's question kinda took her by surprise.

"Yeah."

"She's still your house??!" Now this was the split personality Jennifer mentioned before.

"I can't shoo her away! She has negative knowledge about everything! If let her out, she might get killed, raped or maybe kidnapped! She's... innocent and kinda cute." She fiddled with her fingers, cheeks turning pink.

Her two besties can't hide their grin as they watch their oldest getting all timid. "Huh." They huffed in unison. "Whatever, anyway I gotta grab some clothes for her. Accompany me later, then we'll head to my house."

"Mkay." The set of questions doesn't stop there as Isabella and Mia kept bombarding her questions about Lily, she can't really answer all.

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"So you're telling me that you're obliged to serve your 'Master'-" Emma quoted in the air with her hands, "Who is Jennifer because she activated you by kissing you on the lips when you were a teddy?"

Emma and Lily are now sitting in front of each other, on the dining table as Emma was just eye-ing Lily who was munching down cookies and now slurping a box of orange juice, looking all so innocent. Emma almost can't believe it. Lily is also now dressed with Jennifer's cropped tee and short shorts that Emma randomly picked from her sister's wardrobe because her sister was busy dolling up. Lily couldn't stop walking around asking her questions, Emma felt sorry.

"What is a kiss?" Lily tilted.

Emma mentally facepalmed herself before answering, "A kiss is when you put your mouth on someone else's like how Jennifer did to you when you were still a teddy bear. Somehow." She grimaced upon her own explanation.

"Oh! Yes." Lily nodded rapidly.

"And you can also automatically detect Jennifer's name when she kissed you when you don't even know your own name?" She raised a brow, leaning back a bit while crossing her arms

"Yes.."

"I can't believe you don't know your own name!" Emma threw her hands up..

Lily flinched from her sit, "It's not like Lillian doesn't know! Lillian name was marked behind Lillian neck and Lillian can't read!"

"Marked? By who?"

"Uhh..Lillian's creator? I don't know.." Lily shrugged.

Now this caught Emma's attention. "Who is your creator and where are you from? I mean, before Jennifer found you?"

Lily pondered for a moment. "Lillian.. Don't know actually. Lillian can't remember anything. But Master has found Lillian, it doesn't matter anymore as it was Lillian's destiny!" She chirped. Emma stopped digging until then. But she can't help but to smile at how adorable Lily is and how many times she pronounced her name wrongly.

"Your age?"

"Probably the same as Master since she's the one who activated Lillian."

"Hmmm..." Emma just can't stop herself from being curious about Lily because she just kept getting more interesting as questions goes by. "Any talent?"

"What is that?"

Emma heaved a sigh. "Why must I explain everything?" she mumbled before making her way to the fridge, grabbing 3 oranges. It's the only thing she can do to explain to Lily.

Good thing that Emma is one with high patience.

"Oh! What are those??" Lily pointed at the oranges in Emma's hands. "These are fruits called oranges."

"What are fruits?"

"Fruits are sweet and edible things that grows out of trees."

"What are sweet, edible and trees?"

Emma took a deep breathe, trying not to spit out words that'll make Lily threw her more what is and what are. "Sweet is something that makes you giddy after eating, edible is that just you just did when I gave you those cookies, and trees are-" She pointed out at a tree outside the window. Lily followed the direction of her finger and mouthed an "O".

"Now, personal talents are-" Emma positioned the oranges in her hands before she starts juggling, one of the thing she knows how to do after training for weeks. There's no personal reason why she wanted to learn. She just did it.

"Oh!! That's amazing! What were you doing just now?" Lily was amused after the latter finished her mini performance. Emma smiled proudly. "It's called juggling."

Lily quickly went to grab the oranges from Emma's arms and positioned them in her hands like how Emma did earlier. It took her by surprise.

"Uh Lily, I don't think that.." Her jaw dropped when Lily start juggling perfectly like how she did to show Lily earlier.

Lily ended it by catching all 3 oranges and putting them on the dining table.

"Lillian has a personal talent!!!" The bear shouted, her fists held high and eyes disappearing when she successfully copied Emma. "Hell." Was all Emma can say before holding her right palm out to Lily for a high-five.

The bear's grin turned into a confused look when she saw it. "Why are you touching the air?"

Emma blinked before laughing. "You're supposed to slap my hand back."

"But that's not good!" The bear frowned. The latter shooked her head as she pull her right hand out and like she did. "This is something that we do when we're happy." Emma then high-fived Lily. Her face went blank after the high-five. She slowly brought her hand to her face, staring at her own palm.

"Happy?" Lily wasn't looking at Emma when she asked this time.

She smiled. "How do you feel after juggling those oranges successsfuly?" her lips formed a thin line, not knowing the wave of emotion that encountered her a moment ago.

"That's happiness." She simply stated, now earning Lily's attention.

"Like...When Master found me?"

Emma only walked next to her and patted her on the head. "Just like how Jennifer found you."

"Then I am very happy!" Her eyes disappeared once more.

She poked her cheek. "You know, you really looked like a bear at some point."

"What is a bear?

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The trio have reached the house with a few bags in their hands. But mostly Lily's new clothes in Jennifer's .

"I'm not that gullible to believe your nonsense tales but I kinda hope what you told us are true." The satan giggled only to receive a nudge from Jennifer.

"And why is that?" Isabella one asked.

"Y'know, Jennifer said the bear knows nothing, right?"

"And..?"

Jennifer groaned. Knowing where this is going. "If you teach her stupid things, I swear to God, Mia -" She threw a glare at both of her friend before twisting the door knob open. Making her way in without looking.

"I just thought that maybe she-" Mia was about to end her sentence but only to have her jaw, and Isabella as well, drop.

"What?" Jennifer frowned, not until she followed their gaze inside her house.

Lily was raising her hands up after landing perfectly from a flip. Jennifer's cropped tee on her slightly lifted, revealing her firm abs. The serious look on her face enhancing her side features.

The trio's jaws are still dropping. Jennifer's short shorts on Lily also didn't help when it reveals her long legs. She has noted down to knock Emma's head later for picking such clothes.

The seriousness on the bear's face turned overjoy at the sight of her 'Master'. She grinned widely before running towards Jennifer, crashing her body against her. "Master, you're back!"

It was the first time for the three of them to have their jaw dropped that low.

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