Aunt Melanie always addressed Mrs. Hernandez by their childhood nicknames: she called her Graccy, while Mrs. Hernandez called her Mell.
"Hey, what are you still doing over there?" Aunt Melanie called out to Darren, who was lingering on the wooden chair.
"Who's Graccy?" Darren inquired as he approached her.
"Oh, you must have been wondering who I was calling Graccy. It's your mother, of course, hahaha," she said, slicing more veggies and adding them to the basket Darren held.
"Oh... right," Darren realized.
"Back in the day, we used to call each other that. Now, here we are, all grown up and gray-haired," she chuckled.
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The next day at work, as everyone arrived at the office, Kiara noticed that most of the workers were gathered around a corner of the office.