Turning Of the Tide by Diana Sander

At the stime.

Natalie was sitting in the living room. Olivia was watching short videos while eating the peanuts. Jasper was chatting on his phone. It was unknown who he was texting. From tto time, he would smile.

Caleb and Rachel went upstairs to sleep early. The elderly tended to get sleepy early and wake up early in the morning. They officially entered the lifestyle of the elderly.

Natalie finished reading Fairy Fortress's message and replied with a smile. [You guys not interfering is the best help to their education, especially you, Rose.] Seeing her mother smile, Olivia leaned over to take a look. With one hand on the sofa, she tilted her body. After looking at the photo, she smiled. "Did Uncle attend the parent-teacher meeting with Edward today?" Natalie answered, "I think so." Olivia looked at the picture of the lecture again and sighed. "This is fate. I'm afraid Cyril's happy days are over." Jasper's fingers tapped on the screen. Olivia leaned her head over to her brother's side to take a look and realized that it was dark. "Brother, you actually put on an anti-peeking screen. Something's going on with you." After typing the last word, Jasper pressed the lock screen and replied without changing his expression, "My phone is filled with the client's information now. Aren't | going to set an anti-peeking screen?" That made sense. "Alright." Olivia trusted her brother's words very much.

Natalie glanced at her son, who was lying seriously, and smiled faintly. She continued to look at the messages in the group. Sherri was already overjoyed. She had been using laughing emojis to express her true feelings.

Sherri texted, [This is too fated. They even disciplined in sync. My brother will probably be furious.] Rose said, [He've already showed his might. He plans to accompany Harper to fight to the death for the SAT.] Natalie replied, [This is good. It cuts off Harper's attempts to make you guys give up on him. He will be able to climb up once his backup plan is blocked. Just don't interfere.] Rose was also very helpless. [How would | know that he would be like this? My brother and | are also free-raised, but we didn't do anything like Harper, right?] Sherri said, [Rose, what era were you in then? What era is it now? The Inteis so developed. Back then, you were playing with mud. Now, they're playing with the computer. How can it be the same?] Natalie replied, [You're right. Just like Sherri, you definitely wouldn't have been able to say this 20 years ago.

Look at how deep and thorough Sherri's comprehension is 20 years later.] Ava sent a laughing emoji.

Sherri texted, [Natalie, it's too much. You're looking for trouble.] Rose replied, [So Cultured. So Reasonable.] She was a little dry from eating peanuts. Olivia took a sip of her drink and elbowed her brother, who was sending another message, on the arm. "Jasper, did you find the system installed by Uncle when you took my phone that day? Did anything appear?" Jasper put the phone away again. "Location. Nothing else." Olivia did not doubt her brother's words at all. "I see. Daddy is probably afraid that something will happen to us again." "Yeah." "Brother, cwith us to Mosuland on May Day. We've already decided on our personnel. Auntie Stella, Ruby, me, oh, and Liam." Natalie asked, "Are you going on a trip? Isn't Ruby's stuopening at the end of the month?" Why did she still have tto go out and play on May Day? Olivia replied, "Yes. Stella and | persuaded her to change the time. Ruby has already changed the tto May 20th. We all feel that this tis quite meaningful." Upon hearing this, Natalie glanced at her son. She saw him tighten his grip on the phone, and she quickly looked away. "There's no hurry. It's good to have fun before the opening. Jasper, you'll be busy in the future. Take advantage of the fact that you've just started work to go out with Olivia. Have fun and cback to work later." Olivia really wanted to go out and play with her brother. She advised again, "Jasper, let's go together. It's a rare opportunity. We haven't gone out to play together for a long time. Mom, do you want to go together?" Natalie refused. "I won't go. Your father and I have to travel several times a year. You young people should go.

Aren't Nona and Cyril going?" Olivia said, "Nona originally planned to go, but wasn't Cyril grounded? Nona said that he wouldn't go and planned to stay behind to help brother with his homework. Uncle gave Cyril a total goal of 1200. This arrow can only be pointed up and not down." "This child is always so understanding. She can go, but she rejected so that Cyril wouldn't feel dissatisfied. This is like your aunt, always thinking from someone else's perspective." Seeing that her brother did not agree, Olivia bumped her brother's shoulder again. "Jasper, did you hear what | told you?" Jasper glanced at his phone and put it away. He replied, "Yes, I'll listen to Mom." Then, he added in a firm tone, "Cyril can get 1200." Natalie nodded in agreement with her son's idea. Olivia's focus was not on whether her brother could get into 1200. Seeing that her brother had agreed, she was overjoyed. "Oh yeah, I'm going upstairs. I'm going to buy straveling things. Bye." As soon as Olivia finished speaking, she had already jogged upstairs. Only Jasper and Natalie were left in the living room.

"You're chatting with Ruby." Natalie said affirmatively, not in a question. Her son had been holding his phone the entire night.

Jasper nodded and did not hide anything. "Yes." Natalie smiled. "Your injuries are almost healed. Go to the stuand get Ruby to make a few more suits for you." Just as Jasper was about to answer his mother, Jasper's phone lit up. It was a message. Natalie tactfully stood up and walked upstairs. She instructed, "Sleep early." Jasper replied to his mother's back, "Yes, okay." Ruby's message cin again. [Can you go too? Don't you need to go to work?] Jasper's fingers stopped above the screen, as if he was thinking about how to reply. A few seconds later, he started typing. [Yes, sure. I'm not busy.] Her mother had always been in charge at home.

Ruby replied. [Okay, | told my dad and he agreed. | gave him the list of people who went.] Jasper asked curiously, "Am | on the list?" Ruby replied affirmatively with one word. [Yes.] After reading this word, Jasper smiled. Just this word alone made him think of her expression when she typed this word. He smiled and replied. [Did you already guess that | would go?] Ruby texted, [That's right, Are you going?] Jasper smiled and typed a simple word on the screen. [Yes.] Ruby replied, [Goodnight.] Jasper texted, [Yes, sweet dreams.] Just as Jasper thought that she would not reply, Ruby suddenly sent a message. [What do you think | want to dream about the most?] It was a simple line of words. Jasper stared at it and read it several times. From front to back, from back to front, he replied in a moment. [It will ctrue.] When Ruby saw this message, she also smiled. [You don't even know what dream | want to have, and you think it can ctrue?] Jasper replied affirmatively. [Yes.] Ruby texted, [You said you would, but if my dream doesn't ctrue, I'll pick with you.] Jasper readily agreed. [Sure, anytime.] Ruby replied, [Goodnight and Sweet Dreams.] Jasper texted, [Okay.] As usual, Ruby cleared out the information again. This time, she changed the nand wrote the word "client".

Jasper, who was sitting alone on the sofa, reread the chat history of the night and saved the information in the folder. He pressed the lock button with his index finger, and the screen turned black. He stood up happily.

With one hand in his pocket, he walked upstairs, looking forward to May Day's arrival.

Tpassed quickly, and the day of May Day soon arrived.

The night before May Day, in the Blackwell's house.

Ruby was in the room organizing the things she would bring tomorrow. Joy was helping to check. After a while, Sherri brought a lot of warm stickers over and bent down to put the things into her daughter's white suitcase.

She flipped through it again to see if there was anything she had missed. "Ruby, Mom left the heat pack here.

You're going to have your period tomorrow. Be careful. | brought you more tampon." As a gynecologist, Sherri valued her daughter's physiology very much. She also remembered the date clearly and helped her daughter prepare everything when the day came.

Ruby, who was rummaging through the wardrobe, heard her mother's words. She turned around and replied, "Oh, Mom, | know." Joy said, "Your grandfather said that Mosuland is colder than Athana. Ruby, bring an extra coat so that you won't catch a cold." "Okay, Grandma. I'll bring two coats." "Sigh, that's right. Don't catch a cold." Joy nodded and looked at her granddaughter with satisfaction.

In the other room, in Liam's room, the sound system was playing a DJ. The atmosphere was very lively, completely reflecting Liam's current mood.

Hackett leaned against the door frof his son's room and listened to the excited DJ. He glanced in the direction of his daughter's room.

He retracted his gaze and said to his son, who was squatting on the ground and packing his luggage while twisting his body to the melody, "Watch your sister when you're outside. Don't just focus on playing." Liam didn't listen to his father. He nodded perfunctorily and shook his head. Hackett turned off the stereo and pulled a stool to sit down with his legs crossed.

The moment the music ended, the room fell silent. Liam looked at his father in confusion. Why did he turn off the music on such a happy day? "Dad, why did you turn off the stereo? I'm listening." Hackett glanced at his son. "I'm afraid that you won't know if you're at hor Lithern Club. I'm helping you pull you back to reality." Liam checked his red suitcase and found that he did not miss anything. Shaping water, skincare products... He counted them one by one in his heart. After confirming that he had brought them all, he raised his hand to zip them up.

He carried her luggage to the corner and sat upright on the edge of the bed, ready to listen to his father's instructions. "I'm done. You can giveyour instructions. Watch over my sister, right? | watch over her all the time. When my sister goes out, | also go out. Now, my sister can't even be got close by a fly." Hackett shook his leg and said casually, "Jasper is also a man."