Chapter 215: Friends no more.
The loud voices startled the children awake, while Mei-Mei was already familiar with everyone around, little monk tightened his arms around Chi Lian’s neck. He was not good at interacting with strangers; so far the only person he trusted completely was his mother.
"It’s okay baby," she bounced him up and down a bit, "These are members of our family and they won’t hurt you." She assured him.
"Chi-Chi," her mother approached her eagerly, "Give me my grandbaby, I haven’t seen him for a whole day." Mama Chi complained and she tried to take little Monk out of Chi Lian’s hands. The little boy however refused, hanging on to Chi Lian like a spider monkey to a tree.
"He is still quite fussy mother; I will give him to you when he is calmer." Chi Lian said as she pulled the cap covering little monk’s head down. With all the people in the house, someone would certainly comment on his lack of hair. She didn’t want such negative attention on her baby. "Who organized this party mother?" she asked.
She would have preferred to settle little monk in quietly, with just the close family members. There were about a hundred guests here as far as her eye could see.
Her mother’s face lit up with a bright smile. "This was Lili’s idea." She said, "She said you run off and had the babies in secret so you never got to have a baby shower. How could I stop her when she was so determined to celebrate you and the twins? It’s a good thing you have those pictures proving your pregnancy, she even dug them out and spread them through the house."
Mama Chi pointed to the walls which were filled with T4’s handiwork of pictures of a heavily pregnant Chi Lian in the American empire.
Xue Lili was really full of surprises and quite nosy, just like the old days. Chi Lian had been holding back on asking Lili about Wuxi’s real mother, she too was just as nosy but she had been holding back out of respect for her friend. Now, she was considering throwing her consideration out of the window.
"By the way, Lili invited some of your old friends from your high school days." Her mother whispered.