Just when Su-yeon and So-yeon thought their new neighbor was going to a nearby ice cream parlor, they were invited to their home — one of the townhouses on the Bonas waterfront less than a few hundred meters from Su-yeon and So-yeon's home, with the word "Whitehouse" written on a nameplate made at the door — that the Ren sisters knew was the last name of the sisters, Polly and Sally.

The Whitehouse sisters invited the Ren sisters to the dining room and went to the kitchen fridge to get two ceramic square bowls of cheese pudding ice cream and drizzled a layer of chocolate sauce on top.

"Did you just move here?" asked Su-yeon.

"No, it's just that because of my mother, we used to go to school in London. "Then my mother had to change the district, so we left London and came here." ”

"Then you can go straight to college. Su Yeon was surprised, "What kind of days are you still messing around in high school?" ”

"Originally, Dad planned to do the same. Polly smiled and answered So-yeon's question, "It's just that Mom doesn't want our youth to be too tiring, and college homework is tiring, so let's relax for a year first." Mom was an elected councillor for Kingston-upon-Thames, but she started out as a member of the County Council in South Glamorganshire, and we made our home here when she was about to run here. ”

"Disrespectful, it turned out to be the daughters of His Excellency the Councillors. Suyan said.

"It doesn't matter, my mother is also an office worker, and the word 'Your Excellency Councillor' will only cause trouble to my mother. Polly said, "How's the ice cream, is it good?"

"Very good!" replied Su-yeon, "and what about your father?"

At this time, there was an unnaturalness on Polly and Sally's faces, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

"Mom and dad have a weird relationship, a bit like boyfriend and girlfriend, but they don't live together. "Dad wanted Mom to move with us to live with him, but Mom refused. ”

"It doesn't matter, we probably come from a similar single-parent family. Xiuyan replied, "My mother is a former ballet dancer, and now she is a stage director, and she is always busy with work, and as for my father, it takes a long time to see him once." ”

The two pairs of sisters showed very lonely expressions at the same time.

"Then do you plan to go to college or get a job after graduation?" Sellie asked as she tried to break the silence, "The housekeeper said that you are also in Class A. ”

"We're going to graduate a year early next year and go to the Royal Ballet School in London to specialize in ballet, and then we'll probably go to university while working, which is what my mother laid for us - it's just gratitude, and we really want to," Su-yeon replied, "Do you have any idea which university to go to?"

"We were definitely together, but there was a slight disagreement, my sister and I wanted to go to LSE, but my mom wanted us to go to Cambridge to make up for her regrets. "So, everything is still being discussed." ”

"We're all the same. Polly sighed, and then went to the kitchen to clean the bowl and teaspoon that the Ren sisters had eaten.

The two sisters, who shared the same feelings, got along very well for the rest of their lives and developed a very strong friendship – especially when they found out that some of each other's habits were exactly the same as their own.

This harmonious relationship between them lasted until the Christmas holidays.

The Christmas holiday was also a bit special this year, as Polly and Sally's uncle, who immigrated to Montreal, invited their grandparents there for Christmas, leaving the Whitehouse sisters, who often traveled to the Caribbean islands with their grandparents, to stay in the school dormitory until her mother arranged a business plane to take them to Xiangjiang, a well-known freeport in the Far East.

"I heard that Xiuyan and So-yeon are now in Xiangjiang. Cellly muttered to Polly, "They're going through an assessment in Xiangjiang to decide if they can get into ballet school." ”

"Then when we get there, we'll go and have fun with them. Polly replied casually.

"Didn't my father and mother get a boat there and go out to sea with us?" asked Selie, "so I didn't tell them we were going to Xiangjiang at all." ”

"That ......" Polly always thinks that even when they get to Xiangjiang, they can spend two or three days on the shore in Xiangjiang, and then they can find her roommates to play at Disneyland in Xiangjiang, but judging by Sally's appearance, this method seems to be unworkable.

"Two VIPs. The stewardess walked up to the only two passengers, "Ms. Whitehouse has told you to get a good night's sleep at four o'clock, and that the beds are made, and that you can go and rest there." ”

Mom's advice was an order—something the Whitehouse sisters had proven in countless practice—and on the sofa bed at the back of the business jet, Polly and Sellie followed their mother's instructions and lay there with their eyes closed until they were woken up a few hours later by the same flight attendant.

"We are still two hours away from Xiangjiang. The stewardess said, "If you two need to wash up and have breakfast, you can do it now." ”

The Whitehouse sisters took action, finished tidying up their grooming in twenty minutes, changed into a white shirt and red plaid skirt, and sat down in their seats for breakfast.

After they finished drinking the tea, the plane just began the landing procedure, and within 20 minutes, the plane was firmly parked on the tarmac of Lantau International Airport, completing the 13-hour flight.

Compared to the always gloomy Welsh winter, the winter in Xiangjiang is dry and warm.

After a brief immigration clearance, the Whitehouse sisters were picked up in an executive car and headed to Aberdeen, where they boarded a speedboat and headed to the yacht.

"That boat is so beautiful!" said Selly, thinking that the largest ship moored in the marina was their target, beckoning her sister to look at it.

"Young ladies, that's not our boat!" said a yachtsman with a North East England accent, "our boat is one hundred and ten meters long, nearly twice as long as the 45-meter one." Therefore, we can only ferry guests by speedboat, and we cannot dock directly at the shore. ”

"Is Mommy already up there?" said the corrected Cellly, who was not answering, so Polly asked the crew.

"Unfortunately, I was only ordered to pick up the two from the dock, there are so many guests on board these days, I don't know which one is the mother of the two. The crew said.

"And whose ship does it belong to?" asked Polly further, "isn't it our father?"

The crew's attitude became a little ambiguous: "A more accurate word is shipowner, but many shipowners are companies, and we are no exception. ”

As the speedboat accelerated, the sea breeze gradually became stronger, and the boat gradually lost hearing what the others said. The Whitehouse sisters stopped chatting with the crew, and arrived at a yacht large enough to be the size of a small cruise ship, and boarded the boat along the ramp that descended at the back of the yacht.

Immediately at the entrance to the gangway, a waiter brought hot towels and leather slippers to wipe their hands, and all the yacht's principal attendants showed up to greet the Whitehouse sisters and shake hands with them one by one.

The waiter, who shook hands at the end, opened the door and ushered Polly and Cellly into the living room.

In the living room, they met their mother, who cared for them, their father, who had missed them for a long time, and several other girls who seemed to be the same age as them, including the Ren sisters.

Polly and Cellly, who were a little dazed, were pulled by the very embarrassed so-yeon and so-yeon, and said a title that they never thought of - "sister".