1. "--oh, are you done? I was just about to come and help..."
2. "It's all good, I got it set up."
3. "Feels bad I'm making you sleep on the floor, though..."
1. "You could use the bed in your room tonight, if you want."
2. "Alone? And leave you here!? As if!"
3. "I'll take the hardwood floor with you any day."
4. "You're the best."
5. "Your mother is a lovely woman."
6. "I could just be myself around her..."
7. "No wonder you ended up so well-adjusted."
1. "I'm so glad you two get along."
2. "I think she's taken a shine to you, too."
3. "She doesn't get that chatty with just anyone."
4. "Are you sore?"
5. "You were on your feet all day..."
6. "Oh..."
7. "Let me give you a massage."
1. "Ah..."
2. "Nh..."
3. "That's enough, nik..."
4. "Thanks... I'm good now..."
5. "C'mon. Come to bed."
6. The face of a trickster...
1. "No funny business, alright? I am not doing this with your mother around."
2. "Okay! Okay!"
3. "You good? I'm tucking you in now."
4. "Thanks, nik..."
5. "I should be thanking you."
1. "Nik... What did I just say?"
2. "Hehe... But just look at you..."
3. "I can't help it! Happens every time I see you!"
4. "But fine, snuggling it is!"
5. "I...haven't heard about your father at all from her today."
6. "Has she always been a single parent?"
7. "That's one way to put it, yeah."
8. "There's little more to it than that, though."
1. "She had me through a sperm donor."
2. "You're joking!"
3. "I'm not! She carried me to term and raised me all by her lonesome as an unmarried woman."
4. "She told me she always wanted a kid, but not a husband."
5. "I don't really care about who the donor was. I'd rather not know, even."
6. "Ma did a mighty fine job raising me. Didn't even feel like I needed a dad."
7. She never pushed me or pressured me into being anything I wasn't or didn't want to be.
8. My decision to come to the city to work was much the same.
1. Things were tough back then, she said.
2. Things were more stringent... People weren't as accepting.
3. She said she wasn't strong enough to fight against that pressure to be with who she loved.
4. So she chose to live a solitary life...gave up on love entirely.
5. It... Really wasn't easy, carrying and raising a child all by herself.
6. She became the star of every rumor under the sun after having me.
7. "Her man left her" this, "Had a one night stand" that...
1. "That's amazing."
2. "She really went through hell...working all alone."
3. "And she raised you so well even after all that..."
4. "I wouldn't go that far to praise her..."
5. "I've only ever seen her ordering other people around when I was growing up..."
6. "I mean, she works at a durian farm, right?"
7. "Well, yeah, but..."
1. "She's just a farmer, you know?"
2. "I mean okay, she grows and packs and ships them out, but it's a humble business!"
3. Oh, she's old money... "Humble business" my ass, nik, you're the daughter of a tycoon!!