The narrator tells us that she and her husband have decided to stay at their house instead of going to a hotel. They've opened a cafe and have added an annex to their house to make it a home away from home. The narrator asks why the kids aren't playing with each other in the pool when her husband is out, and the narrator says that the kids are getting along well and that their father has already confirmed that they're "good people." The narrator then asks the girls why they look so excited when she locked the door and they didn't have time to play. The girls are bored, she says, because they were "junie and un-cwle bored" when they weren't around. She then tells the girls that they had fun swimming, drinking strawberry milk, and patting each other on the back. She says that she's been on business trips with the girls, and they've both been good at their jobs. But she says that since she saw the girls' relationship, she has been "bracing myself" even though she knows it'll "burden" her.