Couldn’t Hide the Feelings - Chapter 23

It was early five o’clock in the afternoon, and although the sun was not as violent as noon, it was still dazzling.

The smell outside the alley was not very good, John did not let Ashley stand there with him foolishly.

He looked around and took her to a small stall nearby and bought two bunches of rock candy strawberries.

Two people found a shade, each one holding a bunch.

Afraid of Ashley’s embarrassment, John took the initiative to chat with her, “It’s a bit of a mess around here. Don’t come here if you have nothing to do, okay?”

Ashley obediently said, “Got it.”

“Mike was supposed to come over.” John said, “Do you remember, that big guy? But he didn’t come because he had something to do today. ”

Ashley didn’t like to eat the candy wrappers on it and tore it off little by little. “Yeah. During the summer vacation, my brother took me to have dinner with him. ”

John, “Ah, maybe I had already gone home at that time, so I didn’t go.”

Ashley nodded. “Brother Jacob was there, too.”

“Ah, Jac,” John suddenly remembered something, “Ah, yes. He won’t go home during the holiday. ”

Ashley paused and doubted, “Why?”

John was also not clear, scratching his head, “He may not bother to go back, plus a short semester and so on, there is not much time left for the holiday.”

“Oh.”

“But he still goes back once in a while.”

John thought for a moment, “Basically he would go back during a short holiday. For example, last semester, during the Tomb Sweeping Day, he seemed to go back. But during the long holiday, I did not see him go home. ”

Ashley whispered, “Won’t he go back for the New year?”

“No.”

John said, “But this is normal. Many people in our school don’t go home for the New year, and the school will make New year’s Eve dinner. Those who stay in school for the Spring Festival will also get red envelopes. ”

Ashley bit through the layer of rock candy outside and was thinking about something.

For a while, she stopped asking and changed the topic, “Brother, what will they do in there?”

“Ah.”

“Will they fight?”

“If they are boys, they will.”

John touched his chin. “But just said those people were girls, well, they might just talk to them.”

At this moment, in the alley.

Because the road was narrow, the windowsill protruding from the floor was above, and most of the sun was blocked.

The light was obviously darker than outside as if entering another world.

Hearing Jacob’s words, Liam’s eyelids moved, and looked at them.

The red-haired girl immediately realized that something was wrong, took two steps back vigilantly, and began to play dumb. “What? I don’t know you.”

After saying that, she winked at the two girls next to her.

“It’s all right. I’m glad I know you.”

Liam raised his eyebrows gently and said with a smile, “It was you who took my sister’s 20 bucks yesterday, didn’t you? And you also burned her with a cigarette, right?”

“What?” The volume of the red-haired girl went up. “I just took her 20 bucks. I didn’t do anything else. It’s only 20 bucks. I’ll give it back to you, okay?”

“It’s only twenty bucks.” There was no smile on Liam’s face. “Don’t say twenty bucks. Even if you only robbed my sister of two bucks, I’ll come for you.”

The red-haired girl was obviously angry, but she was not stubborn. She squeezed her lips tightly and took the money out of her pocket and handed it to Liam in silence.

Liam didn’t move.

Jacob glanced at the school badge on their clothes, “You are still minors, right? What are you doing here at this age?” Liam mocked faintly. “Are you going to do this all your life?”

“Take the money and get out.” The face of the red-haired girl changed. “What I do is none of your business.”

Jacob kept his eyes down and took a puff of the cigarette, slowly exhaling smoke from his mouth, not knowing what he was thinking.

Soon, he raised his foot, walking towards the girl, and stared at her thoughtfully.

A silent gaze.

His eyes were full of emotions, and when he stared at a person, it was like he was seducing that person. But at the moment, they were inexplicably scary without any temperature.

The heart of the red-haired girl was lifted up, and she was so scared that she finally got angry. “Why are you still bothering us? I said I will give it back to you!”

Next to her, a girl grabbed her. “Let’s go.”

The next moment, Jacob suddenly raised his hand holding the cigarette.

Thinking of Ashley’s sentence “patted my face”, he picked his eyebrow slightly, and his long fingers slowly approached the face of the red-haired girl and murmured, “How did you pat my girl yesterday?”

“…”

There was an overwhelming sense of pressure on her.

Staring at the lit cigarette in his hand, the red-haired girl clenched her fists and dared not move, her eyes gradually turned red.

In her opinion, the extremely beautiful man in front of her was essentially a demon.

He was obviously smiling, but he looked even scarier than the man next to him.

The cigarette butts stopped two centimeters from her.

Jacob’s hand did not touch her face, and he tapped twice. The cigarette ash fell on her clothes, ironing out a shallow trace.

He stood up slowly and straightly, saying in a gentle tone, “I scared you.”

“…”

The red-haired girl immediately took a step back and burst into tears.

“Well,” Jacob laughed. “it seems pretty scary.”

On the way out of the alley.

Liam put his hands in his pockets and followed Jacob, saying leisurely, “Dude, that’s awesome. I was even scared.”

Jacob raised eyebrows. “Really?”

Liam thought of something and snorted, “How come my sister is your girl? Then will you f*cking be my father?”

Jacob said casually, “It’s okay for me.”

“…”

“I don’t mind.”

“F*ck off.”

The two men walked out of the alley and saw John and Ashley next to a small stall not far away.

Two people, one big and one small, stood side by side, holding a bunch of red rock candy strawberries.

Ashley looked in the direction of the alley from time to time and soon caught the two of them.

She had just swallowed a large strawberry into her mouth when her cheeks bulged and she wanted to speak but couldn’t utter a word.

It was John who first said, “Did you meet them?”

Liam said yes.

John’s voice was like a machine gun. “So what did you do, threaten? How did you threaten? Tell me. I’m curious.”

“I said I only kill ten people a month.”

Liam said lazily, “This month’s quota has been used up. I’ll kill them next month.”

John was speechless. “I’m not an idiot. ”

“Aren’t you?”

John was angry with Liam. He rolled his eyes and looked at Jacob, trying to get the answer from him. “Jac, can’t you satisfy my curiosity?”

“Well,” Jacob said with a long laugh, “Why should I satisfy you?”

John almost choked and pointed at him. “Ashley is still here. Why don’t you be shameless when you talk dirty?”

Listening to their words, Ashley was silent, thinking silently what “talk dirty” means.

‘Pornographic words.

But there was no porn in that sentence.

Isn’t it an ordinary conversation?’

However, she really agreed with the word “shameless.”

Ashley was a little sad for no reason.

Jacob looked down at Ashley, and said, “Kiddo, how do you eat?”

Ashley, “…”

He laughed, “like a pufferfish.”

Ashley immediately swallowed what was in her mouth, licked the sugar stains, and whispered, “It’s you.”

“Is that so?” Jacob pointed to the rock candy strawberries in her hand, half-joking, “Then give brother a bite and brother will show you a handsome pufferfish.”

“…”

“You can eat mine.”

John couldn’t stand him anymore. “Would you please stop teasing Ashley? ”

Liam glanced. “Don’t bother, she won’t give you anything to eat.”

As if he didn’t hear them, Jacob didn’t answer what they said.

The next moment, Ashley shook her head. “No.”

Then she hung her head, took five dollars out of her pocket, and slipped it into his hand. “Go and buy a bunch yourself.”

“…”

Jacob was stupefied.

This matter was obviously not within the scope of Liam’s acceptance.

He put his phone back in his pocket, stared at Ashley for several seconds, and said coldly, “Why don’t you buy me one?”

Ashley looked at him, touched her pocket, and said innocently, “But I only have five bucks. It means I have no money to give you.

Liam was silent for two seconds and smiled angrily, “All right, well done.”

Jacob looked at the money in his hand, chuckled, and quickly gave it back to her. “Brother is kidding. I don’t like this. Take it and buy it for your brother. ”

Ashley then handed over the money to Liam.

In Liam’s view, he was like a trash can.

Liam took a deep breath, took the money, and put it in his pocket. “Let’s go home.”

Ashley blinked. “Why don’t you buy one?”

“I don’t want to eat.”

“Then give my money back.”

“No.”

Ashley was displeased. “Aren’t you cheating me out of my money?”

Liam took out the five bucks from his pocket, and the 20 bucks given back by the red-hair girl, “Not to mention the 5 bucks, I also took you 20 bucks.”

Ashley stopped and said, “You got it back?”

“Nonsense.”

“Then give it to me.”

Liam did not quarrel with her anymore and returned the money to her. “You are so realistic at such a young age. ”

Before he had finished, he saw Ashley, who was “very realistic” in his words hand it to Jacob, accompanied by a clever and flattering sentence.

“Here you are, brother.”

“….”