Couldn’t Hide the Feelings - Chapter 24

Jacob bent down and looked down at her.

She said softly, “I should return the money back to you.”

When Jacob wanted to say something else, he looked up and suddenly noticed Liam’s expression.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, changed his mind in an instant, and smiled “OK.”

Later, Jacob took the money and said leisurely, “Thank you for giving brother money to spend.”

“Liam, I feel more like Ashley is Jac’s si…” Before John finished, he suddenly sensed Liam’s mood and immediately withdrew his words, leaned over, and patted him on the shoulder. “Forget it.”

Walking back to the gate of South Star University, four people separated in pairs.

Ashley bit off the last strawberry and looked at the back of Jacob subconsciously.

Before long, her eyes rolled and suddenly caught up with Liam’s unfriendly eyes.

She felt guilty for no reason and immediately pretended that she was looking at the scenery. “What are you doing?”

Liam ignored her and stopped a taxi by the side of the road with an expressionless face.

Ashley was afraid that he would find something wrong, and her heart was beating like a drum.

Pretending to be calm, she simply straightened the corners of her lips, opened the door, and got on it first.

The two sat left and right.

Silent.

The driver, a middle-aged uncle, saw the appearance of the two people in the rearview mirror and said happily, “Brother and sister quarreled.”

Ashley was stupefied. “No.”

She looked at Liam’s face, saying, “Probably.”

“…”

“Uncle, just now,” Ashley muttered, “my brother asked me to buy him a bunch of rock candy strawberries, so I gave him money to buy it himself. But he didn’t buy it, I asked him to give me my money back, and then he got angry. ”

The driver listened to this and disagreed. “Ah, young man, this is your fault.”

Liam pretended not to hear him, so he took the headphones out of his pocket and put them on.

“…”

Looking at his behavior, Ashley was a little baffled.

‘Isn’t it only five bucks? Why should he be like this?

Haven’t Dad and Mom given him money recently?’

After hesitation, Ashley didn’t want to continue the cold war with him.

She took out the five dollars and reluctantly slipped it into his hand. “I’ll give it to you.”

Liam took off his headphones and snorted, “I don’t want your money.”

“Oh.” Ashley stared at him for two seconds, then silently put it back in her pocket.

“Think for yourself, kid.” Liam said with a straight face. “Have you ever given money to your brother, your biological brother?”

Ashley shook her head and said seriously, “But didn’t you take it yourself?”

Liam, “…”

“The game controller you bought last winter vacation.”

Ashley spoke slowly. “You were short of two hundred bucks to buy it, and then you stole it from my red packet.”

“Your red packet is so thick.” Liam didn’t feel guilty. “You can still know I took it.”

“I know everything.”

“…”

“I just didn’t ask you.”

Liam asked,” Why did you just give Jacob twenty bucks? ”

“Brother Jacob gave it to me yesterday. When he saw that I had been robbed of 20 bucks, he secretly gave me 20 bucks. ”

Ashley said calmly, “Unlike you, who only know to take my money secretly.”

Liam, “…”

Grace specially communicated with Mr. Smith about Ashley being blackmailed by the students.

In addition, Bella’s parents also contacted the school on the same day and said that there was the same situation.

The school attached great importance to this matter.

Each headteacher asked this matter in the class, only to find that there were not a small number of students in this situation.

But most of them went to that Internet cafe after school, and they were intimidated, so they didn’t dare to confess to their parents.

The Internet cafe was reported and soon closed.

Ashley didn’t know much about how the matter was solved, and she didn’t pay much attention to it.

Later, Bella came to Ashley several times and apologized to her.

But before long, she was forced back by her indifference.

Ashley’s foot gradually recovered, but Liam came to pick her up every afternoon as usual.

When he was not free, the person who came would be someone else.

Occasionally it was Mike, occasionally it was John but more often.

It was Jacob.

There was no need for her to fight for meeting him at all.

Ashley sensed that Jacob’s attitude towards her was a bit like that of Liam.

They both liked to tease her, but he was more gentle and would take care of her mood in many ways.

When he noticed that she had some unusual behavior, he didn’t have much thought, just found it interesting.

He seemed to be more familiar with her.

Before that.

Ashley has always felt that she has suffered from the loss of her age. All the things she dared not do were all because she was too young to take that step.

But after a long time, Ashley inexplicably began to change her mind. She seemed to have taken advantage of her age, actually.

In fact, she has begun to understand things that adults thought she would not understand at her age.

But she could also pretend she doesn’t know anything.

Ashley did not do well in the final exam and fell directly out of the top ten of the grade.

A small part of the reason was that there was an extra physics subject in the second year of junior high school, and a large part of the reason was that she was not interested in physics at all and has hardly listened in the class.

Grace discussed with Tim, consulted Ashley, and finally decided to let Liam give her a tutorial.

After all, if she didn’t understand the content at the beginning, then the next course will probably be tough.

But the tutorial lasted less than half an hour.

There were problems on both sides.

Ashley unilaterally felt that what Liam said was wrong. Liam was not that patient, and he thought it was very very. He didn’t want to say it again if she didn’t understand it.

Grace had no choice but to hire a tutor.

But the winter vacation was not long, coupled with the Spring Festival, Ashley didn’t want to study at all. But her grades did go down, so she didn’t have the face to say no.

Ashley struggled for a long time and finally spent the night studying how to scare the tutor away.

Ashley couldn’t think of anything.

She could only think of an escape tactic.

She planned to run out and play all day before the tutor came.

In this way, the tutor may be able to understand what she meant, retreat in the face of difficulties, and disappear from her world forever.

Grace told her in advance that the tutor would come at nine o’clock today.

As a result, Ashley made a plan. But she stayed up too late to make the plan and got up at ten o’clock the next morning.

When she saw the time, she felt that she could not breathe.

At this time, both Grace and Tim went to work, leaving only Liam and her at home.

Accepting her fate, Ashley went out of the room and looked into the living room. Unexpectedly, she didn’t see anyone.

She blinked and looked again at Liam’s door, which was still closed.

‘He was probably sleeping.

It seems that the tutor didn’t come at all.’

Ashley was completely relaxed, so she went into the toilet to wash.

Halfway through the toothbrush, she heard Liam’s door open and subconsciously shouted, “Brother, please cook me some instant noodles and add a ham.”

Her voice was a little vague because of the foam in her mouth.

Then Ashley turned on the faucet and flushed the foam out of her mouth with water.

She didn’t hear Liam answer clearly.

Ashley washed her face and soon got out of the toilet.

She sat on the dining chair, heard a noise coming from the kitchen, and casually asked, “Brother, do you know why the tutor didn’t come?”

“…”

Ashley heard the sound of tearing the package pause and soon ring again.

Ashley didn’t care too much. “Is mom not going to hire a tutor or is the tutor late? Brother, in that case, the professional quality of this person is not good, he even gets late on the first day of work. ”

There was the sound of boiling water.

Ashley picked up the candy next to her, tore it open, and threw it into her mouth. “Otherwise, change the tutor. But I think it’s almost New year’s Day, and it’s probably hard to find another one, so it’s best to give up. ”

“…”

“Brother, if you speak for me.”

Ashley thought for a moment, “I’ll give you one hundred bucks.”

“…”

“Why don’t you talk?”

“…”

“Two hundred.”

After all this, she still didn’t get his response, as if he was extremely disdainful of her money.

Ashley gritted her teeth and said. “Five hundred, five hundred, all right?”

The next second, there was some movement in Liam’s door, accompanied by Liam’s slightly impatient tone, “What are you yelling about?”

Ashley paused and turned her head.

She saw Liam yawning and sitting next to her.

The sound in the kitchen still went on.

Ashley realized something was wrong and lowered the volume. “Brother, who is the kitchen?”

“Well,” Liam said lazily, “Jacob, didn’t Mom tell you that he came to be your tutor?”

“…”

Ashley’s expression was petrified. “Ah, ah.”

“What? You get up so late. He has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Hearing the noise in the kitchen, Liam asked, “Hey, Jacob, are you cooking noodles?”

Before long, a careless voice came from the kitchen. “Mm-hmm.”

Ashley, “…”

Soon, Jacob came out of the kitchen with a noodle pot.

He looked handsome and somewhat noble.

He was wearing a white sweater with sleeves up to his elbows.

Ashley was so guilty that she immediately bowed her head and pretended that she had just said nothing.

Liam glanced into the pot and got up to get the bowl in the kitchen.

Jacob sat down opposite Ashley and said, “Good morning.”

“Good morning.”

“You sleep soundly.” Jacob leaned against the back of his chair and bent the corners of his lips. “Your brother knocked on the door several times and didn’t wake you up, so he gave up.”

Ashley said, “I stayed up a little late last night.”

“Is that so?” His eyelids moved and he said thoughtfully, “Aren’t you pretending not to hear?”

Ashley immediately retorted, “I really didn’t hear.”

Liam took out three sets of bowls and chopsticks and glanced at them. “Hear what?”

Ashley whispered, “I didn’t hear you knock.”

When she mentioned it, Liam remembered it. He put a bowl of noodles in front of Ashley and sneered. “I’ll set off firecrackers next time and see if you can hear me.”

“…”

Ashley fidgeted during breakfast.

She always felt that Jacob always glanced at her and seemed to hold a grudge.

After having the last mouthful of noodles, she quickly ran back to the room under the excuse of packing.

Ashley was flipping through the book, thinking about what she had just said.

‘Actually, it’s okay.

Not a single word is really directed at him.

There should be no need to be angry.’

Ashley exhaled and left the room nervously holding the study materials she would use.

The desk in her room was small and there was more than enough for one person, but it was narrow for two people. Grace told her in advance that when it was time for tutoring, she and the tutor were allowed to study in Liam’s room.

As she was about to enter Liam’s room, Ashley secretly looked in the direction of the kitchen.

But she didn’t see anyone.

She put her things down, went suspiciously to the living room, and found two men sitting on the sofa playing games.

Ashley was speechless, “Shouldn’t we begin?”

Liam’s eyes didn’t move. “We just finished breakfast, go and read for yourself first.”

Ashley felt that Jacob must have been introduced by Liam as her tutor so that he could not only teach her, but also play games with him. “Brother, have you found me a tutor or a playmate for you? ”

Jacob laughed and whispered, “Kiddo, I’ll teach you when I finish this round.”

Ashley glanced at him sat down.

Jacob sat lazily and always liked to lean on the back of his chair with a sense of tiredness.

Next to him was the windowsill, and a few rays of sunlight fell on the ends of his hair, making his hair look lighter.

Ashley had never seen him play games, so she couldn’t help looking at him.

Jacob’s hands were also good-looking, with long and powerful fingers and distinct metacarpal bones.

Compared with his usual idle appearance, he looked more attentive and gentler.

His face was as gorgeous as a tempting evil.

Ashley pursed her lips and suddenly touched the cell phone in her pocket.

Her eyes stopped and glanced again in the direction of Jacob.

He didn’t seem to notice her movement at all, and his eyes were still on the TV.

An idea suddenly sprang up in her mind.

An extremely strong thought.

Ashley rubbed the sweat of her palms on her trousers, turned on the phone’s camera, held the phone up carefully, covered the rest of the phone with a pillow, and aimed the camera at Jacob.

She held her breath and pressed the photo button.

The game was just over and the living room quieted down.

Then, Ashley’s mobile phone sounded a particularly loud “click”.

In this silence, it was extremely clear.

Perhaps it was the psychological effect of Ashley, who felt that the sound had almost achieved a deafening effect.

Jacob and Liam were attracted by the voice and looked at her at the same time.

“…”

‘It’s over.

It’s over.

It’s over.

She’s done.

She didn’t turn off the sound.’