10Back at home, I felt my mother's words seemed to have some magic. I knew Shepard didn’t like me, but I was deeply convinced by my mother that Shepard was crazy in love with me.One week later, when Kara called me, I got carried away."Tina, where is my gift?" She sounded aggressive.I picked up the phone and said slowly, "Well... show some respect to your future sister-in-law.""Sister-in-law? Are you daydreaming?" She suddenly broke my fantasy. "If you don't come to my house now, you will be my sister-in-law candidate Number 007.“Make it clear." I noticed a sense of crisis."Today, a girl from Shepard's school came to visit him. She’s having dinner at our house. I don't think she comes only for dinner.""What do you think she’s going to do?""It seems she’s going to sleep with him.""Ask your mother to prepare one more plate. I’m on my way!" I immediately became competitive.Then I rode my bike and headed for Kara’s home with excitement. But when I saw the white Audi pa
13Shepard was holding his cup without moving. His eyes were deep, and his emotions were unreadable.He ignored me and made everyone a little embarrassed."Thank you." To alleviate the embarrassment, the girl from his school stepped forward to clink glasses with me."Congratulations to you too." I clinked the glass with her reluctantly.I was about to drink up, but Shepard snatched my glass.I froze."Aren't you on period? Why are you drinking beer?" He drank my beer in one gulp.I was stunned…What was he doing?After he drank the beer, the atmosphere became a little subtle.In particular, he didn't refuse any toast later. He was drinking heavily.After everyone had a drink, the atmosphere was getting better soon. I sat beside Kara, nervous and a little worried."What's wrong with your brother?" I asked Kara."I was going to ask you. What's wrong with you and Shepard? What's going on between you and Johnson?" Kara quietly exchanged glances with me."Johnson? He is a bli
15"Damn." I reached out and immediately turned off the bedside lamp."Hush..." I covered his mouth.We were listening to the movement of my mother outside in silence.My mother put down the key, organized the garbage bag, drew back the curtain, and then went to her bedroom.All those things my mother did was within my expectation, but my heart was still beating fast.When my mother finally became quiet, I was already awake."Are you okay?" I asked him in a low voice. "Let’s go to my room. It’s farther away from my mother's room, or she will suspect something. Don’t worry. I won’t do anything to you."I couldn’t imagine how shocked my mother would be if he made some noise in the guest room.If we went to my room, my mother would think I was staying up late at most and she would not suspect anything."Sure." He agreed readily this time.He seemed to become much sober and followed me to my room lazily.I changed the quilt, gave him the bed, and made myself a bed on the floor.
17"Tina..."It was my mother!I quickly let go of him, pretending to look for something."Your aunt is asking me about the boy she introduced to you yesterday..." My mother said while walking over. Seeing Shepard standing at the door, she paused, "Shepard, I thought you had left.""Well, I will leave in a minute." Shepard hadn't expected my mother to urge him to leave, and he was a little flustered."Oh, I’d like to ask you to stay for lunch, but we will have a guest at home. It’s the boy that Tina’s aunt introduced to her yesterday, so..."When did she ask Johnson to lunch? What was my mother doing?As soon as I looked up, I saw Shepard staring at me fiercely.I looked back innocently and shrugged.He gritted his teeth and glanced at me. He didn’t believe it. "Well, I'm going."With that, he walked away with his jacket.I froze in place.What did he mean? Was he angry?"Mom, what are you doing?" I nudged my mother and said, "Why did you talk about my blind date in front
Author: Xian De Wu Liao De Xian Nü When I woke up on the second day of the classmate reunion, I touched a hairy leg before I opened my eyes. Out of curiosity, I couldn't help exploring a few times...The next second, bang! The door opened, and a group of people poured in.I was so scared that I quickly withdrew my hand, opened my eyes, and hugged the quilt tightly."Dr. Smith, the director is asking for you..."The several men who came in seemed to be frightened and let out bursts of exclamation.I was stunned.What Dr. Smith?I followed their gaze and saw a man lying beside me.His two legs were straight and slender, covered with masculine leg hairs, and then going up...I was petrified."Sorry, we... we didn't mean to..." They quickly closed their eyes and explained.I didn't know any of them, let alone the man lying beside me. Just when I was at a loss—The man next to me stretched out his hand to pull the quilt, opened his eyes a little, glanced at me, and said in a
6After answering the phone, I found my head buzzing.I walked up to him and returned the phone to him, not daring to look at him."You're a troublemaker..." He glanced at me and sighed deeply."I didn't know you were on the phone." I felt apologetic."Anyway, don't listen to him." He stood up and concluded."Dr. Smith, did you hear what I just said?" I cut to the chase."My grandpa heard it. What do you think?" he asked me."Oh." I waited for his answer."Think again," he said.I took his words as a refusal, so I froze in place and couldn't help shivering."Why?" I was impressed by myself. How could I ask such a question at this time?He was stunned for a moment and then sighed. "You are too young and too obedient. I am not a good person."Then he glanced at me again and murmured, "You're too young."I didn't know what he meant, but I blushed.I didn't know how I got out of his office.I just remembered what he said at the end,"The best option to fix a mistake is to
10Later I found that I might have underestimated his appetite.He ate slowly and fastidiously.When he was eating, there were even no food stains on the sides of his mouth.But he finished a large plate of spaghetti."Did I cook too little?" I was a little embarrassed."It's me. Too hungry." When he said the last two words, he suddenly looked at me and raised his voice.My heart skipped a beat. I avoided his gaze, quickly picked up the dishes, and went to the kitchen.As soon as I finished the dishes, I turned around and found him standing at the kitchen door and looking at me with a cigarette between his teeth.Why was he acting weird tonight? It made me very uncomfortable.I tidied up and was about to leave the kitchen. I passed by him and whispered, "You love smoking so much."As soon as I said that, my foot was caught by something. I lost my balance and threw myself into his arms.We were so close suddenly. I was so nervous that I wanted to leave, but he held me down.
13Back at the rental house, I edited a message several times and finally pressed the send button.It was just one sentence."Let's get a divorce."Maybe it seemed naive to him. I had made a mistake myself, and I was the one who was not sensible enough. I had asked Williams to get married not long ago, and now I was asking him for a divorce.However, even if I wanted to keep him, I didn't have any reason. I felt that I was useless except to cause trouble for him and his family.Dr. Shepard was indeed his girlfriend as I thought last time. They worked together, ate together, and they looked so well-matched. What was I? I was nothing...I could only quit.So the kiss that night was indeed a spur-of-the-moment thing, meaningless.After sending the message, I turned off my phone and went to sleep.In the middle of the night, I was woken up by menstrual pain.I struggled to get up and got myself a hot water bag to cover my belly.While I was boiling water, I couldn't help turnin
21As soon as I walked to the stairs, I met Charley, who was holding two cups of coffee.What a coincidence!"Joy." As soon as I turned around, he stopped me."Hi." I had to stop and say hello to him.He walked upstairs, trying to hide the coffee in his hand.The coffee should be for Jane Lynch.Thinking of that, I was amused.I used to buy coffee for him."Aren't you going to study at the library? Why did you leave?" he asked in a tone as gentle as ever.I lowered my head in embarrassment and said, "Well, I have something to do. I gotta go now.""Okay." He stepped aside to make way for me."Goodbye," I said and walked downstairs without looking back.When I was about to turn the corner, a voice suddenly came from behind me. "Are we... still best friends?"I stood rooted to the spot.I had mixed feelings."..." I didn't reply and left directly.Were we still best friends?I was just having a lot of thoughts.In the past three years, I had been hanging out with Charle
17When I grew more and more nervous, I finally arrived at college.I got out of the cab and watched him walk over. I became even more nervous.Would he kiss me again?Would he be upset if I reject him?I was completely new to that, while he was too overwhelming. I was scared when I thought of the coming kiss.But I was his girlfriend. I couldn't say no to his request, could I?After thinking for a while, when he was approaching, I was so scared that I closed my eyes.I waited for a few seconds, but the thing didn't turn out to be as I had imagined it. I slightly opened my eyes.I looked up and saw him looking at me playfully."Were you thinking about it in the cab?" he asked me with a smile."Huh? No." I quickly returned to normal."Then, excuse me..." He pointed to the road nearby.Huh???So, was I in his way?I had thought that he was going to kiss me, but...It was such an embarrassing situation for me."Okay." I quickly stepped aside to make way for him.He put h
14"Enough?" I didn't come back to my senses until I heard his sexy voice."Enough." I swallowed hard."Liar..." He stared at me, then lowered his head and kissed me.Help!My nerves, which had just relaxed, were on edge again in an instant.After a few seconds, he finally let go of me.He stared at me, then looked down, unzipped my bag, groped for my cotton pad for few seconds, took it out, and wiped his lips himself.After wiping, he stuffed it into my hand and turned to leave.Did he heave?Bad boy.My heart was still beating fast.The place was already buzzing with people. I didn't dare to look around."Are you not leaving?" He walked a few steps and found that I didn't keep up with him. He turned to look at me helplessly.He probably thought that I was a troublemaker."Yes." If I didn't leave now, there would be more people watching me.I hurried along after him.He didn't hold my hand, nor did he especially wait for me. Instead, he walked side by side with his bu
11After that, my hands had been trembling while playing poker. His words kept echoing in my mind: "Can I eat you?"After two more games, I could barely keep my eyes open.After losing all my chips, I stretched lazily as if I had accomplished something important."Can... can we stop here?" I asked in a low voice."Keep going.""I'm sleepy."Looking at them in high spirits, I was speechless."Sleepy?" A boy looked at me and then at Julian. He was about to say something but swallowed the words."Okay, okay..."The boys immediately understood and stood up.Huh???They must get the wrong idea."No... you get the wrong idea.""We see, we see..."I felt so depressed and helpless.I looked back and found Julian still as calm as ever. He was not going to make it clear at all."So, get lost now!""Okay, okay, okay. You're really hoes before bros, huh?" The boys had rushed out before they could take their coats."When will you pay us?" one of the boys asked desperately."When
7Five minutes later, I walked out of the room with Julian, clutching a blood-stained T-shirt. Seeing that, his friends were all stunned.But the next second, they looked at each other and smiled."Julian, you... come on too strong, don't you?""Yeah, too short to change clothes.""Spend less time on basketball. That will wear you out...."...I stood there awkwardly."Get lost. Cut the crap." Julian hit them with the basketball.He was so aggressive that I was too scared to make a sound.When he was leaving, I remembered the reason why I came here.I hurried up to him. "Julian."The gang of people stopped. Julian did not even turn his head as he impatiently asked, "What's the matter?""Yesterday, I... You... It was just a misunderstanding. I'm sorry that you broke up with your girlfriend..." I recited the draft of my apology.Before I finished reciting it, he turned his head slightly and said, "Broke up? With who?""I don't know. Maybe the one you met in the bar?" One o
Author: Xian De Wu Liao De Xian Nü I went to watch the basketball game with the boy I had a crush on.When we appeared on the monitor above, he refused to kiss me.On impulse, I turned around and kissed the bully in my college next to me.The bully's girlfriend broke up with him for this. And he asked me to get him a new girlfriend as compensation."May I?" I asked with trembling lips.Julian Joule glanced at me and smiled, "Good, but I'd love to make love to you as well."What???1Everyone knew that I had a crush on Charley Johnson.Except for Charley himself.On the day of the basketball game, the camera focused solely on Charley and me.At that moment, my mind went blank.According to the rules, the two people appearing on the large screen had to kiss each other.All the spectators present encouraged us to kiss each other."Kiss!""Kiss!"...I lowered my head, too shy to look at him.I imagined the wonderful moment when he kissed me.I imagined that my unreq
23As soon as I went out, I was stunned.There was a Rolls-Royce parked at the door. I saw the car's plate number. If I remember correctly, it belonged to my father, Giovanni.Ten minutes later, Samuel invited Giovanni to the back room and gave him a cup of coffee.Giovanni sat opposite me and whispered, "Soph, come here."I looked at Samuel, who was staring at me and didn't want me to go there.I had no choice but to sit still.Giovanni didn't panic, as if he had expected it. He waved his hand and the bodyguard behind him took out a suitcase and put it on the table.Then, Giovanni reached out and pushed the suitcase over."Here's 1.5 million dollars. Now give me my daughter back."Samuel didn't say anything. He glanced at me, took the suitcase, opened it, and glanced at it."There's no need to talk about money," Samuel said in a soft tone."What? Is it not enough? Don't go too far!" Giovanni got angry all of a sudden."Dad..." I whispered to my father."Soph, you don't h
21In the days that followed, I lived a full and purposeful life.It seemed that I suddenly found the path that I would be going in life. I must enter a university and become a better person, then I could ask him if we could be together.However, my foundation was very bad.I worked very hard to get into university.I didn't even have time to think about whether I was stupid or suitable for academics.I completely drowned myself in practice questions.Every night, my mind was full of test questions, and I didn't even have time to think about Samuel.At first, I went home once a week. Near the end of the university entrance exam, Samuel thought that it would be too tiring for me to come back and forth and too much time would be wasted. Hence, he came to the county to visit me every week.Sometimes he brought Fatso and the others, and sometimes he was alone.He always said that he would pass by my school to do some errands, so he stopped by along the way to visit me.I wondere
19When I went back at night, I was surprised to see that Samuel had learned how to cook.In the past, he would either order a takeaway or heat a dollar-slice frozen pizza. It was his subordinates who sometimes cooked nice meals.He made my favorite food, which was meatloaf and fried chicken."Mr. Carter, when did you learn to cook?""It's not that difficult.""If it's easy, then why haven't you learned it in the past 31 years?""It's not that I didn't learn it. It was unnecessary.""Is it necessary now?" I asked him with a smile.He looked at me and said, "Hmm... It doesn't seem necessary."I hugged him from behind and said, "Of course it's necessary. You made all my favorite food, so that means you've waited for me to come back to eat."He grabbed a fork and pointed it at me. "Let go of me. Who said that they were for you?"I held his waist. "No, I won't. My heart told me.""If you don't let me go, believe me or not, I'll—""Will you hit me?" I looked at him with a smil