Chapter 47 - Chaser

The light in the room was cold and white, hitting Jacob's face, and his facial outline was clear.

His drooping eyes and thick long eyelashes made his brown eyes deeper, with a fine light.

Jacob still stared at her without any sense of pressure.

He had always been very patient, without rushing or showing anxiety, and waited quietly for her reply.

Ashley inexplicably remembered the scene when she first met him.

He sat on the sofa, looking indifferent and playful, and laughed off her extremely outrageous speculation.

After so many years, he was older.

But he didn't seem to have changed much.

He just became more mature, but he was still in the way she liked.

After only about a dozen seconds, Ashley suddenly regained her senses, and her tail voice trembled vaguely, but she still pretended to be calm and asked, "Is that what I understand?"

"Hmm?"

Jacob withdrew his hand and licked the chocolate sauce on his fingertips. "Can you find a second meaning in this?"

Ashley was silent for a moment and asked softly, "Didn't you say I was a child?"

"If you like," Jacob bent his lips with a faint smile, "I can call you kiddo when you are ninety years old."

"..."

Ashley lowered her eyes and continued to nibble on the cake.

"Just a name."

Jacob smiled and spoke slowly and leisurely, "Otherwise, when you call me brother, you really regard me as your own brother?"

Ashley was a little awkward and deliberately turned against him, "You are right."

"Well."

Jacob glanced at her, but did not expose her, saying in a deliberative tone, "Then brother doesn’t want to be a man, okay?"

"..."

Jacob added inadvertently, "I want to be an animal."

Ashley coughed twice and couldn't help saying, "It's not that serious."

"Then give me an answer, will you?"

Jacob's fingertips tapped on the table. "Tell me. I'm going to be so nervous that I can't breathe now."

‘I don't see you nervous.’

Ashley muttered in her heart.

"How can you ask for my permission first..." Ashley thought for a moment and complained. "when you want to chase me?"

"If I don't," Jacob pulled up a chair and sat down next to her, "won't you just regard those things as the care of an elder?"

Ashley was quiet for three seconds.

"It's up to you."

Ashley withdrew her eyes and pretended to be indifferent. "It's none of my business."

Jacob smiled, "Do you have any feelings for me?"

Thinking of Sophie's words, Ashley solemnly denied, "No."

After a few seconds, she was worried that it would dampen his enthusiasm and deliberately added, "But if you chase me for a while, I may have some."

With that, Ashley looked up and glanced in the direction of Jacob.

"All right."

Jacob asked, "But can you give me a spoiler first? How long will it take me to get you?"

Ashley frowned and felt a little shameless. "How do you know that you will get me?"

Jacob picked an eyebrow, "I won’t?"

Ashley, "Of course, I’m not easy to be chased."

Jacob, "Then let's sign a contract and set a time limit."

Ashley was a little frustrated, "Is that necessary?"

Jacob looked careless and took it for granted, "People of our age like to do things safely."

"..."

Ashley swallowed the last mouthful of cake, stood up, and said, "I'm not signing with you."

"All right."

Jacob said lazily, "Then I'll be patient and chase you for ten or eight years. But if you run away with someone else, I'll complain to your parents. "

Ashley, "What will you complain about?"

Jacob thought for a moment and tilted his head as if he were asking, "Just tell them that you asked me to go to your parents' meeting by impersonating your brother."

Ashley was speechless, "That was an old story."

She ignored him and went to the bathroom to rinse her mouth.

Looking up at the mirror, she noticed that there was a layer of chocolate sauce on her cheek.

Ashley immediately remembered Jacob's behavior, washed it off with water, and quickly went out, "Brother Jacob, why did you rub chocolate on my face?"

Jacob packed up the things on the table, "What?"

"I'm wearing makeup."

Ashley was not very happy. "You ruined it."

Jacob looked up, raised his eyebrows, and said frivolously, "Why are you wearing makeup when you came to see me? And you said you are not interested in me."

"..."

"I wear makeup when I see everyone."

"Why do you always hit me?"

Jacob put the cake back in the box and said with a smile, "You are not interested in me. Can’t I think about it and make myself happy?"

"Then don't say it."

Jacob loosely said, "Don't you know if I don't say it?"

"..."

Ashley went over and took the two bags and hung them on her wrist.

She looked at the cake made by Jacob on the table, and there was more than half left. She called him solemnly, "Brother Jacob."

"Hmm?"

"You don't confess to me now, you just asked me if you can chase me. I said yes and I didn't refuse you."

Ashley said carefully, "Can I have that cake back?"

Jacob looked down at her and pretended to wonder, "Then if I confess to you now, will you accept me?"

Ashley choked, "Of course not."

"Then forget it," Jacob gently refused. "I'd better keep it for myself."

Ashley pointed to the one she bought and said, "Can't you eat that?"

Jacob, "No."

Ashley put up with it and said, "You don't like sweet things."

"I like it now."

Ashley exploded, and after enduring for a long time, she finally blurted out, "Why are you so narrow-minded!" I didn't request anything. You have to chase me! "

Instant silence.

Ashley realized what she had just said and immediately made an excuse, "I mean, you have to chase me before I know if I like you."

Jacob cleared his throat and seemed to be smiling, "It's all right."

Afraid of really pissing her off, Jacob stopped teasing her, "if you don't mean that, I'll chase you a few more times."

"..."

Jacob reached out and pinched her face and gently said, "Go back and share it with your friends. If you like it, I'll do it for you every day. "

Ashley went back to the dormitory with those things.

Vivian was not back yet. Lily was standing next to Sophie, gossiping with her.

Seeing her coming back, Sophie smiled and waved to her, "Ashy, did you enjoy your date?"

Ashley put the things on the table and said earnestly, "Is there an access control today?"

"Yes."

Lily said, "12:00."

Ashley, "What time is it?"

Lily, "It's only ten o'clock. Why?"

Ashley opened the wardrobe and said, "I want to go out for a run."

"..."

Sophie was a little inexplicable, "Won’t you feel cold?"

"I'm a little bit..." Ashley looked at them. "excited."

Lily, "It’s not a little bit."

Ashley touched her face, calmed down, and began to giggle again, "I've been keeping my laugh all night. I think my face is going to cramp."

Sophie smiled with her and guessed, "He confessed to you?"

"I think so."

Ashley said, "He said he was going to start chasing me."

Sophie said curiously, "How long are you going to let him chase?"

Ashley blinked, not quite clear, "How long is more appropriate?"

Sophie, "My boyfriend chased me for more than a month. But I kind of regret saying yes to him so early. Man only treats you best when he is chasing you. "

"Oh."

Ashley scratched her head. "How long is better?"

Lily, "See for yourself, when you think it is appropriate, it will be fine."

Ashley, "I think now is the right time."... "

"..."

Ashley suddenly felt melancholy and exhaled, "But I'm a little worried. His love is on a whim.

Maybe he just feels lonely and wants a girlfriend. "

Lily, "But I think according to what you said, the relationship between you two, if he can come to say such words to you, he should also have made up his mind, right?"

Ashley was stupefied, thought about it carefully, and laughed again.

"True."

She shared the cake with her roommates, went back to her position, and opened the bag given by Jacob.

Inside was a portable small camera, pure black, retro style.

Ashley turned on the camera and tried to take a picture.

Then she opened the album to see how it looked and subconsciously scratched it to the right.

She found other photos in it.

It was a selfie of Jacob.

"..."

This picture was taken at close range.

He gave himself a close-up. In the picture, he seemed to have just taken a bath, his hair was half-wet, his narrow eyes were bright, and his lips were stained with water.

The next moment, Ashley's cell phone rang.

The man got the time right and sent her two messages.

Brother No. 2: [the picture inside is the gift, actually.]

Brother No. 2: [remember to be wallpapered.]

Ashley, "..."

Ashley replied coldly: [no.]

Then, she changed his remarks back to "Jacob", raising the corners of her lips.

She read the message Jacob just sent, resisted the impulse to roll, thought about it, and changed it to "chaser."

The next moment, the phone vibrated.

Ashley retreated to take a look.

Liam transferred two thousand bucks to her, with the following sentence: [buy whatever you want.]

Ashley took the money.

Thinking of what happened today, she inexplicably felt a sense of pressure from the mountain rain, hesitated, and sent him a message: [Brother, I may be in love.]

Brother: [?]

Brother: [did you go to college or go on a blind date?]

Ashley: [isn't it normal to fall in love in college?]

Brother: [Whatever. Take care of yourself and don't be deceived.]

Ashley: [Oh.]

Ashley: [He is old.]

Brother: [?]

Brother: [can't be older than me.]

Ashley: [...]

This time Liam sent a voice message directly, and the tone was not very pleasant, "Is he really older than me? Kid, how do you know him? "

Ashley was afraid to confess and made it up: [a graduate student in our school.]

Liam, "You should study hard, okay? And I'm telling you, he can't even be a day older than me. I can't stand an old man calling me brother. "

Ashley was not convinced: [You are really annoying.]

Brother: [?]

Brother: [do you remember Jacob?]

Ashley, "..."

On the other side, Jacob came out of the toilet after taking a bath.

He wiped his hair with a towel, took a bottle of ice water from the fridge, looked at his cell phone by the way, and found that Liam had sent him several messages.

Jacob raised his eyebrows and checked.

Liam: [my sister seems to be seeing someone.]

Liam: [she's out there alone. Please keep an eye on it for me.]

Liam: [don't let her be deceived.]

Jacob gave a long laugh, without the slightest sense of shame between his eyebrows and eyes.

He opened the bottle, drank slowly, and then replied: [OK.]