Chapter 50 - Secret Kiss

When talking to her, Jacob always habitually bowed his head, stooped slightly, and looked flat with her.

The two were close at hand.

The warm breath that came out of his mouth seemed to be felt by Ashley, with the faint smell of tobacco that he was used to.

His eyebrows and eyes drooped, shattered and bewitched.

Ashley's eyelashes moved. She took an uncomfortable step back, and said subtly, "How dare you say such a thing?"

Jacob slowly stood up straight and said calmly, "I want to be a polite rascal."

"..."

"If you don't like it."

Jacob bent the corners of his lips, bent down again, and leaned in her direction. "Then I'll just--"

With a straight face, Ashley nervously grabbed the hem of her dress and said, "Directly what?"

Only a few centimeters away, Jacob suddenly stopped his movements, slid his eyes upward, and looked her in the eye.

The little girl's eyes were big and round, clear and bright, and it was full of him.

Maybe she had never experienced anything like this before. her expression was so stiff that she seemed to forget her breath.

But still, pretended to be unmoved.

Jacob straightened up and chuckled, "Forget it."

Ashley breathed a sigh of relief and was inexplicably a little lost.

"I'd better be polite."

Jacob raised his hand and gently rubbed the corner of her eye, her voice hoarse, ambiguous and affectionate, "I'm afraid you'll cry."

It was more than ten o'clock at this time. Ashley did not want to affect the work and the rest of her roommates, so she planned to go back to wash up early.

Jacob sent her to the downstairs of the dormitory.

Ashley turned around and was about to say goodbye to him when she suddenly found that his eyes were looking away for a few seconds.

She looked at it and found that it was a couple, hugging and kissing.

"..."

There were a bunch of couples who have just returned from a date.

It was so dark at night that their faces could hardly be seen clearly, so they generally seemed affectionate as if they were no one else.

Ashley has seen it many times, and it was not strange for her.

But at this time Jacob was beside her and looked over there thoughtfully, which made her feel embarrassed.

"Then I'll go back."

Ashley coughed and drew his attention back. "Brother Jacob, it's so late. Safe drive."

Jacob withdrew his eyes and suddenly asked, "I've been chasing for three days. Can I hold your hands actually?"

"..."

Ashley looked at him with an expressionless face and couldn't help saying, "How can you call this a chase?"

"Hmm?"

Jacob raised his eyes, "Doesn't it count?"

"I just want to remind you that if you chase like this, you usually can't get anyone."

Jacob said, "What should I do?"

"Why are you still asking me?"

Ashley frowned and said, "Do you want me to teach you how to chase me?"

Jacob paused and then said, "Can’t I?"

"..."

Ashley said solemnly, "You can check it on the Internet, or ask someone else."

Jacob said with a laugh, "What did I do wrong?"

"For the past three days, we basically just have a chat on Whatsapp and make a phone call once in a while."

Ashley hinted, "In my case, a suitor who hasn't seen each other for three days is tantamount to no chance."

Jacob, "Aren't you free?"

Ashley, "Then what's the difference between you and netizens?"

"..."

Ashley continued, "You are so old, do you still want to learn from other people's online dating?"

Hearing this, Jacob remembered her previous events.

He looked at her with a smile and said, "Who do you think I learn from?"

"..."

Ashley also thought of the "online lover" she had made up. She immediately felt guilty and immediately waved to him and retreated in the direction of the dormitory, "Anyway, I'm done. It’s your choice."

Jacob went back to his car and was in no hurry to drive.

Thinking about Ashley's words, he picked up his phone and sent her a message: [Are you free tomorrow?]

Ash: [no.]

‘It's such a neat word every time.’

Jacob chuckled and replied: [I suspect you are lying to me now.]

Jacob: [show me your class schedule.]

A picture was sent immediately, and it was densely packed with lessons.

As if he was very dissatisfied with his speech, Ashley added a text: [Do you believe me now?]

Jacob: [it's really full of classes.]

Ashley didn’t reply anymore.

Jacob smiled: [Sorry to wrong our Ash.]

Ashley still didn't reply.

He threw his phone aside and started the car.

There are few people at night and there are few cars on the road.

Jacob lowered the window by half. Thinking of Ashley, who was at odds with him in the dormitory at this time, he smiled.

Jacob's thoughts became empty, and he recalled Kathy he saw tonight.

Occasionally, he even thought that there was something wrong with him.

Maybe Kathy was just an illusion caused by occasional exhaustion and excessive exhaustion.

Otherwise, how could there be a person who could do this?

She has been pestering him for ten years.

She appeared before his eyes from time to time, saying similar and extreme words.

Her emotion has not been diluted by the years, but it has become more and more intense.

She vented all the hatred that should not be borne by him on him.

After that event, several classmates came to comfort him and told him to avoid her as much as possible.

Before long, this matter, including what the headteacher said, was spread to the ears of the school leaders.

Later, the headteacher was punished.

Considering the relationship between Kathy and Jacob, the school transferred him to another class.

Later, in fact, many people told Jacob not to care about what the headteacher said and not to care too much about what Kathy did.

But in fact, what embarrassed Jacob even more than the head teacher's words was the sentence that the classmate blurted out.

"How could he ask Kathy to apologize to him?"

It was the first time that Jacob felt that his dignity had been trampled to the bottom of the mud.

Even if Kathy satirized and attacked him many times in front of the class, he never cared about it and just listened to it.

Because Jacob believed that other people should be the same, thinking the same as him.

They all thought that this matter had nothing to do with him at all.

But Kathy felt painful when she lost her father, so she was extreme in words, and took him as the object of her anger.

Therefore, he could only understand and accommodate as much as possible.

But after that classmate's words came out.

Only then did Jacob know that this was not the case.

It turned out to be in the dark.

There were also people who thought that he should also pay for the sins done by his father.

Whether it was the majority or the minority.

But that sentence did have a great impact on him.

Let him in the later period of time be submissive of Kathy’s attacks.

He wanted to be insensitive to it.

He didn't want others to interfere with his life.

Jacob can only forcibly let himself understand that Kathy's seeing him is the same as the feeling that the scar has been opened again.

So he tried not to appear in front of her as much as possible.

But Kathy's idea was completely different from his.

She felt that she was in pain, and she must make him unhappy, too.

After the shift, Jacob's class was on the fifth floor.

The original class was on the third floor. It was a long distance, but Kathy still came to pick on him from time to time.

At that time, it was already approaching the high school entrance examination.

His mother heard about this, asked his opinion, and then applied to the school for him to go home for independent review.

Later, Jacob was admitted to South Star No.1 Middle School.

Kathy's grades were not good and she was not admitted to the same school as him.

His life, gradually, began to catch its breath.

…

Unconsciously, he has driven back to the community.

Jacob picked up the phone and looked at it and found that Ashley replied two minutes ago: [I’ll sleep. See you.]

He replied: [I'm home.]

Ashley immediately replied: [Oh.]

Jacob laughed inexplicably.

Then he took the candy she had just given out of his pocket and stuffed one into his mouth.

Ashley felt that the words she hinted at Jacob were like pebbles falling into the sea and did not respond at all.

For the next few days, he was no different from before.

Only on weekends, the two went out for dinner and watched a movie.

And then it went back to the way it was.

She felt that if they fell in love, they would probably live like a long-distance relationship.

In theory, Ashley said she was not free, but she had time for eating.

‘Can’t he at least take advantage of the meal to come and ask her out for dinner?

Others chase people and deliberately create chance encounters.

He is the only one who chases people with arrogance and arrogance.’

The more Ashley thought about it, the angrier she became.

She spat the foam out of her mouth and washed her face with a facial cleanser.

When she got out of the toilet and saw that Lily hadn't got up, Ashley knocked on her bed and asked, "Aren't you going to class?"

After a few seconds, Lily said vaguely, "I stayed up late last night to read a novel, and now I'm sleepy to death. Please check-in for me. I'm not going. "

Ashley nodded.

As a matter of fact, she was also sleepy and was a little lazy to put on makeup, and finally, put on her eyebrows and lipstick.

She packed up and soon went out the door.

This class was a big public class, and the classroom was also big.

Ashley came early and most of the seats were still empty.

She sat down in four rows by the window.

Looking at her mobile phone, Ashley yawned and was about to lie down to refresh herself for a while when she suddenly noticed that someone was sitting down next to her.

She raised her eyes subconsciously, and her eyes stopped for a moment, looking dazed and foolish.

The person in front of her was wearing a simple white shirt and black trousers, his temperament was clean and neat.

He looked at her sideways, raised his eyelids, and hooked the corners of his lips as usual, "What a coincidence."

"..."

"Do you take this class, too?"

"..."

Ashley didn't react to it, and her breathing slowed down a bit. "Don't you have to go to work?"

"Take a break."

Ashley scratched her head and said, "Then how did you know I was in class here?"

Jacob smiled, "Didn't I ask you for the class schedule?"

"Oh."

Ashely drew back her eyes and whispered, "Do you want to have this class with me?"

Jacob said briefly, "An encounter."

"..."

‘Not to mention that your university is not in Silver River at all, you graduated nearly four years ago, where on earth did you have the face to say these two words?’

There were still ten minutes to start the class.

Ashley muttered, "And dressed like a college student."

Jacob raised eyebrows, "Young?"

Ashley, "It's all right."

Jacob, "OK, then I will always wear like this in the future."

"..."

Ashley couldn’t keep calm because of his sudden appearance.

She took out her book, lay it down on the desk, decided to follow the plan before he came, and calmed down by the way, "I'm so sleepy. I'm going to sleep for ten minutes. Otherwise, if I fall asleep in class later, the teacher will ask me to get up and answer questions. "

Jacob stared at her for two seconds and smiled, "Are you sleepy as soon as I come?"

Ashley defended, "I am already sleepy."

Jacob, "OK, you sleep."

Ashley closed her eyes, and because of his strong sense of existence, drowsiness had long since disappeared without a trace.

Maybe it was her delusion. She always felt that Jacob was staring at her at this time.

For a while, she hesitated to lie down in a different direction.

And afraid of appearing deliberate.

Ashley suddenly remembered that she didn't wear much makeup today.

‘Why didn't he tell me in advance?

Then I won't be lazy.’

Jacob propped up his side face and stared straight at her exposed side face.

Her features were small, her skin was smooth and delicate, and her lips were buried in her arms.

After a few seconds, her eyelashes trembled lightly.

Jacob paused for a few seconds, and his eyes bent.

‘Kiddo pretending to be asleep.’

With a few hints of playfulness in Jacob's eyes, he suddenly straightened up and then slowly approached her.

Then he touched her cheek with his fingers, his lips close to her, and kissed on the back of his hand.

It made a shallow sound.

The next moment, he saw Ashley open her eyes and look up.

Staring at his still-distant face, she moved her lips and looked at him in disbelief.

Ashley froze for a few seconds as if recalling what had just happened.

Jacob joked, "Why are you awake?"

Ashley regained consciousness, her cheek including the root of her ear was burning, and her mind was occupied by the words "secret kiss".

She shouted in exasperation, "Jacob!"

It was the first time that he had heard her call himself like this. Jacob was stupefied, laughed out loud, and asked unbelievably, "What are you calling me?"

"..."

Jacob solemnly reminded, "Ashley, pay attention to your manners."

"..."

"If you call me by my name in our current relationship," Jacob said slowly. "it's not appropriate, is it?"