Chapter 61: shouldn’t be a problem Chapter 61: shouldn’t be a problem Initially, she thought that Liam’s friend would be as difficult as Liam, but much to her surprise, Drake was very amicable, readily extending his hand towards her with a beaming smile, “No problem.” Overjoyed, Maureen quickly wiped her hands on her clothes and took his hand.
Liam, who was still eating barbecue and didn’t have ti to stop, said: “As soon as Maureen’s skin touched Drake, the small sprout in the flowerpot moved a little.
It had grown one and a half!
Although it did not grow as many as the five buds that first sprouted when she touched Liam, it was still enough to make one happy!
Maureen was filled with joy, chewing a piece of barbecue, and asked again: “Drake, haven’t you been to school for almost a month because of your illness?
There should be many papers piled up on your desk, right?
Do you need soone to help you organize them?
Do you also need sobody to run errands for your usual duty day?” Niel quietly looked at Liam’s gloomy face.
Before Drake had ti to speak, Liam yanked Maureen over, holding her shoulders with both hands, staring at her angrily- “What…what’s wrong?” Maureen was baffled.
Liam had a foul expression.
He stared at her fiercely, held his breath for a long ti, and finally said, “Are you my friend or his friend?” Maureen swallowed the barbecue: “Can’t I be both?” Since when was there such a career competition in being the friend of two best friends?
“No!” Liam was exasperated – He wondered if she really didn’t understand him or was just pretending.
did she really think he ant an actual ‘ Friend?
Is she forcing him to co clean?
Maureen: “Why?” Liam’s face turned red with anger, and retorted: “There cannot be two tigers on the sa mountain, get it?” Drake couldn’t help coughing with laughter on the side, he took a sip of water and sighed: “What can I do?
I can’t help my irresistible charm.” Maureen felt goosebumps all over her body.
She thought to herself, given the choice between six percent and two percent, she would definitely choose Liam who represented the six percent.
“I guess I’ll choose to be your friend, then.” A hint of redness spread across Liam’s ears, feeling relieved in his heart.
He released Maureen’s shoulder and generously added several pieces of at to her plate.
Maureen: “Thank you.” “No need to thank .” Liam proudly dusted off non-existent dust from his clothes, raised an eyebrow at Drake with a confident and cool look.
“I guess my charm is irresistible.” Niel and Josephine: “…” Maureen: “…” Great, double the goosebumps.
Her little fists clenched tightly.
What the hell…
The barbecue restaurant was filled with a warm atmosphere, with the aroma of at and spices wafting throughout the room.
Maureen felt a comfortable warmth in the midst of these youthful companions, which also ward her heart.
Sothing indescribable quietly took root, filling the empty corners of her heart.
At noon, the waiter brought over so fruit wine.
Maureen didn’t draw any attention as she took two cups.
By the ti Liam noticed her unusual behavior, she had already downed three cups.
Maureen began to feel a bit dizzy – the moon outside the window seed to have fuzz around its edges.
Liam gave her a little shake.
But then, she began to see two Liam.
She turned her head, and the yellow-green glass window fras behind her seed to be splitting into two.
Maureen propped up her head, her beautiful face flushed, her eyelashes coated with foggy mist.
Her gaze involuntarily fell on the street side, where a pair of grandmother-granddaughter was setting up a stall in the cold wind, selling bright red candied haws.
She did not know what the granddaughter was sweetly talking about, but she continued to tug on her granny’s sleeve.
That granny couldn’t withstand it anymore, took out a candied haw, and handed it to the granddaughter.
When the granny turned her face back, it carried a mild and kind smile, and her mucky hand tousled her granddaughter’s hair.
Maureen watched blankly, and couldn’t hold back anymore.
She felt a sour sensation in her nose, and her eyes reddened.
All the emotions she had accumulated since her rebirth, upon learning that her grandmother was no longer alive, suddenly poured out.
Tears fell uncontrollably, “pitter-patter”.
“I, my grandmother,” Maureen burst into tears, her voice carrying a raspy lody, “My grandmother left a few thousand yuan before she passed away!” “…” Everyone at the table looked at her.
“It’s over, Maureen can’t drink.
Even a little can make her drunk,” Josephine suddenly rembered, feeling a bit dizzy herself.
Liam quickly stood up and pulled Maureen over, frowning at Josephine, “Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Maureen hugged Liam, like clinging to a telegraph pole, sobbing uncontrollably.
She hadn’t even seen her grandmother for the last ti.
When she left the countryside, her grandmother was worried, yet Maureen herself was filled with expectations and desires.
She even told her grandmother that once she had won over the approval of the Smith family; she would take her grandmother with her.
After getting into a good university and proving her worth, she would be able to support her grandmother.
She hadn’t been at the Smith family’s ho for long when, around her birthday, she sensed sothing was wrong after making a call to her grandmother and no one answering.
Then the phone call from the town ca.
They told her, after she left, her grandmother went to deliver goods on her own.
Unfortunately, she got caught in a torrential rainstorm and due to leg ailnt, she had slid downhill and passed away that night.
The townsfolk, kind-hearted, had conducted her grandmother’s funeral before reluctantly informing her.
Due to the discovery of grandmother’s demise being delayed, coupled with inadequate dical conditions in the town, they didn’t even know the exact day her grandmother passed away.
Upon hearing this, Maureen was rooted to the spot, shocked.
She raced all the way back to the countryside in a frenzy.
In the cold funeral hall, she was completely silent, crying till she was numb.
She had said she would help her grandma lead a better life, but in the end, her grandmother had left behind an old red cloth pack for her- It was filled with tuition money her grandmother had saved for her over the years, even suffering from her leg ailnt without getting it treated.
Like a switch being flipped, Maureen’s tears began to fall “plop”, “plop”.
The tip of her nose was red from all the crying.
Her hand haphazardly wiped her tears.
Having chili on her hand, the more she wiped, the greater the burning sensation in her eyes, and the tears flowed even more furiously.
Looking at this, Liam panicked and grabbed the tissues on the table to wipe off the tears on her face.
Liam rarely saw such a devastated cry from Maureen.
His heart clenched, he quickly turned his head and asked Josephine, “Who was her grandmother?
Where did she live?
What’s the address?
Send it to .” “She has already passed away.” Josephine looked sadly at Maureen and said, “Nevermind… These things… Telling you shouldn’t be a problem.”
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