Kara’s cries got louder, and James helplessly furrowed his brows.
“Kara, how can you move a man by crying? When did you learn such a despicable method?”
Kara was frightened by James’ cold shout and stopped crying.
She stared at James with a grievance.
“Kara, no matter whether I will leave you or not, you have to learn to be independent. Don’t do silly things like sitting on the stairs and waiting for somebody.” James calmly tried to reason with Kara.
“Kara, if you love me, you have to love yourself better. Do you understand?”
Kara bit her lips while holding back her crying, and then she turned to hide in the quilt.
James said nothing.
He frowned and took his bathrobe to take a shower.
Cold water washed his head, and he repeatedly thought about Kara’s reaction. James guessed that Kara might know something.
He had always been straightforward and bold when he did things. But when he met Kara, he became unlike himself. He became hesitating and unable to be ruthless.
His heart softened when he saw Kara’s tears.
James couldn’t be too harsh with his words, let alone separate from Kara.
The next day, James woke up as he used to. But the position next to him was empty. He suddenly turned over and got out of bed to find Kara.
“Kara?”
On the stairs, James saw Kara walking down from the third floor and looking at him in surprise.
“What’s wrong?”
James stared at Kara. His nightgown was loose, and his tall and straight posture revealed muscles that were full of strength.
“Come here.”
Kara revealed a smile, walked up to James, and placed her little head in James’ palm.
“James, I’ll learn to be more independent in the future.”
James, on the other hand, felt his arm stiffen. His heart skipped a beat. And he even felt pain. His eyes narrowed in pain from the emotional wounds.
In the end, he lowered his head and agreed. He wanted to go back to the room with Kara, but Kara pushed him away.
“I just exercised for an hour. James, I’m going to learn how to make breakfast from Libby. Wait for the breakfast of my love.”
“Kara…”
James wanted to grab Kara’s little hand, but Kara’s little hand slipped away from his palm. In the end, he did not try to persuade Kara to stay. While gritting his teeth, he endured and went upstairs to exercise.
An hour later, James went downstairs and was about to wash up when he found that Kara had prepared toothpaste and toothbrushes for him.
Although this was not the first time Kara had done this, he still felt strange.
After washing up and coming out, James saw that the suit he was going to wear today was already set up on the bed. He also put it on silently.
When he went downstairs to eat breakfast, he found that Kara was already dressed. Kara sat at the dining table while waiting for him with a bright smile.
“James, I made two eggs. Let’s eat one each, okay?” Kara’s face was full of expectation. She hoped James would taste her cooking.
James looked at the black thing on the plate. If Kara didn’t remind him, he really wouldn’t have seen that it was an egg.
He cut a small piece with a fork and put it into his mouth. He ate it calmly.
“How does it taste?”
Kara widened his eyes and stared at James seriously.
James swallowed the piece of egg and glanced at Kara without saying anything. He ate all the remaining egg pieces.
Kara realized that she had said something wrong and quickly covered her mouth.
James had no sense of taste, so how could he taste it?
Kara also quickly cut a small piece with a fork, tasted it, and quickly spat it out.
“My word. It tastes so bad. Libby, you lied to me. You said I improved.”
Libby came out of the kitchen and looked at Kara with a complicated expression. “Miss Kara, your cooking has improved. At least these two eggs can still be eaten. What you made before couldn’t be eatable.”
Kara didn’t say anything.
She gloomily bit the fork, threw the egg away, and went to eat the bread prepared by Libby.
James took the egg to his front and elegantly ate it.
“Hey, James, it doesn’t taste good. You’ll get diarrhea if you eat too much.”
Kara saw that James finished all the eggs in a while, and she covered her face in shame.
“It’s rare for you to cook for the first time. I can’t waste it,” James said calmly.
Kara didn’t argue.
The two finished their breakfast. Kara was going to work at the studio, and James drove her.
When they arrived at the studio, Kara got out of the car and stood outside the car with a smile.
“James, I will keep today’s farewell kiss for now because I don’t want to say goodbye to you yet.”
James didn’t answer.
He guessed the meaning behind Kara’s words. He started the engine with no expression on his face and turned the steering wheel quickly to leave.
It was not until the end of the car disappeared that Kara withdrew her gaze. Kara stopped pretending to smile. Her pink lips were pursed, and the excitement in her big eyes disappeared.
The schedule of the studio was for Jadon to give a lecture first, the students would practice drawing, and the comments on the works would be given by the teachers.
Kara stared at the drawing board without moving the pen for a long time. She stared blankly.
Jamya drew halfway and turned to look at Kara. She saw that Kara was staring at the pen, so she tried to remind Kara with her elbow.
“What’s going on? Today’s theme is quite simple. Are you in a bad mood?”
“What?”
Kara came back to her senses and stared at the pencil in her hand in a daze. And then she raised her arm.
She suddenly felt that something was wrong. She blinked her big eyes. “Jamya, what’s the theme for today?”
Jamya was speechless. Her mouth twitched as she tapped the blackboard on the podium.
Only then did Kara come back to her senses. She began carefully painting after nodding.
But when she was drawing, her mind was replaying James’ handsome face, as well as the cold look in James’ face when he left.
“Kara, today’s theme isn’t humans.”
Jadon walked behind Kara and reminded her kindly when Jadon saw her draw a pair of eyes.
“My bad. I’m sorry.”
Kara quickly changed to a piece of white paper, took a deep breath again, and searched for a picture related to today’s theme in her mind.
Today’s theme was flowers.
Kara closed her eyes, thought for a few seconds, and opened her eyes again. She held the pen and painted it on the white paper.
Ten minutes later, a gorgeous red lotus flower appeared on the paper. What attracted people’s attention wasn’t the red lotus flower, but the nice half face below the lotus.
That half face was extremely handsome, with sharp brown eyes, a high nose, and light-colored thin lips.
Although half of the face was covered by the lotus, it had a greater sense of presence. Thus, the existence of that red lotus could be ignored.
Today’s theme was flowers, but the half face Kara drew was more attractive than the lotus.
Jamya asked in confusion, “Kara, what is the meaning of this half face you drew?”
Kara stared at the painting, and there was a bit of sadness on her little face.
“There was a poet a long time ago who wrote a poem. There was a sentence in the poem that expressed the connections between humans and things.
“The general meaning was that when one was in a bad mood, one would feel that flowers also understood one’s emotion and cried. Even birds could understand one’s sadness.
“This painting of mine expresses the same thing. My heart is hidden behind the lotus.”
Most of the time, lotus flowers expressed loyalty, love, and aloofness. But due to the variety of colors, different colors also had different meanings.
What the red lotus symbolized was intense despair, rupture, and the willingness to risk everything.
Just like that, Kara’s intention was the same. She wanted to do anything for this love, even if it meant taking her life. She would accept death.
But some people regarded lotus flowers as holy flowers and used lotus as a sign of purity.
On the contrary, the half face hidden behind Kara’s lotus flower was with a sharp and cold look. It didn’t look like a sign of purity, but rather like a sign of coldness.