“Are you crying?”
He instantly saw the tear stains in the corners of her eyes and was surprised to press on her shoulder, “Who’s bothering you?”
Bella was startled and looked at him, wanting to say, it was you. No one but you could make me sad now, but she couldn’t say it, just gently took away his hand, and said wearily, “I’m tired. I don’t want to say anything now.”
Kevin later went into the bathroom to take a shower, and found Bella’s dirty clothes thrown on the floor, only to anticipate that she may have suffered some grievances. He was startled to look at the clothes that were stained with ketchup, suddenly got up to her secret door, and knocked heavily on the door. The door was opened. Bella asked through the door crack, “What for?”
“What happened to your clothes?”
Bella fell silent and said truthfully, “Your ex-wife did it.”
“Is Brittany bothering you again?”
“Or what do you think?”
She closed the door, not wanting to talk about this topic with him anymore. Kevin gripped the clothes in his hands and slowly wrung them into a ball.
The next day was thrilling. First, the parents of those students ran to the school. Louis, as the principal, naturally tried to pacify them. But the uninvited guest Brittany came back, who was eager to see Bella in the office. Bella was in class. Alice ran to tip her off and let her hide for a while. Bella frowned and resolutely returned to the office.
“What do you want again?”
She questioned angrily.
Brittany pointed outside, “Go out and talk.”
Bella was slightly relieved. At least this woman wasn’t here to cause trouble today.
They came to the school’s playground, and after there was no one around, Brittany spoke, “I’m sorry about yesterday. I apologize to you.”
Bella suddenly opened her eyes wide, thinking that she had misheard.
“If you didn’t hear me clearly, I can say it again. I’m sorry about yesterday. I apologize to you.”
It had only been one night, and she had changed her attitude completely. Bella felt incredulous.
“Okay, are we done? I’ll leave now.”
“Wait a minute.”
Brittany called out to her, “Haven’t you forgiven me?”
“As long as you don’t bother me again, I can let it go.”
“That’s not good enough. You have to give me a clear answer.”
Well, Bella sneered, “What if I don’t forgive?”
“Then I’ll come to the school everyday until you forgive me.”
What a crazy person! Bella waved impatiently, “Fine, I forgive you. Please don’t show up in front of me anymore.”
“I’m not done talking yet.”
Brittany stepped forward to stop her who was about to leave and handed over her phone, “Call Kevin and tell him that you’ve forgiven me.”
Bella froze, “What does this have to do with him?”
“Don’t pretend. If you hadn’t gone back to tell him, would he threaten to ruin my dad’s company if I didn’t apologize?”
Only then did Bella finally understand the reason for the change in Brittany’s attitude. It turned out that Kevin had sought justice for her.
She picked up her cell phone and dialed Kevin’s number. It quickly connected, “Hello?”
“I forgive her.”
Bella said briefly, and after a brief silence, Kevin said, “If something like this happens again in the future, let me know at the first time. Don’t act like a fool and only secretly cries.”
It was inconvenient for her to say anything more as Brittany was present, so she gently agreed, “Okay, I’ll hang up.”
“Is it okay now?”
Hanging up the phone, Bella questioned Brittany.
“Don’t think you’ve won. I just concerned for my family business, so I would give up.”
Bella unwillingly replied, “If it wasn’t because I didn’t want to see you, I would never accept your hypocritical apology.”
“You like Kevin, don’t you?”
Brittany was in no hurry, and very suddenly asked her.
“I don’t think I need to report to you about my private life.”
“I’m not at all interested in your private life. I just want to kindly remind you. You should give him up early because Kevin will never like any woman other than Freya. Do you know who Freya is? She’s the woman that Kevin misses day and night. I once got a good slap from him for touching that woman’s album, and I still can’t forget the distressed look he gave me when he looked at the album and the disgusted look he gave me when he looked at me.'”
“You do know quite a bit about his past.”
Bella feigned a calm smile, “But I don’t mind. He can’t stop thinking about his first love. He is a man of affection. He promised me that he would forget the past and start over.”
Hahaha-.
Brittany let out a mocking laugh, “Forgetting the past and starting over? Bella, you’re so childish, aren’t you? He didn’t forget her three years ago. Do you think he will forget because of you? You are really overestimating your own abilities. I sincerely advise you, don’t be ignorant, or you will regret.”
Bella stood in the same place for a long time.
The afternoon after work, Kevin without informing her spontaneously went to school to pick her up. These two days, the rumor about her spread fast. It said her handsome and rich husband had a new lover, trying to abandon her, and she was angry and fought that lover. The new lover couldn’t stand and ran to the school pour ketchup over her.
When Alice saw Kevin, she was quite unhappy, and left without greeting him.
Bella walked over and asked, “What are you doing here?”
“Pick you up from work and take you to dinner.”
“We can come home and have dinner.”
She was no longer in the mood to go out to eat with him, so she didn’t seem too happy about his offer.
“How meaningless to eat at home! Today I’ll take you to eat what you can’t eat at home, so get in the car.”
A few colleagues who watched her embarrassment yesterday saw Kevin tenderly smiling at Bella, was puzzled and jealous.
Bella sighed and mocked. The most wrong thing Cinderella did was to give hope to all the daughters of poor families.
Kevin drove the car to a seafood restaurant by the sea, pointed to the signboard to Bella said, “Look, I did not lie to you.”
Bella laughed mockingly. He remembered that she liked to eat crabs. It was rare.
They got out of the car, walked into the shop, picked a seaside seat and sat down. Kevin said to the waiter, “Steamed crab, boiled crab, grilled crab, fried crab, fried crab, a few of each.”
Bella looked at him in amazement, “You order so many. Will you finish them all?”
“If you can’t finish it, pack it up and eat at home.”
“What for? Looking for abuse?”
Kevin looked at her tenderly, “I’m not looking for abuse. You can think of those who annoy you as a big crab, then swallow it, and don’t even spit out the bones.”
The waiter served steamed crab, then served braised crab, served roasted crab, and within a quarter of an hour, the table was piled with crabs. Those crabs all turned into Kevin’s face in Bella’s eyes, some looking happy, unhappy, angry, troubled, dizzying her.
“Let’s eat.”
Kevin chucked a steamed crab into her bowl, and she looked at it a few seconds and then ate it, gurgling and chewing the bones into her stomach.
“You are thinking I’m the crab, right?”
Kevin asked very knowingly.
Bella didn’t admit or deny, but instead asked with sad incomparable ess and loneliness, “Are you waiting for the one who let your wounds heal …”
The atmosphere was suddenly awkward. Kevin didn’t answer, and Bella added, “Today Brittany mocked me. It’s a dream that I can replace the person you haven’t forgotten for three years. I will suffer later.”
“Don’t listen to that woman’s nonsense.”
“Isn’t what she says the truth? You won’t love me, and you can’t forget Freya. That’s all true, isn’t it?”
Kevin caressed his forehead and sighed, “Can we not talk about this?”
Bella was very sad, “Okay, but there’s something I want to advise you. Don’t always think about memories, because she doesn’t necessarily think about you as well.”
That day, Bella ate a lot of crabs, and she took each one as the shadow of Kevin.
In the blink of an eye, there were only three days left of the deadline given by Gillian. She called to urge Bella, “Have you thought about it yet? When do you leave?”
Bella closed her eyes in pain, “What’s the hurry. It’s not time yet.”
“So, are you planning to leave already?”
Gillian was quite pleased.
“It won’t do you a bit of good weather I leave or not, so it’s best not to be too happy too soon, lest the greater the hope the greater the disappointment.”
“That’s my business, so you don’t have to worry about it. I just want to get rid of this stumbling block of yours, in the future, all roads lead to Rome for me.”
Bella had been lost in the fact that Kevin refused to accept her feelings, and had no mood to think of a way to deal with Gillian, nor a way to get rid of Richard, with these two people pestering her.