Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 253

let everyone know that you’re my girlfriend. Then, the whole matter will be resolved. Don’t you think so?” Elspeth agreed with Callum’s reasonable analysis and immediately opened her Facebook app to publish a post about her relationship with Callum, notifying the public.“This won’t be sufficient. The public wouldn’t be interested in something abstract. The key is to engrave this matter in their hearts.” With that, he looked her in the eye and uttered with a smile, “Let’s get engaged.”Although it sounded like a great idea, something was off about it. “Should I inform Eric about this?” She thought that she should ask for Eric’s opinion since he was involved in the matter as well. Just when she was about to give him a call, someone entered the room. It turned out to be Eric whom they hadn’t met for some time.“Long time no see, Elspeth,” he greeted her while placing a bouquet of roses next to her bed. Elspeth smiled when she saw the roses and thanked him, saying, “I should be thanking you instead. If not for you, I would have died in the lake.”“What are you talking about? It wasn’t just me. Callum put his life on the line while trying to save you.”Elspeth was aware that Callum couldn’t swim, and it broke her heart when she saw how calm Callum was about that matter. She had assumed Eric was the one who rescued her since Callum looked neat when she first saw him after she regained consciousness. Moreover, he never mentioned it to her. However, after giving it some thought, she realized that the shirt Callum was wearing wasn’t the school uniform both of them wore while on the yacht; it was his formal wear.“Callum…” Tears started welling up in her eyes.“Don’t cry. I didn’t feel like letting you know since it isn’t something glorious.” For someone like Callum who had a big ego, almost getting killed while trying to rescue someone was humiliating to him, so he would never reveal it.“In other words, were you planning to hide it from me?” What if something happened to you since you don’t know how to swim?”“I wasn’t planning to, but I wouldn’t have told you if you didn’t ask about it.” Callum tried to comfort her.“Alright, I got it. I have a new plan.” Elspeth took a deep breath while trying to hold her tears in.“What plan is it?” Callum suddenly had a bad feeling about it.“I will teach you how to swim once we’re back in Damoria.”Callum was bad at swimming because he had a fear of water. “It’s fine. I don’t want to learn.”“Why?” Elspeth asked puzzledly.“I almost drowned when I was younger, and I feel scared whenever I get into the water.”“Why did you almost drown?” Elspeth frowned, not expecting him to have experienced something like that.“It was because of Arthur,” he uttered with his eyes shut. He still remembered that experience. When Arthur was a child, he liked to sit by the lake. As the eldest brother, Callum would often go over to check on him. One day, one of Arthur’s toys suddenly dropped into the water, so he asked Callum, “Callum, could you please go and get it for me?” Although Callum couldn’t swim, he couldn’t bring himself to reject Arthur when he saw how much he was looking forward to it. Thus, he forced himself to do it.Before Callum got into the water, Arthur tied a rope to his body and said, “Callum, don’t be scared. I’ll tie this rope around the tree so that you won’t get lost in the water.” However, the rope broke when he entered the water, and he was washed away by the huge waves shortly after. After he was rescued by the nearby residents, he suffered from a fever. Ever since that incident, he never went into the water anymore.“Why weren’t you afraid when you were rescuing me?” Elspeth asked puzzledly.“I’m not sure. When I jumped into the lake, it never occurred to me that I was afraid of water. Perhaps I was in