Stuck in you

"About what?" He finally raised his head, but his voice was so calm that there was no fluctuation.

Rachel lowered her eyes and smiled bitterly, "What do you think?"

As soon as she finished her words, Jack looked away and lowered his head again. He reached out his chopsticks to move the vegetables on the plate, but did not make any response to her.

Rachel felt like her chest was stuffed with a big mass of cotton, unable to breathe. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Where have you been these two days?"

It turned out that asking this question was not as difficult as she thought. Rachel just felt that the question that had been weighing on her mind for several days was finally asked, and now she was relieved.

Jack closed his eyes for a while. When he opened them again, his clear eyes gradually became a little turbid, mixed with too many emotions. He reached out his hand, tightly held the hand of Rachel on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Your aunt passed away."

'Passed away?'

Looking straight at Jack for a while, Rachel suddenly grinned and laughed louder, "Jack, are you kidding me? I just had a video chat with Eric when the two of them laughed happily. How could she pass away all of a sudden?"

She raised her head, withdrew her hand and pressed it on her forehead. She kept denying, "No, my aunt is very healthy. How could she die suddenly?"

"Rachel, calm down." Jack looked at her worriedly and licked his lips. "That night, your aunt and Eric drank too much at home. She fell down the stairs by accident and hit her head against the railing. She died on the spot."

"No, it's impossible." With a loud bang in her mind, Rachel's limbs slowly stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye. She kept shaking her head and said, "She just hit the railing? How could she not be rescued? Jack, you must be kidding me, right?"

She stretched out her hands and kept touching Jack's suit jacket. She muttered, "Jack, where is your phone? Show me your phone. Today is April fool's day, and you are lying to me, aren't you?"

Seeing that Jack just looked straight at her without saying anything, Rachel finally couldn't control her emotions. She grabbed Jack's arm tightly and roared, "Jack, say something. Why don't you say anything? Tell me, you are lying to me!"

Her gloomy eyes were instantly wet, and tears welled up like the water that had been stored for a long time.

Rachel sniffed and tried her best to hold back her tears. But her pretending to be fine made Jack feel more distressed.

little sore in his throat. He choked, "Rachel, if you want to cry, just cry on my

lips and kept saying, but her tears kept spilling out. The more she cried, the more tears

a cloud that could not be caught in the sky,

relative of Rachel in the

feel that she was not

it happened all of a

so desperate, and tears poured out of her

tears seemed to have dried up. She asked in a hoarse voice, "What about my brother? How is

about her aunt's leaving, let alone

she thought of him, Rachel felt a lump in her throat, and tears immediately flashed in her eyes. Jack quickly reached out to touch the corner of her eyes and said in a deep voice, "He is

now? Is

rest. But he blamed his mom's death to himself. Now he's lying on the bed, without saying a

a while, Jack slowly told the truth about

like, Jack didn't want to hide it from Rachel, because once something happened to Eric, he was afraid that Rachel would be in Eric's

Although she had never seen Rachel's aunt and

to the bathroom, took the towel from her and twisted it in warm water. Then she handed it to Jack and said, "You'd better use a towel to wipe the her face. I'm afraid that the

kept wiping her tears, but didn't know what to say

but when he saw how miserable

one knew how long Rachel had cried. She leaned on Jack's shoulder and cried so hard that there was no sound. Jack thought she was asleep and

asked you out for dinner." Jack smiled bitterly. He knew how angry Rachel was when he came back and

took a deep breath, "Why didn't

that your aunt was still being rescued in the emergency room. I was afraid that you would be worried, so I wanted to go to see the specific situation first and pick you up when my aunt's condition stabilized...

and didn't go

leaned against his chest and

her wild guesses and unreasonable indifference were her