Liar and Liar - Chapter 68

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Chapter 68

Danielle’s heart sank. Even when she opened her mouth, no words came out.

“….”

He wouldn’t be saying this because he knows something…?

Did Mari notice something yesterday…?

Blinking her eyes, Danielle quickly organized her thoughts.

‘No. From Frederick’s perspective, it must have bothered him that he had to receive Chris’s help several times.’

At least it was fortunate that it was just a reasonable request.

“Alright. Now get up. Let’s go to class.”

“My girlfriend is so diligent…. Don’t we still have some time left?”

As Danielle stood up with her feet on the ground, Frederick also rose from the bench. He yawned loudly.

“Don’t you sleep at night? Why are you always so tired like that. Oh right. You-“

Frederick naturally interlaced his fingers with Danielle’s hand.

“You don’t have any health problems, do you?”

“Hm?”

“Really. I’m asking seriously. Have you gotten checked? You’re not a cat, so why are you sleepy 365 days a year.”

“My parents worry too, so I get checked every year. They say there’s nothing wrong. I’m just languid. A bit lazy.”

So in the end, he’s just lazy….

‘I don’t know if I should be relieved, really….’

“What about your future? You’re going to college, right? Have you thought about what major? Which state will you go to?”

“You’ve gotten curious about a lot of things about me.”

What Danielle wanted wasn’t snickering laughter but a sincere, serious, and clear answer. Answer me, answer!

However, what came back was an answer that was worse than no answer at all.

“Well…. I haven’t really thought about it. I guess I should have been born as a jellyfish.”

‘Ugh, seriously.’

Even if you were born as a jellyfish, you should think about becoming human, but here you are, born as a human and talking about devolving into a jellyfish.

But Frederick might have the right to do that. After all, he carries the family name Bastia.

“Fine… be a golden jellyfish….”

“Really? You’ll raise me with love.”

Danielle shot him a sharp look for a moment, but Frederick just smiled innocently. Like cotton candy floating in the wind.

* * *

There was a special lecture in the morning. The large lecture hall with 200 seats, made by connecting two floors, had entrances on both the lower and upper floors.

Danielle, who had roughly taken a seat in the back, turned on her laptop and checked her email. There was an email from a church staff member.

─Hello, Sister Daniel. This is about the work I mentioned in the text.

Please be punctual….

“What the.”

The lecture hall was chaotic and noisy as students were still taking their seats. Danielle, who had been leaning against the backrest, suddenly sat up straight and stared seriously at the laptop screen.

“No way, they want me to do all this by myself…?”

Despite being involved in religion, they must have thrown their conscience into the Pacific Ocean long ago, because the email was full of labor-intensive odd jobs.

‘What is this.’

Isn’t this too much work to assign just because it’s volunteer service? Do they think someone will obediently do all this?

Danielle was about to take out her phone to contact her mom immediately, reaching for her pocket, but ultimately couldn’t take out her phone.

“Sigh….”

Maybe this is actually good…?

‘If I can use this as an excuse to not go home for a while, that might be better….’

Danielle swept her hair back with one hand and swallowed a sigh.

Just do it….

When dealing with her mom, being busy with church work was the best excuse over any other excuse.

‘But no matter how fast I do it, it seems like it’ll take a lot of time….’

Someone approached Danielle as she was looking at the screen.

“Hi, Daniel~ Is this seat empty? I’m sitting here.”

Danielle turned her head to identify the owner of the voice. It was Joshua.

“What, you’re taking this too?”

“Yeah. Ms. Julia strongly recommended it, so I had no choice~”

Although she thought he probably had his own friends to sit with, so why sit next to me specifically, Danielle didn’t bother asking. But she soon found out the reason.

“I was debating whether to tell you or not, but I think it’s better to tell you.”

“What?”

Though nothing came to mind, the bombshell Joshua dropped was completely beyond Danielle’s vague expectations.

Joshua leaned toward Danielle and whispered quietly.

“Jeremy Marquez has your photo.”

“What?!”

Danielle doubted her own ears. What did he say about what?

“Why does he have my photo? What kind of photo? How did you know? Don’t tell me he carries it around? Is he crazy?”

“Chill out. Your voice got too loud.”

Though she barely managed to lower her voice while being conscious of her surroundings, Danielle absolutely could not calm down.

“I accidentally saw it tucked in his sports bag pouch. I’m curious what kind of courage that is. He must know what kind of trouble there’d be if Emily Holt saw it.”

“What, what do you mean. Why would there be trouble if Emily Holt saw it?”

“Are you really asking because you don’t know? Haven’t you ever heard stories about kids cutting out photos of people they like from the Yearbook and carrying them around?”

“I know that! But Jeremy Marquez wouldn’t do that with me!!”

“It just seems like you want to deny it.”

Joshua giggled. The more he did, the more Danielle turned pale.

Seeing Danielle’s expression, Joshua propped his chin on his fist and grinned. Then he made an offer Danielle couldn’t refuse.

“Want to check it out yourself?”

Danielle nodded silently, and the two of them carefully looked around and quietly slipped out through the back door.

When they reached a certain door, Danielle was shocked.

“Hey… don’t tell me you meant… here…?”

The place Joshua had brought Danielle to was none other than the Football Locker Room.

“Is this okay? You’re not even on the football team. Isn’t it locked?”

Joshua grinned and spun the ring with the silver key around his index finger.

If there were absolutely forbidden places for women at Elmir Westlake, the first would be Frederick’s Gymnasium, the Vent, and the second would be this Football Locker Room.

‘Is it really okay to go in…?’

She had no intention of backing down now, but it was also true that she was scared.

“Come in. What are you afraid of? They’re all outside training to death right now.”

Danielle hesitantly stepped into the locker room. She expected it to smell like sweat, but surprisingly, the first thing that hit her nose was the scent of detergent. As if it had just been cleaned.

“Haha! Daniel, here you are.”

“What, what?”

Joshua, who had entered the locker room first, burst into laughter. Danielle turned her head to what Joshua was pointing at with his index finger. As soon as she confirmed what it was, Danielle’s face flushed pink.

W E E K L Y ＊ A N G E L

(This Week’s Angel)

Attached below those words roughly scrawled on the blue locker wall was Danielle’s photo. Since it was her appearance after the makeover, if the photo was taken, it would have been just yesterday, but she had no idea when it was taken.

To Danielle’s eyes, the photo was nothing special, an utterly ordinary composition.

In the photo, Danielle was sitting at a desk, looking down at a book. What’s so pretty about this?

“Why are they putting other people’s photos on the wall and making a fuss!”

“Ah, but don’t take it down. If we get caught sneaking in, it’ll get troublesome.”

In the end, Danielle had no choice but to leave the photo as it was.

Joshua grinned and headed toward Jeremy’s locker. Danielle unconsciously swallowed dryly.

‘Please.’

She hoped Joshua had seen it wrong.

Befitting a prestigious private school’s football team that was winning major competitions, the locker room was state-of-the-art and clean without any worn-out areas.

What kind of high school locker room has such a full-scale display case. It was almost like a cafe.

“See, I was right.”

Without any hesitation, Joshua rummaged through someone’s belongings and soon held up a photo between his index and middle fingers.

Danielle checked the name attached to the upper part of the locker. WTF. Curses automatically spilled out.

JEREMY M.

“This fucking… crazy…”

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