Liar and Liar - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69

“I guess he does have eyes after all. Seeing how he immediately saved a photo because you’re pretty.”

Joshua just laughed as if it was amusing, but Danielle only felt chills.

“Give me that photo. I can take that photo, right?”

“Sure, why not?”

Without much objection, Joshua handed the photo to Danielle and headed toward the wall.

The photo she received had the same composition as the one attached to the Weekly Angel, but was slightly different. She was sitting at the desk the same way, but looking straight ahead.

‘Don’t tell me he took this…’

“He’s dating Emily right now. Why is he doing this kind of thing?”

Joshua stuck a straw into a juice pack he grabbed from the display case and put it between his lips.

“Things seem shaky. Everyone’s saying that disgusting couple cockroaches couldn’t possibly break up.”

So they haven’t broken up yet.

Danielle pushed the photo deep into her bag with a despairing feeling.

She knew he was stupid, but to think he could act this thoughtlessly. She wondered if Frederick wasn’t even on his mind. How else could this happen?

‘…I shouldn’t have sent that rap video…’

Who knew it would come back to bite me like this…

Danielle squeezed her eyes shut. It was already too late for regrets.

* * *

“Haah…”

After parting with Joshua and coming to the library, Danielle sat at a desk and buried her face in her hands.

Even when she tried to pull herself together, she couldn’t focus with the endless stream of incidents.

She just wanted to escape from reality, but the vibration of her phone forcibly dragged her back to reality.

She turned on the screen without thinking, but the moment she saw the content, the blood in her veins turned cold. There was a text from Eunho.

Yeah, I don’t want to talk to you anymore either, sis.

I guess you’re too busy meeting your boyfriend.

Don’t go around bragging about attending a good school anymore. It won’t be something to brag about much longer.

Danielle’s breath turned cold. Every time she clashed with Eunho like this, she didn’t feel angry but rather felt something inside her body breaking.

Like a rock that had been drying without moisture for a long time, cracking with each small hammer blow.

From her fingertips to her ribs, heart, and then her head. Now her skull was ringing.

“No…”

I’ll sort it out someday. Or get sorted out…

No matter how much church work there is, I’ll do it faithfully. Even if I get called money-hungry for the home run ball compensation, I’ll receive it properly.

‘I did start dating him to use him, to extract money from him.’

I don’t even have the right to be hurt by those words.

Danielle closed her eyes while gripping her phone and breathed slowly through her trembling breath.

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The excuse of church worked perfectly on Hye-ju. But that didn’t mean Danielle gained complete free time at all.

The church coordinator was literally determined to work Danielle to the bone. To avoid running into Eunho, Danielle had no choice but to actually do that work. She managed to get by sleeping 4 hours a day and somehow getting the work done, but the thought that something was going wrong wouldn’t leave her.

Standing in front of the dormitory building, Danielle checked her phone.

Soo-ya, I’m so worried because you haven’t been coming home at all lately…

Are you very busy? Is there really that much church work??

Danielle’s possible response was predetermined.

No, Mom. I’m just swamped with assignments. I’ll stop by home soon.

As she lowered her phone, she saw the black car she had ridden when going to watch the Sharks game entering the entrance.

The car smoothly turned the curve and stopped in front of Danielle. Today was the dinner with Frederick’s parents that they had arranged earlier.

Frederick, wearing a white vertical striped casual shirt, got out of the driver’s seat and immediately approached Danielle.

“Honey. How long were you waiting? I’m not late, am I?”

As he pushed the black sunglasses he was wearing up onto his head, Frederick’s gentle face was revealed. Coming close, he naturally and softly kissed Danielle’s cheek.

“No, I just came out.”

“Are you tired somewhere? Didn’t you sleep?”

Looking at Danielle’s complexion, Frederick cupped her cheek with one hand.

Danielle felt like she had become a snowman. It was just ordinary warmth, but she felt like she was melting from her cheek down.

“I’ve had a lot to do lately. I’m fine.”

“The outfit suits you well. Our baby doesn’t have any colors that don’t suit her.”

Frederick kissed her other cheek once more. The clothes Danielle was wearing now were newly chosen from the boutique she had visited to pick out clothes for the Sharks game.

About 10 outfits had been prepared in advance, and Mari had given detailed feedback on each one while helping choose the clothes together.

The final choice was a sky blue-toned mint satin halter neck dress that covered her knees, with an ivory outer garment over it. The dress had lace attached, making it overall feminine. Even though she intellectually knew it was pretty, the fit that hugged her body lines felt awkward.

In her life, this design, this color, this material were all firsts for Danielle. It seemed like something a Monaco aristocrat would wear.

Frederick treated Danielle like a real Monaco aristocratic young lady. Holding Danielle’s fingertips with one hand, he gently opened the passenger door with the other.

After getting Danielle in the car, he returned to the driver’s seat and slowly started the car. Danielle gazed at Frederick’s smiling face. Today’s Frederick seemed particularly happy.

“Baby.”

“Yeah?”

“The Movie Night Premier Party is coming up soon. Is there any costume you’d like to try on?”

The Movie Night Premier Party hosted by one of Upper School’s film clubs had a rule of dressing up like movie characters.

While Halloween focused on bizarre or scary costumes, the romance that Upper School students really wanted was usually realized at this party.

“I don’t particularly have any costume in mind…”

“Hmm, what about what I wear?”

Frederick turned his head to meet Danielle’s gaze and winked with one eye. It was charming.

“Oh, um…”

“Think about it carefully, baby. Since it’s only once a year, it would be a waste to just let your special privilege slip by.”

When the photoshoot Frederick did just before 10th grade hit the entire Upper School, female students each passionately poured out their opinions on photoshoot concepts they wanted to see.

Lifeguard!

Kingsman!

F1 driver suit!

Of course, students never actually got to see Frederick dressed in those concepts. Frederick only attended parties when he felt like it, and even then, he wore rather strange costumes instead of cool ones. Like a plague doctor with a bird beak sticking out.

What Danielle had imagined alone during those times was a concept that would suit Frederick who was a bit older than the Frederick of that time. Probably perfect for exactly how he looked now…

“There is something I’d like to see…”

Unfolding a paper that had been crumpled up in a corner of her heart and even voicing it to the person himself was quite embarrassing. She just needed to say it casually as if it was nothing.

Since the conversation had flowed this way, Danielle decided to honestly confess.

“I want to see you in pilot clothes.”

“Pilot? I never thought of that.”

“…What did you think I was going to say?”

“Police officer?”

Frederick laughed silently. Danielle’s cheeks helplessly flushed pink. Before dating Frederick, a conversation she had accidentally overheard from some female students in the hallway suddenly came to mind.

“I hope Frederick wears a police officer costume at the Premier Party this year. Ah, I want to be arrested by Frederick.”

“Get arrested, and then what?”

“The punishment would be in bed… He’d XX me from behind, hard-“

While Middle School was limited to kissing pollution at most, Upper School’s dirty talk was at a level that made Danielle spit out the water she was swallowing.

Danielle immediately fled the scene as if escaping, but she had understood exactly what the female students were talking about.

“So it did reach your ears too, that story…”

“I have absolutely no intention of obediently becoming a dish on a plate for everyone, but if it’s a dish for you to savor, anything is fine. Pilot… You mean passenger plane, not fighter jet pilot, right? Like a PAN AM pilot.”

“…Yeah. You know it well.”

“Mother liked it.”

At the same time, just for a brief moment, Frederick’s gray eyes turned coldly dark.

Danielle didn’t miss that momentary coldness that appeared at the end of Frederick’s smile. Perhaps because they were gray eyes, Frederick’s pupils were particularly good at emitting coolness.

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