Chapter 188 Edward Is Angry While Justin Is Happy
Jane refused to eat in the Smith's house, and Edward just let her go after he got angry. The Smith's house wasn't a dining hall, and Jane could also afford to eat by herself. Therefore, Edward just let her leave because he couldn't force her to stay.
For several days, Edward deliberately went downstairs late, in order not to meet Jane in the house - out of sight, out of mind. Today Edward was going to go out, and he forgot to check the time. He went downstairs and met Jane who just had finished classes face to face.
Edward felt angry when he saw Jane. He didn't want to say anything, and he wanted to leave with an indifferent face.
Jane said, "Mr. Smith."
Edward stopped and looked sideways. He thought that it turned out that she would take the initiative to apologize.
Jane walked to Edward and stood in front of him. She found something from her bag, and Edward thought that she unexpectedly had prepared the apology gift. However, Jane then handed a set of keys with a door card, which looked familiar.
Jane handed the keys to Edward and said with a smile, "Mr. Smith, this is the key to the Room 202 of Building One, Rhine Garden. Thank you for providing free housing for me for so long, and I have found a new place to live. I've cleaned the room, so you can ask someone to check it when you have time."
Edward never thought that she was here to show her strength rather than her weakness.
He took over the key without any expression, and asked knowingly, "Why don't you live there anymore?"
Jane said without changing her expression, "The old house where I lived before is indeed unsafe, and I don't want to ruin your kindness that letting me live in the Rhine Garden. However, people should always have self-awareness. I've been living for free for several months, and I don't want to profit at your expense."
Seeing her professional smiling face, he was filled with only one word: fake.
Did she think that she could fool him by speaking in a bureaucratic tone?
Edward guessed wrong about Jane's intention of stopping him and was set up by her. The more he thought about it, the colder he became. He said indifferently, "It is good to have self-awareness."
After finishing his words, Edward turned around and left. When he went to the garage to get the car, he mistook the room key in his hand for the car key. He pressed the key, but the car didn't respond. Lowering his head, he found he had used the wrong key and got angry immediately.
Smith thought, "How dare you, Jane Cooper! I hope you will think that business is business and don't ask me for anything."
Compared to Edward who was extremely angry, Jane was free and relaxed. She thought that Edward would dismiss her someday when she was unpleasant to his eyes. Therefore, she would leave without too much concern, but she would miss Justin if she left.
Justin was too sensitive, and he knew Jane had a big fight with Edward since she didn't eat in his home. Edward didn't want to explain, and Justin didn't know how to ask Jane about this. Therefore, he could only be cautious because he was afraid that Jane would suddenly say that she wouldn't be his tutor anymore.
Justin didn't want to beg Edward and asked him not to fire Jane. He didn't want to beg Jane to be his tutor either. He knew that he couldn't force some people to do something unwilling, like his father, Gary Smith.
Justin had understood since he was a child that nothing forcibly done is going to be agreeable, so he thought he needed to be nice to Jane when she was still with him.
Jane found that Justin became a bit obedient lately. When she came to the Smith family in the morning, Justin had already gotten up. Sometimes he even had washed up and was sitting on the sofa waiting for breakfast.
Justin looked like a student more when he studied beside the table. He would ask what he didn't know directly, and he wouldn't make conflict with Jane when she teased him.
Jane asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Justin raised his eyes to look at her. Jane examined his look and said meaningfully, "I think you're a little strange lately."
Justin asked, "What's strange?"
Jane said, "You're obedient."
Justin looked straight at Jane, and after a few seconds, he said, "You Generation Z like these old-fashioned words, and you think you are very smart, but in fact, you are silly."
Jane raised her eyes slightly and said, "That's right. That's your style of speaking."
Justin looked at Jane with contempt and dislike and said, "Do you like being picked on?"
Jane said, "I'm a little uncomfortable with your sudden change in behavior."
Justin looked away and said, acting like an elder, "Who can be disobedient forever?"
Jane said, "You are still young, and you can still be a child for several years. However, only if you behave like a bad boy, I can show my skills of being a tutor, or I will be a cipher if every teacher can be your tutor. I still want to teach you for a few more years."
Jane's words made Justin, who had been upset these days, totally become happy. Of course, he didn't show it on his face.
Raising his eyes to look at her again, Justin asked, "Do you want to teach me for a few more years?"
Jane nodded and said, "You are only in junior high school now. There is still the college entrance examination after the senior high school entrance examination. Have you ever thought about which university you want to go to? I will help you!"
Jane pounded her chest, showing Justin her feelings about being good friends forever.
Justin glanced at Jane with a little sarcasm and said, "You only went to Y University, but I want to go to Oxford. Can you help me?"
Jane glared at Justin and said, "What's wrong with Y University? What is Oxford? Do you think I went to Y University because I couldn't be admitted to Oxford? I don't want to send talent abroad."
Justin said, "Okay, I'll remember your words."
Jane asked, "What?"
Justin said, "I want to go to Oxford. If I fail, you will be to blame."
Jane said, "Okay, you pay first, and then we make the deal."
During the break, they chatted for twenty minutes, and they even made a written note for their deal. Justin learned that Jane didn't want to resign, so he had the joyful feeling of being lost and found. He thought he was well hidden, but in fact, Jane noticed all. She guessed that Justin might behave differently these days because he noticed that she and Edward had conflicts. Children who didn't grow up with parents would be a million times more sensitive than ordinary people even if people around them took care more of them.
In a flash, Jane knew why she and Justin would hit it off. Although they had totally different family backgrounds, they were familiar with loneliness since childhood. They were both sensitive, wary, and greatly defensive of strangers. They were difficult to make friends with.
Similarly, it would be hard for them to separate if they had a heart-to-heart with someone.
Jane said, "Justin."
Justin replied to her, "Uh-huh?"
Jane said, "Nothing."
Jane almost blurted out that no matter what happened between she and Edward, as long as he didn't fire me, she would be Justin's tutor. However, she felt inappropriate when she was about to say the words. Her words were like that she wanted to discredit Edward, and then she might stir things up.
Justin heard her mid-sentence and said with a frown, "What do you want to say?"
Jane curved up her lips and said with a smile, "Let's play at my home at the weekend. I've moved to a new apartment."
Justin asked, "Is there a place to play soccer in your new neighborhood?"
Jane said, "I didn't move to a new neighborhood. I just moved to a new unit."
Justin asked, "Why did you change?"
Jane said, "The new one is opposite the soccer field with a good view."
Justin seriously replied to her, "Classy, are you in love with soccer now?"
Jane asked, "Do you want to be on a team with me at the weekend?"
Without saying anything, Justin opened the drawer and took out a transparent bottle, which contained the birthday gifts from Jane. There were still about ten small frog origamis left, which he saved and never used.
At this moment, he asked, "Are there any more tickets that don't have to be the same team with you when we play soccer?"