My Darling, My Dearest

Chapter 459 Meet A Classmate While Shopping

Rachel tried hard not to say anything just now because she didn't want Lea to get more curious and start to question her. As a matter of fact, she had already thought of some excuses to refuse Lea's invitation. But all of her plans were in vain because of Jack.

Now, she couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

Jack seemed to have realized that he did something wrong. He silently moved the plate in front of her and said in a low voice, "Rachel, I'll prepare another one for you. Don't be angry."

Rachel was at a loss upon seeing that he was trying to please her. She forced herself not to smile and said, "Then why don't you hurry up?"

She had never liked dumplings before. But since she got pregnant, she started to love them. She could even eat ten dumplings at breakfast.

After finishing the ten dumplings on her plate this morning, Rachel put down her chopsticks. She was about to stand up when she heard Lea's voice from the door. "Rachel, are you ready? I'm here to pick you up."

Lea came in and went to the dining room. When she saw Jack sitting next to Rachel, she just glanced at him and turned back expressionlessly. "Where is Celia?" Jack asked.

Without even looking at him, Lea replied flatly, "I don't know. Why don't you ask Marcus yourself?"

All of a sudden, there was an inexplicable sense of embarrassment and tension in the air.

Rachel's mouth twitched. She picked up her phone on the table and said lightly, "Let's go."

As soon as they got into the car, Lea asked curiously, "Rachel, what's going on? Have you and Jack reconciled?"

Rachel pursed her lips. "Didn't you say that you want to go shopping? Which shopping mall do you want to go to?"

"Any shopping mall is fine with me." Lea waved her hand casually and looked at Rachel again. "What's more important now is to talk about you."

"But I think it's more important to tell the driver which shopping mall to drive us." Rachel rolled down the window and pointed at the gate. "Are we going to stay outside my house the whole day?"

Lea looked outside the window and slapped her forehead lightly. "My brain is getting more and more useless."

She then tapped the driver's shoulder and said, "Please take us to the New World." After giving instructions to the driver, Lea turned back to Rachel to continue the topic. However, Rachel had already leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes. "Lea, I've just finished eating breakfast, so I feel a little sleepy now. I'll take a nap first. Just wake me up when we get there."

Obviously, Rachel wanted Lea to stop talking now.

Lea was left with no choice. Although she was so curious, she didn't have the heart to disturb Rachel's rest.

When they arrived at the mail's parking lot, Lea tapped Rachel's shoulder lightly. "We're here. Let's get out of the car quickly, so we can continue with our topic earlier."

Knowing that she couldn't avoid Lea's questions anymore, Rachel smiled helplessly. "If I tell you that we haven't reconciled yet, would you believe me?"

"No." As she spoke, Lea pulled Rachel into a children's clothing shop. She picked a red plaid skirt and looked at it again and again. She then asked, "Do you think this will look good on Rita?"

Rachel thought for a while and replied, "I think it fits her well."

She then took a light yellow coat and handed it to Lea. "Since you don't believe it, it only means that you haven't lost you good judgment after giving birth." Lea held the coat for a while and shook her head. "Not really. I just don't believe you can make up so soon. You're not that kind of person, after all."

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children's clothes, Rachel decided to stop choosing and simply stood aside. She then said, "If I don't have those worries, we might have made up."

"What kind of worries do you have?" Lea

stopped and looked at her in confusion.

Rachel fell silent for a while before she

answered, "A lot. By the way, I noticed that you seem to be unfriendly to Jack recently. Why do you still persuade me to be with him?"

"Don't you get it?" Lea poked her forehead. "If I treated him well, he'd be too proud. I'm

pretending to dislike him, so he'll realize that I am capable of speaking ill of him in front of you, and I can urge you to leave him. In that case, he'll get alarmed and do everything to please you."

Rachel hadn't realized Lea's intention. But after hearing Lea's long explanation, she had finally understood everything.

Lea winked at her and said proudly, "Do I deserve to be your best friend now? I'm doing all of these for you."

"Yes!" Rachel answered with a smile. The two of them looked at some more clothes inside the shop while talking about many things. They didn't notice that two pairs of eyes had been staring at their backs.

Kailey's eyes were full of resentment. But before she could do anything, the friend beside her said in a low voice, "Don't be impulsive and do anything stupid. Just remember what happened to Scarlett when she tried to hurt Rachel's baby the last time. If you were in her place, you would be more miserable."

"I know," Kailey snorted. "But I won't let it go. I will avenge Scarlett for what she has gone through."

Two days ago, Kailey went to Scarlett's apartment to visit her as usual. However, she waited for so long, knocking on the door, but no one opened. Scarlett's phone was also turned off. She couldn't help muttering, "Is something wrong?"

She went down to ask the security guard at the gate of the community. It was only then that she found out, Scarlett left and hadn't come back yet.

Kailey got anxious all of a sudden. She had used up almost all of the money that Scarlett gave to her. The reason why she came here today was to ask for more money from Scarlett. But since Scarlett wasn't here anymore, it meant that she would also run out of money soon.

She had been living a luxurious life since Scarlett hooked up with Jack. How could she not be anxious?

Kailey looked for Scarlett the whole day. She went to places that Scarlett frequented and called all her friends, but no one knew Scarlett's whereabouts.

She had no choice but to use the remaining money she had to hire a detective to help her find Scarlett. As a result, she found out what really happened to her.

Kailey didn't expect to see Rachel in the shopping mall today. But when she overheard Lea and Rachel's conversation, an idea came to her mind.

With a sneer, she got closer to her friend and whispered something. Afterward, she patted her friend's shoulder and said complacently, "Is my plan good?"

Rachel and Lea shopped for almost a day. They bought a lot of children's and baby's stuff and only a little for themselves.

Lea motioned for the driver to open the trunk of the car and put all the shopping bags there. She sighed and said, "It's really costly to raise a child now."

Rachel curled her lips. "You're right. It only means that we have to work harder to earn more money for them."

Lea clapped her hands, motioning for the driver to close the trunk. She then put her hand on Rachel's shoulder and said, "You don't have to work so hard. Let Jack make more money. We need a job just to entertain ourselves, not to support our family. We have husbands, after all."

Rachel didn't say anything but only smiled faintly. She opened the door and was about to get in the car when a female voice came from behind. "Rachel? Lea?"

Rachel and Lea turned around simultaneously and saw a woman walking towards them. Confused, they exchanged dubious glances.

Lea asked uncertainly, "You are Anna Wu, right?"

"Yes, that's right." The plump woman in front of them nodded. "You two haven't changed at all. You still look the same as before, so I can recognize you even from afar."

She turned to look at Rachel up and down and asked in surprise, "Are you pregnant?"

With a faint smile, Rachel replied, "Yes."

Anna Wu was Rachel and Lea's classmate in junior high school. But they belonged to different circles of friends, so they weren't that close. Actually, they never heard from her after their graduation. Today was the first time they saw her again after so many years.

Rachel didn't know what else to say after a single word reply. So she just stood there silently, waiting for either Anna or Lea to say something.

However, none of them spoke for a long time. The situation had become embarrassing, so Rachel tugged the hem of Lea's dress and motioned for her to say something quickly.

Lea scratched her head and finally asked, "Anna, are you shopping here too? What did you buy?"

She laughed awkwardly upon realizing how dull her question was.

But it seemed that Anna didn't mind at all. She showed them the two shopping bags in her hands and said with a smile, "I just bought two sets of clothes. I am getting married soon."

With eyes wide open, Lea blurted out, "Really? You look much fatter now than we were in junior high school. I thought you already gave birth and that was why you've gained more weight."

Anna's smile vanished at once, and her face flushed.

With an awkward smile, Rachel changed the topic immediately. "Are you getting married soon? Congratulations!"

Author's note

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Translator: Scarlett5555