Chapter 62
Chapter 62 Luke's Secret
Bianca raised her head and looked at Luke with her eyes unblinking.
After a long time, it felt as if time had stopped. She had barely returned to normal and the unspeakable emotions still aroused her to the edge. 1
Under her long and trembling eyelashes, they were eyes brimming with tears.
Luke Crawford was upperclassman Crawford.
The doubts in her heart in the past were completely different from the true testimony before her eyes.
The man had changed a lot throughout the years ago, but so had she...
Fortunately, many years had passed. From their schoolyard to working society, from the loose and spacious school uniforms to professional workwear. After all this time, she still met the man who had a special place in her heart.
Sadly, when she left high school, her life was not a smooth sail and she had to get her hands dirty.
When they were face to face, Bianca remembered the hot kiss that they shared in the car just a while ago. Suddenly, a strong and ardent emotion surged up in her heart but she was too afraid to show it.
She could not explain it.
Time seemed to have gone back to when they were in high school.
"Upperclassman Crawford, how could you just remember Bianca!" A 1.7 meters tall beauty stood in front of them coquettishly, staring Luke down seductively.
The man only had eyes for Bianca.
The coquettish female classmate suddenly felt embarrassed. She pursed her lips and glanced at Bianca, who was dressed homely.
Luke rarely said anything, but this time, he looked at Bianca and said, "I remember her. I remember that summer when we played a basketball game with another high school in the district. Many students gathered around to watch. During my last shot, I heard the girls cheering behind me. When I turned around, I think she was cheering the loudest."
Bianca's face turned bright red immediately.
'That did not happen. 1
'That absolutely did not happen.'
She was always bullied by her classmates growing up. If she went to watch a male classmate's basketball game, the closest thing she could do was probably stand in the corner and definitely not in front cheering.
Luke’s words made the initially out of sight Bianca the focus of the crowd.
"No... I seriously didn't..." Bianca glanced timidly at her old classmates. She was afraid that she was going to make some enemies.
The expert that was invited from abroad was done checking on Miss Clinton's leg.
After the expert was dismissed, Miss Clinton put on a birthday hat and was wheeled toward a giant birthday cake.
Claudia was with her mother as she made a wish, blew out the candles, and cut the cake.
When she passed the slices to everyone, every student gave Miss Clinton a blessing and reintroduced themselves.
It was the first time Bianca saw Miss Clinton since she graduated from high school. She was a little excited because she never had a mother growing up. Since she did not have a maternal figure, the care she got from a female teacher was the closest maternal love she had.
To be honest, she never knew what having actual maternal love was like.
Miss Clinton was wheeled out by Claudia and sat at the table on the first floor of the mansion.
Everyone else was having fun in the distance.
"Bea, I'm glad to see that you're doing well." Miss Clinton held Bianca's small hand and patted it. "After all these years, have you tried to find your mother?"
When Bianca heard what her teacher said, her hand trembled. 1
"No, I have not." Bianca forced a smile and looked at her teacher. "But I think she must be doing well and wouldn't want to be disturbed by me."
The truth was, Bianca had tried looking for her.
Bianca still remembered that she went to the streets to paste the missing person posters when she was ten years old. She wrote everything she knew about her mother on the posters but nothing came up in the end.
When she grew older, she moved to the big city and realized how big the world truly was.
As for the exact address of where her mother was, no one knew.
"It's okay too if you’ve never looked for her." Claudia comforted her, "Be filial to your father. It’s a good thing that you've grown up and can live on your own.
She was a poor little kid back then but grew up to be a fresh and beautiful butterfly.
It felt gratifying to be a teacher.
When Luke walked overt© them, he was holding a glass of juice. He placed it in front of Bianca like a boyfriend would if he took care of his girlfriend.
Behind him was a hired professional waiter.
The waiter presented the juice drinks on a tray in front of Miss Clinton and Claudia.
While Claudia drank her juice, her eyes drifted between Luke and Bianca. She guessed that the relationship between the two of them was much more complicated than she knew.
It felt as if the two of them had met each other before the party. Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.
Two more people walked over toward them, a man and a woman. They were married and brought a three-year-old kid. Both of them were elite white-collar workers in the city.
The man stretched out his hand to Luke and said, "Before tonight, I never knew I was working under your company."
"Hello." Luke was nice to polite people.
The man's wife also shook hands with Luke politely and shook hands with Bianca to greet her.
The few of them sat down together.
The little kid crawled toward Bianca's leg. The kid drooled and sucked on his thumb...
"My child must think that Miss Bianca is too beautiful." The woman took out a handkerchief to wipe the toddler's saliva. The toddler continued sucking on his thumb and smiled at Bianca.
"Sorry about that," the woman said.
"It's fine, I like kids." Bianca did not mind it.
"Are you married? If you are, you should hurry up and give birth to one for yourself. The process of bringing up a baby is really fun." The woman smiled gently at Bianca.
Luke glanced at Bianca, who was suddenly immersed in her juice. No one saw it but he held her hand and squeezed it comfortingly under the table.
Bianca pulled her hand out of his dry palm. She felt a little surprised. She felt a little down when the woman brought up the topic of childbearing and she wondered how Luke knew how she felt...
It was not like he read minds.
The man asked, "Luke, I heard from Miss Clinton that you only transferred to our high school for a year before moving again."
Luke nodded without explaining the real reason for his transfer.
"I know a secret..." Claudia was not afraid of her mother stopping her. Everyone was already an adult, so she felt that spilling the secrets from years ago was no big deal.
"I heard about this secret from my uncle who was the principal." Claudia looked at Luke, "Upperclassman Crawford had a crush on a girl from school, and because my uncle was a stern principal, he was called to the office for a talk!"
It seemed that the rumor got everywhere.
Bianca lost her mood again for some reason.
'He had crushes on girls...'
"Out of my expectation, Upperclassman Crawford said even more sternly to the principal that he won't disturb her in school until she graduated. He even promised that he'll marry her after graduation." Claudia spoke slowly with a certain ambiguity and glanced at Bianca. "My uncle retorted back to say that you were only a high schooler and did not know what love was. He even said you'd regret it after graduation! Well, you know what you said back to him... You told him that you've thought about it and decided you'd want to marry that girl and have kids with her " 1
Luke did not deny Claudia's claims.
Back then, when the fight in his family broke off, it resulted in him, who was still unable to control his destiny, to be shipped off to study in a small town. Surprisingly, he fell in love and the love was one- sided.
That year, he made his silly moves and caught himself in unbearably lovesick.