Even if she managed to kill the chicken, she could not stomach the soup later.
For her, not witnessing a living being lose its life right in front of her eyes would make her heart feel better.
“Come on now, I’ve brought it all the way here, I’m not bringing it back.” the principal tied the chicken to a brick and placed it next to her door.
Seeing his persistence, Jasmine felt that it would be rude for her to continue declining his gift.
“I understand, thank you very much, sir.” Jasmine said sincerely.
“No need to thank me, you’ve been a great help to us, we should be thanking you instead.” the principal clapped his hands together as he was about to leave. He recalled something, turned around and said to her, “Oh and by the way, you don’t have to go for your classes today, worry about your friend instead, yes?”
Jasmine replied with a smile, “I was just about to tell you the same thing. I’ll organize replacement classes two days later.”
The principal waved his hands, “Don’t worry about that, yeah? Keith and I will take care of it.”
He took his leave as he said that.
Jasmine looked at her newly acquired chicken, pinched her nose bridge as she had no idea how to deal with it. She got back into the house, wanting to see if Boyce was awake or not. What she found instead was a distressed Boyce, looking at her with confused eyes.
Jasmine was confused as well, touched her face and asked, “Do I have anything weird on my face? What’s wrong?”
‘Why was he frowning this early in the morning? Did someone piss him off?’
Boyce stood up, glared at her and asked in a serious tone, “Are you picking on me because of my age?”
Jasmine thought he must have burnt a fuse in his brain. She was pretty sure she made her stance clear on the matter, but why was he still asking her that question?
“Would you like me to write a certificate of authenticity for you?”
Boyce had already woken up long ago, he just stayed in his room instead of going out. He heard Jasmine calling him a thick-skinned fellow, thus he thought that she hated him because of his age.
He touched his face. While it was definitely not as white and silky smooth as Jasmine’s, his face was not exactly rough either.
“You’re a lucky man, someone sent you a chicken this early in the morning.” Jasmine pulled his blanket off and demanded, “Get up.”
Boyce caught the blanket, preventing her from pulling it off, “Wait.”
Jasmine was confused.
‘What is he doing?’
She touched his forehead, “You don’t have a fever, is your head aching?”
Boyce dodged her gaze and rubbed his face to wake himself up. Back then, he was busy enough that he never bothered with intimacy between a guy and a girl. But now that he had some free time on his hands, he found out that his desires were actually rather overwhelming.
While he was able to restrain the lewd intentions in his mind, he failed to control his body from reacting naturally.
He held onto the blanket so that it could conceal his manhood, which was basically forming an erect tent with his pants.
Jasmine did not know about the “morning wood” phenomenon.
She blinked innocently and asked, “Is something wrong?”
Boyce shook his head as he felt embarrassed for his lack of control. He was also afraid of scaring Jasmine.
Since she was still rather young and she never had a boyfriend before.
He held his stance for a little while longer before he finally got out of bed.
Still confused, Jasmine looked at him and asked, “Are you really fine? Wanna go to the hospital for a check-up?”
She was worried about Boyce’s wounds It was not without precedence, as he was bleeding profusely from his head when she found him.
While the doctor said that he was in stable condition, she was afraid that there might be some side effects from his condition.
Jasmine asked again, “Are you really, really fine?”
As he saw Jasmine caring for him so much, Boyce would rather dig himself a hole and hide in it to hide his embarrassment.
He drank some water that was on a table and replied, “I’m fine.”
Jasmine felt slightly relieved after she heard him. She recalled that there was an unused toothbrush in the house, she then found it and handed it over to Boyce and said, “You can use my cup.” She left Boyce alone as he brushed his teeth. She then fried some eggs, just in time for the porridge to be ready.
When they were eating together, Jasmine asked, “You want some chicken?”
Unsurprisingly, Boyce was taken aback by her question.
Jasmine pointed towards the door with her head, where the chicken was dancing around lively, “the principal’s gift to you. They’re treating you very nicely, eh?”
Someone gifted him a watermelon last night, while he got a chicken as a gift this morning.
Boyce knew that people would send stuff to them thanks to Jasmine and her efforts. He looked at her with warm eyes.
Jasmine was a very kind girl, so it was no surprise that people repaid her kindness with their own. Moreover, the people in this village were very down-to-earth and honest.
After they had their breakfast, both of them went to the town to buy some daily supplies and new shirts for Boyce.
As Boyce was wearing Keith’s shirts, Jasmine bought some shirts with the same size for Boyce.
She did not like Boyce owing Keith a favour, so she felt obliged to return the favour.
Even if it was not a big deal, she felt that she must return his favour.
After they returned from the town, they left the supplies in their house and went to the school. Jasmine bought some study supplies for the students, she could not wait to gift those to the students. Keith was at the school as well, so Jasmine also returned him his shirt, “Thanks for your clothes.”
Initially, Keith did not take the shirt, “Bah, it’s only one shirt, it’s basically free, you can keep it.”
“No, I insist,” said Jasmine as she held her hands out to him again, “While I’m not particularly well-off, I don’t like taking advantage of others, the same goes for my boyfriend.”
Jasmine was someone who was straightforward when it came to dealing with other people. If Keith was not in love with her, and he did not state that, she might have paid him back in other ways. However, Keith was in love with her, so she must pay off this favour as soon as possible.
She could not leave Keith hanging with his favour.
Keith took the shirt and asked, “You really are very considerate of your boyfriend, huh. Did you pay for this?”
Jasmine held Boyce’s arm and replied, “He’s my boyfriend, what belongs to me belongs to him, too.”
If Keith did not know about Boyce’s identity, he would have insulted Boyce as a man that shamelessly relied on his girlfriend.
However, Boyce was someone with a rather notable background, so even if Keith himself did go for higher education, he doubted that he would end up living better than Boyce.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.