"Then... Then I'll go back too!" I looked at Lara in surprise as I heard her say that. She used to be eager for me to leave early, let alone go with me.
"You're both leaving? I didn't drive. Lara, could you give me a ride?" Austin said.
I opened the door to the back seat of the car directly.
As soon as I got in the car, I put on my headphones and reviewed the knowledge I learned in the morning.
The civil service exam was around the corner, and I had devoted myself to it almost entirely.
Concentrating on reviewing several pages of the questions I answered wrongly in the morning, I suddenly realized that it was unusually quiet in the car today.
I took off my headphones.
"Lara, what's wrong with you today? I asked you a question. Why didn't you say anything?"
"Don't talk while I'm driving."
Austin's gaze fell on me again. This time, there was resentment instead of complacency in his eyes.
He mouthed at me.
"Did you say something to Lara and instigate our relationship? You are such a despicable person."
I smiled and ignored him.
After all, paying attention to such a person was as boring as scolding the air.
In the morning, when I was about to go to work, I was surprised to see that Lara had made breakfast.
She was sitting on the sofa in the living room waiting for me.
"You're awake, Danny. Have some breakfast. I made it myself. I don't know if it suits your taste."
"No need. My colleague has already bought it for me," I said lightly.
The colleague I was referring to was the one who commuted to work with me. There was a breakfast joint downstairs from her house, and she always brought something for me. Of course, I paid her.
"I see... Then go wash up. I'll take you to work later. I'm sure you don't wanna trouble others always."
I stared at Lara as if she were a stranger.
What happened? She actually offered me a lift?
"No need. I'll take my colleague's car."
"It's too ... troublesome for others!"
"It's not. I pay for the gas. Besides, you're the one who finds it troublesome, remember?"
She seemed to be choked on my words for a moment and stayed silent for quite a while.
When she urged me to buy a car back then, I didn't even have a driver's license.
She gave me a vision.
She said, "With a car, I can pick you up and drop you off at work. It's so romantic!
"Once we have a car, we can take a weekend road trip, go out in the suburbs, and have a world that only belongs to the two of us."