Tears Of Canary || LISKOOK

Chapter 5

Standing in front of the main gate of Gillis Women’s Academy, Taehyung Etman’s existence was as natural as the school’s streetlights. He’s here again. The female students thought as they impressively glanced over the young man waiting.

Taehyung looked over the gate and slyly grinned. He could see a young lady dragging her bicycle from afar. Taehyung could recognize who the lady was through her graceful and gallant walk.

But it wasn’t just her way of walking that he could recognize the girl.

Her face was always full of rich expressions and her body gestures were soft and subtle.

Her entire existence was everything to him. There was no other girl like Lalisa and he had realized that ever since they met that summer-underneath the shade of the willow tree.

“Lalisa!

Lalisa stopped when she heard someone vigorously call her name. She squinted her eyes towards the direction of the man who was approaching her.

Taehyung liked those moments.

The moment the girl’s steps grew faster after she recognized who he was. The moment the girl came up to him and smiled at him gently.

“Why are you here again? It would’ve been more convenient for you to meet at the cabin.”

“Nah. I had plenty of time anyway.”

That was a lie. In order to return home from school with Lalisa, he had ditched his tennis club members. Even though his seniors might have been waiting for him with a racket on their hands the next day, Taehyung was not worried at this moment.

Tomorrow’s problems should be taken care of tomorrow. It’ll all resolve.

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The two students walked side by side on a busy street. They bought some ice cream as they passed by the shopping district. They then stopped by a bookstore that smelled like dust.

Lalisa laughed often. Besides Uncle Bill, Taehyung Etman believed he was the only one in this world who knew how often Lalisa laughed in front of him and how beautiful her smile was.

As they entered the path leading to the Arvis territory, the wind got cooler. Lalusa’s eyes deepened when their conversation led to the school exam. There was a bit of despair in her eyes when geometry was mentioned. Taehyung carefully observed the minor changes in her facial expressions.

Not yet.

Taehyung suppressed the heart fluttering words that almost came out of his mouth. He didn’t want their relationship to get uncomfortable through his hasty confession. He then wondered if it was necessary to ask her to go out with him when he was already thinking of marrying her instead.

Lalisa Etman. That sounds nice. That’s good.

“Why are you laughing?”

Lalisa asked him while she frowned. She was complaining about her grade struggle in geometry until she found herself looking at Taehyung dazedly chuckling.

“Huh…… Well, ah! I heard Duke Herhardt is coming back?”

Taehyung suddenly changed the subject.

“It’s been a long time. When is he coming?”

“I don’t know.”

“Everyone’s been babbling on and on about Duke Herhardt returning but you don’t seem to really care.”

Lalisa’s hands that were on the bicycle handle tensed up.

During the past years, there wasn’t much contact between Lalisa and Duke Herhardt. They only greeted each other when they met in the woods or whenever Rose summoned her to the mansion. Even passing by the duke was uncomfortable that she tried to avoid him at all costs.