Sebastian still fixed his dull gaze on Claudia, as if he was trying his best to chew over something.
Claudia gave a grin. "Don't look at me with such an expression. Whether you agree or not, you can't change the fact that sometimes, you're too bashful to admit that you like a girl. What do you think?"
As Claudia spoke, she winked at him with an impish expression.
It made Sebastian become absent-minded again.
"What? Are you dumbfounded? Have you not seen a beauty before?" Perceiving that he seemed to be preoccupied, Claudia was curious and amused.
Although she was pretty conceited to consider herself a beauty, her heart had been filled with self-deprecation and disappointment.
Even if she was beautiful, so what?
Anyhow, he was not tempted by her, and that was the most heartbreaking thing.
Sebastian also came to his senses immediately and averted his eyes from Claudia.
However, he still said, "Your inference is wrong this time." "Wrong?" Claudia was staggered again. With a pucker between her eyebrows, she questioned him, "Tell me where I'm wrong. Let me see if it makes sense so that I can improve."
Sebastian ruminated for a bit and felt that there were some things that needed to be clarified. "Firstly, the girl who was with me at the dessert shop today is my classmate. We have a school project to discuss, thus we didn't meet up for a date."
"Oh!" Claudia nodded, but it was apparent from her expression that she did not believe what he said.
In Claudia's view, many people, who were about the same age as Sebastian and the girl, would not admit that they were dating.
After all, they were just boys and girls, which was understandable.
Meanwhile, Sebastian thought, "What kind of expression is that?"
It was plain that she did not believe his words. Sebastian gritted his teeth, and his eyes were full of anger, but he managed to hold back.
He said again, "Secondly, she isn't my cup of tea."
"Is she not your cup of tea?" Claudia was a little surprised. "Then what kind of girl is your cup of
tea?"
There was a sentence that he almost blurted out, but he just pursed his lips and said nothing at last.
There were indeed some words that could not be spoken.
"Look at yourself, you don't even know what kind of girl you like. In fact, it's probably not that you don't know, but that you're too shy to admit it." Claudia could tell from his expression that he was too embarrassed to admit it.
Claudia gave a knowing smile.
Seeing that, Sebastian felt really helpless.
He gnashed his teeth and said, "You're right. I'm really too shy to admit it."
"There you go." Claudia put on an "I- knew- it" expression.
Looking at her, Sebastian frowned so hard.
Just when he was about to say something, a car came to a halt beside them.
"Claudia."
Following that, a gruff male voice came from the car.
In the next second, a tall figure emerged from the car. It was a policeman, who was in his uniform. From the looks of it, he was about the same age as Claudia.
"Hey, Cordon, why are you here?" As soon as Claudia saw the man, she hurried over and beamed at him sweetly.
Sebastian's face froze.
Suddenly, he found her expression a little maddening.
A glance was enough to drive him up the wall as he hated to see Claudia smiling at another man. It was too irritating to him.
"What a coincidence. When I saw you just now, I thought it wasn't you, so I turned the car around to confirm it. It's only when I come closer that I realize it's really you." Cordon looked at Claudia with a grin. "Are you shopping with your brother?"
Taking a gander at Sebastian, as well as the desserts and cake in his hands, Cordon gave him a new identity, which would be the younger brother of Claudia.
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