Stuck in you

"About what?" He finally raised his head, but his voice was so calm that there was no fluctuation.
Rachel lowered her eyes and smiled bitterly, "What do you think?"
As soon as she finished her words, Jack looked away and lowered his head again. He reached out his chopsticks to move the
vegetables on the plate, but did not make any response to her.
Rachel felt like her chest was stuffed with a big mass of cotton, unable to breathe. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Where
have you been these two days?"
It turned out that asking this question was not as difficult as she thought. Rachel just felt that the question that had been
weighing on her mind for several days was finally asked, and now she was relieved.
Jack closed his eyes for a while. When he opened them again, his clear eyes gradually became a little turbid, mixed with too
many emotions. He reached out his hand, tightly held the hand of Rachel on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Your aunt
passed away."
'Passed away?'
Looking straight at Jack for a while, Rachel suddenly grinned and laughed louder, "Jack, are you kidding me? I just had a video
chat with Eric when the two of them laughed happily. How could she pass away all of a sudden?"
She raised her head, withdrew her hand and pressed it on her forehead. She kept denying, "No, my aunt is very healthy. How
could she die suddenly?"
"Rachel, calm down." Jack looked at her worriedly and licked his lips. "That night, your aunt and Eric drank too much at home.
She fell down the stairs by accident and hit her head against the railing. She died on the spot."
"No, it's impossible." With a loud bang in her mind, Rachel's limbs slowly stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye. She kept
shaking her head and said, "She just hit the railing? How could she not be rescued? Jack, you must be kidding me, right?"
She stretched out her hands and kept touching Jack's suit jacket. She muttered, "Jack, where is your phone? Show me your
phone. Today is April fool's day, and you are lying to me, aren't you?"
Seeing that Jack just looked straight at her without saying anything, Rachel finally couldn't control her emotions. She grabbed
Jack's arm tightly and roared, "Jack, say something. Why don't you say anything? Tell me, you are lying to me!"

Her gloomy eyes were instantly wet, and tears welled up like the water that had been stored for a long time.
Rachel sniffed and tried her best to hold back her tears. But her pretending to be fine made Jack feel more distressed.
His thumb gently touched her cheek, and Jack only felt a little sore in his throat. He choked, "Rachel, if you want to cry, just cry
on my shoulder."
"I won't cry." Shaking her head, Rachel bit her lips and kept saying, but her tears kept spilling out. The more she cried, the more
tears she could not stop.
Although her aunt was like a cloud that could not be caught in the sky, she wandered around and spent little time with Rachel.
Still, she was the only relative of Rachel in the world.
Her parents had left her since she was a child. Only this aunt could make Rachel feel that she was not alone in the world. But
now, even her aunt had left her.
And it happened all of a sudden...
She finally broke down and leaned on Jack's shoulder. She cried so sadly, so desperate, and tears poured out of her eyes like a
flood. Even Jack's mood fell into a low valley in an instant.
After crying for a long time, Rachel's eyes were red and swollen, and her tears seemed to have dried up. She asked in a hoarse
voice, "What about my brother? How is he now?"
She was so sad about her aunt's leaving, let alone Eric.
As soon as she thought of him, Rachel felt a lump in her throat, and tears immediately flashed in her eyes. Jack quickly reached
out to touch the corner of her eyes and said in a deep voice, "He is still in the hospital. At that time, in order to hold your aunt, he
fell down the stairs together."
"How is he now? Is it serious?"
"He's fine. He'll be discharged from the hospital after two days' rest. But he blamed his mom's death to himself. Now he's lying
on the bed, without saying a word. He just keeps looking at the ceiling with his eyes open every day."
After hesitating for a while, Jack slowly told the truth about Eric.

Looking at what Eric was like, Jack didn't want to hide it from Rachel, because once something happened to Eric, he was afraid
that Rachel would be in Eric's current state.
Julie stood beside them and heard what they said clearly. Although she had never seen Rachel's aunt and Eric, as soon as she
heard the word "aunt", she understood the affection and intimacy between them.
At this time, she saw that Rachel was crying like a tearful person on Jack's shoulder. She quickly went upstairs to the bathroom,
took the towel from her and twisted it in warm water. Then she handed it to Jack and said, "You'd better use a towel to wipe the
her face. I'm afraid that the tissue will make her skin rub more severely."
"Okay." Jack kept wiping her tears, but didn't know what to say to comfort her for a moment.
He had never experienced the pain of losing a family member, but when he saw how miserable Rachel was, he only felt that his
heart was torn apart.
No one knew how long Rachel had cried. She leaned on Jack's shoulder and cried so hard that there was no sound. Jack
thought she was asleep and was about to lift her up, but she suddenly said in a low voice, "Jack, when did you know?"
"The afternoon when I asked you out for dinner." Jack smiled bitterly. He knew how angry Rachel was when he came back and
saw her attitude towards him.
Rachel straightened up and took a deep breath, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Jack frowned and said seriously, "At that time, I got the news that your aunt was still being rescued in the emergency room. I was
afraid that you would be worried, so I wanted to go to see the specific situation first and pick you up when my aunt's condition
stabilized... But..."
He stopped and didn't go on.
Rachel opened her arms and held him tightly. She leaned against his chest and listened to his steady heartbeat. "I'm sorry, Jack.
I misunderstood you."
All her wild guesses and unreasonable indifference were her misunderstandings about him.
At this moment, Rachel felt that she was too narrow-minded. When she stayed at home and thought nonsense, Jack was
abroad, helping her deal with what should be done by her as the niece.

"It's okay. As I said, your business is my business. For me, as long as you are safe, everything will be fine." Jack gently stroked
her hair.
He had planned to stay abroad for a few more days, but he suddenly received a call from Austin, saying that something had
happened to Rachel, so he hurried back.
Sitting beside her bed and looking at the red mark on her neck, Jack felt a little regret when Rachel woke up. If he had taken her
abroad at that time, could this matter be avoided?
The remorse in his heart couldn't gradually disappear with the recovery of Rachel. He sighed deeply and said, "Rachel, I'm still
too useless. I can't protect you well."
After crying for a long time, Rachel felt her eyes swollen and uncomfortable. After lying in bed for a whole day, she felt a little
better.
Jack was preparing lunch for the two people in the kitchen. He threw the chopped green onion into the soup, and heard the
footsteps behind him. He looked back and saw Rachel slowly walking over in a night robe. His face suddenly became nervous.
He quickly put down the things in his hands, walked up to hold her arm and let her sit down on the chair beside, "Why did you go
downstairs? Call me if you need anything. I'll be upstairs soon."
"We're just upstairs and downstairs. It's so troublesome to make a phone call." Compared with yesterday, Rachel's mood was
much more stable.
She held Jack's hand and asked, "Have you booked the ticket? When are we going there?"
"It's not decided yet. Do you want to wait another two days?" He looked at Rachel worriedly and said, "Let's wait for your physical
condition to stabilize."
Shaking her head, Rachel insisted, "I'm fine now. Let's go tomorrow, okay?"
Seeing that Jack didn't agree at once, Rachel continued, "If I don't go to see Eric, I can't rest assured even if I stay here. Jack, let
me go there."
"Okay." Jack also understood this point. There was one thing in her mind, how could she sit here quietly and wait?
What's more, he was indeed a little worried about Eric. In the morning, the psychologist called him and told him about his
condition. He said that Eric had a tendency of melancholy and his condition was not very optimistic.

Once things were settled, Rachel felt that the time was much faster. The moment she got on the plane, she sat on her seat,
tightly holding a seal in her hands, and whispered, "Eric, you must be strong. You will be fine."
Jack gently covered her with a blanket. Seeing the thing in her hand, he asked, "What's this?"