stained with the imprint of love... me and you

"As I said, I brought back all the clothes I took to do the laundry." Jesse said in a bad tone. "You didn't find it because you never put that dress in. It's not my problem."

"That's right. When will it be your problem?!" Candice threw the clothes in Jesse's face, anger in her voice. "Your biggest problem is that your mother gave birth to you. Oh! No! That's your mother's problem! That's not your problem!"

"You woman is going crazy again!" Jesse's voice was getting higher and higher. "Continue to lose your temper with this pile of rags by yourself! I'm too lazy to talk to you!"

After all, Jesse left the room without looking back.

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"What's the matter?" Erica, who was looking at the store alone, saw Jesse rushing down angrily.

"That idiot Candice is arguing with me like crazy again," Jesse said. "Why can't she be like you?! Always find something to come out and quarrel with me to be happy?! It's like coming to my aunt once a month... The difference is that the number of times I quarrel is compared to her aunt Much more often!"

"If I heard my boyfriend describe me like that, I wouldn't be able to resist arguing with him." Erica handed Jesse her half-drunk beer. "for you."

"That Matthew is really blind, you don't want to leave such a one." Jesse took the beer and said.

"Look at other people's things, or in other words, see things that are not your own. I always think that things are very good." Erica replied. "Actually, they're pretty much the same."

"No. I just think you're extra nice." Jesse said seriously. "If I don't love Candi, I'd love to be with you."

"Speaking like this, I don't want my girlfriend to argue with you." Erica smiled.In fact, it was because he laughed happily when he heard Jesse say that.

"Arguing with you, I still care about you." Erica continued. "One day, when she no longer has expectations of you, when you can no longer make her suffer. You will naturally no longer have quarrels."

"Then, it means that you are not far from breaking up." Erica looked at Jesse after finishing speaking.

"You said you didn't even find a man to have a good relationship with. Where did you learn these nonsense?" Jesse looked at Erica and shook his head.

"Go out and buy her something she likes and apologize to her." Erica waved her hand.

"Why do you apologize. It's not my problem." Jesse continued to repeat his mantra.

"Don't talk about Candi, I'm tired of hearing you say 'it's not my problem'." Erica frowned. "If you want a girlfriend, don't talk about such things."

"It's useless for me to say less alone! Didn't she just pick some worse words to say when she lost her temper?!" Jesse felt that he had done nothing wrong.

"Well, it's up to you." Erica shook her head. "It's your girlfriend anyway."

Speaking of this, the door was suddenly opened.

Matthew, and Kira, whom Erica and Jesse don't know, and Dominic.

"Hey, Matthew." Jesse put away his anger and greeted Matthew normally. "Are they your friends?"

"I guess..." Matthew suddenly felt that there was no need to explain the identities of Kira and Dominic. "I want to ask Candice about someone."

"Ask Candi?" Jesse was taken aback, puzzled and curious. "Ask who? What name?"

"Mizuki." Matthew gave Jesse Kanyue's name.

"What happened to him?" Erica thought it would be troublesome for Jesse to ask how Candice met this Mizuki.

"You know him too?" Kira interrupted unexpectedly.

"Basically." Erica felt that if Candice was the only one who knew her, it might be more revealing.

"Did he come to see you?" Kira continued.

"Who? Mizuki?" Erica looked puzzled and shook her head. "No. Why do you ask?"

"Because he suddenly disappeared," Kira continued. "Only a note was left."

"Oh. That's why you came here." Erica understood what Matthew and the others came for. "He's never been here, though."

"Are you sure?" Kira felt that Erica's attitude was driving them away. "May I ask Candice?"

"I said I didn't come..." Matthew was very sensible, and he understood that Erica didn't want Jesse to see the clues about himself and Candice. "Then let's go."

"What do you mean 'you guys go away'?" Kira was even more annoyed by Matthew's words, and looked at Matthew with a frown. "Then what are you doing here? So you can meet Candice in private?"

After hearing this, Erica immediately looked at Matthew, and Jesse on the opposite side also frowned.

"What do you mean?" Jesse asked first. "What do you mean looking for Candi in private?"

After Jesse asked, he put the beer that Erica had just handed to him on the table.

"It's like this..." Erica quickly 'explained'. "Matthew was kind of interested in Candi at first...but, I like him a lot. So..."

"Don't think too much about it," Erica said hastily.

"You're a great DJ, aren't you?!" Jesse was already very upset that Matthew hooked up with Sally after Erica finished playing, and when he heard that Candice had also been included in Matthew's bedtime list, he was even more inclined to explode.

"Don't do this...Jesse." Erica hurried to stop Jesse. "He didn't do anything. The guy didn't do anything to Candi.

"I didn't mean Candi." Jesse was already upset with Matthew, Candice or not. "I mean this guy to you."

"It's not what you think..." Erica felt that things were getting confusing.

"What's wrong with my guy?" Matthew's answer made things even more out of control.

"What's wrong?!" Jesse pushed away Erica who stood in front of him. "Isn't it you who is fooling around with Sally after playing with Erica?!"

"She told you?" Matthew looked at Erica.

"Calm down, Jesse." Erica felt that what she said would only get darker, and Erica didn't know if Matthew would tell the whole truth when he got angry.

"How can you stay calm when you're like this?!" Jesse just felt that Matthew was eating Erica to death. "How can you be so calm?!"

"Shut up." Dominic, who hadn't spoken since entering the door, said suddenly.

"Is Mizuki really not here?" Dominic only cared about this question.

"Not really. He's never been here." Erica tried to put on a good face.

"Okay." Dominic turned around and walked straight out the door.

"Hey, Dommy! You're just leaving?!" Kira yelled after her.

Then he looked at the situation in front of him caused by his careless words, and walked out the door following Dominic's departure.

"Irrelevant people have also left." After watching Dominic and Kira leave, Jesse didn't mean to give up. "Then let's make things clear."

"Jesse..." Erica wanted to interrupt but didn't know what to say.

"I didn't ask you to, Erica." Jesse turned to Erica and said something.

"That's why you want me to talk about it?" Matthew deliberately used an indifferent tone. "What do you want to hear?"

"Don't let me see you in the store again." Jesse said, looking at Matthew. "Don't pester Erica any more."

"Number one, I reluctantly agree with you." Matthew looked at Jesse, then at Erica. "As for the second point, you should ask her. Did I pester her?"

"What else is there to ask?!" Jesse thinks this Matthew sucks.

"It's not what you think, Jesse," Erica interrupted.

"What do you mean? What do you mean it's not what I thought?" Jesse didn't understand that he just wanted to vent his anger on Erica, why Erica wanted to defend Matthew everywhere.

"I asked him to come to me, last time." Erica looked at Jesse, and then avoided Jesse's eyes hesitantly.Because she was lying to Jesse. "I want to see him."

In fact, the last sentence is true, Erica really wants to see Matthew.

"I don't understand?" Jesse didn't understand why Erica was hiding herself and she wanted Matthew to come and find her in the store.Just didn't understand that Erica liked Matthew so much already.

"Let me have a good talk with him." Erica patted Jesse's arm lightly. "You and Candi have a talk too. Stop fighting."

"Especially, don't quarrel over this matter again." Erica said with some concern.

"I see." Jesse looked at Erica, and then at Matthew, who had a similar expression to his usual expression. "then you go."

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"It was really suspenseful just now..." Matthew, who was pulled out of the store by Erica, said deliberately.

"Who was that woman just now?" Erica really wanted to punch Kira and cause so much trouble for herself.

"Kira?" Matthew said with a smile. "I can imagine how much you want to punch her, right now."

"She's my sister," Matthew continued. "That boy who is as weak as you is my half brother."

"Just now, thank you." Erica looked at Matthew.

"You should thank me. You should thank me well." Matthew looked at Erica. "That guy must have misunderstood me... I mean the part about me and you."

"You actually said that after I finished playing, you went to fool around with others..." Matthew said intentionally and unfairly. "I almost never touched you..."

"It's better to let him misunderstand you and me than to know the truth." Erica said.

"That's for you and Candice, and Jesse himself." Matthew countered Erica's words. "What good does that do me?"

"This..." Erica looked at Matthew, then lowered her head speechlessly.

"It feels... like dating a girl who got pregnant by another man." Matthew used an inexplicable metaphor. "I can't do anything, and I have to be responsible for others."

"No one asked you to be responsible, right? Also, what are you responsible for?" Erica couldn't understand the meaning of Matthew's words.

"Acting with you is not responsible?!" Matthew asked back.

"You don't have Sally who can keep you doing what you want..." Erica, who couldn't argue with Matthew, turned the topic to Sally.

"I said I want to have sex with you." Matthew took Erica's hand and looked at Erica's profile. "How many times do you want me to tell you?"

"Are you threatening me?" Erica raised her head and asked with a smile.

"Honestly, I did," Matthew replied. "If it's not standing with you on the street but in my bed now, I will definitely threaten to do it with you too."

"You're honest." Erica laughed.

"If it's really on my bed now, I'll still make you laugh?! What the hell..." Matthew said deliberately and lewdly.

"Then I'm really lucky. Now I'm just walking on the street with you." Erica said, looking at the few people on the street.

"So." Matthew looked at Erica who was not looking at him. "Next time if I get you on the bed, don't blame me for doing whatever I want with you."

"I'm afraid that shouldn't happen." Erica looked up at Matthew.

"I'm afraid you're not right to think so." Matthew said with a smile.