Chapter 37: Undercurrents
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'Bell bell! Bell bell! The alarm sound of the mobile phone attracted the attention of Wang Peng, who was concentrating on painting.
"Huh? Is it already this time? Wang Peng put down his paintbrush and sketchbook, picked up the mobile phone on the table, turned off the alarm, glanced at the time on it, and then got up from the sand, put on his coat, and went out to school to participate in the homecoming festival.
The Homecoming Festival is held in the evening, and Wang Peng will be engrossed in doing things and ignore the time, so he specially set an alarm clock to remind himself that Wang Peng does not want to miss such a grand festival as the Homecoming Festival.
Wang Peng rode a bicycle to the school, and saw that not far from the school, the venue where the homecoming festival was held was brightly lit, and countless people were in the venue, including students from the school, students who graduated from this school, and many parents and teachers, many people in the town were there, balloons were fluttering in the air, and laughter could be heard from afar.
"Hey! Jack, do you see Claire? Wang Peng parked his bicycle in the carport of the school, walked back to the venue, walked to the place agreed before, saw where Jack was, walked over and asked casually.
"Claire just called and said she couldn't come, and her dad wouldn't let her leave the house." Jack just put down the phone when he heard Wang Peng's voice, turned around and said to Wang Peng.
"Although I don't know why her father didn't let her out, but I will go to save Claire, the trapped princess, there must be a prince to save her, I will go first, and I will bring Claire back in a while." Jack put the phone back in his pocket, said to Wang Peng, and after speaking, he turned around and ran away, as if he was afraid that Wang Peng would chase him, so he ran so fast that he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Huh? Alas! Wait a minute! By the time Wang Peng came back to his senses, Jack had already run away.
"Hey!" Wang Peng looked at the people around him and shook his head and sighed, why did Jack leave in such a hurry, how could Wang Peng not know, Jack is interesting to Claire, it is Sima Zhao's heart that everyone knows, and Wang Peng and Claire walked in, and they also knew that only the two of them knew the secret before, so Jack has always regarded Wang Peng as a rival in love, but he is also a friend.
This time Claire didn't know why, she was trapped at home by Bennett, and she was grounded and couldn't come out to participate in the Homecoming, but they all knew that Claire was elected the Queen of Homecoming this time, and she was very much looking forward to Homecoming.
"But then again, why didn't Bennett let Claire out?" Wang Peng's mind turned, and he thought with some doubts, Bennett Wang Peng has seen it with his own eyes, Bennett's love for Claire is absolutely incompatible, although the relationship between the two is an adoptive father and daughter, but the two are actually closer than their biological father and daughter.
Bennett should know Claire's expectations for Homecoming, and it is impossible to let Claire be grounded for no reason, mainly, what is the reason why Bennett would rather make Claire sad and sad, and prevent Claire from coming to Homecoming.
"I hope Jack doesn't do bad things with good intentions." Wang Peng didn't just think in his heart.
After thinking about it, Wang Peng didn't want to do that, and began to enjoy the annual and grand homecoming festival, with all kinds of food in the venue, as well as free beer, Wang Peng walked around while eating, enjoying this rare carnival atmosphere.
"Wang Peng! Ha~Ha~ You're here, I've been looking for you for a long time. Just as Wang Peng was eating the small cake he took from the table and walking back and forth, a hand suddenly hugged his shoulder, and then a whirring sound came.
"Jack? You're pretty fast, why did Claire take it? Wang Peng turned his head to look and saw Jack running a marathon, handed him the beer in his hand, and asked casually.
"Pick it up, I used the stairs to get Claire to climb down, without alerting her dad, she should be in the school changing room now to change clothes with the other cheerleaders, the time is still in a hurry." Jack took the beer, took a sip of the wine in the quilt, and then wiped the corners of his mouth and said.
Meanwhile, Claire's home.
"What about the Claires? She's gone. Bennett went to Claire's room to check on Claire's situation, but seeing that Claire's room was empty, Bennett went downstairs to find Claire and asked his wife.
"Oh, by the way, I think I saw Claire and Jack running across the lawn ten minutes ago, she must have climbed out of the window." Sitting on the sand holding a puppy, looking at the wife of a fashion magazine, he heard the words and said.
"Why didn't you stop her!?" Bennett asked, incredulous.
"Because Claire is a good boy, she should go tonight, you're being too her." The wife replied casually.
Bennett's identity is very well disguised, his family and his wife don't know his true identity, and they all think that Bennett is just an ordinary person working in a paper mill.
Therefore, his wife didn't know Bennett's real intention of not letting Claire participate in Homecoming, and even, she was still upset about Claire in her heart, so when she saw Jack running away with Claire, she didn't make a noise, and she didn't tell Bennett, turned a blind eye and let Claire leave.
"You don't even know what you're doing." Bennett looked at his wife's appearance, snatched the magazine from his wife's hand, suppressed his anger, and said to his wife.
"If there's any news from Claire, let me know right away." Bennett anxiously walked to the door, said to his wife, and with that, he left the house and drove towards the school.
Inside the school, two strangers walked into the school one after the other.
"Saving Heroes... Cheerleader... Jackie..."The two strangers came to the school's memorial cabinet one after the other, and when they saw the newspaper cutouts of Jackie's news report in the memorial cabinet, they both thought that they had found their target.
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In the changing room of the school, the cheerleaders are changing their clothes for the next performance.
"It's halftime, girls, hurry up!" Cheerleader Jie Jie, in the changing room, clapped his hands and loudly urged the other cheerleaders to change their clothes quickly.
"Jackie, look over there, Claire...."Jackie was shouting excitedly, when suddenly a cheerleader stopped Jackie, and then pointed to Claire, who had just come over, and whispered.
"You're so thick-skinned, aren't you grounded!?" Jackie looked at Claire, who had already changed her clothes, and couldn't help but show an unhappy look, walked up to Claire, and asked in a sarcastic tone.
"It's not hard to get out." Claire responded as if she hadn't heard Jackie's sarcasm.
"Hurry! It's time to get started! The other cheerleaders shouted excitedly, holding hand-cranked flowers and leaving the changing room one after another to prepare for the next performance.
"There's something I want to say to you, a conversation between the two captains." Jackie didn't leave, opened the locker, touched up her makeup with makeup, and said to Claire.
"Tell me, what do you want to say?" Claire stood up from the bench and said to Jackie.
"We used to be best friends, what the hell is going on, why is this happening?" Jackie slammed the locker door shut, turned to look at Claire, and asked aggressively.
"Maybe it's because I've figured something out, I'm tired of being a human being with an uneasy nature." Claire replied.
"Heh, hehe, you've always wanted to be like me since you were in second grade." Jackie smiled sarcastically when she heard this.
"And now it's you who want to be like me." Before Jackie could finish her sentence, Claire interrupted.
"Huh? Hahaha, how do you have that idea? Jackie asked with a double laugh of disbelief.
"Your heroic act of saving people from that burning train was not done by you at all, it was me." Claire said as if looking at the clown, looking at Jackie.
"No, it's not you." Jackie's face changed when she heard Claire's words, and she denied it with a slight frown.
"I recorded it." Kleiner spoke directly of the ironclad evidence.
Of course, Jackie knew that the hero who rushed into the fire and saved people was not herself, at this time she heard Claire's words, Claire's confident appearance, and what happened when the firefighters and police came to recognize people that day, she was a little overwhelmed and took two steps back, turned her back to Claire, and didn't know what to do now, if her lies were exposed, what would happen, I didn't dare to imagine at all.
"You know, a good friend told me that being honest with yourself and being happy is more important than being popular, and I think he was right." After a few seconds of silence, Claire looked at Jackie, who was facing away from her, and suddenly spoke.
This sentence, ten minutes ago, Jack was at Claire's house and persuaded Claire to come out to participate in the homecoming festival.
"Hehe, really? To me, it's more like a loser's words. Jackie turned around, looked at Claire and said, after saying that, Jackie wanted to walk to the door of the dressing room, the show was about to start, and now was not the time to worry about the lie being exposed.
'Smack! Syllable! But Jackie hadn't taken two steps before she heard two crisp sounds, and then she saw that all the lights in the changing room had gone out, and the changing room was suddenly dark.
"Damn, this is a school." Seeing that the lights went out for no reason, Jackie, who was already in a bad mood, complained irritably.
'Whew~' A black shadow swept by, bringing the sound of the wind.
"Did you hear that!?" Claire was startled, looked back and forth, and asked Jackie.
"Hear what?" Jackie said casually.
Meanwhile, Bennett drives to the school, to the steps on the roof of the school, where Claire used to appear in Isaac's painting.
One of the two strangers who came to the school was standing at the door of the school, as if waiting for something.
Wang Peng was also walking towards the carport......
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