Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap by Hannah Baker

Jasmine answered casually, “What’s the meaning of the future to me if I lost the one I love? Will I be able to have a happy life despite graduated university and having a good job?”

Boyce looked up at Jasmine. The sunlight shone from her back and she looked like a silhouette picture standing by the door.

He couldn’t see her expression. All he saw was a slim figure in front of him.

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life here?” he asked, clenching his fists.

Jasmine turned her body, facing him with her back, sat beside the door, and looked afar, “I’m not sure, perhaps I will marry someone and leave…”

“Who will you marry to?” Boyce interrupted suddenly.

‘She’s getting married? To whom? That guy?’

“Don’t get married.” He was stunned by his own words, what right did he have to stop her?

“I mean…” he tried to look for an excuse, “I mean you are still young.”

“I know, thank you for your concern, I’ll make my decision.” Jasmine rested her chin on her hands, “This is a good place, people here are nice and pure, it’s a peaceful place.”

Boyce was speechless.

“Will you get married?” Jasmine asked.

Boyce couldn’t see her face, just her back. “Yes,” he answered honestly.

Jasmine knew Boyce couldn't be single for life, he was such a good man that women liked. If he wasn’t this naïve in a romantic relationship, he could have been a husband or a father now. It pained her thinking about him getting married.

She wiped her tear off while she stroke her hair and asked in a low voice, “Not bad, with Wendy?”

Boyce lowered his gaze and said yes.

Jasmine clasped her hands, suppressing her tears, and then said in a calm voice, “That’s good, she has a good family background, pretty and about your age, she can even help with your career, both of you are a couple made in heaven, you’ll be happy.”

‘Happy?’ Boyce thought he was far from this word, he did not know the meaning of it.

“Do you think I’ll be happy?” Boyce asked.

Jasmine turned to him, “Are you showing off your happiness to me?”

he will marry Wendy but asked

smiled helplessly, "Do you think I'm showing off?" he continued,

loved that brought Wendy and him together,' he wanted to

conversation was interrupted by a

A boy ran

Kirk Lester was a second-grade

hurt his leg,

he now?” Jasmine stood up at

“In the classroom.”

inside with his knee bleeding. Jasmine walked over and was startled

it happen?” Jasmine

was also mischievous. The chicken fight he mentioned was not fighting with real chicken but a kind of game the students

team where the player hopped around on one-foot tuck up using hands and try to knock their

was a favorite game amongst the

please bring my first aid kit." She prepared some basic medicine and medical tools at home knowing that the boys were

out while Boyce followed and stopped at

with bricks. There was a huge blackboard at the

that was cut in half as a flower vase and put it on the

simple, it was

but seemed afraid to apply on Chris’s knee as she didn’t want him to feel

be painful, but hang in

We don’t want you to go,”

said I’m leaving?”

he is, it will be

now, be a man and stay strong.” Jasmine poured some betadine onto the cotton bud and began to clean his

his head, looked away from his knee, and divert his attention by speaking to Jasmine, “Ms. Burke, who’s the man you saved? Are you close to him?

Jasmine darkened, he was

sorry, I won’t raise my voice at you again in the future.” Jasmine focused on

she mentioned that they were ‘like a friend’, so he

I to her? A stranger?’ Boyce felt

do you

as a young

I’m injured.” Chris looked

my control,