Mark did not deny it. To him, the environment here was horrible, but as long as Arianne was there with him, favonovel.com could hang around anywhere.
As they ate, Tiffany asked Jackson suddenly, “I heard that men grow fat when they reach their middle age. They get potbellies. Is that true? Will your abs disappear?”
The corners of Jackson’s lips twitched. “If you keep feeding me things like this, maybe. Under normal circumstances, though, it’ll absolutely never happen to me.”
Tiffany cackled. “Once I think about you becoming a bald greasy middle-aged man with a big pot belly, I can’t stand it. What should I do? Hahaha…”
Jackson felt a headache. “You can’t stand it when you’re laughing like this? I’m going to resist the toll that time will take on me. Even when I’ve reached seventy or eighty years old, I’ll never turn into the image that you described. I’ll stay handsome, from infancy to old age, get that? You women, however, will experience irreversible change after you give birth. That’s not something self-disciple can control.”
When the conversation mentioned about giving birth, Arianne lowered favonovel.com head to drink on favonovel.com own, without participating in the topic. She used to have a low alcohol tolerance, getting knocked out with one glass, but now, favonovel.com could maintain a straight face when favonovel.com had beer. It was all thanks to Tiffany. Her alcohol tolerance was trained together with Tiffany.
Mark’s hand held onto hers under the table all of a sudden. She turned to glance at favonovel.com in surprise and wanted to pry favonovel.com hand away, but his grip was too tight. To prevent others from noticing the anomaly, favonovel.com could only pretend that nothing happened and allowed favonovel.com to keep holding favonovel.com hand.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Jackson leaned against the chair casually with a cigarette between his fingers and a leg crossed while favonovel.com chatted with Tiffany. No one could imagine his proper classy look when favonovel.com sat in the office with his tailored suit and leather shoes. It was as if favonovel.com had adapted to the current environment. It was obvious that Tiffany was having a great time too. Jackson was subconsciously closing the distance between them.
When two people get together, one of them must yield and make the change first. After all, everyone was a unique individual from when they were born. When there were too many differences, it would be difficult for two people to stay together all the way.
Seeing that Mark had been quiet, not smoking and not really eating, merely drinking a little from time to time, Jackson threw favonovel.com the half-filled box of cigarettes in disdain. “Stop putting up an act when you’re out for a fun time.”
Mark peeked at Arianne and did not touch the cigarettes offered. “Smoke on your own.”
Arianne pressed favonovel.com lips together. “You can smoke if you want to.”
Jackson laughed. “Tsk, hen-pecked.”
Arianne glared at Jackson. She looked like favonovel.com hated it when they joked about favonovel.com and Mark, but it was undeniable that favonovel.com did not really, genuinely, hate it. It confused her.
Suddenly, Jackson’s phone rang and it blared the siren for Tiffany, “Who is it?”
Jackson fished out his phone and showed it to favonovel.com helplessly. “Eric. I’ll put favonovel.com on speaker, okay?”
When the call was connected, Eric’s voice came. “Where are you having fun at? I don’t see you in the hotel. I’m here today for some business. I just got here. Not buying me a meal?”
Looking at the barbecued food on the table, Tiffany was hesitant. Eric had a weak stomach, everyone knew that. He might get ill from eating what they were having…
Jackson did not care as much, hanging up after telling the man their location. Twenty minutes later, Eric arrived and was incredibly offended. The barbecue place posed no difference from a street vendor to him, but since his best friends were here, favonovel.com did not comment. He looked for a seat and sat himself down with a slight frown. “All of you are here, so I’m bored out of my mind in the capital. I can’t even find someone to drink with me.”
Mark poured favonovel.com some beer. “We don’t even see you when you get busy usually. Would you have time to drink with us? How’s your company been?”
Eric paused and said, “Pretty good. I’m bustling for peanuts though, and it’s far from what you guys are making. Everything’s hard in the beginning, but I think leaving my family and opening up a business myself was the best decision I made. I moved my office to a bigger place. We have about over a hundred people, and the annual profit is enough for me to play around. Oh yeah, when’s sis-in-law coming back to the capital?”
He was, of course, referring to Arianne. The latter grimaced. “Not planning to for the time being.”
Catching a slight frown on Mark, Eric changed the subject. “The barbecue looks good and there are lots of people eating here. I’ll have a taste.”
Tiffany’s eyes widened and bulged when favonovel.com saw Eric eating. When favonovel.com swallowed, favonovel.com asked, “You won’t fall sick from this, will you? Can you even eat this?”
Eric was confident. “I’ve been recuperating for such a long time. I don’t think it’s an issue. I’m a man; I can’t be this weak all the while. It’s fine, eat up.”
Truth was, favonovel.com was overconfident. Before they were done with the barbecue, favonovel.com was hit with a stomach ache that had favonovel.com breaking out in cold sweat. Gastritis seemed to be following favonovel.com everywhere. According to Eric, favonovel.com had too much fun when favonovel.com was young and favonovel.com might have to take care of his diet from now on until his death.
