"Don't move." Hazel reached out and pulled a white hair from his head. "You have white hair."
She held it up in front of his face and quickly threw it away. Joshua raised his eyebrows slightly. Why did he feel that Hazel had just taken out a bunch of his hair and not just one?
Joshua frowned and followed her into the police station. They talked to the officer at the front desk, and Rachel was released within a few minutes.
She looked coldly at Joshua when she walked out.
"Joshua, you are really somebody!" Rachel sneered angrily. "You rich guys are really different. You can easily make the police do as you say!"
Hazel felt a headache starting. She was hoping Rachel wouldn't have heard the rumor, but sure enough, someone had said something in front of Rachel, so she thought that Joshua was behind everything. She rushed to explain, "Mom, these are all misunderstandings..."
"You shut up!" Rachel said angrily. "Hazel, which side are you on? Now that you have a boyfriend and you don't want a mother, huh?"
Hazel still wanted to say something, but Joshua said faintly, "Hazel, this time I was really careless. Your mother has the right to blame me for that."
"You admit that this is all your fault?" Rachel's eyes brightened.
"... Yeah." Joshua was helpless.
"Hazel, you heard him!" Rachel grabbed her arm. "It's all his fault. Now you should go home with me!"
"Mom..." Hazel was desperate, she knew that things would not go over smoothly. She stood still and shook her head firmly, "I can't go back now."
"Hazel!" Rachel stared at her angrily, "What happened to you? Joshua locked me up for his own family! But you didn't learn anything from this, and you are choosing to stand by him and leave your mom?"
"Family?" Joshua frowned slightly. Suddenly, he looked like he clued into something he hadn't before.
"Mom," Hazel sighed, "I have been raised by you. You should know me well enough, what you just said was unfair."
Rachel was stunned, and she realized that she had just gone too far.
Rachel was about to say something, but Hazel continued, "Mom, please believe me. I want to talk to Joshua first."
"...Fine." Rachel had to agree.
Hazel took Joshua to the corner.
"Hazel," Joshua said to her, "You just took my hair. Is it because you want to use it for DNA identification?"
Hazel was nervous. It turned out he knew everything. She put her hand in the pocket, hesitating whether she should hand the recorder pen to Joshua. She had planned to wait for the DNA results to come back and then decide.
"Do you think that I am a child of the Flores family?" He asked, but his look was one of utter disappointment. "Why didn't you ask me?"
It turned out that Hazel had always misunderstood him when it came to them, so she did not ask. He suddenly felt that he was not communicating with Hazel very well, and maybe if he had talked to her sooner, there would not have been so many misunderstandings.
Hazel had been dealing with the Flores family, and she did that for him. He actually made Hazel suffer so much because of his absurd reason, and he should have noticed before. However, he knew he was not their son, so he did not think that Hazel may have thought it, he was waiting for Hazel to open up to him.
"Then ... are you their son?" Hazel asked awkwardly.
"If I say I am not, would you believe me?" Joshua was vulnerable. If he remembered it correctly, he had said it once.
Hazel was a bit stunned. Last time Joshua said that he was not a child of the Flores family. She thought that Joshua denied it because he was unwilling to forgive them. If his answer was the same this time, she didn't know whether she should believe it or not.
"As I said, you won't believe me even if I tell you," Joshua said faintly.
"You should do the DNA identification first. You will believe the results of the test."
"Joshua..." Hazel was a little embarrassed. She looked at him with a complicated expression, "I certainly believe you. But did something happen to you before that involved the Flores family? You were willing to help them unconditionally, so your relationship with them is not a simple one, correct?"
Joshua looked depressed. Hazel hurriedly said, "Sorry, did I ask something that I should not ask?"
"No." Joshua shook his head. He looked at her and said, "Hazel, you should've asked me earlier. I told you, I won't keep you in the dark no matter what you ask."
Hazel felt extremely guilty, maybe because both of them had too many hesitations. They should have had better communication with one another.
"Tomorrow, I will take you to the orphanage." Joshua said calmly, "It's about time to face things. We'll also take the opportunity to visit Aunt Jennie."
Hazel nodded awkwardly.
"Hazel." Joshua suddenly called her.
"What?" She looked up at him.
"Tell me, what did you plan before I came back?" Joshua was a little nervous in his voice. "Did...you plan to give up on me? Don't lie to me."
"I..." Looking at Joshua's deep pupils, she suddenly felt that she couldn't lie to him. After taking a deep breath, she continued, "Joshua, the last thing I want to give up is you. But, I want to be with you if we are happy. If one day, we would only make each other suffer, then it is better for us to separate."
Joshua suddenly grabbed her wrist. Although he was mentally prepared for anything, he still felt pain in his chest when he heard what Hazel said.
He should have known that she had a decisive temper, and he suddenly felt scared when he thought about how close he had been to losing her.
"But..." Hazel looked at him and continued, "I think even if I really met such a situation, I wouldn't leave you. Joshua, I love you more than I thought."
"Hazel," Joshua placed her in her arms, "I..."
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