Chapter 2

In a daze, my phone was snatched away.

Lucas, who had just tried on his performance outfit, stood behind me with a displeased look and coldly asked,

"Why are you looking at my phone?"

I was about to explain when I suddenly realized this wasn't the point.

Besides, he never minded me looking at his phone before.

"Lucas, why did you send that old video of me when I wasn't doing well to someone else?"

I thought he would explain clearly to me, but instead, his face grew even darker.

"Chloe, the performance is tomorrow, and you have to cause trouble now? Do you not want me to accompany you anymore?"

He angrily tore off his bow tie and threw it on the ground.

"If you don't want me to accompany you, just say so. No need to find fault with me here. Do whatever you want."

If it were before, I would have picked up the bow tie and put it back on him, then stopped pursuing who was right or wrong.

In every argument, I was always the first to give in.

But this time, I just coldly replied:

"If you don't want to accompany me, that's fine. I can perform solo too."

Lucas looked at me in shock.

Because he knew best that being able to perform on stage with him had always been my wish.

His tone softened,

"Vanessa just transferred back from abroad, and the instructor asked me to take care of her more."

"She said she wasn't confident about her first violin solo after returning to the country, so I sent her that video of you to encourage her."

"If you're unhappy, I can delete it."

As he spoke, he took out his phone and deleted the video in front of me.

But he knew in his heart that what I cared about was far more than just this incident.

There were rumors at school that the daughter of Summers Corporation was studying at our arts academy.

Everyone guessed that the rich girl was Vanessa.

Because she was driven to school in luxury cars every day, and both instructors and school leaders treated her with great respect.

To help her get familiar with the campus environment, Lucas had left me to practice alone several times recently.

He said we were already working together perfectly and there wouldn't be any problems.

But only I knew that his heart was probably no longer on this talent show.