Chapter 129 My First Love Cypher

in the courtyard.

Lake was holding a glass of bourbon, sitting in a chair, watching the snowflakes falling from the sky.

That's right.

Christmas, Christmas, there is no Santa Claus anymore, if there is no snow, what's the point.

Skye, wearing a white down jacket and an snow cap, pushed the door and walked out.

Lake turned his head.

"Hi."

"Hi."

Skye sat in the chair next to him, looked at Lake, and seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, he said, "You don't seem to have mentioned to me that you were also adopted."

Lake frowned and looked at Skye: "No?"

There should be.

Lake remembered that when he asked Skye why he didn't go to a foster family when he was in the hospital, he seemed to have mentioned that he and Skye resonated.

Skye shook his head. "No, you didn't."

Lake shrugged: "Well, now you know, how about it."

"...how about what?"

"Do you think that you are very fortunate to meet me?"

"If what you say fortunately means that the first time I met you with appendicitis, and the second time I met you, I had to open my skull. If that's the case, yes, I'm really lucky."

"..."

Lake laughed and shook his head.

This is probably the most impressive memory for the two of them. After all, it was an accident when they met once, and they had to lie down in a hospital bed for the second time in a row. Wow, this can no longer be described as an accident.

Skye clapped his hands and looked at Lake: "So, can you tell your story?"

Lake looked at Skye: "The story is the same as yours, at most, I'm a little bit luckier than you."

There's not much to tell about that story.

But Skye was willing to listen, and Lake felt that it didn't matter what he told. His story wasn't a movie, and it didn't have any hit points, no ups and downs.

The story is simple.

Lake was three years old when he awakened his memory. At that time, he was in a rescue center in Washington, D.C. Maybe because he was too demented before his awakening, no foster family was willing to adopt him.

And then, Lake stayed at the rescue center until he was five years old, and one day Karen and Thaddeus came over, hoping to adopt a child from that rescue center.

The social atmosphere at that time was different from the somewhat exaggerated atmosphere now. To put it simply, the federation was in a golden age at that time, and it was not like many low-level garbage white people who liked to adopt children and cheated for aid.

The foster family at that time was undoubtedly paradise for the children in the rescue center.

so……

The children in the rescue center where Lake was at that time all ran to the conference room with laughter, looking at Karen and Thaddeus inside, hoping to choose themselves as if they were choosing numbers.

Lake didn't go.

He has Su Hui, and inexplicably recognized himself as a parent, it felt very strange, so when everyone ran to the conference room, Lake went to the library to continue to recognize ABCDE.

Hearing this, Skye blinked: "Then how could you..."

Lake shrugged: "Karen went to the bathroom and found the library."

At that time, when Lake was looking at the illustrated reading book in the library, Karen did not know when he appeared behind him.

When Lake came back to his senses, he pointed to himself and said that he is not for sale, and all the ones that can be sold are waiting for you to choose at the door of the conference room.

Think about it in hindsight.

Lake thought that maybe because of this sentence, Karen had to abduct him back home.

But at the time, Karen was just stunned by this sentence, and then told Lake that she was looking for the bathroom. Lake sighed and led Karen to the bathroom.

three days later.

Someone from the Children's Department told Lake to pack up and get ready to go to his new home.

Lake looked sideways at Skye: "Just like that, I'm coming to Karen's house."

Skye blinked: "I think it must be the not-for-sale statement that moved Karen."

Lake smiled and said, "You're not for sale too, aren't you?"

A smile appeared on Skye's face.

Lake touched his chin: "But... Speaking of this matter, in fact, Thaddeus wanted to adopt a friend of mine at the time."

Skye was stunned.

Lake recalled, then shook his head: "However, I found her at the time. If this is the case, I will definitely not leave. Even if I want to leave, I will take her with me, but she denied it at the time."

"and then?"

"No more."

Lake came back to his senses: "About the tenth day, I persuaded Karen to go to the ambulance again, but by that time, she had already been adopted."

"she?"

"right."

Lake smiled, looked at Skye, and the corners of his mouth curved up: "Speaking of which, she and I both gave each other our first kiss."

Skye made a disgusting expression: "Hey, hey, I'm only thirteen years old."

She lost her first kiss at the age of five.

Am I in a wolf's den?

A picture suddenly appeared in Skye's mind. She was a little white rabbit grazing leisurely, and then the picture changed, and she fell into the wolf's den.

Isn't this guy trying to play some kind of ghost father?

This is to be sentenced.

Skye looked at Lake with a frightened look in his eyes.

"boom!"

"Ow!"

Skye covered his head: "It hurts, is this corporal punishment?"

Lake took the badge on his waist and shook it in his hand: "Go to the police."

"..."

Skye rubbed his head angrily and changed the subject: "So, that girl from the rescue center is your first love?"

Lake nodded: "Yes, don't tell Karen."

Skye chicken thief smiled and looked at Lake: "Then tell me, do you remember what that girl's paper is called?"

Lake looked up at the heavy snow falling in his eyes.

He remembered that the girl's name was related to snow. After all, their first kiss was not on a snowy day when they were four years old. Lake also wrote a poem at that time.

Today I come to think, the snowy night is flying.

"Seifer!"

"what?"

Lake looked at Skye, thinking that the picture became clearer and clearer under this memory, and said with a smile: "Her name, Cypher!"

Skye muttered twice, then looked up at Lake: "Don't you have a last name?"

talking.

Skye seemed to have thought of something and made an apologetic gesture towards Lake.

What surnames can a group of orphans have? Although many of the orphans know their biological mothers' surnames, there are also some who do not know their biological parents' names.

Like Skye.

Skye thought, that Cypher should be just like her.

"Haven't you thought about looking for her?"

"found."

Lake said in a light tone: "I've been looking for three years, but I can't find it, so I didn't find it."

Skye tilted her head: "She was adopted, maybe, her name and surname changed."

Lake shook his head: "Maybe, but she shouldn't change her name."

"why?"

"We agreed."

Lake took a sip of bourbon: "We said at the rescue center that even if we separate in the future, I will still be called Lake. Maybe we will have an extra surname, but our names will never change."

Skye's mind moved, and he looked carefully at Lake: "So..."

she died?

Lake shook his head: "Maybe, later, after I couldn't find a matching person in the system, I went to the rescue center, but it had already been changed to something else. At that time, most of the information in the rescue center was in paper form. Yes, but there is no information about her in the system, there are only two possibilities."

Either die.

Or become a foreigner.

but……

The second possibility is very low. When Lake and Karen went to the rescue center at that time, they heard from the receptionist that Cypher was adopted by an ordinary family.

so.

Most likely dead.

Skye stuck out his tongue and said to Lake, "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

Lake waved his hand: "I have read it too, but I told this story not to tell me anything, but to tell you something."

Skye pointed to himself and blinked: "Me?"

Lake nodded, sat up from the chair, and looked at Skye with a smile on his face: "Do you have any friends who have made promises, maybe, you can make up for my regrets on you."

Skye was stunned for a moment, then laughed dryly: "Thank you, but unfortunately, I didn't."

Done.

Skye got up and walked straight into the house.

real or fake.

It's a pity that I fell in love at the age of three. You thought I was you, but my first kiss was well preserved.

Lake looked at Skye, who disappeared from his sight with his ponytail, and laughed loudly. He also got up and walked into the house, ready to add some wine to his glass.

inside the house.

Betty and Skye, who had just come in, were decorating the Christmas tree over the fireplace that Lake bought in the afternoon.

Ross had promised to bring one back from Quantico.

pity.

This year, there was an extra minor in the family, which made Betty very excited, and directly asked Lake to buy one first, while Karen did not speak.

But if you don't speak, you will not stand in line by default.

It is clear.

Lake couldn't entangle Betty, so he had to make a phone call with Ross to tell him not to bring a tree home. He went to the town to buy such a Christmas tree.

Since Betty was eighteen years old, Betty has done the decoration of the Christmas tree, and all the decorations are kept by Betty. In the past few years, Betty was a little irritable after the freshness, but today, there is a little loli. , Betty's freshness seems to be back.

At this moment.

Betty was teaching Skye by words and deeds, telling Skye how to hang the Christmas tree with extreme decorations without bending the Christmas tree, and how to draw a circle around the Christmas tree, so as to tell Santa Claus who came out of the fireplace at night, How should his gifts be placed, and save time for Santa.

"Is Skye's present ready?"

"get ready."

Lake, who was at the bar at the bar, listened to Karen's whispered words, smiled and said, the gifts are stored in the storage space, and they can be taken out and put away at night.

"Jingle Bell!"

Lake took out his old-fashioned cell phone, looked at the caller number on it, and connected.

"Hey!"

"...Long time no see, Lake!"

"..."

Ask for the next monthly pass, ask for a full booking, okay? For my sake?