Heartstrings on Fire novel Chapter 312

A few kilometers from Foxglove Village, there's this place called Starfall Village.

The town was surrounded by water on three sides, with some of the houses even built directly on the water. To get around, people had to boat it.

Every year, just before the end of the year, Starfall Village hosted a boat race.

The boat race was the most popular event of the year, so people from many surrounding villages were attracted to come here. And there were plenty of other fun activities happening around the same time.

Right in the thick of it all, Agnes agreed without hesitation.

On one hand, she thought it was a rare opportunity. Since she was back in town during this big bash, she could also take Jared to experience it.

On the other hand, Agnes knew her grandma well enough to know that if they were home tomorrow, she'd find all kinds of ways to rope Jared into doing chores.

Jared had only been back for two days and he'd already done a ton of manual labor.

If the Whitfield family found out, they'd feel sorry for him.

After hanging out at Mariela's for a bit, they headed home.

Once home, Grandma had Jared off doing something else.

Agnes felt more and more glad that tomorrow they were going out to have fun. In the morning, Agnes woke Jared up.

Her grandma was out in the fields early.

Agnes hurried Jared along, saying, "Get up quick, or we won't be able to slip out before Grandma gets back."

Jared looked surprised, "Where are you going?"

Agnes suddenly realized she completely forgot to tell him about it, since she was totally bowled over when she got home yesterday.

Agnes excitedly said, "I'm taking you somewhere cool today. This way, Grandma can't ask you to do all kinds of hard work anymore."

The whole way, Jared was silent. Agnes felt something was off.

He was excited just now. Why did he suddenly clam up?

In the back seat, Agnes tried to cheer him up by squeezing his hand and leaning over to coo at him.

But Jared seemed out of it.

Finally, Agnes asked in a soft voice, "Why do you seem a bit down?"

Jared glanced at Agnes but didn't say anything.

Mariela heard this from the front seat. She'd been keeping an eye on the two in the rearview mirror.

Mariela joked, "Jared, are you upset because I'm cramping your private time with Agnes?"