Jason smiled sweetly at her, earning a glare in return, he knew she was mad at him, but he didn't really care about it, he wanted her to accept his offer and for that he was ready to do anything, even come to his dad and convince him with a fake story.
"Claire if you wanted to be with him, you should have told me, you know I wouldn't say a no." Mr. Anderson said, snapping Jason out from his thoughts, "D-Dad what are you saying?" Claire asked, she was dumfounded by his statement.
"Claire, we don't have to hide it anymore, I already told him about us." Jason interrupted them, he stood up from the couch and walked towards her, Claire was staring at him, waiting to see what he was up to.
Jason walked closer to her and hugged her tightly, making her breath hitch, she was frozen on her place, not knowing what to do, Jason tilted his head and whispered in her ears, "I told your dad, that we are in love."
"What!" Claire shouted loudly, his words made her come out of her thoughts, she pushed Jason away from her, making him stumble behind but he composed himself, Claire was shocked at her own behavior, he glared at her which was not noticed by her dad, but Maria widen her eyes when she saw Jason glaring at Claire, she understood there was more to the story then they were showing, "Claire what happened, kiddo." Her father asked worriedly, for a second Claire forget that they were not alone.
She glared back at Jason, 'How could he do something like that!' She thought, his words made her lose her mind, "Nothing dad," Claire replied, Jason was standing at a distance from her, he didn't expect she would push him like that.
"Claire you're here." Emily shouted, running towards Claire as soon as she entered the house, she hugged Claire tightly, Claire smiled and did the same, she missed her sister, Maria rolled her eyes at the drama that was happing in front of her eyes, she was already mad because of her husband and now her daughter was also behaving like him.
Emily released Claire from her tight grip and said, "I missed you."
"I know, I missed you, too."
"Tsk, now that you are done meeting everyone, I think you should leave it's one in the morning." Maria interrupted, Claire rolled her eyes at the woman, "Well, what if I don't." Claire snapped at the woman in anger, she was already pissed at Jason and Maria was making her angrier.
"Maria!" Mr. Anderson shouted, he didn't want to get embarrassed in front of his daughter and her boyfriend because of her.
Jason was not shocked to see the woman talk like that to Claire, he was aware of everything happening in this family, he was about to say something when Claire's snapped at the woman "Look Maria, my dad called me here so if you have a problem you can leave, because I will leave when I want to."
Claire turned towards her dad and said, "I will tell you everything once I'm done talking to him," Mr. Anderson was confused by his daughter's words, Claire walked towards her dad, she was feeling guilty for lying to him once again, Claire sighed and held her dad's hand and said, "You forgive me, right?"
Her dad smiled and embraced her in a hug, "I was never mad at you, I was just feeling sad that you didn't tell me that you were participating in that contest." Jason stared at them and felt a pang of guilt for lying to her father, but he turned his gaze away from them, not wanting to feel the guilt that suddenly made him feel like a selfish person.
Claire broke the hug and walked towards Jason, she grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the house everyone around them were shocked, even Jason was shocked to do anything, he walked wherever she dragged him, "My car is right there," Jason said, as they were out from her house, Claire stopped walking and turned towards him, "No need, we will walk." She replied.
She was still holding his hand, the streets were too quiet at night, there wasn't even a single person they could see, only the streets lights were helping them to see further the dark cloudy night was not something she like.
When they were quite far away from her house, she left his hand and glared at him, "What?" Jason asked, even when he was well aware of what she was about to say, "Jason, how could you do that and what did you tell him exactly?"
"I just told him that we are in love with each other and that you participated because you couldn't see me with any other girl." Jason replied, Claire widens her eyes in shock, she couldn't believe that he did this, "Don't tell me you did this so that I accept your offer?"
Jason nodded his head, "What else could be the reason?" Claire was speechless. she didn't know how to react to this, "Have you lost it, how could you do that!" Claire shouted at him, "Because you didn't leave me any option," Jason snapped back, "I need your help and trust me if someone else could be able to do this job I wouldn't be here trying to make your relation better with your dad."
"I didn't ask you to help me mend my relationship with my dad." Clarie replied, "I don't really care about your relation, but now if I go back and tell him that...." Jason chuckled and continued, "Everything that I said, was a lie then what will happen, you are well aware of it."
Claire was not shocked to see he was now using her relationship with her dad to make her accept his offer, "Are you so desperate to date me, Jason?" Claire asked, crossing her arms. "Oh, you are mistaken sweetheart, I want you to desperately help me to get something."