Chapter 14: The Four of Them Head to the Amusement Park

  "Yao Yao, I have to go out with my parents for dinner with some other people and there's a guy around my age on the other side. You know how it is with all the adult socializing. So I won't be able to go to the amusement park with you guys today. Have fun with Double Horse Tail and take care of your personal safety. That's all, bye."

  "But you clearly said your parents were away on a business trip yesterday...... Hello? Hello? Hello?" I looked at my phone in exasperation, and she had actually hung up on me!

  It's 8 o'clock in the morning now, and I received a call from Ah Qian while having breakfast. I thought she wanted to delay the departure time, but instead, she directly hung up on me.

  "What's wrong? Can't Xiaoyan go?" My mother asked me solemnly while sitting upright in her chair.

  I looked at her guardedly: "What are you up to again?"

  She sank her face: "Yao Yao, is this the attitude you should have towards your mother?"

  I immediately lowered my head and said, "I was wrong."

  "It's almost fine." She smiled, took a sip of milk, and said lightly, "A Qian is busy, just find another person to accompany you, although the relatives' children are not in B city at this time."

  I fell silent for a moment: "Then there's no one left."

  BFFs are either traveling or busy, and I haven't been in touch with my former classmates for a long time. Even if they suddenly ask me out to play, I wouldn't know how to adapt to that atmosphere. Moreover, as my mom said, relatives all go out to play with their families, and for a while, I really couldn't find peers who have time.

  "Oh, I see. What a pity." My mom looked at me with a disappointed expression, "What can we do then? The weather is so good today, no rain and not too sunny, it's rare to have such a great day for outing. Your aunt and I are going shopping, we can't accompany you to the amusement park and waste our time. But if we go in a few days, there will be heavy rain throughout the province. It's really hard to decide."

  I looked at my mom suspiciously for a long time: "Mom, you seem... really happy."

  She tore off a piece of bread and put it in her mouth, mumbling: "What's that? Where is it? I just hope you guys can find someone suitable to go out and have fun with."

  I rubbed my forehead: "Actually, it's not necessarily that someone has to accompany me, at worst I'll just go with my cousin..." I suddenly stopped, thinking of what happened last night, and now I don't dare to be alone in the same space as my cousin again.

  "Are you two going alone? You're not going to get lost like last time, are you?" Aunt exclaimed in surprise, looking at her cousin with concern. "Yueyue, why don't you just come shopping with us instead of going to the amusement park?"

  "No way, no way, I'm not going to some boring street with you guys. I want to go to the amusement park!" Bai Yue shook her head vigorously, her two ponytails swinging back and forth.

  I suddenly wanted to ask her if it's really good to use hair to hit your own face like that?

  My mother coughed twice, and whispered to me: "How about this, let Xiao Qiao go with you guys too? He's a big boy, he can drive. If anything happens, he can take care of things."

  I stared at my mom in shock: "Xiao Qiao can drive? How did you know? How close are you two?"

  She covered her mouth and chuckled: "It was just a casual conversation when I mentioned this, so you're agreeing to it?"

  I hesitated and glanced at my cousin who was eating a sandwich across from me, saying in a low voice: "Let's not do it after all, Yueyue was just rejected by Xiaoqiao last night, I'm afraid of another spring breeze blowing."

  My mom smiled again and raised her voice: "Yueyue, how about letting your cousin Xiao Qiao from the store go to the amusement park with you guys?"

  Bai Yue nodded firmly after being stunned for a moment.

  Did she agree? She actually agreed? I clearly saw the deep sadness and pain in her eyes, how could she still have the courage to face Cheng Qiao? Doesn't she give up yet?

  As expected, it's born again without even needing to blow on it. I cover my face in agony.

  Cheng Qiao has always been a man of action, from calling him to the doorbell ringing at my house, it took less than twenty minutes.

  "Xiao Qiao, where exactly are you living..." I asked as soon as I opened the door, but my voice stopped abruptly because of another young man standing next to Cheng Qiao.

  "A Yao. Let me introduce you, his name is Hua Jian." Cheng Qiao smiled and whispered in a very soft voice, "He's the friend I pretended to be gay with at school."

  I stared at the boy in front of me with wide eyes for a moment without blinking, and didn't respond for a while.

  "Since his schedule for today was temporarily cancelled, I'll just call him out to play together, A-Yao won't mind, right?" Suddenly, Cheng Qiao blocked my line of sight.

  I looked at Cheng Qiao in a daze, shaking my head and saying: "Don't mind, of course don't mind..."

  "A Yao," Cheng Qiao gazed at me, helplessly smiling wryly, "Your reaction makes me regret bringing him out...". He slowly moved his body away, "You all get to know each other first."

  The face that had just flashed before my eyes suddenly reappeared in front of me, with delicate features like those painted with ink wash, as if shrouded in a thin mist. Standing next to Cheng Qiao's slender figure didn't make her look weak at all, her slim yet powerful physique was like a green bamboo swaying in the wind, and she had an indescribable elegance about her.

  This temperament is simply a fairy who doesn't eat human fireworks!

  "Hello, my name is Hua Jian, I'm Qiao's good friend." The young man took a step forward, smiling faintly as he extended a pair of well-manicured hands towards me, his eyes scrutinizing me with curiosity.

  I took a cold breath, this voice... so magnetic and gentle!

  "I'm Bai Yaoyao, welcome... no, not welcome, it's our first meeting, hello." I forced a smile at the corner of my mouth, too embarrassing. Facing such a god-like beautiful young man, I actually brought out my occupational disease.

  "Alright, alright, now that everyone has met, let's go in first." Qiao took my hand and pulled me along as she walked inside.

  As soon as we entered the house, Cheng Qiao didn't even change into her slippers and immediately called out to all the adults in the living room with a sweet tone. I stood beside him, my eyes wide with wonder.

  Why does this master of mine have a feeling as if he's actually at Qiao's house?

  I took two shoe covers from the cabinet and handed them to Hua Jian, I was surprised to find that the surprise and playfulness in his eyes were not hidden at all.

  "What's wrong? Do you think our home is too messy?" I scratched my head in embarrassment, yesterday my uncle brought back a lot of local specialties from City A, and neither my mom nor I had organized them, most were just scattered on the coffee table in the living room.

  Hua Jian withdrew the emotions in his eyes and chuckled: "No, I was just stunned by my partner's performance."

  "What? Xiao Qiao? What's wrong with him?" I asked back in confusion.

  Cheng Qiao suddenly turned her head quickly and leaned in close to Hua Jian's face, the two of them whispering something in low voices.

  I was taken aback.

  These two people, actually aren't just pretending to be good buddies, right?...