My best friend…

“When would you accept my

proposal of love, senorita?” the voice sounded familiar.

“Huh?” I lifted my head and

looked at him. “You…! Yi Zhong Chen! I would kill you. Humph” I jumped out of

his arms and walked to our table furiously.

“Hey blondie. I just saved you.

Is this how you treat me?”

“For the last time, don’t call me

blondie. I have a name. Besides, you were the one who texted me in the morning

that you are not going to come to school. I am super mad at you. Leave me alone

with my new friend” I said and sat at the table. Jiang looked at us, surprised

or shocked may be. Zhong Chen looked at Jiang equally surprised.

“What proposal?” he looked at me

with ‘god knows what’ look. I was taken aback by the accident just then and

forgot about Jiang.

“Nothing like that. He likes to

fool around. Let me introduce you two. He is Yi Zhong Chen, my best friend.

Zhong, he is Zhao Jiang. A newcomer, also, my new friend. So, your new friend

too” I winked at Zhong and gestured them to shake hands. They shook hands and

Jiang continued eating. Zhong brought his food and sat next to me, making weird

sounds while chewing. He looked as if he hasn’t eaten in years. He thrusted the

food into his mouth. ‘He might eat the chopsticks too’ I thought. Anyways, he

was the same since we met. He is naïve, innocent and loyal to his friends. He

is a little glutton just like me. I met him when he was still a child of five,

helping a girl when she was bullied. He defended her and was beaten badly by

the bullies. I saved him from them. I liked his courage. I watched him grow up.

People in the town never noticed me since they were busy working hard to meet

the ends. That was advantageous to me.  I

lived there for 11 years. When I was in a conflict to go to school or not, I

saw him filling his transfer application to Qingbao school. Then I decided to

go to the same school as him and protect him. We officially met at the school.

He seemed to not remember me. That’s good too. At least, he won’t ask anything

about what he saw 11 years ago. When I first saw him filling the form, I

realized that the boy has grown up. He is as handsome as Jiang, but Jiang is

taller than him by 2 inches. I came back to reality when I heard Jiang calling

me.

“Wang li? Why are you in a daze?

Eat your food. Otherwise, it will turn cold” Jiang said wondering what I was

thinking.

“I’m sorry. I was just thinking

about the new term” I lied promptly.

I turned to Zhong remembering

that he stood me up today.

“So?” I scowled.

“So?” he was puzzled.

“Aren’t you giving me an

explanation?”

“I was late to school. So, I

texted you that I won’t be coming. But I felt bored at home. So, I came. Aren’t

you happy to see me?”

“Happy!? Zhong Chen, you are overestimating

yourself. I hate you. Because of you, I had to run to school in rain.”

“Don’t you like rain?”

“I don’t like playing alone.”

“Whatever”

“Huh?” I punched him in the gut.

He choked on the food in his mouth. Jiang laughed at me.

“What do you want me to do?”

“Say sorry”

“In your dreams”

“Say that you are sorry.

Otherwise, I will tell your mom that you stood me up today.”

“Do you think I’m afraid of her?”

“I will also tell her that you

used all your pocket money on computer games” he looked at me angrily. He

looked like a little angry bird which was enraged by the green pig.

“It was my fault. I’m sorry that

I didn’t come today. Okay?”

“That’s more like it” I made a

silly face to annoy him even more.

“Humph. She-devil. Today’s your

day blondie. I’m not going to spare you if I ever get a chance”

“So, how long have you known each

other?” Jiang asked us to see us being too comfortable with each other.

“We knew each other for two

years.”

“Right, I wanted to ask you two.

Have you planned your stay?” I asked them to switch topics.

“Aren’t they providing us with

hostel?” Jiang didn’t see the hostel yet. If he has seen it, he would not think

about the horror again ever in his life.

“Don’t even think about it.

Hostel in our school is under repair since forever. So, we must travel from our

home, or can find hostels near our school” Zhong said stuffing his mouth with

meat more than he can chew. Listening to this, Jiang frowned. He lives on his

scholarship. He would feel sad when he can’t find a cheap place to afford.

“Alright, you two, finish your

lunch. I will be taking you to a place today. We will discuss about the hostel

later?”

“Cool. Let’s just go to class.

What subject do we have now?” Jiang asked me to lift his empty plate from the

table. My glance immediately shifted to the corner of his mouth where a thin

rice grain was stuck. How I wish I was that rice grain resting on his lips. I

took a tissue and moved my hand towards his mouth. He immediately dodged and

looked at me, confusion written all over his face. I smirked at his quick

reflexes.

“You have got rice over there” I

pointed to the left side of my lower lip.

“Oh! Thanks”, he took the tissue

from my hand and rubbed it off quickly. We all went back to the class. Another

boring lecture continued challenging our ability to remain awake. Later the

teacher announced that there will be a guest lecture by the famous physicist

Dr. Lu Wei Dong and asked us to gather in the auditorium. The auditorium was

built next to the garden 10 years ago. I forgot to show Jiang the auditorium

thinking about food. Anyways, he will see it now. Introduction to theory of

relativity; No matter how many times I listen to this, I never got bored. It

was my 16th time attending high school.  Wait, did they just say the name of the

physicist is Lu Wei Dong? No. It shouldn’t be him. There must be another person

with his name. What if it’s really Lu Wei Dong? Oh no. I shouldn’t be seen by

him. If he discovers me, it would be very hard to explain. “Um, Jiang, Chen Chen, can we not

go to the lecture today?”

“Why?”

“No reason” After all these years

of my existence, I’m still a bad liar.

“You are the one who says Theory

of Relativity is fun! Also, Jiang is here too. It would be bad if we miss the

first guest lecture on the first day in our first day of meeting…” he

continued.

“Enough, we are going. Can you

stop now please!?”

“Okay. Let’s go” a smile sliding

across his face.

We walked all the way through the

garden again. Looking at the flowers, playing with the butterflies, I

purposefully stalled time so that we can reach the auditorium after the lecture

begins.

“So, you are interested in

physics?” Jiang’s question startled me who was still thinking about escaping

from the sight of Wei Dong.

“Um, not exactly. I just like

Theory of Relativity. It is different from all the other theories that I have

ever read. It relates space and time and explains how they are related to the

motion of objects. So, it’s kind of interesting.”

“Oh” Oh? What a conversation

killer! I scolded him internally. After a few minutes, we reached a red and

blush color painted building. I always hated the combination. We entered the

building.  It was dark inside. We could

only see Wei Dong standing near the podium and his Power Point Presentation

running on the screen. In this pitch-dark auditorium, even Chen Chen won’t be

able to recognize me. Not to mention Wei Dong and I didn’t meet in years. Chen

Chen went inside and grabbed two seats for us while I stood there

procrastinating whether to go or not. Then I heard a soft voice near my left

ear.

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