Snakes

"Rinse these."

"David, throw these into the bin."

All the guests except David and Leonardo had left.

As Chen Zhao cleaned the place up, he asked, "Leonardo, can you tell me why you failed again?"

"I was holding her hand, sitting by the waterfall."

Both David and Chen Zhao stopped what they had been doing. In their opinion, if a woman was willing to follow a man to a waterfall when it was dark and quiet, something ought to happen.

"And then for some reason, she kept staring at me."

"And then?"

"I asked her if she was tired."

"A bit, she said."

"And then?"

"I said, if you're tired, you can go and rest. I'll continue to sit here," Leonardo said with a long face.

Chen Zhao and David dashed toward Leonardo and showered him with their fists.

"Stop, why are you punching me?"