Chinese New Year

It's Friday, it's cold enough where snow doesn't fall... This weather totally reminds me why I hate Winter: if there's no snow to play with there's no point. This also reminds me of why I hate Summer: mosquitoes.

"Why aren't you wearing your glasses?" Yang Li asked.

The 'first' time we met when he was "Alpha," I wear my glasses. The 'second' time we met as a group I didn't because Zhang Liu was there. If you go to my school, everyone knows that one short guy with nerdy glasses.

"Avoiding a certain someone." I replied while covering half my face with a scarf.

That certain 'someone' is Zhen Liyue. I actually haven't thought of a way to solve the last accident...

Yang Li's face is an open book: when he lies he avoids eye contact, when he's mad he looks like he wants to murder someone, when he's bored he looks like he's about to fall asleep, and currently, he moved his head slightly back and narrow his eyes, which is asking me, "Why?"

"Anyway, where's the girl who invited herself?" I asked, took out my phone to check if she called me, instead I've received a bunch of missed calls, voicemails, and messages from Zhao Lili.

"Who?"

"Me!" She pops out of nowhere with an expensive-looking red fur coat with a belt that's coated gold, leather boots with high heels, there's a pair of gold-colored earring with a phoenix on each... Li Honglie looks like she's wearing so much that her whole character is shining.

"I feel like I'm going blind." I mumbled.

Yang Li narrowed his eyes and frown, "You don't have to brag about your money." He pointed out with disgust.

Li Honglie turns her head and flips her hair on purpose, "Oh this old thing? It's just 30 thousand euros!"

He whispers loudly, "Haohao, I feel disgusted." I can tell from your face.

"It's not my problem you're poor." She continues to joke.

I applauded with a straight face and a silent 'woohoo.' I've never seen more hand full of ridiculous people.

"I want that one!" Li Honglie pointed at a stuffed bunny wearing a blue dress in the arcade machine.

"Do it yourself." I took a glance and turn my head back to the shooting game I was playing.

"Come on! Didn't you confess to me earlier?"

"You're still hanging on to that?" I asked, "That was like months ago."

Yang Li pops out of the corner, "Wait! Haohao you confessed? Oh, look a new high score..." He looks at the machine I was playing, "Wait, that's not the point!"

Now I think about it, I've never explained to Yang Li what happened. We actually never talked about anything... yet.

"What? You jealous Yang Li?" I joked.

Yang Li suddenly got flustered, "Of course not!"

"Don't worry, you scream better than her anyway."

Li Honglie lost her energetics after listening to my comment, "I can't tell if you are joking or not."

"If you've met a boy who has an extremely high pitch scream when looking at a cockroach, I don't think I'm joking."

"Wow, I was joking about you being a sadist, and turns out you sound just like one too." Li Honglie turns her head to Yang Li, then pointed at him, "From what I learned from Xie Feihao, I'm gonna save that up and use it against you."

"You guys disgust me." Yang Li mumbled and ran away with fake tears on his face.

There were a few seconds of silence between me and Li Honglie: she never knew how to deal with me. I suddenly had the thought of why Li Feifei and Li Honglie are fighting over something stupid as a guy who you barely hangouts with, and how hard Li Honglie tries to impress the person she likes.

To break a silence, I opened my mouth first, "I never understand you girls. What's the point of dressing up so fancy?" I pointed at a group of male monkeys that stares at Li Honglie as if they've never met a girl before.

"Obviously is to make ourselves look prettier."

I started being straight forward, "Is that 'pretty' other people's opinion or your own opinion?"

"Are you trying to start a fight?"

I was preparing to leave, "I don't understand why you wear those makeup so you can impress others?"

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Long Jingluo thought about his Thursday while Li Feifei is sick. In his usual days, he either works extremely hard at school or talks with Li Feifei. For the first time, he was alone. Yesterday, he thought Zhang Yie was insulting him when Zhang Yie said it was his fault to push everyone away, but now he thought more about it, what Zhang Yie said might be true.

Long Jingluo never had a single friend who has never targetted him for money, they only wanted to experience what he has. He uses to think that being alone is the norm until Xie Feihao shows up. Long Jingluo never asked anything from him, but Xie Feihao always runs around and laughs like a fool.

Presently, Long Jingluo is celebrating New Years along with Xie Feihao's grandmother, she doesn't know about Xie Feihao and his relationship yet. Long Jingluo was planning to discuss with Xie Feihao to situate the problem between them, but he hasn't seen Xie Feihao once.

"This is so uncomfortable!" He suddenly heard a familiar voice in an unfamiliar tone.

Long Jingluo turns his head, it was a boy wearing a black suit with a silver watch over his left hand, his body figure was quite slim and the left side of his hair was pushed back with hair gel. Long Jingluo has seen Xie Feihao without glasses many times, but it was his first time to see the guy with a babyface with a sharp gaze.

To his surprise, Li Honglie was beside him wearing a plain red dress that only covers her knee, golden earrings with phoenix, and leather winter boots. There was another boy that he can't recognize: he was tall, some of his hair stands up, and wearing a white suit. He had an expression that anyone would assume that he was an energetic athlete.

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"I don't know about you but I think I look nice in white." Yang Li pointed at himself with a smug face.

"Arrogant jerk!" Li Honglie kicks his shin and leaves a footprint on the white dress pants.

"Ow!" He yells, "It's your fault that we're here! Who knew we'll be kidnapped by some cliche bodyguards for you running away."

"It's actually Xie Feihao's fault." Li Honglie points at me, "He's the second son of two owners of different well-known companies and the only recognized grandchild of Zhen Liyue. Out of all three of us, he's the one with the most money."

Yang Li turns to me and starts to complain, "How come you never told me? I thought we're friends!"

"Shut up, I'll buy everything you want in a store and pay for that suit."

His face took 360 degrees turn, "You know what, I'm totally fine with you having secrets."

"And I'm totally fine if I just snap your neck in half instead."

"Wow, the two-faced bastard is sure violent." Li Honglie said that with a grin.

"And the optimistic idiot is for sure a fool." I talked back.

Li Honglie stare blankly at me and confessed while raising her right hand, "I lost."

Yang Li opened his mouth as my phone buzzed, "What about-" It was an unknown number.

I interrupted him to answer the phone, "Don't talk."

"Who's that?" I heard Long Jingluo's voice through the phone, "I thought you didn't know anyone."

I looked around the crowded floor of the hotel just to find a man who's ten centimeters taller than me just glaring.

"Do I have to make myself more clear? I've already deleted your number and you still want to call back?"

"Are you going to answer my quest-"

As a normal human being, everyone will feel pissed when their break was interrupted.

"Tch." I clicked my tongue, "This is why a trash can shouldn't have a mouth."