Group Project
"Yang Li!" I yelled, "'DragonMaster827?' That name sounds so stupid! Do you really think you can get away with that account name of yours? You put that as your nickname everywhere!" I pulled his ear as he sat on the seat right behind me.
Yang Li touches his ear after I let go, "Can you at least look at the bright side? I even dyed my hair back for you!"
A handful of flies walks by, "Hey, Yang Li! Are you American?" One of them buzzed.
"I'm half American! Just like this guy!" He points at me as I slap his hand.
"So mean!" He pouts.
"Are you a kid?" I complain as I lean on one arm.
A few people surrounding Yang Li starts to avoid me.
"Wow, you really shouldn't hang out with Xie Feihao, I heard he almost shot someone with a gun." A girl insults in front of my face.
"So?" Yang Li stares back with an empty look in his eyes, "We've known each other since middle school, and from what I learned, he doesn't hang out with ordinary people like you guys."
After everyone walks away after he insults them, his eyes were filled with disappointment, "Are they cliche anime side-characters?" In the past, I use to suggest some comics and novels to him, but he answered, 'I'll just watch anime like a normal person.' What kind of normal person hacks for fun?
"Your looks do not fit with your hobbies." Li Honglie walks over.
"Oh, you're in the same class?" Yang Li receives his energy back.
Li Honglie narrows her eyes with a cheeky smile, "Cockroach." she snickers.
"Don't follow Haohao as an example!" Yang Li complains as he slams the table as a joke, "By the way," He quickly changes the topic, "That guy who keeps staring at you at the party, who's the girl next to him?"
I stare at Li Honglie, who stayed silent as if she doesn't want to answer the question, "She's Li Honglie's step-sister." I answered it for her.
"She's like a cute bunny rabbit that makes everyone wants to protect her!" Yang Li explains while Li Honglie looks at him with disgust. I bet she's thinking, 'he's one of those guys.'
Now I think about it, I haven't had breakfast, "I heard a roast rabbit tastes like chicken." I get out of the topic.
Yang Li ignored my comment while continue to move on through different topics, "About the group project, who's my partner again?"
"Long Jingluo." Li Honglie announced, "Xie Feihao is with Li Feifei, and I'm paired with some random guy."
"Why am I with her?" I out of all the people here, the one I don't want to be with it Li Feifei and Long Jingluo, and my luck didn't work out here. Whoever created this novel world should burn in hell.
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Li Feifei spends almost 15 minutes trying to convince Long Jingluo that she'll be fine with Xie Feihao in the library. Is not like he's going to do something to her... right?
She was sitting next to one of the tables in the school library, across from Xie Feihao, who she first didn't recognize with the new glasses. Li Feifei was an introvert, and she's too shy to start a conversation, but Xie Feihao didn't say anything but reads a book about the project's topic and spinning a pencil around in his right hand.
As she hides her face behind in the book she was reading, she notices that this was the first time she has seen Xie Feihao's eyes, it was a strange sky blue color that looked like jewelry.
"Hey!" He calls her out as she jumped and hides back behind the book, "You're holding it upside down."
Xie Feihao rolled his eyes after he noticed Li Feifei's reaction, "Since we're assigned to tell part of the history in the Middle East, why don't we talk about the Silk Road trade and the wide range of religious ideas they exchanged?"
Li Feifei froze at what Xie Feihao said. She was near the top student of her grade and skilled in Literature and Chinese History, and the student who has lower than average grades was talking about something that was barely mentioned in history class.
As Xie Feihao talks about how Rome, the exchangement of horses, shared ideas of religious beliefs, the route reaching Africa, and other things are related, Li Feifei listened carefully and forgotten about her nervousness.
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Long Jingluo sits across from Yang Li, the new student. In the past five minutes, Yang Li has been nonstop bragging about himself, insulting how bad Long Jingluo, and his relationship with Li Honglie. Long Jingluo was extremely annoyed since this guy who's in the middle of a group project, won't do work, but keeps yapping.
For a short second, Yang Li stops and looks at Long Jingluo who kept looking at a handful of books and a notebook, "That girl, Li Feifei right?" Yang Li asks as Long Jingluo looks up, "She's kind of cute, mind if I take her?" He jokes.
Suddenly, Long Jingluo grabs Yang Li by the collar and about to punch him in the face.
Yang Li didn't flinch, but starts to make fun of Long Jingluo, "Your glare is quite scary, but they're all barks and no bites? Why don't you do something like Haohao? Who kicks me in the leg when I insult them?"
Even though the teacher isn't here, but there are other students who are watching them. Long Jingluo lets go of Yang Li's collar before any rumors start.
"I've known Xie Feihao since we were kids, don't act as if you know him." Long Jingluo tries to move the topic of Li Feifei away.
"Just like Haohao says," Yang Li organizes his wrinkled uniform, "You really have trust issues." Yang Li continues on, "What else do I know? Oh right! You type lowercase in a text when you're lying!"
In the next few seconds, Long Jingluo remembered something. Gamma's jester-like tone, Yang Li's way of making fun of him, and both of them knew about strange habits that he never knew about himself.
Long Jingluo throws a textbook while Yang Li fails to dodge and ends up with a bloody nose. The two of them throw items and punches at each other in the middle of the classroom. Most students stand and watched while the rest ran out and spread the news.
In the following minute, Xie Feihao ran in the classroom while panting. Then a notebook smacks him in the face. Xie Feihao took a deep breath while everyone cheered and watched the fight, and no one noticed his presence. Xie Feihao silently walks behind Yang Li swiftly and stomps Yang Li in the back of the leg with all of his strength, making Yang Li falling on his knees and Long Jingluo losing his balance after missing a punch.
Yang Li turns his head and yells, "Who did that-" Then immediately shuts his mouth before finishing his sentence.
"Fighting on the first day of school are we?" Xie Feihao looks down at him with a bright smile without showing a sign of menace, "Do we need to talk about it? You degenerated cockroach."