39. Firefly

The group was eating lunch at their normal place when Li Zhilan's phone rang. Seeing the name on the screen, she quickly accepted the call.

''What?'' Li Zhilan had been feeling quite unsettled the whole day but she couldn't just get it out because she didn't feel comfortable showing her angry expression infron of the friends she made here. So the whole day she had botteled up everything and it made her even grumpier. But when she saw the name on the screen, she couldn't hold it in any longer and just showed what she felt.

''Woah... What happened? Why are you so pumped up?'' It was Ashton Quill on the other end.

''Don't even get me started.'' Lizhilan said as she walked away from the group after pointing towards her phone.

''Who dared to mess with our little glutton huh? Name him and I'll-"

''Don't even call me that. I hate those words. It spikes my blood pressure every time I hear those words.''

''Huh? What happened after all?'' Ashton voice carried a tinge of worry and a load of his urge to gossip.

And so under Ashton's constant urging and and pestering, Li Zhilan revealed everything that happened earlier between her and Qi Longwei.

After thinking about it a lot, Ashton's voice came from the other end. But this time, his voice didn't have any hint to playfulness. Instead, it had shock, disbelieve, surprise as well as happiness embedded in it.

''Lili, did you perhaps fall for this guy you are talking about?''

Ashtons words made Li Zhilan freeze before she shouted out, ''No! Not possible. I won't fall for anyone and you know that. My heart has only one owner and that's definitely not that stupid idiot brat. I'm not gonna fall for anyone other then him.''

Li Zhilan's voice was loud and clear but there was also a tinge of disbelief mixed in it. It was as if she was trying to convince herself that she can't and she wouldn't love someone other then that person.

''Lili, you know it's kinda difficult to meet him right? What if you don't meet him at all? Are you gonna waste your life waiting for a person who might have already forgotten you?''

''Whether he forgot about me or not is his problem But I won't forget him and our promise at all. If we meet and he says that he don't want to keep that promise, only then will I let go and even then I don't think I will be able to move on completely.''

As she said this a boy around six years old came to her mind with his broad smile and happy laughter.

''Firefly, come on over here. There are so many out here. Come, quick, or you will miss it.'' The boy had named her after the thing she loved to see the most, firefly. And at this exact moment, he was taking her to watch thousands of it glow beside a lake under the dark sky lit up by a single moon.