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After a while, he pressed her head and casually ruffled her soft hair, saying with a low laugh, "So this is what you call being good."

He sighed, "Silly girl."

Aria turned her head aside, blinking in confusion.

Ryder suddenly felt a bit soft - hearted. Under the clear and untainted gaze of the girl in front of him, he felt as if he had been softened.

He rubbed the bridge of his nose with his curled knuckles, his thick eyelashes drooping as he said in a low voice, "If you say so, then it is."

Ryder thought lazily. What kind of good person was he? What good person would take a teenage girl home?

He probably just wasn't completely bad.

That bit of inexplicable compassion had made the little girl remember until now and think of him as a great guy.

His father said he was a natural rascal.

Aria looked at him, wanting to say something but then thinking it wasn't necessary. As long as she thought he was good, that was enough.

That was just the way she was.

When she liked someone, everything about that person was good, and everything they did made sense.

After getting their food and swiping the card, Ryder leisurely followed behind Aria as they found a place to sit.

He glanced at Aria's tray and vaguely remembered that girls usually had small appetites. The food she had was hardly enough to fill her up.

Compared to her, Maya Brooks was like a glutton.

Before, there were many girls who came to strike up a conversation with him. When he didn't respond, Finn Alvarez, who had no bottom - line, would bring them all along. Those girls were all so reserved, eating just a few bites and then claiming to be full.

But as soon as the meal was over, they would go for a second helping. It was all an act to create a demure and helpless image.

However, Ryder knew that Aria really had a small appetite.

On her tray, there was a small bowl of rice, two pieces of sweet - and - sour spare ribs, a few green vegetables, and a small bowl of egg soup. Without those two pieces of spare ribs, it would be a truly plain meal.

He asked lazily, "Is that all you're eating?"

"I ate a lot of snacks in the morning, so I'm not very hungry." Aria noticed his curious look. After a pause, she explained.

Ryder: "You don't eat much even when you're hungry."

"..." Aria thought for a moment. Being told that a girl eats little should be a compliment, right? So she nodded with a bit of reserve.

"Thank you."

The afternoon's get - together wasn't as lively as the morning's. Many people had left, and the venue was extremely hot. The audience was tired, and some people even fell asleep leaning on their friends' shoulders.

When it ended, there was a brief moment of excitement. Everyone rushed to the front to grab balloons. Sydney grabbed Aria and rushed forward.

Aria felt like she was almost squeezed into a pancake.

Yet Sydney was pulling her forward desperately, so she could only force herself to push through. At almost twenty years old, she felt like a child on Children's Day.

Aria didn't expect that college students would be so enthusiastic about balloons.

Sydney cursed as she pushed through the crowd, "Damn it! Which bastard stepped on my foot?! The one with white sneakers, don't think I didn't see you just because you moved fast. Apologize to me right now!"

"What are you pushing for? Are you in a hurry to go to hell?!"

Others were shouting even louder.

"Ouch! Who was that?! My glasses got knocked off. Watch out, don't step on them, please!!"

"That's mine. Don't you know the first - come - first - served rule..."

"I want that little rabbit."

"Ri - Ri, catch it!" Aria finally managed to squeeze to the front and grabbed an animal - shaped balloon. Before she could see what kind of animal it was, someone snatched it away.

Then Sydney stuffed her arms full of various small balloons and balloon animals.

Aria: "..."

She looked down at her arms.

After a long silence, she looked at Sydney with admiration. She was really something.

Not long after, Sydney stuffed two more balloons into her arms. She didn't know who she had snatched them from. Then she grabbed Aria's arm and ran out.

Aria stumbled as she was pulled along.

The two of them ran out of the venue and stopped only after running a long way.

The balloons in Aria's arms scattered all over the ground. She bent over, her hands on her knees, gasping for breath, unable to say a word.

Vaguely, they could hear shouts from behind:

"Damn it! That girl!! The balloons you took were from my arms!! Stop right there and give them back!!!"

"Those were for my girlfriend, damn it!!"

Sydney: "Bah! Stupid couple!"

She rolled up her sleeves, also panting, clearly exhausted.

The two girls panted facing each other for a while. Then they suddenly looked up, met each other's eyes, and after a few seconds, they both squatted on the ground and burst out laughing.

They looked at the large number of balloons on the ground.

Then they looked at each other again and laughed even harder.

Aria was laughing so hard that she could barely catch her breath, "Why did you snatch from others? Those were for his girlfriend."

"I snatched from him on purpose." Sydney snorted. "I saw him clearly. That big guy was pushing harder than anyone else. It was him who stepped on my foot. He didn't even apologize."

As she spoke, she showed her poor little white shoes.

There was a big black footprint on it.

Sydney sneered, "I didn't snatch enough. If there weren't so many people and I was afraid of hurting others by mistake, I would have kicked him back."

"You have no idea. His foot came down like a mountain. I almost couldn't resist knee - kicking him to teach him a lesson."

"Yeah, he deserved it, he deserved it!"

Aria couldn't stop laughing.

Sydney kept cursing and complaining, and then she also laughed again.

Finally, when they had laughed enough, they wiped the sweat from their foreheads, bent down to pick up all the balloons, and walked away, chatting and laughing while holding the balloons.

They didn't go to the cafeteria but went to a small restaurant near the teaching building.

The evening get - together was for two classes together, and the time was arranged like evening self - study. There were nearly two hours until seven o'clock. The two of them each ordered a bowl of clear - soup rice noodles.

Aria ordered a standard portion and added quail eggs and enoki mushrooms according to her taste. Sydney liked all kinds of meatballs and added a bunch of extra things, writing them down on a piece of paper and handing it over.

There weren't many people in the small restaurant at this time.

"Ah, it feels so good. Days without military training are just wonderful." Sydney propped her chin up, sighing. "My legs have been so sore these days that I feel like they don't even belong to me anymore."

"Our drill instructor has gone crazy these days. Before, he gave us a lot of time to rest. I even showed off to other classes. But now, he doesn't let us rest at all!"

Aria nodded in agreement, smiling bitterly, "That's true."

"I had such high hopes for him before," Sydney said indignantly. "Doesn't he know that delicate girls like us can't endure hardship and fatigue?"

"We'll be exhausted to death."

"Just hold on a little longer." Aria felt that she had almost recovered after this day of rest. She comforted her friend, "We'll be free after the performance."

But then she remembered something and her face fell. She said listlessly, "We still have a week of etiquette training, though."

Sydney curled her lips, "Heh."

The two of them chatted casually, and gradually, the topic somehow shifted to today's get - together.

Sydney lowered her head to browse through the school's QQ space and suddenly said, "Shortly after the morning program started, our school's confession wall exploded."

"Hmm?" Aria, who was reading a novel, looked up. gòйЪ.ōΓg