Chapter 409 – The Balloon Again
It was Xiao Qin melted after she finished her phone call and she laid on her desk for a bit.
After a while, she turned to look at me while lying on her arms and asked:
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate must hate me now, right?”
“Why?”
“Because… I’m the leader of the girl delinquents. The leader of delinquents must also be a delinquent. I’ve already changed my ways, but this embarra.s.sing past…”
I feel like it wouldn’t fit Xiao Qin’s personality if she actually studied properly without stirring up some trouble.
“You might have been a middle school student in name when you were attending the prep cla.s.ses at the girls school, but you were only an elementary school student in age.” I smiled, “Even if you were a delinquent, it would only be considered as a kid playing around, it’s nothing serious.”
“But we did a lot of bad things…” Xiao Qin said worriedly.
“Like what.”
“Like we lured the cafeteria head chef out of the kitchen and threw away the noodles he was making…”
It’s not a big deal as it sounds like a prank.
“And we took off the bell of the teacher’s bike and threw it over the school wall and almost hit the cafeteria chef’s head…”
It’s still not a big deal as it’s still within the scope of a prank.
“We…. also played the elephant merchant game when we were bored…”
“Elephant merchant?”
“I would be the seller while the others would be the buyers. They would ask me how much one elephant costs. I would say they cost 100 each and they usually eat a lot of fodder. If they wanted to buy an elephant, they would need to first prepare the fodder.”
“……”
“Then they would run into the gym’s equipment storage and ripped open the mats that had hay inside. Then they spread out all the fodder into a small mountain on the exercise fields…”
Wow that’s crazy. It seems girls are just as mischievous and naughty as boys before they get their period.
“I would then say to them now the elephant has enough food. But since we didn’t actually have an elephant, we quickly forgot about it and just laid on the pile of hay while watching the clouds. It was actually pretty comfortable…”
Obviously, it feels great just thinking about lying down on a pile of gra.s.s with no stress or worries.
“Then we got worried when we saw the pile of gra.s.s when we were planning on heading home…”
I mean that’s normal. Since you guys made the pile after school, if a teacher discovered it the following day, they would try to find the perpetrators.
“We talked about it and thought since we spent so much time building the pile, it would suck if someone just came and slept on it without having to do any work.”
So, that’s what your were worried about?
“So we decided to light a fire and burn the pile of fodder….”
Hey, kids shouldn’t play with fire!
“At the time, only the cafeteria head chef was still at school. When he saw there was a fire on the fields, he ran out to put out the fire. In the end, he burned off his few remaining strands of hair and became bald…”
Why is the chef again? It’s seems the chef is the victim every time, do you hate him that much?
“It’s his fault because his food tastes bad.”
“Is that all?” I asked, “So Rose Group… no, did Overlord Flower go to other schools and force boys to be their boyfriends?”
“No, of course not.” Xiao Qin blushed, “Although I was in a girls school, I was still used to being dressed like a boy and I’ve never worn a dress even once…”
Which means you looked closer to the Little Tyrant from my memories?
“I didn’t even want to be the leader. But because I don’t wear the school uniform, a bunch of older female students didn’t like how I acted, so they surrounded me after school and I beat them up…”
You make it sound easy but you were taking on multiple third year middle school students as a sixth grader! Of course they would respect you as their leader!
“More and more people began following me unknowingly. They said we needed a group name to be more impressive. Coincidentally, I saw a movie form Hong Kong with a similar name, so I called us the Overlord Flowers…”
“When I was the leader, I’ve never let any of my followers force boys to be in a relationship with them. But there were a few of them who were bullied by boys so I taught them a lesson….”
“Anyway those are all my past crimes. I hope Ye Lin cla.s.smate will forgive me and not remove me as a girlfriend because I was a bad girl….”
Well, if you were acting like the Little Tyrant, then you would be closer to a bad boy than a bad girl. Other people might think of you as a boy who dominated an entire all girls school.
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate, you don’t seem like you’re very upset.” Xiao Qin became more cheerful, “Does Ye Lin cla.s.smate like bad girls more? It may be a bit embarra.s.sing, but if you like it, then I can dress like one of my old followers…”
You mean the girls who have heavy makeup, piercings, s.e.xy miniskirts and stick up their middle fingers at random people? I think it’s a tacky look, but why do I kind of want to see Xiao Qin dressed like that?
No, wake up, it’s just Xiao Qin trying to use different characteristics to seduce you! She could be a delinquent one day, an art girl the next, and call you master on another day. Xiao Qin should go and be an actor since she’s already trying to fill multiple roles in real life.
I realized Xiao Qin skipped over a key point as she was confessing her crimes.
“Xiao Qin, if you were the leader of Thousand Crane Girls School, why did you run home crying and shut yourself in at home? Don’t tell me you got defeated because I don’t think such a genetic freak exists.”
Xiao Qin held her arms up like a cat, “Those details aren’t important.”
“It’s important, I want to know.”
“Do you really want to know?”
“I want to know. Whenever I read a detective novel, I can’t fall asleep until I finish it. Hurry up and tell me what happened at the girls school.”
“Hehe, Ye Lin cla.s.smate, I feel like the female protagonist from Sweet Dreams.”
“What?”
“How about I break up my story into a thousand parts and tell you a little bit every night. As long as you… sleep with me for a thousand nights, you can hear the whole story….”
Hey, you only stayed at the girls school for a few months, but you need three years to tell your story? Besides, who wants to sleep with you, Auntie Ren wouldn’t agree to it either.
“Does Ye Lin cla.s.smate think a thousand nights is too long and wants to hear the whole story today?”
“Of course, I could take you out for dinner if you tell me.”
Xiao Qin’s eyes brightened, “How about squid and rice? I saw some on food stall street and was hoping for Ye Lin cla.s.smate to treat me.”
Actually, it’s fine if you ask for a more expensive one, like the ones sold in small restaurants which would only cost around ¥15.
I locked the cla.s.sroom door and brought Xiao Qin to the crowded food stall street. Even though it was already past peak hours for students, a lot of people would come here for dinner after work. It was the time when this are was frequented by office workers.
We took a while to find an empty spot in a corner. I got a serving of squid rice for Xiao Qin and a serving of tomato and egg rice for myself. We each also got a bottle of fanta.
I realized this was the first time I invited Xiao Qin to eat a meal outside since we became a couple in name. It’s actually pretty sad when compared to a normal couple.
But Xiao Qin ate it happily like it was no different than a banquet. She even gave me some squid when she thought I didn’t have enough food.
“Xiao Qin, at the girls school…”
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate, taste this squid~~ it’s delicious.”
“Xiao Qin, the girls school….”
“The head chef at the girl’s school never made squid, he deserves to be bald.”
Since I felt a bit apologetic to Xiao Qin, plus the store was really noisy, so I let Xiao Qin finish her meal in piece.
But I was accompanying Xiao Qin towards the subway station, I had to ask again:
“Why did you run home crying from the girls school?”
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate, it seems like you’re pampering me today…” Xiao Qin was carrying a h.e.l.lo Kitty bag. She stuck out her arms and grabbed onto one of my arms.
Seeing I didn’t shake her off, she nestled her face against my arm and smiled.
“I’m going to act a bit spoiled since you’re pampering me.”
“How are you going to act spoiled?”
Xiao Qin held my arm tighter and shook herself on my body.
“Can you take me home? I want Ye Lin cla.s.smate to take me home~~ pleeeease.”
“Is Auntie Ren not home?”
Xiao Qin rubbed her face on my arm, “My mom will be filming late into the night, she might not even back at midnight. We can do homework together at my house.”
“Forget the homework.” My head hurts just thinking about the essay topic a.s.signed ‘Love has no Boundaries’, “I’ll take you home if you tell me why you became a shut in three years ago.”
“Okay.” Xiao Qin was a bit disappointed, “I was planning on using it as bait, so you would pamper me for a few more days….”
I saw our school doctor, Chen YingRan, on the subway. But she didn’t greet us when she saw us on the subway, instead, she moved to a cabin with more shota.
We arrived at her building and rode the elevator to the fourth floor. I felt my decision was a bit careless after I entered Xiao Qin’s wide home.
A lone man and woman under one roof is a bit…
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate.” Xiao Qin pointed, “Can we go to my room for the story, it’s a better place for stories…”
To be honest, I felt a bit of fear towards rooms with beds in our current situation.
“Can’t you tell me in the living room?” I pointed to a sofa, “Isn’t this a good place?”
Xiao Qin began to act spoiled, “Come on~~~ you won’t regret it.”
I could only follow Xiao Qin to her room. The first thing that came into view was her European style wooden single bed. The headboard was sky blue and very childish.
The covers and pillows were pink with hearts on it. It was the same as what I saw last time.
There was a dressing table with a mirror nearby and there was a picture of me as a shota on it. There was also a cat alarm clock and stickers of Snoopy and Chibi Maruko-chan on the corner of the mirror.
There was a small blue balloon without any patterns floating near the ceiling. It could be because gas was continuously leaking, so it was only around the size of a fist.
I trembled: Isn’t this the balloon I bought for Xiao Qin when we went to the movies with the cla.s.s leader, her brother, and Eunuch Cao?
There were better balloons at the time, but I didn’t have enough money, so I bought this cheap balloon for her.
Why did you keep it with you the while time?
I don’t really understand the love you feel towards me, but the love I give you is cheap in comparison…
Xiao Qin didn’t notice my change in expression and pointed to the stars she cut herself out of fluorescent paper on the wall by her bed.
The different size stars were arranged randomly from the headboard of the bed all the way to the ceiling. As long as you close the light and the curtain, the would emit a faint pale blue light as if we were actually looking at the milky way.
Xiao Qin sat on her bed and beckoned me to sit next to her.
“I wasn’t wrong, right?” Xiao Qin smiled at me, “My bedroom is a better place to tell stories.”