Chapter 28 Tears
Chapter 29 Tears

Under Hoshino's instruction, Shiho and I started a day of study. But I spent most of the time catching up on sleep. I only talked to Shiho when Hoshino left the classroom. Since Hoshino scared me a lot when I first came, she didn't care about me when I was sleeping. Instead, she tried to lower her voice to teach Shiho. I was very satisfied with the effect. At the same time, it also made me sleep comfortably for the whole day. Only when it was close to night, Hoshino woke me up.

"Brother IceWine." Hoshino gently pushed my shoulder.

"Huh? What?" I opened my eyes blearily.

"I'm sorry, Brother IceWine. Today's summary test is about to start. If you can't pass it, you will have to take extra classes in the evening. You..."

"Ah. I understand." I rubbed my sleepy eyes. "You go get the test paper. I'll do it." I didn't make it difficult for her. I said to her calmly.

"Yes. Brother IceWine." Hoshino said and walked out of the classroom.

"Ice." Shiho's soft voice came over.

"Huh? What?"

"Why do I feel like this woman is afraid of you?"

"Hehe. To make things easier for myself, I scared her before coming." I smiled at Shiho, baring my little white teeth.

"What about your exam?" Shiho asked worriedly. "You slept all day today. Can you pass the exam?"

"Are you worried about me?" I smiled wickedly.

"Idiot..." Shiho glanced to the side. "Who would worry about you?"

"Tsk~ Shiho, you're just like that, not frank at all." I squinted my eyes and looked at her.

"Call me Shirley." Shiho responded to me with the same half-moon eyes.

"Yes, yes. Shiho." I chuckled. "Let's not talk about me for now. How about you? Do you know everything today?"

"Yeah. It seems pretty easy. I should be able to pass the test." Shiho looked at me thoughtfully. "You don't want me to help you cheat, do you? I don't want to."

"Tsk... you don't look down on me. Who needs you to help me cheat?" I said to Shiho with a childish demeanor. (Then again, I am a child to begin with.)
"Really? In that case I won't help you." Shiho glanced away angrily and ignored me.

"Hehe. Shiho, you are still worried about me." I was very happy. At least Shiho was thinking about me.

"Call me Shirley." Shiho was speechless and had to change the subject.

"Hey, Shiho. Let's make a bet." I looked at her excitedly.

"bet?"

"Yeah. Let's bet on the test results this time." I smiled at her. "If you win, I will promise to help you do something. If I win, you also have to agree to one condition of mine."

"It seems very interesting. Okay. I'll make a bet with you." Shiho said to me with a smile. Looking at Shiho's smile, I couldn't help but be stunned. Seeing her smile again, I felt so happy.

"H." Shiho looked at my dull expression and said to me lightly.

“Uh.” I turned into a dotted-eyed man. “Hey, hey. Sorry, sorry.”

"Okay. If you win, what do you want me to do?" Shiho asked, returning to her original expression of ignoring everything.

"Well..if I win. You have to be my guest in my room tonight. Is that okay?"

"Eh?" Shiho was slightly stunned. Then she smiled. "Sure. It just so happens that I didn't take a good look at your room yesterday. So what if I win?"

"That depends on what you want me to do."

"Hmm..." Shiho held her chin up in thought. "So, if I win, Sister Shizuru can't sleep in your room anymore."

"Ah?" I turned into a dotted-eyed person again. How did she know that Jingliu was sleeping in my room?
"Don't think I don't know." Shiho narrowed her eyes and continued, "Since Sister Shizuru came, she hasn't returned to her room. She must have been sleeping at your place."

"Shiho..."

"what?"

"Are you jealous?"

"Who...who would be jealous of Sister Shizukuri?" Shiho said with blushing cheeks.

"Hey? I didn't say I was jealous of Jingliu."

"You... huh..." Shiho was speechless and could only turn her head away and ignore me.

"Hehe. Okay Shiho. I promise you. If you win, I won't let Shizuru sleep in my room anymore."

"Call me Shirley."

"Yes, yes. Got it, Shiho."

"..."

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

After we played around for a while, Hoshino came back with the test disk. One for each of us. The test lasted for one hour. After inserting the disk into the computer, Shiho and I started to get busy. I looked sideways and found that Shiho was doing the test questions very seriously. I chuckled. Little girl, you will definitely lose if you bet with me. The things on the test paper now are the simplest mathematics for the first grade of junior high school. Such as rational numbers, linear equations, data statistics and so on. It couldn't be simpler for me.

I kept clicking the mouse. I had already handed in my paper while Shiho was still struggling with the first big math problem. Then I lay on the table and looked at Shiho's focused expression.

"H. Have you seen enough?" Ten minutes later, Shiho, who also handed in the paper, squinted her eyes and looked at me.

"No. I can't get enough of it in my lifetime." I smiled at Shiho while lying on the table, making Shiho's face blush.

Since it was a normal test, the answers were all given to the computer to judge. Only the last four calculation questions were judged by Hoshino. So we didn't have to wait too long. The results came out soon. I won with a slight advantage in one multiple-choice question. There was no other way. If Shiho hadn't been confused on the last multiple-choice question, both of us would have handed in full marks.

But this also made Shiho and Hoshino look at me as if I were a monster. It made sense. After all, I was sleeping in class. In the end, I got full marks in the exam. It really surprised them.

"Hehe. Shiho. Then I'll be waiting for you in the room." I said with a giggle.

"Monster..." Shiho squinted her eyes and looked at me.

"..."

After that, we left the classroom one after another and went to the cafeteria to have dinner. Of course, we sat separately to avoid being seen. But she sat across from me at a table. Sitting this way was actually not much different from sitting together. It was just a little farther away.

After dinner, Shiho looked at us and we left the cafeteria and headed for our rooms. Shiho said she would take a shower and change clothes before coming back. I went back to my room to clean up and told Shizuru to change clothes. If Shiho saw Shizuru walking around in the room in just underwear, I would never be able to wash myself clean even if I jumped into the sea.

"I am back."

"Welcome back, Bing~" Jingliu replied sweetly. I looked at Jingliu. Fortunately, she was wearing clothes. But it was a maid outfit.

"Sister Shizuka, Shiho will be back soon. Please prepare some coffee and snacks for her." I said to Shizuka. "Ah, you brought your girlfriend home so soon." Shizuka laughed gossipingly.

"Hey, hey..." I squinted my eyes and looked at Jingliu.

"Hehe. Just kidding. I'll go prepare some food. Have a good rest, Master Bing." Jingliu ran out of the room with a smile. He should have gone back to the room to prepare some snacks.

I sat on the sofa and took a short rest. Although I had slept for a whole day, I still felt a little tired. It might be because I stayed up late for two consecutive days, which made me feel a little weak. I took out the lavender brooch that had always been with me from my necklace and recalled the dream I had yesterday.

"Brother, don't you want me anymore? Brother, where are you? I miss you. Can you please come back soon..."

That voice must be a girl. It must be my sister. But... I can't remember her appearance at all.

Whenever I think of this, my head would tear apart with pain. I frowned and rubbed my temples, hoping to relieve the pain.

"Bing. Are you okay?" It was Jingliu who came back with a plate of snacks and drinks. Seeing me curled up on the sofa with a frown on my face, she asked hurriedly.

"Ah. Nothing. Just a slight headache." I said with a slight smile.

"But you don't look well. Is it because you haven't slept well recently?"

"No. I was just trying to recall what happened. But every time I get close to remembering it, my head starts to hurt." I said with a frown and some sadness.

"Bing. Don't think about the headache. Believe me, you will remember it one day." Jingliu squatted down and said to me gently.

"Yeah." I smiled at her. Jingliu saw that I had recovered a little, so he knelt on the carpet with his back to me and put the snacks on the plate on the table.

Watching Jingliu's busy figure, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved. With someone who can take care of you and understand you by your side, what else can I ask for? I got up from the sofa, walked behind Jingliu, put my hands under her armpits, rested my head on her shoulders, and gently hugged her.

"Eh? Bing..." Jingliu was a little surprised by my sudden action.

"Don't talk." I said calmly with my eyes closed. "Sister Jingliu, let me hold you like this for a while."

"Yeah..." Jingliu nodded obediently. She didn't say anything. She just rubbed her fair face against mine to comfort me.

I greedily sucked in the jasmine fragrance on Jingliu's body. I felt that my headache was no longer so painful. Haha. It feels so good to have someone by my side.

dong dong dong.

After a moment of silence, there was a knock on my door. It must be Shiho. I let go of Shizuru and went to open the door.

"Hehe. Bing. Good evening~" After opening the door, I saw Ling's sweet smile.

"Brother Bing, good evening." Taiyi and Mary also greeted me one after another.

"Huh? Why are you here?" I looked at Ling and the others in surprise.

"Tsk... You make it sound like you don't welcome us." Ling looked at me with her eyes narrowed.

"How could that be? Come in." I smiled and welcomed Ling and the others into the house.

"Don't you need to take roll call today?"

"Yeah. Roll call was very early today. So if we have nothing to do, let's just come and have some fun." Ling said with a smile.

"But, if you come to play, why do you need to bring a disk for study?" I glanced at Ling's hand and saw a black disk in Ling's hand.

"Hehe. Taiyi and the others want to ask you some questions. So." Ling smiled embarrassedly.

"Tsk... If you want to ask a question, just come and ask it. What's the matter?" I squinted my eyes and looked at Ling.

Ling's eyes suddenly turned into small dots, and she looked at me with a blushing face.

"Um. Brother Bing." Mary looked at me a little embarrassed. "The teacher taught too fast in class today. We couldn't keep up. So I hope Brother Bing can give us some tutoring."

"Ah. No problem. Come to my bedroom. There's a computer there." I said to Mary easily.

"Yes. Thank you so much, Brother Bing." Taiyi also responded.

"Ling. Come in." I called.

"I. I don't need it. Just go back and take a look at it yourself." Ling lowered her head and didn't dare to look at me.

"Okay, come together. It's not something to be embarrassed about." I pulled Ling into the bedroom.

I turned on the computer and inserted Ling's disk. Because they were all learning the same fourth grade stuff, the teaching progress was the same, so I could teach the three of them at the same time.

So and so... This way and that way... And then...

dong dong dong.

I was talking to them when the door of my room rang again. I thought it must be Shiho this time. Shizuru went to open the door. Sure enough, Shiho changed out of her white coat and walked in wearing a dark red short-sleeved T-shirt.

"Oh my. It's really lively here today." Shiho smiled as she looked at the room full of people.

"Ah. Shirley. Sorry. You can do it in the living room first. I'll finish telling them soon." I looked at Shiho apologetically and smiled.

"OK, all right."

"No need." Ling's cold voice rang out.

"Ling..." I looked at her with a frown. "Don't be like this."

"Hmph. Taichi. Mary. Let's go. We can figure out the rest by ourselves." Ling pulled out the disk from the computer. Taichi and Mary looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Ling walked over to stand next to Shiho, her purple bangs hiding her expression.

"Your name is Shirley, right?" Ling's sweet voice seemed a little cold at the moment. Although the two had met two days ago, Ling still asked this question.

"Yes. Are you Ling?" Shiho replied. "Bing often mentioned you." Shiho's face was expressionless. The two girls stood in opposition.

"Well. Treat Bing well." Ling said with some sadness.

"Eh?" Shiho was speechless.

"I told you to treat Bing well! If I knew that Bing was hurt because of you, I will make you suffer for the rest of your life!" Ling shouted to Shiho excitedly.

"Ling...you..." Looking at this emotional girl, I don't know how to express my emotions. Ling didn't stop and walked out of the door. From her face, I clearly saw a crystal teardrop across her tender cheek.

(End of this chapter)