Chapter 6: The troublesome star who also has problems with eating 1
catch?
Still not answering?
This is a problem, a big problem.
I propped my chin up, bit my chopsticks, and stared unconsciously at the vibrating phone at hand. On the flashing screen, the two big words "Noen" kept jumping, making my heart beat up and down.
Finally, the caller seemed to lose his patience and the phone returned to silence.
I sighed and started to put rice grains into my mouth, but my eyes couldn't help but stare at the phone screen.
If I remember correctly, this call was the 21st call from Norn in the past two days. From the initial anger to the subsequent confusion, I didn't know how to face this person who deceived me but also helped me, so I didn't answer the call.
But I knew I couldn't hold on for much longer.
Running away is not a solution. Besides, I still need to confirm whether he is an alien or not. I was so focused on feeling guilty the past few days that I forgot the most important thing.
I took a deep breath, perked myself up, and was about to eat faster when my attention was drawn to the topic that the girls next to me were talking about.
"Hey! Have you heard? Everyone in the academy is saying that Senior Norn has admitted that he has a girlfriend!"
A mysterious voice came from behind me.
My body stiffened and my ears pricked up instantly. It's only been two days since I last saw him, and Norn actually has a girlfriend? This is too...
Isn’t it too depressing?
I frowned, a little confused about why I was unhappy. I tried to ignore the strange emotions in my heart and leaned back a little, trying to hear more clearly.
"No way? Mo Ran, where did you get this information? How come we haven't heard about it? It can't be true!"
"Yes, yes! Senior Norn is the last single person in the study group. If even he has a girlfriend, then we will have no hope. Wuuu! No!"
"Mo Ran, please tell me clearly, is it true?"
Three anxious voices sounded one after another, as if waiting for the whistleblower's answer.
I would never admit that I was as anxious as they were, but since they wanted to talk to me in my ear, I just forced myself to listen.
God knows, my head was about to turn away, but luckily there was a last bit of rationality that reminded me, allowing me to barely maintain an angle where no one could see my face.
What the hell! When did I, Bai Jie Ni, learn to eavesdrop? I despised myself in my heart, but I couldn't help holding my breath, waiting for the final answer.
"Humph! You don't believe me?" The girl named Moran sounded particularly indignant, as if she had been greatly insulted. I could even hear her slapping her chest with her palms. "Who am I? I'm Song Moran, the gossip queen of Ailey College! The gossip that comes out of me is absolutely true! I dare to guarantee you with my own personality that your senior Norn really has a girlfriend! And she's a celebrity in the school!"
At this point, Song Moran deliberately kept the audience in suspense, sounding very proud of the suspense he had created.
Sure enough, the girl next to him kept asking, "Who is it? Who is it?"
I felt my heartbeat was already beating like a drum. The truth was about to be revealed, so why was I so nervous?
"Who else could it be—" After finally keeping everyone in suspense, Song Moran stretched out his voice with satisfaction, and then directly dropped a bombshell, "Of course it's the junior Bai Jie Ni who got to know our senior Nuo En on the first day of school, and then got close to him despite everyone's pessimism, and finally got the handsome guy, hahahaha!"
"impossible!"
Four voices rang out at the same time, three of which were undoubtedly from the three girls just now, and the other one...
Kaka... I screamed out loud.
I had a bad feeling when Song Moran was halfway through his words. When my name finally popped out, it felt like swallowing an ice cream in the middle of winter. It was cool from head to toe and a little sweet at the same time...
Huh? Why is it so sweet? It seems like some strange emotion has come into my mind!
Never mind! I slapped away the random thoughts in my head, no longer caring about hiding myself, and jumped up directly from the stool under the surprised gazes of the four people behind me.
“Who is spreading rumors?”
I turned around angrily, my eyes swept across the faces of the four stunned girls one by one, and finally fixed on the face of a girl with a cute doll hairdo.
Intuitively, I felt that she was the Song Moran, because only she had her eyes light up the moment she saw me, and she looked me up and down as if she had seen something very interesting.
"Bai Jie Ni?" One of the other three people who were standing there in a daze exclaimed.
Yes! That's right! It's me! The one you were talking about just now!
I never expected that I would end up being implicated in the story of who Norn's girlfriend was after eavesdropping on her. Isn't this... funny?
"This... um... Senior Sister Song." Judging from what she said just now, she should be a senior sister, right? No matter what, I, Bai Jie Ni, must be polite, but things must be made clear.
"I don't know where you heard this rumor from, but Norn and I are not in the relationship you think, and he will never admit that I am his girlfriend!"
How could that fool who didn't understand romance and ruined the atmosphere say that I was his girlfriend? Someone must have said that behind my back!
"Really?" Unexpectedly, after hearing what I said, Song Moran actually showed a mischievous smile. Her eyes scanned me from head to toe and finally landed on my face. "Then let me ask you, has Senior Nuoen ever said in public that you are a member of the study group?"
Huh? This...
I nodded: "Yes, but that's because..."
"I don't care what the reason is." Song Moran blinked his round eyes and didn't let me continue. Instead, he asked again, "Second question, do you know how many girls in our college have been recognized as members of the study group?"
Hmm? This...
"I don't know." I answered honestly.
"Three!" Seeing that I couldn't answer, Song Moran on the opposite side raised his eyebrows slightly, and then stretched out three fingers and waved them in front of my eyes, "Do you know who they are?"
"No...I don't know." I felt dumbfounded and had no idea how this question-and-answer game had started.
Can I refuse to play this game?
"That..." I tried to get the topic back on track. Weren't we just talking about the relationship between Norn and me? Why did we end up talking about how many girls were in the study group? This has nothing to do with me!
"Let me tell you, hahaha!" Song Moran seemed to have fallen into a very strange state of excitement. She counted on her fingers proudly, "These three people are Su Enxue, Xiang Qianqian and Yu Manluo! Come on, tell her what their identities are now?"
As if he was finally no longer satisfied with his one-man show, Song Moran nodded his chin towards the three girls next to him who were as stunned as I was.
Then, from left to right, the three girls answered with particularly complicated expressions and particularly dreamy voices:
"Su Enxue later became Senior Lucifer's girlfriend."
"Qian Qianqian, now she is Senior Tian Yifeng's girlfriend."
"Yu Manluo, she's with our cutest senior Hua Qianye."
"Do you understand?" Song Moran shrugged his shoulders with an expression of "admit it" on his face. "All the girls who were admitted by the study group later became their girlfriends. Now, Senior Norn said in person that you are a member of the study group. What's the difference between this and him personally admitting that you are his girlfriend? Don't you think my reasoning is perfect?"
No… I don’t think so! I don’t think so at all! Because I don’t understand how this magical conclusion was reached!
What do you mean by recognition and being recognized? My former seniors are different from me. I...
"Ah, so that's how it is, it does sound reasonable!"
"Ah! Bai Jie Ni, you are such a lucky guy, so lucky that it makes people jealous!"
"Woo woo, if I had known this would happen I would have taken action earlier. Now our senior Norn has also been taken away! He doesn't want to live anymore!"
…
Under Song Moran's smug gaze, the other three girls seemed to have suffered a huge blow. They glared at me with tears in their eyes, then ran away quickly with their hands covering their faces.
Senior, I...I don’t know anything!
"Ka-ka! Junior sister Jenny, accept your enviable fate! Don't worry, I will continue to spread your news in the future, don't thank me too much!"
Song Moran gave me a teasing look, turned around and was about to leave, but was grabbed by the ear by a figure who suddenly appeared.
"Silent trumpet, what nonsense are you talking about here again?"
"Hey, hey, hey! Qianqian, please let go, it hurts! I'm not talking nonsense!"
Song Moran, who had just looked like an otherworldly master, was defeated as soon as he saw the person coming. He pouted in dissatisfaction, and his face looked aggrieved and pitiful.
"Senior Qianqian, you..." I quickly stepped forward and wanted to plead for Song Moran.
However, Qian Qian seemed to know what I was going to say. She let go of her hand and waved at me, then pointed at Song Moran who was still rubbing his ear and said to me, "Junior sister Jie Ni, this Song Moran is my friend. She likes to spread gossip everywhere. If she said anything that made you unhappy, I apologize to you on her behalf."
"No, no..." I stammered, not knowing where to start.
Song Moran on the other side suddenly leaned over and made a face: "Although I am a gossip queen, I never spread false news. Qianqian can testify for me!"
After saying that, she saw Xiang Qian reaching out his hand again to twist her ears. She quickly stuck out her tongue and ran away like a gust of wind.
“You have such a great relationship!”
I looked at Song Moran's back with envy as he ran away, and couldn't help but sigh, when will I have such a good friend in Ailey College?
"Don't worry, you will also have your own friendship and love!" I don't know when, senior sister Qianqian has walked to my side. She raised her hand and patted my shoulder. There was a rare seriousness on her pretty face, and her eyes seemed to be looking through me into an unknown place.
“If you don’t take the first step, you will never know what wonderful life God has planned for you.”
Before leaving, she looked at me deeply and said, "Jenny, if you are no longer angry, call that guy Norn back. He is going crazy. No matter what happened, you have to give him a chance to explain!"
Why do I feel that Xiang Qian, who came and went in a hurry, was actually here to lobby? But her words surprisingly comforted me.
Is it true that if you don’t take the first step, you won’t have a wonderful life?
My mind was in a mess the whole afternoon. I kept thinking back to what my senior classmate said, and I seemed to understand something in my heart.
At night, when I finally had time to stand in front of my beloved astronomical telescope and look up at the starry sky, looking at the stars shining billions of light years away, I suddenly remembered, if Norn is really an alien, which planet does he live on?
The moment this name appeared in my mind, I found that I was not as angry as before.
Come to think of it, that guy isn't that bad. After all, he has helped me before. If I continue to be in a cold war with him like this, then won't I never know his true identity?
That won’t do!
My heart tightened, and I realized that something important might be lost because of my hesitation.
“If you don’t take the first step, you will never know what wonderful life God has planned for you.”
The words of the former senior suddenly echoed in my mind again.
Humph! It's just a step forward, what's the big deal! Even if it's not for the sake of thanking him for helping me, for my dream of studying aliens, I will reluctantly forgive him!
It's not because of anything else, it's just because, well, it's just because of my dream. Yes, just because he might be an alien, I won't hate him less just because of the time we've been together.
Right, that is it!
I gave myself a thumbs up in my heart, then reluctantly picked up my phone and leaned over the windowsill, taking several deep breaths before I finally dialed the phone number that seemed to have been engraved in my heart.
“Beep—beep—beep—”
In the dark room, the moonlight sprinkled in front of the window like mercury. The cell phone that was thrown far away rang abruptly, and the figure who was chewing a handful of red pepper angrily suddenly stopped.
"Whoever interrupts me while I'm eating chili peppers is dead!"
The interrupted boy had long silver hair that was brighter than the moonlight outside the window. He was in such a bad mood that even eating chili peppers couldn't relieve his depression. Was the person who called him at this time asking for trouble?
A cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He walked over and picked up the mobile phone in the corner. He was about to vent his anger, but he saw a familiar name and his expression froze instantly.
The cell phone was still ringing persistently. He was upset and wanted to hang up, but he couldn't bear to do so and finally picked up the phone hesitantly.
"Bai Jie Ni! Where have you been? Why don't you come to take care of me?"
A huge roar came through the receiver. The person on the other end seemed to be stunned for a few seconds, and then an angry rebuttal sounded.
"You're such a fool! You don't have any missing limbs, haven't you played tricks on me enough?"
"Who... who played a trick on you?" When the boy mentioned this, his face flushed quietly, his momentum weakened a lot, and his voice became more aggrieved. "My bones are indeed broken. If it weren't for my strong recovery ability, I might still be lying in the hospital now. Don't you have to take responsibility for this?"
"Well... I didn't mean it." The girl on the other end of the phone muttered, as if she was very unwilling. "Anyway, you were wrong. We are even now!"
"How can it be even?" The young man smiled slightly, remembering the advice Xiang Qian gave him in the afternoon. "Even if you hurt me and I lied to you, we are even, but I saved you from Yao Shanshan yesterday, right? How are you going to repay me for that?"
After saying that, he subconsciously drew a smiley face on the misty glass with his fingers and waited for the other party's answer.
After a long silence, the girl on the other end of the phone finally spoke: "So what do you want? Anyway, don't even think about asking me to be your babysitter again!"
"You don't need to be a babysitter anymore." The boy made a victory gesture to the smiling face. When he raised his head again, a deep smile filled his deep eyes. "Isn't tomorrow the weekend? Then treat me to a nice meal."
"Oh well!"
Through the receiver, the boy seemed to have seen the other party's reluctant expression, but he suddenly found that his depressed mood, which had been for two whole days, had miraculously improved.
This is really a strange phenomenon.
He hung up the phone silently.
