SNL 2020

Secretive

Qing finally learned to refuse me from getting what I want. At least in the beginning.

You know your Baba, he may grumble about it every once in a while but he'll always give in to me to make me happy because that is Qing's priority...making me happy.

Not this time though. This time he really hold out for days to tell me why Zhu gege beat him up when he was fourteen.

So I resorted to guessing.

Me: You murdered someone and he got so mad because you put him up on burying the corpse.

Qing: I was fourteen, who would I murder?

Me: (shrugging) I don't know. Any guy who got fresh with your sister?

Qing: No. My sister murdered them herself. She was capable of protecting herself. She was a porcupine in highschool. No boys could come close and not get stabbed by her spikes.

Me: (smiling) Why does it sounds like you three had the best teenage years and you all are keeping it mum?

Qing: (chuckling) We were little shits during our teenage days. Zhu gege was not always this no nonsense guy you know. He gave Uncle and Auntie troubles before. I don't know whose soul Uncle and Auntie sacrificed to the gods to straightened Gege down but eventually, Zhu gege got serious in getting his degree and he even studied abroad.

Me: And JiJi.

Qing: JiJi was a model student but her attitude turned most people off her. She was once very entitled. Mama and Baba spoiled us and we almost turned rotten. But when she got to college, JiJi started making friends and then a couple of years after graduating, she met her husband.

Me: And you?

Qing: (eyes shifting) Well, I have Jin, Yao and ZhiMing as friends while in primary and highschool. We have other people in our group as well but the four of us have been the closest to each other. We separated when we got to different universities and colleges and then I met you.

Me: How were you in highschool? I mean, I am an ordinary kid, quite normal...

Qing: Don't. We talked about you using the word "normal" in describing yourself. You are not normal, Love. You...are Dayu.

Me: (rolling my eyes) Fine, so I had my misadventures...

Qing: Jumping on a garbage bin to hide from your friends whom were hunting you down because you failed to attend a group project meeting is not exactly misadventures. It's uhm...you...

Me: Whatever. I'm not the topic here. You are. What happened? What did you do? Did you make a girl cry? Did you shoplift? What?

Qing: Not gonna tell. No. No. And what?

Me: Ugh! Just spill it already! Come on!

Qing: No.

Me: Damn it! I hate that you won't let me see your embarassing pictures growing up. I hate that you won't tell me the reason why Zhu gege beat your ass up. I hate it. I am calling Pau...

But before I can dial Pau's number, my phone rang and Pau's name was on the screen. I answered it immediately.

Pau: (withou saying hello) Make Qing spill it all!

Me: Why? Zhu gege won't talk.

Pau: He is as talkative as a pricked clam.

Me: Yikes. Not opening his mouth then, eh?

Pau: Yes. So whatever happens, make Qing talk. I don't care how you do it, lets find that reason why Zhu ah got physical and beat Qing up. I need to know.