Why not me? | LuWei Cheng

chapter 7. Not Fast Enough

text that are put in bold is when a character speaks English
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"I told you these friends of yours is nothing but fierce ignorant fucks!- Sorry for my language.. Jie come" Maria motioned the younger friend to go near her so that they could go home and heal her bruises and wash her wet stained uniform, not to mention that Maria just said that right in front of her friends. Jie stood still and contemplated wether to go with her, looking back to her friends with stunned looks on their faces. Maria sneered at them before dragging Jie away. "What am i gonna tell your mother?! She can't know you just fought some random maintenance man and got stepped on!" Maria panicked not letting go of the squirming girl she's gripping tightly. "You're not my mother! Let go- I can handle things for myself!"

"I don't need to be your mother to be worried" Maria shots back, letting go of her firm grip so that she could settle down.

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Once her shoes hit the stone road, she let out a sigh. She was incredibly tired, her vision was like a camera trying to find it's way to focus, her body felt numb from the ride back home that seem to last longer than it did at the beginning of the trip. Almost losing her entire balance when Cheng pushed her out the way to get out the bus himself, hissing at the sudden pain on her head. Finally, the tiredness hit her after a long day and she was not intending to go much further than this. "Jie! Come!" Or more so she thought.

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If only she had gotten away from her friends' grips she wouldn't be here watching them trample over bikes that were displayed right across their school, or maybe she could've walked to her way home rather than standing still to feel every single feeling she's been receiving once she hopped off that gosh darn bus. "Hey- Hey, hey! That's enough you kids!" A middle-aged man shoos off, gesturing with his hand to tell them to get off and do something else. She watched as the man struggles to get them off the bike with his words until her friends cuts the dude some slack, basically dragging herself to follow the energetic group behind.

"Sheesh, you don't look so well Jie." Zhuang points out while she lazily plops herself on a step right on top of where he sat, letting out a loud tired groan, wondering why she's still here. "I'm tiiiired" the teen girl tries to blurt out within her strong yawn "Come on, it's gonna be weekend's off. We're not gonna see each other for 2 days!" in utter confusion of Liang's reply, she shot her eyes up at him "Why so?" they usually hang out every weekend, if not everyday. Why's this weekend different? "Well, im off to study for a massive quiz in English" Liang answered, right. She'd forgotten the boy's a nerd, he doesn't look the part. But off from anything else his cramped inside a place reading a book or something, and insanely awkward.

She judgementally stared at her friend before turning to Zhuang "Not gonna see you as well?" She asked, the boy nods "Apparently my family's gonna go on a small trip out the city" Scoffing at his replies she's more doomed than she is right now. Her weekend might be stuck doing 10,000 piece puzzle inside her house with her mother, she doesn't want that. That's no fun! Rolling her eyes she pans her attention to Cheng, who throws his bag right at her and shrugging. "I got nothing to do this weekend."

Catching his bag from his aggressive throw, she wraps her arms around his bag that seem to have little to nothing in it. Using it to rest her head as she watches the boy do fighting stances, her eyes getting too heavy to even get it to open. But before it could even be closed, they were splashed by dirty, smelly, warm water. Out of surprise she jolts up, she gasped like all the air in the atmosphere was inhaled by her. Whipping over to where Cheng shouted, pointing at Dre running off to the small alleyways of Beijing as he did so himself. Throwing off the black bag she was hugging she runs after her friends that followed the two figures that's slowly getting smaller and smaller the further they went.