Why not me? | LuWei Cheng

chapter 7. Not Fast Enough

If she wasn't tired to the brink of falling asleep sat on random small steps right on the corner of a road. This will definitely eat away the smallest energy she's trying to pump out, trying to catch the boys that are leaping over roofs and shoving themselves through pushed boxes. Giving all her power, and probably all of the remaining energy to go even faster to pass her friends, reaching over to grab the darker skinned boy's shirt from the back when she finally got closer. But everytime she felt that she's gonna grab him, the boy kept going faster than her with an inch distance from her desperate hand.

Eventually Dre got a good amount of distance away from her, a perfect time to push over a tower crates full of beer bottles, stopping her tracks as it hits the top of her small figure. In attempt to block the painful hit, she covers her head with her arms as every bottle shatters around and on her. Internally screaming when she felt one slice her cheek, hand, and leg. It was definitely much painful than every blow she received from Master Li as a form of punishment. Once the crates got pulled off her, her Seniors kept their pace to catch the twelve year old. Opening her eyes she didn't even know was forcefully closed, she felt her friends' hand all over her arm. Pushing them off her, shouting to get the boy for she wants to see him receiving fresh whooping. Zhuang and Liang obliging her request once she reassured them that she was fine, even when she's bleeding all over staining her already dirty uniform.

Flinching away when Cheng wipes the blood off her cut cheek, staring over the worried boy's eyes. "Not that deep" She smiled, getting up with the help from him. "Your mother's not gonna be happy" Cheng laughs, holding up her hand to examine the bleeding cut. This was slightly deeper than everything else, not saying anything he removes the red bow that was tied around the collar of his shirt, wiping off the blood before tying it around her hand "Get home" he points at her injury on her leg that cut through her socks that used to go over to her shin. Looking down to where he pointed, she shook her head. Pushing Cheng slightly forward as she held the hand that placed itself on her injured one "Let's get him"

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Catching up to everyone else after going through tighter alleyways, they found themselves getting locked on the other side of a red wooden gate. This path goes to the small office where the maintenance man sits his ass down all the time. Looking around to see old abandoned things stacked on top of each other, high enough for one of them to climb up to get over the other side of the wall. Gaining this information she shakes Cheng to get his attention, pointing over to where those things were leaned. Immediately doing what she wanted him to do, he climbs up and jumps to the other side. She then climbed up next to open the gate, her feet meets the stone ground hard that made her injured leg even more painful than it was. Limping as fast as she could to open the gate, removing the iron string that held the door shut, letting in everyone.

Everyone ran faster than she did, running out of breathe and limping she finally reached the big green gate beside the maintenance office. Not acknowledging the guy that worked there sitting down and watching. Upon getting in, she watches as the boy tried climbing up boxes to get to the other side of another wall, but before he could get too high Cheng pulled him off that resulted him falling to the ground. She immediately closed the gate behind them when Dre got up and tried to go the other way, locking it up. Liang and Zhuang getting the hold of him

"You're fast" Cheng sneered, slowly walking over to Dre with a smirk. Limping over behind Cheng, for a second he watched as she positioned herself right beside her Seniors that stood taller than she did. The pain everywhere and tiredness getting a lot unbearable for her, she felt like she wasn't getting enough air but her eyes showed none of what she felt. Just a strong glare at Dre across Cheng's shoulder.