Hui Ying shook her head, making her foot step on his as she hated when he called his sister that. "Be nice to your sister." She spoke as she frowned.
"I don't want to anyway," Sang Zhi spoke up, clearing her throat quietly as she did. "I'm in grade 11 now." Sang Zhi spoke, admitting the reason why she didn't want to be picked up again.
Hui Ting shrugged her shoulders. "That's good then!" Sang Yan spoke as he stood up. "So, can i borrow your car this afternoon? I'm fetching my roommate's luggage too." Sang Yan revealed.
It was then that Sang Zhi looked up, her eyes working their ways towards her brother as she looked. Hui Ying had noticed it, which made her furrow her eyebrows.
But before she could speak or ask Sang Zhi what it was about, had his father nodded his head. "As long as you pick up the girls after." He spoke, shrugging his shoulders.
Sang Yan sat back down next to Hui Ying as he opedened the bottle he was holding. "Fine, as long as Hui Ying sits in the front." He spoke normally as he took a sip from his drink. It was then that Sang Zhi leaned forward, her voice was almost in a whisper. "Which roommate?" She asked.
Sang Yan frowned. "Why do you ask?" He asked, his eyes not leaving the food that was in front of him.
It was then that Sang Zhi picked up her chopsticks as she grabbed something that she knew Sang Yan loved. Holding it to his mouth as she smiled widely.
Hui Ying couldn't help but be tempted to snatch the food away from him as it was so close by her. But she held herself back as Sang Yan looked at his sister weirdly. "What do you want?" He asked, not trusting her.
Sang Zhi smiled, her cheeks puffing up like the cheeks from a hamster. It was sweet, Hui Ying found it cute how Sang Zhi was looking at her brother. She pressed the food inside her brothers mouth before he pushed her out.
"Yan, Can i help you out with your move?" She asked sweetly, putting on her sweetest voice so her brother could agree.
Hui Ying knew then, that this was about the roommate. She remembered a small conversation about a friend of her brothers she adored, maybe this was the friend she really liked. "You want to help out?" He asked, being shocked by her words.
His eyes drifted to the girl next to him, who was almost just in the same shock as he was. "Is she alright?" He asked her, whispering close towards her ear as he was worried.
Hui Ying shrugged her shoulders, putting her hand on Sang Zhi's forehead. "She feels fine." She spoke, pulling a confused face. "Did i mishear you?" Sang Yan asked, moving closer towards Sang Zhi as his head was peaking out from above Hui Ying's shoulders.
There was no way Sang Zhi was willing to help her brother move in, Hui Ying almost immediately knew this was about that roommate.
"Zhi, you have a test in two days." Her mother reminded her, her eyebrows raising as she knew her daughter had probably forgotten it. "Maybe you need to study for that, instead of helping your brother." Her father said while nodding his head, agreeing with his wife.
Sang Zhi bit her lip. "It's just that, i've missed my brother a lot." She spoke, her hands started to go towards her heart. She was pretending to have missed her brother, that way she could help him. "Helping him is the least I can do." Sang Zhi spoke with a toothy smile.
Her mother smiled at her. "Oh, look how sincere she is. Let her help you Yan." The older woman spoke to her son, nodding her head sternly.
Sang Yan scoffed, he shook his head as he looked between his sister and his mother. "How can she help, My things are heavy and I don't want anything to break." He explained, shaking his head a lot as he was heavy against the idea of his sister helping him.
"Than Huihui will help me." Sang Zhi revealed.
It made Sang Zhi's head snap towards the younger girl, a confused look on her face. "I will?" She asked, this wasn't something they had asked her to do. She wasn't even sure if she could help as she never went to the gym, the heaviest thing she could carry was a dumbbell of 5 kilograms.
Sang Zhi looked towards her friend, an almost sinster look was placed on her face."You will." Zhi spoke, her voice quiet.
Hui Ying's eyes widened as she nodded her head. She had always been afraid when Sang Zhi did her creepy soft voice, it reminded her of that one horror movie they watched when they were fourteen. She didn't sleep alone for twenty days, that's how scared she was.
"I'll help." Hui thing spoke, a nervous smile playing on her face.
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HUI YING AND SANG ZHI walked towards the campus where Sang Yan was. It was more like Sang Zhi was walking really fast while slightly dragging Hui Ying with her.
Hui Ying was exhausted, their teacher had once again prescribed them with enough homework that would send Hui Ying into a cardiac arrest. She hated school, she hated every subject. The only thing she was good at was programming.
She had been following programming classes in the summer, she was sneaking in to them as she wasn't old enough for the level. But she understood what she had to do, and to her that was the most important part.
Plus she wasn't behind on homework, the teacher was just giving her too much work. "Slow down, Zhizhi!" Hui Ying spoke, almost falling to her knees as her friend grabbed her faster. "You'll fall going so fast!" She spoke.
But the younger girl didn't care, she held her ear to her phone as she waited for her brother to answer it. She wasn't seeing him standing at the place he told her he'll stand. So it was obvious that she was confused by it.
She frowned, the phone finally pulling through as Sang Yan's breaths were heard through it. "Hello?" He asked her, there was some clear annoyance in his voice.
The thought of him forgetting that they were helping today had crossed Hui Ying's mind, there was no way he actually would forget it. "Hello?" Sang Zhi spoke, finally stopping from walking so fast. She looked at Hui Ying as she frowned. "We're here." She spoke.
It was then that Hui Ying could hear movement on the other line. "You two actually came?" He asked, almost like there was some sort of shock in his voice.
Sang Zhi rolled her eyes, unhappy with her brother. "Where are you?" She asked with an impatient voice. Hui Ying laughed at her reaction, She understood why Sang Zhi was getting annoyed at her brother.
"i'm too busy to come get you." Sang Yan's voice spoke.
His sentence made Hui Ying shake her head, she grabbed the phone. "Stop playing games on your phone and come get us." She spoke, now there was also a sort of annoyance laced in her voice.
Sang Yan laughed almost, she listened to it as she looked at Sang Zhi. She was looking at her with a hint of confusion, probably wanting to know what was going on.
"I'm not playing games, i have important things to do." Sang Yan spoke, and just from the way his voice cracked just the slightest bit, Hui Ying knew he was lying.
Sang Zhi picked the phone back from Hui Ying as she grew even more impatient. "Where are you? We'll find you."
"Block 9, Room 525." He spoke fast, Sang Zhi began to look around as Hui Ying followed her movements. "Block 9." Sang Zhi spoke, her eyes searching rapidly for the block her brother was staying in.
Hui Ying pointed her finger at the block that had a number nine on it. "There, got it." Hui Ying spoke, nodding her head. It was then that Sang Yan had abrubtly ended the call.
Sang Zhi scoffed, before gasping as she saw her father car. "My dad's car." She spoke, running towards it as Hui Ying followed close by.
The two girls looked inside as they confirmed most of the stuff was Sang Yan's stuff.
"I'll head inside and find his dorm, text me if you need something." Hui Ying spoke, realising it will be easier to know the exact route to the dorm faster.
Sang Zhi held a thumbs up, nodding her head as her eyes stayed looking at the boxes.
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INVISIBLE STRING - Duan Jia Xu
Fanfiction"All along there was some, invisible string!"
