INVISIBLE STRING - Duan Jia Xu

SIX

Fu Zhengchu frowned. "what?" He asked, confusion spread across his face. 

Hui Ying bit her lip, grabbing her bag that was still laying on the couch as she quickly forced her wrist loose. "Sorry." She muttered quickly before heading out of the door.

There was no way she was going to let him confess to her, she wasn't going to let him talk to her so the best thing to do was run away. 

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     HUI YING HAD BARELY MADE IT OUTSIDE when she heard him calling after her. What hadn't he understood, when someone walks out before you could even confess doesn't that mean their not interested. 

Hui Ying had to remind herself that teenage boys are dense. 

"Hui Ying," He called out, sprinting towards as she started to type on her phone for the fastest route back to her dorm. "wait, please." He begged her, finally being able to walk next to her. 

Hui Ying frowned, not happy with the fact that he was now here with her. "Why did you follow me outside?" She asked, her eyebrows frowning as she wasn't happy about it. 

she didn't like him, she wasn't even friends  with him. She had met him a few times but that was it, she hadn't actually had a good conversation with him to know if she'd like him. 

Another thing was that he was younger, a year younger. That for Hui Ying was catastrophic. 

"I came out for some air." He tried to make excuses, still following her while she tried her best to keep walking and not stand still. 

Hui Ying nodded her head. "You get your air somewhere else then." She spoke, only after speaking did she realise that it might've came out rude. She cleared her throat to dismiss the guilt she was feeling. "I'm going home anyway."

She tried to walk faster, she tried to get further away from him. She tried to make a gap between them, but he pushed forward again. Stepping closer towards her as his shoulder even brushed next to hers. 

"Let me see you off." He insisted. His hands swinging from side to side as he followed her. 

Hui Ying eyed him, unsure whether which approach would work better on him. "You don't need to do that." She spoke, insisting that she would be able to get home alone. She didn't need him to see her off, she didn't even want him to. 

She wanted to be left alone, she didn't need someone to do that. Especially him. 

"Hui Ying." He began speaking, his hand brushing againt her elbow as he stopped her from walking further. "I can't believe you can't tell." He spoke, shaking his head as the smile from his face had left. 

It was obvious he wasn't happy with her, but she didn't want to be confessed to. She wasn't ready for anything, she wasn't ready to be someone something. She couldn't. 

She turned around, a sigh leaving her lungs as her shoulders fell. "Can't tell what?" She asked, although she had a pretty good idea what he was trying to do, she didn't want to toot her own horn. 

It happens to people that they think someone likes them and it's actually the complete opposite, so before she could tell him she didn't like him she needed him to say it. 

"I studied so hard that i am on the top of classes," He spoke, leaning forward slightly as the desperation was filling his face. "just so that i could enroll in the same class as you next year." He nodded his head, like it was the best idea he's ever had.