Special Someones

Chapter 14 Suspicion

"Ruff!" Xue Ge mimicked panting like a dog while looking at Jennifer.

Jenn got up. "Excuse me, I think I also need a break." From idiots!

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School gates. Most of the students had gone home, so it wasn't overcrowded with cars as usual.

"I cannot believe you two made me go for volleyball practice as well. I'm injured!" Xue Ge said to Jenn in Mandarin while waving goodbye to Matt.

"Only your hand. So you did footwork. By the way, even if Matt isn't here you should practice speaking English," Jenn said.

"Give me chocolate then I consider."

Jennifer thought, Fat chance. "I don't have any."

"If not... how about reward me with a kiss?" Xue Ge leaned in with puckered lips.

Fatter chance. Jennifer pushed his lips away.

"Hmph. Reject me again. One day I may give up and find someone new."

Jenn laughed. "Who would want you?"

She immediately regret asking that.

"...I'll just go now," Xue Ge said, letting the moment of awkwardness pass, "See you tomorrow, Jenn."

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Xue Ge and Jenn were in the park again at night, sitting on the same bench.

"Jennifer. I have a confession to make," Xue Ge said.

"What is it?"

"Jennifer... I like someone else. I..."

Please don't say it..., Jennifer thought.

Xue Ge, "...I..."

Please, no...

Xue Ge, "...I..."

...Erm?

Xue Ge, "...I..."

"...Okay, just say it already," Jenn blurted out.

"Jenn, I'm pregnant."

"...har?"

Xue Ge's belly instantly ballooned up to pregnant proportions. "I'm carrying Matthias's child."

"Harrrr???"

Xue Ge sniffled. "I'm sorry, Jenn. I have to follow my heart."

"But--"

Matthias suddenly appeared in a groom's suit, and it was daylight. "Xue Ge, let's get married!"

"Of course!" Xue Ge was also dressed in a groom's suit, and the two now stood at an archway in front of a priest.

"But--"

The priest said, "Since it is your intention to enter the covenant of blah blah blah, say the vows."

"I, Matthias Williams, take you, Tan Xue Ge, to be my wife."

"I, Tan Xue Ge, take you, Matthias Williams, to be my husband."

"You may kiss," the priest announced.

"Don't I get to object or something?" Jenn asked.

Nope. Xue Ge and Matthias kissed. Mendelssohn's Wedding March begun to play. Then the two drove off in a car covered in ribbons into the sunset.

"Good bye Jennifer!" Xue Ge & Matt said together.

Jennifer stood at the archway, dumbfounded. "But... what about me?"