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🎀𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤🎀

Part 9

Silently, I sat on the bed, dangling my legs.

"And this photo is real?" Astonished, he glanced at the photo again. I flopped back on his bed and looked up at the ceiling. "Yes, it is. I just discovered it a few days ago when my mother was browsing through the album."

"That kind of thing is amazing! Then it means you've met him before!" Bennett then looked at Razor. "That must be fate then!"

"That's what I think, too. But how did you recognize him?" They both looked to me now. I hadn't explained that yet. I was at Xingqiu‘s place. And in his photo, they were wearing the exact same thing. So I'm absolutely sure."

Bennett pressed the photo to himself. "How exciting! You're meant for each other! Ah, does he know that yet? Well, about this photo..."

"No."

"Huh?"

I sat back up and looked at him. "I've resolved not to tell him about it for now. I'll save it for later..." He handed me the photo again. I kept it in my small purse.

"For later today? Or much, much later?" I don't think our bowling night tonight would be the right time for that either. I have to admit that something tells me not to show Xingqiu the photo for now.

"Maybe much, much later." I gave with a smile.

"We won't say a word! You can count on that."

"Thanks for keeping it to yourselves for now." I then looked over at Razor, who was sitting at his computer. He seemed to be busy typing. Curious, I walked up next to him and looked at the screen. "Are you chatting?" Razor spent most of his time chatting with others about his passion for writing about animals. Especially about wolves as well as costumes.

"Today it's interesting again. I met new people."

"Razor is more talkative online. Even though it's hard to believe." Bennett tried to stifle a laugh. In response, he got a friendly pat on the shoulder from Razor.

"But it's unbearable at night. The screen is way too bright..I can't sleep like this!" Sighed Bennett, putting his hands on his hips.

Must be hard when you share a room.

"And you type loudly..." Murmured Razor.

"You guys have it great...having your own computer. I only get to use my dad's computer when I need something for school." I have to admit that I was a tiny bit envious. Almost everyone has a cell phone or a PC!

Razor turned his swivel chair away from the desk a bit. "Do you want to try writing something?"

"I can?!" Gladly! I've always wanted to chat on a device like that. At the time, I did it with my cell phone (which actually used to belong to my father). But because the bill was once too high and he found me suspicious he confiscated the cell phone. Since then I got change for phone booths, should I be in an emergency. I guess that's what I got for smiling while writing. I guess he thought I was writing with a boy or something.

He wasn't wrong about that...I shamelessly confess. Guilty!

He got up from the swivel chair and I took a seat. Now they both showed me where I could click.

"On this symbol..exactly! This person seems to be available. Click on the bottom bar and you can text him." Bennett explained to me.

I didn't know what to write. So I wanted to start with a smalltalk. A hello and how the person is doing should be a start, right?

I looked at the keyboard and searched for the letters.

Okay and where is letter W..aha, here! Wait, where was Y again? Now I mistyped.

"(Name)..how often does your dad let you use his computer?" Bennett asked me confused.

"Rarely..why?"

"Just wondering."

I finally sent the message. Razor showed me that I could still send effects, or smileys. I was a bit taken aback by the effects. However, he immediately took over the keyboard and typed quickly as I clicked several times on the hearts effects or the ones with kisses.

Bennett almost fell over laughing. Razor had to explain to his chat partner that it was definitely NOT him who sent those embarrassing love messages. I thought it was brilliant, by the way. Maybe in the future I'll get to use the Pc for something other than homework!

"It's almost time for us to meet! Shall we ride our bikes?" Suggested Bennett. We're almost too late for bowling! Xingqiu and Chongyun shouldn't wait too long for us.

"I didn't bring my bike today..." I said with a grin. However, the two of them suggested that I can sit on the luggage rack. As long as no one catches us, that won't be a problem.

As we sped out, we greeted the other roommates at the home. However, we didn't have time to talk.

Immediately the two of them grabbed their bikes and Bennett offered me his seat as Razor steadied his bike chain once again. I hopped on and immediately clung to him as he rode off.

The cool wind blew my my clothes and I made sure my bag didn't slip off my shoulder. Then I had to think about the photo again. I haven't really let it go since and asked my mom if I could have it. On one condition: Don't lose it! Otherwise, yes, I would be allowed.

You see, I first met Xingqiu in the 5th grade. He transferred from a private school to ours at that time. But we were not very close. Rather, quite the opposite.

We really became friends a little later. It's a long story. Yes, yes. I'll tell it later.

I didn't really like him until the eighth grade. And I was totally in love with him in the 10th grade. Almost at the end of 10th grade. That's when it started, that I really wanted to stay close to him. And at the same time, not because it was driving me crazy. Suddenly, I loved just about everything about him..okay, not everything. But maybe you know what I mean. And when he did things just for me like recommend books, leave quotes in books as notes or that we study together. That made me happy as punch!

Especially when sometimes he would put his hand on my shoulder and smile at me. Sometimes he even gave me a quick squeeze.

At first I thought he was just doing it as a friend.

Until it was pointed out to me that I was the only one with whom Xingqiu held such physical contact. I didn't want to believe that at the time.

Then he even pressed me against him a few times laughing, putting an arm around my waist. However, I put an arm around his neck like a buddy in response. (Xingqiu told me back when we became a couple that he often had to suppress a hopeless sigh at such moments. After all, he was trying to give me clear signs.)

And there were moments when he would listen to me smiling and resting his chin on his hand. I thought that he was really quite interested in my stories. Even the recommended books were romance novels, I just remembered. Oh man, I really was a dense one.

I sighed softly and looked at the roads. We passed a couple of fast food restaurants with blinding display boards. Soon we should be there. I was interrupted from my daydreaming, however, when Bennett went over a ramp too fast, causing us to jump up briefly in our seats.

"Geez, Bennett! You can't treat a lady like me like that. I was dreaming..." I looked to the side, playfully offended. „Sorry! That's right, I should have been paying more attention!" I shook my head laughing and put a hand on his shoulder for reassurance. "I was just kidding."

"Ahaha, well if that's the case! After all, that's no way to treat you!" He looked to the side for a moment. "I wouldn't do that on purpose, since..." The last part of the sentence was unintelligible because a truck was passing us.

He didn't repeat the part. I assumed I just imagined it and looked toward a restaurant we were passing. Razor was in sight in front of it.

I could have sworn he glanced briefly at Bennett with an unspeakable look. Maybe a hint of surprised. In response, Bennett seemed a little tense. But I didn't peck and surveyed the sky as I continued to cling to him.

We arrived in a few minutes. Good thing the other two arrived at the same moment. Chongyun briefly threw the stem of his popsicle into the trash can. Actually, he had hesitated to come along. But afterwards he agreed because he had trained a lot against his yang problem and he didn't want it to be forgotten. He prepared well for today.

"It's nice that we all meet again! Did the three of you come here together?" Asked Xingqiu as we all gathered together.

"Yup! With the bicycles. No policeman caught me by the rack of the bike!" Said I with pride.

"I didn't crash, thankfully..." Bennett scratched the back of his head with a smile.

"So he was driving you...?" Xingqiu looked at me. For a second, I was confused about his question. Was that a bad thing...?

"Then I hope you had fun in the childrens seat~" W-what?!

Everyone laughed as I looked at Xingqiu in offense. He just grinned like that. "Hey, I don't need one of those!"

I crossed my arms as we walked into the bowling center, ignoring his apologies as a joke. I wasn't really mad at him.

Luckily, there was a lane open for us and we signed in. It was quite noisy in the center. Some families were playing together, and some lanes had young people like us. At the request of the guests, the employee turned on the disco lights.

This will definitely lift the mood with the music in the background. I usually went bowling during the day and didn't get to see this view. This was something completely different!

"All right. Wanna bet on something?" Suggested Xingqiu.

I looked to him and grinned. Interesting.

"As usual? Ehm..I'll be out of there quickly!" Oh dear, Chongyun still seemed traumatized from before. He had the fewest points in the last bowling night and the winner got to determine what the loser had to do.

Xingqiu was the winner.

And what you should know is..he gets the weirdest ideas.

"Come on, Yunyun. Who says I'm going to win this night?"

"You seem pretty shear and that's a warning sign..."

I shook my head. Maybe I should take a crack at this before it degenerated into a discussion.

"Okay guys. New rule: no trips to the women's underwear section for the boys." Everyone except Xingqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's no fun like that!"

"No way, Xingqiu. Come up with something else!" He gave up and so the matter ate itself. Now the future losers have one less thing to worry about.

"Thanks (Name). At least he listens to you." Bennett whispered to me. We laughed quietly together. "I'd rather spare you this. Even though I think it's funny."

I wonder if Xingqiu isn't afraid of losing a bet. He would have dug his own grave....

I looked at the bullets. All right. This time I will be able to carry a difficult one! I specially trained my arms for this by carrying our 5kg rice bags at home each time. My family may have thought I was stupid, but it made sense to me. Let's see if my training paid off!

Chongyun looked at me and smiled nervously. "Are you sure you can carry this bowling ball? Maybe you could go three sizes lighter..."

I watched as he and Bennett easily carried one of the most difficult bowling balls with one hand.

"Woah...what's wrong with you guys? Have you guys been working out too? So strong!"

"Ahah... for my Yang Energy, I've been physically training, too." Chongyun said, scratching the back of his head. They both looked down at me laughing.

And they seemed to have grown another inch too.... not only in muscles.

Razor put a hand on my head. "Eat a lot of meat. Then you'll grow." He was probably just trying to comfort me. After all, he knows very well that genes play a big role. "It's okay, I'll leave my plate empty..." Without arguing, I took a lighter ball. I might end up trying a slightly more difficult one- right! I'll warm up my arms first.

Everyone picked a ball and the first player was Razor, our wolf boy.

And it wasn't a hit. Quite the opposite.

"Razor, you're babying the ball!" Sighed Bennett. However, we got no response from Razor.

He stared into the air and then closed his eyes. "My friends are calling me."

..?

Next came Xingqiu. He was surprisingly quiet for the last few minutes. He muttered something to himself and then tried his luck.

A strike!

We cheered him on until we remembered we had a bet coming up. Xingqiu looked over his shoulder at us. At first he looked innocent.

Then grinned at us once, slightly sadistically.

"I told you we should form a Xingqiu victim alliance..." Whispered Chongyun to me and I swallowed hard once.

I don't know why, but somehow I got a feeling that Xingqiu looked irritated. But of course, it's hard to tell with him.

He was way too quiet.

Chongyun was next and stood there for a while, petrified. Should we get him some ice cubes?

When it was Bennett's turn, he almost threw the ball in our direction. Fortunately, we all dodged it.

He didn't hit a single cone.

When it was my turn, I picked up the pink ball. This time I have to win...

"You can do it, (Name)!"

"Don't be shy!"

"Yes. We believe in you." We all looked confused at Xingqiu, who smiled calmly at me. Uh..

He's definitely irritated.

H-Have I done something wrong!?

Just don't lose focus, (Name)....

I caught up for a moment and packed all my faith into that ball. Then I swung the ball into the track.

It sped straight ahead and... just before the last second, it slammed into the side as if by magic. It was a gutter. But how?!

Nobody could explain it. Even on the second try, the same thing happened.

"Ahh, it's my fault! My bad luck is acting up like crazy again..."

"Nonsense Bennett. I just need a few tries!" That's right, I haven't bowled in a while.

We all played a couple of times and it was clear who was in the lead

Xingqiu was in lead. But then it was me. Everyone seemed to be pinning their hopes on me. I didn't think they would be so afraid of Xingqiu today. He told us that he hadn't thought of anything yet, but I know that's a lie!

I just remembered that I haven't thought of anything should I win. Probably a trip to the flea market on their dime or a whole week's supply of cotton candy just for me. We'll see what I decide on.

But first we all got something to drink because we were getting thirsty after a couple rounds. We took our soda and sat down to the table. The game is paused until then.

I took a sip and watched a group of college students hanging out at the billiard table for a while. Two of them were chilling on the terrace next door while smoking, only three of them seemed to be concentrating at the pool table and one was drinking a can of Fanta in the corner. I think it was Fanta?

It was pretty quiet among them and I wondered if we would hang out the same way in the future.

We were mostly hyper as a group. Maybe because we were still in school? However, these students don't really seem much older than us.

I put my glass on the table and felt my bag once. Then I took a quick look inside. Good thing I didn't lose the photo. Misplaced in nowhere was definitely not something I wanted!

"Are you hiding something?" Xingqiu moved closer to me. It was probably too noticeable that I kept looking in the bag. "I..uh..I just don't want to lose my new lipstick!" Okay, now that sounded stupid.

"Lipstick, huh?" He tried not to laugh. But at least he won't find out about the photo. For the first one, anyway. Then he turned back to the others and they chatted about the latest spy movie.

I took advantage of the moment briefly to go to the bathroom. The music could still be heard, but only very lightly

As I flushed the toilet, I heard a pair of girls enter the room and turn on the faucet.

"I thought you were going to spend the night at my place."

"Now don't be like that! He's off early tonight. I'll come visit you tomorrow, okay?"

"Tell me everything then, will you?" I heard a slight thump and then laughter.

"Yeaah, the next day you'll hear about a corpse."

They then left the room. Confused, I pulled up my panties and straightened my dress neatly.

I opened the door slightly and peeked out a bit to make sure the coast was clear. I then raised an eyebrow.

I washed my hands. Corpse? Weird girls...

The guys still seemed to be talking about the Spy movie. But I was eager to spill the beans about what I'd just heard.

"You guys have no idea what happened in the ladies' room!" I started and looked at them.

They all looked to me.

"Ehm, (Name)..I think yes?" Gave Chongyun blushing.

"Not that! Two girls were talking about a dead body..That was a scene like the horror movie we watched back then."

"You don't have to be scared. I'm sure it was just a joke." Said Xingqiu, shrugging his shoulders with a smile. T-That's not what I believed after all....

"Now that you mention it...isn't Mr. Tartaglia suspicious?" Bennett asked. He had mentioned then hearing the word "corpse" come out of his mouth. Since then, he seemed a little afraid of Mr. Tartaglia.

"Come to think of it..." Chongyun muttered thoughtfully. "He's pretty athletic too isn't he? And always that grin..it gives me the creeps.

Now Razor spoke up. "I heard he likes pain." Everyone below was silent. Razor would never fib.

"Of course he does. He eats steel without milk for breakfast and trains nine days a week..." Xingqiu stifled a laugh. Seriously. Did this boy ever feel fear?

But then he started a new topic . "You should be more afraid for our principal Zhongli . I've seen the photos from a couple of years ago and this gentleman doesn't seem to age."

"Huh? My aunt said that he also taught in her time when she was very young."

No one could say anything about Chongyun's statement. Finally, we were speechless. How old is she again...?

"Maybe he and Mr. Tartaglia are spies.."

We all decided to watch these two men now. They were clearly very suspicious.

"Maybe we should keep playing...?" Bennett suggested. Yes, we really should. Enough with scary stories.

We almost finished the last round.

Bennett had almost hit us with the bowling ball again and Chongyun we had to get extra ice cubes. The music was definitely too loud for him. But kudos to him for sticking it out for so long today.

And you might not have thought it, but the winner today was me!

I ended up with two strikes in a row, knocking Xingqiu off his throne.

"What a shame! I would have loved to see you in dresses..." Sighed Xingqiu. That's right..there was no ban on clothes after all.

The other guys looked distraught at him. They must have felt really relieved that I won.

I still had to decide whether I wanted a visit to the flea market or a week's supply of cotton candy.

We ended up cleaning up and paying before heading out. And no, I didn't carry a heavy ball that night. Maybe next time I'll lift more rice packs.

Everyone seemed to have biked here. Except me. Xingqiu offered to give me a ride home. It was almost dark and I wouldn't say no to that.

We were all still talking in circles because it was a great evening. It was a shame that it was over now. We all missed it. But also not too late we should arrive home. At some point we had to say goodbye.

I sat on Xingqiu's baggage rack and he began to ride. Now the two of us were alone. I didn't know how to start a conversation with him. I still felt like he was irritable. I looked at him. Only his hair was blowing slightly and his earring was dangling in front of him.

"You didn't need a child's helper or barrier when you were bowling, did you?"

"Are you going to start that again..." I pouted. "I beat you, so you can get ready for my wishes!" Let him be afraid!

Xingqiu continued calmly. "Let me guess..a supply of cotton candy?"

"W..what..well- no!" How does he know that? Now there's no way it's going to be cotton candy.

"Sounds like you, though. I'll be surprised then. Oh yeah..."

"Yeah?"

"I..I'll work out harder too..get muscles.." He muttered, keeping eye contact with the road. "Besides..I would have driven you too."

I became stunned.

"Xingqiu..have you been jealous all this time?" I asked cautiously. Was that why he was irritated?

"Not me..." He couldn't hide it. He stopped at a traffic light, even though the streets were empty. "Maybe."

I smiled and put my arms around him.I leaned my head against his back. "I like you the way you are." I felt on his body that he seemed less tense. When the light turned green, he drove off again and I continued to snuggle up to him. Memories rose in my mind.

My heart grew warmer. I stroked slow and small circular movements on his back.

They were very beautiful memories of us.

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Part 10

#genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #romance #fanfic #babychokogenshin #xingqiu x reader #love #bennett #chongyun #razor #fun #friendship #suspiciousteacher #jealousy #bowlingwithfriends

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