At dawn, when the first ray of sunlight rose above the horizon, Zero opened the curtains. Seeing that Candy was already awake, Zero blinked and smiled.
"Why the long face?"
Candy, the target of Zero's teasing, didn't smile at all. "It hurts."
"Everything below my thighs hurts." Leaning against the bed, Candy grimaced in pain. The soreness was so awful she didn't want to move her legs at all.
Worse still, even when she kept her legs perfectly still, she could still feel the ache. It was both sore and painful.
Seeing Candy's helpless expression, Zero rolled her eyes and said:
"I told you yesterday afternoon to exercise in moderation. You played soccer all afternoon. Of course your legs hurt." "Zero, what do I do? My legs don't even feel like mine anymore."
"What do you do? Nothing you can do. Don't worry, you'll feel better in a couple of days. Then you'll find your legs are stronger." At that, Candy sighed, her face full of worry.
"I don't want them to hurt. I don't care if they get stronger." Candy rubbed her stomach. She'd been hungry for a while.
Candy seriously suspected she'd woken up either because she was hungry or because she was in pain. Most likely, it was both.
"Zero, I'm so hungry. Is Sister-in-law up yet?"
Zero nodded. "She's been up for ages. Unlike you and Zhou Yaling, who sleep in every weekend." "By the way, don't you have homework this week?"
Candy froze. Only then did she realize, to her surprise, that the teacher really hadn't assigned any homework. "Nope! Maybe the teacher knew our legs would hurt, so she didn't give us any."
That did sound reasonable. Zero thought about it. That was probably the reason. "Zero, my legs hurt. Could you tell Sister-in-law