The boy immediately grew a little flustered again.
"Um..."
"Wait a moment."
Xiao Xiao interrupted him.
He smiled at the boy, who looked back at him with confusion and a hint of panic.
"Let's find somewhere else to talk."
"I think..."
"What you want to tell me probably won't be over in just a few words, right?"
Xiao Xiao had guessed it without any effort.
Mm.
The boy nodded obediently.
What he wanted to tell Brother Xiao...
really couldn't be summed up in just a few words.
Otherwise...
he wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to deliberately "wait for him" at the place where he and Brother Xiao had met last time.
"Let's go over there."
Xiao Xiao glanced around casually.
He soon decided where they would talk.
The boy quietly followed behind Brother Xiao.
His thoughts were in a jumble.
He tried to organize what he was going to say to Brother Xiao.
Before he saw Brother Xiao, he'd felt as if he had a bellyful of words that he just had to get out.
But when he actually saw Brother Xiao, and Brother Xiao was willing to listen...
his mind suddenly seemed to go completely blank.
He'd stumbled over his thoughts for ages without managing to put together a single complete sentence.
He was frustrated with himself for being so useless.
He was so anxious that fine beads of sweat broke out across his forehead.
"This should do."
Xiao Xiao turned to look at the boy.
"Come on."
"Sit."
Huh?
Sit?
The boy looked up, bewildered.
A long bench came into view.
He immediately understood.
Oh.
He meant sit here.
The boy hadn't expected there to be a long bench here.
He was a little surprised.
The boy sat down