The child anxiously pounded on the car window.
His mouth kept opening and closing, as if he were calling out something.
The driver frowned.
He lowered the window.
"Big Brother!"
The child's loud cry rang through the car.
The driver didn't even have time to feel pleased that the child had called him a young man before realizing he'd gotten the wrong idea.
The child wasn't calling to him.
He was calling to...
"It's you."
Xiao Xiao smiled at the child.
He recognized him at once.
The child in front of him was the same one he'd met at school last time, when the boy had come with his mother to see his older brother.
"Big Brother, let us in first!"
The boy's delighted smile quickly gave way to an anxious expression.
Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow.
He looked at the driver.
The driver understood and unlocked the doors.
"Quick, get in first."
The little boy moved aside.
A little girl appeared behind him.
The driver was a little surprised.
Huh?
There was more than one child.
There were two of them.
Had the little girl been in front of the car just now too?
The driver tried to remember...
But things had been so urgent that he might have overlooked her?
He wasn't sure...
He hadn't noticed whether the little girl had been beside the boy.
The little girl clambered awkwardly into the car.
"Move over."
The little boy climbed in right after her.
Then he pulled the door shut with all his strength.
The boy ducked down.
He cautiously peered out the window.
A few seconds later, whether because he hadn't spotted anything or for some other reason, the boy sat upright.
Then he slumped back against the seat.
He