Three Watermelons
The girl's scream caught in her throat.
She regretted it terribly.
If only she'd known, she wouldn't have chased after that watermelon.
Now look what happened. That watermelon was gone.
And who knew whether she'd be able to find the other one?
She hadn't expected...
The watermelon she'd all but written off as a lost cause had somehow made a miraculous comeback.
Staring at the watermelon that had inexplicably changed direction, the girl gaped in astonishment.
Huh...?!
What?!
What was going on?
How could a watermelon change direction?
The girl stared without blinking at the watermelon that had miraculously escaped its "dead end."
She saw a hand stop it.
That finally snapped her out of it.
She'd been so busy gaping at the watermelon changing direction that she'd stopped in her tracks and forgotten to keep chasing it...
Thank goodness.
A kind stranger had stopped the watermelon for her.
A huge smile spread across the girl's face.
She ran toward the helpful stranger, cheering.
"Th-thank you!"
The girl looked around again.
She still hadn't found the last watermelon.
She planned to retrace her route and look around nearby.
If she really couldn't find it...
She'd just buy another one.
The girl looked at the young man across from her.
She reached out to take the watermelon in his arms...
"Thank you."
She smiled. "Give it to me."
Xiao Xiao gently moved the watermelon out of the girl's reach.
"Don't you have a bag?"
Carrying two watermelons this size in her arms would be awkward and tiring.
It would be much better to put them in a bag.
The girl shook her head.
"The bag I had before broke..."
She didn't know how it had happened.
She'd set the watermelons down for