Breathing hard.
"Why are you running so fast?"
The short-haired girl caught the ponytailed girl, who was still wobbling after an emergency stop.
The ponytailed girl lifted the volleyball in her arms.
She grinned.
"...I got it back."
After taking a few breaths, the ponytailed girl spoke.
"Big Sis has already left."
The ponytailed girl had deliberately walked back and forth for a while to look for Big Sis, but she hadn't seen her anywhere.
Big Sis must have really left.
"That's good."
The short-haired girl nodded.
"Yaya, you can relax now."
Mm.
The child nodded.
Hearing that Teacher Chen had already left, she did feel relieved.
It's just...
"If she's already gone, why do you still look so troubled?"
The ponytailed girl studied the child's expression.
"Don't you want her to leave?"
"Of course I do!"
The child shook her head.
"I'm just hesitating..."
The child pressed her lips together, her voice growing hesitant. "Should I tell my mom and dad..."
"Teacher Chen came to see me today..."
"Didn't you say they'd just get mad at you?"
The ponytailed girl blurted out.
Wasn't that what the child had said herself?
Her mom and dad had told her not to talk to Teacher Chen.
Otherwise, they would get angry.
"Don't be silly."
The ponytailed girl shook her head.
"This is something you, me, and her know about."
The ponytailed girl pointed to the child, herself, and the short-haired girl in turn.
"If none of us says anything, then no one will know, right?"
"There's also that big brother."
The short-haired girl added.
The ponytailed girl paused briefly.
Then she suddenly understood.
"Oh, right."
"There's one more person."
"Yaya."
She looked at the child.
"Do you know that big brother?"
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