"Coach Long? Ms. Wen? Did you need something?"
"Uh..." Long Weixi felt a little awkward and was too embarrassed to speak. Wen Xu was more direct; the moment she smelled the food, her eyes lit up.
"Grrrr..." Someone's stomach was the first to voice its dissatisfaction. Long Weixi's face flushed red.
"A-actually, it's nothing much..."
Cheng Tian: (/"≡_≡)=
Helplessly, he stepped aside from the doorway.
"Come on in."
"Mmm! So good!" Long Weixi shoveled down rice, so touched that she was almost in tears.
"I'm starving."
Once Wen Xu picked up her bowl, she never put it down, eating every last grain of rice.
Watching the two who looked as though they hadn't eaten in eight lifetimes, Cheng Tian and Su Han exchanged a speechless glance. Luckily, they had packed up plenty of food, enough for these two princesses to wolf down.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Long Weixi suddenly choked. Seeing this, Su Han hurriedly poured her a glass of water.
"Thank you."
"There's more rice. You don't have to eat so fast," Cheng Tian said with some curiosity. "Why didn't you go get something to eat?"
"Ugh, don't even mention it." Long Weixi set down her bowl and chopsticks, looking aggrieved. "We've already missed two meals. Ever since the Pokémon League Gyms opened, we've had to challenge people or accept challenges every day. Yesterday at noon, we only grabbed a couple of bites. We kept battling until eleven at night."
"Uh... that really does sound pretty rough..."
"When we got back, there was only food for the Pokémon. We figured we might as well lose some weight, so we didn't go eat."
"Then we overslept this morning. It was almost ten when we woke up. I nearly suffocated."
"Huh?" Su Han asked in confusion. "Why would you suffocate?"
Realizing