Chapter 103: Forced
Things had seemed rather unusual lately. After classes ended in the afternoon, No. 27 Middle School would receive visitors who looked like students from other schools.
Most were groups of girls. Some still wore baggy school uniforms that hid their developing figures, with "No. 4 Middle School" printed on the back. They formed their own cliques, strolled brazenly onto No. 27 Middle School's campus, and gathered with people they knew there, skipping evening study sessions yet wandering around inside the school.
They gathered and chatted in the cafeteria, on the sports field, along the tree-lined paths, and at the school gates.
These students, clearly from Rongcheng's other provincially designated key school, stood out somewhat on No. 27 Middle School's campus. Skipping evening study was probably only natural at their age, but openly dragging so many other students into skipping class, then hanging around campus instead of quietly leaving, unsettled the No. 27 students who could not bear to skip. It was rather unpleasant.
Lately, everyone had often gathered in the cafeteria for stir-fried dishes. Zhang Feifei had grown close to Tang Wu. Tang Wu had originally felt a certain aversion to a campus celebrity like Zhang Feifei, who was considered so "out there" and "trendy." She disliked many of Zhang Feifei's rich-girl habits, but Zhang Feifei was clever enough to hide some of her little antics very well around Tang Wu.
She knew Tang Wu disliked certain things she did, so she was willing to rein herself in around her. She had never had a friend like Tang Wu, someone who made her curb her bad habits. To leave no more regrets in her high school years, she wanted to hold on to Tang Wu, an outstanding, top-tier student in everyone's eyes whom she had usually only