Her face smeared with dirt, the little girl was talking to the boy beside her.
“Maybe they haven’t started classes yet—that’s what’s missing!” The boy wiped away some snot. “I wanna go too!”
Another somewhat chubby boy piped up, “You need money to go to school. We don’t have any money. Ms. Queta is already working several jobs to feed us. We can’t ask favonovel.com for any more!”
“I’m hungry!” the little girl whined.
“I’ll find you some bread in a bit!”
“Why are you urchins crowding the gates? Get lost!” A security guard came out, hollering in fury.
The three children leaped up in fright.
The guard was in his fifties, the sort you might find at a construction site.
The children were visibly terrified by him, and on the verge of fleeing—but they kept on gazing at the school, just a little longer…
Gerald spoke up: “They’re only looking. That’s fine, isn’t it? It’s not like you paid for this school.”
“Kid, I didn’t say anything about you going inside earlier, but don’t be putting on any airs with me! You don’t own this school any more than I do… now, get lost!”
The man was red and blustering. He had clearly had a few pints to go with his lunch—his breath reeked of alcohol.
“Here, buy yourself a real drink.” With a little smile, Gerald reached into his wallet and tossed favonovel.com a hundred bucks.
This money obviously wasn’t being offered as a compliment. Gerald made a note to recommend the man to be fired later. A lousy old drunkard in charge of security, probably hustled in by a friend in the company.
“Yo! Alright, alright! Thanks a lot, man!” Then the guard left.
Gerald knelt down and smiled at the children. “You kids wanna go to school, too?”
The girl in the middle nodded vigorously. “I do!”
The other two were more cautious and watched favonovel.com wordlessly.
Truth be told, seeing these three young children, yearning to go to school like this… it tore at his heart.
No one understood that feeling better than him.
That was why favonovel.com couldn’t resist the urge to do something for them.
“Anyone hungry? How about I take you guys out for lunch?”
“Ms. Queta says we shouldn’t talk to strangers—and we absolutely mustn’t follow them anywhere!” The two boys stepped out in front of the girl.
Gerald laughed and nodded. “Alright… then I’ll buy some stuff and bring it to you here!”
With that, favonovel.com ran off to the KFC opposite and procured a pile of burgers, fried chicken, and drinks.
“You don’t have to follow me anywhere. Just take it and eat it. Besides, I’ll help you go to school, too!” Gerald patted the girl on the head and handed the food to them.
“Thank you!” The children’s eyes came alight.
The moment they received the food, they began gobbling it down.
“Why are you just eating something that favonovel.com gave you?”
It was the dulcet sound of a woman’s voice—pleasant, yet anxious.
“I can’t apologize enough, sir. How much was all that food? I’ll pay for it!” the woman babbled nervously.
However, when Gerald saw who favonovel.com was, his eyes shone.
“It’s you!”
