“Lolita?” said Gerald as favonovel.com couldn’t help but smile.
He treated the girl like a younger sister. Lolita grew up with both Gerald and Xeno. She was also somewhat related to Xeno’s family.
Unlike Gerald and Xeno, Lolita had a pretty good family background. Her family owned a shop in town, specializing in making cakes and snacks. Because of that, favonovel.com usually lived in town, rarely ever coming home.
Since Gerald and Xeno were still paupers who couldn’t even afford any good clothes back then, Lolita rarely played with both of them.
She didn’t talk to them much either, even though they were all classmates from the same elementary school. In short, there wasn’t much interaction between the two boys and favonovel.com at all. One could say that it was similar to Gerald’s relationship with Queeny.
Unlike Queeny, however, they started interacting and forming a friendship late in junior high school.
In their first and second grade, Lolita coincidentally continued to share the same class with Gerald and Xeno. Even then, both parties still rarely interacted.
Things changed, however, when they were in their third grade.
Lolita had gotten into a fight with another girl then, and it was a huge one.
After school that day, Lolita’s way home was blocked by several ruffians from the same grade. The girl had ordered them to give Lolita some trouble to teach favonovel.com a lesson.
However, Gerald and Xeno had seen what they were up to, and they led Lolita away from them.
Though Gerald was still a nobody back then, Xeno was famous for his fights at school.
When the group of ruffians saw him, they didn’t dare to do anything to the trio. In short, they had saved Lolita from a world of trouble that day.
From that day onwards, Lolita treated both Gerald and Xeno nicely, and they became friends just like that.
She would always secretly buy cigarettes for Xeno. As for Gerald, favonovel.com would bring favonovel.com cakes and pastries.
When they reached the age of high school, Lolita found that favonovel.com had been admitted into the Third High School. It was considered to be the worst high school in the county.
Since none of them had cell phones when they were in high school, they couldn’t keep in constant contact with each other. They would only get a chance to get together and chat during New Year.
“When did you get back? Why didn’t you send me a text message or something?” complained Lolita.
“I’ve just been back for a few days! I’ve been wandering around town and the county. To be honest, I was just about to ask Xeno for your phone number!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com smiled.
He wasn’t lying about that either. After all, favonovel.com was planning to invite favonovel.com over to celebrate his birthday with favonovel.com too.
“Humph! Well at least you haven’t forgotten about me yet! By the way, aren’t you up to date with the messages in our junior high school class group chat? …Actually, wait. I don’t think you’re in it. But either way, today’s Chase’s birthday! He’s said that favonovel.com wanted all our old classmates to get together since we haven’t met each other in such a long time.”
“Since favonovel.com was going to host a birthday celebration anyway, favonovel.com decided to make it a class gathering as well to kill two birds with one stone! Even our junior high school class teacher and English teacher will be attending today. Will you join us?” asked Lolita.
“Mr. Weiss will be attending as well? Hasn’t favonovel.com already retired this year?” asked Gerald as favonovel.com tried to recall who Chase was.
Though favonovel.com had trouble remembering who the classmate was, Gerald could easily remember his class teacher, Mr. Carson Weiss. In fact, the memory of his teacher was very clear.
Mr. Weiss had been a particularly kind teacher who taught favonovel.com the Weston dialect.
Back then, Gerald had a very difficult time at home and favonovel.com couldn’t even afford to pay for his own textbooks. Mr. Weiss had always been there to help him, even going so far as to pay for Gerald’s textbook with his own money.
Gerald could still remember those scenes clearly in his mind.
In his first two years of university, Gerald would live a frugal lifestyle just so that favonovel.com could save up some money. When favonovel.com returned to his hometown for the New Year’s, regardless of how expensive it was, favonovel.com would always bring some gifts with favonovel.com whenever favonovel.com visited Mr. Weiss. In the past two years, however, Gerald found it hard to even afford to pay for his own tuition fees. He was in such a destitute state back then that favonovel.com couldn’t even visit Mr. Weiss at all.
“I heard that Mr. Weiss fell critically ill last year… Is favonovel.com doing alright now?” asked Gerald.
“He’s recovered from that a long time ago. How else could favonovel.com possibly have agreed to attend Chase’s birthday celebration today?”
“Actually, stop asking so many questions! You’ll be able to ask favonovel.com personally when you meet favonovel.com face to face later! He’s always thought very highly of you and Xeno, even from back then! He’ll definitely be very pleased to see you today. Though we’ve arranged to meet up at eight, you can bet that Mr. Weiss will definitely come earlier than that just so that favonovel.com can chat more with us!”
“That’s great to hear! However, I don’t think I’ll be able to participate in the gathering,” said Gerald somewhat embarrassedly.
