Regrets

In the cafeteria, Xia was sitting across from Xiao Cai. "Even though the school teachers are scared of the Underrated-7. Their parents have been donating charity to this school for years. Just so they wouldn't expel their kids out. Those guys always get their way. Especially Ji Jingwei. So I warn you-- stay as far away from him as possible."

It was the evening, and the school's day was finally over. Xia took the bus and was on her way home. Xia was thinking. "I never thought my cousin Zhuo Zhi would be a part of Underrated-7. Even though I just started school. I must be extra careful around him. Even Ji Jingwei." She sighed. "What's wrong with me? Zhuo Zhi is my cousin, I know him better than anyone. Why am I afraid of?"

At home, Xia walked in as the two maids came towards her. Xia was looking around for her aunt and uncle. "My lady, welcome back! We have made supper." said one of the maids. Xia replied, "Ah, okay - did Zhuo Zhi come back from school?" Second maid, "Young Master has tennis practice, so he will be late coming home. Master and Madam are at an opening charity event. They won't be back until late, too." The maid asked, "Is something the matter?" She looks at the two maids and answers promptly, "No, I thought--" She was thinking about asking the maids about Zhuo Zhi's true personality. "Never mind. Let me put my things away, and I will come down." She said. The two maids nodded and left.

It has been 3 hours. Xia was in her room sitting down on the desk chair, thinking. A knock on the door. Xia walks over to open it. "Zhuo Zhi?" Xia surprisingly said. She looks at a gift cake. "What's this?" Zhuo Zhi answered, "Gift cake--" He smiled. "Let's eat this cake together." He asked. Xia asked, "Is this one of the admirers who gave this cake to you?" He smiled without hesitation. "Yes." He nods. "How about it, dear cousin? I hope you won't say no. I remember you like sweet cake, don't you?"

In the dining room, Xia was sitting in the corner of the table with Zhuo Zhi. Zhuo Zhi gives a big piece to Xia. Xia was drooling and could not wait to eat it. "Here, take a bite and tell me, is it good?" Xia took the first bite. "Hmm-- it's delicious!" Xia was looking at him and thinking. "I heard from one of my classmates that you were in an Underrated-7. Can you tell me more about it?" Zhuo Zhi snickered, "It's just a lame group that my friends and I called ourselves when we were in middle school." Xia asked, "Ji Jingwei--" Zhuo Zhi replied, "Ji Jingwei? Do you know him?" Xia answered, "One of my classmates told me about him. She told me he is spoiled and dangerous, especially you and your friends. In school, you guys do whatever you want." Zhuo Zhi laughs out loud. "We aren't dangerous. And, it is just rumors from classmates. Don't listen to any of them... Ji Jingwei is not that kind of person. In the future, if anyone messes with you, let me know. I don't want my dear cousin to get hurt." Xia awkwardly said, "I know it's going to be awkward. But if you don't want anyone at school to know about us." Zhuo Zhi nodded. "Why would it be awkward?" He asked. Xia sighed and lay back on the chair. "It's because you are popular. And I'm not." Zhuo Zhi smiles. He places his hand on top of Xia's hair and messes with it. "If you want, I can stay far away from you then. " He said.

Next Day, in the house. Zhuo Zhi came downstairs to the kitchen. Xia's aunt said, "You're awake. Xia already headed to school. Zhuo Zhi, I told you to take care of your cousin. Do you want to be grounded?" Zhuo Zhi replied, "She left?" Xia's aunt responds with worry, "Well, if you hurry, you might catch up with her. " Zhuo Zhi chewing a piece of bagel. "No, I'm good!" He said. Xia's aunt was starting to get angry. "Ya! Zhuo Zhi! Do you want to make trouble?! Go find her and walk her to school."

Somewhere in the street, Xia was walking as Zhuo Zhi found her and distanced himself away from her. Two of Zhuo Zhi's friends, Jietang and Pengxi, came behind him. Jietang hardly slap Zhuo Zhi in the back. Jietang excitedly yelled, "Hehe... Zhuo Zhi, we finally caught up with you." Zhuo Zhi looked angry, but without showing it, he calmly replied, "What are you two doing here?" Pengxi answered, "Jietang decided to skip today quiz. And asked me to skip class with him. So we decided to go to an arcade game or internet café." Jietang looks at Zhuo Zhi and looks at what he's looking at. "Ehh Zhuo Zhi, who are you looking for?" Zhuo Zhi quickly replied, "I'm not looking at anyone." Jietang asked, "Huh? I thought I saw you were following someone. But anyway-- do you want to skip with us?" Zhuo Zhi answered, "No, I can't. I just got grounded by my mom the other night. So she wants me to go to school and come straight home. If she ever finds out I'm not in school today. She will do her worst." Jietang said, "Oh okay. Then we're going now. " Zhuo Zhi nodded, "Don't get caught. "

At school, Xia walks into the school's entrance. Xiao Cai waves at Xia. "Hey!!! Over here!" she was smiling. Xia smiled and walked over towards Xiao Cai. All the students were rushing and walking over to the bulletin board. Xia asked, "What's over there?" Xiao Cai answered, "That's the bulletin board. I'm not exactly sure what it is?" They both walked over and saw pictures of a female age 16, escorting out an older man of a hotel room. Everyone whispering among themselves. "Isn't that Siu Keung?" One female student asked. "Didn't she not come to school for a week now since she confessed to Jingwei?" Another female student asked the other student, "Why are these pictures of her here in school? Did someone put them here on purpose?" One of the male students replied, "She probably got embarrassed that Ji Jingwei rejected her, so she decided to be with an older man. So that's probably why she ended up at the hotel." The second male student said, "If she comes back to school again, she is going to embarrass herself even more. It's illegal for her to be an escort. But does her parents know about this?" The third male student answered, "I heard they live in Europe. I had never seen them helping out in the school's charity before. They wouldn't care what she does."

During school hours, Xia walks into class. Students were talking among themselves with their friends as she sat down. Xiao Cai asked, "Xia, today is gym day. Did you bring your gym clothes?" Xia was worried. "I forgot to ask my aunt.-- Do you have extra gym clothes I can borrow?" She asked. Xiao Cai sadly shakes her head. Xia sighed and thought, "What should I do then?"

In the P.E. gym, Xia was sitting down and still had her school uniform on. The P.E. teacher came into the gym as the students gathered in rows. P.E. teacher looked around and asked, "Didn't we have a new student?" He still looked around and then locked on Xia. P.E. teacher shouts to Xia, "You!" Xia looks up at the P.E. teacher. "You are needed in the teacher's office. " Xia nodded confusedly and started to walk out of the gym.

In the teacher's office, Xia was standing in front of the HR teacher. HR Teacher said, "Your aunt came to school just now and bought you gym clothes. She had forgotten to give it to you this morning when you were in a hurry. Go to the girls' locker room and change. You don't want to miss P. E. class." Xia nods and grabs the gym clothes.

In the hallway, Xia came out of the girls' locker room looking at her new P.E. clothes. "I'm glad it isn't too big. " She said to herself. She suddenly hears the piano playing. "Who would play such a sad melody?" She follows the sound. He led to a close door as she quietly opened the door. And saw...

Ji Jingwei?

"Whaaa!!! Who would have thought Underrated-7's leader could play the piano? I just thought that they didn't even care about anything in the world. Ji Jingwei isn't that bad at all. " She whispered to herself.

Xia was deeply drawn to Ji Jingwei. Ji Jingwei stops playing the piano. He got up from the seat and surprisingly saw Xia. Xia awkwardly smiled, "Hehe-hi." She waves her hand a little trying not to embarrass herself. Ji Jingwei didn't reply. "My name is Xia Vyang. I just transferred yesterday.--" Ji Jingwei started to get annoyed. "Why are you here?" He asked, interrupting Xia. Xia's eyes widened. She hadn't felt scared in her life. "I-- uh-- I heard the sound of the piano playing, and it led me here. I am sorry!" Ji Jingwei confusedly asked, "You're sorry?" She quickly walks out. In the hallway, Xia was feeling her heart as she breathed heavily. "Damn, I regret what I had thought about him earlier-- He is scary! I should have listened to Xiao Cai." She said to herself.

In the cafeteria, Xia was sitting down. She was deep in thought as she poked on her lunch food. Xiao Cai was looking at Xia. "There you are! We were looking all over school for you." said a bully. Other students were watching. The male student victim was sitting quietly at the lunch table. "Did you think you could avoid us?" She added. The male student victim quietly answered, "I wasn't avoiding you. " The bully came closer to his face. "What was that?-- Speak louder! I can't hear you." The victim repeated what he had said, "I wasn't avoiding you guys." He felt something wet on his head and down his uniform. "Uh-huh." The bully and her friends laugh. The victim cried. The second bully said, "Awee!!! San Bang, you had made Runchu cry. " The third bully laughed and said, "What a crybaby he is! You didn't even lay a finger towards him." Xia couldn't take it anymore as she walked over with her tray and purposely bobbed into San Bang. Everyone gasped. "What the f*ck!" Surprised, San Bang. Xia quickly apologizes to San Bang. "Oops... Sorry! I'm so sorry, I didn't see you there." Put her tray on the table, grab napkins off her tray, and purposely wiped them all over San Bang's uniform. "Here, let me clean it up for you." San Bang annoyingly yelled, "That's enough! Do you know how much I paid for the tailor to custom-made my uniform?" Xia stops cleaning off San Bang's uniform and thinks, "Hmm... it's probably a lot of your allowance then. Let me take it to the cleaner." Charlise asked, "Do you even know which cleaner to go to?" Xia thinks and shakes her head. San Bang angrily replied, "That's enough! This b*tch ruined all our fun." She looked at Runchu and smirked. San Bang warned Runchu with a serious tone, "Runchu, you better come see us after school. We have a job for you. Or else you are dead meat!" Xia asked, "Why would he come to you guys?" Xia said in a serious tone. San Bang annoyingly scoffed and asked, "Seriously! Who the f**k are you?" Xia answered, "Who am I? You will know sooner or later. But now that's enough fun for you and your friends." San Bang asked, "Do you know who I am?" Xia confidentially replied, "I don't care in the world about who you are exactly." San Bang angrily p*ss off. "Who do you think you are? Aren't you afraid I will go after you?" Xia smiled and said, "I'm waiting!" She walks away. San Bang got angrier. She saw a chewed apple and threw it towards Xia's head as someone blocked it away. Xia turns around in surprise. Everyone was grasping in surprise. Underrated-7! "Who the h*ck is making all this ruckus?" asked Ren. Everyone was silent. They didn't dare to talk or make a sound. San Bang walks over to Ji Jingwei and says, "Jingwei-- This b*tch is being mean to me and even calling me names." Xia couldn't believe what she was hearing. She saw Zhuo Zhi, and she badly wanted to ask him for help but couldn't because they both knew that they didn't want anyone in school to know they were related. Jingwei annoying asked, "Why would I care?" He walks away. The Underrated-7 follows behind. Zhuo Zhi whispered to Xia, "We'll talk later. " Walk off. San Bang annoyingly said, "You better watch your back! I will make your life a miserable living hell. " Xia said, trying to annoy San Bang, "I'm still waiting!" San Bang was angry and left as her two friends followed her. Everyone goes on with their business. Xia sighed in relief, "That was close. " Xiao Cai walks over to Xia. "Wow! I'm surprised that Underrated-7 came down here. In my life in this school, I never saw Underrated-7 come down here and make everyone dead silent." Xia smiled and looked at Runchu. Runchu smiled and looked at Xia. She asked, "Are you alright?" Runchu nodded and replied, "Thank you for helping me. San Bang and her friends have been bullying me since my first year of freshmen. I don't know what her reason is... But - aren't you scared she might come after you?" Xia smiled and confidently said, "I wouldn't be scared of her. Because karma is always on my side. "

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