Into your heart! [ZhanYi FF]

Chapter 17 - A Crazy Day

After Yibo had processed the shock from the morning a bit, also thanks to the encouragement and comforting words and actions of Zhan, Yibo had been able to get rid of the rest of his frustration at the training when he was practicing with Emily again for their performance together. He was still frustrated and angry because his great-grandmother's necklace and cross had been stolen from him, but he was feeling better.

During lunch break, he called his mom and told her about the theft of the necklace and the precious cross. To his surprise, his dad was also home and so he could tell him about it right away too. His parents did not react angrily, but were sad. For one thing, their son had been robbed, and for another, they could not understand how anyone could steal such a sacred symbol without fear of God's punishment.

During this phone call, Yibo felt that his parents had now become even more extreme in their beliefs than they already were. Actually, as he realized at that moment, they had always been like that. But it got worse when his mom had almost been killed. Therefore, the conversation had become very connected to their faith.

Since Yibo grew up with this strict faith and at least his mom always connected everything that happened in the world with God or the work of the devil, this was nothing new for him. Sometimes it bothered him, sometimes it didn't. On this phone call it bothered him, even a lot. Because he didn't want to talk to his parents about God and his punishments for sins, he just wanted to tell them what had happened.

Nevertheless, the phone call ended with them praying together and his mom asking God to punish the thief. Afterwards, when Yibo called his brother and told him about the theft and about this strange phone call with his parents, his brother explained to him that their mom calls him almost every night to pray together.

After the phone call with his brother, Yibo thought that it was only noon and the day had already been so crazy. He wondered what else was going to happen on a day as strangely crazy as this one.

When Yibo finally went to the cafeteria for lunch, he saw Zhan and Alessia sitting at a table in the very back of the room. To him, it looked like the two of them were discussing something. When he picked up his lunch and sat down at the table with his friends, they excitedly told him that Zhan and Alessia were fighting because Zhan had rejected her in the morning and sent her away.

Yibo had already guessed it, because he knows Alessia well enough by now to know that she doesn't put up with that kind of thing. In his eyes she is a scheming diva who always gets what she wants. And when things don't go her way, she goes completely crazy. Well, normally it would bother him now when he sees her and Zhan together. But after Zhan made it clear to him that they are not a couple, it didn't bother him anymore. Besides, they were fighting, so everything was fine. At least with Yibo!

"I um..." Yibo began after Cheng finished telling why Zhan and Alessia were fighting. But he didn't finish the sentence because an announcement came over the loudspeakers from the assistant of the director.

"Dear students. After all the events and the unrest that is going on at the moment, the director and all the staff have decided to throw a party for you. With this they hope that the tempers will calm down a bit. The party will take place tonight. You are asked to dress in white clothes, because the motto of the party is: dancing in the black light. The party will start at 8 pm and end at around midnight." Explained the assistant.

Most of the people in the cafeteria cheered loudly. Only a few seemed disinterested. There were also cheers at Yibo's table, as his friends were very happy. Yibo himself did not cheer, but was also happy. It would be the first party ever for him. And after everything that had been going on lately, they needed this party too!

After lunch, Yibo and Emily hurried back to the training center. They had signed up for one of the training rooms for two hours and they had to hurry to get to the training room on time before someone else went in. If you are not there on time, you are out of luck if someone else went into the room in the meantime.