Together Forever

Chapter 7.2

The Person I Like

Near and far, girls and women were all bedecked in fancy dress. People meeting up on this day should all be couples out on a date. Tong Yan suddenly felt a little hesitant.

She did not have a lot of winter clothing and therefore was not able to put together hundreds of different outfits like Shen Yao could. The high heels she was wearing were the ones she had kept in preparation for whenever she had needed to be a gala host ... And because she had needed to take her exam, she had not dared put on make-up either.

"Miss, do you have a reservation?" one of the wait staff politely inquired when he saw this girl at the entrance, wavering between whether to enter or not.

She nodded, finally stepping inside.

Only after she had taken a seat did he close the book he was holding. He was accustomed to using his left hand. She suddenly discovered that he was like her and could use both hands, but he was more accustomed to using the left one.

"I'm sorry." Tong Yan decided that she would first be honest and admit to her wrongdoing. In a very sincere manner, she explained, "Do you remember that night, I told you Shen Yao had fallen for a boy's voice? That boy is my high school classmate."

The server came over and handed her the drink menu. Opening it up, she took a glance — all very expensive.

"If I could trouble you to just please bring another teacup, that will be good." He suddenly stated, "You can serve up the dishes now."

After the server had left, he looked back at her again, smiled, and said, "Continue what you were saying. It sounds very interesting."

Interesting ... From his tone of voice, he did not really seem angry, and Tong Yan could finally breathe out in relief. "Today was the first time they were actually meeting in person, and Shen Yao asked me to stay with her for a little while longer so it wouldn't be too awkward." She smiled embarrassedly. "I'm the type of person that can never refuse a friend. Earlier on ... that was actually just because I was keeping Shen Yao company."

Perhaps it was because, growing up, there were very few relationships she could actually be reliant upon. Consequently, she always seemed to place a strong dependence upon her friends, especially her good friends. As long as a friend made a request of her, regardless of how unreasonable it might be, she instinctively would want to fulfill it. At times, even she could not stand this trait, and she had even read some psychology books for it.

"It's alright." He picked up the teacup that was on the server's tray, set it down in front of her, and poured some tea for her until it filled more than half the cup. "At least, for me, that's very normal. I never refuse my friends either."

She gazed at him in surprise. She remembered, the books said that this was a "childhood lack" condition, that most of these cases were a result of lack of familial love and trust during childhood, and hence, the persons would find means to try to gain more love as a way to compensate themselves.

But, why would he have lacked love? With such a background and environment in which he was taught, his childhood years should have been ones in which he was surrounded by people who supported him, like a myriad of stars clustered around the moon.

"Don't you think it's a very bad thing?" With her cup held in both her hands, she tentatively asked him this.

"Every person will more or less have some shortcomings in his or her character. For instance, I had once seen a female patient who had an unexplainable dislike for the color red. Every time she saw it, she would become depressed and irritable, and later, it started to seriously affect her life, to the point that, even when she got married, she was opposed to seeing any red. Later on, one of my friends used hypnosis on her and was finally able to find the root cause of this."