Tides Of Healing Love

12. Thief.

"Meredith is a nice person." Zhan commented as he walked beside Yibo, who clenched his fists once he heard that, while Zhan continued, "She is such a nice and beautiful woman and friendly too."

"Yeah, I know," Yibo said with disinterest.

"What happened? Why do you look so down?"

Yibo just shook his head and said, "I was just tired, by the way, you are going to be super busy from now on right? In the morning, you will have badminton practice, football practice in the evening, and then the debate club activities in the recess."

Zhan smiled and nodded, "Yeah right,  but I am surprisingly excited."

"Good for you."

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As the days passed things were going rather smoothly, Zhan's practice was going well as well, and he had become extremely busy, he didn't have the time to hang out with Yibo before or after the class but they would sit together and hang out during the classes.

The great thing that happened was that Zhan was completely focused on his game, and what he didn't notice was that the others noticed him. His charm was back and once again everyone had started appreciating him for his sports skills, and he became good friends with Simon, Zhehan, and Meredith as well.

The teachers were no longer unhappy with him as he regularly attended the classes, his old self was finally coming back and there were three people who were not very happy with that as their limelight had been stolen.

One morning, Zhan met Yibo just right outside the gates, the two smiled at each other before Zhan said, "Why don't you come with me to the ground? Let's play for a while."

"Play what?"

"Badminton, you know how to play right?"

"Yes, I do." Yibo said and the two of them went to the ground which was fairly empty and while they were playing, Zhan said, "You know we are shifting this week."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning we are changing house."

"Oh, it must be a lot of work."

"Yeah, it is. But, it's alright, I guess."

"You must have a lot of memories in the house."

Zhan smiled and said nothing after that, he had a lot of memories in that house which was true but most of them were not that good, just constant yelling, beating, loud noises, and nothing else.

After playing for a while they sat down for a while before they went to the class and there Zhan said, "You know, I have to show you something. I found while we were moving stuff, I had no idea it was still in the house."

"What is it?" Yibo asked with excitement Zhan opened his bag and took out a necklace, which seemed quite old and not in good condition, but Yibo could recognize the gold and diamonds. And it must be extremely expensive.

"Wow," he said.

Zhan smiled and said, "It belonged to my late grandmother and she gave it to my mother, I remember that my grandmother and mother both loved this necklace a lot, I had thought that we had lost this but no it was lying hidden in the storeroom, my mother must have kept it there to hide it and then she forgot about it."

Yibo took the necklace and smiled, "what are you planning to do with this?"

"I am planning to restore it's beauty and give it to my mother as a gift."

"But it might cost a lot."

"I talked to my brother and he agreed, I am planning to go after the practice, but I really wanted to show this to you."