End of class.
Lin Guiying and Zhou Lei headed to the mall.
The former noticed that her friend was strangely pumped and a little anxious about their trip this time. 'It's just DDR. Why is he so nervous?'
Meanwhile, Zhou Lei counted how many hours he had left and calculated in his mind how many attempts would fit in that time frame.
'Let's see, I have about 3 hours left. The length of the song is about 4 minutes long. If an hour is 60 minutes, then that leaves me with 180 minutes, divided by 4, which is... 45! I have approximately 45 attempts.'
Leaving aside any unfortunate circumstances that may arise, Zhou Lei was confident that he could perfect that Despaghetti song in those remaining 45 attempts. If not, he could go buy a blob of tofu and smash his head into it until he died.
While he counted, the two finally arrived at the mall.
"We're here..."
Lin Guiying poked Zhou Lei, who seemed to be in a daze.
"Ah! What... oh." Zhou Lei raised his head.
The large entrance of the arcade entered his sight, and eventually, the familiar smell permeated through the atmosphere around him.
The scent smelled neither good nor bad, but it invoked a sense of nostalgia to anyone that inhaled it. Zhou Lei was one of those people.
'...I still remember 5 years ago when me and Zi Yun would skip school to come here. The good old days...'
Lin Guiying glanced at Zhou Lei beside her, only to see him nodding his head with closed eyes. "Hey. What are you doing?"
"Ah, just reminiscing." With a strange smile, Zhou Lei shook his head.
"Are you an old man or something?" Lin Guiying quipped.
"Can't I reminisce if I'm not an old man?" Shaking his head, Zhou Lei disapproved of his friend's constant verbal abuse.
They went towards the area where the Dance Dance Revolution machine was located. The two friends talked along the way, with topics ranging from idols to anime.
"You should support idols other than Lin Guiying, you know. She isn't the only one."
"Hmph, you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you."
...
"I liked Fu Jianhe's latest single. It had a catchy tune."
"I've never heard it. I'm one of those people where I wait for the trend to die down before trying to get into it."
...
"Have you watched Stained Gate? It's a new anime this season. I did, and it was boring."
"Maybe it's one of those slow build-up ones. There's only 2 episodes out, right?"
.....
As they walked along, Zhou Lei suddenly bumped into a person. "Ah!"
The pair's conversation came to a halt when the person that Zhou Lei bumped into crashed towards the floor.
Zhou Lei panicked, but he reached out his hand with a wry smile on his face. The person looked up, kind of ticked off at what just happened. However, as soon as she caught sight of the boy that bumped into her, her building resentment washed away like sand on a shore.
"Miss, I am sorry, I wasn't paying attention..."
The person grabbed Zhou Lei's hand and stood up. Strangely enough, Zhou Lei didn't sense any trace of irritation from her.
