Chapter 235 - Hazel's Mentor

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Lily looked at her friend with concern. As soon as Edith put down the phone, Lily walked over and asked, "Is everything alright?"

Edith heaved a sigh. Her lips curled into a small smile. "Yeah. Auntie Li said Grandpa hang out with the others at her B&B and had a little drink. He fell asleep afterward at one of the guestrooms."

"Fortunately he's alright," Lily said. She stayed with Edith and noticed that her expression did not change much. "What's wrong?"

"Maybe I am overthinking things… but sometimes I have this feeling that Grandpa was not going fishing with his friends."

"Then, what do you think he's doing?"

"I don't know," Edith shook her head. "But my heart doesn't feel at ease."

"I'm sure you're overthinking things," Lily said. "It was not long ago that Grandpa was involved in an accident. Now that you haven't heard from him, you were worried that something might be happening to him. Edith, I'm sure he's alright. Auntie Li said she will remind your grandpa to give you a call the first thing in the morning, right?"

Edith nodded slowly but did not speak. Until she heard her grandfather's voice, she cannot be at ease.

"Come on," Lily patted at Edith's shoulder. "Let's eat first. Hazel and Alex should be hungry by now."

Edith glanced at Hazel and finally, her gaze softened. The two went over to the dining table and chatted as they eat. Seeing that Edith had stopped worrying, Lily heaved a sigh in relief. 

As the grownups cleaned up the table, Alex went to his playroom with Hazel on tow. As soon as they walked in, Alex took out his incomplete Gundam model and continued to build it together with Hazel. 

Alex taught her what she should do and sat down to watch as Hazel stared at the parts as she decided what she should do first. Hazel reached for the large piece and paused when she noticed that Alex was staring at her. 

"What's wrong?" Hazel put down the pieces in her hands. She looked at the parts hesitantly and asked, "Did I do it wrong?"

"No. That's not it," Alex said. "It's just good to see you."

Hazel paused, not knowing how she should respond to his words. 

Alex was someone who did not have many friends and preferred to play alone. Because of their Auntie Edith, Hazel became his first friend of a different gender.

As they started to be friends and often spend their time together, Alex was no longer that awkward around others. He could tolerate having a normal conversation with other girls like Megan Xiao.

However, now that they were in a different school, Alex found that the girls around him had become very strange. Those girls liked to stare at him, looked away, and giggled. Alex became very uncomfortable with them and thought that among the girls he had met, Hazel was probably the most normal one. At least, she did not treat him like he was a freak.

Of course, Alex did not know that those girls were attracted to him as he was pretty smart in class.

Hazel was different than Alex. 

Although she too would prefer to stay in a small group of friends, Hazel was someone who could attract others' attention around her. Perhaps, it was due to her identity, a few parents had asked their child to try and befriend Hazel.

Moreover, because of her look, the boys in their class wanted to get close to Hazel. Even though Hazel was unwilling to have a big group of friends, some people would stick close to her and refused to go away.

"I didn't know anyone in the new school. Tyler and everyone else was in different classes," Alex said. "It's nice to find a familiar face to talk to."

Hazel stared back at him and thought that she could understand Alex's feelings. "It's good to see you too. This year, there were other kids in Auntie Edith's class. Everyone seems to know each other. I didn't know anyone in the class either." 

"If only you were born a few months earlier, we could be in the same year."

Hazel thought of his words, and could not find anything to say about it. "How is your new school? Is it nice?"

"It's tiring. But we get to learn many new things. I guess that was pretty interesting," Alex said. He thought about the homework he had to work with on the weekend and was suddenly dispirited.

"That's nice. The other kids were learning the same things we learned last year. Therefore Auntie Edith has to prepare some new exercise for me to work on."

"It turns out that being too smart is not a good thing," Alex mulled. "Are you going to the same school next year?"

Hazel nodded. "I think so. But we still would not be in the same classroom."

"It's fine. We can still see each other in school," Alex said. "When you enrolled in school next year, I can take you around and get you to familiarize yourself with everything."

At this time, Hazel handed over the parts that she has been fiddling with to Alex. "It's done. Try and look at it."

Alex reached for the part and his eyes brightened up as he studied the part. "Hazel, you're very good at this."

The two kids continued to chat about school until Edith and Lily showed up in Alex's room.

Lily glanced at the half-assembled Gundam model on the table and felt the corner of her lips twitched. Her son had asked an adorable girl like Hazel to assemble a Gundam model with him. At this time, Lily was worried that her son would not be able to find herself a girlfriend when he grew older.

"Did you assembled this?" Edith glanced at Alex as she picked up a part of the assembled model.

"No. Hazel did that part," Alex said. "Auntie Edith, did you secretly taught Hazel to assemble them? Why is she very good at it?"

Edith laughed at his words. "Hazel became very good at assembling them, wasn't this is all because of you? Every time we come over, you would drag her over to help you with this. Of course, with your teaching, Hazel would be very good at it."

Alex thought about it and suddenly realized that it was pretty cool that he had become Hazel's mentor in assembling those models. Hazel started being clueless about assembling those models and now she had become good at it.

Edith turned to Hazel and spoke, "Hazel, your uncle said he will come over and pick us in a while.. Go and get your things."

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