Chapter 164 - KETTLE CALLING POT BLACK

Noise was all over the classroom, they were all excited for their graduation party. The announcement sent a wave of whisper to the class and they waited for their teacher to leave to show how excited they were.

They weren't even done with exam, what is all the fuss about?

Bai Xueyan watched everyone from her corner until suddenly Cui Yao came to stand beside her desk. She looked up to meet those eyes shining so brightly, and a smile on her face. Why is Cui Yao suddenly smiling at me?

She opened her mouth to ask but stopped when an excited looking Chen Qingnuan came to pick her hand and dragged her up from her chair. "Did you hear?" She jumped up excitedly. "We will be graduating soon, just after the exam. Aren't you excited?" She raised and dropped her eyebrows at Xueyan who still didn't understand the sudden affection towards her.

"I'm excited," Xueyan said with a low tone.

"I know, right?" Qingnuan continued. "I can't wait. I plan on leaving the country to complete my studies, how about you?"

"I don't..."

"Enough," Cui Yao said and separated the two. She turned to glare at Qingnuan who in turn pouted. "We know you don't have any friend," Cui Yao started.

'I do have a friend.' Xueyan would have loved to say that out but she didn't want this conversation with these two girls. 

She regarded them as troubles.

"So we are trying to be your friend, to cheer you up when no one is there to, to celebrate with you when everyone else is busy with their best friends. To bring you out of this shell." Cui Yao then pointed at her desk and chair.

Xueyan felt touched hearing this very statement. Even though she was very well aware these two didn't like her at first, she thought maybe they were beginning to change.

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"Cui Yao, I can't believe that you have been eavesdropping on us." And she pushed Cui Yao to the side.

Chen Qingnuan didn't waste time in pushing Deng Yue hard making her fall to a table nearby.

Instantly the class quietened down.

Yin Anhao rushed over to Deng Yue's side. "Are you okay?"

Yin Anhao stood up straight and gave Chen Qingnuan a slap across the face.

Gasps filled the quiet classroom.

"What do you think you're doing‽" Cui Yao angrily asked and went after Yin Anhao and the two started pulling each other's hair.

Bai Xueyan just stood there with widened eyes. What is going on? 

Why were they suddenly fighting?

And then she saw Deng Yue back away slowly as Qingnuan was busy trying to push Yin Anhao away from her own friend.

It didn't take long before their teacher reappeared with three canes in her hands. She hit the table at the front and the three girls immediately stood at attention.

Qingnuan still looked okay but the other two had makeups smeared all over their face and their hair messy.

"Everyone else can sit except you four." Mrs Yin said calmly.

Mrs Yin then walked up to her and pulled her by her left ear, "Didn't you hear me just now?"

It hurt greatly and Xueyan tried not to make a sound. "Did i perhaps speak in spanish?"

There was a mocking laughter from her mates.

The woman let go of her ear and went back to stand in front of the class.

"Who started it?"

No one spoke.

"I ask again, who started it?"

Qingnuan and Cui Yao shared a look. More like an affirmation.

"Yao, do you mind telling me?" Mrs Yin asked.

"I'm... I'm so... I'm so..." Cui Yao said in-between her cries. It made everyone present in the class to pity her.

She looked like she had suffered the most.

"It was a mistake from me," Gong Xi stood up. "I had mistakenly pushed Deng, I mean Yin Anhao." It would be a bad idea calling out Deng Yue as she was sitting with the whole class. 

"Is this true?" Mrs Yin asked.

"Yes!" The whole class chanted.

There was a change in Cui Yao's expression, she darted a look at Qingnuan to speak up.

Qingnuan made a face at her which said, I can't. It would look suspicious.

Qingnuan saw the veins on Cui Yao's head bulge.

"Then the punishment goes out to y'all. Make a note on the three most popular tribes in Nigeria."

"What‽" Mrs Yin heard the shock in their voice but didn't mind. 

"I want it submitted before seven in the morning tomorrow." With that said, she left the class. 

Cui Yao and Qingnuan went back to their desks.

Xueyan looked around but he wasn't anywhere in sight. Truly, she hadn't seen him even when the announcement was given. 

Then something else occupied her mind, what did their teacher mean by that?

*****

"You seem to be deep in thought," 

The voice startled Xueyan and she realized she was even beginning to daydream.

Her father touched her forehead. "Your temperature is too high, I think taking a cold bathe wouldn't be a bad idea."

She smiled, "Sure dad." 

As she prepared, she thought back to that day. Cui Yao and Qingnuan had wanted her to take the fall.

Anything to get her out of that school. The image began to get clearer as she grew.

The image of a smiling Qingnuan filled her mind. They were young but evil.

Soon she was done getting ready, she went out of the house and after staring at the car for a while she sighed. "I deserve whatever I'm getting, even if it's from him."

Did she really deserve it? Or her head was playing with her?

The black Four Wheel's vehicle pulled out of the lawn and entered the road.

A taxi stopped over in front of her house, the person at the back looked up at the beautiful apartment.

"How much does that silly Xueyan earn to live this comfortably? Even that vehicle... Follow her."

As if fate could have it, they both arrived at the same time.

Like always, there was a smile on his face. 'Is he always smiling?'

If she knew how hard it was to get him to smile genuinely, then she would compliment him for always smiling at her.

"You look gorgeous," Zhaolin complimented. Looking down at her pink dress with tiny hands. "I'll offer you my coat if it gets too cold,"

There was a light laugh and she said, thank you to him.

He offered his hand and she happily took it.

They went in.

The person at the back sit of the taxi couldn't help but say, "I don't believe this! Woah! How can this two to be having an affair? And so publicly? With no trace of shame? Geez, disgusting people."

The taxi driver looked through his rearview mirror to the person at the back and the only thing he could think of was, "Kettle calling pot black."

"I'll be right back," with that said he got down and tried to follow them in. He was fully disguised with a mustache that made him look older.

He was intercepted at the door. "Sorry, you can't go in looking like that mister." The bodyguard stationed outside put out a hand to put a safe distance between him and the door.

He hissed and went back to the taxi. "We will wait here, instead."

***

Xueyan closed the menu and gave it back to the waitress.

"I'll be having whatever she's having," Zhaolin who hadn't been searching through the menu slapped it shut and passed it back to the waitress, who in turn smiled, bowed and said.

"Yes sir,"

"Why did you suddenly ask for a dinner date?" She fired the question bugging her once the waitress was out of ear shot.

He kept a poker face. "This is not the main date,"

"What do you mean?"

"Twenty-fourth of this month is our end of year party. I want you there as my date."

The shock Xueyan received sent shivers down her spine. That was publicly declaring, he was having an affair. "No way,"

"Yes way,"

"What is wrong with you Zhaolin? You keep forgetting your limits, you're a married man for Christ sake."

She was looking directly into his eyes, but she saw his hand on the table fold into a fist.

"I'm not married to her,"

She suppressed a chuckle. "Really?"

"Yes,"

"Prove it,"

"I don't need to prove anything, you just have to believe my word."

"Life isn't that simple anymore." She poured herself water and gulped it down.

"Do you at least believe me?"

"I believed you when you said you wanted me for keeps so many years ago." She would say it as it was. "What about now? Now that I have a child?"

Zhaolin smiled. "I want you, and I want her as well. By the way, she is already acquainted with my son. So it won't be much of a problem."