Ge Li's hand holding the spoon paused.
Sunlight shines in through the huge glass floor-to-ceiling windows next to you, leaving a shadow next to the desserts and glasses on the table.
"Why?" she asked.
Sophia raised her head and looked out the window, looking slightly confused.
"Yeah, why?"
"Have you ever experienced what it feels like to have something very important taken away from you?"
Although she asked this question, Sophia did not mean to know the answer, but continued to speak.
"I feel like the Handicraft Department has taken away an important... friend of mine."
"You can have as many friends as you want." Geli said nonchalantly.
"No, I'm not talking about something as dispensable as a follower, but a true friend. I won't treat you differently because of your identity, nor will I treat you differently because of your family background. Plot."
Saying this, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Sophia's mouth.
"Although she is clumsy and always does a lot of nerve-wracking things, I feel relaxed and happy just being with her."
…
In the new school year, the academy also followed the past tradition and randomly assigned classes to students.
Sophia entered Class F, sixth grade.
Now that the classmates have changed, those courses that need to be conducted in groups naturally need to arrange additional partners.
This time, her life class partner was a girl with a short ponytail.
"Eh - the president of Lily Club? I feel like he is a very important person!" said the new partner.
"Ah? No, Lily Club is just an ordinary student organization." Sophia would use this sentence every now and then, and she knew it by heart.
"But, but, the work will be hard, right? Just maintaining a club with single-digit members is tiring enough. Being able to handle everything as well as Sofia-san must have put in a lot of hard work! "The man praised with sincere admiration.
You must have put in a lot of effort.
This is a completely unfamiliar statement.
Although she has always been surrounded by many people, Sofia also thinks that she has a good relationship with them as she has always been outgoing and lively.
But whether it’s teachers, family members, followers or anyone else, they always say:
"Ah, she is indeed the daughter of Marquis Patrick's family!"
"What a superior bloodline and extraordinary talent!"
"Geniuses can really do anything well!"
No matter how good she is, it is all natural to her.
When she tried her best to achieve good results and was filled with joy, what she heard in her ears was: "This kind of thing is just a piece of cake."
Not recognized.
Not noticed.
Not understood.
She gradually got used to hiding the embarrassment behind her, building the most perfect surface into a hard shell.
But that's false.
While still working hard to accomplish everything that can make him look good, he can't help but doubt that he has to work so hard to meet the expectations of others.
The more compliments you receive, the more you realize that this is not the case.
However, why can this completely unfamiliar stranger see his own efforts?
Sophia stared at her blankly, puzzled.
Because they always needed to collaborate on some course tasks, Sophia became familiar with this classmate named May Jones day by day.
"Just call me Meimei, that's what my family calls me!" the girl said carelessly.
Sophia felt a joy that even she couldn't understand.
'Does this mean that in her mind, she is also like a family member? '
Life lessons are always in the last period in the morning or the last period in the afternoon. Meimei often stays in the classroom for a long time even after class is over.
"Why isn't get out of class over?" Sophia asked her.
"Even if get out of class is over, there is no place to go." Meimei said with a bitter look on her face, "My club is usually empty. It may not be long before it is abandoned."
"That's it..." She thought thoughtfully for a while, "If that's the case, then I'll stay with you."
"Huh?" Meimei was very surprised. "No, no, no, I'm just staying in the classroom because I'm bored, there's no need to waste time with me."
"Ah, I usually go to Lily Club just to listen to other people chatting." She raised her lips slightly, "To be honest, it's quite boring."
As a result, the two of them became good friends who "seem to never play together."
…
Listening to Sophia's affectionate words, Geli felt inexplicably anxious.
"Okay, I don't want to know more about the past of you and your friends."
Geli tapped his fingers on the edge of the table unconsciously: "So, what did the manual department do?"
"Handcraft Department..." Sophia's smile faded a little when she mentioned the name of the club. "The Handicraft Department was originally going to abolish the club. Does Geli know that?"
Song Li nodded slightly.
If Chris hadn't suddenly joined the craft club on a whim, this club would have been banned due to insufficient numbers, just like the unpopular clubs that once existed in the academy.
After all, activity rooms and activity funds are limited, and they cannot always be provided to useless clubs and wasted.
"Before, because the handicraft department had no sense of existence, Meimei had time to spend time with me. But since Chris joined the handicraft department this semester, there have been more club activities in the handicraft department, and Meimei seems to have suddenly changed. Just like a person."
Sophia's tone was a little low.
"No matter what time, she always rushes to the activity room of the handicraft department after class. I want to take other opportunities to ask her out, but she always says that she has other things to be busy with..." Sophia couldn't understand, " Obviously nothing important is being done in the handicraft department..."
"Is that the reason?"
Song Li frowned and said, "Even if all the hard work your friends have put into the club will be wasted because of your interference, does it not matter?"
"It doesn't matter."
The same gentle voice as always.
"Because I hate... the way she is so lazy but yet so motivated for other people."
Sophia laughed at herself: "I must be very selfish like this."
"Yes," Song Li said. "It's terrible."
"There's nothing I can do about it. But, you can't control your feelings." She murmured, "Maybe I'm too possessive. I always think that if that friend only belongs to me, alright."
"After this blow, maybe she no longer likes the manual department? Moreover, as soon as this semester is over, the change will begin."
Sophia looks to the future.
"She will step down from the ministerial position, and then join me in moving up to junior ministry to join new and more meaningful clubs."
"The Handicraft Department, in a long life, is just a memory of childhood mischief."
