485 Chapter 485: Prelude to the Weaver’s Festival (2/2)

”Oh, we did. But not the Weaver's Festival. We do have dumpling festival, and midautumn festival, though. I always love the mooncakes.” I was so looking forward to the mooncakes in fall. Oh, damn. Flandor City didn't celebrate the midautumn festival, so I probably had to order several mooncakes online, and have them shipped from Jing Tian City to Flandor. My dad would be more than happy to buy them for me.

Hey! That was an excuse to have that Miyamoto dojo gathering for us to celebrate Adrian and Melina's progress! I had better write it down in my calendar.

”Sensei, keep this a secret from Adrian.” Melina leaned over and whispered into my ear. ”I want to surprise him.”

”Yeah, for sure.” I nodded and grinned. ”I'm very certain that he will be surprised to see you wearing that. He'll definitely fall for you.”

”Heh. Maybe.” Melina giggled a little, and then she looked a little wistfully. ”It'd be great if I could dance with him at the end of the festival…”

”The dance after the fireworks, right? Yeah, I think he'd like that.” I scratched my head, running the events through my mind. ”I know for sure that he will be coming! Didn't you guys tell me that you'll be going to the festival together?”

”That's right!” Melina nodded. The two of them hadn't invited me because I would be a third wheel, and in any event, I had already told them that I had other plans that night. They assumed I would be accompanying some other girl from Saint Teresa Academy.

They were dead wrong.

Well, they didn't need to know that. Flashing a thumb's up, I grinned and encouraged my disciple. ”Good luck, Melina!”

”Thank you, Sensei!” Melina gripped her dress tightly, and then turned around to run out of the kitchen. She paused for a moment and turned back with a big smile. ”I'll do my best!”

”Yeah, I'm sure you will.”

I watched her disappear, and then I stuffed the bottle back into the fridge. Stretching myself, I then strode out of the kitchen and returned to my room.

Before I could reach it, however, I spotted Adrian hurrying over.

”Brother Richie! There you are!”

”Yeah, what's up?” I stopped and waited for him to catch up with me. He was holding a pen and a piece of paper. Not just any piece of paper, now that I was taking a good look at it. It was a card, embroidered with flowers at the edges.

”A…a letter,” Adrian stammered. I didn't need to ask any further. It was obviously a love letter. The question was…to who?

”For Melina?” I asked. Adrian turned red and nodded, his head lowered. I tried to suppress a chuckle and ruffled his hair. ”This takes a good deal of courage, and I'm sure you'll be able to overcome this trial. Good luck!”

”Ah…wait! Brother Richie!” Adrian was flustered. ”I need your help!”

No, he didn't, but I decided not to say that. Instead, I nodded patiently and smiled encouragingly.

”What do you need me to do?”

”Um, well…this is my first time doing this, and I don't know how to write a love letter. I was hoping that you could provide some advice…several suggestions?”

”Oh…uh…” I scratched my head sheepishly. ”You're asking the wrong person, Adrian. I've never written a love letter before either.”

”EH!?” Adrian almost yelled, and I had to wave at him to get him to keep quiet. ”How is that possible?!” Then he paused. ”Wait, how did you and Sister Alicia…?”

”Um…that sort of happened,” I mumbled, either too embarrassed to remember or to distraught to speak about her.

”Oh, right. She was the one who kissed you in front of everybody.”

”Yeah…anyway…” I hastened to change the subject. ”Let's see what we can do for you. First, we'll have to do some research.”

I was already conjuring up a holographic window and using Google to search for ways to write love letters.

”Eh…?” Adrian looked disappointed. ”But Brother Richie, that's so…unromantic.”

”Well, you have a better idea?”

As it turned out, he didn't. So we ended up spending the next few minutes reading through stuff that made us cringe, and I helped him come up with something that wasn't too cheesy and flowery. Let's just say���I didn't want to write about our efforts here because…yeah.

Then the time came, and Adrian and Melina met at the entrance before getting ready to go. As I expected, Adrian was taken aback by how lovely Melina looked, and his eyes went wide. Suppressing a chuckle, I waved at them.

”Take care, you two.”

”We'll be off, Sensei,” Melina replied, looking at me somewhat forlornly.

”Don't stay at home and make sure you attend the festival too!” Adrian told me somewhat sternly. Was he trying to tell me what to do? You're three years too early for that, kid!

Of course, I didn't say that and instead plastered an encouraging smile on my face, waving to send them off. ”Yeah, I will. Make sure you enjoy yourselves!”

And then they were gone, and for some reason, I felt as if they had grown up very quickly. There was a slight tinge of nostalgia, back when we had only just started training, and then it was gone.

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