Chapter 425 - Side Story 1: Basketball Tournament (1/2)

”Yao Yao!”

The teenage Li Qin Yao turned around when she heard someone called out her name. Before she could respond, Li Qin Yao found herself pulled into her friend's tight hug. For a few seconds, she was unable to breathe.

”You made it here.” Han Yue Xiu let her go after ten seconds and squeezed at her arms.

Li Qin Yao gave her friend a look over. At this time, Han Yue Xiu was in her team's blue jersey with short pants that reach just above her knees and her long hair was tied into a ponytail.

Standing side by side, Li Qin Yao had to lift her head to look at her friend as Han Yue Xiu was a head taller than her.

”You threatened that you weren't going to speak to me for a week if I did not make it,” Li Qin Yao muttered.

She had come over to B City to live with her mother for a while and did not know a lot of people here. Han Yue Xiu's family and her mother were neighbors. Because they were closer in age, it was easy for Han Yue Xiu to be her friend in B City.

When Han Yue Xiu heard that she was going to stay in B City for a while, she had invited Li Qin Yao to come over and watch her and her team in the basketball tournament.

If Li Qin Yao did noot show up, she was going to be disappointed, but not to the point that she was going to ignore this friend for a week. Though the two of them had different personalities, Han Yue Xiu found that she enjoyed spending her time with Li Qin Yao.

Han Yue Xiu had a big smile on her face, and it seemed that she was pretending that she had not heard her friend's voice of complaint. Turning around, Han Yue Xiu waved her hand at the rest of her teammates and the others approached them with a friendly smile on their faces.

”Let me introduce you,” Han Yue Xiu spoke as she gave a slight shove at her friend. ”This is my best friend, Li Qin Yao. She's here as our supporters.”

The girls nodded and greeted Li Qin Yao amiably.

Han Yue Xiu turned to one of her teammates. ”Wan Wan, give me that extra uniform.”

The short-haired fished a folded uniform from her bag and handed it to Han Yue Xiu. After Han Yue Xiu gave her thanks, she turned to her friend and hand over the jersey.

Li Qin Yao looked at the uniform in her hand and lifted her head to look at her friend. There was an unmistakable confusion in her face at the moment.

”Yao Yao, go and put this on,” Han Yue Xiu instructed. ”Wait. I should go and lead you to the changing room.”

Li Qin Yao did not have the chance to say anything as her friend had already pulled her towards the changing room.

Previously, Han Yue Xiu had mentioned that this was a big tournament, but Li Qin Yao did not think that it would be this massive.

”Why do I need to put this on?” Li Qin Yao asked as they arrived at the changing room.

”So you can stay with me all the time,” Han Yue Xiu laughed. ”There will be so many people coming to watch the tournament. I don't want to lose you in the sea of people.”

Li Qin Yao saw the way her friend was looking at her and was suddenly frustrated at her height.

She was surrounded by basketball players and noticed that they were all very tall. Just now, someone had accidentally bumped into her as she was a bit too short for them to notice.

”It would be easier for me to find you if you were in our school's jersey.” Her lips curled into a smile. ”Anyway, we can claim an extra lunch box for you.”

Li Qin Yao felt the corner of her mouth twitched.

It turned out that Han Yue Xiu just wanted to get an extra lunch box...