Tanmei Fairy Tales

【Shelette's Perspective】

I don't like that lady called Charlene, not at all!

I don't know why Mr. Dufresne "introduced" her to me.Is it because the ugly duckling in the story finally became friends with the hen that lays eggs and the cat that arches its back and meows?That's right, Mr. Duvery must be afraid that I am too lonely alone, and thinks that I also need company.But why didn't he ask me if I needed it...

Originally, I only wanted Casey's company alone, but after getting along these days, it was hard for me to agree that Mr. De Fury is also a gentle person.I just felt a bit more comfortable staying in this manor, but why did I have to stuff this stranger into my life again?Just because... is she my age?

Charlene is the niece of Mr. De Fury, inheriting the nobility in the bones of this family.Mr. Duvery took her hand affectionately, and led the delicate young lady to me.Although she tried her best to look polite and polite, and tried her best to squeeze out an insincere smile to me, I could read a trace of real disdain from her indifferent eyes.

I have no doubts about my sensibility.Years of keeping my mouth shut has given birth to countless sensitive tentacles all over my body. They stretch out invisible in the air, capturing every trace of malice.So far, only when facing Casey and DeVry, those tentacles will quietly retract to rest.

"You are Shellets?" Charlene glanced at me.As a boy, I am half a head taller than Charlena, but subconsciously I always feel that it is a condescending look.

I don't want to talk, just like I usually meet people I don't like, I don't even want to spit a syllable to her.I turned my head away and lowered my eyelids to look at my toes.

"Shelize..." De Fury hesitated to speak, but he didn't say the accusation after all.I slowly raised my head and saw the disappointed look in his eyes.

He is disappointed in me!The man who had been patient and gentle with me these days, finally, I let him down too.

Duvery adjusted his tone and tried to be persuasive: "Look, I brought my niece here on purpose. You are about the same age. I think you need a friend."

At that moment, I really wanted to hide in the corner willfully, without looking at or paying attention to anyone; or simply be honest and push the lady I don't like out the door!

But what qualifications do I have?This is Mr. De Fury's library. Charlene is his niece, and she had the same surname as him before she got married.And what am I?In name, I am his newly adopted "adopted son", but in fact, both he and I know in our hearts that the relationship between "adopted father and son" is just a temporary tent built to help me survive the disaster. Well, the awning will be put away sooner or later, how can there be a solid foundation connected by blood?So this is not my home, and the library is not my private space, and I have no right to ask Charlene out.

I take a deep breath.Since, self-willedness can't change anything, so I can only bear it.What's more, I really have no reason to disappoint Mr. DeVry's kindness.

I slowly turned my face away, pretending not to understand Xia Lianna's reluctant alienation, and nodded, as a greeting.

"Charlene, don't you also like to draw?" Mr. DeVry said happily. "Although Shellez is not very talkative, he is very good at drawing! He also draws all the stories I tell him. It's a picture. You two can talk with your paintbrush." ​​Then he turned his head to me again: "Shelize, show Charlene your white swan!"