[hp] Rescue Mr Diggory

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Although it has been emphasized before, and the copywriting has also been mentioned, let's say it again, just in case.From the very beginning, Qiu’s character design in this article is very different from the original work, because the plot needs it, so I have to adapt it. I hope no one will mention this character ooc, because I don’t have any at all. Strictly follow her in the original book, just borrowed a shell, let's treat it as a character with the same name and surname as the original book but has no relationship.

Regarding the character of Qiu in this article, I will write a special article about characters related to her later in the story.

感谢在2021-03-2819:49:40~2021-04-0219:41:14期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!The Ravenclaw players lowered their heads like children who had done something wrong, and filed into the school hospital. The leader among them was their captain Roger Davis, but they were the only ones missing from the team Qiu Zhang, the Seeker.

After Davis came in, he first glanced at Camelia, then at Cedric who was lying on the bed, and then carefully asked around, "Is Digory alright?"

The Hufflepuff players around the hospital bed were all silent, no one was willing to answer his question, and the eyes they cast on every Ravenclaw player were extremely unfriendly, Ian had already secretly thought He clenched his fists tightly. If it wasn't for Iris who was holding him tightly, he might have thrown himself on Davis long ago.

Seeing their reaction, Davis couldn't help shrunk back to his own position with a guilty conscience, while the players behind him all looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to make a sound.

For a while, the ward was silent, even quieter than Professor Binns' classroom. At the same time, this scene made people feel weird. As the winner, the Ravenclaw team should be celebrating the victory, not running to Apologizing to his men for losing, and acting so apprehensive in front of them, as if winning the game was a mistake they made.

The silence was finally broken when Camelia got up and walked in front of Davis. She said to Davis: "I want to talk to you now. I wonder if you would like to?"

"okay."

Davis froze for a moment, and answered almost subconsciously.After he reacted, the expression on his face suddenly became both surprised and happy.

They walked out of the ward and did not stop until a corner near the entrance of the school hospital where no one would pass by.

"Congratulations, you have won the game." Camelia's tone was so flat that no emotion could be heard.

Davis, who originally wanted to win, heard the praise that he had been thinking about these days, but he couldn't feel any joy in his heart. Instead, he felt that something was blocking his chest. He knew it wasn't him. want.

For a while, his mouth was dry, as if he had suddenly suffered from aphasia, and he couldn't even utter a word, but under the torment in his heart, he still tried to utter a few words, "It's us So what if you win? It's useless."

Camelia shook her head and said, "Why is it useless? Now Ravenclaw has a high probability of successfully defending the title. How can you, a great hero, say such disappointing things?"

"It's not that, you know what I mean." After Davis finished speaking, his expression became more serious, "Is Diggory really okay? What did Ms. Pomfrey say? I just wanted to disturb him, I originally thought he would avoid it, so that he wouldn't..."

"He's fine now, but he may have a slight concussion, don't worry. Fortunately, he didn't fly very high at that time."

"Concussion? Is that serious?" Davis asked, confused.

"It's nothing, it's not very serious, it's just that he fell to his head and will be in a coma for a while. After waking up, he may have short-term amnesia symptoms. Maybe this is good news for you, maybe he may remember after waking up." I can't remember exactly how I fell off the broom."

After hearing these slightly sarcastic words, Davis lowered his head and smiled wryly, "You are really angry with me."

Camelia's voice was calm, "You think too much, you just did what you should do as a captain and a player for your own team. And you did it in the rules of the Quidditch game It's not a foul, you guys won in a fair way. Not to mention being Ravenclaw, why should I be angry?"

"In fact, Digory and I made a bet before the match." Davis said while watching Camelia's reaction, "But it seems that he didn't mention it to you, it's okay to tell you now It's not too late, anyway, you will know sooner or later. In fact, I have already known it myself, no matter whether I win or lose this game, the result is the same."

Davis paused for a moment, his eyes contained deep melancholy, which was not at all like the sunny image he usually showed to outsiders.

"Our bet is on you."

Finding that Camelia had an expected expression of no surprise on his face, the loneliness on his face deepened.

"I know that this bet is very naive, and it's hard to deceive myself, but I just can't swallow it. Obviously you dated me first, obviously I met you first, and the time of heartbeat is earlier than him, Why did you choose him instead of me? I can do better than him, you see, I can get rid of all my bad habits for you, and I will only have you in my eyes from now on. That's it, and I promise it will always be that way from now on."

"Davis, we have been in the same academy for several years. I have passed you countless times, but you never seemed to pay attention to me before. Whenever I passed by you in the past, your The eyes have been on other girls, those dazzling girls." Camelia was not moved by his sweet words.

Davis scratched his head and said: "So you can't accept the old me? What about the current me, are you willing to accept it? I really have changed a lot, please give me another chance, I can Prove to you that I am no worse than Digory."

He suddenly became confident again, puffed up his chest, and the loneliness in his eyes was replaced by arrogance that was inevitable. This reminded Camelia that she couldn't help but recall the day when she was holding a pile of extremely high potions for her homework. Be careful to bump into him who was about to walk in. At that time, he also had the same air, directing his team members to pick up the scattered parchment.

Had she still been wearing those ridiculous glasses, would he have acted like a gentleman and cared for her?Will you apologize for your recklessness?Will there be patience and enthusiasm to help?

Probably not, just like Xixiu has a special preference for all shiny things, Davis is just a boy who likes to look at pretty faces and has no resistance to it, unlike most boys in Hogwarts The same, or many boys are like this.

At this moment, Camelia thought about what Davis said again, she suddenly realized something, looked him up and down, covered her mouth and laughed, "Oh my God, you are so attached to me, don't you think that Did I have a crush on you before? Don’t you think that I bumped into you on purpose? If so, I’ll tell you the truth now. Way to strike up a conversation."

Davis blushed and his breathing became tight. He seemed to realize that he had missed something, "Isn't it really what I thought? Then why did you agree to date me so readily?"

"I think this is similar to the reason why you have had so many girlfriends." Camelia paused, "Because of a momentary vanity."

"Don't you think you're going too far?" Davis said loudly.

"Yeah." Camelia said frankly, "Forgive me, I thought this kind of thing was commonplace for you, so I took it for granted that it would not affect you, but now I realize that I I took advantage of you, broke your heart, and didn't know how much I went too far. There is no excuse now, Roger, I am really sorry, and I hope you can forgive me."

"And what about Digory? Are you staying with him just to gain attention? At first I didn't believe it at all, but now I hope it's true, the truth is what they say it is. "

What surprised him was that Camelia's answer was very serious, "No, I have always liked him sincerely, and it has never changed."

"I have always been sincere to you, but you don't believe that's all." Davis said still unwillingly, "That date was the first time I was so attentive, and what I said was also sincere. You are the first It is also the only girl so far that made me want to take it back and show it to my mother."

"Roger, you should really think about it, maybe you don't like me as much as you imagined." Camelia sighed, "It's just that you can't swallow that breath, because I refused the request to associate with you. It makes you feel very humiliated, and you think it makes you lose face in front of your friends, right? Maybe you just mistake this unwillingness for liking, so you think I am different from other girls. "

"Why do you think of me like that? Of course I know how I feel about you. You're not the first girl to reject me, but you're the first girl to keep me up at night because of your rejection." " Davis looked like he was about to cry, "You don't understand anything, you don't know how much I like you, I like you so much that I think about you every day when I have time, I hope to see you every day You are happy to talk to you every day, but you said that I did not like your performance, but was angry with myself, I think the person who didn't understand is obviously you."

"No, you just need a little time to understand whether you should waste time on me. It's not worth it at all. I've met many boys like you before, and when they figure it out, without exception Disappeared without a trace, as if they had never been in my life."

Camelia took out a handkerchief and handed it to Davis, "Okay, you are the captain of the team anyway, don't cry because of such a trivial matter, it's too embarrassing. You will definitely meet other people in the future." There are girls that you can take back to show your mother, they will be better than me, and more worthy of your liking."

When Camelia returned to the ward again, the two teams had already left, perhaps they were all driven away by Madam Pomfrey, who always thought that what her patients needed most was rest.

Perhaps because she knew the relationship between Camelia and Cedric, Ms. Pomfrey did not drive Camelia away and made an exception to let her stay, but Camelia knew that Ian and Iris should be Would be happy to stay with her and watch Cedric's.

Cedric, who was lying on the hospital bed, was now wrapped with a thick bandage around his head, his broad chest was rising and falling regularly, and the expression on his face was very peaceful, like that of a sleeping child.

Thinking of the ups and downs of the day, and seeing his heartless sleeping face, Camelia couldn't help but say to him who was lying on the bed: "You are really disturbing. Do you know , I was almost going to have another heart attack because of your fright."

She had just finished mumbling when she heard a familiar voice outside the door talking to Ms. Pomfrey.

"Can I go in and see him?" Cho Zhang was looking at Madam Pomfrey with her tender eyes.

But the other party flatly rejected her request, "Diggory is still in a coma, you might as well wait until he wakes up, there is nothing to visit now, it is enough for Shafik to guard alone."

"I didn't think she was there...but please ma'am, I'll just go in and have a look at him, just for a little while, okay?"

No matter what Qiu said, Ms. Pomfrey remained unmoved, until Camelia also came out to intercede, and then she reluctantly allowed Qiu to stay for a while.

"I thought you would join her in persuading me to go."

Cho said to Camelia, who was putting the lisianthus flowers she had brought into a glass vase, and the latter smiled at her words.

"Why would I do that?"

"You definitely don't want me to have any contact with him..." Qiu finished speaking halfway, and didn't continue, because she suddenly realized that it was not good to say so.

Camelia didn't pay attention to these, but she said a few words that Qiu couldn't understand.

"This platycodon blooms very well, did you steal it from the greenhouse?"

"Why do you say stealing? I asked the professor directly, and I got it in a fair way." Qiu couldn't help frowning, seeing Camelia stroking the petals with her fingers, she cleared her throat deliberately, "Because I'm I know, he likes this kind of flower, so I went to ask Professor Splitter for it, and the professor was very happy to give it to me."

"You really put your heart into it." Camelia didn't look up, and continued to play with the bunch of bellflowers. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the flowers are also lavender, which is the same as the one Cedric brought her that time.

Qiu Leng snorted, but didn't answer.

Camelia continued: "When I fell down the stairs and was hospitalized last year, Seid sent me the exact same flower as this one. But I didn't know it was him until much later."

After she finished speaking, she looked deeply at Cedric, who was still in a coma.

"Are you showing off to me on purpose now?" Qiu suddenly felt very angry, but she didn't know what she was angry about.

Camelia asked: "Do you know what the flower language of purple lisianthus is?"

Qiu was stunned for a while.

Purple Platycodon has two flower languages, the first is unchanging love, honesty and sadness; the second is eternal love, hopeless love.Therefore, ordinary people will not bring this kind of flower to others casually, because it represents both eternity and hopelessness. Most of them are used to give to those who no longer meet each other. .

"I thought he liked it, so I went to ask for it." Qiu muttered to himself, thinking of something, his eyes gradually lost their luster, "He gave me a platycodon flower that day and told me not to tell others. I thought He's right...to me, who would be stingy when giving a girl flowers to the point of only giving one flower, and it turned out that he was really just afraid that I would tell him about picking flowers."

It would not sound good if the news of stealing her professor's flowers spread, but if it was discovered that she was still a repeat offender, Cedric's good reputation might be lost, Camelia thought.

Qiu has never been so listless, but she still said to Camelia in a bad tone: "It seems that you must know what flowers he likes best."

"I don't know what flowers Seid liked before, but I know he likes camellias the most now."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be quite narcissistic."

"He told me this himself. He said he likes camellias."

Camelia sat on the edge of the bed, went to hold Cedric's hand, and tried to wrap her little hand tightly around his hand. Although he still didn't show signs of waking up, fortunately his hand was still as warm as usual .

Seeing their clenched hands, Qiu's eyes darkened again. She gritted her teeth and said to Camelia, who had her back turned: "Shafiq, do you know why we all hate you all the time?"

Camelia didn't make a sound. She didn't care about this matter for a long time. It doesn't matter if you like it, or it doesn't matter if you are hated. Waiting to wither in the voices of the outside world, those irrelevant people have long been unimportant to her. What they say and do has nothing to do with her. Now she only cares that the people she loves can be well.

Qiu continued: "Because you are here, we feel like we have become useless idiots all of a sudden, and the professors like you, and you have always used the best food and clothing. Now you are just picking You put on a pair of glasses, and the boys are like bees circling around your flower. It’s as if everything is within your reach, but we have to think hard and try our best, but in the end it may not be possible Fulfillment. This is what we have been unable to understand for a long time, the place where we are jealous of you, why!"

After hearing Qiu's words, Camelia couldn't help being taken aback.

"I don't even know what's so enviable about someone like me. Do you really think I'm doing well? I just think my life is a mess. Who wants to have a life like mine unless it's That man is crazy."

"Don't act like you're a good boy when you're cheap." Qiu's eyes were extremely cold, "You're always like this, it's disgusting."

Faced with Qiu's dislike for herself, Camelia still smiled and said to her: "I really don't know what you are jealous of me, but I used to envy you very much, and envied that your mother loved you so much, but I have already I haven’t received a letter from my mother for a long time. I have grown up so much that I have never made her proud of me. I remember that when I was young, she always had a straight face, and she always had arguments with her father. At the end of the fight, she often scolded me for not being motivated, saying that I was so stupid that I couldn't learn magic, but that I was deliberately angry with her and refused to learn. She said how she gave birth to such a useless wizard like me, and then she I was angry and went back to France. I don’t know what happened to me. Not long after she left, I suddenly became enlightened and knew magic, but what’s the use? My mother doesn’t want me anymore. I still envy you We can have so much fun together, but I was almost alone since I was a child, and the group of pure-blood little wizards almost bullied me when I was young, they always joked that I couldn't learn magic, and no one wanted to take me to play."

Qiu stared at Camelia in silence, while the other party was completely immersed in her own narrative.

"Later I simply went to a Muggle school, and I made some friends there, but who would have thought that this time it was because I learned too fast and skipped a lot of grades. I was fine, but I skipped grades When I got to high school, I annoyed the older kids, they thought I was such an annoyance for the little one, how I kept getting A's, and how I always knew everything, so they bullied me too. They put bugs in my pencil case, and I Smeared glue on stools, splashed ink on my books, stole my lunch. Later I told my dad and teachers about it and after they got scolded, they stopped for a while, but then bullied me for bullying It got worse and they started locking me in lockers, and at one point I was locked there for a whole morning."

Camelia let out a long sigh.

"I was terrified at the time, and the problem of being afraid of the dark also fell at that time. I didn't have the habit of sleeping with the light on before, but now I don't sleep with the light on, and I feel flustered. After I dropped out of school, I stayed at home and no one could sleep. No, every day besides reading books and looking at the night sky, I just talk to the wall and talk to myself. I remember that I had a doll I liked very much. It was made by my grandma according to my appearance, and I took one for her Name, 'Dorothy', after I got tired of talking to the wall, I started talking to Dorothy, I even imagined it as a real person, and it went on for so long that I almost Believe that the girl Dorothy really exists."

Qiu showed no sympathy or pity for these experiences, but said coldly: "Have said so much, don't you think you shouldn't come to school? You should stay in the hospital and get cured. I'm talking about the kind of specialized A hospital for lunatics, that's the best for you."

"I think what you said is quite reasonable, maybe that kind of place is suitable for me, but unfortunately my family didn't think of such a great idea at the time, so they sent me to Hogwarts, but that At that time, I had gradually accepted the reality that Dorothy was just a doll, and I stopped talking to her. But who knows, when I arrived at Hogwarts, you were still laughing at me about that incident, even when I went to Ma Going to melon school has become a new laughing stock for my pure blood compatriots who have bullied me since I was a child. At first I kept telling myself that it was okay, as long as I did better than all of you in all my subjects, I would give you all Comparing this, you will stop laughing at me, and you will officially accept that I am also a little wizard, so I have been working very hard, even when I was sick, I didn’t dare to let go of my homework. Now that I think about it, I was really stupid. Why did I do that? So stubborn about what you guys think of me..."

"Anyway, I admit that you are indeed very powerful. You have outmatched all of us." Qiu said reluctantly, "But just because of this, I seem to hate you even more."

"I don't know when hard work has become an annoying quality," Camelia said.

"That's because I don't think you need to work hard, but if you insist on working so hard, you really don't want to leave a way for ordinary people like us to survive. You may not know that when I was young, I also went to a Muggle school , so I know better than Mary and the others how incredible it is for a child to skip directly to high school at the age of eight or nine and still be able to learn college knowledge by himself."

Qiu paused when he said this, "Shafiq, you are a genius, the kind of star-studded."

"Are you mocking me again? It is impossible for me to enjoy the treatment of stars and moons in my life. I know myself. I will be hated wherever I go." Camelia laughed at herself.

"Although I hate you, what I just said is the truth. In fact, you should stay with the Muggles. As long as you are so young, as long as you give full play to your talents, many Muggles will come to surround you and cheer you up." Watching you, and then if you work a little harder, you will be able to succeed casually."

Qiu said this with a cold snort.

"As for the misery you and I have sold, I don't think there is anything so painful. I have never heard of a genius who feels lonely and needs so many friends to accompany him. I don't believe that the eldest lady of a rich family would feel lonely. I envy ordinary people like us who live in poverty. But God is fair anyway, and you can’t let you take all the good things, so you can see that you are smart and beautiful, but you have been in poor health since you were a child. Unhappily, your parents divorced because of you, and I think this is probably the so-called gain and loss.” Qiu said, “So, it seems that it is not entirely our fault that we isolate you, it is the old man’s fault. God's will, if you want to blame it, blame yourself for being too greedy, wanting everything and not being satisfied at all."

After listening to Qiu's words, Camelia asked an irrelevant question, "Then will you suddenly have a thought one day that you are superfluous to this world?"

This time without waiting for Qiu to answer, Camelia answered by herself, "I will."

Camelia couldn't help but wryly smiled when she saw Qiu's slightly surprised gaze sweeping over.

"I often think this way, probably since my parents divorced. If it weren't for me, maybe my parents would have loved each other forever and wouldn't have divorced because of me. Now after hearing what you said, I'm in I think the few of you would have had a better time at Hogwarts without me. If I could, I really wish I had never been born in this world..."

The expression on Qiu's face was unpredictable, "Yes, without you, I think the few of us would have been happier at Hogwarts instead of living in your shadow like this."

"My shadow?" Camelia asked puzzled.

At this time, Camelia is afraid that she heard it wrong, because in her memory, no matter whether in the previous time and space or in the current time and space, Qiu, who was studying in this time and space, seems to be a winner in personal life, with the excellence and good luck that every girl yearns for. , if it was Marietta Aikemo who said these words, Camelia would not be surprised at all, because she always said such words on weekdays, even if Qiu said so much before She used words to express her dislike for her, but Camelia really couldn't think of the source of Qiu's jealousy of her in other aspects except Cedric, and she didn't think there was anything in her that Qiu could be jealous of.

"Yes." Qiu's face became more and more ugly, "I will never forget the day when I went to buy a wand, because it was there that I met you for the first time. Maybe you have forgotten it, or you haven't noticed it at all. I."

"Did I do anything bad to you in the wand shop back then?" Camelia became more and more confused.

Camelia's wand, like most young wizards in the UK, was purchased at the Ollivander Wand Shop in Diagon Alley after receiving the admission letter from the Hogwarts owl at the age of 11.

She still remembers the magical feeling when she picked up her own wand for the first time, and even helped her overcome the magical anxiety caused by years of dull magical talent at that moment. She still remembers Mr. Ollivander telling She, the pearwood wand in her hand was one of the toughest wands, even after using it for many years, it still looked like new, and the fact was exactly as he said, she didn't buy any other wands afterwards.

It’s just that after so many years, Camelia can only recall such fragmentary information about the scenes of that year, and she really can’t recall anything else, and her memory has been worse since a very early age. Since she started eating After taking the medicine, she was inevitably affected by those medicines and her memory declined.

"No, on the contrary, you didn't do anything. You just stood there and let me know that I didn't look like a girl at all. After that... I wasn't afraid of being laughed at by you. Ever since I met you After you, I was racking my brains on how to work hard to become a girl like you. I used to secretly learn from you for a long time, you know? But the more I learned later, I found that I even Everyone is about to forget." Qiu said with an expression that looked uglier than crying, "I have to say that my self-esteem is really small."

This was surprising, and Camelia looked at Cho in surprise.

"I liked you quite a lot before, but it's so strange. Now I hate you so much, I don't even know why, but there is one thing I know very well that I must compare you, even once."

"Aren't you the one who wins all this time?" Camelia replied flatly.

"That's true, but it's been different since last year." Qiu's eyes became sharper, "I don't understand, your reputation was so bad before, why so many people still like you and favor you Camille broke up with Mary because of you, Professor Flitwick changed your dormitory immediately because of your words, I heard that you made a big splash in the protection of magical animals class, the Gryffindor couple like to play tricks The twins will be more honest every time they meet you. And our good captain is afraid that you will be angry, so he doesn't care about anything, and insists on bringing us all here to apologize. Even Ms. Pomfrey is partial to you. If you don't want to let me in, if you say it... just forget about those boys who are fascinated by you, but there are still girls. Don't say you don't know anything about the things that weirdo Slytherin gave you. "

Camelia felt strange in her heart, and immediately replied: "Aurora is not a weird person, she is just special, and she thinks that bracelets made of hair can bring good luck to her friends, I really don't know you Why are you bringing this up all of a sudden?"

But Qiu seemed very angry. Maybe she felt that Camelia was fooling her now, trying to cover up the true meaning of that gift.Regarding the unusual gift that Aurora gave Camelia in public that day, it did spark a heated discussion a while ago, but everyone saw that the two parties were just making friends normally, and there was no more explosive follow-up. , and gradually forgot about it, so Camelia didn't understand why Qiu brought it up suddenly.

"Do you really not know, or are you pretending to be confused with me?"

At this time, Camelia didn't want to talk to Qiu anymore, they had talked enough today, and she realized that no matter what she said now, Qiu would not listen to her, so she just held on tightly. Holding Cedric's hand, he watched Qiu warily.

"In our oriental customs, the body, hair and skin are received by parents, and even the hair is extremely important, and it cannot be given away casually. When a woman voluntarily donates her hair to a person, it means She wants to be united with this person forever, to be in love with life and death. I have said it clearly enough now."

What Qiu didn't expect was that Camelia was quite calm about this.

"Aurora is a Western wizard like me, and I don't know much about your Eastern customs. I don't think she knows anything about this strange custom. If she knew, she would never give it to me. She just Simply thinking that sending a friend a bracelet woven from your own hair will bring good luck to her friend seems sincere. Zhang, I hope you don't think too much about this or tell others about you This is a special custom in the East. If you are dissatisfied with me, just rush at me and don't trouble my friends."

"Since she gave this kind of gift, she must know something."

When Camelia wanted to say something more to Qiu, Ms. Pomfrey walked over with the medicine. She came to change Cedric's medicine.

This conversation was also forced to end.

"Miss Zhang, I shouldn't have let you in. I said that what patients need most now is rest!"

Ms. Pomfrey was a little angry. She felt that the two girls talking by the hospital bed had affected her patients, so she unceremoniously ordered Qiu to be expelled. It just made Qiu feel dissatisfied. It was obvious that two people were talking, but Pang Ms. Frey let Camelia stay.

In the evening, Cedric finally woke up.

The first thing he said when he woke up was, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, I didn't catch the snitch."

Hearing that, Camelia was angry and distressed, and she shed tears before she could open her mouth, "Why are you so stupid, as long as you are fine, do you know that you scared me to death?"

"It's my fault, don't cry, don't cry." Cedric struggled to stand up, and reached out from under the quilt to wipe away the tears from Camelia's face.

"I should have been able to avoid that ball, but I didn't know that at such a critical moment, I was distracted. When I realized it, it was too late...I caused everyone to lose, and I failed everyone's expectations. "

He took the initiative to bring up the situation at that time, and his tone was full of deep self-blame.

"People don't blame you, they are as worried about you as I am. I think you pushed yourself too hard this year," Camelia said. Diqi Cup, I finally have a little spare time, and I still have to think about how to beat the exam at the end of the year. Seid, no one has so much energy to do everything perfectly, and these are not small things .”

"But……"

Cedric was about to say something, but was interrupted by Camelia.

"What you have to do now is to take care of yourself. I won't allow you to tire yourself so much in the future."

Seeing Camelia's serious expression, Cedric couldn't help but treat this matter as a big deal, so he solemnly promised her, "Okay, I promise you."

After that, he said a lot of deceiving words, until he made people laugh, he asked, "What time is it now?"

"It's almost time for dinner," Camelia answered him.

"Are you hungry? You must be exhausted staying here with me." Cedric said softly.

"Fortunately, not tired. Then