Love Began with the First Meeting

[Friend] Legendary Past: Little Sorrow, when you pursue a girl, you should proceed step by step in an orderly way. But dear brother, it seems like you have been too eager for success. Did you forget about who Elsa is that you just kissed her in public? To make it worse, you even tolerated the girls who like you to describe Elsa as an unpardonably wicked person. How could you do that? I really thought that you've become so mean, but when I saw the expression...just the loss on your face...my heart was broken. [Friend] LOL: What's wrong? I heard from Rose In The Field that something happened in your university. Really?

[Friend] Rose In The Field: When I passed by the Peach Valley, I saw Elsa standing there alone. She was there for quite a while. What happened between the two of you? Was that a result of the incident that was mentioned in our university forum? [Friend] ...

After skimming over the messages, Charlie sighed heavily and began typing his reply to all of the messages that were sent to him. With a deep breath, he sent the message to the Group channel: Thank you guys for your concern for Sweet Dream and me, but please leave what happened between the two of us. We promise to solve the issue by ourselves.

[Group] Legendary Past: Whoops! It seems that Sorrow is going to do something...aggressive.

[Group] LOL: I support you, buddy!

[Group] Ice Is Water Awake: Don't push her too hard. It's okay as long as you take it easy and carefully. I believe in you.

[Group] Silent Sorrow: Legendary Past, make a list of the members of our group who will go to T City. Arrange the accommodation for all of them at a hotel near Flight Media.

[Group] Legendary Past: Okay.

As soon as Charlie read Legendary Past's reply, he went offline. Just as Evelyn had said, now he had to keep a moderate degree of closeness towards Elsa. Only through this way would she believe that he was really no longer the Charlie who had played tricks on her during their childhood. Besides, he had to make her understand that Allen could no longer exist in her heart.

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When Ann came back to their dormitory, she saw Elsa laying on her bed, visibly sad. That surprised her, but she immediately knew why her friend was acting like that. With a frown plastered on her lips, she turned her eyes to Anna and Olivia and asked in a really low voice, "What's wrong with Elsa?"

Olivia turned her head to take a look at Elsa. Then she shrugged and pointed at her laptop with her finger.

Curious, Ann came to her. Meanwhile, Olivia was opening up a post in the university forum. It was a long one, so Ann skimmed over it roughly. Despite not really reading the post very meticulously, its content still stunned Ann. How could so many things happen during the short period of time she had been absent? But first of all, how did all of these happen?

"The point is that..." peeping at Elsa, Olivia said in a voice so low that it could only be heard by Ann. "It seems that Charlie is hurt by Elsa and they entered a bottleneck."

"..." Ann didn't know what to say. She took a look at Elsa and then at Anna. Sighing, she changed the topic by saying, "I was told that Dragon is going to hold a meet-and-greet. Is that true?"

"Yeah..." Olivia answered sulkily. "But then, it's in T City. I really, really want to go, but unfortunately, I don't have enough money!' With a bitter smile on her face, she continued, "The legendary players from all the regions will attend the event. It is said that there would be people cosplaying existing characters and characters that would appear soon! Oh, how badly I want to go!"

"Then let's go there together!" Ann suggested.

"What?" Olivia asked surprised. As she wasn't sure whether she heard Ann correctly, she asked her, "You're going there too?"

With a mystical look on her face, Ann said, "My prince charming is the one in charge of the cosplayers for this event. Because of that, how could I let such a chance slip by?" Ann's face lit up, and her eyes were sparkling. It would be an understatement to say that she looked very excited about the event. It seemed like she had already forgotten the girl wallowing on her bed.

Hearing their conversation, Anna butted in and asked, "When is the event?"

"During the school break next week!" Olivia answered.

"Then I'll join you guys!" Anna suggested. "We haven't traveled around neighboring cities together for a long time now. Why don't we take this opportunity to take a trip to T City? If we're lucky enough, maybe we could see the legendary fluorescent squid." After saying that, she turned her head to look at Elsa. "Elsa, I will make the plane reservations. Ann will arrange the schedule, and you and Ólivia will prepare our accommodation. Deal?" she said.

"I'm okay with doing our schedule!" Ann said excitedly. Her eyes were now sparkling more than ever.

Olivia looked excited too. "I'm okay with my task as well. But we should agree now that we will allot one afternoon and one evening to attend the party of Dragon," she said.

"I don't want to go..." Elsa's weak voice came through. Of course, she was not sleeping. Everyone knew that. At that moment, Elsa was feeling distressed. She had entered a vicious cycle, and at first she thought that she could exit it unscathed, but now she realized how wrong she was. 'How do other people get along with their lover?' she thought to herself, sinking deeper into sadness. When she had been with Allen, she had not thought of anything else. Everything had felt happy and natural, and she had treated their relationship seriously. As embarrassing as it was to think about, she had even made many plans for their future together. Then one day, he had just dumped her. No warnings, no signs, nothing. He just downright dumped her. Exactly at that time, as if he knew what was happening, Charlie had once again appeared in her life. It was so sudden that she didn't have the time to think about things thoroughly. It totally caught her off-guard.

But at that moment, she thought that Allen would no longer matter to her and she would no longer cared about him. However, when she had met him today, it had been proven that she still felt uncomfortable. And in her opinion, having those feeling were very unfair to Charlie.

When Charlie didn't reply to her messages, she felt like the whole world was going to collapse once again.

Until now, her phone was still in her hand. She hadn't released her grip on it since she had received the short message from Charlie.

"We only take yeses here, no noes... Three to one," Olivia said hastily.

Ann came to Elsa's side. Standing on tiptoes, she grasped the rail of Elsa's bed. In a somewhat sulky voice, she said, "Elsa, escape is not the right solution. You would never solve a problem if you don't face it head on. Just take me as an example. Although I know clearly I won't have a happy ending with my prince charming, I'd pursue him without any hesitation. I won't give up until I get an answer from him." With a smile, she reached out further to stroke Elsa's beautiful face. "There's still a few days left before we leave for Ť City. You'd have time to think things carefully and figure out if you really don't want to go. If you wanted to go, we'd have a good time in T City and maybe, you'd be able to solve your problem at the same time while we were there. That way, everything would be fine. What do you think?"

Elsa turned her head to look at Ann, her eyes already moist. Soon, Olivia and Anna came to her too. In a way that seemed like she didn't see the tears in Elsa's eyes, Anna said, "Elsa, didn't you particularly want to have a look at the fluorescent squid? You said that we would meet the loves of our lives if we ever had the chance to see that, right?"

Of course Elsa didn't forget that. That was the very first day they had met one another in the dormitory. Since none of them were able to go sleep, they sat in a circle and talked about everything that came to their minds. When they saw the photo of the fluorescent beach in Anna's cellphone, they got so excited that started imagining how their love stories would take place specifically at that place.

"Elsa, even if you really decide to bail on us and break our hearts, we would never have the heart to leave you here all alone," Olivia mumbled, her tone childish. "So let's go together! Look at me! I'm not hesitating despite not having money! I really want to have a look at Quiet Misery from Dragon Flying region."000000