Chapter 19: The Forum is Exploding

Just as Wendy and Rail were deep in conversation, Curly burst through the door. He stopped, dumbfounded, seeing Rail and Wendy chatting happily. Yesterday, they hadn’t been this close. How had they suddenly become such good friends? Curly quickly approached Rail, patting his shoulder and looking at them in surprise. “What’s going on here?” Rail looked at Curly and pointed to Wendy. “This is my new friend!” Curly, realizing what Rail meant, extended his hand to Wendy. “Hi, I’m John. Nice to meet you.” Wendy smiled and shook his hand. “Hi, I’m Wendy.” After their brief introduction, John turned back to Rail. “Should we go to the internet cafe together today?” Rail sighed deeply and then replied, “My brother has been driving me home recently to stop me from going to the internet cafe.” John, shocked and indignant, exclaimed, “Seriously? Your brother is too strict! Why can’t you just go to an internet cafe? You’re already second in the grade; that should be enough!” Rail could only