Miss Ellie? What Are You Doing?

“Ah! There she is.”

The underachiever came dashing over, her eyes sparkling. I followed behind her and approached Ellie, who was walking toward us in the distance.

“What have you been doing all this time? We’ve been looking everywhere for you.”

The underachiever asked as she suddenly grabbed Ellie’s hand.

“Ah… I was meeting someone I know for a bit.”

“Someone you know? ……Ah! Is it that older guy you mentioned before, Ellie?”

“……”

Ellie clamped her mouth shut, apparently struck right on the mark.

“So who is this older guy, anyway?”

To be honest, I was a little curious about this ‘older guy’ too. Ellie was like a little sister to me, after all...