“Why are you crying?!” shouted Sophia. She looked up and was shocked to see the other person was Benjamin.

“Owie… It hurts!” cried Benjamin, holding his scraped knee.

‘When did he come out?’ thought Sophia with bewilderment. ‘No, that can’t be right. Even if he followed me out, he would’ve bumped into me from the other side.’

In other words, the kid who bumped into her was the real Benjamin. Of course, she had no way of knowing that.

Benjamin had run out of the restroom to escape notice from Joey and Edmund. He was in so much of a rush that he did not look where he was going, and thus he knocked into Sophia.

The little kid immediately stopped crying at the question. “I… I came out from the restroom and… And…” he tried to explain guiltily.

him walking past me at all…’ thought Sophia, puzzled. She looked to the front, then

from the pain again. “Sob…sob…sob…

The patrons from the other

no choice but to pick Benjamin up and said, “Shh, be quiet. The auction

that a crying kid would affect

Benjamin did not reject her carrying him, he did not particularly show that he liked it either. He simply let

quietly and thinking about something when

he asked them, “I

him when Benjamin broke free from

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