“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.

see him walking past me at all…’ thought Sophia, puzzled. She looked to the front, then to her back. ‘I guess

the pain again. “Sob…sob…sob… I

was eerily quiet on the second floor, so Benjamin’s cries sounded particularly loud. The patrons from the other private booth poked their heads out

choice but to pick Benjamin up and said, “Shh, be quiet. The auction is about to

that a crying kid

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

coffee quietly and thinking about something

he asked them, “I thought you just went out. Why are you back here so

about to explain what happened to him when Benjamin

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