In the men’s washroom, Tyler splashed some cold water onto his face before staring at his own reflection in the mirror with reddened eyes. He knew he didn’t perform well during the competition, nor did he unleash his full potential.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to do that, but he just couldn’t bring himself to do that as soon as he recalled the fact that none of them came to watch him compete. That drained him of his enthusiasm, so he felt no passion toward the competition.

 

“Liars! They broke their promise even though they told me they would come!” Tyler punched the marble wall beside the mirror as tears rolled in his eyes. Suddenly, his phone began ringing in his pocket. After taking a deep breath, he suppressed his anger while retrieving his phone. “Hello?”

“Fuller, the third section of the match will be starting. Are you ready?” his teammate asked.

Tyler seemed a little down as he spoke. “Okay.”

“Come back then.” With that, his teammate hung up.

 

Tyler tucked his phone away to walk out of the washroom. As soon as he got out of it, someone detained him. “What’s occupying your mind?”

That voice! Tyler’s pupils contracted as he whirled around. When he saw the man who was leaning against the wall beside the washroom, he was overjoyed. “Toby! You’re finally here!” After Toby grunted in response, Tyler sniffled. His voice broke a little when he said, “When did you arrive? I thought you weren’t going to come.”

 

“I will come since I already promised to watch you compete. However, I got delayed because of a traffic jam. I’m sorry.” Toby rubbed Tyler’s hair.

step back, Tyler complained, “I’m not a kid anymore.

tugged on Toby’s lips. “Alright, I won’t do that. However, I need you to tell me why you performed so

fault.” Tyler huffed. “You didn’t watch

behind

so I was really looking forward to your attendance—Hold on, how did you know I also invited Sonia? I don’t recall ever telling you that. Could it be—” Tyler’s eyes lit up, and joy was evident

found his reaction amusing. “It’s just as you thought. She’s

“Great!” Tyler started clapping.

upcoming

get it! I will do my best and win the competition!” Tyler cut

hope this will be the last time something like this happens. If you’re going to be so crestfallen over our absence again, you should just listen to Mom and quit playing

again.” Tyler made his promise while sticking his chest up. He was so

begin soon.” Toby gave Tyler a pat on

Toby.” Tyler waved his hand before running away. It wasn’t until he disappeared into

began, Tyler was no longer as depressed. Instead, he was so full of energy that he managed to miraculously break through the opponents’ defenses to quickly score a point for

soon as he did that, he jumped up to wave at the audience. The audience began cheering when their passion was lit once again. Sonia

of surprise crossed Toby’s face, but he immediately schooled his expression. “He was like that just now because we weren’t here. Now that he knows we have come, he’s feeling

dumbfounded.

“Yup.” Toby nodded.

Sonia mumbled, “That’s childish of

tugged on

the other audiences, their silence made them seem out of place, especially when the both of them had extraordinarily good

cameras at the two

both the man and the woman are

couple? They look like a

only one who thinks that they look

of similar comments, but the discussion didn’t last long before the streamer pointed the camera away, for the competition

court, leading his teammates on an assault to even the scores. The atmosphere in the auditorium was tense as they were quickly catching up to their opponent. The audiences were clenching their fists while fixing their attention on

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