They stared at each other for a short while.
"What? why do you act surprised? you know I know your name, you know about all happening to me, do not act surprised now, you made me see that scary vision of you and that woman, and that was the name she had called you, listen" the girl said as she looked around.
"I am the going to keep this secret between us, no one knows about you except Yi Chen".
Strangely Xiaofan heard a voice speak to her in a whisper, she looked at the bird and said out of surprise, "Did you just speak to me now? I was just talking about Yi Chen and you said to not tell him about your return, you said it just now didn't you... it has been you doing the voice thing all this while isn't it?".
The bird big golden eyes searched around the room as there was silence amongst them.
"I promise not to tell him about you, he knew you left for a long time now, I won't say you came back, do not worry Dai Yu".
The name made the bird look at Xiaofan again.
Her stomach suddenly grumbled, the bird looked down at the girl's stomach.
Xiaofan noticed the bird staring at her stomach, "Is she worried about me?" she thought and let out a smile, "Ignore my stomach, it does that often, I have gone nights without eating, this won't be the first time".
She continued, "I am not that hungry, I do understand why my stomach is angry at me.. but not hungry at all".
As if her stomach opposed what she said, the growling got louder.
The girl got embarrassed, she rose and chuckled.
"Soooooo, tell me where did you fly to those weeks you were not here", the girl asked, looking out the window. Hoping to get a response from Dai Yu but there was none.
She turned around and astonishingly saw a tray of food on the bed.
"What in the name of Godzilla!!!, I turned for a few seconds and a tray of.....", the girl full of suprised exclaimed as she walked towards the food, the aroma made her stomach grumble louder.
She looked over at the door, checking if someone had brought the food while she was not looking but it would not have been that quick.
Only one thing could have happened, Xiaofan looked at the animal and sat down, staring at the bird whose eyes were shut.
"You did this didn't you, I was hungry and you magically let this tray of food get to my bed.... that was amazing", the girl laughed out softly.
"Dai Yu", the girl said, knowing the bird will look at her.
It worked, she did open her eyes on hearing the name.
"Thank you," the girl said and without hesitation, she dug in. The bird carefully watched the girl as she eat, her big golden eyes fell on the food as she also got hungry.
Xiaofan was too hungry to realize the bird was hungry, after a short while she finally saw the bird staring at the food, she stopped eating and cleared her throat.
"Pardon me! this food is just so delicious that I forgot you would need some as well", she said and immediately cut a piece of cake out for the bird, putting it gently on the bed for Dai Yu to eat.
The girl watched the birds feast on the cake almost immediately.
She smiled softly as she watched Dai Yu eat, the thought of her angrily yelling at the bird to eat other animals crossed her mind, Xiaofan sighed and felt bad, hoping she could take back the words, the bird has been nothing but good to her.
"Thank God, you didn't listen to me", she said and kept eating.
The stone hitting her window from outside drew her attention from the meal, she knew who it was, and only one person would be outside her room throwing stones early in the morning.
Xiaofan remembered her promise to Dai Yu. It would be so hard keeping things from her best friend, the two kids had promised to never hide anything from each other and now she is about to make a decision, either to keep Dai Yu's promise or to break it.
She stood up and walked towards the window.
Yi Chen was about to throw another stone when she appeared by the window, he seized and smiled up at the girl who doesn't seem to be in a great mood.
"Xia! hey!", he said excitedly.
The girl looked at her best friend sadly, not knowing what to do at that moment.
"Hi, what are you doing here?"
Yi Chen chuckled at her weird question, "to kidnap you from the fire-spitting dragon mi lady", he sarcastically said and noticed she was not having it at that moment, "what is wrong? you look like you are about to puke, come on let it out, talk to me... your best boy is here, should I sneak in or climb up your window?".
Xiaofan shook her head as she watched her friend examining how high the wall up her window was.
She turned and saw Dai Yu who was now eating the rest of the cake on the tray.
The grunting sound of Yi Chen drew her attention back to him, she saw him trying to get on a tree near her window.
"Stop it and go home Yi Chen, my parents are home and I will not want them seeing you in my room, things might get ugly because I am not in a great mood with them".
As hard as it was, Yi Chen understood.
"Are you okay though?", he decided to ask.
The girl nodded slowly, "I am fine, just a normal fight between father and i", she responded and added immediately, "I will come to see you later this evening okay?".
"Okay, fine... I will go home now, make sure you stop by okay?" he said and instantly remembered the bird, "Oh, and the bird? has it returned?".
Xiaofan's eyes brighten as she heard the question she was supposed to reply to, the girl knew she was about to betray her best friend.
She did.
"I... it hasn't returned, I got to go. bye,"
Yi Chen stood there as he watched his best friend close her curtains, he tilted his head and folded his arms.
"Why is she acting so weird today?".
He turned his back and decisively walked away, the family moving in next door made him stop.
A man and his wife with their daughter taking in their stuff.
"I see our Xiaofan got herself a new friend now".