Chapter 4 - 4

- You know, I have a theory about you, Ms. Péngyǒu Mùzhīběn.

- This is made and created like all my ideas, like all the best theories, by close observation.

- Would you like to hear?

- You can say that I'll listen to you. - She said, beating the curiosity.

- I noticed that you don't exercise often, you put on some weight, dear. - He said.

Perhaps he sees her tense up at this, because she raises her hand and shakes her head, as if to say no so quickly.

- Even now, you might think you're fat, because girls and women in our country have strange ideas about what they look like.

- As for the press… Do you know what I mean when I say "press"?

- I understand, of course, the Newspapers, television, Time, Newsweek, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. - She said.

- Do you work? - He asked.

- Yes, I work in an old antique shop, an antique shop and that is Chinese pawn shop. - She said.

- Long time there? – He questioned.

- Since I was fourteen. - She said.

- At first it was part-time, now, it is after lunch, I started working helping with the restoration and evaluation of antiques. - She said.

- I have good memories, I like to restore antiques. - She said.

- I know what I like, there, it's where I have the money to buy some things, without my parents knowing, so they don't have money because I want to lose weight. - She said. – Even during holiday work, staying fat is not a satisfactory solution to live the holidays. - She said.

- Smart girl. - He said.

That's right, what the press says when they talk about exercise. - He says.

- I wanted to practice some exercise, but at the moment, I didn't have the courage. - She said.

- Wanted Muay-Thay. - She said. "But I don't have coordination. - She said.

- With time you can. – He encouraged her.

Young women, so when you can be whatever you want to be in this brave new world of equality, as long as you can still see your toes when you're standing, your spine straight, you know, when you can do practical exercises. - He said.

He really has his eye on me, Péngyǒu thinks, because I do that every day when I get to the top.

The girl was very embarrassed.

- So even then, where she can't help but be embarrassed just on the surface, even though underneath there's a kind of rebelliousness.

- That's what made her start walking up the stairs every day. - He said. – You and Matthew Amber.

" My theory is that someone messed with you by detailing your weight as well as your looks, or both, and you decided to do something about it. - He said.

- I got it right? – It could be almost certain. - He said.

- I might not get all of it right, but a good chunk of it, right? – He questioned her.

He was a stranger to her, so if you are a stranger to her, you didn't tell either parent, even if maybe it was the grey eyes, which were curious and interested, but without malice, at the same time. unless she can see it.

- It's true there's a boy at my school, who forgot where to put his mouth, he calls himself Matthew Amber, who started calling me Goodspeed, you know, like...

— Just like the airship, yes, I know the Goodspeed airship.

- That annoying shit, sorry. - She said. - Looking at the man's face. - Matthew is an imbecile, nobody likes him, not even his family. - She said.

She thinks about telling the man in the jacket that Matthew is parading around the playground humming Matthew is my name! I have a huge dick!

Teasing kids, bullying weaker kids.

Before the end of the school year, during the holidays, everyone went doing well so as not to see his anger.

Then the boys started calling me that, then some girls too, they're not my friends, the other girls.

That was freshman year, when I come back next month I'm starting sophomore year at a new school, well nobody there knows me. - She said.

- So, you decided that nickname doesn't go along. - In conclusion, Mr. Yusuke Yoshihiro.

- I understood. - He said.

- You'll get taller too, you know. – When he looks her up and down, but not in a sinister way.

- I spent a lot of my childhood listening to bullying. - She said. – It's time for a change. – The girl said.

It's almost analytical. "I'm guessing that if you could reach six feet seven or six inches tall, you would be tall by Japanese girl standards, in fact you would be out of the ordinary. - He said.

- Yes, already as my mother said, I stretched. – Péngyǒu

- Even if I don't get that expectation. – I secretly started taking hormones, it was illegally with some colleagues who were against the boy. - She said.

Thinking he wouldn't tell anyone. – There is an illegal drug market in the street below the stairs. - She said. – The whole wharf, as it is on the road, has a city coyote market. - She said.

- I realized, I thought about it too. – Mr. Yoshihiro. — Without waiting, without complaining, facing the problem head on.

- Incredible. - He said. "That's why I wanted to meet you. - He said.

- It's been a pleasure talking to you, Mr. Yoshihiro, but I have to go.

- Wait a minute, honey. - He said. - I want you to stay so we can talk. - He said.

- So, you need to stay right here. – The man sitting there is no longer smiling.

That nice man has a serious expression on his face, in which his grey and slanted eyes seem to have become more squeezed and brighter.

As for his beret that creates a thin line of shadow on his forehead, like a tattoo.

- I have a gift for you. - He said. - Because you are special.

- You know that I can't accept objects from strangers.

"Honey..." He said...

At that time, when Péngyǒu is a little scared, when maybe a lot more than a little.

- Just so you know, then, how we know the name is not to know, I agree with you on that, but we are not strangers, you, and I - He said.

- Now, as I know you, then, I know that the gift I have here was really made for someone like you. - He said.

- You're a young woman who doesn't have her head in the clouds.

- When I felt you, Péngyǒu, long before I saw you.

- Since you didn't leave, then, you're brave, you're on my side. - He said.

In which he goes to the end of the bench and hits the seat next to him. "Come sit here.

Péngyǒu walks to the bench, feeling as if in a dream.

- Now, you, Mr. Yoshihiro, you want to take advantage of me just because I'm fat? - She questioned him.

- No of course not. - He said.

Against all odds, she stayed, with him flashing her a smile.

- Catch you like a pervert, take you to the bush. – He was laughing.

I wouldn't pull into the weeds and harass her, I'm not a pervert. - He said.

Then he points to the other side of the path, about forty feet away, when they went there, in the middle of them, around many children, for all to see, there were twenty or thirty children wearing summer camp T-shirts. from Classic Gothic.

Being that they are playing on the slides and the jungle gym while four prefects look after them.

- I'm sure that if I did something like that, in the middle of everyone, I wouldn't be able to get away with it, wouldn't you say? - He said.

- So, besides, little girls and young girls, well your type, you're one of those young girls, who don't interest me sexually. - He said.

- You don't interest me at all, in general, but, as I said, or at least I implied, you are different.

- Now, honey, come here, sit next to me. - He said.

- The girl, sits hesitantly, with her sweat covering her body, she got cold. She's sure that, despite his smooth talk, he's going to try to kiss her, never mind the kids in the room.

With the park and the stores full around them, in which they see, adults, teenagers and children, he has his guardians taking care of them, even if he doesn't.

He just puts his hand under the seat, pulling a bag, with it, he opens the zipper, then he takes a package inside another bag closed by a drawstring.