Huan Zhu Ge Ge

(Love vs. Friendship)

By: Princess Pearl

(Fang Ci)

Chapter 2

At the morning they get in the carriage and head to the forest. Ziwei and Qing’er enjoy the charming scene. Ziwei had been outside for nineteen years but she didn’t saw anyplace so beautiful like this place. Qing’er all her life she never been outside before and she couldn’t believe her eyes.

"Wow! It so beautiful! Ziwei look at those flowers!" Qing’er said as she point to the flowers next to the river

"Those are so pretty!" Ziwei exclaim

"That place is where my sister usually go to." Xiao Jain said

"Can we go out there sometime?" Qing’er ask

"Yeah! Maybe your sister show us around and we can be friend!" Ziwei said

"Xiao Jain, are we there yet?" Qing’er said grab Xiao Jain’s arm

"I can’t wait to meet her." Ziwei said

"I wonder how she look like." Qing’er wonder

"Xiao Jain said that she is very pretty." Ziwei said

"We can be best friend!" Qing’er said hopefully

"Or she will be your sister in law." Ziwei said make Qing’er blush

"Or she can be your sister in law too." Qing’er said quietly to Ziwei and take a glace at Yong Qi, he didn’t notice

"What are you talking about?" Ziwei ask confuse

"Ziwei, do you think Xiao Yan Zi and Yong Qi can make a great couple?" Qing’er whisper to Ziwei’ ear

"Oh! I get it!" Ziwei said loudly cause Xiao Jain, Erkang, and Yong Qi look at them

"What you two up to now?" Yong Qi ask

"I said Xiao Yan Zi may be a great sister in law." Ziwei said look at Qing’er

"Oh be quiet!" Said Qing’er giggle a little

The men shake their head and Xiao Jain said "We almost there!"

About a minute later "There we are, this place is where we live." Xiao Jain said

They all get down the carriage and head to the door. Xiao Jain raises his hand to open the door as he said loudly "Xiao Yan Zi! I’m home!"

"Such a nice place!" Ziwei said

Then walk to the living room it not really small or really big in the medium size. The room fills full of flowers different kind, smell, and colors. Xiao Yan Zi decorates every single thing; since she is so boring she decorates them all. Xiao Jain is looking for her.

"Xiao Yan Zi! Where are you?" He yells

"Maybe she’s outside." Qing’er said

"She could be at the lake." Xiao Jain said walk toward Qing’er

"Can we go outside and see her?" Ziwei ask

They walk to the lake but no one there. Then they go back to the house to see if she’s home, she wasn’t there too. They go to the other place and the other but Xiao Yan Zi nowhere to be found. All of them getting worried. They spread out looking for her and said that they meet latter in the house. While Yong Qi was walking he saw a snake, just a small snake, but it’s a really dangerous one, its poison can kill people in one minute. When he saw it he quickly pick up a small rock to throw at it but when he was about to a whip flying toward him and whip him on his hand, the snake run away. He turn to the direction where the whip come from, the beautiful girl holding a whip look at him angrily, her face doesn’t show the any evil in fact it show her sweetness and innocent. Her big beautiful eyes show out that she is resent about something. She looks like a weakling. He doesn’t know why but he sorry for this girl. He has never seen her before but he can feel she so close to him, just a quick thought pass by him then get to reality.

"Who are you?" He asks while walk toward her, the girl was scare and takes a few steps back.

"Why you hit me for?" he asks again, she was about to walk away but Yong Qi grab her "Are you Xiao Yan Zi?" She was surprise ‘How did he knows my name?’ she thought and struggles to get free.

"Let go of me!" She let out a sweet voice, ‘Her voice is so sweet!’ he thought

"Your brother is looking for you all day." He said and let go, she just ran off quickly. He tries to chase her but he can’t find her.

Back in the house, they all gather to the living room. Yong Qi tell them what he saw just then Xiao Yan Zi home. She could tell Xiao Jain home by the carriage. She happily skips to the house.

"Xiao Jain! Oh I’m miss you so much!" then she hug him

"Xiao Yan Zi! Where were you? We’ve been looking for you all day!"

"We?"

"Yeah! I want you to meet someone.

They walk toward Xiao Yan Zi. When she saw them she was scares and hides behind Xiao Jain.

"Don’t scare. They not gonna hurt you." He said

"This is Erkang he’s imperial guard, Yong Qi he’s Wu Ah Ge, Ziwei she’s Ming Zhu Ge Ge and the last one is Qinng’er she’s Qing’er Ge Ge." Xiao Jain introduce

She was shock when she saw Yong Qi "So you’re Xiao Yan Zi!" Yong QI said

"You know her?" Ziwei asks

"You whip him?" Xiao Jain said angrily "How dare you! You should be punishing!"

"I… I’m sorry!" She said while crying

"I’m not bought it for you to hit people! Now go to your room and think of what you did!" He demanded

She crying even harder, she’s so ashamed as Xiao Jain yells at her in front of everyone

"I didn’t mean to!" she said

"I don’t care you mean to or not. Just go to your room NOW! And stop that crying! Or else that mark on Yong Qi’shand will be on your face! Is that clear?" He yells

Xiao Yan Zi crying, sobbing and walk to her room with fear ness. Everyone is shock by the way Xiao Jain talks to her.

"You always yell at her like that!" Qing’er said angrily

"Not always! Just when she did something wrong." He said

"Xiao Jain! You didn’t let her have a chance to talk!" Ziwei said

"Talk what? She can’t said a word when I’m teaching her!"

"Is that how you raise her? You are totally looked like Huang Shan!" Erkang said

"I don’t need you guys to teach me how to raise her! Our parent not here, I have to be hard for her! I can’t go ease on her!"

"You’re being unreasonable! Look at her! She just girl and you yell at her in front of us!" Yong Qi said

"Can we all forget about this? I don’t want to argue about this. I know that I’m wrong." He lowers his voice "You guys got to understand for me. Our parent leaves us when we were young. I have to raise her, it not easy. I know that sometime I hurt her feeling. But it better be safe than sorry. I don’t she became a naughty girl. I want she to be a good girl. If I make one mistake… I would regret all my life. I’m not always mean like that to her. Like what I said, I only yell at her when she did something wrong."

"Xiao Jain, I’m sorry. I should understand you condition in the first time." Qing’er said

"Yeah we sorry." Erkang said

"That’s ok. As long as you understand me." Xiao Jain said

In Xiao Yan Zi’s room

She was sitting on her bed crying. Feeling hurt and ashamed. She heard a knock on the door and opens it. It Xiao Jain!

"Hi there!" Xiao Jain said, Xiao Yan Zi still crying.

"I’m sorry." He said, thinking of what Yong Qi said ‘yell at her in front of us’

"What? Sorry for what?" she surprise

"For yell at you in front of everybody."

"Oh, anyway I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to do that. Please forgive me!"

"Yes. You’re forgiven. But with one condition."

"What?"

"We’ll having picnic near the lake. You have to come."

"But I don’t want to." Whining

"It’s a demand."

"Ok." She said lower her head and pouting.

In the morning at the lake

Xiao Yan Zi doesn’t seem to be happy. She keeps sitting next to Xiao Jain. When someone talks to her she just shakes her head or nods her head. She didn’t talk much, she only talk to Xiao Jain. She’s a very quiet girl in the group. While Qing’er and Ziwei try to set out the food, Xiao Jain tells Xiao Yan Zi to help them.

"I don’t want to." Whining

"Come on. Don’t be shy!"

"Please! I don’t want to talk to them!"

"Do it!" said seriously

"Awww. You so mean!" then she walk to them. Yong Qi and Erkang amuse by Xiao Jain and Xiao Yan Zi, see how Xiao Yan Zi obey Xiao Jain and how she whining.

Qing’er and Ziwei saw Xiao Yan Zi coming.

"N…needs a hand?" She said shyly

"Sure! Let set these plate out." Qing’er said

"You usually came to this place uh?" Ziwei ask, Xiao Yan Zi nod

"Xiao Yan Zi, can you play qin?" Qing’er ask, she nod

"Great! You know what? We can play qin too. Maybe sometime we can play together." Ziwei said

"That’s a great idea!" Qing’er exclaim

"Do you want to do it now Xiao Yan Zi?" Ziwei ask, she shakes her head

"Ok then. We’ll do it another time." Qing’er said

"Hey did you know that Yong Qi saw a snake yesterdays?" Ziwei said

"Yeah I heard him said that. He said it really poison. People can get kill by it easily."

"How about we set a trap." Ziwei said, Xiao Yan Zi face was pale

"Xiao jain, Yong Qi, Erkang do you know how to set a trap? We want to set a trap to kill a snake! Can you make one?" Ziwei shouted

"Sure! It’s very easily!" Erkang said

"Xiao Yan Zi, are you ok? You look pale." Qing’er ask

"I… I don’t like to make a trap." Xiao Yan Zi said

"That’s ok. You don’t have to do it. The guys gonna do that."

The trap was set, all they need to do is wait till the snake come. They wait for a long time then the snake come and get caught in the trap. Ziwei pick it up and shout, "We caught it, we caught it!" but just then Xiao Yan Zi push Ziwei into the lake and the snake get free. Unfortunately Ziwei doesn’t know how to swim and the guy were going somewhere else to get more food. No one knows how to swim.

"What do you do that for?" Qing’er said, worried then she jump to the lake to safe Ziwei, even if she can’t swim she still have to jump down as she don’t want to stand there and watch her best friend drowning.

"Oh!!! I’m so sorry! I didn’t know she couldn’t swim!" the girls keep yelling for help. Xiao Yan Zi gets a whip out and throws it to the water, she holds on one end and Qing’er hold on the other end. But Xiao Yan Zi is too weak she can’t pull too people at the same time. In a sudden she feel a strong arm helping her, its Yong Qi! Then Xiao Jain and Erkang come they were about to jump to the lake to help their lover, but Yong Qi stops them.

"Stop! There’s a poison snake in the lake!" They help Yong Qi pull the girls up.

"Are you two ok?" Yong Qi ask

"What happen?" Erkang ask

"Ask your sister! She push me down on to the lake" Ziwei said angrily

"Why do you push her?" Xiao Jain ask

"I’m so sorry. I won’t do it again. I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to!" She said while crying, she knows what happen to her next

"Tell me! Why you push Ziwei?" He yells while he hit her with the whip

"I…I can’t tell you! Ahhhh!" She scream with pain

"Tell me now! What are you hiding from?" hit her harder

"Please! Xiao Jain! Please! I can’t tell you! It’s just a small matter! It won’t harm anyone!" She said painfully

"Just a Small matter? You almost make Qing’er and Ziwei got kill! And you said that it’s just a small matter?" He yells and keeps hitting her

"Owww! Please forgive me! It the only thing I have!"

"The only thing you have? What are you talking about?" he raise his hand up hit her again and again

"Xiao Jain! Stop it!" Qing’er shout

"What do you think you doing?" Ziwei said

"What do you think? I’m teaching her and I have to make she tell me her secret! I won’t let you have any more secrets! Now tell me what is it?" he hit her on her face and she scream with pain

"How come you’re so heartless? Stop hitting her!" Yong Qi said and grabs his hand, throw away the whip

"Xiao Yan Zi I ask you one more time. Why you push Ziwei? What is your secret? How many thing you hide from me?" Try to calm him down

"Xiao Jain there are something I hide from you, and one of them is…" Xiao Yan Zi take a deep breath look at Xiao Jain full of angrily "I… hate…you! I hate you, Xiao Jain! You’re a worse brother! You always hit me! Never let me explain! You’re a heartless brother! When you came back I really happy! How much I love you! You’ve changed! Since Mom and dad leave you’ve changed! You use to be nice to me! But all you have in my mind now is all those whip, all the word you yell at me! I hate you! I hate you!" then she runs away

Xiao Jain was heartbroken; he never knew Xiao Yan Zi would say those words to him. ‘I hate you! I hate you!" those words are like a million needles poking his heart. All these years, what he did is bring hatred to his sister, an innocent girl, kind and sweetness. What he done now? He only tries to be the best as he can be. He don’t know what so wrong of what he did. He doesn’t like she to keep secret from him, that’s all. How can she say those words to him?

Now everyone is mad at Xiao Jain. He’s their best friend. He uses to be nice. Maybe he just doesn’t know the way to teach. But how come he is so heartless? Didn’t he hurt when he hit his sister? Yes, she should be punish, but not like that. What he did is just like Huang Shan. Being unreasonable person, a stubborn and always think they’re right.

It getting dark and Xiao Yan Zi hasn’t come home yet and everybody is worried for her, mostly is Xiao Jain.

"How come she hasn’t home yet, how stubborn she is." Xiao Jain said

"You’re the one that stubborn, you make she run away." Erkang said

"Now she run away too, aren’t those whips enough for her?"

"It is enough Xiao Jain, maybe too much for a girl like her." Yong Qi said angrily

"You still didn’t get it do you? You the one who’s wrong!" Ziwei said

"What? I’m wrong? She push you to the lake and now you said that I’m wrong?"

"Well, she was wrong in the first time but she know that it’s her fault." Erkang said

"And what I did that make me wrong?"

"You want to know what you did? You hit your sister, that’s what you did! Aren’t you hurt when you do that! I surer she hurt painfully. Not just outside but inside." Yong Qi said

"She deserves it."

"How can you say that? You know what? If you don’t change your attitude then I won’t marry you. I don’t want to have children with you. I don’t want them to got hit everyday just because they deserve it." Qing’er said

Her heart hurt painfully, she didn’t know that Xiao Jain was so heartless. She’d love a wrong person. She never gets to see his true face. She feels sorry for Xiao Yan Zi to have a brother like him. They came here to help Xiao Yan Zi but she think the person needs help is Xiao Jain. Xiao Yan Zi look so sad and so lonely might because of Xiao Jain, a brother that don’t know how to be a brother, abrother don’t know how to bring happiness to his sister, a brother only know that he have to hit his sister and yell at his sister to teach her.

It been three days Xiao Yan Zi hasn’t come home, Xioa Jain had thinking of what he did ‘what he did that make him wrong?’ the questions keep bugging him ‘because I hit Xiao Yan Zi? No! I only want to teach her! I only want she to be good! How can that make me wrong?’ ‘Am I the cause of my sister’s sadness? Oh! Mom, dad tells me what I did wrong? I don’t see anything wrong in it! Why everybody said that I was wrong? Even Qing’er hate me now! What should I do?

In another place of the forest, inside the cave Xiao Yan Zi sit there crying. It’s been three days she hasn’t sleep or eat anything, she cries all three days long. ‘How can you treat like me that? I miss the old Xiao Jain, the one that care for my feeling, the one that always help me get out from trouble, where’s that one?’ The bruise from Xiao Jain hit her still in her body, she feels so hurt, her body cover full of bruises, some of them even bleeding.

In a dark place outside the cave came out a poison snake, the one that they try to get by the trap. It slowly crawls out and head toward Xiao Yan Zi. It getting near her but she didn’t notice, it crawls around her foot then get to her hand, she look down her hand and take a big gasp…