Chapter 62

Summer added a few logs to the stove and watched the flames dance. She glanced at Logan and asked casually, "Why did you sleep in today?"

Logan, usually an early riser, had just emerged from his dorm after Summer had finished getting ready.

"Just didn't get much sleep," Logan replied casually.

Curious, Summer turned to him. "Is something bothering you?"

Logan glanced at her. "You're quite curious, aren't you?"

Summer smiled playfully. "I am indeed curious. Someone as stoic as you, what could keep you awake at night?"

Logan hesitated before whispering, "Last night... in the woods, I saw Henry and Sophia... kissing..."

Summer was momentarily taken aback. Not that she thought it impossible, but hearing gossip from Logan was unexpected. And it didn't seem like something that would bother him.

After a moment, Summer lifted her head and looked at Logan with genuine curiosity. "So... do you have feelings for Sophia too?"

Logan was at a loss for words.

Was this her expected response to such news?

Suddenly, the conversation seemed less amusing.

He gently pushed her head away, trying to drop the subject.

Undeterred, Summer brought her head back, still looking at him earnestly. "Could it be... you like Henry instead?"

Logan sighed inwardly, trying again to push her away.

This time, Summer didn't press further. She added more wood to the stove, suppressing a laugh. She knew Logan was trying to provoke her.

Thinking about Logan's reaction when she asked if he liked Henry, Summer couldn't help but smile. Eventually, she burst into laughter.

Logan couldn't take it anymore. "Are you asking for trouble?"

Summer immediately bit her lip, stifling her laughter and shaking her head.

Finally relaxing, she looked at him seriously. "So, what's really bothering you? Are you jealous of Henry? He has plenty of girls chasing after him, and you... not even one?"

Logan looked at Summer, his eyes momentarily cold, and chuckled.

Summer was starting to understand Logan's reactions.

Observing Logan's response, Summer thought to herself — could he really be jealous that Henry had so many girls interested in him?

Considering this, she thought for a moment and earnestly suggested to Logan, "You know, if you just adjusted your temper and attitude towards girls, helped them out when they need it, smiled more often, I'm sure some girls would start liking you too."

Logan replied flatly, "Not interested."

Summer was taken aback.

What a strange guy, jealous of Henry's popularity with girls yet claiming he wasn't interested himself. It was hard to understand him.

Since he wasn't interested, Summer decided not to pursue the topic further.

She added more wood to the stove and watched the flames flicker, covering her mouth with her hand, suppressing giggles now and then.

It was amusing how upsetting others could make her so happy.

Logan snapped two twigs together sharply.

Hearing the crisp sound, Summer glanced at Logan instinctively.

Watching him feed the broken twigs into the stove, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine, as if it wasn't twigs he had snapped but her bones.

Quickly clearing her throat, she composed herself, suppressing any hint of amusement.

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Because Summer woke up early, the steamed buns were ready before Logan.

Feeling it was about time, she waited for the remaining firewood in the stove to burn out completely, all sparks extinguished into ashes, before getting up from the small stool to wash up and eat.

After finishing her meal, Summer didn't head straight to school or linger in the kitchen. Instead, she casually hung around in front of Logan, trying to appear natural and not like she was deliberately watching him.

With her backpack on, she waited in the yard for Logan.

With nothing else to do, she played with the chicks in the corner of the yard, talking to them by their names.

Just as she was entertaining the chicks, the alarm clock in the boys' dormitory rang.

Amid the alarm, Henry and the others woke up one after another and gathered in the yard to wash up.

Ten people with their washing tools came to the yard, turning the quiet courtyard into a lively place.

But upon closer listening amid the lively atmosphere, complaints were what could be heard most clearly.

Although all ten of them had plenty of complaints about country life.

But the one who found fault the most and was the most despondent was Grace.

While getting washed up, she complained a few times about having no future, not knowing when it would end. Then she said again, "No, what that thing does all day, it's really noisy. It keeps people from getting a good sleep."

Lily signaled with a gesture toward the corner of the yard to make clear where the noise came from, "The chicks."

With the yard's corner being blocked off by nearby dorms, it wasn't possible to see the chicks and Summer.

Of course, Grace already knew that Logan and Summer were raising the chicks. She still continued to be unhappy, saying in a not very good mood, "I'm only in the country a short time, and these two still turned themselves into country folks. They're even raising chicks. What if they keep more pigs in the future? Just give the cattle, sheep, pigs, geese, all to you to keep by your bed."

When she finished saying that, no one had said anything, they heard the was head while donting another looked waited after tree heard Hello noticed listened silently seemed corner dark kept seen whole wished Why