Eating sour lemons in the morning

"Do you think if I ask cadet Han nicely he will tutor me for the sand people's language? The way he twisted his tongue naturally when he spoke was so mesmerizing you would think he was a native speaker... Ah-Chen..... Chen-ge... Chen Chen," called out Li Ran when he realised that Yi Chen wasn't listening to him.

The words Chen Chen were Yi Chen's last straw. "What," he responded feeling slightly more irritable than usual today. He hadn't answered Li Ran before because his mind had blanked out for a moment.

All he could think about was that Zi Han had followed Shorty out of the class just now. These two had already fought and had bad blood between them so if not to resume yesterday's showdown why else would they be hanging out together?

He thought he could give them time. If they weren't back in five minutes then he would go out and find them. But as seconds turned to minutes he suddenly felt restless.