She was so frightened that her hand trembled, causing the stick to fall to the ground. Her sister took the opportunity to push him away and pulled her to run out of the alley. The sight of that terrifying person had given her a nightmare that night.
Later, she learned that the person was her sister’s classmate, a good-for-nothing jerk, a bully in the school whom no one dared to provoke.
“Sister, you have to be careful of him!” Thelma said anxiously, fearing that her sister might invite trouble.
However, Samantha couldn’t help but laugh at this: “He’s not as scary as you think. Leon is not that kind of person.”
“…”
Why was her sister still defending him?
“Besides, he just saved me.”
That was true; after all, that person had saved her sister. However, Thelma still felt uneasy and advised, “No matter what, you must be careful.”
“I know.”
After hanging up the phone, Samantha couldn’t help but recall the past. In fact, she had once misunderstood him just like Thelma. She thought he was a bad, devilish pervert.
She had seen him beat a quiet, gentle boy in their class until he spat blood. That was when she began to fear him, thinking he was a ruthless person. Later, she accidentally discovered that he had been secretly following her, and she thought he was a pervert who liked to stalk girls. In short, during school, her impression of Leon had always been negative.
It wasn’t until later that the gentle boy he had beaten was arrested for molesting a young girl that she realized the boy, who seemed so gentle, had secretly taken photos up girls’ skirts with his phone. Leon had beaten him because he found out that the boy had taken pictures of her.
As for him following her home at night, it was simply because there were often a few delinquents hanging around near her house. He followed her back to ensure those delinquents wouldn’t dare to harm her.
At that time, she held a prejudice against him, always viewing his actions through colored glasses. It wasn’t until she analyzed it carefully later that she understood his actions were all out of good intentions.
And she also knew that Leon liked her back in high school.
That time, when Thelma misunderstood him for forcibly kissing her, she discovered him following her again. She could no longer tolerate it and hid in an alley waiting for him to catch up, then confronted him about why he was doing this. She directly told him that she really disliked him acting this way.
At that time, she said some very extreme words, which successfully angered him. He pinned her against the wall but did not forcibly kiss her.
He just glared at her and said, “Why do you think I’m doing this?” He leaned close to her ear, gritting his teeth as he said, “Because I like you!”
No one expected that the good-for-nothing, who only knew how to fight and mess around every day, would later become a special police officer.
Thinking of this, Samantha couldn’t help but smile. She shook her head and put on her gloves to start cooking.
After hanging up the phone, Thelma still felt uneasy. She asked Sam Noah, “Do you think Leon is a good person? My sister doesn’t seem to be wary of him; she won’t be in danger, right?”
Sam Noah replied, “In that situation, he risked his own safety to save your sister. He probably isn’t that bad.”
Thelma nodded. That made sense; not everyone had the courage to put others before themselves, just like she hadn’t when she stood next to her sister at that time. Since Sam Noah said so, there was nothing more for her to worry about. She trusted Sam Noah’s judgment.
Snow began to fall from the sky at some point. For Thelma, a girl living in the north, snow was such a common occurrence that it no longer held the romantic beauty it once did; it even felt a bit annoying. Although the car had the air conditioning on, looking at the snowflakes falling outside made Thelma shiver and say, “This kind of weather is perfect for soaking in hot water.”
“Going to the hot springs?”
“Ah?”
Sam Noah had the driver turn around, and Thelma asked in confusion, “Are we really going?”
“Didn’t you say you wanted to soak in hot water?”
She had just said that casually.
“What about Tyler?”
