The midday sun was directly above their heads, as the boy sat quietly on a rock amongst the bush.
Bei Yao couldn’t help but laugh at him, suffocating that cicada was hilarious, yet awkward. She thought that he probably remembered that one summer, Chen Hu brought the kids in the neighbourhood to catch some cicadas on the trees. Upon catching it, he’d tie it together with a string. It’ll then buzz while flying. The kids liked it a lot.
Bei Yao liked to join in on events like this. On the other side, Pei Chuan, who was “socially awkward”, never tried such things.