We were analysing the finer points of a monopoly at the soya bean place near my place
on a beautiful, rainy saturday afternoon,
when a bundle of joy bounced in.

"che che~" she smiled at me.

Finally, my xiao mei mei returned.

I was the first to arrive at our agreed place,

so much for punctuality in guys nowadys.

and while waiting for the two guys,
I started chatting with this little girl.
I found out that she's starting primary 3 nxt year,
and what coincidence, at the primary sch I used to study.

And so we were chatting,
and I found out too,
to my immense pleasure,
like myself,
*beams proudly*
she has a voracious apetite for books!!!

So she said she will be going to the library below my block to borrow 8 books,
and asked me to wait for her return.

"then we can study together," she sweetly said.

sure thing!!

When the guys arrived,
I was happily sharing the piece of news with them.

About how lovely she was,
how adorable,
how untainted,
how innocent she was.

"ur imaginary friend ah?"

-_-! Fine.

So I maintained tt she was the sweetest pie on the face of the earth.
I commented that kids that age are the loveliest.
Cos they know enuf to hold a conversation,
yet not enuf to disguise their true feelings.
And, innocent enuf,
so u can tell them anything without fear that they will turn around and use the it against u.

Then she returned.

HAHAR!!

*smirks*

"I told u she is REAL, and she is the cutest, most innocent young thing u'll ever meet!!"

Sheepishly, they took in the sight of the little energetic bunny,
and tried to be nicer, sillier pple.

I mean, don't we all act silly in front of little kids?
Cos our oversized ego forbids us to believe that kids will be able to interact with the smarter us.

It was alrite, until she bounced over to our table.
She gestured me nearer and whispered LOUDLY in my ears

"Which one is ur boyfriend?"

The whole table stared at her in disbelief.

All hell broke lose man!!!

Having gotten the laughing maniac in me under control,
I very seriously asked her

"Do u know what a boyfriend is?"

She looked at me in annoyance,
as if I'm the biggest idiot on earth having asked such a stupid question.

"Of cos lah!!!Like for example, u like him, *points at one of the guys* and he likes u too, u'll be his girlfriend and he will be ur boyfriend loh!!!U don't know meh?"

"Oh!!!!!So have u got a boyfriend?"

She giggled and looked away, "No lah!!!"

*sighs*

Kids these days are precocious beyond their age.
And uni students these days
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have too many excuses to not be studying when they are supposed to.