Chapter 2 Reunion A teenage sits in the cosy corner of a library room, she stares out of the of the clear window thinking deeply, you could tell, the pencil she once was chewing on, hung from her opened mouth, all was still. After a long period of air condition noise, the girl finally broke the stillness. The girl frowned. Then she grabbed all the books and pens stuffed them into her bag hanging at the back of her seat, spang out of her seat, making the four legs of the seat scrubbed along the floor nosily for 50 cm. Noticing she made too much noise, she quickly left the room under 24 vituperative pairs of eyes. The door softly closed behind her, 'that was so embarrassing! There can't be anything more like that.' The girl neatened her bag and walked very careful towards the young-adults book section. 'Susan!' the girl heard someone call out, 'Oh my goodness, I can't believe it is Susan!' The next minute the person had already appeared in front of her. It was Alice and her boyfriend Kang Ta. 'Ok, maybe this is the most embarrassing' Susan sighed in her brain. 'Hi Alice! Surprised to meet you here.' Susan greeted in a quite calm voice. 'Oh, Susan. Aren't you excited? Ok, ok. I know won't let you get excited, but what about Kang Ta?' Alice pulled forward her boyfriend who stood behind her while she was talking all the time. 'Hello, Kang Ta. How is your singing "career" going?' Susan still used the calm tone. 'Oh, it's going fine.' A simple reply, good. Thought Susan. 'Susan. You don't look excited!' pointed out a very true fact, 'I bet you will be surprised and excited when you see our whole orphanage is here!' 'What?! The whole orphanage?' Susan shouted in there face, and then opened wide her mouth as far as she could to say that she is extremely surprised. 'See? I said you would be surprised. Kang Ta, I am so clever. Let's go and point out the rest.' Her voice was cheerful, and her movements were excited. Susan knew that Cardiff Private Library wasn't the biggest in England, but it was big enough to hide a whole orphanage, besides their orphanage wasn't large at all. Susan got guided around the familiar yet unfamiliar library meeting all the orphans she once stayed, the tour surely freshened her memories. At first she saw the two famous young movie actors *Alec Su You Peng and *Vicki Zhao Wei, they were very easy to see since they were always surrounded with people. 'They have gone even more popular. They say they are good friends now, not enemies.' Alice sounded like she was bored to death. So Susan told Alice that she wasn't interested in them. It cheered Alice up. 'Glad you not like those girls!' Alice exclaimed. 'Oh, Alice. You know that I am not like!' Susan said back to her, 'and don't yell in the library, although those fans are already noisy.' 'Susan, look! *Kristy and *Louis. Oh, *Ruby and *Nic, too. You know they are all lovers. Say hello to them!' Alice pushed Susan towards them. 'Hi!' was the only word Susan could think of. 'Oh, hi, Susan. How are you?' Ruby was the first to notice someone just said hello to him or her. 'Fine! Thanks you. And you?' Susan felt like she was unprepared, speaking with these lovers gives her the creeps. 'Oh, we are always great! You know that, we have each other, isn't that right Louis?' this time Kristy spoke. 'Of course. I am always there for you, and I will always love you.' Louis replied. And then they started their lovers' language and walked away side by side. 'Phew...that was such an experience. Never talk to people who are love struck.' Susan turned 180 degrees, and made a face at Alice. 'Haha, got you. Come on we have a long way in front of us!' Alice laughed all the way as she leaded Kang Ta and Susan. 'Oh no. It's Kiwery Harisimo with his henchmen.' Kang Ta spoke forwardly for the first time. 'I don't think I will like to see those "sexy" women again. Let's find someone else.' Susan wanted to leave before Kiwery Harisimo saw them, but it was a bit late. 'Hi Susan!' came the voice of Kiwery Harisimo. Susan sighed and faked a bright smile and said to him: 'Hi, Kiwery. I am sorry that I can't talk to you. Me, Alice and Kang Ta have something important at the moment, we will come back and catch up with you later.' Susan, Alice and Kang Ta ran off as soon as they were finished with Kiwery. 'Hey, how's Kang Ta?' Kiwery tried to yell, but he thought it wasn't worth it; he had a better girl to flirt with—8 year old little red riding hood. 'How come we are meeting all these crap people? Where are the other people?' Alice stumped her feet. 'I don't think so!' Kang Ta spoke in quite jolly voice, 'it's *Ruby and *Edison! The other ruby.' 'Really? Where?' Susan got excited for the first time; she looked around like a rabbit until she spotted Ruby. 'Ruby! It's me, Susan!' 'Susan! Oh my god!' Ruby and Susan hugged each other like long lost sisters, 'I thought I'll never see you again! It is so nice to see you nice and beautiful. I've got so many things to tell you!' 'Why don't you come with us? Kang Ta and me are showing her around to all the people from our orphanage. You can talk to her on the way' Alice advised Ruby like her mother. 'Yeah, why don't you come?' Susan strongly agreed. 'Really? That's great. I'd love to, but Edison and I have to go to the information room. It's very important, I'll meet you later, when we're done.' Ruby apologized and went with Edison to the information room. Alice and Susan walked slowly along bookshelves in a low mood, Ruby was a really nice girl and she was Susan's best friend. Just then, Alice recognised someone behind the pile of books. 'Quickly, Susan! I bet you want to see this person.' Alice wilily whispered with a smile that made me have gooseflesh all over, 'Look.' Susan looked over to the place where Alice had her finger pointing at. 'Jesus Christ!' I yelled from loud to soft, not to disturb anyone else, especially Mrs. Klaus. But Mrs. Klaus looked towards the sound 'cradle', she saw a student looking person flashing behind the bookshelves. 'It must be one of my students.' Mrs. Klaus apologised to the librarian and headed towards the bookshelf where the mischief child had been hiding. 'She's coming towards us. Quick! Run into the corridor!' Alice commanded Susan and Kang Ta. Susan didn't have to be told to do that; she feared and hated Mrs. Klaus the most, she was the one that forced her to separate from her parents. Thinking of this, Susan slowed down and started to walk. 'Why are you slowing down! We have to hide!' Alice vexedly spoke to Susan. 'It will be too notable if we ran, just walk and pretend we are just looking for books to read.' Susan whispered without thinking. 'Oh yeah, good idea. You're just as clever as you were when you were with us.' Alice grinned and held tight Kang Ta by his hand. Susan suddenly stopped, looked into Alice's eyes and asked very carefully: 'Say the whole orphanage is here, did the gardener come?' 'Why are you asking me such stupid questions? What will the gardener come for? Besides our garden is quite a mess, I think he needs to fix it up.' Alice grinned again, but noticed the lose feelings in her eyes. 'Why don't we go and find the others?' suggested Kang Ta. 'Of course, there is still a lot of people to meet. Come on, Susan!' Alice held Susan's hand and pulled Kang Ta and Susan to find another friend. *Charlene Choi was next; the four of them had a nice little chat and went on their adventure again. After that in the computer section they found the three gang ---*Shawn Yue, *Steven Cheung, *Kenny Kwan. But they were to busy playing computer games, so Susan didn't spend too much time with them. Coming up were *Ed and *Gill that wore cool outfits. Susan asked them a few questions about fashion and clothing but got pulled away by Kang Ta and Alice. They said they have to hurry. Susan was glad she saw the two best students--*Benny Chan and *Charmaine Sheh in the Little Chinese Library. Benny Chan and Charmaine Sheh always got the top marks in their school; Susan admires them very much. So Alice left her there to talk longer than the others. *James, *Lynn and *Andrea were very entertained to watch at, Susan thought. Their story attracted her for many years. Susan met a lot of people afterward and actually did get tangled up with Kiwery Harisimo, but little red riding hood came just in time to save them from suffering under Kiwery's 'love power'.