yasinovel Chapter 910: Xiao Chong Extra Story 16_3
Chapter 910: Xiao Chong Extra Story 16_3
The competition had progressed to the point that even professional teams wanted to poach him, hoping to groom him into a professional player.
Because the team had achieved such great success, the school hastily organized a cheerleading squad to support them.
The main members were from the school’s dance club, while the outside members were Xiao Chong’s classmates, including Qi Bingqiong, Han Xiaoyan, and Lin Wanwan.
This cheerleading squad numbered twenty people, and was formed through voluntary registration and strict selection. Those selected would have half of their travel and accommodation expenses to Hai City covered by the school, while they covered the other half themselves.
The food expenses were minor, and they stayed at the same hotel as the basketball team.
Two girls per room, with a room cost of 600 dollars; the school covered half, and the girls split the remaining half, meaning each paid 150 dollars per day.
They only needed to stay in Hai City for a weekend, two days and one night, so this expenditure was affordable for Lin Wanwan.
She told her grandpa that the school was covering all the expenses, but he still gave her a thousand dollars, saying, "Save on household expenses but spend on the road," and advised her to bring enough money and be safe.
Grandpa Lin even called Xiao Chong, asking him to take care of Lin Wanwan.
If it weren’t for the fact that the cheerleading squad had a supervising teacher, and other people from Seventh Middle School were entirely self-funded to watch the game in Hai City, like the basketball players’ families and friends, making the whole team fairly large, grandpa Lin would absolutely not be comfortable letting Lin Wanwan go that far away.
Although it was only a two-and-a-half-hour high-speed train ride from Yongcheng to Hai City, Lin Wanwan, who was raised by her grandparents since young, had never left their side.
Not to mention Hai City, which was two hours away; even when going to relatives’ house in Weng Mountain, just forty minutes away, he wasn’t comfortable letting Lin Wanwan go alone.
On Saturday morning, when seeing Lin Wanwan off, grandpa Lin almost cried, making Lin Wanwan, who looked back, feel a pang of emotion.
She was just going to Hai City, but grandpa acted like it was a life-and-death parting.
Lin Wanwan hugged her backpack with her iPad inside, feeling both like crying and laughing.
On the high-speed train, Lin Wanwan sat with her desk mate Qi Bingqiong, and they had also planned to room together that night.
Compared to Han Xiaoyan and the others in the cheerleading squad, Lin Wanwan was most familiar with Qi Bingqiong. Although they weren’t very close friends, they shared the bond of desk mates.
But Lin Wanwan never expected that upon arriving at the hotel and checking in, Qi Bingqiong would pull a fast one - she booked a room for herself at her own expense!
She said she wasn’t used to sharing a room with others and preferred to have a room to herself.
For the supervising teacher, since the rooms were all in the same hotel and even on the same floor, it wasn’t unacceptable.
Besides, Qi Bingqiong’s parents had pre-booked the room before departure, and it couldn’t be refunded, so the teacher couldn’t insist that she share and waste a room.
This left Lin Wanwan without a roommate, meaning she had to bear the full room cost of 300 dollars alone!
For Lin Wanwan’s current situation, this extra 150 dollars was not a small amount; it was part of the money she had been saving for a long time to buy Xiao Chong’s birthday gift.
Even though grandpa gave her an extra thousand dollars before she left, Lin Wanwan was determined not to use it.
Her grandpa, at such an old age, was still working hard to save for her future tuition and living expenses, even doing night shifts. How could she be willing to waste money?
If possible, she even wished she could share a room with two other girls, which would only cost her 100 dollars.
Pushing two beds together to accommodate three girls wasn’t a problem.
But the issue was, she couldn’t bring herself to ask, not wanting to expose her embarrassment.
As a teenage girl, Lin Wanwan hadn’t yet developed the thick skin of adulthood, and her sense of pride was still vague. Losing face in front of schoolmates was probably one of the concrete representations of wounded pride.
Faced with Qi Bingqiong’s sudden betrayal, Lin Wanwan could only swallow her grievances.
In her heart, she naturally blamed Qi Bingqiong. If Qi Bingqiong had told her earlier that she was booking a room alone, Lin Wanwan could have rightfully asked class president Han Xiaoyan to share a room.
But when it came to that moment, Qi Bingqiong only informed her, leaving Lin Wanwan with no options, as Han Xiaoyan had already found someone to room with, and there was no way for Lin Wanwan to squeeze in.
Han Xiaoyan’s new roommate was the dance club president, a little beauty from Class Three of the first year, who was now also the captain of their makeshift cheerleading squad.
All of Lin Wanwan’s excitement was scattered in pieces when they checked in, thanks to Qi Bingqiong.
In her heart, she had already categorized Qi Bingqiong as someone not to associate with or become close to.
This time, she had to endure it in silence, but there wouldn’t be a next time.
Lin Wanwan secretly vowed that outside of school, she would never have any private interaction with Qi Bingqiong again, and she even wanted to cut ties with her now!