Chapter 9
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"Lili, say hello. These are your friends who will be with you from today."
Julianne spoke to me with an affectionate voice, and over in the direction she was pointing at, three children were looking at me with curious eyes.
‘So, let me get things straight first…’
I blinked slowly.
Well, it had all started on the day Allen brought a whole cake. More precisely, the day that Cedric had brought Joshua along.
The mood wasn't that great at first, but as time went on, I got caught up in teasing Joshua and had a great time.
‘Could that have been the turning point?’
I slightly tilted my head and remembered laughing a bit too much during I got a checkup from Allen. Perhaps at that moment, a sense of urgency had sprouted in Julianne's mind.
Perhaps she thought my social skills would be in jeopardy if things continued like that.
‘…Is this her grand plan to help me make friends then?’
I didn’t need anything like that though. I only needed Lia…
