It was chubby and soft. Adrian Hawthorne didn't dare squeeze too hard, afraid he might snap the chubby girl's bones. A strange feeling stirred within him—it wasn't dislike, but it probably wasn't fondness, either. He didn't know what it was, only that he no longer disliked the chubby Tang girl as much as he used to.
"Jim, you heading up the mountain to clear some land?"
A man carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back was coming down the mountain. He saw Jim Thorne carrying a hoe and was quite surprised. The Thorne family had the most private land in the whole village, so why would they need to clear more?
The man grew even more surprised when he saw Adrian Hawthorne and Tang Xiaonan trailing behind them, holding hands affectionately.
He couldn't quite wrap his head around the sudden change in dynamics. 'When did the Thorne kids and that Hawthorne boy get so friendly?'
