Chapter 574: Troubles of Youth
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Yarin’s POV:
I was glad that no one noticed . Heller was always unwilling to look at directly. As for Lily, she seed to be in a daze, but I sohow felt that she was very sad. There seed to be no place for her in the bustling hall. She was embarrassed and out of place, but she could do nothing.
I looked at the people exchanging greetings, then at Lily, who was drifting away from the crowd. I quietly tugged at her cloak.
“Do you want to go out for a walk?” I whispered. “I had a little too much to eat this morning. I want to ease my digestion a little.”
Lily looked at for a few seconds and nodded in agreent.
The morning wind was still a little cold, and music and laughter could be heard from the comrcial street not far away. The garden of the manor was very large. Lily walked in front, and I followed beside her. We didn’t say a word.
I wanted to say sothing, but Lily didn’t seem to need any words. She needed a quiet environnt to sort out her emotions quietly.
Honestly, this was not a situation that a child could understand. The superior conditions of my birth allowed to be more mature than my peers, but diating family conflicts? I was still far from becoming a qualified family judge.
“Thank you, Yarin,” Lily suddenly said. She rarely called by my real na. “I’ve made a fool of myself. It’s about and my mother.”
“No, Lily, it’s nothing. Everyone has their problems. Other than yourself, no one has the right to comnt.” I looked at her seriously and replied, “This is what my mother once told . People should respect themselves and respect others. I don’t think there’s anything funny between you and Aunt Teresa. On the contrary, I’ll be here and happy to help you if you need .”
Lily looked at for a while and suddenly burst out laughing. “Thank you, little one. However, I’m not so cowardly as to need a child’s help. I appreciate your kindness.”
“I’m serious!” I knew Lily was treating like a child again – she was right, I was a child, but sohow I didn’t want her to treat that way.
The atmosphere suddenly beca awkward. Lily stopped smiling and stared at , making uncomfortable. Before I could ask anything, she sighed and said slowly, “I know, Yarin. Thank you. You are a good friend, and I am very happy to have your friendship.”
She didn’t seem to treat as a child now, but I still didn’t like her attitude toward . Everything was fine, but she seed to be avoiding sothing. I couldn’t think of anything, which made inexplicably anxious.
How annoying. Since I ca to the Silver Moon Pack, I’d spent more ti worrying than I’d in the past twelve years combined. I’d beco unhappy. How annoying! Annoying!
I suddenly rembered sothing Cynthia once said. There was a ti when she was obsessed with studying psychology and always analyzed the psychological state of everyone around her.
A few days before my twelfth birthday, she pestered to observe my every move. Her pestering annoyed , so she pretended to be helpless and said, “Yarin, my dear brother, you are about to turn twelve. The beautiful puberty is coming. Fretful, irritable, capricious, sotis unrestrained, and sotis restrained. I’m so happy that you’re about to usher in the most exciting period of your youth. Let give you a blessed hug!”
In the end, I pushed her away in disgust while Cynthia looked at mysteriously, mumbling like a fortune-teller.
Back then, I only felt irritated. Now, I seed to understand her words a little.
Anxious and fretful, was this a sign that I was about to enter the next stage of my life?
It was difficult for children born in the royal family to compartntalize their lives into distinct stages. I loved my family, and they loved too. They did their best to give a happy childhood.
However, there were always so responsibilities that I couldn’t avoid. Moreover, I was in a high-ranking position, but I was young and ignorant. This made it so that so people always took advantage of the loopholes to co to and sche against .
So my ‘childhood’ was chaotic and divided. My family and I tried our best to make an ordinary and happy child, but I could see myself being divided into two halves. The other half watched coldly, switching between the ntality of a child, a youth, a middle-aged man, or an old man.
I thought that I would always be like this, but at this mont, I realized that all my previous thoughts were foolish and arrogant delusions. I was just an ordinary child who thought that I had escaped the age limit, but only realized the truth at the mont when I was about to enter the next stage of my life.
Lily looked at , and I looked at Lily. We looked at each other wordlessly, and the atmosphere beca even stranger.
There was no doubt that I had screwed things up again.
I had hoped to bring Lily out of that suffocating place, and I promised Francis that I would make Lily happy, but look at what I’d done. I made things worse, and Lily went from one predicant to another.
Just as I was at a loss, my savior appeared.
“Hey! Yarin, Lily! We’re leaving. Co back quickly!”
Ah, Heller, the cute little angel.. I could kiss him now!
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