Clifford and Zhen-Zhen were now facing each other in the mini-forest of the campus. Sophia was standing next to Zhen-Zhen, feeling a little bit awkward.
She could see that Clifford felt uncomfortable with her presence. He was having a hard time how he would start talking to Zhen-Zhen. He planned to act as pitiful as he could be to get Zhen-Zhen's sympathy.
However, with Sophia's presence there, he was now hesitating to do that. It was too embarrassing for him.
He asked her to give him five minutes just to talk but already ten minutes had passed by and Clifford hadn't started talking yet.
Zhen-Zhen, on the other hand, was waiting patiently for Clifford to speak up. She wondered what important thing he wanted to tell her.
Clifford exhaled deeply before finally speaking up. He just tried his best to ignore Sophia's presence so that he could talk to Zhen-Zhen without feeling awkward and embarrassed.
