Surprisingly enough, Cheryl ended up listening to gossip about herself in the end!
She grinned and said, "Um, I'll go first."
"… Okay," Zac replied.
Even after walking a distance away, Cheryl could still hear Mrs. Stannard nagging at Zac. "Young man, you are already in your twenties. It's about time you find a girlfriend. It can't possibly be that you've never had a girlfriend before because you're into men instead, right?"
Cheryl: "??"
Did she just hear something she shouldn't have?
She quickly sped up, lest she ended up being silenced by the captain.
Well, just kidding.
He wouldn't actually kill her, of course. However, if he made her life difficult in the future, things would certainly become very troublesome.
As her mom said, one must always cut off any potential source of trouble!
It was only after Zac watched the kid speed up and escape that he finally came back to his senses. "Huh? What did you just say?"
