Spark At First Contact Chapter 9

Logan was walking on the road after school, and out of the corner of his eye he noticed someone following him quietly.

When he passed by a store, he stopped for a moment and confirmed the identity of the person following him by using the mirror reflection of the metal plaque at the door.

"Jason, come out." Logan shouted at a poplar tree, "How long are you going to follow me?"

The sides of the boy's body had long been exposed from behind the tree, and he had been covering his ears and stealing the bell with his eyes closed, thinking that Logan couldn't see him. Logan walked over and was attracted by the embroidery of two dragons playing with pearls on Jason's black schoolbag. Looking up, there was a huge golden lion head door knocker. It can be seen that this man has very...domineering taste.

Without saying a word, Logan grabbed the door knocker on Jason's schoolbag and pulled him out from behind the tree.

"I was afraid you would fall asleep while walking and get hit by a car." Jason shrugged his neck. "I only wanted to follow you to the station, but you kept walking. Why didn't anyone take you home? Aren't your parents worried?"

After a bucket of Star Cups helped the two reconcile, Logan didn't expect Jason to be so lenient. He carefully chose his words and replied, "My situation is not serious enough to require constant attention. You don't have to pay attention to me like this anymore."

"I didn't look after you." Jason explained confidently, "I was protecting you in secret."

Logan said lightly, "No need", but was curious about why Jason continued to show his kindness to her, so she asked him directly: "Do I look like I need to be protected so much?"

"That's what Teacher Bai said. She asked us to care for you and give you warmth." Jason said, stretching his arm out half a circle, as if sowing the seeds of hope. "And as the leading male student of Class 1, Grade 1, Chengjun Middle School, I have to shoulder the task of protecting you."

It's really an inexplicable sense of responsibility.

Logan was indifferent to Ran's answer. He stared at him quietly for a while, then spoke again in a calm voice: "Jason, do you think I'm weak?"

Hearing his serious tone, Jason unconsciously restrained the casual smile on his face and responded with the same serious expression.

Logan continued, "You just think that I have a strange disease, so I am very fragile and need to be taken care of, and caring about me can also satisfy your personal heroic fantasy, right?"

He found that Jason did not deny it immediately, as if he agreed. Logan was still calm: "I advise you to stop giving me meaningless sympathy and stop treating me as a vulnerable group. I am no different from you except that I sleep more every day."

Perhaps it was his self-esteem that drove him to say these words. Logan suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Jason became more calm.

Finally, he said to Ran: "If you can understand what I mean, then we should be able to live in peace in the future."

Jason quickly said "Oh".

He raised his hand to lift the bag strap on his shoulder, stared at Logan's face thoughtfully, and said slowly: "So you are afraid of being cared for."

The light-hearted conclusion accurately hit Logan's insignificant arrogance. He subconsciously wanted to refute Jason, but he couldn't find any more powerful explanation in his mind except the three words "no". He had to turn his face away and ignore the other party.

"Logan," Jason called him, "I understand what you mean. If you don't like being worried about, then I believe you can be alone. But no matter whether you feel weak or strong, I will continue to protect you."

This unquestionable and hearty tone left Logan speechless. Jason smiled again and said as a matter of course: "We are classmates after all."

Logan was speechless.

He discovered that Jason had a kind of sincerity that made people feel absurd. He didn't seem to be looking down on anyone with pity, nor did he seem to be showing off himself for the sake of attracting attention. However, this kind of concern was a bit troublesome and tricky for Logan.

After all, he no longer needs something like "friendship".

"Okay, I'm going home to eat now, bye!" Jason hasn't finished his voice change yet, but his voice is still loud and clear, "Where are you going now?"

Logan turned around and faced the largest store on this street. "It's right here."

Jason looked up and saw the golden words "Tongquetai Business Club".

"Ah! I know this place!" Jason opened his eyes wide, "My mom said this is a 'chicken coop', what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to look for someone." Logan walked straight to the store door.

From the first time he saw the two-headed mutant Honduran milk snake during the summer vacation to now, one week after the school officially started, he would come here from time to time to look for the man named Xu Si, but each time he was turned away by the staff on the grounds that he was a minor.

"Looking for someone..." Jason repeated Logan's words in confusion, and then he suddenly realized, "So you are a frequent visitor here."

Logan stopped abruptly and gave Jason a complicated look.

"Don't do this, Logan." Jason grabbed Logan's arm with great concern and pulled him back. "This kind of thing is dirty! You are still young, it's not too late to turn back."

Logan couldn't help but quietly rolled his eyes at him, and calmly grabbed Jason's wrist with his backhand, "I have something important to do."

Jason followed Logan doubtfully. They were both carrying school bags, and were stopped at the entrance of the club. Without waiting for the waiter to speak, Logan took out a few pink bills from his pocket and slapped them on his suit.

Even though they were minors, they would be given some respect for their generosity. The waiter took the money and let them in through the back door.

But Logan didn't want to stay here any longer. The air was filled with the smell of perfume and alcohol, which was a bit pungent. He went straight to the lobby manager and asked him where the four Xu were.

The female manager flicked her hair impatiently, "Why are you here again? Didn't I tell you that he was busy out of town?" She put her palms down, put her fingers together and waved them outwards, as if to drive him away, "Go away, this is not a place for a kid like you."

Logan said calmly, "I saw his followers when I came in. They were not there before."

"So what?" The female manager curled her lips. "Xu Si works for our boss. If he goes out to do something, can he bring his family with him? Don't worry, I'm not lying to you. You just want to buy those longworms from Xu Si. What's the rush?"

Logan asked her for Xu Si's contact information, but she shook her head and refused to give it to him. Even when Logan took out money and handed it to him, she was too lazy to even look at it. She just lowered her head and picked her nails perfunctorily. "You are a minor, so don't cause me trouble. Hurry up and get out the same door you entered. If you can be honest, I will help you ask Xu Si where he got those things next time I see him."

"Those things" refer to reptile pets, and the ball python Fiona raised by Logan also belongs to this category.

Before leaving, Logan still asked, "Have you seen how long the two-headed snake raised by Xu Si is?"

The woman naturally didn't pay attention to such details. She was too busy avoiding the scary pets. However, Xu Si did bring the snake to the store to show off and play with it. She recalled the time and gestured with her fingers, "He put the snake on the bar, from here to here, about this long."

Logan estimated the length, nodded and said thank you, and finally agreed to leave this place of entertainment.

After returning to the outside and breathing fresh air again, Jason stretched out lazily with a sense of relief. "So you're looking for the guy you fought with in the Internet cafe last time... I thought you were here for 'that'."

Logan brushed his sleeves vigorously, trying to get rid of the remaining smell on his body, and said lightly: "It's not impossible."

"Ah?" Jason stopped yawning, his nose itching unbearably, "dmn, I misjudged you! Derek and the others said that you were a cool and pure male god, why are you using this trick now? You are too much..."

Seeing that he took his joke seriously again, Logan glanced at Jason, and two words silently emerged in his mind: Muggle.

The two returned along the original route. Halfway through the journey, Jason asked curiously, "Why are you looking for that man? Do you want to buy something from him?"

Logan was silent for a moment, his thoughts intertwined in the wind.

After a while, he told Jason: "When I was in the first grade of junior high school, I raised a very rare two-headed snake. I took it to a trade fair, but it was stolen."

"Oh my god...did they call the police?"

"I didn't dare to do it at that time, for fear that my parents would find out, but they still found out a few days later." Logan slowed down his pace inadvertently, looking at the dark blue sky where the sunset was about to end. "My dad said that I was responsible for my negligence, and my mom was too lazy to care and just bought me a new one. The police didn't help me find it later, so I just let it go."

"How can we just let it go?" Jason reacted a little fiercely, "Pets are also lives. If it were a human, wouldn't it be the same as child trafficking? You are just a poor mother! Mother and child are separated, why wouldn't they help you?"

Logan was originally immersed in the memories of the past, savoring that sorrow over and over again, when he suddenly heard Jason's indignant tone, and he was suddenly brought back to reality.

"It's not that serious. After all, snakes have no emotions and don't recognize their owners. Moreover, two-headed snakes are genetic mutations, and their body structure means they can't live long..." Logan's Adam's apple rolled up and down, "But I've had sleeping sickness since this incident, and I'm not willing to give up."

Logan didn't want to think about the depressed mood he had during those days. Not long after losing "Marija", he became sleepy.

When he first felt sleepy, Logan thought it was because he was tired from crying so much, but later he fell asleep while taking a shower. He even closed his eyes and fell asleep while answering questions in class, scaring his teachers and classmates so much that they hurriedly called an ambulance.

Clinical doctors in Ronggang believed that Logan was suffering from constant sleepiness due to excessive academic pressure. His mother took him to the United States, where he was diagnosed with narcolepsy.

It is said that this sleep disorder often begins in adolescence, the pathogenesis is unknown, and there is no cure, so it can only be controlled by medication.

Jason's voice was a little heavy: "Was it that man who stole the snake?"

Logan hesitated and said, "I don't know... Two-headed snakes are indeed rare, but others have raised them before me, and none of them survived."

When Logan saw Xu Si's snake box during the summer vacation, he was not so sure about the age of the snakes. Judging from the length described by the club manager, Xu Si's snake was probably only seven or eight months old, and if his own Marija was lucky enough to still be alive, she should be about the same age as two-year-old Fiona.

Logan adjusted his breathing and made up his mind: "Even if it's not the same one, I really want to buy it back from him."

Jason was puzzled: "Why? Don't you think of such sad things when you look at it?"

"I can think of it as Marija." Logan said the name of his pet naturally, "This way I will feel better and maybe my sleeping sickness will be alleviated."

"Huh?" Jason pulled the corner of his mouth exaggeratedly, "Aren't you just deceiving yourself with a substitute?"

"You don't understand." Logan said firmly, "I only have two choices, either keep thinking about it in my heart, or find a chance to forget it. The former option will make my sleeping sickness worse, so I choose the latter."

Jason lowered his head and thought for a moment, then whispered: "Okay."

He added with emotion: "Fortunately, snakes have no feelings, otherwise they would miss you as much as you miss them."

Hearing this, Logan's repressed nostalgia came out again, and his heart suddenly became hot, and his eyes almost became wet. Fortunately, it was dark, so even if there was light flashing in his eyes, Jason would not easily notice it.

"Yeah, that's why I like snakes." Logan smiled indifferently.

When he was with Marija day and night, Logan always felt sorry that he could not develop feelings with such a low-IQ animal. But after losing it, Logan was extremely fortunate that the pain of "separation" could be borne only by a human being like him, and Marija only had to continue working hard to survive.

"Alas... thieves are so hateful." Jason felt the same way, "If your snake wasn't lost, would you still have sleeping sickness?"

"Maybe not." Although Logan answered like this, he knew in his heart that the greater possibility was "yes".

Even though some patients had experienced strong emotional stimulation before the onset of the disease, this was definitely not the direct cause of the sleep sickness. Logan would rather believe that he was stimulated than admit that he had encountered the sleep sickness out of sheer bad luck.

Seeing that Jason had been in a bad mood for a long time, Logan thought that he was probably having another empathy attack, so he took the initiative to restore his relaxed tone and said to him: "It's okay, I believe in the conservation of luck. I am more unlucky than the average person now, but I will definitely be luckier than the average person in the future."

His calm self-confidence easily infected Jason's emotions. Jason nodded vigorously and said, "Then I will also share some of my luck with you so that you can get better soon."

"That's not necessary." Logan looked at Jason with a much gentler look, "I told you, you don't have to worry about my sleeping sickness, just treat me as an ordinary person like you."

Jason opened his mouth to retort:   "I am not ordinary."

...

Jason's voice became clear: "Don't worry, I will treat you as a man as strong as me."

Logan smiled slightly and agreed with Jason: "Okay."

Jason breathed a sigh of relief. Since Logan said he didn't want people to pay attention to his sleeping sickness, he shouldn't make a fuss about him anymore. But there were still doubts lingering in his mind for a long time, and he could no longer bear his curiosity.

"Actually, I have another question. I wanted to ask you when you entered the Bronze Sparrow Tower just now."

Logan looked back at him and said, "Say."

Jason asked cautiously: "When you do 'that', will you fall asleep?"

His expression and tone were particularly sincere. Logan pondered for a few seconds before realizing what he was asking about. He immediately answered with certainty: "No."

"Why?" Jason asked, "Is it because you were very excited when you did 'that' that you are not sleepy?"

The more specific and in-depth questions made Logan's cheeks flush, and he quickly said, "How should I know?"

Jason asked, "You don't know? Then have you ever done that?"

He immediately realized that his question was too direct, so he quickly mobilized his vocabulary and asked in a more polite way: "Are you still pure and innocent?"

"Jason," Logan's ears gradually became hot. He took a deep breath and laughed angrily, "You really deserve a beating."