Chapter 108: Is she straight?

"Just sit in the chair and stretch out your hand," Yan Cijin said, looking at Bai Li.

Bai Li nodded. Her body still felt dirty and sticky from all the sweat and blood, and even though she had kept herself together outside, the moment she was back home, the urge to clean herself hit her all at once. Seeing that Yan Cijin had changed into clean clothes made her feel even more aware of how awful she smelled. She did not want to keep standing there like that, not when the smell of zombie blood was probably still all over her. Her mind went straight to the shower, and she already started thinking about changing her dressing first, then washing up after. But Yan Cijin had come in with her first aid kit, and after looking at Bai Li for a few seconds, she pursed her lips, thought carefully, and then gave a small smile before saying, "Maybe we should shower first, otherwise, if our hands get wet, we’ll have to change the dressing again."

Bai Li froze for a second after hearing that. It was such a simple sentence, but somehow it caught her off guard. She did not know why, but she felt a little shy and embarrassed all of a sudden. That feeling was annoying enough on its own, but what made it worse was Yan Cijin standing there smiling like that, very natural, very gentle, like she had just casually suggested something normal and not something that made Bai Li’s thoughts stumble for a second. Bai Li did not know why her chest felt weird. She also did not know why her brain suddenly went somewhere it absolutely did not need to go. Her gaze stayed on Yan Cijin’s face, and for a moment, a thought flashed through her mind so quickly it was almost funny. Is she straight? The thought came and went in an instant, but it left a strange little mark behind it. Bai Li was not sure why her head had gone there so fast, but then another thought immediately followed, one that felt much more natural to her. No, Yan Cijin was probably not straight. Bai Li had the weirdest kind of confidence about that, the kind that came from a gut feeling more than from proof. Her gay radar had been tingling from the very first moment she met her, and Bai Li had never really been wrong about that kind of thing before. The more she thought about it, the more sure she felt. Yan Cijin had that energy. That subtle, soft, carefully hidden energy that made Bai Li think she was looking at someone who was definitely not as simple as she seemed. As she kept thinking, her brows slowly furrowed, not because she was upset, but because she was trying to sort out the odd little tension in her own mind. She was still stuck on that thought when Yan Cijin pulled her back to the present.

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