The competition was over for Anjou, so they left the auditorium first.
The moment they stepped outside, Emily hugged Evelyn excitedly and screamed, “Evelyn, did you get plastic surgery yesterday?”
“Yes, yes!” Evelyn nodded with a smile.
Emily was shocked, but so was Evelyn herself.
“You look like a completely different person. Emily and I didn’t recognize you. I thought you were backing out!” Stella chimed in.
“How could that be!” Evelyn couldn’t help but laugh.
“Evelyn, your performance today was amazing! Let’s find a place at noon and have a class dinner to celebrate.” Jackson, the class president, made the suggestion.
“Great, great!” Emily nodded like a bobblehead.
“Celebrate? You make it sound like I won the grand prize. Dinner is fine, but don’t say celebrate!” Evelyn said quickly.
“It’s totally worth celebrating. You did an incredible job.”
“Did I? I just hoped I wouldn’t embarrass our class!”
“Embarrass us? Your act was the best we’ve seen. Evelyn, we had no idea you could play the piano!”
“That’s right! I even said you had no talent, and you were fooling us!”
“I learned it before, but only for two years. Then I gave it up. I picked it up again last night. There were two wrong notes!” Evelyn explained.
“Don’t worry, no one noticed except the pros. We all thought it was beautiful!”
Everyone was chatting.
They finally decided to go straight to the student street for skewers.
“What time should we meet? I need to go back to the dorm and change first!” Evelyn asked.
She wasn’t comfortable going to dinner dressed like this!
“Don’t change, you look great!”
“No, no, it’s too awkward. I’ll just go back and change. You guys go ahead, I’ll catch up!” Evelyn shook her head.
“I’ll go with Evelyn to change. You guys go grab a table and order!” Emily said, linking arms with Evelyn.
No one objected.
So they split into two groups.
Emily and Evelyn headed back to the dorm.
The other students went to the restaurant first.
“Evelyn, even without singing, you’ve already made a huge splash!” Emily said with a smile.
“I was pushed into it. I had no choice!” Evelyn resisted the urge to roll her eyes.
“How did you think of playing and singing by yourself? That’s way harder.”
“It was someone else’s suggestion. I practiced hard last night and this morning before going on stage!”
If it weren’t for Alexander’s suggestion, she never would have thought of it.
“You’re so talented. You’ll definitely make it to the semi-finals this time! Even though Stella and I thought you sang well before, this form of expression was hard to get through. Now, there’s absolutely no problem.” Emily said confidently.
Evelyn stared at Emily.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Emily waved her hand.
“Don’t scare me. I was exhausted just from the preliminaries. I don’t want to enter the semi-finals at all!”
“I know, I know. But you played and sang so well, it’s not a big deal if you don’t make it. Anyway, the results aren’t out yet. Don’t be too nervous. When you get to the bridge, just go straight!”
Evelyn nodded for a long time without saying anything.
Back in the dorm, she grabbed a set of clothes from the wardrobe and went into the bathroom to change.
She also took off her makeup.
She didn’t have makeup remover, so she borrowed Emily’s.
When she came out of the bathroom, she was back to being Evelyn.
She wore a sweater, jeans, and a pair of glasses. She looked like a student.
Emily looked at her with a very disappointed expression.
“You’re so beautiful, but you have to dress like a nerd!”
“No, I just feel comfortable this way!” Evelyn replied with a smile.
“Forget it, you’d better keep a low profile. Otherwise, Stella and I look too ordinary!” Emily patted Evelyn’s shoulder, comforting herself.
“What are you talking about? You have the most suitors in our dorm!” Evelyn said with a smile.
“Come on, at first, they all chased me. Once they got to know me, they all became friends! I almost wondered if I was born the wrong gender!” Emily sighed, feeling helpless.
“Ha ha, that shows you’re straightforward and loyal. Everyone likes you!”
“Let’s go, have fun with me!”
Evelyn changed back into her clothes, packed the little dress in a bag, and planned to take it to the dry cleaner’s, then put it away.
This was Alexander’s first gift to her!
By the time Evelyn and Emily arrived at the skewer restaurant, the students at the two tables were already complaining. They all said they were starving.
Emily replied directly, “It’s not even four o’clock yet. Are you having lunch or dinner? Hungry flat!”
Everyone laughed.
“Evelyn, you look better without glasses. Why are you wearing them again?”
“Without glasses, I’ll just catch chili pepper later. I won’t be fooled by you!” Evelyn replied with a smile.
Emily and Stella helped them find seats. Everyone chatted and laughed. The atmosphere was lively and harmonious.
The most talked-about topic was Evelyn’s subversive dressing up today, as well as her touching self-singing and playing.
“Evelyn, you can still speak Minnan language!”
“No, I just learned this song. I’m learning and selling it now!” said Evelyn.
“You can sing as well as you can. If you could prepare longer, you could directly participate in the campus singer competition. Maybe you could win a top ten singer award!”
“Class president, I haven’t even talked to you about this! How did this vote come about?” Evelyn directly targeted the class president.
“Of course, everyone has one vote. You were elected by a fair and open vote, and you passed by all votes!” Jackson said boldly.
“I didn’t come to class. I didn’t even have a chance to vote, and I still got all the votes!”
“Well, 45 people passed, one person gave up, and you were elected by an absolute vote in the end!”
“If I didn’t attend class that day, you would vote for me! This is voting with your feet!”
“It shows that we all know the talents well. You will be shocked as soon as you come to the stage.”
“Stop, stop, and I’ll be Saudi Brahman!”
As soon as Evelyn finished, everyone laughed again.
Because it was the weekend, some students went on dates, some went shopping, so not everyone came to dinner.
But the two tables were enough to make the atmosphere incandescent.
From four o’clock in the afternoon to seven o’clock in the evening, they were almost too full to move.
Originally, some people suggested that they continue to sing karaoke at the stall. Jackson said that if we don’t wait another day, we should inform them in advance. Students who have no time to participate today can also participate in collective activities. There will be more people and more excitement.
That was it!
They went for a walk back to the dormitory.
Evelyn didn’t really want to sing karaoke.
In recent days, because of the preliminaries, she was busy preparing, had been very nervous, and also didn’t have a good rest.
Now that she had just relaxed, she felt very tired and wanted to go back and have a good sleep.
Emily and the others just got to the dormitory downstairs when Evelyn received a call from her sister Victoria. “Where are you?” Victoria asked on the other end of the phone.
“At school!” Evelyn answered in a puzzled way.
Besides school, where else could she be?
“I’ll just pass your school when I get back. Do you want me to pick you up?” Victoria asked again.
“I told Mom I wouldn’t go back this week. You have to go through the school. Pick me up by the way. Go back and live for one night!” Evelyn changed her mind again.
She hadn’t been home for a while.
“I’ll be there in about half an hour. You go to the gate and wait for me yourself!”
“OK, thank you, sister!”
Victoria just hung up.
Evelyn put away her phone, turned to tell Emily and Stella that her sister was coming to pick her up, and she was going home to live in the evening.
“Go back, go back. It’s still comfortable at home!” Emily patted Evelyn’s shoulder and sighed.
This was the advantage of those who live locally. You could go back whenever you wanted.
Evelyn followed them back to the dormitory. After packing, she said goodbye to them. She left the dormitory and went to the school gate to wait for Victoria.
Evelyn walked towards the school gate, suddenly thinking that tomorrow was Sunday.
She had promised Alexander to move to his apartment tomorrow!
Thinking of this, she felt her head was big.
How do you tell your parents when you go back in the evening?
And how do you explain to Emily and Stella?
In fact, she lived well in the school and didn’t want to move at all!
But Alexander meant that it was impossible if she didn’t move!
Alas, why don’t you take two sets of clothes tomorrow and discuss with Alexander.
On weekends, she lived in his apartment. Usually, she lived in the dormitory of the school, so it was more convenient to have classes.
She just didn’t know if Alexander would agree or not!
With a sigh for a long time, it was no use thinking so much now.
Evelyn waited for Victoria at the school gate for more than half an hour, but Victoria was late.
She got into the passenger seat, and before she said anything, she heard her sister start complaining about the bad condition of their car.
There were many pedestrians and traffic jams. Evelyn comforted her sister with a smile, “Sister, it’s the rush hour, and it’s also the rush hour. Of course, it’s easy to get stuck in traffic. Next time you don’t drive this road. There’s always a lot of traffic at this point of the road.”
“If I don’t open this road, I’ll go around it!” Victoria said.
“It’s a circle, but it’s more economical in time.”
“If I don’t come to pick you up, I won’t have to be in traffic. What are you busy with recently? Why haven’t you gone back?”
“It’s just about the school!”
“Did you go to Alexander’s home?”
“I went there a few days ago in the afternoon.” Evelyn responded truthfully.
“They didn’t embarrass you?”
“No, it’s fine. By the way, what about Alexander? Have you seen him?” Victoria asked again.
“See, he’s getting along very well!” Evelyn nodded.
He changed a lot last night.
“Easy to get along with!” Victoria answered.
“Sister, when will you bring your brother-in-law for me to meet? You are all engaged, and I haven’t met yet!” Evelyn asked curiously at this time.