Joslyn asked Blair in a whisper, "How is it going between you and Wesley? He didn't even look at you. It's as if he doesn't even know who you are."
Blair twitched her mouth unhappily. "I suppose he has forgotten my name. Besides, he is the aloof type in nature."
"How could he forget your name? You told me that you kissed him. I thought everything was going great between you two," Joslyn commented with a wicked smile.
"I only kissed him on the corner of his mouth. It's not what you think." Blair's phone buzzed. She took it out of her pocket and unlocked the screen.
It was from Hartwell. "Hartwell is coming home in one or two days. What do you think of a get-together?" she asked Joslyn as she read his message.
Joslyn pondered for a while, and then asked, "Ideally speaking, how much older do you think a man could be than a woman in a relationship?"
Blair looked at Wesley, who was walking towards them now, and answered, "Four years." He was four years older than her.
Joslyn was pretty disappointed. "Four? But your cousin, Hartwell, is ten years older than me! Should I give up?" she asked with a pout.
Blair put her phone away and said in a hurry, "You and Hartwell are a different case."
As soon as she finished, Wesley came up to them. Standing straight, he commanded, "Attention!"
Blair and Joslyn stopped talking at once and stood straight as an arrow.
"Left turn!" Wesley commanded once again.
Initially, Blair had been standing to Joslyn's left, and now, she was face to face with her.
Joslyn burst out laughing. Blair realized she had turned the wrong way.
She turned around to her left quickly and stood to attention.
Wesley found her lovely and extremely funny. But as the strictest military training instructor, he kept telling himself not to laugh. "Quick time, march! Left foot first, 75 cm forward!"
'75 cm? How far is 75 cm?' Blair wondered, totally confused. She wasn't good with numbers. When she turned around helplessly to look at Joslyn, she found that her friend was even more puzzled than her.
A while passed and Blair still couldn't catch up with Wesley. Wiping away the beads of sweat on her forehead, she asked him quietly, "Wesley, can we not do this?"
While she was waiting expectantly, Wesley just said, "Five kilometers. At the double, quick march!"
The two girls had to start running. Wesley corrected them constantly. "Raise your arms to your waist. Keep your fingers closed and your thumbs between the first joint of your index fingers and the second joint of your middle fingers. And keep your forearms slightly inward."
Blair looked at her own waist, and asked Wesley out of the blue, "My waist? You mean the place where you put your hands the other night?"
Wesley kept his silence.
"Bwahaha!" Joslyn roared.
"Halt!" Wesley commanded.
Blair had an ominous feeling about what was to come. "Wait here!" he said to Blair and Joslyn.
He asked another military training instructor to replace him in training the freshmen, resolving to focus on supervising the two girls to finish their run.
"Stand with arms akimbo. Exercise your ankles alternately. Half squat. Exercise your knees with your hands on them." When the warm-up was done, Blair felt like she was about to have heatstroke. There was no way she would be able to finish the five kilometer mark.
That afternoon, all the students of Y City Language and Culture University saw Wesley train Blair and Joslyn. It was so hot that Blair collapsed onto the ground after a while. But Wesley wasn't going to give her a break. He pulled her to her feet and ordered her to keep running.
To everyone's surprise, Blair didn't stand up at all. She fell into Wesley's arms.
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