Covering her face with her hands, she peered through the gaps in her fingers.
"I’m counting to ten~~!" Ling Ling shouted beside the haystack in the night.
"Don’t put down your hands."
"Keep your face covered with your hands! No peeking!"
"Run, run! Let her chase us! Haha!"
The children scattered and quickly hid in the field filled with haystacks.
Ling Ling, however, had no idea that the rest of the children were in cahoots to play a prank on her. They had finally agreed to play with her only because of the prank.
After all, who would want to play late in the night with a stupid girl born with weak eyesight?
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
"Four."
In the lonely field, only the girl’s crisp counting echoed without end.
The children who had gone into hiding were already gone by now. In the huge plot of farmland, only Ling Ling was left, her hands over her face, leaning on a haystack and counting.