Chapter 259: The plushie bandit at home.
"We volunteer!!" Mei Mei squeaked.
The words were barely out of her mouth when she was dragged to join others that were standing at the front, behind tables that had boxes of different Pocky stick varieties.
Jingzhe chose the cookies and cream variety. He had a few hidden pictures of her eating that type of pocky when she was in school. He knew all her favorite flavors. Cookies and cream, milk chocolate, crunchy strawberry, premium almond milk and almond crush.
Mei Mei was giggly and embarrassed, but the encouragement of the crowd made her tough it out. Puppy eyed Jingzhe was looking at her with a begging hopeful aura. If she said no, the system woul just turn it into a mission.
"May the crunchiest lovers win." The host declared.
They had ten sticks and two minutes. Jingzhe was determined to win. He whispered to Mei Mei, "Stay still and I will come to you."
She nodded.
The host started the countdown, "Three, two, one....chomp."
What followed was a steady quick inching--nose to nose, breath fogging and lips brushing. Jingzhe was very serious about the competition, he did not laugh even once. The man was pocky competition robot!! The host was loving them, narrating their progress like a sports commentator.
The crowd was cheering them on and laughing at other couples were approaching the task with slow inching and breaking off quickly due to laughing or blushing.
"We are entering the last ten seconds." The host announced.
The crowd started counting down. Jingzhe and Mei Mei were on their last Pocky stick, with only two centimeters left.