A Girl and Her Panda by Zoey Gong

Author:Zoey Gong [Gong, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Empress Publishing

Chapter Twelve

“Panpan! No! Panpan!” Lihua called out over and over again as she paced at the top of the ravine. This couldn’t be happening. She couldn’t lose Panpan. She couldn’t be alone, not again. Not now. Not here in this unfamiliar place.

The monkeys overhead continued to jump and screech, but neither Panpan nor the monkey in the ravine moved.

“Shut up!” Lihua finally yelled at the monkeys, waving her arms at them to go away. “Get out of here, you filthy beasts! This is all your fault!”

The monkeys screeched back at her, but one by one, they started to leave. Lihua looked back below and saw that the monkey was partially under Panpan. It must have been crushed. There was no way it could have survived. She had a feeling the other monkeys knew their friend was dead, so that was why they were leaving.

But Panpan was bigger and stronger than a monkey. Even though she wasn’t moving, she might have survived. She was probably just unconscious. Maybe she hit her head on the way down. Lihua would just have to wait until Panpan woke up. She wouldn’t abandon her friend.

She looked around for a safe way down, but she didn’t see one. The sides of the ravine were steep and looked wet from the rain. They were also covered in a bright green moss. If she tried to climb down, she would surely slip and fall, then they would both be trapped.

Which brought her to the next problem. If—no, when Panpan woke up, how would she get out of the ravine? Lihua didn’t see an obvious path up. But animals could often go where humans couldn’t. Panpan had claws. While it would probably be impossible for Lihua to climb out, Panpan might have no trouble. Lihua would just have to wait and see what happened. First, Panpan needed to wake up. Lihua had to have faith that she would wake up. She didn’t want to think about what she would have to do if Panpan died.

Lihua sat down and did her best not to cry. She cursed to herself. She might have lost her panda over that stupid bracelet. Why did she care about it so much? She didn’t even know it existed only a few days ago. And what did it mean anyway? It was given to her by her birth parents who either lost her or sold her. They obviously didn’t care about her. If her adoptive parents who raised her didn’t care about her, how could people who only knew her for a few months back when she was just a baby?

She felt the tears prick her eyes and she lowered her face to her knees. Her heart hurt. She tried to tell herself that her birth parents must not, could not have loved her, but then she thought about Panpan. She had only known Panpan—who wasn’t even a human—for a short while, but she already felt she couldn’t live without her. And then she remembered Panpan’s baby.

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