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You can easily deceive others.This realization made Harry feel inexplicably sad.

"Brother." Tom opened his wet eyes.Looking at him with the eyes of a small animal made Harry's heart soften involuntarily.

"I was wrong." Seeing the softening of Harry's expression, Tom took the opportunity to admit his mistake and ask for his forgiveness: "I won't be like this in the future...brother...please forgive me..."

"Don't do this again." Harry touched his soft black hair: "I sincerely hope that you two can become friends. Miss Elena is a good person, and you will understand when you get to know her .”

"Yes." Tom lowered his head and agreed, but he didn't know why, sour.I hate a brother who is boasting about a woman like this.Why do you praise that woman like that.It's just a person who is beautiful on the outside but has nothing on the inside.He didn't know why he thought that at the time.He thought that he simply didn't want his brother to be with others, but he didn't realize until after he lost it that he had liked this person since that age.

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"Hello." Allen Ives greeted each other politely standing alone in front of the gate of a farm in Little Hangleton: "My name is Allen, and I'm here to visit the owner of this house, Tom Riddle. "

Frank Bryce carefully looked at the stranger in front of him.Although the other party looked young, Frank was convinced by the elegance in his every move and the elegant clothes on his body.

"I'm from London." Allen pretended to be casual and showed the gold wristband he was wearing to show his financial strength to the other party: "I came this time mainly to get along with the most powerful people in the vicinity." The Riddle family is talking about cooperation."

"Please come in." Frank Bryce, who was still a little hesitant, believed him at the moment, and he made a gesture of invitation to Allen: "Wait a moment, I will invite the master."

Allen nodded and walked in.If he wasn't underage, he wouldn't have to be so troublesome.In order not to reveal any flaws, he also specially studied the clothes and behavior of Muggles in the upper class for several days.All the clues in his hands are pointing here.He might soon find out who Tom's parents were.

Riddle Manor sits on a hillside, from which the whole village can be seen.Not only was it a very handsome mansion, it was the most spacious and stately building for miles around, though not at all compared to the Ives family.While Ellen was standing in the garden waiting, old Riddle came.He was younger than Alan imagined, and his black and white eyes were shrewd.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Old Riddle reached out his hand to Allen first: "I wonder what your title is?"

"It's just a viscount, nothing to worry about." Alan smiled: "It's a pleasure to meet you."

The two of them seemed to be chatting happily.Although old Riddle had been in business for many years, he had never seen such a watertight person.He has a maturity beyond his age.This is what comes after training.He began to believe in this person's identity.

Seeing the smile on the other party's face getting warmer and warmer, Allen knew that his plan was a success.He began to move closer to the purpose of his trip.He pretended to be unintentional and mentioned old Tom Riddle to Riddle: "I heard that you have a son who is stronger than you. I wonder if I am lucky enough to meet him today."

"You mean Tom?" Old Riddle showed a smile of unknown meaning on his face: "He is not in good health today and has gone to rest. Later, Mr. Viscount must see you in the future."

"On the way here today, I heard rumors that your son had eloped with a homeless man's daughter?" Alan's expression became serious: "This kind of thing is an insult to a family like ours!"

"She was the one who shamelessly seduced Tom!" Old Riddle's voice was obviously angry: "She has a crazy brother and a homeless father, how could Tom fall in love with such a woman?! What's more, at that time and His fiancée has..."

It was only at this point that old Riddle suddenly realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly stopped.He smiled flatteringly at Allen: "But those are in the past. Tom will come back a year later. He was simply abducted by that woman!"

"Oh?" Allen raised his eyebrows, with an inexplicable smile on his face: "That's it."

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"Hello." Tom said to Elena Selt in front of him with no expression on his face: "Everything before was my prank. I'm sorry."

"This is my brother." Harry continued, "Tom Riddle."

"So it's like this..." Elena wasn't angry, and the smile on her face was so bright that Tom found it annoying: "I misunderstood before. Hello."

Tom took the other's outstretched hand.Warm.

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Fourth grade begins.Tom worked hard to take more classes and spend all his time studying.The relationship between him and Danny and McGonagall has gradually become estranged. Only Alan is still a good friend because they are in the same room.He tried not to think about what happened between Harry and Elena.He didn't know where the two of them would develop.Maybe get married, maybe even have kids of his own, and then the older brother will pour all his love into his kids, and then he'll be the extra one.He didn't know what he was thinking.He didn't want to lose his brother.

He spends a lot of time in the library.Trying to find their parents.He didn't find any wizards with the surname 'Riddle'.However, there was an unexpected discovery that the founder of Slytherin House could also speak Parseltongue.He didn't know if he had anything to do with him.

In the Headhunters pub in Hogsmeade.Elena and Harry sat together at a table in the corner.Elena was talking to him about something.

"Harry." Elena blushed and said to Harry, "I think...we..."

The expression on her face and the current environment explained the deep meaning in her words. Harry, who was immersed in his own thoughts, didn't notice the current situation, and just gave a perfunctory "hmm".

"What's wrong?" The woman's intuition gave Elena a bad feeling, she stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Harry: "What are you thinking?"

"...No." Harry found himself in a daze and apologized to Elena: "I'm sorry, what did you say just now?"

"It's nothing." Elena smiled: "What's wrong with you recently? You often lose your mind when you're with me."

"Is there?" Harry shyly recalled what happened recently: "Maybe I'm a little restless."

"Why?" Elena asked, "Did something happen?"

"No." Harry shook his head: "Maybe I'm thinking too much. It's okay."

Tom hadn't visited him for four weeks.There seemed to be something missing in his heart, and there was a feeling of emptiness all day long.Even in Potions class, Tom never said a word to him that had nothing to do with the class.He took advantage of his position to get Tom's class schedule and had almost no free time.He still doesn't understand what happened between them.He felt that he had done nothing wrong.He reassured himself that maybe Tom just wanted to learn more magic, but there was something wrong.It seems...the relationship between them is far away.

"...Harry? Harry!" Eileen called out several times before Harry realized that she was really dissatisfied this time.What the hell was Harry thinking.Why would you ask her out if you didn't want to come out with him.

"If you have nothing to do, go first." She said, "I'm fine."

"No, it's nothing." Harry apologized to her again: "I'm really sorry today. I don't know what happened to me. Let's do it later. I will never do this again in the future."

He had decided to have a good talk with Tom.Ask him what the hell is going on.He couldn't understand the situation.It shouldn't be like this between the two of them.

☆、《Standard Spells, Elementary》

"Tom!" After Thursday's class, he stopped Tom, who was leaving in a hurry: "I want to talk to you."

Tom didn't speak.He just looked straight at Harry.He didn't know what he was going to talk to himself about.Is it... If you want to tell yourself that he is going to marry that woman... Then what should he do?Say congratulations?Or, I won't bless you?

"I..." Harry wanted to ask him why he arranged so many classes for himself, why he hadn't come to see him for so long, and why he didn't act like a baby to him now.With so many whys, he didn't know where to ask.There seemed to be an unbridgeable gap between the two of them, and he didn't know how to shorten the distance between them.

"I have to go to the library to do my homework." Tom, who was afraid of hearing the answer, decided to run away.He rushed ahead of Harry and tried to say with a straight face: "If there is nothing special, I will leave first."

"Oh, good." Harry nodded hastily, and he didn't know how to answer otherwise.Tom left with the book in his arms. He looked at his back and stood there alone for a long time.For the first time, Tom left before he left.My heart is empty.He suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe.He shouldn't be like this.Tom may just be rebellious.He should feel normal.Yes, it's just a rebellious period.He comforted himself like this, he just reached the rebellious stage, that's all.

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"You mean, little Tom has been very cold to you recently?" Albus Dumbledore took a sip of butter beer, looked at Harry with a distressed face in front of him and smiled: "Has anything happened to you recently?"

"Except for Elena," Harry frowned and thought, "he once played tricks on Elena, and I asked him to apologize to her. There should be nothing else."

"Maybe you hurt his self-esteem." Dumbledore's eyes were full of smiles: "A child of his age should care about this."

"Is that so?" Harry asked back suspiciously, "I just made him responsible for what he did wrong..."

"Compared to that," said Dumbledore, "shouldn't you be thinking about why you care so much what Tom thinks? If Tom doesn't accept Miss Celter, will you go on with her?"

Won't.This was the first reaction that came to his mind.If Tom objected, he wouldn't be with Elena.He was taken aback by his own thoughts.

"It's a negative answer." Dumbledore, who accurately captured Harry's thoughts, smiled again: "Tell him your thoughts, and then have a good discussion with him."

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"Tom." Alan Ives finally found Tom sitting by the fire reading a book in the Slytherin common room: "Why have you taken so many courses recently? I can't see you anymore."

"It's just that I suddenly feel that I still have a lot to learn." Tom raised his head and looked at Allen, showing some flushed cheeks from the fire: "What's the matter?"

"My father is Alberta Ives." Allen sat down near him and leaned his face on his shoulder: "I also want to know who your father is."

Tom, who was not used to being so close to others, gently moved his body to the other side.He closed the book in his hand and looked directly into Alan's sky blue eyes: "I don't want to know who your father is, you insisted on telling me."

"It's nothing." Allen continued to approach Tom, and even boldly put his hand on the side of Tom's face: "Tell me."

Tom stood up abruptly.He walked out without saying a word.Allen hurriedly followed, he knew he didn't like to be in close contact with others.He just wanted to know if he was just like 'others' to him.He didn't expect Tom to be angry.He has always been able to restrain his emotions very well and not let it show.Is it too much?

"I'm sorry." Tom, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly, and Allen, who hadn't stopped in time, hit him on the back.He rubbed his sore and numb nose.

"I don't like people touching me." Tom didn't look back: "I hope you can respect my personal wishes."

Allen nodded.He regretted his actions just now.If Tom never wanted to talk to him again...he didn't want to think about what he would do then.Maybe he can start from other aspects...

Weekends come quickly.Allen was still the same as before, disappearing on the weekends, and he didn't know where he went, and Tom was lying on the bed alone reading a book.He has read this "Standard Spell Elementary" hundreds of times, and the content in it is completely useless to him now, but he is still used to reading it when he is in a bad mood.Last night he had a dream that made him very uncomfortable.Although I can't remember the content at all now, the feeling of palpitation in the dream still can't dissipate.He stroked the title page of the book.The joy he felt when he saw this book for the first time still makes him twitch his lips when he thinks about it now.The first gift he received from his brother.It is also the first gift in his life.

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"It's great to see you." Allen smiled gracefully, holding the other's outstretched hand: "It's really a pleasure to have dinner with you."

"Where is it?" Old Riddle also smiled: "It is our honor to invite the Viscount."

"I wonder if I can see Mr. Riddle today?" Allen looked around: "It's a pity to lose Mr. Riddle at a time like this."

"Of course." Old Riddle laughed so hard he couldn't even see his eyes: "He's waiting for you in the hall!"

Allen nodded in satisfaction, and followed Old Riddle forward.He researched the family in nearby villages.He didn't expect them to be so popular in the village.The old couple are rich, but they are snobbish and rude. Their son Tom is even worse than his parents.He couldn't believe that this Tom was related to the Tom he knew.He wanted to make one last confirmation.

"Hello." Tom Riddle was standing at the door waiting for them. Seeing Alan and the others coming, he hurried over and held out his hand to Alan: "It's a pleasure to meet you."

The first time he saw him, Allen was a little stiff.He had never seen a person look so much like another.If it wasn't for the Muggle world, he would have suspected that the other party had used Polyjuice Potion!

"This is my son." Old Riddle's voice reminded Allen of his current position, and he straightened his expression a little, showing a perfect smile: "Hello."

Alan was perfect for one lunch.His aristocratic education since he was a child made him have nothing wrong with table manners.After lunch, Old Riddle took the initiative to ask Allen to let his son take him to browse the Riddle Manor, which was exactly Allen's plan.

"I heard that you are a viscount." Tom's tone was full of envy: "It's great to be a viscount at such a young age."

Allen didn't answer, he was just thinking about how to make the other party drink the veritaserum he had prepared in advance.He wants to use this method to get everything he wants to know.The point is, it will not violate the laws of the wizarding world.

"Is there no place for afternoon tea here?" Allen smiled: "I don't know if it's impolite, but I have the habit of drinking afternoon tea at this time."

"Why don't we go back?" Tom Riddle suggested, "There is good black tea at home."

"It's sunny here." Alan raised his head and looked at the blue sky: "Why don't you bring the tea here?"

Old Tom, as he wished, had the table and tea brought in.Alan poured himself a cup of tea while talking to him.Then he poured another glass for the other party.Add a drop of Veritaserum to the other person's tea when they are drawn to look far away by your conversation.

☆、Tom Marvolo Riddle

"Drink tea." Allen picked up his teacup and swallowed lightly: "It is indeed the tea grown in such a beautiful manor. The taste is really good."

Old Tom Riddle took a sip too.He didn't have any special feelings about the excess in the tea, but asked Alan with a smile how he felt about the tea.

Allen looked around.There were only the two of them on this wide grassy field.He smiled.

"I don't know if you're married." Allen picked the most common question and asked tentatively: "In this weather, sitting in the garden with your beloved must be a very enjoyable thing .”

"There used to be." Old Tom's eyes were a little straight, and his tone did not change: "Later, I was separated because I was cheated."

Judging from his tone and eyes, Allen knew that the veritaserum he had just used had worked.He hurriedly asked his previous guess: "What's the name of the person who eloped with you?"

"Merope Gunter." Tom said a name that was completely expected by Allen.The smile on his face widened: "Among you...are there any children?"

In just a few minutes, Allen had gotten all the information he wanted from old Tom.He didn't know how Merope did it, maybe he used a confusion spell, or a more effective intoxicating potion, made the person in front of him fall in love with him crazily, ran away with her, and then one day a year later, When Old Tom woke up and found a woman he hated lying beside him, he screamed uncontrollably.He left the woman immediately.Although she is pregnant.Then he returned to Little Hangleton Village and continued his previous life.Now he knew that the man had eloped with the Gaunt daughter and that the woman was pregnant, but he still wasn't sure if the woman gave birth to the child, and if she did, he couldn't be sure that the child was Tom.

"Do you know a guy named Harry Riddell?" he asked his last question. "Very young, about 20 years old."

"I don't know." Tom said without hesitation, "This is the first time I've heard this name."

This is inconsistent with Allen's reasoning.But there was nothing else he wanted from old Tom.He has achieved everything he wanted.

"Thank you." He smiled gently at the other party: "Thank you very much for everything you told me today."

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Tom, I want to talk to you. I wonder if you have time now.I will always be waiting for you in the office.

An owl flew to Tom's dormitory with Harry's note, knocking on the window glass with its wings.Tom opened the window, let the owl in, and read the note.He hesitated for a moment, then wrote 'yes' on the back of the note.It's time for the two of them to talk.No matter what elder brother wants to talk to him about, what should come, can't be avoided.

He tidied up his messy hair, put on his coat, and walked to Harry's office.The "Standard Spells, Elementary" was laid flat on the bed.He hasn't figured out his mind yet.

"You're here." Harry, who was sitting on the sofa, saw Tom push the door in, and hurriedly stood up: "Come and sit."

"Yeah." Tom nodded slightly, and sat down next to Harry.

The atmosphere between the two of them was terribly dignified.It never occurred to Harry that he and Tom could look at each other without speaking.He tried to find a topic: "Recently... are you busy?"

"Yeah." Tom nodded and put his hands on his knees in a restrained manner without moving.

"Have you had breakfast yet?" Harry asked again.

"Yeah." Tom lied: "I've eaten."

In fact he hasn't eaten since yesterday morning.He didn't know what to eat, tried to go to the restaurant but still couldn't find anything that could make him appetite, but he didn't want his brother to know about it.He suddenly felt that he couldn't act like a baby to his brother anymore.

"That's it..." Harry held Tom's hand, trying to shorten the distance between them in this way: "Then is there anything you particularly want to eat? My brother will make it for you."

"Compared to that," Tom grabbed Harry who was about to leave, "I want to know what my brother came to talk to me about."

"I...I just want to ask you..." Harry hesitated but continued firmly: "Why...you haven't come to me for so long? You left quickly when I stopped you And, besides, you haven't been here for four weeks..."

He paused for a moment, looking into Tom's eyes: "I want to know, why."

"Why? You ask me why?" Tom couldn't help but raise his voice: "Why didn't I come to see my brother again? It wasn't because I was afraid of disturbing you and Elena! What's so good about that woman, brother, why are you so damned I like it!"

Because he was too aggrieved and angry, he didn't control his strength well, and pulled Harry onto the sofa at once, and he also fell on Harry because of the excessive force, and suddenly approached Harry's face, the two of them The distance between them is beyond imagination.It seems that as long as the lips are slightly raised, you can kiss each other.

The atmosphere gradually became a little strange.The faces of both of them slowly turned red.This situation is obviously embarrassing to the extreme,

But no one moved.No one made a sound either.In the end it was Harry who closed his eyes first.

"I'm sorry." Harry said, "It's my brother's fault."

"...It's nothing." Tom's face was almost red to the ears, and he didn't even dare to lift his head: "I'm not good either..."

"It's my brother's fault. He only cared about being with Elena and neglected you." Harry still closed his eyes and said, "Brother will never do it again. If you don't like it, brother won't be with her." together."

"It's my fault." Tom's eyes were also erratic: "I'm too willful to make my brother work so hard."

The mood flies like a kite in March.The corners of Tom's mouth could not help but rise.Just got so close to my brother.It was definitely an intimacy that the woman hadn't had.He is so happy.Brother is still his.

"It's almost time for lunch..." Harry scratched his head, stood up awkwardly and walked towards the kitchen: "Let's have a good lunch today... I have prepared something you like..."

It's almost lunch time?Tom looked at his pocket watch suspiciously, it was clearly only ten o'clock in the morning.Brother must be embarrassed.He covered his face and laughed happily on the sofa alone, but his brother was actually shy.Ha ha.

Harry, who found an excuse to hide in the kitchen, kept icing his face with his hands.So hot.Why is he like this.To actually blush like a teenager who doesn't understand anything.The two of them just got closer.Tom is his brother.He kept persuading himself to calm down, but the heat on his face didn't decrease but increased.Why is this...

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"Tom? Are you there?" Allen called Tom's name and pushed open the bedroom door and walked in: "I don't know if you like red..."

The bedroom was empty.Only the sound of the wind turning the pages through the open window.He went to pick up the book and read it.It turned out to be the "Standard Spell Elementary".Why is Tom still reading this book?His level has completely surpassed this book by far.I flipped through a few pages casually and wrote a lot of notes inside, but the whole book is very well preserved, and it can be seen that the owner cherishes it very much.

He closed the book and was about to find Tom in another place, but he saw a line on the title page of the book, "To Tom Marvolo Riddle: Your opening gift. Harry Riddle."

Tom Marvolo Riddle!Tom Marvolo Riddle!

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?The book fell to the ground with a bang.

Tom turned out to be that man's son.A descendant of the Gaunts and Muggles.He guessed right.He found Tom's father.He didn't know what to tell him.He had seen Tom looking through some materials in the library trying to find his father, and Tom would never accept that his father was a Muggle.It would be impossible for him to accept it.

"Where did Tom go?" Danny walked in at some point, and when he saw a book on the ground, he bent down to pick it up: "Why are you alone?"

"Don't touch it!" Allen yelled violently, startling Danny.He looked at Danny incomprehensibly: "What's wrong with you?"

"……"What's wrong?How would he tell this person in front of him?How could he say that to this man? !Told him that Tom's father was a Muggle and that Tom didn't deserve to be sorted into Slytherin at all? !No!

"Forget it, it's not the first day for you to be eccentric." Danny first gave up asking, and he glanced at the cover of the book on the ground - "Standard Spells, Elementary". Each of them was in the first grade. Learned it all, nothing at all.Could it be... there are some secrets of Allen in this book?

"Tom isn't here." Allen's complexion was extremely bad, and he completely lost his usual polite and aristocratic demeanor: "Why don't you leave? I said he wasn't here."

"Just go." Danny looked at the book reluctantly, curled his lips in dissatisfaction: "What's the rush...I'm not here to find you..."

When Tom returned on Sunday night, it was obvious that something was wrong.Alan, who didn't like lying on the bed, was lying on the bed for the first time, and he didn't respond to the sound of him coming in. He just looked at him quietly without saying a word.Tom, as dull as he was, knew what was going on.

He slowly took off his coat and hung it on the hanger, then sat down on his bed.

"What's wrong?" Tom noticed that the book he had thrown on the bed was put away on the bedside table: "Why this attitude?"

"What if... I just said, what if your parents are not what you think?" Allen said tentatively after a moment of silence: "If... one of them is a Muggle..."

"No!" Tom interrupted Alan's words firmly: "It's impossible! My brother said that my parents are great wizards. So, if the assumption is not true, I have no reason to answer such a question that is not true at all. .”

"Why do you believe his words so much?!" Allen's expression didn't improve at all, but was even uglier than before: "He doesn't know anything at all, he's just using your trust to lie to you!"

"You are not allowed to say that about brother!" Tom stood up angrily: "He is the person who will not lie to me in the world! Why do you say that!"

This was the first time Allen had seen Tom lose his temper in front of him.His originally pale and handsome face was flushed with anger, and his dark eyes shone with a heart-stopping brilliance. His slender hands were tightly clenched into fists at this moment, but he tried hard to control himself not to shake his fists. to each other's faces.My brother will be angry if he fights.He couldn't just do it without any preparation.He must be calm.

"I'm just joking." In the end, Allen was the first to lose.He forced a smile, and casually made up a completely weak explanation: "I apologize if I made you angry. I'm sorry."

Tom didn't accept his apology, but went to bed after washing up.Brother will not lie to him.His brother never lied to him.Brother would never lie to him.He kept repeating these few words in his heart as if he was convincing himself, but he couldn't stop the unceasing approval from the bottom of his heart.Maybe there is something really wrong with my brother.Allen didn't have to lie to him at all.Although Allen didn't say anything, his words made Tom suspect Harry for the first time.The uneasiness that had accompanied him for nine years was so strong that it almost suffocated him.

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"Elena." Harry looked at the smiling blond beauty across the way and smiled wryly: "I asked you out today because there is something I want to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Elena's face slowly turned red, could it be that he wanted to...

"You don't mean to talk about that, do you?" Elena lowered her head slightly, and she could clearly see her shyness like a little girl.Harry knew she was mistaken.

"What I want to say is," Harry took a deep breath: "I don't know if you have the idea of ​​going to the next step with me. If so, I can only say, I'm sorry."

Elena's face suddenly turned pale.She barely managed to laugh several times.

"I've thought about it. I won't get married in a few years." Harry continued, "I'm afraid that if we continue to communicate like this, we may cause harm to each other."

"What's your reason for not getting married?" After sorting out her emotions, Elena raised her head and asked, "Is it because you don't like me? I thought our relationship has always been very pleasant."

"Yes." Harry smiled: "I like you very much. And the communication between us has always been very pleasant. But..."

"Stop talking." Elena stopped Harry's words, "Maybe it's just my unilateral self-indulgence, but I hope we can still be friends in the future."

"Of course." Harry stretched out his hand to hold Elena's hand: "Thank you."

"It is your loss to give up a beautiful and capable woman like me." Elena restored her previous smile: "I hope you will meet a lover who is more difficult than me in the future, so that you will also suffer .”

After being separated from Elena, Harry felt a lot easier.He had thought Elena would be angry.She didn't expect her to forgive him so easily.However, feelings are something that cannot be forced.Now he could finally have an answer to Tom.Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing.

The lights in the office were abnormally on.somebody is coming.Although the first reaction was Tom, but he is full of classes this afternoon.It's not the end of school time yet, he should still be in the classroom.

"Brother, you're back." Seeing Harry push the door and walk in, Tom hurriedly stood up from the sofa: "I've been waiting for you for a long time. You obviously don't have class this afternoon, where did you go?"

"Sorry, I talked to Elena." Harry walked over with a smile and patted the boy who was as tall as him at some point: "I've thought about it, I'm not suitable for her, and it's just a waste of time to drag on like this." It will only delay her."

"Really?" Tom hugged Harry happily: "That's great! My brother is mine again!"

Although he felt that Tom's words were a bit strange, he didn't say anything, but let Tom hug him.He wondered if this was the case among all brothers.

At the moment