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"Don't touch that orange!" My shrill voice cut through the dorm room's false warmth.
Wang Yue froze with her hand poised to peel it and stared at me in disbelief.
"Chen Wei, what are you freaking out about now?" My other roommate, Zhao Jing, looked up from her book and pushed her glasses up in annoyance.
The owner of the orange, Xu Lili, who had only recently found out she was pregnant, gazed at me with her perpetually dewy eyes. Her eyes reddened, and she looked ready to burst into tears.
"Weiwei, do you hate me? If you don't want any, you don't have to eat it. You don't have to act like this..." As she spoke, she carefully stroked...