Apart from me being scared by a sudden conversation on a winter evening, what horrified me was a big Santa Claus in action just sitting there. It was Grace, sitting on the bench facing the little pond of the park. Grace wasn't just sitting there in Santa Claus cosplay; she's eating 3 ice creams at the same time with that gigantic gloves on her hands.

"H.........h......h...hey..."

Grace laughed at you-know-who. And of course, she choked herself. It was a little comforting kind of feeling for me honestly.

"Hey, Jay hehe!"

She finally replied, and got back to her normal self, licking the ice creams.

"Jay, you see, if you're talking to someone intently and you hand them something, more often than not, they'll take it"

I couldn't understand why I did it, but I just did exactly what she wanted. She handed me an unopened ice cream, and I extended my hand to take it...

You could imagine how much of an idiot I felt back there. I wasn't just a normal idiot; I was a big dumbass. She literally just laughed at me a moment ago.

"Th....thank you..."

She nodded and smile.

"Doesn't matter if it's a book, a pen or... an ice cream hehe"

I took a moment to think about it, but couldn't quite understand the psychology behind the fact. Grace finished her ice creams, stood up, and walked close to the dogs. Joe and Nicky at first backed down, they hesitantly looked at me. Only when I nodded, they let Grace close. She asked me what their names were. I told her their names and stayed quiet after that.

"You know, in the same vein, you can look straight up towards the sky in a public location, and everyone else around you will look up too"

As she shifted her gaze from the dogs to the night sky. I couldn't resist but did the same thing.

What if there's actually something?

A winter night sky, cold, windy, dark, and gloomy. What else could there be to expect?

"Hehe, you see?"

Her laughter was light as snow.

What was it that I felt back there? I didn't know at that moment. I probably felt sympathetic. Eating ice creams with Santa Claus cosplay alone in a park on a winter night isn't something a normal person would do. A lot of people mistook my stutter for me having ADHD or even autism. I was normal but showed up as abnormal, to me, probably Grace's quite the opposite of that.

"Similar result if you start screaming in a flight"

She gazed at me.

A flight? Screaming? I didn't know what this girl was thinking. How could I possibly know? I had no clue where the conversation was going and didn't even know how to reply.

"Especially when... you're the pilot!"

Grace broke into laughter. She patted Joe's and Nicky's heads before waving me goodbye.

"Jay!!! Merry Christmas!"

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