Olivia Baker gave a slight smile, looking shy and bashful.

“Thank you so much just now. My name is David Carter.” David Carter took the initiative to reach out his hand to Olivia Baker.

“You’re welcome, we’re all teammates, after all, so we should get along. My name is Olivia Baker.” Olivia Baker responded kindly to David Carter.

David Carter rather liked this new teammate in front of him—gentle, kind, and warm-hearted.

Just then, Laura Scott swaggered over with a pigeon-toed walk. Seeing this, Olivia Baker went up to ask, “Where’s Benjamin Howard?”

“He left,” Laura Scott replied.

“You two didn’t get into a fight, did you?” David Carter asked with concern.

“Nonsense!” As soon as David Carter said that, Laura Scott lifted his chin and snorted, “Who do you think I am? That kid wouldn’t dare touch me! He should take a look at my size! How dumb would he have to be to mess with me?”

Laura Scott proudly showed off his muscles—though, in truth, he didn’t have much muscle, but he was tall, and standing in front of Benjamin Howard he did look quite intimidating. Earlier, David Carter had estimated that Benjamin Howard was about the same height as himself, and even he had to look up at Laura Scott, so Benjamin Howard probably did too.

Then Laura Scott took the initiative to reach out his hand: “I’m Laura Scott, from the northeast.”

David Carter quickly nodded and shook his hand: “I could tell, you sound just like Zhao Benshan.”

“Hey, not the same, not the same. He’s from Tieling, I’m from Shenyang. That’s a big city, haha!” Laura Scott laughed heartily, his voice loud and cheerful, which really matched David Carter’s impression of people from the northeast.

After laughing, Laura Scott said, “That guy Benjamin Howard just now is also our teammate, but he’s a bit… insecure.” Laura Scott chose his words carefully. “Because he looks older than his age and isn’t good-looking, he’s especially sensitive about people commenting on his appearance. Of course, for handsome guys like us, it’s hard to understand how he feels…”

He even ran his hand through his hair.

David Carter realized that Laura Scott was genuinely warm-hearted, and… quite talkative.

But he didn’t mind the chatter; talkative people are interesting, and if you get along, it’s not a problem. As the saying goes, ‘With a kindred spirit, a thousand cups of wine are too few’—meaning, with a friend you can really talk to, even a thousand sentences aren’t enough.

Laura Scott kept going: “…Also, he has another sore spot—he stutters a bit when he talks, especially when he’s anxious, and he really hates it when people make fun of his stutter. Actually, he speaks normally most of the time, but when he gets emotional, he stutters. Anyway, just be careful about this when you’re around him. He’s got a short fuse—once he’s triggered, he’s like a powder keg. On the very first day he joined the team, someone laughed when he stuttered during his self-introduction, and he turned around and beat them up…”

David Carter was dumbfounded—getting into a fight with a teammate on the very first day? This guy really does have a temper… Looks like he was pretty lucky earlier, meeting Laura Scott and Olivia Baker at just the right moment.

“If it weren’t for our head coach stepping in, Benjamin Howard would probably have been kicked off the team. So now everyone keeps their distance from him; no one wants to hang out with him.”

“Actually, he’s quite pitiful,” Olivia Baker chimed in. “He’s all alone, so he’s become even more withdrawn.”

Laura Scott immediately retorted, “People who are pitiful always have something about them that’s annoying too. You’re just too soft-hearted, a bleeding heart!”

Olivia Baker, criticized by Laura Scott, didn’t get upset—he just smiled and didn’t argue.

“Come on, let’s go check out your dorm,” Laura Scott said to David Carter.

“Okay.” David Carter nodded.

So the two of them escorted David Carter to his dorm. Along the way, Laura Scott barely stopped talking, chattering away like a machine gun.

Thanks to him, David Carter got a pretty good understanding of the team.

For example, before he arrived, the team had already been training together for almost a week, but according to Laura Scott, not everyone was there yet. Besides David Carter, there was still one person missing.

David Carter asked curiously who that was, but Laura Scott just snorted, clearly displeased, and said, “He’s a big star, so of course he shows up late to make a grand entrance.”

He seemed unwilling to talk about that person and quickly changed the subject.

The three of them walked down the long corridor of the dorm building and arrived at the door to the dorm room. David Carter took out his key card, swiped it, and entered the room. After putting down his luggage, Laura Scott was about to leave. He patted David Carter on the shoulder, and in the tone of a northeastern guy sitting at a barbecue stall, drinking, with a girl in a fur coat peeling garlic for him, he said, “If you ever need anything, just come to me. Don’t worry about Benjamin Howard, I’ll handle him! Alright, get some rest, we’re off!”

Olivia Baker also smiled and nodded at David Carter: “See you.”

The two of them left David Carter’s dorm one after the other.

After seeing them off, David Carter returned to his dorm. He didn’t rush to unpack, but lay down on the bed, hands behind his head, staring at the beige ceiling.

This was his first day joining the team. Although there had been some unpleasantness, he’d also made new friends. It was only the first day, and only half of it had passed. What other interesting things might happen next…