"Do you…like it here?"
"Yes, but…I'm lost."
"Will you come back after I take you out?”
"Maybe. It's beautiful here!"
Lin Xinlan opened her eyes and sat up on the bed. She placed her right hand on her heart, which was still hurting. Why did he appear again? Who was he? Lin Xinlan shook her head vigorously, trying her best not to think about that dream. She looked outside the balcony and saw that it was already dawn. She got up and washed up briefly before going out to the football field. She didn't have the habit of running in the morning, but she suddenly wanted to go for a morning run today. Perhaps it was because of that dream! Lin Xinlan found a reason in her heart that even she felt a little forced. When she ran to the football field and saw that familiar figure, she knew why the reason was so forced. She wanted to run in the morning, not because of that dream, but because of him.
He ran very slowly, and Lin Xinlan quickly caught up with him.
"Good morning! Silence!" She greeted him warmly, completely forgetting the unhappiness that had happened in the classroom that day.
"Lin Xinlan! I get annoyed just by looking at you!" Shen Mocheng roared at her and turned to run in the opposite direction. The people on the plastic track slowed down when they heard this roar.
Lin Xinlan froze on the spot. He said that he was annoyed just by looking at her.
Ignoring the doubtful looks of others, she ran forward desperately. She didn't know how many laps she ran until her legs were weak and she couldn't run anymore. She stopped and put her hands on her thighs, panting heavily. She didn't know whether it was sweat or tears that dripped down her cheeks onto the track and shattered on the ground. She raised her head and saw the sun slowly rising from the horizon in the distance.
She clenched her fists and tried her best to cheer herself on. Lin Xinlan!"
Unknowingly, all the verdant scenery on the campus had been replaced by a bleak scene. There was no obvious difference between autumn and winter in G City. The same cold wind, the same dark sky, and the same group of students wearing cotton-padded jackets and pure white school uniforms shuttled through the campus. Occasionally, it would rain in autumn and snow in winter.
The final exams were coming, and Lin Xinlan and Lu Xiaoyue were in a state of intense revision. Lin Xinlan's deskmate, Chen Yu, was a quiet girl who didn't like to talk. Lin Xinlan got along well with her and never had any disputes or unhappiness. However, Lu Xiaoyue and her deskmate were not so calm. The boy who was a little shy when he first sat with Lu Xiaoyue was called Xiao Hongyu. Now, he was Lu Xiaoyue's sworn enemy. Every time Lu Xiao Yue mentioned him to Lin Xinlan, she would put on a ferocious face that looked like she could not wait to chop him into pieces and throw him into the trash.
"Little Xin, do you know how detestable that little red fish is? He stole half of my eraser and I tolerated it. He took my pen and stuffed my clothes into my drawer. I didn't care about it, but today, he actually threw his homework in front of me and asked me to imitate his handwriting to do his homework! I didn't sleep at all today!"
On the first day that Lu Xiaoyue and Xiao Hongyu became deskmates, Xiao Hongyu's face had been red. This was the first time Lu Xiaoyue saw a boy blush, and she wanted to laugh. After sitting down for fifteen minutes, no one spoke first. The atmosphere was inevitably a little awkward. Lu Xiao Yue decided not to be silent anymore, but she regretted it after the first sentence.
"You're so cute!"
Xiao Hongyu's face turned from red to green and then black.
Lu Xiaoyue shut up after realizing that she had said something wrong. Lu Xiaoyue, you big idiot! She cursed herself in her heart.
The story wasn't very complicated. When he often took Lu Xiaoyue's pencil case without a pen, Lu Xiaoyue finally understood that Xiao Hongyu wasn't the kind of boy who blushed easily. In the beginning, Lu Xiao Yue still felt guilty about her rude evaluation of him, so she tolerated his behavior. However, as he became more and more aggressive, Lu Xiaoyue could no longer endure it. The " little red fish " seemed to have been born under such circumstances, but Xiao Hongyu was not angry at that time. Instead, he accepted it silently. Lu Xiaoyue was very puzzled. It was only when she deliberately called out " Little Red Fish " loudly that Xiao Hongyu covered her mouth and whispered something into her ear that she finally understood why Xiao Hongyu bullied her every time. He had something on her, but she had no choice but to submit to his threat.
That day, he told her," If you call me that again, I don't mind telling the whole class who you like!”
"Little Red Fish, what nonsense are you talking about?”
"Do you want me to say his name to prove that I'm not talking nonsense?”
" You..." Lu Xiaoyue suppressed her anger." How did you know?"”
"His name was written all over the draft paper you tore!”
"Xiao Hongyu, if you dare to speak nonsense, I won't forgive you!”
" I won't spout nonsense, but the premise is…" He smiled evilly and leaned closer to her ear. "You must obey me!"
Lu Xiao Yue clenched her fists, trying hard to restrain the urge to punch his smug face, and finally spat out three words.
"You win!"
Probably from that day on, Lu Xiao Yue felt that she had been living in Xiao Hongyu's shadow every day, but she couldn't resist, so she could only complain to Lin Xinlan every day after school. Lin Xinlan naturally didn't know that Lu Xiao Yue didn't want Xiao Hongyu to say anything.
It turned out that it was fair between them. No one owed the other. Silence was Lin Xinlan's secret, and Lu Xiaoyue also had a part of him that she didn't want to share with Lin Xinlan. It was said that fate played tricks on people. Many coincidences happened in the dark. It was just that he did not know what they would do when all the mysteries were revealed.
The gray sky was as inclusive as ever. The dim colors were the easiest to associate with the word sadness, making sentimental people feel endless emotions under such a sky.
It started to rain at dusk. It wasn't time for evening self-study yet, but the classroom of Class 246 was surprisingly quiet.
Lin Xinlan had been staring at the window, watching the occasional raindrops hitting the glass window and then slowly flowing down the glass window to the windowsill. The transparent glass window separated her from the chaotic world outside, but she could see the occasional flying birds in the sky, the long arcs left by the plane in the blue sky, and the thick white clouds floating in the sky. She could see everything that happened outside through the glass window that separated her from the outside world. She could adjust her mood according to the different weather outside the window. She could even feel that she was involved in every change in the world outside the window.
However, there was not a transparent glass window between them. She did not know what his world was like. She did not know his joys and sorrows. She did not know everything about him. She had never thought of herself as a sentimental person. The curtain of rain that had formed on the window and the pitter-patter of the rain in her ears made her think of him. She always thought of him like this, the person who always deliberately avoided her and ignored her.
The evening self-study session was physics. The physics teacher was a young and humorous male teacher. He wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses and stood on the podium, passionately explaining a physics question. Lin Xinlan found it difficult to listen to the lecture, so she did not continue listening. She took out her textbook, found the relevant knowledge, and started to review it seriously.
The rain outside the window continued to pour down tirelessly. The physics teacher finally finished explaining the question after a lesson. Many students heaved a long sigh of relief and then leaned on the table to sigh at the " profoundness " of physics. The next two classes were self-study. Lin Xinlan had been solving the physics problem that the teacher had taught her for an entire class, flipping through the draft paper page after page. Lin Xinlan suddenly shook her dizzy head in frustration, as if trying to wake it up.
The rain outside the window seemed to have stopped, but the bell rang at this time. Then, there was a wave of restlessness. It was time for the evening self-study session.
She spent the entire night studying to solve a question, but she didn't get any results. She didn't even have any ideas. Leaning her left hand on the table to support her heavy head, she continued to write and draw on the draft paper in frustration.
"Little Xin, why haven't you collected your things yet?”Lu Xiaoyue suddenly walked to her side.
"Xiaoyue, you go first. I still want to solve this problem!”
"The question that the teacher just explained?”
"Hmm, it's so complicated!"
"I don't understand it at all. I give up!”
"I still want to try it myself. You don't have to wait for me. Go back first!”
"Alright then. Then don't go back too late!"
"Yes!"
Lin Xinlan looked outside the window. The rain had indeed stopped. She turned around. There were only a few people left in the classroom. In the last row against the wall, he had his head lowered and was reading a book seriously. She didn't walk over. She could only look at him from afar, not getting close or disturbing him. She knew that he would study alone in the classroom every weekend. She knew that he always came to class alone and went to the cafeteria alone. She knew that he was lonely, but she did not have the courage to get close to him anymore.
That day, he said that he was annoyed whenever he saw her.
Later on, when he saw her, he pretended not to see her. She called him, but he acted as if he didn't hear her.
She didn't know what to do with him. However, what she did not know was that he did not know what to do with her either.
Humans were really complicated and contradictory creatures. They clearly wanted to get close, but they would run away because of fear. She clearly wanted to be real, but she desperately tried to find an excuse to disguise herself. He wanted to let down his guard, but he pretended to be strong because he had too many worries. She understood his pretense, but how could he not understand that she wanted to help him? However, there were some things that he couldn't control, such as the fate that Lu Xiao Yue believed in. How could she help him when he couldn't do anything about it?
Lin Xinlan still couldn't solve the question. She put down her pen and leaned back in her chair dejectedly. She rubbed her swollen eyes and suddenly felt a little annoyed at her ridiculous persistence. Not only did she spend an evening self-study time to solve a question, but she also stubbornly stayed in the classroom to continue struggling. In the end, she still disappointed herself.
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