Part 11 Snow
I followed Zhao Yilun to our school's basketball court. I haven't been in the habit of cheering for boys playing basketball since I was a child, so I haven't been to the basketball court, and today is the first time I've taken the initiative to come.
"Let's go there!" he said, pointing to the small playground next door to the basketball court.
There is no door to each other in these two fields, and I have to make a detour to the small playground, and I was thinking about whether to get closer from the left or the right when Zhao Yilun pulled me to the front of a hole.
"Do you want to drill a hole again?" I touched the net that the students had deliberately torn for convenience, and it looked a little barely measured........
Just as I was thinking, Zhao Yilun had already taken the lead. I tried to drill through and this time I didn't get stuck.
The whole playground was reveling as we passed, and we were almost overwhelmed by the sound of people's laughter and laughter. The playground is reflected by the snow as if it were daytime, and there are new snowmen and medieval stone statues every other distance, and the sparsely falling snowflakes on us have the illusion of being in a fairy tale.
"I feel a bit like Disney. I touched my frozen, red nose.
"It's a pity you're not a princess. β
"You're not a prince either. β
I turned my head again to admire the rare snow, but I was caught off guard by the snow.
Zhao Yilun was smiling proudly, I grabbed a handful of snow and chased him for most of the lap, and I didn't catch up with him when the snow in my hand melted.......
We found another place with a lot of snow and started building a snowman, and I tried to gather all the snow together, and after a while it dispersed on its own. Zhao Yilun picked up the small ball in his hand, "The snowball rolls out, and the more it rolls, it gets bigger and bigger, you see it looks like this." β
He showed me how it didn't take long for the small snowball to grow four or five times bigger. I noticed his cold, red hands, and looked at my own hands that weren't much better.
"You wait for me, I'll go buy two pairs of gloves. β
"Is it cold?" he paused
"I'm freezing to death," I gasped into my hand, which was almost unconscious
"Then I'll be with you"
"No, you keep piling up here, and the place where we'll both leave will be occupied in a while, so you can go on. β
He looked at the playground and said approvingly, "Then you go, I'll wait for you." β
"Keep my head for me, I'm going to pile its head. β
He made an OK gesture and I walked out the side door of the playground satisfied.
When I came to the small shop outside the school, there were a few pairs of gloves hanging in it, and it seemed that the store had been swept by many people for today's snowball fight. The five-fingered one should be better, and two pairs are still waterproof....... Just as I was thinking about it, those two had already been taken, and I was thinking about buying them!
I turned my head viciously, and Xiao Liu was grinning, "First come, first served." β
Li Qingqing helped beside him, "First come, first served, slightly omitted"
"Stupid combo, let's go quickly"
"You're stupid," Li Qingqing rolled her eyes at me
I laughed and teased, "The weather is not good on a snowy day, so Xiaoliu, you remember to pull out the antenna on your headphones, so that the signal is good." β
β.........β
I took the last two pairs of gloves in the store, and they were still for couples, but it wasn't so obvious when I wore them on the big night, and Zhao Yilun shouldn't mind.
When he got back, he had already piled up the lower half of the snowman, and I handed him the gloves.
"Now pile up its heads. He put on his gloves. I crouched down, and it took a lot of effort to keep the snowball from falling apart, following his example.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and I shivered with cold, and I regretted that the collar of the clothes I wore today was relatively large, and it didn't cover the wind at all......
Something landed on my head, and I looked up to see that it was a scarf.
"Put it on, I think you're too cold. β
I was a little overwhelmed, "Don't you wear it, it's cold." β
"As I said earlier, I have a lot of excellent places, and being a gentleman is also considered to be one. β
"........" how narcissistic this is
I quickly put the scarf on and noticed the same gloves on his hand, and I always felt that something was wrong.......
We piled up the snowman's head, found some branches and stones to decorate, and we were done.
I couldn't help but sigh, "This is the first snowman I've ever succeeded in growing up." β
"Isn't it, how stupid you are, isn't it easy to get it?"
"You can't live if you don't lose a day, can you?"
He leaned against the iron net behind him, "I found you very funny"
"That's why you didn't bother to come to me?"
"It's all said that it's a drop-by. But what have you been playing since you were a child?"
"Playing with everything, it's the kind you don't dare to think of, when Xiaoliu and I were at my grandmother's house, I also blew up the reservoir with him. β
"Who is Little Liu?"
"My younger brother. What did you play when you were a kid?"
"The most I do is look at the stars. He looked up
I looked in the direction he was looking, "Are you looking for Sun Two?"
"Children looking for the moon and the sun. β
"Poofβhow old are you, why are you so naΓ―ve?"
"You see, it's the one, the third one to the east next to Sun 2. β
"Where's the East?"
β........β
After looking for a long time, I couldn't find the star he said, so we had to give up.
I sent him out of school at about nine o'clock in the evening, but I had always had doubts about him.
"I always feel like you're different from most people......"
"What's the difference?"
"I can't tell, I don't know ......"
He put his hand in his pocket and said half-jokingly, "Actually, I sneak out every day, do you believe it?"
"No wonder it's always at night. I nodded in realization, and then asked, "Did you make something wrong and sneak out when you're so old?"
"Hey, I'll tell you a story," he stared at me earnestly. A little boy was judged to live only in the dark from birth, it was fine when he was a baby, he didn't understand anything, but as he grew up, he found that he was different from others, what he thought was that the day was not the real daytime, and then he finally came up with the idea of going out in the daytime, but he was timid since he was a child, and he didn't dare to do it, and a little girl happened to come to his house at this time, and they played together in the dark room, frolicking...... The little girl pulled back the heavy curtains in the little boy's room, and the dazzling sunlight shone into the room, and he could no longer resist the temptation, and followed the little girl out of the room, when he was in the real sunlight," he paused, and then added: "The little boy regretted it, his whole body began to fester, abscess, and his whole consciousness began to blur, and he finally realized why the family kept locking him in that dark room......."
"What about the little girl?"
She never reappeared after seeing the boy exposed to the sun. β
He looked at the sky as if he was looking for something.
"What about the boy?"
"He is standing in front of you. β
I didn't know what to say, the loneliness hidden in the deepest part of his eyes was slowly overflowing, and only I could see it.
"So, you can only come out at night, can you?"
"Well, I'm a porphyria. β
His voice was almost lost in the wind.
I didn't ask any further, but took his phone and exchanged phone numbers, just like he had before.
"Don't you think I'm weird?" he said with a smile, revealing two rows of white teeth, "I think you're a little weird too." β
"You just said that the porphyria just can't come out during the day, right?"
"Hmm, so what?"
"So, I think I'm supposed to be a porphyria patient too. β
"Why?"
"It's so boring, it's too lonely, it's too lost. β
When the snow stopped, we didn't speak to each other anymore, and walked quietly in the snow, and in the night, which seemed like day, he and I both looked forward to the real light.