Chapter 12: Heavy Rain
(1)
Ten minutes before the end of school, the sky outside the window was already overcast, rumbling thunder, and even the wind lost the gentleness just now, and gradually became manic.
It seemed that the rainstorm was coming, and I was getting anxious. My family has never been in the habit of paying attention to the weather forecast, and I don't bring an umbrella before going out in the morning when the weather is clear.
As soon as the school bell rang, I packed my things and rushed out the door, picked up the car and pedaled wildly, hoping to get home before the rain started.
But my foot strength still couldn't match the speed of the heavens, and as soon as I arrived at the intersection of Zhongshan Street, the rain began to fall. The rain was so strong that I hurriedly found an eaves to hide in.
It was as if I had waited for a century, and watched the rain get heavier and heavier, and there was no sign that I would stop for half a minute. I gritted my teeth and stepped into the car and into the rain.
I had just taken two steps when suddenly a bike rushed out from behind and lay in front of me. I was caught off guard by the sudden braking, and the car almost fell off.
"What are you doing!" I yelled at him, rubbing my ankle against the pedals.
"Right...... I'm sorry I called you in the back. You didn't hear it several times, and I was in a hurry......"
I looked up, but saw Yu Qiuyun straddle his car, holding the front of the car with one hand, scratching the back of his head with the other, and smiling at me embarrassedly.
"Are your feet alright?" he asked with concern, and then changed his tone to guilt, "I was in a hurry to chase you so recklessly." ”
"It's okay!" and touched it lightly. I hurriedly removed the hand that was rubbing my ankle and shook it vigorously as if to prove that I was really okay.
He hurriedly removed the umbrella hanging from the front of the car and held it over my head. "I saw you running away in a hurry after school, and I didn't have an umbrella in my hand, so I ...... I just thought about sending you an umbrella...... I don't know which way you went, but it took me a lot of chase to get here. ”
He blushed as he spoke. The rain ran down his brow, down his cheeks, and onto his already soaked chest. But he didn't feel it, and stubbornly held up only one side of the sun above my head, and stood stupidly in the rain.
I pushed the umbrella towards him: "You can take it, my house is not far away, and it has been drenched for a long time...... You're going to get sick......"
He grabbed my wrist and shoved the umbrella into my hand, and my wrist was suddenly covered with a layer of warmth, as if carrying a slight electric current, which spread to every corner of my body in an instant.
When he reacted, he hurriedly spread his hand. If someone had passed by, they would have seen two foolish children, one blushing with an umbrella and the other standing in the rain at a loss.
"Go back," I urged, "don't catch a cold." ”
He hummed softly, pulled out a book wrapped in a plastic bag, walked around me, and stuffed the book into my bag.
"For you. He whispered. Then he stepped into the car with a red face and disappeared into the wind and rain.
(2)
When I opened the door, I bumped into my mother, who was still wearing the same clothes she wore when she left in the morning, and the corners of her clothes were dripping with water, and she was pushing the cart and hurrying out of the house.
"Why are you going?" I asked her, "and don't change your clothes." ”
"I'm afraid you won't be able to come back from such heavy rain, so I'm just going to send you an umbrella. It's such an adult, and I don't know how to bring an umbrella when it looks like it's going to rain. She muttered to me, forgetting that she had come back in the rain as well. After that, I saw the umbrella in my hand half a beat.
"Where's the umbrella?" she propped up the car and covered it with a rainproof cloth.
"Classmate," I panicked, but my face was strong, and I replied casually, "They brought an extra handful." With that, he found a dry place and carefully propped his umbrella on the ground.
My mother sighed and urged me to hurry up and change my clothes, and I answered with a long sigh in my heart, and I don't know if she believed me.
Back in the bedroom, I took out the book wrapped in a plastic bag and carefully brushed off the water droplets on it.
The book has apparently been turned over many times, and the edges of the cover are already a little hairy. I smiled in my heart, there are boys who like to read this kind of love book.
After flipping through a few pages, I pulled out a piece of white paper that had been folded in half. I opened it gently.
It was a picture of a girl in a hoodie, sitting straight with her back to me.
Obviously, the person who painted her was a little clumsy, her shoulders were high and low, and her arms were crooked, as if someone had cut a piece of flesh.
I still know her, though. I looked at her loose mustache and a few strands of broken hair hanging behind her ears, and it seemed that there were countless small white flowers in my heart, blooming densely.
I know that September is finally coming to an end, and that the gloom that hides in every crevice of September will eventually disappear in this storm.
(3)
Yesterday's storm took away the last cicadas of the long summer, the air was free of the tiny, nasal itching debris, and even the musty smell of the garbage heap was washed away.
The wind is sweet, the sun is sweet, everything is sweet.
I stood in front of the bulletin board, secretly pinching the cold medicine hidden in my jacket pocket, and looking for a person in the dense list of names in the examination room.
Cold medicine was sneaked out of a drawer in the morning, and I felt he might need it.
I still couldn't find the name, so I rubbed my sour eyes vigorously.
"Can't find your name?" Fang Chaomu's voice sounded beside him.
"No......," I was about to explain, but before I could finish speaking, he had already found me among the names of nearly a thousand people.
"Exam room 15, senior one (3) class. Table 1503. ”
"Uh......" I was speechless for a moment, unable to find the right words to explain to him, "that...... Can you help me see which exam room Yu Qiuyun is in?"
"In the same exam room with me, I just met him. After that, he turned his head and looked at me with a puzzled expression, "What are you looking for him?"
I blushed and dragged him aside and sneaked into the box of cold medicine, "Help me get this to him." ”
Fang Chaomu looked at the medicine in his hand and didn't speak. I was afraid that he would open his mouth to ask in the next second, so I simply grabbed the conversation first, and explained in a hurry: "That...... Yesterday I borrowed his umbrella, and he went back with it, and if he caught a cold, I ...... I don't want to go. ”
"I'm not going to ask you. He saw through my careful thinking and said coldly.
As he was talking, Tang Jibei jumped out from the side, and with a "bang", my feet were so frightened that my feet were weak, and I fell to the side.
Fang Chaomu was quick and grabbed my arm. When I stood firm, I said thank you gratefully, turned around and flew towards Tang Jibei's calf.
Tang Jibei dodged lightly, stared at me as if his plan had succeeded, and said with a wicked smile: "What intimate words do you have to sneak up on this wood?"
I glanced at him: "Say you're a two-skinned face!" After that, I suddenly remembered the previous bet about Shen Zhongnan, so I put away my anger and changed my playful expression, "What's the matter? Hide near the women's toilet, and start observing the terrain? This month's deadline is just around the corner, and you know that the women's toilet is going to be decided, right?"
"The women's toilet estimates that I am unblessed," Tang Jibei suddenly came up and said mysteriously: "Dude has made an appointment with Shen Zhongnan, so on the first day of the holiday, go to our hometown to play!" Eh, are you going?" he raised his chin at Fang Chaomu.
"Where will he go! Take him to the mountains and rivers to enjoy the mountains and rivers, it is better to give him a few sets of Olympic ......."
"Go. Fang Chaomu interrupted me, I turned my face and looked at him in surprise, when did this guy start to place his affection on the landscape?
"Righteousness!" Tang Jibei was not very surprised, and happily compared to us.
"What......" I came back to my senses, "who else is going?"
"Shen Zhongnan!" Tang Jibei looked disgusted, "You asked knowingly".
"Nonsense!" I rolled my eyes, "I mean, who else is going but the four of us." ”
"Shan Shan. Tang Jibei replied.
"What else?"
"Qili. ”
"And what!" I was a little anxious in my heart, how could these two hundred and five talk like a sheep pulling poop, jumping out one bite at a time.
"Is Yu Qiuyun going?" Fang Chaomu, who had been silent, suddenly interjected.
I was stunned, and I almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood and choked on myself. Did he know what I was saying? Was he asking for me?
I didn't dare to explore Fang Chaomu's expression, for fear that I would get a positive answer from his knowing eyes, and I was afraid that I would accidentally look at him again, as smart as he was, I would definitely be able to peek into more secrets from my weak eyes.