Chapter 62: Best Friend
And Hai Linlin and her friends were still together on the third day, and they went to the largest park in the city for most of the day, as well as many new places in the city after we graduated. When they set off, they happened to meet me to send the squad leader to the airport and come back, and Hai Linlin's friend took the initiative to invite me to accompany the two of them to play. The sun had just risen, and the garden in front of the hotel smelled of a summer morning, and when I saw that Hai Linlin didn't say a word, I thought it might not be so easy to agree, and told her that I wouldn't go if I had something, and wished them a good time, and she clearly showed a look of loss. In the afternoon, I received her invitation again, and this time in the form of a text message, we both left each other's numbers at this class reunion, and she said in the text message that she wanted to see me alone. I happened to be in the city at the time, and coincidentally, she was just across the street from me. I was in front of her three minutes after seeing her text message, she was startled, she didn't know what to say for a while, and finally she jumped out and said that I was not following her, otherwise how could it be so fast.
"Of course I did." I said, "It's just tracking with your heart." ”
The reason why I met her was largely because of Hai Linlin, and I wanted to know some news about Hai Linlin from her; Another is that since she paid attention to me at the dinner table, her eyes always revealed an indescribable feeling when she looked at me, like whispering in my ear in the warm summer breeze through her eyes. I showed a completely different personality and attitude than I did at the party, and I knew that I had a purpose and needed to know what I needed from her. And she asked me out for a simple purpose—to talk to me, she said that she admired the erudition I showed at the dinner table, and that she was very grateful for the help I had shown her in some ways during the meeting. She said that she never came back after graduation, and that the city has changed so much, and that I work in the city and hope I can show her a few good places.
"Doesn't that friend of yours also work in the city?" I said, "Why didn't she take you there." ”
"She's busy." She said, "I was going to be back this afternoon. ”
I took her to a few new and more interesting places, and once I passed by the door of the black dance hall, and saw a figure at the door that resembled the dancer who resembled Hai Linlin, but it was bustling with people, and her figure was fleeting, and I couldn't be sure. In the evening, Hai Linlin called her and asked if she had taken the train home, and she said no, and she wanted to see another friend. I was worried about how she would make Hai Linlin feel if she said that she was with me, and she only vaguely said that she would see another friend, obviously not wanting Hai Linlin to know who she was with. In the process of being with her, I used all my skills and made her very happy. Until nightfall, you need to face the problem of accommodation. At first, I just had one purpose for her - to get information about Hai Linlin in the past two years from her, but I felt that all the questions I could think of were obtrusive and suspicious, and I was looking for an opportunity to go with the flow. But for a whole afternoon and an hour of dinner in the evening, such an opportunity never presented itself. I escorted her to the hotel she had booked in advance, and as a normal friend, everything should have ended here. But the goal was not achieved, which made me feel regretful, and I wanted to seize the last chance.
"May I go to your room and sit down?" I asked her.
This is a very dangerous step, such a question points to one thing in anyone's opinion, not to mention that she is Hai Linlin's best friend. If she talked to Hai Linlin about it one day, it would be a fatal blow to me. But time is of the essence and I cannot afford to hesitate.
"Yes." "I was about to ask you a question," she said. ”
Her answer did not have the slightest hesitation, and her generous words and hearty tone did not make people feel that this was something that was easy to misunderstand, and this kind of answer made me feel that my worries were too small. At the same time, I was also trying to figure out a flawless way to ask Hai Linlin for information.
Lonely men and widows live together in a quiet hotel room, and it's not two people of the opposite sex with the purpose of going to bed, plus all kinds of "security sets" placed at the entrance, the atmosphere will always make people feel very embarrassed. To break this awkward silence, we all need to speak to distract each other.
"What questions are you going to ask me?" I asked her.
"Forget." She said.
The tone was exactly the same as when she had promised me to come to her room and sit down, and I had to wonder why she had agreed to come to her room. But there was always a good side to that question, and she began to speak, and the atmosphere was relieved. She said that when I heard from the people in the class reunion say that I was not married, I replied that yes, and when she asked the reason, I squeaked and couldn't answer, and I never thought about why I didn't get married. When I returned from the seaside city at the age of twenty-six, my mother had been nagging and urging me ever since I first said that I was old enough to get married. And I prevaricate every time, which has become my mother's biggest heart problem.
"I think marriage is too worldly." I say.
She didn't seem to agree at all when she heard this, and from her own personal experience of getting married just after graduation, she told me about her concept of marriage. To me, most of them are empty and powerless, just the normal psychology of a normal woman. I still haven't found the key to Hai Linlin's topic, the electronic clock on the wall makes me feel that time is passing by me every second, every minute, my opportunities are slowly disappearing with time, and I am restless. She asked me if I had anything to say, and seemed so restless. I lied to her that the air conditioner was too hot, but the air conditioner was already on to twenty-five degrees, and she was wearing a bath towel from the bathroom on her cold body. She said I was angry and wanted to wash it. I didn't think it was good, so I rejected her. And she was stubborn, and insisted that I wash it, and said that she was embarrassed to see me like this. I couldn't undress in front of her, but I went through everything from undressing, showering, and dressing in the bathroom, and then went back to my room with my clothes on. And she lay on the bed, with her head in her hands, and looked at me with a charming look that was peculiar to the baptism of marriage and childbirth.
"Why did you put your clothes back on?" She said, "What's the use of taking a bath. ”
She asked me to sit next to her and talk to her, and the way she looked made my mouth dry, and I didn't have any thoughts about her—maybe I had some thoughts before I entered the hotel, but they were all fleeting. I swallowed and asked her if it was okay to sit on the edge of the bed, and she said absolutely okay until she got up from the bed and hugged me from behind and kissed my ear. Everything fell into place, without the slightest stumbling. Her voice resembles a cat's meow, as if it came from the innermost part of her body. It wasn't until I got off her body that my blank brain regained its former consciousness and my body shook like an electric shock - she was Helenlin's best friend. I felt like I had done the most shameful thing in the world, sliding into the abyss of death. She was startled by my shaking and asked me what was going on, jokingly saying if it was because I had just exerted too much force. I didn't dare look at her, and the pleasant scene of her being with Helenlin scared me to shiver under the covers. This time she was really taken aback, raised her upper body and asked me what was wrong. I held back my strength for a long time, suppressing the trembling feeling back, trying not to let my voice tremble.
"It's fine." I said, "I'm trying too hard to do things like this." ”