The autumn sun sets earlier than the summer day, and the sky slowly darkens before I have been in school for long.

Midorima said that he was going to see his father, and he really didn't talk about it casually, as soon as he finished his work, he stared at Kitagawa Ai coldly, and left a fluttering sentence of 'I'll go first' and then waved his sleeves and left without hesitation, leaving Kitagawa who had not finished counting jù with a crying face, looking sadly at the gradually dimming sky.

At eight o'clock, the street lights were already on, barely illuminating the road very darkly.

Grasping the strap of the schoolbag, Kitagawa Ai's footsteps walked gently towards the school gate.

In fact, after entering junior high school, she and Midorima could have gone home separately, but she had a very weak point - fear of the dark.

To be precise, it is the fear of people or things that suddenly appear in the dark, the fear of the unknown.

Midorima, as a bamboo horse who grew up with her since childhood, naturally knows her weakness of not being able to make a living, and Midorima, who thinks she is mature and steady, calmly takes on the responsibility of going home with Kitagawa Ai every day in front of Tezuka Kunishin and her father.

It's good now, abandoned by Midorima (?) She can only go home alone, which is really pitiful to think about.

She was ready, turned on the flashlight on her phone, and shone it all the way back. The streetlights are no match for her flashlight.

Kitagawa Ai, who had just walked to the door, seemed to sense something, and when he raised his head, he happened to see a young man leaning against the wall of the school gate with a slender figure, and noticed that Kitagawa Ai was looking at him, and a smile brighter than the sun immediately appeared on his cold face, and he stretched out his hand and waved it on his shoulder: "Yo, Beichuan, you are here." ”

Kitagawa Ai looked at Huang Se in surprise, paused, walked to his side, and looked up at him: "Huang Se-kun, why are you here." ”

"Hey-I'll call you Beichuan, don't be so restrained, call me Huang Se~" Huang Se seemed to scratch the back of his neck a little embarrassed, and the deep eyes and upturned corners of the eyes always had a sense of teasing.

"But we don't know each other very well" Beichuan Ai subconsciously refused, only she knew that the name had been silently recited so many times in her heart, and she couldn't wait for the next time they met, the two would be able to call her by her name.

But that's not the case, she and Huang Sejun are just classmates who have known each other for less than half a year.

"It's too much, how can we say that we've known each other for so long." Huang Se covered his face and pretended to cry, but Beichuan Ai didn't give him a relative reaction, he had to restrain himself, and said a little embarrassed: "Although there was a helpless oolong incident because of my narcissism before, but Beichuan you have to believe me, I really want to be friends with you!" ”

"Is that so?" Kitagawa Ai stared at him suspiciously, "Okay then, Kuse, what are you doing here?" ”

Huang Se, who finally seduced Kitagawa to call himself, removed an honorific title to cheer himself up in his heart, but when he got her question, he couldn't help but show a frustrated expression: "Hey? Didn't Kitagawa notice what I said on the basketball court before? ”

"I only heard you say that Lan Ze's seniors can't catch up with the captain-"

"No, no, no! That's not an important thing! What I said before was" Huang Se hurriedly waved his hand, trying to dispel the words left in Kitagawa Ai's mind, if Lan Ze's senior knew that he accidentally broke his mind, he always felt that the future work would be very hard.

"I said before, if you don't mind, I'll go home with you. It's lonely to go home alone at night. ”

The smile on a boy's face always brightens so easily, as if there is no time in this world that can make him feel sad. Beichuan Ai was in a trance for a moment, and seemed to return to the past.

She quickly retracted her thoughts, and her gaze quickly shifted from Huang Se's face to the dusty ground: "I see, since we happen to be in the same direction, let's go together." ”

seemed to dislike that he had not erased the relationship between the two, and repeated: "We only walked together because we were on the same road." ”

"Xiao Beichuan don't want to be like this, I always feel as if I'm disgusted." Huang Se watched Kitagawa Ai take a step, hurriedly lifted the schoolbag that slipped up and down his shoulder, inserted one hand into the pocket of his school uniform pants, and walked side by side with Kitagawa at a fist's distance.

As they had just left the street where the school was located, the silence between the two seemed a little terrifying. Huang Se tried to speak several times, but he was so frightened that he shut up because of Kitagawa's rather cold side face.

In fact, he should be a person who will never feel that there is less topic, but in front of Beichuan Ai, he seems to be afraid that he will make her impatient if he is too noisy. On the contrary, he looked a little cautious.

As he walked, Ai Kitagawa suddenly stopped, and Huang Se also braked suddenly, turning his head strangely and openly: "What's wrong?" ”

"Kuse." Kitagawa Ai raised his head, "Can you not pretend to be deep suddenly, I'm a little unaccustomed to it." ”

"Huh?"

"So, when I saw that person in the exhibition hall who looked flattering to the director, he was about to laugh down, he was obviously very arrogant before, and said to the assistant next to him, 'I will never please anyone', but when I turned around, it was a different look, it was really funny!"

After listening to Huang Se tell the Nth about the strange characters he met in his modeling career, Ai Kitagawa stopped again.

Huang Se's radiant face changed again, and he scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I've been talking all the time, Xiao Beichuan, you must have felt bored when you heard it." ”

"No, it's okay, I always find it interesting." Beichuan Ai shook her head, her eyes fell on M Ji on the other side of the street, and she couldn't help but hesitate a little: "I'm sorry, I want to go to M Ji to sit for a while, do you want to go first"

"It's just right, I'm hungry too, let's go together!" Huang Se, who didn't feel that time was being delayed at all, nodded happily and pushed Kitagawa to love the past.

I ordered a set A with red bean milk tea, and Ai Kitagawa and Huang Se walked to the free booth to rest.

"Huang Se, are you a model because of your interest?"

"No, it's not. If it's an interest, basketball is the only thing that interests me right now. Huang Se shook his head.

Beichuan nodded: "In this way, how have you been in the basketball club recently, how have you adapted, the training of the first army is much heavier than that of the second army and the third army, if you feel that it has delayed your daily life or something else, remember to tell me in advance, I will change the menu." ”

Huang Se hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, I didn't feel delayed at all, it's really good to be able to enter the basketball club." I like this kind of practice very much, and I always feel that there is still a lot of learning in basketball! ”

"I've observed your ability to imitate other people's movements, so have you ever thought about imitating the signature moves of NBA stars?" Kitagawa Aido.

Huang Se, who was biting the hamburger, was stunned, he put down the burger in his hand, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "I really haven't tried it, I can go and watch the video when I go home tonight." Maybe one day I can become a great striker! ”

"I believe in you."

Ai Kitagawa said suddenly.

Huang Se stayed in the chair with his whole body, his movements remained the same as before Kitagawa Ai spoke, and he blinked innocently and innocently and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

"I said, I believe you." Kitagawa repeated, she clenched the red bean milk tea in her hand, and her crimson eyes seemed to have a firelight jumping in it, "Ryota Kagose, you must be able to become a very powerful striker." ”

Huang Se, who was praised, did not put on a modest appearance as usual, scratched his head and smiled in response. After looking at Ai Kitagawa's crimson eyes for more than half a minute, the whole face became red as if he had suddenly been put into a steamer, and he looked panicked, and hurriedly dropped the hamburger and covered his face with his arm: "Wow, little Kitagawa is too foul!" Don't look at me! I'm so embarrassed to say such a shameful thing! ”

Kitagawa Ai, who thought that Huang Se would react in some way, was stunned, twitched the corners of his mouth, and found that Huang Se was really the same as he said, from the tips of his forehead and ears to his neck, and even the complexion on his arms was flushed with pink red.

"It turns out that Huang Se, you have such a special physique."

"Huh?" Holding her face, Kase looked at Kitagawa with tears in her eyes, her cheeks were more rosy than in other places, and even her shiny lips were particularly attractive.

Beichuan Ai looked away quite restrainedly, biting the straw of the red bean milk tea, and drank it with a grunt: "It's nothing." ”

I always feel that Huang Se seems to be unpraised, is it a natural shaking M?

"If you can't stand the praise like this, then I can only be harsh with you in the future." After drinking the last sip of milk tea, Kitagawa Ai said, she shook the empty cup in her hand and put it on the plate rather disappointed.

"No matter how strict you are, Xiao Beichuan, I will try to keep up with everyone's pace!" Huang Se quickly sat up straight, put his hands in front of him, his back straight, and looked serious.

Xiao Ai felt a little itchy in her palm, she shook her right hand hanging on her thigh and slowly moved it to the table.

"Ale, are you done eating? Shall we go now, or sit a little longer? Huang Se leaned over slightly and asked.

"Wait, there seems to be something in your ears" Kitagawa Ai slowly stood up, looked at Huang Se who seemed to want to retreat, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Don't move!" ”

Huang Se, who was sitting in a position with a stiff body, looked at Kitagawa Ai's face getting closer and closer, her hand reaching to his cheek, he couldn't help but clench his fists because he didn't know whether it was anticipation or fear, and then he felt a warmth, sticking to the tip of his ear, sliding down the outermost contour, and finally gently picking at the earlobe with the stud.

The whole person seemed to have been suddenly shocked, and the tingling sensation from the earlobe spread all the way down the entire back to the tail ridge. Huang Se raised his hand to grab his hot ears, put on a male face of a good housewife who was being molested, and looked at the girl opposite in a panic.

"Ale, I was mistaken, I thought there were bugs." Ai Kitagawa indifferently lowered her eyes and looked directly at the index finger and thumb rubbing against each other, and apologized without any guilt: "I'm sorry." ”