43.Stinging (4)
Xia Bai's previous gaffe obviously didn't last long, and the next day, she was like no one, and the lively and funny of the past returned to her. April was a little worried about her, so she quietly moved to her side and asked in a low voice, "Xia Bai, are you okay?" ”
"It's okay, what can I do." Xia Bai said with a smile, but his eyes were a little strange.
I don't know if it's April's illusion, after yesterday's experience, Xia Bai's attitude towards her has become a little estranged, and she has deliberately avoided her. April opened her mouth and explained, "Xia Bai, we ...... yesterday"
"You don't have to explain anything to me." Xia Bai interrupted her lightly and glanced at Gu Qingyan who was walking in front with a smile, "I brought a new friend today, and he should be almost there at this time." ”
When Gu Qingyan heard this, she stopped, as if she had guessed something, turned her head sideways to look at the girl, and said slowly: "Is it Xiao Li?" ”
"It's me."
Not far away, the boy replied loudly.
April followed the prestige, only to feel a burst of heat rushing to his face, and in a blink of an eye, the boy had already inserted himself between Gu Qingyan and Xia Bai. He raised his arm and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, explaining, "The dean asked me to go over just now, and I was delayed for a while, sorry. ”
After speaking, he looked at the three people in front of him, and finally turned his gaze to April, and said with a smile: "You are April, I often hear Xia Bai talk about you." ”
Only then did he notice in April that the boy had thick eyebrows and big eyes, with clear contours, and a handsome and stylish appearance.
"Hello." April greeted politely, paused, and read Xiao Li's name with some hesitation.
"Yo, they mentioned me to you." The boy squeezed his eyebrows exaggeratedly. April moved her mouth, and didn't answer very familiarly, in fact, if it wasn't for Gu Qingyan saying Xiao Li, she wouldn't know what Xiao Li looked like at all. Although Xiao Li's name is also well-known in S.
Seeing that April didn't have anything to say, the boy shrugged his shoulders, walked to Xia Bai's side and hugged her shoulders with a big grin, "I said Xia Da Beauty, what kind of wind is blowing today for you to summon me, I usually go to the library but I don't see you to ask me." ”
Xia Bai grinned, "I asked you to come here to introduce April to you, she is my best female friend." She explained in a hurry, and then turned her head to look at Gu Qingyan very naturally, and said with a smile: "Gu Qingyan, I called Xiao Li over, you won't welcome him." ”
The boy who was asked was silent for a moment, and then smiled faintly: "The more lively the people, the more learning atmosphere." ”
"Really?" The suspicious gaze kept shifting between Xia Bai and Gu Qingyan, and Xiao Li pursed his lips with a look of ill will.
Xia Bai rolled her eyes, slapped away the paws on her shoulders neatly, ignored Xiao Li's pretending to be sad, squinted her eyes and threatened: "Are you coming or not, if you don't come, get out of me, big pear." ”
Xiao Li supported his forehead, "Sister, save me some face in front of April, I hate that you call me this nickname." ”
The girl smiled proudly, her dark eyes were radiant and beautiful. She ran over affectionately and grabbed April's arm, and said to the boy: "Big pear, you have no face in front of me for a long time." ”
After speaking, she turned her head sideways and winked at April with her right eye, and whispered: "You will follow me to call him Big Pear in the future, just call, if he is not convinced and bullies you, you will sue me." ”
April lowered his head and smiled, silent, but there was something strange in his heart.
It turned out that when she didn't know, Xia Bai already had such a good friend of the opposite sex. She was a little silent, and Gu Qingyan was quieter than ever, only the frolicking sound of Xia Bai and Xiao Li joking with each other along the way, echoing in the air one after another.
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April stared at the homework book boredly, and didn't use the pen, if you looked at her eyes closely, you would find that her eyes were not focused, and she looked absent-minded. There seems to be a pattern between the four of them, the three of them are in one row, and April is sitting alone in the other row, as clear as the junction of Chu and Han.
She blinked her eyelashes lightly and looked up, only to see that Xia Bai and Xiao Li were talking hotly, while Gu Qingyan was sitting outside, tapping the table with her hands regularly from time to time, one time, one time.
Sensing April's gaze, he suddenly tilted his face and looked straight at her.
April's eyes flashed, and he hung his head weakly.
"Huh." Gu Qingyan chuckled, and after Xia Bai noticed it, he stopped his train of thought, turned his head and looked at her over Xiao Li, the eyelids of his right eye moved slightly, and there seemed to be a faint smile in his eyes, as if he was proud.
She smiled and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”
When the boy heard this, he turned his gaze to April and said slowly: "You guys discuss first, I'll go and see if April needs help, she seems to have a problem." ”
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment, the smile in her eyes was slightly retracted, she turned her face a few angles a little stiffly, and picked up the words just now like no one else: "Xiao Li, look here, I think ......"
The conversation between them reached April's ears word for word, her tense pupils constricted, and she remained motionless in a daze until the boy had already stood up and walked behind her, and she still didn't react. And the heat from Gu Qingyan's chest against his back made her sit up straight.
"Huh." Gu Qingyan smiled playfully, leaned forward slightly, leaned into her ear, and said softly: "April, if you don't know anything, you can ask me." ”
Before the words fell, April's ears quickly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, Gu Qingyan felt interesting, so she simply bypassed her body with both hands, forming a posture that actively surrounded her around her chest, and pointed out the grammatical mistakes in her homework with a serious expression.
April felt like a puppet who had lost her soul, and she would change wherever Gu Qingyan pointed out, and there was no place for thinking at all. The soul seemed to have left her body, watching her spiritual addiction with cold eyes.
This boy is like the sea. Lo. Because it is usually highly poisonous, if you are not careful, you will be confused by him and fall into a situation from which you will never recover.
There is a voice against the will of the master, it is evil and arrogant, it is suing her.
If you like it, then go for it, at any cost.
"Bang!"
April's body jumped involuntarily, and the back of her head suddenly hit the jaw of the boy behind her, she didn't care about the black head, and hurriedly turned around to check Gu Qingyan's situation. The boy covered his chin with his hand, and his beautiful eyebrows were wrinkled due to pain, and his wrinkled facial features were still beautiful but a little embarrassed, which strangely added a touch of childishness to him.
He hung his eyebrows helplessly, "April, you don't have to punish me like this if you hate me." ”
"Yes, I'm sorry." April stood aside helplessly, like a child who had made a mistake, and could only apologize dryly.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Li followed the voice curiously, and when he saw Gu Qingyan's rare wolf appearance, he instantly clapped his hands and laughed without morality or sympathy, "Hahahaha, Gu Qingyan, you also have today, hahahaha, no, you let me laugh for a while." He laughed very loudly, patting his thighs and stomach, regardless of his image.
The students who were disturbed by his loud laughter cast disdainful glances one after another, and occasionally a few female classmates peeked at them from time to time.
Xia Bai glanced at Xiao Li with disgust, "Be quiet, this is the library." After speaking, she looked at Gu Qingyan with a smile and didn't speak.
Instead, the person concerned put down the hand covering his chin carelessly, smiled a little helplessly, and instead rubbed April's hair, and comforted softly in front of Xia Bai: "Don't tell me I'm sorry, it's me who got too close and made you uncomfortable." After saying that, he winked mischievously at April, and said pitifully, "You won't blame me, right?" ”
Well, April couldn't accept Gu Qingyan's series of changes well, and stood like a fool.
"Gu Qingyan, don't be cute." Xiao Li said seriously.
"Ha, you found out, it's boring." Gu Qingyan's easy interface.
Although Xia Bai on the side said something, the joints holding the pen were faintly white.
Because the embarrassment just now was easily resolved by Gu Qingyan, April smiled at him with some gratitude, and with a pair of cold eyes of the boy, she was slightly stunned, and her heart slowly sank.
Gu Qingyan always seems to be like this, his personality is uncertain, one moment he can easily joke, and the next moment he can dissociate himself from you. Maybe she was sensitive, and only she seemed to notice these changes in his feelings, but Xia Bai and Xiao Li didn't have any abnormal reactions.
From a threesome to a foursome, the situation of getting along has not changed much compared to the original. Xiao Li seems to be enthusiastic and hearty, and she can also joke about April, but she still has a clear distinction between friends and ordinary classmates, and Xiao Li obviously sees her as the second type.
Gu Qingyan accosted her from time to time, and occasionally tutored her on a whim, and April was very grateful.
Whether it's Xia Bai or Xiao Li, or ...... Gu Qingyan, for her, they are all distant stars in the sky, you think you can touch them, but in fact, the distance between them and you is tens of thousands of light years.
Greed is not good, she just wants to string these good memories into a small bunting stationed in her heart, and when she is old, she can turn it out to see and remember, so that her youth will not be too sad.
The first semester of high school passed quickly. Thanks to Gu Qingyan's guidance for three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, her final grades have been greatly improved compared with the monthly and midterm exams, and she can squeeze into the middle of the class.
Although April didn't care too much about her grades, she was relieved that she didn't hold back the class, after all, she still felt pressure in the face of the head teacher's hateful eyes all day long. Anyway, Gu Qingyan also helped her, and April felt that she needed to thank him well, so she bought him a notebook with the private money she had saved privately for a long time and was reluctant to spend.
The black cover looks quite textured, and it shouldn't be too cold. Thinking like this, she called Xia Bai, explained her meaning, and planned to entrust her to transfer it to Gu Qingyan. When the lively, straight-lipped, white-toothed girl took the notebook and looked at her with a silent and strange expression, April finally noticed something unusual in her expression.
She cautiously asked, "What's wrong?" Isn't it inconvenient? ”
Xia Bai stroked the layer of leather wrapped in the notebook for a while, her dark eyes were starless, like a pool of stagnant water, without waves, she opened her lips lightly, and said slowly: "April, if you want to give him a gift, you can go directly to the door of his classroom to find him, if you don't know the way, I can take you there." She paused, and lowered her voice softer: "After all, I'm in the same class as him, and I'm on the way." ”
April was silent for a moment and said, "I'll ...... with him If you don't know each other, go directly to his class to find him, which is easy to misunderstand. ”
"Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? Xia Bai grasped the word accurately.
April was a little embarrassed: "A lot of people in school ...... Know me, after all, my family ...... It's not good, if other students see me going to him, it's not good for us. ”
"You have to give him a gift to express your gratitude, and it is most sincere to give it to him personally." The girl's tone was a little cold......
April froze, raised his head and looked directly at the girl, this Xia Bai who looked strange because of his aggressiveness, "Xia Bai, what's wrong with you, I just want to express my gratitude to him, you just need to give him something and talk to him by the way." You also know that the pivotal link between me and him is you, and I will not have anything to do with him. ”
"Then why do you have to insist on sending him something to show your gratitude, don't you think you're excessive?" Xia Bai didn't give an inch.
She appears to be especially stubborn and stubborn on this topic.
Don't you think you're excessive? This sentence was obviously heavy, and April couldn't say a word after hearing it, so he stayed in place in a daze.
Xia Bai realized that she had said the wrong thing, although the dark tide in her heart was still surging, she still tried her best to soothe her feelings, and tried to convince people with reason, "April, I told you that I like Gu Qingyan, and I have never hidden my feelings for him, you want to give him a gift now, have you ever thought about my feelings?" ”
"I ......" April didn't know how to refute. The two of them are now caught in a strange circle, and Xia Bai has completely misinterpreted the meaning that April wants to express based on the opinion that "she has an intention to give a gift to Gu Qingyan". April opened his mouth and finally didn't say anything. She doesn't have Gu Qingyan's contact information, and the gatherings on fixed days on weekdays are all initiated by Xia Bai, she is just a little transparent.
She doesn't have any intentions, she just isn't used to being good to her, even if it seems to others to be just a gesture, she will think about a return in a certain way.
She doesn't like to owe favors.
"I'm sorry." April slowly lowered her head, like a turtle, slowly, slowly retracted her body into her shell.
"Forget it, I'll help you this time." I don't know what Xia Bai thought, she suddenly changed her mind.
April's heart was overjoyed, and her eyes lit up as she looked at her.
Xia Bai uncomfortably reached out and stroked his short hair, his eyes wandered, but he refused to look at April's eyes that were becoming more and more crystal clear because of joy.
In the end, she added lightly: "You must not like Gu Qingyan, you know?" ”
April nodded vigorously and said solemnly, "Xia Bai, thank you." ”
"No thanks, it's summer vacation after today, and we'll see you in our sophomore year of high school." Xia Bai smiled again, waved at her and stepped back, and after a few steps back, she turned and trotted away.
April smiled faintly, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly chased after him.
After running for a while, I saw Xia Bai stop somewhere from a distance, her white dress blown by the wind, like an angel about to fly.
April was just about to step forward, only to hear a snap, and a black object landed accurately along the parabola in the trash can not far away.
Her heart instantly fell into an ice cellar.
Dark.
When he returned to the real class, Gu Qingyan just finished wiping the blackboard and walked back to his seat, the fine white chalk ash was stained on his clothes, and when Xia Bai passed by him, he unfortunately sucked the chalk end on his body into his nose, she hurriedly coughed, turned her head, and happened to meet the young man's jet-black eyes.
His eyes were like black holes, and he couldn't help but be attracted to them at a glance.
His eyes were clear and blue, crystal clear and bright.
She thought, at this moment, she was completely, with no turning back, in love with him.
Xia Bai threw the newly bought notebook in his hand to him, his eyebrows and eyes crooked, "Hey, congratulations on being the first in your age this time." ”
The boy looked at the notebook in his hand, and then looked at the beautiful girl who was smiling, and somewhere in his heart became soft and appropriate. He curled the corners of his mouth, smiled softly, picked up the notebook with his right hand and shook it at her, and said with his mouth: "Thank you." ”
Xia Bai also opened his mouth wide and made a cheering lip shape.
The two looked at each other and smiled tacitly, and the first year of high school finally came to an end.