Once, now
The sun is always incredibly big in summer. I trotted across the zebra crossing, and the sweltering heat made a thin layer of sweat oozing from everyone's forehead.
I stepped on the small steps of the café, white low-heeled shoes knocked on the concrete floor tiles, people say that marriage is equal to another stage of life, and it is true, as if reborn, I have always liked to wear sneakers, but now I wear flat heels, and it will not be long before I will wear high heels!
Pushing open the door, the wind chimes on the door rang, and with a sweep of my eyes, I saw Li Na sitting in the farthest position from the window, we hadn't seen her for more than three months.
"Summer." I smiled and called Li Na.
Li Na looked up at the voice, and although she saw me, her beautiful face did not have the excitement I felt when I saw her.
She grimaced and waved at me. I sat down across from her while ordering iced Earl Grey milk tea from the waitress who delivered the water.
I glanced at the cake wrapper on the table, and it seemed that Li Na had already tasted the dessert on her own during my late arrival.
"Is it delicious?" I asked her curiously.
Li Na furrowed her eyebrows. "I haven't been here for a few months, and the taste has changed." She complained, but ate the five cakes that were sent to her.
I looked at her and smiled.
After I got married, Li Na suddenly fell in love with sweets. In my memory, Li Na was a carnivore and didn't have much of a sweet tooth.
After I got married, Li Na did not choose to continue to live in the rented house I used to have, but chose to pack her bags and travel around the world to taste dim sum by going abroad for further study. I don't know if it's because of her love for sweets, she met the object of her love in her life again, and her profession happens to be a dim sum chef.
"I heard that this shop seems to have changed owners." I put down my bag, and the waiter just happened to bring a drink. I smiled kindly at the waiter, stirred the ice cubes in the cup with a straw, and took a small sip of milk tea.
"No wonder." Li Na raised an eyebrow.
"What? I haven't seen you for a few months, and I came out to hear your evaluation of the cake? ”
"Nope." Li Na shrugged her shoulders, reached into her bag, and placed a pink envelope in front of me, with gilded lettering on it.
Obviously, it was a wedding invitation.
"I'm getting married!" Li Na took a sip of milk tea, shook her head and explained nonchalantly.
I held the invitation with a slight pause, "Married?" ”
"yes." Nodding, Li Na flipped through the menu and considered ordering other cakes to try the taste. "The 8th of next month." Her tone was normal, matching her cool face.
If I didn't understand Li Na's temper, I would have thought she was talking about someone else's family.
"Is that the cake chef?"
"Otherwise, you think it's Hu Hao?" Turning the page of the menu, Li Na decided to try another piece of tiramisu.
I listened to Li Na's words, curled the corners of my lips, and put the wedding card in my bag.
"Congratulations!" I said to Li Na.
Li Na called in the waitress and ordered three more cakes and a pudding. She turned to look at my face and raised an eyebrow.
"What? Does your attitude seem to mean something else? ”
I shook my head. "No, I just suddenly think you'll be happier than me."
Li Na was traveling in Tibet when she met the cake chef who was taking materials outside, maybe she met the right person at the right time, just an encounter of less than half an hour, Li Na lost her mind, although she experienced an unforgettable lovelorn when she was young, in order to get out of that lovelorn almost lost her own nature, but now it is completely different, she first liked the cake chef, and it happened that the cake chef was also impressed by her. Isn't the greatest happiness that the person you like also happens to like you?
When Xiang Chen asked me if I wanted to marry him, I couldn't have been happier! I used to think that God finally gave me a response to my obsessive relationship for many years.
It was only later that I realized that the response was not that the prince and the princess were living happily ever after.
So every time in the dead of night, I will secretly envy Li Na in my heart, and envy the people she likes also like him.
Li Na sipping rose tea. "Of course we'll be happier than you!" She said with special affirmation: "Although my Mr. Liushui is cold, it is because he is afraid to express it, but I can be sure that he has never had anyone else in his heart except me." But what about you? Li Na put down the cup and continued: "You had a crush on a man whose heart belonged to someone else. You have been in love stupidly for several years, for this relationship, you came back from the United States to find him, and finally people asked you if you wanted to get married, and you didn't say anything and consumed your life, what happened? What are you really to him? In the summer, sometimes just because you're married doesn't mean you have it all. ”
I pursed my lips and tried to squeeze out a smile. "Do you still mind if I suddenly married Xiang Chen?"
Back then, Li Na was very happy at first because I finally married the man I loved, and the night before the wedding, Hu Hao told her that in fact, Xiang Chen had never forgotten Hu Jing, so after returning to the dormitory, he scolded me bloody.
She didn't dare to believe that I would have the courage to marry someone who knew nothing about herself!
But because of my stubbornness, Li Na finally said patiently: "You are my best friend, Summer, so I hope you can be happy." But the voice in my heart tells me that what you are doing is by no means a good thing. Tell me, summer, do you feel happy? ”
"I'm so happy! How can a woman not be happy when she marries the man she loves? "That's how I replied to Li Na at that time. The waiter walked over and brought the cake and pudding that Li Na had ordered earlier. Instead of picking up the fork, she looked at me seriously and waved her hand. "Actually, that's your choice, and I have no right to interfere. When I came to question you, you swore that Xiang Chen would be good to you, but now, why didn't I see that? ”
I looked at the breeze, and my hand unconsciously touched my face. "I ...... Where is the problem? ”
Could it be that my sense of powerlessness towards Xiang Chen has been so obvious recently?
Li Na was silent for a few seconds, and her beautiful willow eyebrows were brought together again.
"Is Xiang Chen only allowed you to eat diet food?" She took my hand. "Why do I feel like you've lost weight again every time I see you in the past three years?"
Yes? She was referring to this.
I smiled and brought it.
"Wouldn't it be better to be thinner? I used to be too fat. ”
"Not at all." Li Na refuted, "Where did you get fat in the first place? It's not a fat physique, but now it's getting thinner and thinner, what? Do you want to keep up with the trend and be a paper man? ”
My gloomy mood grew brighter with her words.
"Xiang Chen saw you, no opinion?"
Huh, he? Will he notice any of this?
I suspect he didn't even look at me closely.
"He follows me, no opinion." I lied and brushed the hair from my forehead.
"Hey!" Li Na sighed heavily, put down the spoon in her hand and held my hand tightly, "Summer, don't take anything to heart in the future, okay?" Then your heart will be overloaded, you won't be able to stand it, tell me something, like before, okay? ”
"Hmm!" I nodded heavily, in understanding.
On the way home, Li Na's words kept circulating in my mind: I love a man whose heart once belonged to someone else......
But, what about now?
His heart still doesn't belong to me now!
It's me who has changed, I'm also a woman, after waiting silently for so many years, I have become greedy, I have become longing, and I have become hoping that Xiang Chen can love me and love him like me.
Even if it's a verbal lie, I'm willing.
In fact, I really hope that Xiang Chen can tell me once in person, he married me for no other reason, because he fell in love with my relationship.
The sun was still shining, and the asphalt on the road was steaming. The unhindered light shone on the decorative rhinestones on my white uppers, sparkling my eyes and shedding that insignificant tear once more......