"Ellie?!"

I grew my mouth in surprise, but I didn't dare to make a sound, because it was still class time.

"You... How do you hold on to a branch? ”

Like a mime actor speaking in the shape of her mouth, I looked at Elle on a branch outside the window.

Ellie's mask hung from her chin, and her cherry mouth was smirking. And under her school pants cut into extremely short, her well-proportioned white thighs swayed in the sun, tightly hugging the branches of the banyan tree, and she was a little dazzling for a while.

"Human sandbag, the old lady is amazing!"

"This... It's not a question of whether it's great or not! ”

I looked back in a panic, and the classmates around me were either chatting with each other, or listening attentively to the class, and no one noticed Elle hiding in the banyan tree outside the window for the time being.

"Did you climb up and tell me if you're good?"

After realizing that Elle was not exposed, I cautiously moved towards the window, opened my mouth and asked Elle in a very small voice.

Ellie, who was hugging a branch at the moment, was less than two meters away from my window, and if I reached out at the same time as her, I might be able to pull her into the classroom.

Of course, I'm not going to do that kind of thing.

"Of course not, you look down at the human sandbag."

Ellie smiled slyly and whispered as she pointed to the bottom of the banyan tree. I shifted uneasily to keep my movements from being too ostentatious, and followed the direction she was pointing.

I saw that under the banyan tree more than four meters high, seven or eight boys were scolding and looking for something. It was also at this time that a fleeting reflection caught my attention.

"Yesterday's earring man?!"

I subconsciously swallowed and recognized the familiar figure in the group; The earring man who kicked me out in the toilet yesterday.

At this moment, a group of them, like a gathering of those bad groups, are scolding and exchanging something with each other, giving people a feeling that it is difficult to approach.

"What are they doing?"

Still in a very small voice, he asked Ellie, who was hiding on a branch. The corners of Ellie's mouth twitched, and she replied in a low voice:

"They're looking for the old lady, but they definitely don't know that the old lady is hiding here."

"Looking for you?!"

Hearing Ellie's words, I was stunned for a moment.

What can the earring man do to find Ellie? It must be because of what happened in the men's restroom yesterday, so the earring man will look for Ellie. After all, yesterday the earring man was beaten up by Ellie.

Wait.. Isn't Elle dangerous now? I soon realized this again.

Now Elle is like a little mouse who has been cornered, and has been driven to a high place. As long as she is discovered by those bad students, she has nowhere to run but to wait for death.

"It's okay, they'll be gone later."

As if she had guessed what I was thinking, Ellie opened her mouth and whispered word by word. And she hugged the thick branch hard, and changed to a slightly relaxed position, and sat on the branch instead. It seems that she is not worried about her current situation at all.

"It's a shame you can still laugh."

I frowned, looked at Ellie, and said. The branch where Elle was now was at least two stories high. If someone with a fear of heights is already trembling at this height, Ellie can change her posture and talk and laugh with me.

At this moment, an inopportune voice came from the front of the classroom.

"Zong Zheng Si Chen! Give me a good look at the blackboard in class! ”

Miss Chen on the podium tapped the blackboard and called my name in front of the class. Hearing Miss Chen's words, my whole body was excited, and I hurriedly straightened up and looked at the blackboard.

Fortunately, Elle outside the window didn't seem to be noticed.

“。。。。”

Absentmindedly, I turned my face to the blackboard, but my eyes stole to the window where Ellie was.

Elle flipped down the branch, grabbed it tightly with both hands and hung it in the air, and smiled at me with an embarrassed face, as if to say, "It's too dangerous, it's almost discovered."

I slowly breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Ellie's abdomen strained, her legs folded, her body flipped around with both hands grasping the trunk, and she sat down on the thick branch again.

"I can't see it, you're pretty good at climbing trees."

From time to time, I glanced at Elle outside the window and said with my mouth covered slightly. More often than not, I looked at Miss Chen on the podium and pretended to be listening to the lecture.

Although I knew that Miss Chen wouldn't look at me carefully, I had already been named once, so I still subconsciously made this kind of behavior.

"As the eldest sister, it is natural to have some skills~"

Elle sat on a branch and patted her insignificant chest proudly. I really don't know what she's thinking, has she already decided that I'm her little brother?

Although I didn't object to her proposal yesterday, I didn't agree to it either, did I?

"Uncle Ellie, the best in the world."

Even though I didn't agree in my heart, I still said it flatteringly. As the saying goes, a thousand are broken, but the sycophants are not broken, so let's hold a handful of Elle first. As for breaking away from her "big sister" game, then you can only find another opportunity later.

"Speaking of which, Ellie, did you skip class if you were fine?"

I moved my body towards the window so that I could get closer to Elle and hear Elle's voice more easily.

"No, my mother has eight classes a day, and she will go to two classes."

Ellie replied with a look of familiarity. Sure enough, it's a completely different kind of bad life from my life, and I only take two classes a day, so I can basically drop out of school, right?

However, I have also heard of teachers' private thoughts, in fact, as long as there is no big basket or it is not a critical learning sprint, most teachers will still turn a blind eye.

Of course, students who are too excessive will be punished in the end.

"That's good. I only have two classes a day, and the rest of the time I bask in the sun. ”

Holding my chin in my hand, I muttered to myself with a little envy. I fantasize about what it would be like if I could live that life.

"Generally."

Hearing what I said, Elle looked a little lost. Then she shifted the conversation away:

"Human sandbag, I'm bored right now anyway, why don't we play a game? Rock-paper-scissors or something, if you lose, you'll be beaten! ”

"Isn't it? I'm in class. ”

I covered my mouth and whispered to Ellie outside the window.

I'm not sitting on a branch skipping class like her, and I'm the focus of Miss Chen's attention right now. What's more, what is the punishment for being beaten if you lose? I'll probably lose once and I'll be beaten to death by Ellie.

"That's it. . . Chat? ”

Elle rolled her eyes, then asked again.

"We're chatting right now."

I sighed inwardly and replied quietly. Honestly, what the hell am I doing right now? Bad chats during class hours and skipping classes outside the window? It's too surreal to unfold.

I glanced at Elle, who was swaying on the branches, and she was complaining about me like a child who never thought about the future.

If there is any person in the world who does not want to make progress, she must be the one who is the least enterprising at this moment. But isn't it good for her to enjoy the moment? On the contrary, I think she is more straightforward than anyone else, and she is more like a real living person.

More like people than those who walk like walking corpses, more like people than those who are defeated by reality and hang their heads every day. More like a human being than those who spend their days in fantasy and forget to enjoy the pleasures around them.

"Human sandbag, I'm telling you. As a younger brother, you have to please the eldest sister, do you know? Wait a minute, remember to buy it for the old lady. ”

I listened attentively to Ellie's tireless "teachings", and for some reason an inexplicable peace rose in the depths of my heart.

She sat alone on a branch, and only I knew of her presence.

I sat in a classroom full of people, but it was as if it was just me.

She and I, two lonely people, were talking to each other in the shadows that no one was aware of.

It's just me.

Only Ellie.

In this early morning time, they are close to each other little by little, little by little, they are imperceptibly close to each other.

。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

"Look! It's the woman! ”

This short silence was ruthlessly broken, and the men who were looking for Ellie's earrings underneath somehow noticed Ellie hiding in the tree.

Could it be that I'm talking too loudly to Ellie? No way. Even her classmates didn't notice Ellie. But I didn't have much time to think about how Elle was discovered. Because the earring man at the bottom has begun to be restless.

"Throw her down with a rock!"

As there was a cacophony of shouting below, stones were thrown at Ellie from below, smashing the branches into a crackling sound. The smashed branches flew and some of the stones hit the windows.

"Oh? The old lady was discovered? ”

As I was at a loss in the classroom, a playful smile tugged at the corners of Ellie's mouth. She didn't seem to care about those people at all, and she was so brave that she was fearless.

"Human sandbag, catch the old lady!"

Just before I could figure out the current situation and what Elle was going to do, Elle suddenly bit her lip and shouted. Her cheeks flushed with excitement, and her well-proportioned legs were slightly bent.

And then.

I see it.

The girl with a long black ponytail jumped up at me from the branches of the tree, like an adventurer who had crossed all the moats, leaping several meters in the air, shining in the early morning sun, laughing and taking a step towards "freedom".

"Hey! Ellie, are you dying!! ”

I didn't care about the heart-warming figure, and I didn't care about the fact that I was still in class. I shouted, stood up anxiously, and stretched out my hands to Ellie in mid-air.