Chapter 17: An Apology Draw the Distance
"Shen Xia, I have something to say to you!" After the evening self-study, when the classmates in the class were almost gone, Chen Xijie knew that Shen Xia would go last every time, so he deliberately waited until the classmates were all gone, and then followed her, and when Shen Xia walked out of the classroom door, he dared to ask, Shen Xia paused in his heart, and finally stopped and turned his back to him.
Since the last confession of the evil incident, Chen Xijie has always wanted to make it clear to her, and today he struggled for a long time before he mustered up the courage to talk to her, and he thought he still owed her an apology. The school has investigated the incident clearly, and the banner was not written by him, but was thrown down by Lin Yiqiang and several people in the dormitory who evaded the surveillance camera and went to the roof of the training building. They thought no one saw it, but no one expected that there was a student who loved photography at that time in front of the training building a kapok tree, and just happened to photograph the three of them on the roof of the training building, and then the student handed over the photo to the principal's office, after technical processing, the person in the photo can see that it is Lin Yiqiang, Xu Jiaxing and Lin Dongdong who are in the same dormitory with him. Later, the three people were publicly criticized and punished, and they also apologized to Chen Xijie and Shen Xia through the school radio and read the guarantee, and the matter was settled. Since then, the names of Straw Bale Chen and Shen Ghost have also become a topic of conversation among the students after dinner, and Lin Yiqiang has a deeper resentment towards him, and he is ostracized and despised more often than before in the dormitory. But he knew in his heart that he didn't care much about all this, anyway, there were many people who made fun of him and bullied him since he was a child, and he didn't have the mood to care about it all the time. He just wanted to have a good talk with Shen Xia now, and he also knew that it was not suitable for them to fall in love when they were in their first year of high school now, but he still didn't give up the idea of being friends with her, so Shen Xia's ignorance of him was more uncomfortable than anyone bullying him.
"Is there anything wrong with you?" In fact, these days, unconsciously, Chen Xijie's emotions have also entered her eyes, and when everyone is waiting to see her jokes, only he is really anxious about her and cares about whether she is affected by these unnecessary influences. Everyone said she was a ghost and he insisted on being friends with her, but he didn't know that the reason why she ignored everything and looked at her was to frustrate those who were waiting to see her jokes. For what he did, she didn't dislike it in her heart, and slowly began to accept it, but she hadn't learned how to communicate with others, after all, she was alone at school since she was a child, and the true meaning of the word friend probably appeared in her subconscious for the first time in her life.
"No, nothing special...... I just wanted to say I'm sorry to you! I was rude in front of your third brother last time, I'm sorry! And that banner incident also caused you an inconvenience, I'm really sorry! Chen Xijie organized it in his mind several times, and finally said this sentence out of his mouth, you know, once he is nervous, how difficult it is to say a smooth word, let alone face her.
"The matter has passed, not to mention that my third brother doesn't blame you, there is nothing to apologize for, the banner thing is just their boring prank, and it has nothing to do with you, others have already apologized, you don't need to apologize again." Although Shen Xia didn't look back, her tone was not as stiff as before, and Chen Xijie's heart was still happy when she listened, this was the most time she had talked to him since he met Shen Xia, and she meant that she was no longer angry with him, so could he talk to her again in the future?
"Thank you for not care! Can I continue to talk to you in the future? Chen Xijie couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and even his tone became a little excited.
"Why do you have to talk to me?" Shen Xia never thought that someone would make friends with her, nor did she think that someone would be so persistent just to talk to her, she tightened the textbook in her arms, and felt a little more strange in her heart.
"Because I want to be friends with you! Wouldn't it be nice to have someone with you to review, discuss the content of the text, and share your happy or sad things together? Seeing Shen Xia move, he felt that he was about to approach her inner world one step later, his excited heart was about to jump out, although he didn't know why she always hid herself and didn't like to come into contact with others, but he guessed that she must have had a lot of painful past! He approached her not to dig out her painful past, but to inject some time and warmth into her heart, so that she is no longer so cold, since he was a child, he has always been called a straw bag Chen, he was always very inferior in the past, and he was also very resistant to others, it was Zhao Xiaoluo who gave him those time and warmth, and gave him the trust and love of his friends, so he now wants to share these with her.
"But I don't know how to talk to you, I don't know how to share, and I don't know how to get along with friends." Shen Xia suddenly looked up at the night sky, her eyes were a little confused, she didn't seem to be able to see everything clearly, including herself, she had always ignored her, and she had a little imperceptible sadness. In the summer night sky, there are always a few small stars, far away from her, flickering and dark, her state of mind has probably always been like this, right? Oh, I don't know when it started, everything that happened to the Shen family made her forget it a long time ago, she was actually only sixteen years old, and she had already forgotten it, she could actually be like Zhao Xiaoluo and them, walking through the campus time without worry and vigorously, and going through the green years.
"I just understand, you can just listen to me, just listen to me share, or, or think of me like your third brother......" Chen Xijie opened his mouth a little suddenly, and immediately realized the sensitivity of the word, and immediately stopped her mouth and looked at her with her eyes, she didn't look back at herself, it seemed that she was too worried.
"Third brother......" Chen Xijie's words made Shen Xia fall into deep thought, the third brother is his only relative in this world, right? That day, the third brother said that she was his life, and her heart was stunned, it turned out that she had never known that she was so important in the third brother's heart, but think about it, why is the third brother not her life? So she didn't blame him, her eyes never left those little stars in the sky, could she really get along well with him if she imagined him as the third brother? Will he treat her like the third brother? She didn't know.
"Is this really possible?" Shen Xia looked back at Chen Xijie, Chen Xijie met her gaze, the first time she looked at him with such a soft gaze, he could feel that he had become a little nervous, had her heart begun to accept him?
"Yes." You can smile so brightly at the third brother, you can say so many things, and prove that your heart is not completely ruthless. Chen Xijie thought silently in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, he was afraid that he would provoke her again.
"Hey, why haven't you two gone back to the dormitory? It's time to turn off the lights and lock the door. The patrolling school guard found that there were still students in the stairs, and they were a little angry, thinking that they were secretly dating students in the middle of the night.
"I'm sorry, let's go, let's go!" Chen Xijie hurriedly apologized, I heard that this guard uncle was very fierce, it seemed to be true, he didn't want anything to happen on a cloudy day, he couldn't help but glance at Shen Xia, she didn't say more, but put away her eyes and walked down the stairs to the dormitory, Chen Xijie silently followed behind her, his mood was a little complicated, he didn't know what Shen Xia would think in his heart, but he was destined to lose sleep tonight.