Chapter 8: "I'm Not Now"
Zhong Han went back to class first, took a bag and took Ji Yuxi to the basketball court.
"Zhonghan, you want to play basketball?" Ji Yuxi asked.
Zhong Han didn't speak, and took out a shoebox from the bag, which was the pair of shoes that Ji Yuxi had seen in the mall before.
"You~This is?" Ji Yuxi was a little surprised.
"Thirty-five and a half, is it okay?" Zhong Han squatted down with his shoes and asked.
"Hmm~"
Zhong Han lifted Ji Yuxi's feet and carefully helped her change into new shoes. Ji Yuxi looked down at him, and a strange feeling germinated in his heart.
"Is it appropriate?" Zhong Han asked.
"Hmm~ just right. How do you know my shoe size? Ji Yuxi remembered that he didn't tell him his exact shoe size that day.
"It's not important, it's just appropriate." Zhong Han got up and took out the basketball: "Come, try!" ”
"But I really don't know anything at all, I've never played before."
"Isn't it me?" Zhong Han said as he came with a standard three-point shot, and Ji Yuxi couldn't help but exclaim.
"You're so good!"
Zhong Han smiled disapprenously: "Come on, you can try it!" As he spoke, he threw the ball to Ji Yuxi.
Ji Yuxi received the ball and said to Zhong Han in a slightly coquettish tone: "Can I not stand so far?" It feels like I shouldn't have been able to throw it that far. ”
Zhong Han smiled and acquiesced.
Ji Yuxi held the basketball in both hands, moved to the basket step by step, breathed a long sigh of relief, thought about it and took a few steps forward.
"If you move any further, you'll get out." Zhong Han said with a smile.
Ji Yuxi smiled, holding the basketball with both hands to aim at the basket, exerting all his strength, only to see the basketball draw a strange arc in the air, perfectly avoiding the basket smashing on the rebound, Ji Yuxi turned his head to look at Zhong Han, he didn't want the basketball to be rebounded by the rebound, so he turned back and smashed it on her face.
Ji Yuxi felt that it was dark in front of her, and then countless little stars were flashing, and she squatted on the ground and called out "ah".
Seeing this, Zhong Han immediately ran over and squatted in front of her, holding her face with both hands, and was instantly stunned, he saw Ji Yuxi's two nostrils bleeding at the same time.
"It hurts!" Ji Yuxi looked at Zhong Han aggrievedly and said.
Zhong Han took out a tissue, "Don't move, your nose is bleeding." As he spoke, he helped her wipe the blood off her face, then turned the tissue into two balls and stuffed them into her nostrils.
Ji Yuxi was overwhelmed by his actions, and opened his mouth to breathe.
"How can I breathe like that? I'm out of breath! Ji Yuxi wanted to take off the paper ball.
"Don't move, take it down after the bleeding stops in a moment!" Zhong Han said in a somewhat commanding tone.
"I just said I won't, you have to let me vote, what else do you say! Now that I've made it like this, you're responsible! Ji Yuxi's nose was sour.
Zhong Han stared at her face intently, and after a few seconds, he showed a bright smile and said, "Okay, I'm responsible!" ”
After speaking, he gently touched her head, full of pampering.
Ji Yuxi was a little shy by his gentle actions, and his cheeks flushed.
Under the dazzling sun, the two teenagers formed a beautiful picture in this way, but the beauty was short-lived, and soon, this beautiful picture of pink bubbles was destroyed.
Lu Zifei stared at it in the distance for an unknown amount of time, and at this moment, when he saw the two of them looking at each other in an ambiguous atmosphere, he immediately strode over and knocked off Zhong Han's hand on Ji Yuxi's head.
Zhong Han was instantly furious because of his actions, and suddenly got up and pushed him away with all his might.
"What are you doing?" Zhong Han asked.
"I just wanted to ask what you're doing!" Lu Zifei took a step up and asked loudly.
"What's the matter with you? Who are you? Zhong Han asked.
"I'm his boyfriend!" Lu Zifei didn't want to answer.
When Ji Yuxi heard him say this, he immediately stood up and got between the two.
"What are you doing? Don't do that! Ji Yuxi said.
Zhong Han glanced at Ji Yuxi and asked, "Ji Yuxi, he said that you are his girlfriend, do you admit it?" ”
Lu Zifei was also looking at Ji Yuxi, he really hoped that Ji Yuxi could give a positive answer in front of this person here, but Ji Yuxi did not let him get his wish.
"I~~ I'm not." Ji Yuxi thought for a while and said to Lu Zifei: "Lu Zifei, don't say that, I~~ I only treat you as a good friend, don't you say this to let others misunderstand?" Ji Yuxi's tone was as soft as possible, she was actually afraid that her words would hurt Lu Zifei.
Lu Zifei looked at her and gradually showed a bitter smile: "Ji Yuxi, are you rejecting me?" ”
"Lu Zifei, I~"
"Okay, I'm not, so is he?" Lu Zifei pointed at Zhong Han and asked.
Zhong Han could think of Ji Yuxi's answer, and he took the lead and said, "I'm not now!" ”
Ji Yuxi nodded vigorously in agreement, but Lu Zifei focused on the word "now", and he muttered: "Not now, what do you mean is that you can't say it in the future?" ”
"No one can say what will happen in the future!" After Zhong Han finished speaking, he glanced at the two of them and said to Ji Yuxi, "I'll go first." Don't forget the weekend appointments. After that, he picked up the basketball and left first.
Lu Zifei wanted to say something, but Ji Yuxi took the lead: "Lu Zifei, since we met, I only regard you as a good friend, we have a lot of common topics, I know that you have always been very accommodating and I take care of me, but I also just take this kind of care as a normal concern between friends, maybe it is intentional by God, the family of the two of us is entangled in such a complicated event, I have thought, even if something like this happens, I don't want to lose you, but what I don't want to lose is my friend Lu Zifei, nothing else." ”
Lu Zifei looked at Ji Yuxi, his eyes couldn't help but redden, but he still smiled reluctantly and said: "You don't need to say it, I understand what you mean, you don't want to be my girlfriend, then~~ Can we still be good friends and classmates as before?" Because like you said, I don't want to lose you, even as a friend. Lu Zifei's tone was close to request.
Ji Yuxi was not sad when she said the words of refusal, this boy still had no complaints about her even if he was hurt so much, in her most difficult night, it was he who gave her the greatest support and warmth, but she understood that not speaking clearly was the most hurtful to him.
"Of course, we will always be best friends, Lu Zifei, as if nothing had happened, okay? You told me before that I would go back to the way I was, I would try my best to return to the former Ji Yuxi, and you would also be the former Lu Zifei, okay? Ji Yuxi continued: "I will try my best to raise my head and bravely face all the gossip, you don't fall again, take classes well, let's work together, okay?" ”
Lu Zifei nodded vigorously and didn't say anything more, because he knew that only in this way could he continue to be with Ji Yuxi, even if he was willing to be a friend, but how could this youthful and ignorant feeling be easily relieved.
The two looked at each other and smiled, Ji Yuxi gently tapped Lu Zifei's chest with his small fist as usual, and Lu Zifei also smiled and touched her head in response.
Lu Zifei is not a special student, so when Ji Yuxi went to a professional practice class in the afternoon, he continued to teach in the class. He thought back to his confession today, and remembered what Zhong Han said, "I'm not now", and his intuition told him that Zhong Han must like Ji Yuxi, and himself, even if he promised to continue to be good friends with Ji Yuxi, it was just a delaying tactic, he had already regarded Zhong Han as a rival in his heart, but he didn't know anything about Zhong Han at all.
Just came to the new class, except for Ji Yuxi and Lin Ni, he didn't know anyone, so he patted the boy sitting in front of him in the back, and the boy turned his head.
"Hello, do you have headphones?" He didn't have anything to say.
The boy sitting in front of him was named Zheng Yan, and he was a ****** boy.
"Apple's?" Zheng Yan asked.
"Well, Apple's."
Zheng Yan took out the earphones from the desk and put them on Lu Zifei's desk, Lu Zifei thanked him and took the opportunity to talk to him: "My name is Lu Zifei, transferred from No. 1 Middle School, what is your name?" ”
"Zheng Yan, hello." Zheng Yan said.
"Zheng Yan, hello. Oh, by the way, do you usually play basketball? ”
"Hit, you play too? What is your position? What's the level? We're going to have a basketball game right now, are you interested? Zheng Yan's eyes lit up a little when he heard that Lu Zifei was interested in basketball, there will be a basketball game every year in the thirteenth middle school, and the average level of Zheng Yan's second class is not low, but there are no basketball students like Zhong Han who practice professionally, so even if the average level of the third class is lower than himself, because Zhong Han's personal ability is too prominent, last year's game was still a little regrettable to lose to the third class.
"Basketball? Oops, these thirteen middle schools are different, a middle school will never take the time to hold this kind of activity, in a middle school, everything that has nothing to do with learning is a waste of time, it seems that I came here is really right! Lu Zifei said with a smile.
"And what's your level?"
"What do you say, make an appointment after school to have a look?" Lu Zifei thought for a while and asked, "Which class has the highest level?" ”
"Three classes, they have Zhonghan in their class, they are at the second-level level, they are all certified, if he hadn't scored eleven points in the last two minutes last year, our class would have been the champion." Zheng Yan's tone was obviously regretful.
"Zhonghan? Is that kid who is quite tall and has dyed yellow hair? Lu Zifei pretended not to know and asked deliberately: "It doesn't look like he is playing well." ”
Zheng Yan looked at him and smiled and continued: "You can know when you see him playing, it's really good, and the head of the family has a handsome face, and there are fans of him in every class, and even when he competes with their class, there are fans in the opponent's class who cheer him on in turn!" But you don't look bad, you two can PK. ”
"Haha, okay, let's do it later, if you think I can do it, our class will be in the third class this year, revenge last year's arrow, I want to see how powerful this Zhonghan is." Lu Zifei is still very confident in his basketball level, and he was also selected to represent the school in the city-level competition, not to mention that he was looking for an opportunity to compete with Zhong Han head-on.
"Ah sneeze~" Zhong Han, who was training, sneezed, and it seemed that it would really feel like being talked about behind his back.
Zhong Han is the focus of the basketball teacher of the thirteenth middle school, his physical condition is very good, although the height of 186 is not high compared with professional basketball players, but it is not a disadvantage to play basketball, he regards basketball as his life, and he is in the basketball hall all the time except for classes in several households in the school. The coach gave him a very systematic training, and he was the best in his age group in terms of basic skills and strength.
"Zhonghan, someone is looking for you." The teacher said to Zhong Han, who was doing waist and abdominal strength training.
Shirtless, Zhong Han got up and picked up the jersey with the name of NBA star Maddy and put it on his body, sweat soaked through the jersey to outline his solid chest muscles and obvious eight-pack abs, he dropped his sweaty hair at the end of his hair, and walked towards the door.
"You are?" Standing in front of Zhong Han was a man half a head taller than him, looking about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, no more than thirty. Zhong Han guessed from what he was wearing that this person was definitely a sportsman.
"My name is Chen Dong, it's your mother who found you a promotion coach, I came directly when I heard that you would be training here at this time, I want to see what level of your basic skills are, so that it is convenient for me to formulate a suitable training plan for you." It turned out that this person was the coach that Zhonghan's mother found for him.
"Oh, come in with me." Zhong Han didn't say anything and took Chen Dong into the basketball hall.
As soon as Chen Dong entered the stadium, he directly took off his sports coat and said to Zhong Han: "Come on, let's go alone!" ”
Zhong Han looked at him, the corner of his mouth on the right side of his mouth went up, and he reached out to signal the teacher to ask for a ball.