Chapter 11: Reunion after a long absence
It turns out that this is the feeling of reunion after a long absence.
Su Xiaoxiao never thought that seeing Yan Yimo again would be on such an occasion.
When her brother first immigrated to the United States for a month, Su Xiaoxiao was awakened by nightmares every night.
There was no sound in the dream, only the back left by Yan Yimo, and he didn't even turn his head.
This is the first time in Su Xiaoxiao's life to experience the feeling of heartache, 12-year-old for the first time she understands that she will care so much about someone, desperately want to see him again.
Every time she woke up crying, Su Xiaoxiao pestered her mother to take her next door to find her brother, and her mother didn't know how to answer her, so she could only touch her hair distressedly, and coaxed her to say, Xiaoxiao don't cry, my brother will come back soon, Xiaoxiao is good, sleep well, Princess Chang'e's little white rabbit will jump into your dream.
Tired of crying for a while, Su Xiaoxiao fell asleep again.
But Yan Yimo never came back.
Mom and Dad have also been worried about this for a long time.
One night, when Su Xiaoxiao fell asleep, her father discussed with her mother next door and said, "Otherwise, let's send our child abroad to study in junior high school, let her exercise and grow up, and when she is about to go to junior high school, she is still like an unweaned child, looking for Xiaomo every day, crying and making trouble." ”
"No, I firmly disagree!" Mom's face turned cold, and she said categorically, "Xiaoxiao is only so young now, and I can't worry about going to and from school by myself, for fear that she will have an accident." She went abroad alone, where can I sleep. In any case, I am firmly opposed to her going abroad now. ”
Dad knew his wife's personality, sighed, and didn't say anything more.
"The main thing is that she doesn't have any friends at school now, and when she makes a few good girlfriends in junior high school, and then meets a boy she likes, she will slowly not think of Xiaomo." Mom gently patted Dad's back, "It's okay, let's accompany our daughter together, she will always be our baby." ”
"I hope so."
Just like my mother said, after spending that lonely and long summer vacation, after going to junior high school, Su Xiaoxiao became a lot more gregarious.
I made a few girl friends, and slowly learned to hide my neighbor's brother. Although she still occasionally opens the previous photo album and sniffs the perfume eraser that Yan Yimo gave her, she will never wake up from a dream like before.
Su Xiaoxiao learned to chat with her neighboring classmates in class when the teacher was not paying attention, quietly helped her friend stuff love letters into the schoolbag she liked boys, and would buy a cola-flavored Wangzi crushed ice at the commissary at the school gate after school, and her fingers were cold.
And so the days went by.
Just when Su Xiaoxiao thought that she had forgotten Yan Yimo, he appeared in front of her again. So real.
The moment he saw Yan Yimo just now, Su Xiaoxiao knew that the strength he had spent six years building up would collapse in an instant.
After going to high school and slowly understanding what liking and love are, Su Xiaoxiao also asked himself, do you really like your neighbor's brother? Maybe it's just because of the good memories of childhood in my memory that I rely on him, a friend and a relative. No one can answer her.
Today she finally found the answer.
Yes.
Maybe it was an inadvertent moment, maybe it was an afternoon when they ran out to play together, and the little Su Xiaoxiao fell in love with someone when he didn't even notice it. She doubted herself, tried to deny her feelings, but today her heart told her the truest answer.
The older brother who went to Canada? Did you talk to him? Baby Anne replied.
No.
Su Xiaoxiao's fingertips were cold and trembling slightly when he pressed the send button.
Many people think that Su Xiaoxiao has looked like a little adult since she was a child, and she is not surprised.
But Su Xiaoxiao herself knows very well that she is just trying to cover the softest and most fragile place in her heart with strength.
She had imagined the scene of reuniting with Yan Yimo countless times, but now she didn't know what to do and ran away.
You're still you, I'm still me. But are we still the same as we once were?