Chapter 38: The School Prom
Su Xiaodan covered her face and ran back to the bedroom, pushing open the door, only to find Ouyang Bin sitting upright on her bed, holding a copy of Schopenhauer's "The Theory of the Emptiness of Existence" reading. Seeing her standing at the door with tears on her face, Ouyang Bin was taken aback, threw away the book in his hand, hurriedly came over to support her, and asked eagerly: "Dandan, what's wrong? Didn't you go to participate in the actor selection of director Gu Liming? Didn't you choose? Don't worry, I'll call my dad later, and ask him to find a classmate from the Youth Federation, and he will definitely help you win the role of an actor in this promotional film!"
Su Xiaodan pushed his hand away, saw his delicate and dull handsome face, and the confident look on his face that seemed to be able to solve all problems as long as his father came forward, he suddenly felt a wave of disgust in his heart, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and did not answer his question, walked to his bedside, tilted his head on the quilt, and stared at the ceiling in a daze.
Ouyang Bin didn't know why she ignored herself today. Su Xiaodan is a very gentle girl, and she easily does not lose face. In the past, no matter how unhappy she was, as long as he went to her, he could still get by on face. Occasionally, I want to hold hands with her, and she doesn't refuse. But as long as she talks to her about feelings, she will find a way to divert the topic and not talk to him about it in depth. Although the parents of both of them had already approved of the two of them, Ouyang Bin had no bottom in his heart. Because Su Xiaodan's attitude towards him is always like that: lukewarm, neither salty nor light, as if welcoming and refusing, and leaving immediately, which made Ouyang Bin fascinated, and he couldn't wait to tell his father to marry her home immediately!
Today, he found that Su Xiaodan had changed his ambiguous attitude in the past, and simply ignored him, panicked in his heart, and asked probingly with a glimmer of hope: "Dandan, your school held a dance party tonight, and I came here to be your dance partner." Don't be sad, wait until you go to the ballroom and have a few waltzes and rumbas, and you won't have any worries!"
Su Xiaodan sat up suddenly, and said impatiently, "Ouyang, please go back now." You know I rarely go to the ballroom, and I rarely dance when I do. Don't wait here for nothing. ”
Ouyang Bin said reluctantly: "But tonight is different, this is a collective activity in your department, and I saw that many female students have brought their dance partners over." We're all in this relationship now, and it's normal for me to be your dance partner!"
Su Xiaodan glared at him and said angrily: "What do you say we have to do? You are preaching everywhere that I am your girlfriend, and even Lin Xue, who is one level lower than us, knows about it? When did I promise you to be your girlfriend? Isn't it just that your parents and my parents talked together for a while? Have they asked for my opinion?"
Ouyang Bin couldn't help but be stunned when he saw her suddenly say so many words, and he stood there speechless.
Su Xiaodan saw him standing there with a red face, unable to say a word, and his heart was even more disgusted, so he stood up and didn't greet him, and went out and walked to the secluded path shaded by the trees on the campus.
This trail, she had walked with Sneer Xiaotian many times two years ago. At that time, Sneer was humorous and enthusiastic, although he was a little shorter, he could always find ways to make himself happy. With him, I will never feel bored, and there will never be an embarrassing situation where two people are relatively speechless.
And with Ouyang Bin, it's the opposite. He never forgot to show himself his profound learning, and every time the two of them walked together, he talked to her about Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, Nietzsche's ideal of the "superman", and Sartre's existentialism...... Every time I heard it, Su Xiaodan just wanted to doze off in the clouds.
Su Xiaodan walked on the trail for more than ten minutes, and suddenly saw Lin Xue holding the hand of the boy who looked like a sneering sky, pointing and talking about something on a small lawn not far away, obviously introducing him to the situation of the school. The boy was a little absent-minded, while listening to Lin Xue, he kept looking around, and suddenly saw Su Xiaodan on the path here, so he stared at this side, with a surprised and happy expression on his face, as if he wanted to say something, but he looked back at Lin Xue, who was happily giving him a volunteer tour guide, and finally didn't say it.
Su Xiaodan only felt a wild beat in his heart: his kind of eyes were so familiar to him! In the past, Sneer Xiaotian often used this kind of eyes to stare at him stupidly.
In order not to be discovered by Lin Xue, Su Xiaodan hurriedly left the trail, returned to the dormitory, and saw that Ouyang Bin had left, so he lay down on the bed again, covered his heart that was still beating wildly, touched his cheeks that were hot from excitement, and suddenly made a decision: I must go to the dance tonight!
After making this decision, she rolled over and got up from the bed, bent down to open a box under the bed, and took out an engraved multicolored stone tied with red velvet thread. This beautiful stone with tiger skin markings is engraved with three seal characters of "Sneering Heaven".
This multicolored stone was bought when he went to Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province to conduct a social survey the year before last, and it was a pair of mandarin duck stones. He asked the engraver to engrave his and Su Xiaodan's names on the pair of stones, and then gave Su Xiaodan the stone with his name engraved on it, and he himself kept the stone engraved with the words "Su Xiaodan".
Later, when Sneng Xiaotian wrote a letter to show her love, although she replied to him euphemistically, she always cherished this multicolored stone and hid it in the innermost part of her suitcase.
She carefully hung this multicolored stone on her neck, which was as white as congealed cream, and looked at it in front of the mirror, and thought it was very beautiful, so she wore it and lay back on the bed, fingering the red rope that tied the stone, and fell into a kind of sweet and sour memory......
At half past seven in the evening, Sneer Xiaotian followed Lin Xue to a rehearsal venue at the Drama Academy that had been temporarily converted into a dance hall. I saw that the dance hall was already bustling with people and the fragrant breeze was blowing. Couples of men and women poured in arm in hand, and the benches around the ballroom were soon filled.
Lin Xue took Sneer's hand, grabbed two seats on the bench in the middle of the west, beckoned Sneer Xiaotian to sit down and occupy the position, and went to the store outside to buy drinks and snacks.
Not long after Lin Xue went out, there was a small commotion at the door, and then I heard a few male classmates on the side shouting excitedly: "Wow! Leng Meiren is also coming to the dance hall, God is opening her eyes! I must invite her to dance tonight." ”
Another man teased him and said, "You have it! Every day in the bedroom, I know that I talk about Su Xiaodan, and I still call her name in my dreams at night, you are a typical unrequited love! Beware of going crazy!"
The male classmate smiled wryly and said, "Old Mo, don't pretend. You don't want her in your heart? She's the first school flower of our school, so I don't believe you haven't moved a little crookedly. It's just that I dare to think and dare to speak, and you only dare to be sullen in your heart. Hahaha!"
The other went on to say: "Lao Kun is right, there are not a thousand male students in the school who have a crush on Su Xiaodan, but I am afraid that there are several hundred. I heard that the chairman of our student union, Murong Feng, who had a high eye and thought that Yushu was in the wind, was also fascinated when he saw Su Xiaodan, and secretly wrote several letters to her! Alas, what a pity, the fertilizer water has flowed to the fields of outsiders!"
Sneering Tian listened to their discussion as he raised his eyes to look at the door. I saw Su Xiaodan wearing a white sleeveless dress, and walked into the dance hall with a few classmates in the same dormitory, and before he reached the middle, a handsome guy in a white suit immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, invited them to sit down in the middle of the opposite side, and politely handed them fruit bowls and drinks.
Sneered and guessed that the man in the white suit should be the chairman of Murong Fu who was talking about the few people on the side just now, because he saw that he had been shouting at the people of the student council to arrange the venue, adjust the sound, and maintain order in the field.
After Su Xiaodan sat down elegantly on the stool with the corner of her skirt, she looked around for Sneer Xiaotian and Lin Xue, and soon saw Sneer Xiaotian sitting directly opposite, and saw that he was also staring at him, his face flushed, and he quickly looked away, but his heart jumped uncontrollably.
Soon, Lin Xue came back with a lot of snacks and drinks. The lights in the ballroom had dimmed, and the band played a slow four.
Lin Xue threw the snacks in her hand on the table, took Sneer's hand and walked onto the dance floor.
As soon as she danced a few steps, Lin Xue looked at Sneer Xiaotian in surprise and said, "Farmer, you dance so well?" I really can't see it, you are still an all-rounder in entertainment." Say quickly: Are you a wanderer in your hometown? Have you ever deceived the village girl Xiaomei?"
Sneered and said, "Our hometown is now engaged in the construction of a new countryside, and singing and dancing are a regular thing, and it is no less than the entertainment activities in your school. You can't look at the new era with old eyes!"
While talking to Lin Xue, Sneer Xiaotian peeked at Su Xiaodan who was sitting on a stool in the east. I saw her sitting there alone, and male classmates kept coming up to invite her, but she always smiled and shook her head, as if she had said something, probably "I'm sorry", "I can't jump" or something like that.
After a slow quadruple dance, a rumba is next. A male classmate in Lin Xue's class came over to invite her to dance, Lin Xue turned her head to look at Sneer Xiaotian, and saw that he didn't mean to invite herself to continue dancing, so she angrily stepped onto the dance floor with that classmate.
At this time, Sneering Tianjian saw that the boy in the white suit opposite also invited Su Xiaodan to dance, but he still didn't move.
At this time, one of the men who had been talking about Su Xiaodan next to him gloated and said, "Haha, Chairman Murong also has times when he is rejected by girls." It is estimated that his self-esteem has been hit hard this time, and he will not dare to brag in the student union in the future that he is chasing girls with every shot, and he will be caught!"
The other said to the student who said that he had a crush on Su Xiaodan at the beginning: "Old Kun, didn't you say that you dare to think and dare to say and do?
Before Lao Kun could answer, he suddenly saw Sneer Xiaotian stand up, walked straight to Su Xiaodan's side, stopped talking suddenly, and looked at him in surprise until he walked to Su Xiaodan's side.
At this time, the rumba had already jumped nearly halfway. Sneering walked up to Su Xiaodan, stretched out his right hand very elegantly, made a "please" gesture, and said with a smile: "Miss Su, do you still know me?
Su Xiaodan didn't expect him to come and invite him to dance, and in surprise, regardless of the Murong Feng she had just refused, she sat next to her in a sneering manner, stood up without hesitation, took Sneer Xiaotian's outstretched right hand, and in the surprised eyes of many men, she stepped on the drum beat with Sneer Xiaotian and slid into the dance floor.