Chapter 8: Reunion Again
I remember that in the first two months, I was still pampered by my parents at home, graduated from high school, and had neither homework nor to go to various bridging classes to tutor, so this is a real liberation for students, and I feel that I can finally "turn over and sing".
Sleep until three poles on the day every day and wake up naturally, sometimes you can go out with your friends in high school with your parents, as long as it is not a violation of the law and discipline activities, they will agree, occasionally come home late mother will complain a few words, most of them are worried that girls are not safe outside for a long time after dark, if the father is at home, he will inevitably follow a few words of advice and then persuade his mother to rest assured, after all, adults should have their own way of life.
On my 19th birthday, I asked three or four good friends to go to the restaurant, go shopping in the mall, go to KTV, and a few people played happily for a day and a night.
When I came home the next morning, I saw my mother lying on the sofa, my mother is usually a person who likes to go to bed early, and she has never seen her have dark circles under her eyes, and the tired appearance of this day made her look old, her hair was tied very low, and she was loosely tied with only a head rope, and a few strands of broken hair were messily brushed on her forehead, and she was draped in a single coat, and she sat up immediately when she heard the sound of me opening the door, and it looked like she hadn't slept all night, and she just closed her eyes and took a nap before I entered the door.
My mother looked at me with haggard eyes and didn't speak, got up and walked back to the room, dragging her tired body, her feet rubbing against the floor with the soles of her shoes, and not long after entering the room, she snored loudly.
This is the first time since I was a child that I don't come home at night, so my mother must have been waiting for me to come back, and I waited for the night, until I came back unscathed, and she was willing to go to sleep peacefully, and there was an unopened birthday cake on the table in the living room, and the transparent box made the words written on the cake with red jam clearly visible, and the whole cake was covered with mixed blue cream with a rainbow pattern.
The style of the cake was taken by me a long time ago when I passed by the window of a high-end pastry shop called Sweet Time, and I discussed with my mother that I wanted to order this cake on my 19th birthday, but finally I didn't agree because of the price shown on the label, and said: "It's not a daughter, where can I use more than 400 pieces of cake for a birthday, and it's not like gold will appreciate in value, and it will be gone after spending useless money." "I had a tantrum with her for several days, but my mother secretly prepared a surprise, even the latte art on the box was my favorite blue color, and next to it was the order for this cake, the appointment date on it was three days ago, and I was only full of guilt at this time.
A month after my birthday, it was the beginning of autumn, and when school started, my family began to prepare school supplies for me one after another.
All of the above seems to have happened yesterday, but now it has been more than half a month since the start of school, and the "autumn tiger" in the mouth of people in mid-September has gradually lost the right to be powerful in the world, and the successive rainy days have dispersed the summer heat of the previous period, and the days are getting shorter and shorter, just after seven o'clock, it has been dark, and there is only one hour left from the playground appointment with Li Mingxuan at eight o'clock.
After six years of getting along with junior high school and high school, I have a general understanding of him as a person, and because of his bad attitude towards me before, although he has said all the things that touched me in the past two days, I still dare not meet him alone, so I called three roommates who lived in the dormitory on the weekend, and the weather turned cold at night, so we put on warm sweatshirts and came to the playground together.
The dim playground is no longer like the summer when groups of people come to walk, but there is a place with a faint light, and you can vaguely see the figure, at this time from my jacket pocket came out of the electric ringtone, following the route pointed by Li Mingxuan on the phone, the direction of several of us is the glimmering corner, up close is clearly seen is a circle of candles in the shape of a heart, the flame is beating in the air.
"Mao Mao, you walk in." Li Mingxuan could barely see our approaching figure by the light of the candle, and came over to take a closer look, and after making sure that it was me, he took my hand and walked into the center of a circle of light, and then saw several people behind him light up the flash of the mobile phone, which instantly illuminated the surroundings.
"Li Mingxuan, this ......" It turns out that I often see others confessing to their favorite people in this way, and I am very envious of the onlookers, but I never thought that I would one day become such a confessor, let alone that the first person to confess to me in this way was Li Mingxuan, and now I was surprised a little but the excitement multiplied, I didn't know what to say, and several roommates who accompanied me couldn't help but say in unison when they saw the scene in front of them: "Wow! "I even deliberately lengthened the voice.
"You don't have to say anything first, I came in too much hurry today, I didn't prepare a big bouquet of flowers, and I didn't ask you what you liked before, so I myself felt that this surprise confession failed, don't worry, I will definitely make up for it." Li Mingxuan waved his hand to the two people next to him while talking, one of them came over with a Coke in his hand, and opened the pull tab on the Coke under Li Mingxuan's signal, my heart also jumped violently with the sound of "��" when the can was opened, Li Mingxuan did not take the Coke, but first took one of the pull tabs and put it on the middle finger of my left hand, "Maybe this is very perfunctory, but it is different, use this for the time being in a hurry, don't mind, I said some things on the phone, I apologize to you in person for what happened before, I'm sorry, I like you, can you be my girlfriend? ”
Other people present, including my roommate, shouted together, in the shouting Li Mingxuan opened his arms to me, his eyes were firm and seemed to have no distractions, I think in this situation, maybe there are few girls who will not be moved by it, remember to tell my roommate about the past roommate between me and Li Mingxuan, roughly that some boys try to make things difficult for you, the more they want to get your attention, this kind of boy is very face-saving, obviously likes but always wants you to open your mouth to confess first. In the face of Li Mingxuan, I was affectionate again, and my every move made me believe in him, and I decided to agree to him and put it into his open arms, we hugged each other, and the cola tab was also shining in the light, although it was very cheap, but at this time it made me feel that Li Mingxuan's confession was more surprising to me than being admitted to the university after the college entrance examination.
On the way back to the dormitory, Li Mingxuan kept holding my hand, kissed my forehead gently with his lips when they parted, and said in my ear that he would come to school to see me as long as he had time. I found a slightly delicate little box from the locker to store the tab, except for the temperature of his lips touching his forehead, and the fine sweat left on the palms of his hands after clenching them, I would not have been sure that what had happened today.
Since I met Li Mingxuan, I really haven't seen him pay attention to his studies, whether it is a team with failing grades or a naughty and troublesome group, he will inevitably appear, and he is always a frequent visitor to the teacher's office.
But he is good at long-distance running, he was selected into the principal's running team in his first year of high school and served as the captain of that year, and also participated in various track and field games held in the city on behalf of the school and won a lot of honors.
On the basis of good-looking appearance, it has attracted a lot of fans, among which there is no shortage of boys' favor, some teachers have recommended him to be a sports student many times, and after graduating from high school, he still chose to participate in the college entrance examination, from his usual results, it is conceivable that the final score is not enough to continue to study in college, fortunately, there are certain contacts at home, the business is getting bigger and bigger, the economic conditions are good, and he has opened a small bar, has a house and a car, and his life is more beautiful than those of us who are admitted to college. It's such a male god that so many girls can't ask for, and now it's my first love, and now even my roommates wonder if I saved the entire galaxy in my last life, so I arranged this strange relationship.
In the following month, Li Mingxuan spoiled me like a princess, usually when I had classes at school, I would call me in the morning to wake up, and at night before going to bed would say goodnight to each other, every Saturday and Sunday he would spare a whole day to accompany me, drive out for a ride, if there was nowhere to go around, take me to the bar he ran to introduce me to his friends, from time to time will engage in a little romance - Western food with red or sashimi that I have never been accustomed to and can not accept, it doesn't matter, as long as we are together, he treats me well, I can learn to accept anything, maybe this is true love!
After a period of getting along, he said that there are important business documents in the mobile phone and do not let me touch them casually, the others are all dependent on me, of course, it is me, and I don't like anyone to easily look at my mobile phone, after all, they also need to have personal space and a certain trust between each other, so as to establish a more stable emotional foundation, at least I think so now, as for what will happen in the future, who knows?
This relationship is not easy to come by, take my prejudice and disgust with him because of the past, if Li Mingxuan hadn't taken the initiative to confess to me and resolve the original contradiction, we might have been the end of old and dead people, not to mention that any of his had nothing to do with me before, and I was not qualified to be picky about the present, since fate arranged it like this, why should I ask for too much.
Thinking that now that I am an adult, there are some things that I don't have to hide from my family, so I simply told my parents about being with Li Mingxuan, I didn't want them to worry too much about some trivial things in my school when I was in junior high and high school, so even if I was wronged, I would pretend to be very happy when I came home, and I learned to "slap a swollen face and become fat", and never revealed everything with Li Mingxuan at home, they only often heard me mention Ai Wenxue, and therefore learned about Ai Wenxue's family environment, Always reminded me to keep my distance from the children of the problem family at all times, I am afraid that one day something will happen to make me avoid it, so when my parents knew that I had a boyfriend and was a classmate from junior high school to high school, they expressed their surprise, for fear that the first boyfriend I said was Ai Wenxue, until I said the name they were relieved, ready to find a chance to meet and check for me.
The meeting time was temporarily set for next weekend, and it seemed a little abrupt to suddenly meet my parents, which made Li Mingxuan hesitate, "We have been together for more than a month, isn't it too ...... to meet your parents so soon?" Let's talk about it for a while. ”
"It's okay, don't worry, my parents won't embarrass you."
"Okay." Under my persuasion, Li Mingxuan reluctantly agreed.
During the period because of the living room at home to renovate the reason, no class in the case of going home to help, recently every time near home there will always be a feeling of being followed, this day ready to open the door found that the key in the bag is missing, remembering that it may be just in a hurry to take the mobile phone from the bag to answer Li Mingxuan's call, the key was connected and dropped on the road, so I turned around and returned along the way to look for the key, is worried about looking for no result, a person dressed in black, wearing a black sports cap and pressing the hat very low, The face is still tightly covered with a black mask, and the only eyes that are exposed are not visible at all because I keep my head down, but judging from the figure and the style of clothes I wear, it should be a boy about my age.
"Are you looking for this?" He stretched out his hand and handed me the key that happened to be my missing.
"Yes, it's my key, thank you!" After taking the key, he could see a narrow and raised scar in the middle of his palm, and the outstretched hand was missing a little finger, and it was even more frightening to look at such an outfit.
"Be careful later, huh...... I think the ring on your hand should have been given by your boyfriend, it must be very valuable. He noticed the ring that Li Mingxuan just gave me a while ago, maybe the noon sun was too poisonous, which made the diamond on the ring more dazzling, worried that the person in front of me was plotting wrong, I immediately shrank my hand into the cuff, "Don't get me wrong, don't be afraid, I'm not a robber, I just want to remind you not to lose something, this time you lose the key and don't worry, even if you really can't find it back, it doesn't hurt to match another one, but if you accidentally lose the ring, it will be sad." ”
"Oh, I'm sorry, thank you for the reminder, I'll leave first, there's something going on at home."
"You've thanked me, let's go." After saying that, he turned away first, his voice was hoarse, but it sounded familiar, and his back made me feel déjà vu too.
"Hey, where have we seen each other before? It always feels like you look a lot like a friend I know. When he heard my words, he only slowed down and didn't turn his head again, and I didn't give up and shouted again: "Ai Wenxue, is it you?" "He still walked away, and he didn't mean to stay for half a minute, maybe I was mistaken, or maybe he was just a stranger who looked more like Ai Wenxue.