The first stop in earnest
It was close to the summer vacation, and the rain had stopped for more than ten days.
One day, everything changed after I suddenly learned the actual situation about Xiao Yu's condition, whether it was me, other people around her, or friends, they all really realized all this from that day.
That day, counting me and Shangwen, there were a total of three classmates who went to the hospital to visit Xiao Yu, who was going to school for a long time, and I unexpectedly saw a few new female classmates' faces, this guy seems to have made a lot of friends recently.
"Huh? Why are you here? β
"Didn't I communicate with you on the phone?" Li Shangwen put the fruit basket he brought on the table next to the hospital bed.
"School is about to end for the summer holidays, right?"
"Yes, the holiday will officially start next week."
I sat down in a chair in the distance, listening to their conversation as I peeled the apple I had just brought with a fruit knife.
"When will your hypoglycemia get better?"
"Oh, Ah Qiu, how many times have I told you, I will be discharged from the hospital in a few days, I will be discharged in a few days, I will be discharged in a few days, I will be discharged in a few days, I will be discharged in a few days, I will be discharged in a few days."
The girl she was talking to was a new student friend, and I looked at her carefully, as if she was a female classmate from the next class.
So far, there had been nothing out of the ordinary, so I walked over with the peeled apple.
βtha
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I smiled and handed it to her and quickly ran away, surrounded by so many girls, and I was even more speechless for my timidity.
"Three women in one play, it's really good to talk." Li Shangwen took a chair from elsewhere and sat next to me, but fortunately, there is a familiar classmate next to him.
"Come and play a team game with me." Shang Wen looked at me with his phone.
"You know I don't play games."
"Okay, understood, I won't embarrass you."
The next second, sure enough, he played with his mobile phone regardless of the future. And the female classmates outside this corner are not disturbed at all, just enjoying the hot conversation.
On a whim, I heard about two sentences with my ears pricked up, all of which were gossip news about so-and-so and other topics that were only widely circulated among girls, which didn't make much sense to me, so it was better to lean against the wall and plug in the headphones to close my eyes for a while.
"Wow, you two still dare to hide here and play games, is this what you should do when visiting a patient?"
Lin Yuyu's voice was so loud that it woke me up in a semi-sleepy state, and when I opened my eyelids, I saw a beautiful face that was a little pale, and now I saw clearly, her face lost its original ruddyness.
"From just now until now, everyone is gone, if you like to sit here all the time, then why do you want to come and visit me?" She made a vomiting appearance as she spoke.
Has it been so long? I rubbed my eyes, and the girls I was chatting with were really gone.
"It's not because a few of you female classmates chatted and the two of us couldn't talk, and the hearts were already delivered, right?" Li Shangwen said and gave me a look.
"That's not going to work!! She put her hands on her waist and glared at us as if she were in debt.
"I want to make amends, make up for it, you know."
Seeing this, I still didn't say anything the whole time.
"You say what you want, brother satisfies you."
"yes, what about you?" Then she looked at me with a wicked look.
"Uh, the books, toys, and snacks are fine, and I'll do my best to prepare them, okay?" I do feel that it is really inappropriate to do this at such a time of time.
Then she finally showed a satisfied expression, "Okay, I'll think about it." β
"Go back first, I'll let you know if you think about it." She smiled mercilessly in the next second and issued an eviction order.
"The man doesn't suffer the immediate loss, let's go." He got up contrivedly and walked out magically.
Is this really good, I crept the door of the ward shut and stood outside hesitating.
Now you can smell a very strong smell of disinfectant outside, and the hospital cleaners should be spraying disinfectant, sterilization and cleaning agents, although I know that this smell is not harmful to the human body, but I am still very resistant to these strange smells mixed with medical alcohol, maybe I have been sensitive since I was a child.
"Let's go, let's go, let's go home." He smacked me on the shoulder, then went to the wall and pressed the elevator downstairs.
3rd floor, 2nd floor, 1st floor. As soon as I thought of her pale face in the elevator, I felt faintly uneasy, uneasy, and when I returned home, I remember that she had this kind of situation before, but I didn't see her lying on the hospital bed with my own eyes, so uneasy, so uneasy.
It was raining, it was very small, very little rain, and I put my newly bought book on the shelf.
"It's raining, I'm leaving."
Who was talking, this voice, who was talking to me, it wasn't coming from the rain, it wasn't coming from outside the door, it wasn't coming from the room, it was coming from my body.
The rain continued for a while and then stopped, and I went to the window to face the wind, and involuntarily ringed in my ears for a while.
A purple petal floated slowly from the sky, and finally was blown by the wind onto the highway and into the distant city.
'Can you come to the hospital to see me now, I've already thought about your punishment, and you can only come alone, if I find out that there is a second person, I won't spare you.' It was the first message she sent me since.
It happened to be the afternoon of the closing ceremony, I left the school gate five minutes before the school bell, and of course the security guard would stop me at the door, and then I was very passionate about education. But I was released the moment the bell rang, so I left school a little earlier than any of my classmates.
I rarely used the bus, but I knew that if I waited until everyone came out, I would have to huddle in the crowd, so as soon as the first bus came, I jumped on it and threw a dollar coin. Fortunately, there were not many people in the car. There are still five stations from the People's Hospital, about ten minutes away. I don't know why I'm so motivated to visit her.
The choices made at each point are factors that cause different outcomes, and it's really hard to say what will be an opportunity in this world, but I chose to meet her, and it was my choice under the opportunity of that news.
After getting off the train, I remembered the place I walked that day, and looked at the signboards of the stores around me while walking, and finally found that the hospital was next to the station after a long time.
When I came to the ward of the inpatient building, she was wearing a simple T-shirt and hakama today, and when she saw me, she smiled and raised her hand to greet me.
"It seems that you are recovering well, and your complexion has improved a lot compared to before."
She laughed, I couldn't figure out why I was so happy with what I said.
"Really? Can't you see it's because I'm wearing makeup on my face? β
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry what?"
"I forgot to bring you condolences."
"Didn't I say I wanted anything yet?"
She stretched, then walked up to me.
"I'm going to be discharged from the hospital today."
"Huh? When. β
"Right now, I've communicated with the parents."
She rolled up the rough quilt on the bed, then pulled me out with a small backpack on her back, leaving me with no room for doubt, and she was taken out of the hospital.
"Anyway, now that we've finally escaped, shall we go get something to eat?" She looked like a new life in the sun.
"And what do you want to eat?"
"Eat seafood buffet?"
"I've rarely been out, so I didn't know there was a seafood buffet store."
Coming back to our senses, we were already sitting at a two-person table with a view on the sixth floor of a commercial building.
The clerk was next to him with a food list ready to order us.
"Do you have any seafood you don't like?"
"Not really."
Then she sketched the picture and ordered the menu with the waiter, but I didn't understand anything, thinking that maybe my compensation was to treat her to a meal.
The first dish was served with some appetizers, followed by salmon sashimi, shellfish dishes that I can't name, shrimp, shrimp, hairtail, and so on.
"Don't you need to be taboo when you're sick?"
"It's okay, it's important to be well-fed."
"Oh yes, you go get some drinks from the freezer, and beer too."
"Okay."
I went to get four cans of soda that wasn't too cold, and thought I still had to take care of my body.
She devoured as if she had been hungry for days without eating, and praised her as she ate.
"I have something to tell you."
"What?"
"Come here, I have something to tell you." She screamed despite the fact that there were so many people around her.
"Say it." I leaned my ear over.
"Actually, I'm dying."
"Huh?"
"Lie to you." She laughed habitually, then shoved a slice of sashimi into her mouth.
I could hear exactly what she was saying, and she seemed to be feasting on nothing in front of me.
"Xiao Yu?" I put down the cutlery and looked at her suspiciously.
"Why don't you eat it, is your combat power so weak?"
By the end of the meal, I was shocked that I hadn't eaten much. This is a lie, how can anyone be so relaxed before they die.
I hurriedly went to the cashier and paid the money
"Thank you for inviting me to dinner today."
"No thanks."
"But I didn't say that your compensation was to invite me to a meal, you made your own decisions." She argued with me like a child.
"Actually, my life is coming to an end." She understated.
Sure enough, I was almost terrified.
"Why, why such a joke?"
"The doctor said that there would be an operation before the end of the summer vacation, and even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will only continue your life in the end, and you will still die."
"Then why didn't you tell us before?" I almost cried when I faced her.
"Isn't it just a death, what's the big deal?"
"No, it's just...."I really don't understand why she's so bland. Everything that happened before that was for a reason, I left school halfway, I didn't come to class for a long time, my face was pale as if I fell down at a touch, why, why didn't any of us see it.
"I figured it out, your compensation for me was to carry me back to the hospital." The corners of her mouth rose fifteen degrees.
"Back to the hospital?"
"Stupid, how can you just run out of the hospital casually, if you are about to die?"
"That?"
"I don't lie to you, how could someone as obedient as you take me out to breathe?"
It seems to be too prosaic, I don't understand, sad, sad, what I mean to you all along, I seem to see through a little.
"The last time I carried it was a few months ago, did you feel any different in such a short period of time?"
"No, you just put on a little perfume today." I lied, because I felt that she was very heavy on my back, even because I had just eaten, and I later found out that it was all for my own reasons, because my strength had lost since I heard that sentence.
"Huh, do you smell it, it's a floral perfume, right?"
"Yes, that's what I smelled."
Hee-hee-hee, she laughed deliberately, but too deliberately. Now I finally couldn't help but choke on my back, I heard her sobbing quietly, she was stronger than anyone seemed and more fragile than anything could have imagined, and now she was just a soft girl who had not yet reached adulthood.
I dropped her down at the door of the hospital's inpatient building.
"Why, why don't you come up and sit with me for a while?"
"It's getting late, so I'm not going to disturb your rest."
"It's fine." The tears hanging from her earlobes were shaking, and the tear stains on her face were not wiped clean.
"I'll go first."
"Good!"
"Oops, I almost forgot to tell you, you have to promise me something." She took two steps and came back.
"No problem, I'll promise you no matter what."
"You can't tell anyone about my illness, now you are the only one who knows, I can't spare you if you dare to say it and cause everyone's panic."
"Okay, I promise you."
Then I watched her smile and quickly ran in, and in the blink of an eye, I couldn't see her back. In the evening, the environment around the hospital is even more lively, and I think this is the effect of city life. Even though she had been gone for a long time, I was still standing there, standing on the steps outside the blue transparent curtain.
I was thinking about what I didn't know much about now, but my feelings for her had become more complicated from simple.
It's time to leave, and the station entrance to the opposite direction should be somewhere across the road. After a long period of sluggishness, I turned around and prepared to go back from the hospital.
"Paulownia! Paulownia! β
I heard a loud call coming down from upstairs. Then stop to find the source of the sound. I saw her waving at me with the window open, and I waved in response.
She hesitated and shouted, "I like you." Then I closed the window, the curtains were drawn, and I couldn't see what was inside.
What, she said she liked me, I see, then I have something else in mind, I don't understand. I just know that I've never seen her put on a gloomy face, and I think I've cried behind her back many times. Suppose I were seriously ill and dying, would I be able to live with a smile like this? In addition to sympathy, my hormones at this moment once again inspired me to have another emotion.
There were a lot of people on the bus on the way home, standing shoulder to shoulder in the crowd. The view from the window was passing by every moment, all the roads and buildings in other parts of the city that I hadn't seen much before. There are signs on several highways that are under construction, and I think the subway is being built, and no one can guess how far the city will go in the next few years.
Why is the current level of medical care not enough to cure a sick girl, I naively use this to use the scene to express lyricism, whether I should be content with the status quo, or must I do something different.
The wide road was very wide and clean, even though it was blocked in some places, and I could see the leaves falling from above on the road in the distance, no, it was a petal, not white, not black, not green, it could be red, it could be pink, it could be blue, it could be purple.
I opened a novel that I hadn't read for a long time, and the weather seemed to be very hot today, and it had already entered summer, and the noise outside made me completely unable to calm down when I read the book. If it's the sound of cicadas, it's okay, the key is the sound from the traffic, beep, beep, which driver kept honking, I went back to my room and closed the door.
Today is the third day of communication with her on her phone, and I pick up my phone to see if there is any new news. From the time we got home that afternoon and received her first message, we really began to play a relationship in a sense, because we knew that she was going to die, so we pitifully replied to her frequently on the Internet? I still don't know, but it seems to be that we're in a relationship.
The content she sends every day is either retweeting some funny posts or ridiculing some things I don't understand, which is not at all the behavior that a desperate person should have, and I can only echo a few words later.
In addition, she also likes to send some literary sentences similar to love words, such as, 'It's like a migratory bird flying south, and thousands of rivers returning to the sea, I hope you are here for me.' β
I couldn't imagine what kind of expression she would have when she posted this, so I also took some sentences from some of the copy to match her.
'Carrying the mountains and seas, across the mountains, will come with you. When I meet you, the mountains and seas are quiet, and the mountains are flat. Plus a smiley face, send.
She grimaced back.
'At the end of the seventeenth, the lights will not be extinguished, thinking that you are three points of spring water and seven points of the moon, and you will see the vast green mountains, and you are unique in the world. Then I sent it again.
'It's better not to be so literary when you're lyrical, I'm afraid. Attach a laughing and crying emoji.
I didn't know what to reply to for a while, and if she didn't think about the sad things when she talked to me, then my purpose would have been achieved, and I would be happy about it.
Whatever happens in the future, at least now I'm moving to your perigee like the moon, so every day you'll have a clear view of the supermoon overhead.
This situation lasted for about half a month.,I never deliberately go through the calendar.,Because time doesn't matter to me at all.,So now I've really forgotten the date of the official holiday.,The start of school is roughly at the end of August.,When the time comes, look at the notice of holiday precautions.γ
I remember the two of us communicating frantically on our phones for half a month, and asked me to do these things when she needed someone to care and comfort her the most. It won't be long before she is gone. I don't understand why the courage she brings to me has always been endless, so I will choose to be with her recklessly until then, and even then, when that day actually comes, I will undoubtedly suffer for a long time.
One day she asked me again to visit her in the hospital. I said yes in one bite. I feel sorry for my low EQ, and if it were someone else, I wouldn't have waited for someone in the hospital to propose the idea of visiting her. When I think of this, I feel even more deeply remorseful for my stupidity.
You must quickly adapt to this relationship in the future, and you must change your slow-burning personality and play the role of the first time.
After locking the door, I went to take the bus, and now I have the experience that I can't take a taxi at a public station very close to my home, but I have to take a long detour to a more remote stop where I found last time, although it takes a bit of foot effort, but the result is the same.
There were not many people on the bus as I expected, and the air conditioning was abundant, probably because the driver was still a strong young man. After this period of slow precipitation, I don't feel so sad anymore because of Xiao Yu's story, the most optimistic person has always been the one who is on the verge of despair, if I am always gloomy and dark, what is it like.
It took more than half an hour from coming out to standing outside the door of this ward, and I wiped my face with both hands, and then knocked on the door a few times.
"Here we are." If I pinch the watch, it won't be more than three seconds before she opens it, and she sticks out her head to echo me.
What a bright smile, she looks twice as beautiful today as she laughs in my memory.
"I can be discharged."
"Really?" After being deceived once last time, maybe it was a loss, I asked in disbelief.
"Oh! This time it was true, my family helped me get the formalities done an hour ago. β
"And where are they now?"
"I said wait until some friends come to visit me and ask them to pack up all my belongings that I left in the hospital and take them home."
"So what are you going to do after you are discharged from the hospital?" I've always been a man of few words, so I inevitably say things that are not much different from what I said last time.
"You haven't asked why I've been discharged from the hospital all of a sudden?" She asked me with her head sideways, stunned.
"Why is that?" Now what I'm most afraid of is the sudden cold field without a topic, so I constantly organize language in my mind, this way of meeting is completely different from the kind of random news on mobile phone communication software, but this is really completely different.
"Because my body won't deteriorate anymore, even if I stay, it doesn't make much sense, and the time before the surgery next month will be all for myself." She still had a smile on her face.
"Is there anything you'd like to go? I can go with you. β
"Isn't that what I should ask you?" I reacted immediately.
"Are you sure you'll go with me wherever you go?"
"That's right." I followed her daily appearance, raised the corners of my mouth fifteen degrees, and said with a smile.
"It's the first time I've heard you say such things to me in this state, I'm so happy, are you free today?"
"I've been at home alone lately, and I've always had free time," I suddenly realized that things were not easy.
"I've decided that my first stop will be the beach, which is the most suitable for summer, and I'll go now." She tossed her little backpack to me and walked forward without hesitation.
"Do you have a plan in place?" I obediently followed behind her.
"Nope."
"If you don't think about all the arrangements in advance, it may not go well." To be honest, I didn't think that I would start traveling with her as soon as I came over today.
"If you had predicted it in advance, wouldn't it have lost the fun of just leaving?"
"There's a sea down there in the college town, but I've never been there."
"As I thought, should we take the bus or take a taxi?"
"Everything."
I didn't expect to end up renting two sharing bikes on the side of the road.
"I didn't expect to hit the morning rush hour as soon as I came out, and there were cars crammed everywhere."
"Anyway, it's not far, it's only ten minutes by bicycle, and if you hitchhike, you will have to bet until the Year of the Monkey."
We rode on the bike lane, and the branches of the trees planted on the side of the road just acted as parasols, and a cool breeze blew from time to time in the clear sky, bringing a good riding experience.
"Is this the ring road on the edge of the city that separates it from the sea?" The speed at which she pedaled suddenly increased.
"Hey, hey, hey, heyβ" I shouted as I chased after me.
She continued to accelerate as hard as she could, and it was hard for a boy like me in the prime of life to keep up with her frequency, and if there wasn't anything else in the lane now, I'd be afraid there would be some accidents.
"I'm tired." After saying this, she jumped out of the car and threw the public bike that was not her own to me.
I watched her panting and sitting on the small stone pillar at the intersection, thinking that she really deserved it, but she unconsciously parked the two shared bicycles in the designated parking area.
"Come, water for you." I walked over with two bottles of mineral water that I had just bought from the vending machine.
"Shhhh
"You can't drink after a strenuous exercise, it's best to replenish some water." I helped her twist the cap.
"How long will it be before we get to the beach?" She took a sip and asked, beads of sweat in her hair and forehead.
"Come on, this aisle will be the entrance to the beach." I took the mineral water she drank and covered it and put it in her satchel.
"Let's take the rest of the road." She strode towards her destination as if she had been resurrected with full blood.
What an interesting person, I followed her back all the way. The sea and sky are colorful, the morning sun is not particularly strong, the clouds in the sky are very thick, and the biggest advantage of coastal cities is that the temperature is mild all year round. However, in the past two years, the temperature has been higher than usual in each year, but fortunately, the precipitation is relatively evenly distributed, and the evaporation of seawater can inject some humidity into the air at any time.
"A long, long time ago, the city we lived in was still a big collective similar to a fishing village, it should have been twenty years ago, or thirty years ago, when we were not born anyway."
"No one could have imagined that the pace of development would always be much faster than expected." I looked at my watch, it was already 9:40, and it was the first time I had expected that the journey would be longer than I expected.
"I don't like the city to be too urban at all, there were no electronic devices, no large shopping malls, and there weren't so many miscellaneous pleasures, didn't everyone have a good life." She said to me as if she was doing a review of life values.
I didn't know how to take this sentence, so I pretended to look at the scenery and avoided making eye contact with her.
"Do you like the rain?" She asked me coldly.
"This question would have been answered in the affirmative if I had asked it a long time ago, and now I have lost the idea of a correct answer."
"Surprisingly, I thought you liked rainy days as much as I did. In order for us to be a little more compatible, I decided not to like rainy days anymore. She answered faster than she dressed.
"Is it so sloppy?"
"Yes, but I didn't say I'd like sunny days from now on!" She sighed deliberately, put her hands behind her head like a boy, and asked me.
"Now I want you to answer me a serious question, have you ever talked about a girlfriend before? Online dating also counts. β
I hid my embarrassment with a smile. "Don't you know that best?"
I thought she was just casually joking with me, but I was completely wrong. She suddenly stopped taking a step forward and fell into thought, and I unconsciously stopped taking about three steps more than hers.
"That's a useless answer." Her tone grew stronger.
I realized that I might have said something wrong, and remedied: "To tell you the truth, I really don't, if it was before the age of three when my memory was not mature, then I don't remember it." β
"Liar!" This time the tone softened, followed by a wahaha laugh. The meaning of her words and the meaning of her expressions are still unreadable.
"I'll apologize to you if I do something wrong." I'm not good at reading words and colors, and I said this differently.
βkissοΌβ
"Huh?" I had a question mark on my face.
"If you want to apologize, just kiss me on the face." She poked the flesh under her cheekbones with her delicate hands.
"Isn't it?" I was so red that I was dizzy.
She shook her head and glanced at me meaningfully, then stepped forward again until she was several positions past me.
Drifting in the wind, I think this is the second time that it was unexpected.
As soon as we stepped into the soft sand, it was a weekday so there were not many tourists to see the scenery, and we had already taken off our shoes before we even reached the entrance. The truth is that she took off her shoes early, and then asked me to do the same, saying that I had to get used to the feeling of being barefoot in advance.
I was defeated by this nonsense, and in the end, the good old man who helped carry the bag and shoes was not the one next to me.
"It's so soft." She stamped her feet frantically on the sand.
"I can't wait to jump into the water for a while." γ
She ran and jumped and deliberately rubbed the sand under her feet, and then she kicked every grain of sand into the air wherever she went.
The more water you use on the beach near the sea, the darker the color. So when you look down from above, you can see a gradient of sand colors.
I sat on the beach and watched her play excitedly in the water, and I didn't really like the feeling of getting stuck to the sand on the shore after her feet were covered with water.
"Come and take a few pictures for me." She walked barefoot out of the water to the shore and told me.
"Did you keep your phone in your bag?" I was about to unzip it and she stopped me.
"Just take a picture with your phone, take a beautiful picture for me." After saying that, she turned and ran into the sea, and the splash fell on me.
"Did you shoot this pose?"
I gestured OK.
"Okay, then for the next one." She struck a different pose again.
It took about 30 more photos before she came back satisfied and accepted.
I put my hands on the ground and listened to the beautiful sound of the sea, thinking of the moonlight sonata composed by Beethoven, the low and slow melody with a kind of sadness, the keys changing the sonata tune at the touch of my fingers, like sitting on a rocking boat and drifting with the current.
"When were these pictures in your album taken?" She handed her phone to me.
I quickly flipped through it with my thumb, and the photos stored in the album were all landscape photos of plants and flowers, the flowers on the hanging rattan should be wisteria, and a few dilapidated stone statues that looked like mountain gods for worship, and then I turned to a picture of a lake. There are many, many photos of the same place.
"It's a shame I've forgotten when I went to shoot."
"I guess I took it when I was still in school."
"Seems like so." I was reminded by her that I had a little image of taking pictures at that time.
"Do you know where I shot this?"
"I can't remember the photos I took." She lectured me in amazement.
"Because that's how my mind is, I always lose the memory of things."
"Then it won't be long before you forget about me."
"Don't worry, I can't forget such an important thing."
"Flim Flam." She stuck her tongue out at me and snatched the phone.
I watched her sweaty long hair and smile like the sun.
At midday, the sun shines directly overhead, which is the hottest time of the day.
"Let's find a place to hide first, we'll get sunburned if we're exposed to the sun for a long time." I kindly reminded you.
"Oh, lead the way, you lead the way."
I was loaded with stuff and walked barefoot on the sand in the opposite direction. It just so happened that the footprints left behind when I walked back now were the opposite footprints that had been sunk when I came.
The crowd was very dense at noon, and I planned to take him with me to find a place to solve the lunch problem. As everyone knows, she was left far behind following in my footprints.
"Why are you walking so slowly!" I turned to her and complained as she walked step by step.
"Of course you went too fast, and you still settled the account on my head." She still didn't walk faster.
I brought her sandals to her, "It's time to leave the beach, put your shoes on." β
"Wait until you get to the end of the beach." She continued to immerse herself in her own affairs in a principled manner.
This time it was my turn to walk forward with the footprints she had left behind. Born ungregarious, I never imagined that one day I would make memories in such a place with others in such a way. A sunny person like her never seems to be isolated and criticized. Her skinny body now completely occupies a large part of my inner space.
It is like a process of accumulation of quantitative changes, accumulating to the present, and the previous accumulated process that we have attached importance to has now reached the result of real qualitative change to a certain extent. I've thought about it seriously until now, and I've really liked her.
"I want you to put on my shoes." She was unreasonable and put her feet on the chair and said to me.
I was happy to help her put on her shoes on the foliage chair. Unbuttoned her black sandals, ready to put them on her feet, thinking that it was not prudent enough, so I used my hands to help her pat the sand stuck to the footboards. Now I feel like I'm a big step closer to being a good partner.
When I touched her cold, fleshy feet, I unconsciously began to flush from my cheeks to the base of my ears. It seems that at this moment we feel as one. This is the satisfaction that comes with first love.
"I'm going to eat popsicles." She said excitedly.
I willingly walked to a convenience store not far away to buy ice cream. There's vanilla, fruit, mung bean, and that old-fashioned popsicle. To my own taste, I bought two old-fashioned plain popsicles and made it clear that she might like it.
"Is this popsicle okay?"
She didn't even look at it, she just tore open the bag and took a big bite.
"Good ice, good ice."
She opened her mouth wide and kept puffing, trying to melt the cold popsicle to the tip of her tongue as soon as possible.
"Is it the first time you've eaten a popsicle?" I looked at her funny look in amazement.
"Uh, what do you mean?" She doesn't speak very well anymore.
"Is this taste delicious?"
"It's not delicious at all, it's like boiling water with a little sugar in it and freezing it."
"Shouldn't it be said that this old-fashioned popsicle doesn't have so many bells and whistles additives, and the taste is single and pure." I cheered as hard as I could.
"Anyway, I don't like it, the taste is not rich at all, the texture is the same as chewing ice cubes, so I don't eat it." She left me half of what was left.
Now that I feel the elusiveness of a woman again, I knew to ask her about her taste before I bought it, but I didn't think about it thoroughly, and I thought that if only someone around me had been reminding me what to do and what not to do. So the only thing I can do is that I definitely won't make this kind of mistake again in the future.
"Where should we go in the afternoon?" She picked up her phone and was looking at some messages.
"It's up to you." I quickly settled on two uneaten popsicles as a stubborn proof that they were delicious.
"It's not like I haven't eaten lunch yet." She and I looked at each other.
"I know."
"Do you know if I won't be reminded, if I don't say it, I won't eat it." She punched me in the shoulder.
What happens next and the conversation isn't very important, so it's omitted.
Anyway, during the meal time, we found a random restaurant and solved it in a hurry. By the way, we ate the same beef curry rice, and she didn't eat half of it, so I held my stomach and stuffed her portion into my mouth like kitchen waste.
When I came back to my senses, I was already on the second floor of a large shopping mall. This was the third time I was surprised on this trip, because I didn't expect her to waste the afternoon on something like shopping.
"You're not going to buy clothes, are you?"
"You guessed it."
"It's good to buy clothes online, why do you have to come here to buy them."
"What do you know, I don't have to touch my hands to know how the fabric is, and I don't pick it up and try how to know if it fits." She gave her two major advantages of shopping in reality.
"So what are you going to buy? Short-sleeved summer dresses? Skirt? β
"I won't tell you."
She was neat and old-fashioned and picked out clothes in every clothing store that sold women's clothes, and I kept standing outside the door and didn't follow up, because I didn't see a single boy go in the stores full of girls' clothes, so I didn't want to be a special case. She didn't insist that I accompany her in, so I spent most of my time at the door looking after my backpack and luggage.
Not long after, she came out dissatisfied, and then took me on to the next one.
It seems to be a place to sell all kinds of gadgets and accessories. I also saw a variety of antique items at the door, including traditional embroidered umbrellas, hairpins, kimonos, and a variety of decorations, women's brooches, and other items that dazzled me. I think it's a very special store to open in this modern and trendy shopping mall, but there are a lot of customers inside.
Looking at her watch, she has been in for half an hour and hasn't come out, is she choosing clothes, I can't go in and out can only lean against the glass railing. Five minutes later, she walked out with two shopping bags and was satisfied.
"You're really here to buy something."
"Why else do you spend so much time here, don't you know that food and shopping are excellent cures for girls in a bad mood?"
"But you don't look depressed at all."
"Please, I might be GG in a few moments."
Once again, I regretted what I couldn't help but think about, but luckily she didn't feel at ease at all, so I took the initiative to help her carry the shopping bag.
Walking all the way to the fourth floor, this is a place dedicated to watching movies, and it seems that there is more than one theater here, and the competition is fierce.
She stood on the screen of the popular movie and watched it for a long time, but she still had to watch a movie.
Sure enough, she asked me to go to the line to buy movie tickets and popcorn. I bought a movie that started on the next hour, and the genre was a sci-fi action blockbuster overseas. I didn't expect a girl to like watching this kind of movie that only an older man would get excited about.
I paid for the movie tickets and the popcorn and Coke. The movie started a minute slower than the agreed time, and we were wearing very high-end Dolby glasses to watch in 3D. The sound effects are very good in every way, and the last time I watched a movie was an anime movie with an otaku brother a long time ago, so I was out of control of that genre.
During the movie, no one knew what I was tortured into, because she always grabbed me by the collar when she was excited, making me breathless, and she would shout two sentences when she arrived at the ** fight clip, and her emotions were caught by the plot of the movie. As a result, I didn't make the most of a movie ticket and beware of unexpected things that could happen if I wasn't careful.
After more than two hours of watching, she asked me how I was, and I replied that I didn't watch much of the movie, so I couldn't judge. But she vividly released her enjoyable expression.
"I want to watch another one."
"No, no, that's the end of the day."
"Will you come with me next time?"
"Probably."
The sun was shining when I first came in, and now it's getting dark. It's time to go home, although I don't have to worry about the relatives who are waiting for me to return, but she is different, and her parents should be very worried after coming out for a day. After rejecting her offer of dinner, I called a taxi to get her back as soon as possible.
The rental uncle took a short route to her doorstep very responsibly, waved goodbye to her, and then I took the car to turn around and return to my home.
Along the way, I was wondering what to buy in the bag that I had been carrying for her for so long? Is there any traditional style she's been trying lately? As curious as I am, I don't know yet. The day was full, and there was almost no time to stop and rest except for a meal. It was a good feeling to go shopping with a girl for the first time, and I will definitely become more suitable for her in the future.
When I got home, I took a bath, soaked a bowl of instant noodles with boiling water, chatted with her on my phone for a while, and then fell asleep in bed after sending good nights to each other.
Today is an incredible day, a day that you would never have dreamed of.