Chapter 19: Miss Chrysanthemum
As is the tradition of the school, a grand "Homecoming" dance is held every year in late September.
Homecoming lasts for a week, the week the Ivy League junior football season comes to an end, and the players who play the game usually return to school the day before the "Homecoming" dance for the final battle for the regional championship, which is related to the right to qualify for the playoffs and the last chance to enter the national competition.
As the rugby regional championship race approaches, the competition will become more and more exciting.
Many alumni who have graduated from school A for many years are concerned about the rugby game of their alma mater, and some alumni will even temporarily put down their work and return to school, staying in the hotel opposite the theater for about a week, accompanying the rugby team every day, watching their games, and making a special trip to cheer for the alma mater team.
Therefore, Homecoming has a double meaning: on the one hand, it welcomes the rugby team back to school, and on the other hand, it also welcomes the return of old alumni.
Don't look at the fact that there are still more than 20 days before the Homecoming Festival, the students have already received emails related to the Homecoming Festival series of activities in their mailboxes, and the early bird tickets for the "Homecoming Day Dance" have also begun to be pre-sold.
Autumn leaves drift off the branches, decorating every white windowsill of the dormitory building with colors more intense than spring flowers.
Although there is already a faint autumn mood on campus, the warm wind still wafts a strong fragrance of flowers.
When the flowers bloom and fall, the flowers on the campus are not out of order, but the messy ones are the secret love and lovesickness that the teenagers are hiding in their hearts.
Sending flowers to a girl who has been silently following her for a long time on the eve of Homecoming, and inviting her to be her dance partner at the dance party is the most logical way to catalyze ignorant feelings.
At almost every intersection on campus, you can see boys holding flowers and wearing formal clothes, they are in a hurry, and they are rushing to a romantic confession.
Raise your head and look up at the red brick buildings with beautiful sloping roofs and green vines, and through the curved white wooden windows of the girls' dormitory, you will see many girls with colorful flowers on their desks, which are blooming proudly and wantonly, heralding the arrival of a youth festival.
The graffiti-style posters that can be seen everywhere on campus should not be underestimated.
These student-made invitation posters are plastered all over the main building, the arts center, the library, and the gymnasium...... The places frequented by these girls, with their diverse styles, bold coloring and energetic words, have successfully crushed the regular "Homecoming" posters produced by the student union, making them appear to have no sense of existence.
The content on the self-made poster, whether it is enthusiastic and straightforward, or poetic and obscure, expresses a deep longing for a certain girl.
The poster usually writes the name of the invited girl by name, and uses self-created words and phrases similar to poetry, accompanied by heartfelt hand-painted works, with fresh illustration style, fun card ventilation, vigorous and warm wind, and the most dazzling ethnic style...... Haha, no kidding, this one really is.
This kind of public conveyance is very sensational, effective, and time-consuming, but also very cost-effective.
Although the final fate of these posters is like a moth to a fire, every two or three days, Aunt Hannah, who does the hygiene, will clean them up, but the words of public confession on the posters are circulating in the schoolyard, and the boys and girls with strong curiosity always like to explore and discuss who is in love with whom and who is flickering at whom.
In the past few days, as the influence of the "Homecoming Day Ball" on campus continues to heat up, the methods of male students inviting girls have also begun to renovate, especially if they want to invite those cold goddesses, the boys will take great pains.
The topic of discussion among the students after tea and dinner, I don't know when, has also become who is successfully matched with whom, and who rejects whom...... There is a strong smell of gossip everywhere on campus.
Don't look at Bai Xinrui as just an eighth-grade freshman, with her hard work, she has gradually become the hot type of girl on campus.
No matter where the scent of Anna Sue's dreamy elves wafted there, those handsome senior American boys always had straight eyes. In their opinion, an Oriental girl with straight black hair and a face as white as bone china is far more endearing and exotic than an American girl with yellow hair and blue eyes and small freckles on her sharp cheeks.
Bai Xinrui will be meticulous every day and appear in front of her classmates with the most fashionable and avant-garde image, and several beauties such as Eva, Catherine, and Isabella in the senior year who are dominating on campus can't steal the limelight in front of her.
Her outfit sets the fashion trend in school, and for example, she is probably the girl who owns the most shoes in the school. A caring student once observed that after so long since the start of school, Bai Xinrui's shoes have never been the same: when wearing a short skirt, she wears high heels that highlight her long legs; When wearing sportswear, wear it with new sneakers from major brands; When wearing trousers, wear them with flat boat shoes or beanie shoes; When wearing casual clothes, wear them with fisherman's shoes; When wearing shorts, wear it with flip-flops......
Fifty years ago, there was a princess of a European royal family, and the girls who were brain-opening even wondered if the shoe cabinet there was enchanted at that time, and they could conjure up different fashionable shoes every day.
It's no secret that the handsome guy Jason had a hot fight with Bai Xinrui as soon as school started, and more than half of the school's classmates and teachers knew about it.
It is not uncommon to fall in love at school A, and the teachers not only do not interfere, but even think that it is a particularly beautiful thing, and sometimes send blessings.
In fact, most of the children of well-bred New England elite families are not as casual as one might think, treating love as child's play, and before making a promise to start a relationship, they are even more cautious than the bureaucratic landlords of China's feudal society, and the school's other motto, "responsible freedom", is already ingrained in their minds like a shapeless computer chip before they come to School A.
For such a group of carefully selected children who are self-disciplined to the point of peace of mind, what can the teacher say except to give them trust?
Although the atmosphere of the school in this regard is extremely relaxed, however, Jason and Bai Xinrui, the two parties, have never officially announced their relationship, whenever asked about it, they are evasive and silent, however, the more secretive they are, the more curious and expectant the students are about this relationship.
While everyone was still speculating about this confusing relationship, Bai Xinrui was already busy meeting with other handsome guys in the school to eat, chat, drink coffee, and watch movies.
Bai Xinrui has occasional affairs with many boys, which makes poor Jason very sad, and he often feels frustrated and lonely, and even quite annoyed.
When he questioned Bai Xinrui why she treated herself like this, the little girl blinked her big charming eyes, and she could always find countless high-sounding reasons to prevaricate.
For example, being with Ryan is to talk about a recent football game, asking Peter for coffee to ask him to help with math, watching a movie with Andrew because he didn't do well in French and wanting to relax, and it just so happens that Jason is busy training and doesn't have time......
When Jason is a little alienated from Bai Xinrui, she will complain very aggrieved that Jason is careful, and repeatedly tell Jason how much she cares about him. Jason was so enchanted by Bai Xinrui's hot and cold emotions that he almost had a physical conflict with other classmates who had dated Bai Xinrui.