Christmas Gifts (3)

Standing at the bottom of the building and looking up, the building is dotted with white or yellow, pink or blue light. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With figures flickering from time to time, the whole building resembles a giant television.

Only Liu Xiaoqing's window did not have a single color.

Has Liu Xiao already slept?

Forehead......

I suddenly felt that this was not the case, and it was more likely that she would not turn on the lights because she was troublesome.

When I opened the door, it was pitch black.

Suddenly, the air in the whole room flowed because I opened the door, and a cold wind blew from the balcony, making me shiver.

Isn't it, no one?

Looking along, the curtains were halfway open next to the glass door leading to the balcony, blowing in the cold December wind.

A thin figure on the balcony filtered into the room through the glass, emitting a moonlit white and soft light, like an elf's gauze.

She is a little short for her age, and although her narrow back looks slim, she has always been a symbol of this lazy sister's weakness in my impression.

This makes her shadow look so pitiful.

The long hair, which used to be tied in two ponytails on school days, is now completely spread out and swayed in the wind.

Although it is not as romantic as in the comics, it also makes people feel beyond the scope of reality.

I like to be lazy and troublesome, and occasionally it makes people feel a headache.

But isn't that exactly the privilege of a special character like a sister?

Every time Liu Xiao gives me a problem, I never get annoyed.

A younger sister is a younger sister, and before she grows up and leaves her brother, isn't it the duty of an older brother to take care of her and defend her.

It is this sense of responsibility that makes an older brother mature quickly.

So, the trust and reliance given by my sister is the best feedback to all the brothers in the world.

"Brother?"

"You're stupid, why don't you turn on the lights or the TV?"

She stopped talking.

If it was usual, I knew she would be too lazy to answer me, but this time, it seemed a little different.

The light around her, her voice, everything about her made me feel unnatural.

Walking through the glass door, although her appearance has not changed as usual, the elder brother can feel that there is something uncomfortable in this body that is bleeding the same as himself, and it is torturing this girl.

"What are you doing on the balcony, isn't it cold?"

She held the railing with both hands, tiptoe gently, and looked into the distance through the gap between the buildings.

Her eyes were glazed rather than distracted.

It's too much worse than the usual half-open, seemingly indifferent to anything, and a little spiritual.

I reached out and touched her head, and my hair was cold to the touch.

After a few seconds, she slowly turned her head like a robot.

Although there were no lights, the night sky was inadvertently illuminated by the city, and the thick clouds in the sky reflected these bright lights back, so that I could see Liu Xiao's face clearly.

Her eyes were filled with tears.

"What's wrong?"

There was a hint of worry in my voice, too.

I don't think she'd ever had such an expression in front of me.

Although I cried when I was a child, I only felt aggrieved at most when I cried, and I never saw her screaming sadly like an ordinary child with a mouth and snot.

When I was a child, Liu Xiao has always been a strong little girl in my eyes, like a sunflower, she must be surrounded by the warm and fragrant smell of the sun, and a trace of darkness and sour rot can't get close to her.

So much so that when she transferred to another school some time ago, I didn't believe that this was what that little girl would look like when she grew up.

But that's just the appearance, because of the blood, so it is more thorough than others, in this girl's body, the strong heart has never changed, and her soul still exudes the smell of strength and purity.

It's hard to imagine anything that could make her so vulnerable.

It seemed to me that it was absolutely impossible, because this sister was so good, and I never thought she would have such an expression.

"Tell me, what's wrong?"

There was composure in my voice, and an older brother would show unparalleled courage and confidence in front of his sister.

"Nothing"

She turned back again.

Hey, I'm afraid of this, if you don't rely on others, how can others help you?

Although a good boy needs the ability to tell what a girl expects without relying on words, this ability is obviously too much of a luxury for me.

Now I need you to say clearly what happened to you.

Otherwise, I won't be able to help you, and it will not only make you uncomfortable, but more importantly, it will make me uncomfortable.

"Tell me about it, if there's something upset, even if I can't help you, I'll never leave you alone."

Hearing this, her eyelids seemed to move slightly.

I stare at her expectantly, hoping that you will take a little of the burden for her.

"Don't ......"

She opened her mouth softly, slowly reading word by word.

“...... Leave me alone."

My heart thumped, what the hell was going on?

Turn that strong Liu Xiao like this?

This innocent and wise girl who doesn't complain even if the whole class doesn't talk to her, doesn't take this kind of thing to heart at all, likes to draw comics, and wants to get a job that can work from home, naïve and wise?

Because I've spent so much time with Liu Xiao, I can probably guess.

The reason why she complained like this was that she hoped that someone would give her a clear guarantee that she would accompany her and not abandon her.

What she hopes for is that there will be such a person in the world, who can make such a pledge and keep his promise.

At least that's what I can understand.

So I put my hand on her shoulder and wanted to pat her on the shoulder.

At this time, there was a cold feeling in the palm of the hand.

"Hey!"

"How long have you been here?"

She didn't know how long she had been standing here, her whole body was cold in the wind, and then I saw that the hair on the top of her head was trembling slightly.

"Come"

I dragged her into the house, and the girl looked a little stiff when she walked.

Settling her on the couch, I tried to turn on the lights in the house, but suddenly I was pulled by the hem of my dress.

She shook her head at me, and then just stared at me with a blank look.

Like a little mouse in a cage, that gaze seemed to be afraid of something, and like all hope had been dashed, and it looked at me like a wooden man.

It seems that what I answer, or what I don't answer, doesn't matter much anymore.

She just seemed to be expecting ...... "not to be left alone."

So I crouched down in front of her and held her cold hands between them, hoping that the temperature of the palms would dissolve the distance between us.

If it's really a heart-to-heart brother and sister, she must know what I'm thinking.

"You were there when I was a child"

She finally spoke, and that's what I wanted to see the most.

No matter how strong a person is, if he keeps holding back anything in his heart, he will be suffocated.

That's good, if there is anything unsatisfactory, what is annoying, what is not figured out, all of them will be said.

"Now there is no one"

She seemed to be talking to herself.

Generally speaking, when an ordinary girl says something like this, this person has a little resentment.

But she couldn't feel it in Liu Xiao, and she didn't have any resentment about it.

This is her, a girl with a mind that doesn't match her age.

She knew why, and understood why, but reason couldn't convince the feelings, and she eventually cried.

Tears welled up in her eyes, not across her cheeks, as if they were frozen with cold.

Lei said that it fell down directly and landed on the sofa, making a loud sound.

Her cold hands calmed my brain, and the memories of my childhood came back to my mind little by little.

Liu Xiao's hands warmed up little by little, and this little bit of temperature seemed to be transmitted to her heart.

She squinted and smiled, staring at me and smiling, but I know this expression, what she is best at is acting, and what she is best at is making people not worry about her.

Such a gentle, and unrelieved little girl, my sister.

What makes my heart ache, unique in the world, my sister.

I let out a long breath, and if I hadn't done that, I'd probably have shed tears.

That must be the last thing this little girl wants.

I took Liu Xiao's feet out of the slippers, and they were as cold as ice bumps.

Judging by the way she walked just now, she was probably numb from the cold.

Put her feet in my arms, just like when I was a child.

Liu Xiao and I were playing in the snow together, the snow wet the cotton shoes, the little girl was so cold that both little hands were blue, her face was red from the wind, and she stood in the snow shivering but didn't squeak.

At that time, I took her home and put her two little feet in the arms of my cotton coat.

The earthy method is very effective, and the temperature of the heart can melt the ice and snow, and can revive the frozen person.

Just like now, in the dim room, Liu Xiao and I seem to have traveled through time, and the picture of our childhood reappeared in front of the two of us.

Those memories that belong only to us.

The hearts of the two of us, which were once frozen, are now melting and unraveling little by little along with Liu Xiao's body temperature.

The corners of the little girl's mouth curved, and she fell little by little from the top.

Liu Xiao bit his lip with his teeth and endured it with all his might.

I could feel that this patience had made her tremble all over her body, even her toes were shaking.

"Uh......"

Liu Xiao slid off the sofa and slid into my arms like a kitten.

Kneeling in front of me, with both hands resting on my chest, burying his face in my arms, he whimpered.

I hugged Liu Xiao tightly in my arms, although the girl's body was not as thin as when she first came to my house, it was still a little thin compared to girls of the same age.

"My silly sister......"

Liu Xiao in his arms was as cold as a piece of ice.

I lowered my head and kissed Liu Xiao's forehead, feeling as if there was no other way to convey my feelings.

This person, who will never be able to be stripped from my life, whether at the end of the world or at the end of the world, whether at the time of her birth or on the day of my death.

"My one-of-a-kind sister ......"

Liu Xiao cried in my arms like a little girl.

This kind of sobbing sound, this sad sound, I heard it for the first time.

But definitely don't want to listen to it a second time.

Absolutely not.