The sky was gray.

A faint light crept through the cracks in the curtains and hit the ceiling like a silent lake.

The heavy drowsiness had not completely dissipated, and Tianhai Jiuliuli lay quietly on the down bed in the hotel, staring upward.

Listen to the sound of the sea breeze blowing the curtains in the room, and those sounds are like the bells of meditation, like a zen away from the world. Her nose gently breathed in the air with the scent of the morning, mixed with a slight coolness and humidity, making people inadvertently feel the cold of the morning on the seaside.

“......”

The girl's eyes couldn't help but open again, and she saw that the ceiling, which looked like a calm lake, was glowing with patches of light under the slight movement of the gauze curtains, like an unfinished painting, and the painter named Nature was giving it color and life one by one.

The gaze wanders over the ceiling, as if you are swimming in it, but you feel an endless sense of emptiness gradually invade with the cold of the early morning. This sense of emptiness makes one feel helpless, as if one is a speck of dust in the vast universe, adrift alone in the infinite darkness.

Fingers unconsciously rubbed on the quilt, feeling the contact between the white duvet and the skin.

The touch is gentle and kind, but it still can't seem to fill the emptiness in the depths of the heart......

......

It's the same when you wake up every day.

“... Yesterday, Le Jun has been accompanying July all the time......"

Every time I think about that picture, I can't help but wrap the white duvet around my body a little tighter.

As soon as I close my eyes, I will think about what Lejun and July looked like when they rode together that day.

Clogging, choking, dullness...

"Whew..."

Tianhai Jiuliuli involuntarily closed his eyes, and then took a few deep breaths to expel all the uncomfortable accumulated in his heart.

Get up, wash up, wash your face.

After doing these necessary things to get up every day, Tianhai Jiuliuli took a mirror from her bag that she usually used for dressing, and then sat quietly at the small office table next to the hotel TV.

She looked at herself in the mirror.

With long hair like clouds, delicate face, clear eyes, and slightly raised eyebrows, as a girl, she is beautiful without any impurities.

Everyone seems to love this face.

I prefer the dignified and beautiful natural appearance under this face.

But the more she came into contact with her classmates in her daily life, the more she found that the self that everyone liked was far from her real self...

[Everyone just likes the Tianhai Nine Glass that is independent and excellent, and can handle everything properly]

Tianhai Jiuliuli came to such a conclusion.

Although she has always wanted to lean on this image, to change, to really become that kind of person.

But she found that after persevering all the way, the road behind her was nothing......

And when she was deceived by her mother in the next moment, when she was most confused and uneasy, someone stood up for her regardless of her previous suspicions, and she was very grateful and dependent.

She cherishes this person's help and support very much, and is grateful for his presence.

......

Because of this, she really couldn't bear to see Kamihara Raku and July have more contact.

Feel... I am like a third person who has been abandoned again and excluded by the happiness between the two......

Obviously, that person looks exactly like himself, and he is his twin sister.

But happiness and the future, as well as the person who can support him forever, don't seem to belong to him......

“......”

Tianhai Jiuliuli doesn't know why he thinks about these things when he gets up every day, probably unwillingly? Or is there no real sense of security?

But she always couldn't help but look at the action of the lily of the valley bracelet on her wrist and tell herself...

Actually, it's more – it's emptiness.

"Today's time, you haven't discussed it with July yet, right?"

Tianhai Jiuliuli muttered to himself in the mirror.

She doesn't like to fight with her sister for things, but if she doesn't fight, doesn't grab, doesn't argue with her... I can only watch myself being left behind, and watch my sister and the person you like enjoy happiness.

Tianhai Jiuliuli took several deep breaths in a row.

Trying to get rid of the uneasiness in my heart, I smiled at myself in the mirror.

OK... Glass... You can.....

Tianhai Jiuliuli thought so, opened the suitcase, picked out a very beautiful short-sleeved shirt from it, dressed it carefully, and specially braided her flaxen-colored hair with a princess braid, she stepped on the sky blue waist bag, took the daily necessities, and planned to go out.

Katsa.

However, as soon as the bedroom door was closed, a greeting voice came from the side.

"Early."

"Good morning," Tianhai Jiuliuli subconsciously replied, when he heard this voice was too familiar, he quickly turned his head, very surprised, "Lejun?" ”

】

"Huh?" Compared to the surprise of Tianhai Jiu Ruri when he saw him, Kamihara Le smiled very often, "Why does Ruri look incredible?" ”

“... It's just that... I didn't expect Le Jun to suddenly appear. ”

Tianhai Jiuliuli raised his eyes to look at him, his hands restrained in front of him, and subconsciously asked, "Le Jun is... Coming to me? ”

"I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for whom? It's not breakfast time, so I'll come over and have breakfast with you. ”

"It's also possible that Lejun is going to find July."

"But it's clear that I've accosted you, and I'm here for you. It's very simple, I just want to have breakfast with you. ”

I want to have breakfast together...

Hearing him say this to himself, Tianhai Jiuliuli couldn't tell what it tasted like in his heart now.

Although it was very weak, she really felt the feeling of being needed in it, and he would take the initiative to care about his feelings.

In fact, after saying so much, it can't be more than one sentence -

He took the initiative to come to himself, not to find July for breakfast, and he was very happy.

"What's wrong? Look at me like that. ”

"It's nothing," Tianhai Jiu Liuli retracted his eyes and shook his head, "I'm just happy that Lejun can come over and invite me to dinner." ”

"Shouldn't this be me? I feel honored that such a beautiful girl would agree to my invitation. ”

After Kamihara Le finished speaking, he still made a gentleman's salute to her in style, and then stretched out his hand and said in a British accent:

“beautiful lady，may i io have breakfast with me?”

“ly!” Tianhai Jiu Liuli smiled and took his hand.

"Thank you." Kamihara only felt that her hand was small and soft in the palm of her hand, and it was a pleasant feeling of cherishing that could be broken if she pinched it slightly.

"But Lejun's accent just now isn't quite like that."

"Really?"

"Hmm. And 'would you like to', 'would you care to' is more appropriate. The former is more common and used on a daily basis, while the latter is a more tactful and polite way of saying it, and it will be more humble and respectful when inviting the other person on a formal occasion. ”

"I see," Kamihara took the girl's hand, as if he had learned, and quickly said to the girl, "Ruri, don't you know more than me?" ”

"What the hell..."

Originally, Tianhai Jiuliuli was very happy that he praised himself, but if you think about it carefully, Le Jun... English is not bad, can you not know the difference between everyday and formal language?

Not to mention that he deliberately pretended to be a gentleman.

"Just now... Is it intentional? Tianhai Jiuliuli stood in front of him and raised his head and asked.

"Nothing." Kamihara just smiled, and his thumb scraped the back of the girl's hand, signaling her to feel at ease.

"Okay, Lejun deliberately teased me!" Tianhai Jiu Liuli saw it at a glance, pouted, broke free of his hand, and reached out to hit him on the arm.

Kamihara only felt that her fist on her arm didn't hurt at all.

"Really, I am going to bite you, Liuli, you beat people indiscriminately."

"I hate it, it's obviously Le Jun who deliberately amuses people."

"Didn't I praise Liuli that you are smarter than me, why did you deliberately tease you."

"Lejun himself knew that he deliberately made a mistake for me to correct, didn't he just deliberately tease me?"

"But Ruri is happy, isn't she?"

“... How can there be fun. ”

"Isn't that fun now? The mouth is pouting, and Liuli likes to be praised very much, right? ”

"Hmph."

"Okay, okay, don't hit me. And Ruri, you're so cute now. ”

"Lejun is such a hooligan."

"Huh? How am I a hooligan. ”

"Deliberately molesting people."

"Isn't flirting with a girlfriend the basics of a boyfriend?"

"You still know that I'm your girlfriend..."Tianhai Jiu Liuli's voice became smaller and quieter as she spoke.

Kamihara Le could see at a glance that she was jealous, and said: "When I visited the Volcano Park, the first thing I wanted to find was Liuli you, and I couldn't find Liuli you, and then I met by chance. ”

"Really?" Walking on the road, Tianhai Jiu's glazed azure eyes looked at him.

"Didn't I just agree not to lie to you?"

“... It's not that I don't believe in Lejun, but I think it will be more reassuring to get you to admit it yourself......"

Whenever this time comes, Liuli will show a weak side around her.

This is also a manifestation of her insecurity.

When the two had just reunited, Liuli was rarely like this.

At the end of the day, it was Kamihara Le who hid her from her for a while in her relationship with July.

When he came to the breakfast room, Kamihara specially helped Ruri cook.

Knowing that she usually exercises more, I helped her pick out some foods that are high in fiber and protein.

Whole wheat toast, milk, bacon... Serve with some grilled sausages.

Tianhai Jiu Liuli was watching him from behind as he helped him choose something to eat......

She didn't know if it was because she liked him... Now when I see him taking the initiative to help himself and ask what he wants to eat, I unexpectedly feel warm......

Kamihara took two plates of food and Tianhai Jiu Liuli to sit in a place near the sea by the window of the hotel, and the view of the island was outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

Once seated, the conversation revolved around everyday life, with some interesting stories about the local history and culture.

Shenyuan Le saw Tianhai Jiu Liuli's action of often covering her mouth and smiling in the chat, and understood that she really liked to communicate with herself, and she could completely get the interesting things she said to her, and she also said some words of complaint, and she smiled again.

"Glass."

"Huh?"

"Will the wound on your stomach keep scarring?"

"Why did you say this all of a sudden?"

“... It's when I see you laughing, sometimes I recall how you were before, when you were alone in the rain and shrunk under the water pipe. When I think about this, I can't help but think, Ruri, you could have smiled so beautifully......"

The topic is heavy.

But both understand that it is not possible not to face it.

“... It's not that Le Jun is blamed. Tianhai Jiuliuli poked the fried egg on the porcelain plate with a steel fork for dozens of eyes, and then spoke first.

"Hmm... It's my fault, and honestly, I can't make up for what you've lost in the meantime... Your belly would have looked good, but now you have a scar. ”

"Lejun is saying that you don't want to make up for me?"

"No, how could you think that."

"That's right," Tianhai Jiu Liuli sat his body upright, like a girlfriend giving orders, "It's because Lejun you can't make up for me, so you have to make it up all the time, if you can't make it up, don't fill it in, that's the most dissatisfying." ”

Her appearance was fleeting, and she kept scraping the toast crumbs on the plate with a steel fork, and whispered, "And... I have also been sorry for you, Lejun, and I will never forget this incident, so I will always compensate you. ”

Kamihara looked at her movements like a little girl being depressed, and said with a smile: "How can anyone put himself in for the rest of his life because of that kind of thing." ”

"Whether you believe it or not, Lejun, that's what I think..."

"So..."

"So," Tianhai Jiu Ruri took over, his eyes looking at Kamihara Le who was directly opposite, "You have to compensate the other party all the time." ”

"It's a confession."

"Well, that's the confession."

Kamihara took a bite of breakfast, then smiled at the food on his plate.

It's still a lot more comfortable to talk like this.

There is a conflict between himself and Ruri, but he doesn't want to be separated from each other.

Kamihara understands that he likes glass, not only does he like her when she is usually outside, but he also likes her girlfriend-like little bird in front of her.

"Ruri, I want to ask us about the past."

"Before?"

"That's what you wanted to give me in July."

"At that time," Tianhai Jiu Liuli recalled very seriously, "At that time, I was indeed planning to stimulate July..."

"Why?"

"If I don't do those, July will be mad at you all the time... Because Lejun, you forgot the agreement with her, she has been angry. If July plays too much on you, there's a good chance you'll not like her at all. At that time, I still have high hopes for my mother, but in July she... will lose faith. ”

Kamihara asked again: "What do you think about Ruri?" How to deal with it. ”

"It's very simple, as long as I promise you Lejun, she will face her heart in July. I can also gradually become estranged from Lejun in the following days, and because I will go abroad soon, once I leave, the distance will be widened, and July and Lejun you will be logical, and breaking up is also a natural thing. ”

"Understood."

Kamihara thought for a moment, "In that case, why did you choose to break up with me directly?" In this case, it is better to follow your plan above. ”

Tianhai Jiuliuli has always felt guilty about this matter, and hesitated to say, "Main... The main thing is that my mother said a lot to me, and after understanding that I was dating Lejun, she asked me to break up and concentrate on studying. At the time, I also felt that it was directly divided... It's okay for me to be a wicked person, and I'll be in a year's time...... As a result, my father stopped me again. ”

After listening to it, Kamihara also understood more:

"Liuli, your fault is that you take many things for granted, breaking up is actually nothing to me, and more importantly, the relationship can't be pushed and let go."

"It's... I knew I was wrong, and I was willing to change it. ”

The atmosphere was a little heavy, and Kamihara took the initiative to smile at her and said:

"So, in order to apologize now, didn't Liuli compensate me for her whole person? I was deceived once, and I was able to get the love of a beautiful girl for a lifetime, and she always felt guilty about me, which was quite worth it. ”

"Why... Not just apologizing, but also really liking. Lejun was very good to me before, and he also had a lot of good feelings. ”

"So Ruri will be so painful when she apologizes? I also cried secretly alone. ”

"Hmmm......"

"Glass." Kamihara called out to her.

"Do what?"

Tianhai Jiuliuli heard the voice, and as soon as he raised his head, his lips were kissed in surprise.

"You'll be my wife from now on."

“......”

Tianhai Jiu Liuli was stunned and looked at his eyes that were close to Chi Qi for a second or two, and then hurriedly pushed away Shenyuan Le, who was leaning over.

His legs were clamped, his eyes were looking down, and his face was still a little red.

......

It took her a few seconds to adjust, and her voice was much quieter.

“... What do you say......"

"It's not good, we're all sorry for each other, so you compensate me, be my wife, and I'll compensate you, when you're your husband."

"Where is there such a ...... for compensation?"

"Doesn't Ruri want to marry me? As a wife, I will also love you very much, I can accompany you every day, help you cook, and occasionally play games and watch movies with you. If you want to run, I'll run with you, and if you want to travel, the two of us will go out on motorcycles together, and go wherever you want when the time comes! No one can restrain us. When camping at night, I will lie on your body and call your nickname. ”

“......”

Each one has a longed-for picture, which he listed and depicted.

Tianhai Jiuliuli suddenly had a strong expectation in his heart... As a wife, I go through everything with the people I love and experience the bits and pieces of my daily life.

Sometimes they play with each other, sometimes they coquettish each other.

In support, love each other.

"Liuli, haven't you wanted to go to the Maple Avenue in the UK since you were a child? My aunt never kept her promise, but I could take you wherever you wanted, and I promised to take you there, to see the coffee shops along the street, the fountain full of white doves, and the people sketching and playing the accordion down the avenue. ”

Hearing this, Tianhai Jiuliuli was moved.

This is something that Mother has always promised to herself, but has never fulfilled......

It's also the biggest longing since I was a child.

At this time, she suddenly didn't want to think about anything, just wanted to confirm with him, and just wanted to get an affirmative answer.

"Really... Target...? ”

"Of course," Kamihara still smiled and replied in the same way, "didn't you say that you wouldn't deceive the other party again?" ”

Tianhai Jiu Liuli's throat rolled several times, and she didn't know why... The atmosphere around has become a lot hotter...

She lowered her head, subconsciously bit her lip, looked at her legs clamped between her hands, and after a long silence, she muttered:

“... If you lie to me, I'm absolutely... Absolute... Absolute... Absolutely—"

"No absolutes, Ruri, I promise you, I will do it."

“... It's true? ”

"Really."

"Really... Target? ”

"Really, I won't lie to you."

"Really......?"

"Definitely."

......

“... Then, it's agreed, definitely, definitely, definitely, must take me to see it. ”

"Okay, agreed, I'll definitely take you there."

"Retractor." Tianhai Jiu Liuli stretched out his hand to him.

"Retractor." Kamihara smiled and hooked it with his little thumb.

The two are above the dining table, their thumbs together.

......