Chapter 3 Memories are a road of no return3
When I returned to my grandmother, I had wiped away my tears, hid my injured hand in my sleeve, hid in the house and bandaged it a few times, and I never let my grandmother worry about it.
Even if I feel really sad and tight, I resent my own incompetence.
The next day I had a fever, and when my grandmother found out about me, I was already burning and talking nonsense, and my dreams were endless darkness, and there was never an exit.
Later, I heard from my grandmother that she promised to send me to the hospital, and the doctor said that my brain would burn out if I came a little later, and my grandmother even boasted that I was enthusiastic and happy, and asked me to bring breakfast to Promise.
When I arrived in the class, I found that a strange boy was already sitting at my desk, and when he turned to face me, I found that his eyes seemed to be full of stars, different from the handsomeness promised, the former was the sun in the daytime, shining and warm, and the latter was the stars in the deep sea, dull and introverted, in the whirlpool, and could not see the light.
He said, "Your hair is messed up." ”
Seeing that I was staring at me in a daze, he introduced himself with great interest, "Hello, my name is Xu Su, the day I first came to report, you seemed to have a cold, and the teacher arranged for me to sit here first." ”
I watched as he tried to shake hands, and my outstretched injured right hand landed in mid-air and slowly rested behind me. Drop a sentence, I went to the teacher myself, and left in a hurry, and I was timid in front of such a sunny teenager, because I fantasized more than once that I could become Xu Su with such a character, always sunny and confident.
Unexpectedly, Xu Su kept following me, watching me carry the table and chair with difficulty, walked over quickly, naturally took it in his hands, and strode towards the class, leaving me alone behind and cowering.
Xu Su and I became the same table, he always likes to tell some weird jokes to amuse me, and every time I only care about the homework in my hand, I think he is noisy.
Xu Yu took the breakfast in my hand, looked at my injured right hand and paused, "I signed you up for a talent show, come to the piano room for me when you are free in a while." "I was surprised but my heart was extremely excited, the piano room was not far from the classroom we were in, only separated by a long corridor, and I could always see the promise to take piano lessons, and the curvature of the side face seemed to be carved from a mold.
Due to the degree of injury in my right hand and my ignorance of the piano, Xu promised to arrange a lyrical slow song for me, which is Eason Chan's "Long Time No See". The other girls in the piano room saw me with unkind eyes in their eyes.
"Can you be serious, is this what you want to do to win the award?" Promise to see me wander, the obvious indifference in his words.
"Working with someone like you who messes around with flowers and grass, I will inevitably be targeted and pressured, so I am not allowed to hesitate?" I muttered something with a little emotion, and he probably heard it, correcting my pronunciation with a black face all the time.
When it was finally over, he promised to give me a brand new Walkman, "Go back and practice well, don't hold me back." Watching the afterglow of the sunset fall on the back of the promise, I was a little more curious about his story, so that in my later memories and dreams, it was all the back.
Every time I tutored Xu Yu according to the Xu family's request, Xu Yu sat on the side playing games and put the textbook on the table in a fake manner, and I had nothing to do with him, so I obeyed him every time. It wasn't until one time when I was doing a question, racking my brains, and he easily got it right, only to reflect that all his bad grades were pretended, and I heard other servants of the Xu family say that when I was a child, I often took full marks home with a full score of papers, and every time I walked in front of my father with joy, and finally left disappointed, maybe it was too many times, and one day I promised to come back with a failing score, but I was scolded by my father.
There were a lot of stars today, and when I climbed to the roof, I realized that Promise was also here, and when I was about to tiptoe away, "Sit with me for a while." Xu Promise turned to face me and stretched out his hand, his fingers were so beautiful.
Let me tell you a story, tonight's promise seems extraordinarily heavy.
When I was ten years old, I had a high fever, but the man was on a business trip, and I called him in a daze, but I heard the sound of a woman frolicking on the other side of the phone. It was late that day, and I didn't like to disturb the aunts at home, so I walked to the hospital by myself, and although I fell on the road and was pricked by the nurse a few times, I didn't cry. Although he finally arrived at the hospital and covered me with a quilt, I just couldn't forgive him.
It was the first time I had seen a promise with red eyes, and I cautiously opened my mouth to comfort him.
"Although I don't know what it feels like to be truly a father and a mother, I think my uncle still loves you, he is strict with you, he just wants you to be better, if you really want to leave his shackles, at least make yourself strong and get into a good university, instead of being forced to accept the job that has been arranged by the family."
"Are you teaching me like he did?" He seemed to be in a better mood.
He suddenly approached me, and my heart beat half a beat slower, and I couldn't react.
Promise kissed me.
The next day, I was late for rehearsals in the piano room, and the homework in my third year of high school was getting heavier and heavier, but fortunately, Xu Su always lent me his notes.
"Let's go back for lunch at noon today, Auntie made your favorite pickled cabbage fish." I've forgotten that inexplicable kiss, calmly announced the promise.
"Well, wait for me after school." The promised attention was all on the piano, and I hurried to find the tone and mood of each lyric.
When Xu Su offered to take me home, I decisively refused, and even lied that my grandmother was waiting to pick me up. Sure enough, people can't lie, when I passed by the supermarket near the school with Xu Yu, I saw Xu Su staring at me with a hurt face, I was a little afraid to look at him, pretending to look at the scenery on the side of the road.
"I see you're walking close, do you like him?" Xu asked me suddenly when he walked to the door. "Huh?" I didn't react for a while, and he asked Xu Su.
He said you were a good match.
When he promised to see that his father was at the dinner table today, his eyes suddenly turned to me with hostility. It's true that I went to my uncle, and I just hope that they can reconcile.
At last they quarreled violently, promising to slam the door hard, and when I chased out, he seemed to expect me to come out, and stood there waiting to attack me.
"So that's what you're for? Who do you think you are? Shen Li, stay away from me in the future. The promises were harsher than I expected, and I didn't want to defend them, and I even thought I might have been meddling all along.
Life has returned to its former calm and boring, and the promise has not appeared again, as if it were just a dream.
The show took place on Saturday as scheduled, and when it was my turn to go on stage, I saw the promise from the audience, and he was talking to the other girls, and his eyes were not on the stage. I should have thought that his retributive temperament would not help me at all, looking at the unfamiliar faces in the audience, it seemed that I had returned to the night abandoned by my parents.
When Xu Su suddenly appeared on stage to sing "Long Time No See" with me, the stage lights didn't seem to be so dazzling, even if I only won third place in the end, I was enough to buy my grandmother a reading glasses.
I am very grateful to Xu Su.