Birdsong sounded outside the window, as soft as an angel hiding in the clouds.

*

At the other end of the living room, Dad Meng opened the door of the room and was about to go to the bathroom, but was stopped by Grandma halfway.

She hurriedly pushed the person back into the room: "You go to train for a long time." (You go back to sleep for a while)

Dad Meng looked confused: "Do it, I've already trained enough." (Why, I've slept enough)

Grandma smiled: "There are two cats who are very affectionate, so don't disturb them." (There are two kittens making out, don't bother them)

Chapter 52

Meng Shilong washed his clothes and came out, walked to the living room with You Xuezhen, and found that the living room was still very quiet. Meng's father and grandma's doors were tightly closed.

You Xuezhen breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that I didn't wake them up." ”

Meng Shilong frowned a little strangely: "But usually they should get up at this point." ”

You Xuezhen sounded the alarm: "Is it! Then I'll have to hurry up. ”

He hurriedly put on his coat: "I'll send you back." Then he took a coat from the room and put it on her.

You Xuezhen noticed that the clothes he handed over happened to be the one he wore on the day of their first "date". Although I received a deeper kiss last night than that day, for some reason, when I put on this dress and think of that carriage, I felt even more ashamed and happy.

When the two stepped on the shadow of the sun and went out to help You Xuezhen tie his helmet, Meng Shilong suddenly said: "When I come back from Indonesia next month, I will take the driver's license." ”

You Xuezhen was surprised: "Why do you suddenly want to take a driver's license?" ”

"It's more convenient when you're alone." He patted the mount of the motorcycle, "But it's better to send you a car, especially in winter." ”

"It's okay, I prefer to ride a motorcycle!"

"When the weather is nice, we'll ride on motorcycles." He pulled the bag of his helmet tight, and patted her on the head through the helmet as he closed it, "But you can't just have a motorcycle to sit on." ”

Along the way, You Xuezhen hugged his waist again, recalling the first time they went for a ride, and she was still trapped in her own emotional whirlpool. At that time, she wondered if she could escape the quicksand by riding his motorcycle.

Now that I think about it, fate is like a fable, and I wrote a footnote at that time.

*

Meng Shilong sent her back to school, she didn't want him to stop and toss her to take her to the dormitory building, and as soon as the car stopped, he ran into the school gate wrapped in his coat, leaving him with a figure waving backwards.

Back in the dormitory, she was busy looking down to check her phone, Meng Shilong sent her a yellow-faced villain's goodbye emoji, stupid to death.

In the dormitory, Yuan Jing fell asleep, and the beer that she hadn't finished drinking last night was piled on the ground at the entrance, You Xuezhen carried them back to the table, took off her coat and prepared to go to bed to make up for another night's sleep.

She carefully hung up Meng Shilong's coat and was about to put it in the closet, when something slipped out of her pocket—

A box of matches.

You Xuezhen lowered her gaze and stared at the box of matches in a daze.

It was the matchbox she had bought that day at the beach to burn letterheads. At that time, she thought he had thrown away the other garbage......

She crouched down to pick up the matchbox and stared at it in a daze.

A stick figure is drawn on the matchbox with a black pen: two matchman figures crouching facing each other.

Meng Shilong's painting skills are very abstract, and the posture of the match villain is actually interpreted by You Xuezhen with her own imagination, but she knows at a glance that he is painting them squatting face to face and lighting matches that night.

You Xuezhen opened the matchbox, and there were unused matchsticks lying inside.

She took one out and held it in her palm, and the sunrise was coming, shining into the ground through the gap in the curtain of the dormitory, shining into her palm, illuminating the match. It was as if it was on fire at the moment, and it was emitting a bright yellow light.

You Xuezhen closed her eyes and saw the self sitting in the corridor making a birthday wish, overlapping with the light of the candle in her memory.

This match was the candle of the year.

It's not God who makes her wish come true, it's herself.

It's also Meng Shilong.

He ignited the wavering, hesitant, always dreaming of love but cowering.

Therefore, she must not let herself be extinguished again.

You Xuezhen opened her eyes and sent a message to Ye Wanbai in one go-

"Do you have time today? Let's talk."

*

At seven o'clock in the evening, in the private theater near the school, You Xuezhen arrived in the reserved box early.

She opened the movie "God of Food" and watched it with relish, and when Ye Wanbai pushed the door in, the movie happened to be broadcast to the part of "First Love", and Karen Mok's singing sounded in the small box.

You Xuezhen raised her face as usual and greeted him: "Hi." ”

He nodded as usual, took off his headphones and sat down next to her, looked at the screen and said, "You're watching this again." ”

"yes, I just wanted to hear this song."

"Then why didn't you sing yesterday?"

"Because I wanted to graduate from this song." You Xuezhen teased herself, "If my unrequited love is also counted as a first love." ”

Ye faded into silence.

You Xuezhen said with a smile: "Actually, yesterday I wanted to have my first love, and I searched in the music library, guess what I found?" It turned out that Karen Mok released a brand new and complete "First Love" last year. ”

“……”

"When I was waiting for you today, I took out that brand new song and listened to it, and found that there was no special feeling anymore."

But the song "First Love" she sang in the movie at the beginning, such a broken song that stopped abruptly and was pulled down from the movie, there were lines mixed in the background sound, but the listening software counted that she listened to it 85 times one night, timed for 401 minutes, and commented in small print, "Like cherry blossoms blooming 3208 times".

It's a pity that she has bloomed so many times and has not been heard by him, and she admires herself alone.

The first hot comment at the bottom of this song said, "Because it's "first love", it's incomplete. ”

So when the day came, the time passed.

She thought that she was not wrong, and Ye Wanbai was not wrong, she met too early and became a prisoner of youth. But if they hadn't met too soon, they probably wouldn't have been friends.

So, this is already the best ending for them.

You Xuezhen took out something from her pocket and handed it to Ye Wanbai.

"You've really been by my side for so many years, so I've always been used to secretly liking you. Just like this mung bean rose you gave me, it seems that my not so good youth has bloomed quietly, and you have given me a very beautiful thing, but it has a shelf life and cannot last forever. ”

Ye Wanbai's eyes trembled slightly, looking at the cigarette case that she stretched out, which was already empty.

The mung bean rose inside was long gone, but she was reluctant to throw the cigarette case, and now handed it back to him, like a coffin.

At that time, I was full of feelings, and the words that I couldn't say at that time became inscriptions and were engraved here.

When he didn't answer, she took his hand and put the cigarette case in his palm.

"Ye Wanbai, let's not be five friends, let's be ten friends, okay?"

He didn't say anything, neither said good nor bad, and blindly watched the movie, as if he had been deeply immersed in it.

In the movie, the actor asks the master: "May I ask the master, what is the best thing you have ever eaten in your life?" ”

The master said, "Donor, you have to ask yourself this question. ”

In the world, I am most afraid of asking myself. The best things to eat, the most regrets, the most favorite people.

The blue light of the screen shone on the tip of Ye's ever-white nose, he twitched his nose slightly, the corners of his mouth slowly hooked, and a smile with sparkling eyes overflowed: "Do I still have the qualifications to say bad?" ”

"......," You Xuezhen replied to him, "Meng Shilong and I are already together." ”

He was not surprised to hear this answer, and said after a long time, "I'm sorry." ”

You Xuezhen was stunned, and then shrugged: "What are you doing, why do you apologize again." ”

"I'm wondering if you were in the same mood when you first heard the news that I was dating someone else."

He slumped back into the couch, his eyelids slightly closed, and his smile became a little tired.

What kind of mood it was, he didn't say, it seemed that he was so squeezed by that emotion that it was difficult to even describe it.

You Xuezhen struggled to twist her head to the side.

Her mood at the moment is not more relaxed than his, the person she has liked for so many years, such a close friend, looking at him with such a look, to say that she is indifferent is self-deception. There is probably still a part of her body that will hurt him. But somewhere in her heart, she felt happy, and that joy was like a black green on her thigh, mixed with painful happiness when pressed.

After a long time, she calmed down and said lightly: "Don't talk about the things of the year, it's all over." ”

"Really...... Is it all in the past? ”

She nodded without hesitation.

"Actually, the moment I started to realize that we really couldn't be was the moment you told me that you didn't want to be friends with me anymore. Do you know what that feeling is? I thought it was the moment I had been waiting for. But when the moment really comes...... As Yuan Jing told me, there is a new universe when there is an explosion. My feelings have never been responded to by you, and I have been in the chaos of nothing, so I can go on like this in a chaotic way. But you ignited it all......"

She took a deep breath.

"Then I saw a new universe."

Hearing this, Ye Wanbai was completely silent.

Later, the two of them didn't speak again, so they finished watching "God of Food", she asked him what else he wanted to watch, and he said, do you want to watch "2012" again?

You Xuezhen was slightly stunned, nodded and said, Let's see.

After many years, they watched all the apocalyptic movies together in a private theater, although it was the second day of Valentine's Day.

At the end of the movie, You Xuezhen sighed: "At that time, you were so naïve, you had to ask me what to do if we only had one ticket among us." ”

Ye Wanbai retorted: "Your answer is called naïve, and you actually use rock-paper-scissors to divide it." ”

"It's naïve." You Xuezhen admitted, "So now my answer is different, I will give you that ticket directly, I hope you can live well." ”

Ye gradually turned his face sideways, and his eyes were a kind of disbelief that he really saw the end of the world.

She wants him to live alone and accompany another person to death?

Is that what it means?

After a while, Ye Wanbai laughed again: "Then I can't waste this ticket." ”

You Xuezhen pursed her lips.