The movie finally finished even the last letter, and the screen went completely black.

Life is not like a movie, there is no such special node to indicate when it is time to end, so human beings will use these things as coordinates.

You Xuezhen picked up her bag, got up and said, "It's time to go, otherwise I won't be able to enter the dormitory." ”

Ye Wanbai stood still, but grabbed her hand in the dark between the whiskers she passed.

"Isn't there still time?" He whispered, "Come with me somewhere else." ”

*

In the middle of the night, the lights of the whole city are still tireless, and this is especially evident from the rooftop.

You Xuezhen leaned over the edge of the railing, feeling the soft sound of the night wind on her face, she didn't expect that he wanted her to accompany her to such a place.

This is the roof of a residential building, the residential building itself is not high, but because it is built on a hillside, the view of the roof is very good, so You Xuezhen thought of the roof of their high school teaching building at a glance, and it is also like this, you can have an unobstructed view of half of the city.

Ye Wanbai leaned on the railing, looked up at the night sky, and chatted: "The rooftop that I stumbled upon a while ago is very comfortable to come up and see when I am in a bad mood. ”

You Xuezhen stretched out her hand to touch the wind, and squinted her eyes slightly: "You used to love to come to the rooftop." ”

As a result, most of her high school years were also associated with rooftops.

Have lunch together on the rooftop, move two chairs to sleep on the rooftop during the free time of physical education class, and occasionally want to be lazy in evening self-study, take the comics borrowed from the library and read them together, one person turns the page, one person takes a flashlight and the wind is released, and they are exchanged when they are tired. In this way, I was frightened and excited to read a whole set of comics for a semester, and there were times when I missed, and I was taken to the teaching office to be trained to write a review, and she would push the two reviews to him together.

The comics she took such a big risk to read weren't actually very good, and now she doesn't remember the protagonist's face, maybe the flashlight at that time was too bright, and the pages of the books that were turned over were so white that they were distorted, as hasty as their youth that disappeared as soon as they slipped away.

But there was something left. If their memories are not enough to count, they still have each other, as long as they see him, they will think of those days, those days that suddenly come to mind when they are empty, those days that make people nostalgic.

Maybe that's what she hasn't been able to let go.

She couldn't help but have a sour nose.

In a trance, there was a singing voice around me.

Ye Wanbai took his mobile phone and played a familiar song.

It was the New Year's Day art show of the second year of high school, their class performed "The Last Waltz", the last waltz, the literary committee organized everyone to match by themselves, and many people in the class sent invitations to Ye Wanbai, but he threw a piece of paper at her during the evening self-study, which read: Come and dance with me?

Piles of homework are turned into sheet music at that moment.

She hummed a song and replied to him with two words: Okay.

In this way, they became dance partners for the show.

They don't know anything about waltzes, and they are more competitive than others, so in addition to the time for group practice, the two of them will secretly open a small stove. Take advantage of the free time between the end of dinner and the start of evening self-study, run to the rooftop, grab each other's shoulders and waists, and practice dance steps in each other's shadows in the dark twilight.

It is said to be stepping on a shadow, but more often than not, it is actually stepping on a foot.

At that time, she just regarded him as a friend, and her heart didn't beat faster when she touched his shoulder, and she never cherished the time when the two of them were alone, but she clearly remembered the fluff on his face in the twilight when she got closer.

And he stepped on his feet countless times, stepping on the black footprints of his white shoes, he would complain that her limbs had not evolved well and were the same as the cave people on the top of the mountain, and the next sentence would follow us again.

The dance music single looped, over and over again, until the evening self-study bell rang and they let go and found that it was dark.

It seems that my boyhood has ended like this.

In the sound of familiar music, a hand stretched out in front of her, much wider than the thin hand of the young man, already the outline of an adult man.

Ye gradually leaned over, made a gesture of inviting dance, and asked as he did back then:

"Do you want another dance?"

You Xuezhen fell into a daze, then shook her head and said, "I have long forgotten how to jump." ”

"I forgot about it, so I might as well dance like I did for the first time."

“……”

"Give you a chance to step on my shoes in the open, don't you?"

You Xuezhen sneered: "Cut, who is rare." ”

"I'm rare, I can." He stubbornly held out his hand, "Come and dance, "The Last Waltz." ”

You Xuezhen looked at him for a long time.

Finally, she let go of her demeanor and put her hand on it, a smile on her face.

"Then you just wait to be trampled by me."

The music was turned back to the beginning by him, as if time had been turned back to the first page, they were still seventeen years old, and there was no one closer to each other than each other, and the most distressing thing was not to step on each other's feet at the New Year's Day show.

The cold wind on the rooftop in the middle of the night was gusting, but they didn't get too close, and the hands around each other were empty, allowing the wind to pass between their chests and chests.

With just one action, I turned the time to the current page.

Ye Wanbai's voice was mixed with the background music: "Were you and him together last night?" ”

"Hmm."

He didn't know who he was blaming in his tone: "You really won't give me any time." ”

You Xuezhen made a mistake of a beat and a half, and finally stepped on him.

She stopped, looking down at his tiptoes.

"But between us...... Isn't the most important thing to lack is time? ”

He muttered, "Why is this happening?" ”

I know everything about you, I know you're afraid of the dark, and I know you don't like the sun. I know how you got drunk for the first time, and I know the embarrassment of the first time you made up a big red egg. I know that your grandfather will be unhappy on the day of his death, so I want to take you for a walk, and I also know that you will be unhappy on your sister's birthday, so I will also accompany you to buy you a small cake. I know that when I was eight years old, you told me for the first time that you wanted to be a good friend for life, and I also knew that after graduating from high school, in order to fulfill this agreement, I changed my application to your university.

I don't know why, we're like this.

Ye Wanbai's face showed a very strange and familiar expression, You Xuezhen thought for a long time, and then remembered that the expression was the expression he had when he found that the rabbit was missing when he was a child.

Although she remembered that he quickly stretched out heartlessly, and said nonchalantly, what a pity, he almost ate braised rabbit head.

After many years, she heard him say in the same tone again, in fact, I still want us to continue to be good friends.

*

They stumbled and danced on the rooftop, You Xuezhen looked at his shoes, and sure enough, the toe of the shoe was still stepped on by her.

He doesn't care like he did back then, let's go, it's time to send you back.

The car was very dull, and You Xuezhen's mood was exhausted on the rooftop, and she felt extremely tired. She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, trying to make the rest of the time better, but the temperature in the car was so comfortable that she actually fell asleep before she knew it.

I woke up in a daze and found that the car was still on the elevated road.

"What's going on......?"

She sat up straight and watched in amazement at the stagnant traffic in front of the window.

Ye Wanbai pointed at the steering wheel: "There seems to be an accident in front, and it has been blocked for more than ten minutes." ”

"Huh?!"

You Xuezhen looked at the time, and it was almost past the point of the access control.

In WeChat, Meng Shilong also asked her if she had arrived at school safely twenty minutes ago, and she had mentioned to him that she was going to see Ye Wanbai alone tonight, so he didn't send a message to disturb her all night, leaving room for her, and only sent a message to ask at this time.

She replied with a little distress, "On the way back, but it seems that there is a traffic jam on the road...... I don't know if I'll have time to enter the dormitory."

Meng Shilong replied quickly, and almost in the next second, he sent a sentence: "Where? I'll pick you up."

You Xuezhen originally wanted to excuse herself and say no, but after thinking about it, she deleted the two words in the dialog box and sent him the address of the nearest convenience store after getting off the elevated highway.

Ye Wanbai supported her side face, and watched the person in the passenger seat look down with her spare eyes, her fingers crackling on the keyboard, the screen light illuminated her face, and the sleepiness after waking up retreated into a vivid joy.

He felt as if he was sitting in a drive-in theater, with a black-and-white silent film from the last century on the screen in the middle of the night, the girl on the screen meeting her sweetheart, the music playing, the picture turning into color, and ending at the most happy ending.

Anywhere, if the protagonist of this scene is not the girl he likes, if he doesn't just sit on the side of this scene.

She looked up and said, "You can put me in front of you in a moment, it's too late to go back to school." ”

He retracted his gaze: "He's coming to pick you up?" ”

"Hmm."

"You're going to live at his house?" He made his voice sound extremely restrained, and it was just a friend's suggestion, saying, "You have just talked, I don't think it's appropriate, it's better to slow down." ”

And her answer made him speechless-

"I already stayed at his house last night."

Ye Wanbai nodded his finger at the steering wheel and didn't ask any more.

The rear taillights of the front cars are on, but they don't shine on their rear compartments. Especially him, his whole face is hidden in the shadows.

Light and darkness in the world are always conserved, and some people are illuminated, and some people are cast in shadows.

Though he saw it only when he was in the shadows, a light had shone on him for a long time.

The accident on the viaduct was resolved, and the traffic finally surged again, and soon drove down the viaduct.

In the distance, Ye Wanbai saw the destination.

His feet were on the accelerator pedal, and his thigh muscles twitched faintly, trying to suppress the urge to step on.

Step on it, regardless of three-seven-twenty-one, pass the convenience store, never stop driving forward, and run away with her, so that she can never get out of the car.

When I came back to my senses, the car was safely parked in front of the convenience store.

He took a deep breath and said calmly, "I'll accompany you and wait for him to come." ”

You Xuezhen unfastened her seat belt: "No." ”

He stubbornly turned off the engine and got out of the car.

You Xuezhen looked at the back of him entering the store, and followed him into the store. She bought a bowl of oden and sat in the store to eat it, while Ye Wanbai bought a pack of cigarettes and went outside the store to smoke.

You Xuezhen sat inside, and it was inevitable to see his back. Slightly bowed down to make a fire, as if overlapping with the boy who hid and smoked on the rooftop many years ago, and the back that had been practiced now looked as thin as before.

The oden in her mouth was a little hard to swallow, but she lowered her eyes and ate it one bite at a time.

Soon, a motorcycle roared outside the street scene, You Xuezhen was still chewing with her mouth puffed out, and immediately raised her hand and waved at the comer.

Meng Shilong drove outside the store, stopped at a gallop, and waved at her.

You Xuezhen stuffed the last half of the sausage in the bowl into her mouth and prepared to go out, but Ye Wanbai, who was standing outside the convenience store, extinguished the smoke and took the first step to catch up.

She was slightly stunned and watched the two of them stand outside the store and talk.

Their expressions were all unwavering, so You Xuezhen couldn't guess what they were talking about by their expressions, but it should have been a peaceful conversation.