Chapter 1: New World 06
I was still asleep when someone called me, and if I hadn't been woken up by someone pushing me, I wouldn't have even noticed my phone ringing.
It was already dark, the lights were on in the dormitory, and there were three more girls, busy with their own things.
Needless to say, they should be my new roommates.
The girl who pushed me was the one who brought me the bath towel. Another girl in the dormitory called her "Anjia" in their dialect. They should be from the same hometown, so they felt very familiar with each other when they first met.
An Jia called another girl "Chen Yishan". When I went to the balcony with my phone, I glanced at the girl. She had black hair, elegant temperament, bright eyes and white teeth. She was a typical classical beauty.
There was another girl sitting on the upper bunk playing on the computer . Before I could find out her name, a soft female voice came from the phone.
"Are we there yet?" my tragic mother asked me with a burp, the noise of the bar still lingering around her.
Not surprisingly, she went drinking again.
After the divorce, she never left alcohol.
She had time to sing and dance in the bar, but she didn't have time to attend my graduation ceremony or to send me over when college started.
Are you complaining?
I asked myself this question as I stood on the balcony, looking up at the starry night sky.
What is there to complain about? At least she still remembers that she has a daughter like me.
"It will be noon." I answered calmly. God knows why I emphasized the word "noon" so much, knowing that she would not care at all.
"I'll transfer all the tuition and living expenses to your card at once. If you don't have anything to do during the holidays, don't come back."
Listen, this is my mother. She can shut people up with just one sentence.
"Well, I won't come back. I'm lazy and don't like to move. It's too much trouble for me to come back. I will work during the winter and summer vacations and earn my own money."
The temperature difference between day and night is so big, and the wind on the balcony is so cold. I took a breath of cool air and said words that my mother would like to hear.
"It would be best if you can make your own money! You also know that your shameless father didn't leave us much money."
Mom burped again, and the sound of her snapping fingers came from the phone.
"Another whiskey."
I held the phone and laughed. Indeed, the money was not enough, not even enough to pay for her wine, how could it be enough to support me.
That's right. I'm over 18 and an adult. Even if that man is my father, he has no obligation to support me after the divorce. What's more, he is not my father at all.
"Don't drink too much and go home early. I'm hanging up. Long-distance calls are expensive."
“Hmm,” Mom muttered.
I hung up the phone.
The other three people in the dormitory were not from my hometown. When I came out, I saw the bed card of the girl who was playing on the computer. She was from Guangdong, and An Jia and the others spoke Beijing dialect. Our dialects were different, so I was not afraid of them hearing anything.
Even if they really understood, what could they do?
Ai Ye is a bastard and her parents are divorced. Everyone in the city knows about this and I don’t mind if more people know it.
The balcony has a nice view, and the cold wind is quite desolate, which is the best place to express my feelings. But I have menstrual cramps and feel uncomfortable, so I don’t have the time to be sad. No matter how sad I am, I am still a bastard, and my parents are still divorced. This is a fact that cannot be changed. I have to buy water to make up for the wasted tears! I don’t have enough money, so I have to spend it sparingly.
I shrank my neck, walked back to the dormitory from the balcony holding my phone, and climbed back onto the bed.
Over there, three girls had already started chatting. The chubby girl An Jia kept pulling the girl who was playing on the computer and calling her "Caimiao Caimiao", while Chen Yisan next to her was laughing so hard that she was shaking with laughter .
"Hey! I'm Cai Miao, your name is Ai Ye, right?"
When I heard someone calling me, I poked my head out from under the quilt, squinting my eyes as I looked at the oval face that suddenly enlarged in front of me.
The other person blinked his eyes, which made me feel a little scared.
"Well, Ai Ye! Just call me Ye Zi!"
There are bed cards hanging on the headboards of each bed in the dormitory with names written on them. I am not at all curious about how Cai Miao knows my name. What surprises me is that I saw her sitting on the bed holding a computer one second, and she was standing in front of my bed the next second.
"You are a seedling and a leaf, which is really interesting. I am An Jia and she is Chen Yisan." An Jia pulled Chen Yisan over and said, shaking her round head.
I nodded and smiled at them, then closed my eyes and tried to sleep again.
"Ai Ye, what's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?" Cai Miao, who was closest to me, was the first to notice that something was wrong with me. He asked nervously with his eyes wide open.
I waved my hands at them and smiled bitterly: "My period is coming. It's painful. I'll be fine after a good sleep!"
"I have brown sugar."
"I have instant ginger powder."
"But I don't know where to get hot water!"
Cai Miao spoke, An Jia followed closely, Chen Yisan sighed, and it was very lively in his ears.
I suddenly missed Li Wei because she was also very noisy.
Sometimes it is a kind of happiness to have some noise around you. If you are quiet for a long time and can't hear any sound from outside, you will feel like you are dead.
"Artemisia! Leaf!"
"She seems to be asleep, so don't disturb her."
The people around the bed gradually dispersed, and small sounds came one after another, such as low-pitched chatting, keyboard tapping, eating melon seeds, and drinking beverages...
It was a little noisy and I was a little angry, but at least it made me feel that I was alive in this completely unfamiliar new world.
