I didn’t expect that less than ten minutes after I hung up the phone, Song Yan sat opposite me with a tray of food.
Just now he asked me where I was, and my mind was in a mess and I didn't even know what I said.
Song Yan sat opposite me, smiled at me, then turned to smile at Wang Sisi and Guo Jiani, and introduced himself: "Hello, I am Lu Nanxi's high school classmate."
"I'm Guo Jiani." Guo Jiani, who was sitting next to Song Yan, spoke in a very gentle and well-behaved voice.
I glanced at her subconsciously. Girls are very sensitive at times, especially when their territory is invaded by outsiders.
I saw a trace of surprise and joy in Guo Jiani's eyes. What did this mean? My chaotic brain had completely lost the ability to think.
"Wang Sisi." Wang Sisi said, looked back at me, and then buried her head and continued eating.
"Chen Xingyu was eating instant noodles in the dormitory. I didn't want to eat, but I thought it would be boring to eat alone, so I thought of you." Song Yan said, grabbed the chopsticks, and started eating in big mouthfuls.
The way he eats makes people feel so warm, as if even just a bun can taste like happiness.
I ate very slowly because Song Yan was sitting in front of me and I was afraid that he would see any indecent actions. I wanted him to see the best of me, but the more I did this, the more nervous I became, so nervous that my hands holding the chopsticks were shaking.
I ended up eating only a little bit of the meal because I had no idea what the food tasted like.
In just a short while, my palms were sweating. Song Yan is very talkative. He is always like the dazzling sun, as if he never sees the dark corners. The world in his eyes must be very beautiful!
After dinner, Song Yan said goodbye to us.
The three of us returned to the dormitory and were stunned when we opened the door.
The floor of the dormitory had obviously been cleaned. Not only the floor, but also the bathroom, the washbasin and the counter were all spotlessly clean.
I looked at the girl with long bangs. She was sitting in front of her desk and eating instant noodles.
Did she do all this?
I was surprised. There were four people in the dormitory, but she finished all the work by herself during our meal time. I felt a little sorry and wanted to say something, but Wang Sisi walked over first and said lightly, "Oh, you cleaned it quite well. Why don't I leave the hygiene of the dormitory to you from now on!"
The girl quickly raised her head and glanced at Wang Sisi, then quickly lowered her head. She said nothing and just continued to eat her instant noodles.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your consent." Wang Sisi said, and then she ignored her and continued to pack her things.
I stood there in silence for a long time, and finally couldn't help but said, "Count me in as the cleaning person."
Wang Sisi seemed a little surprised. She shrugged to show that it didn't matter. Guo Jiani didn't say anything at all, as if what we were talking about had nothing to do with her at all.
I shook my head, put my things down, and walked to the sink.
On the way back to the dormitory, I kept thinking about a question: what kind of attitude should I use to get along with Song Yan? He can naturally and generously call me a classmate or alumni, but from the beginning, I put myself in a corner far away from him!
I turned on the faucet, scooped up cold water to wash my face, then looked at myself in the mirror and tried hard to raise the corners of my mouth.
No matter what expression I use, I think the first thing I need to learn is to smile.
"Lu Nanxi, your classmate is quite handsome." At this moment, Guo Jiani came to me with a teacup. She poured the water in the teacup into the sink and asked, "You two have a good relationship, right?"
Sure enough, when we were in the cafeteria, I was right. When Guo Jiani saw Song Yan, the look in her eyes was love at first sight.
I think it is understandable that a girl would fall in love with Song Yan at first sight, facing a man like him whose presence is as strong as the sun.
"We... are just classmates, nothing more." I wanted to say that Song Yan and I were friends, but when the words came to my lips, they abruptly turned into classmates.
To Song Yan, I am just his classmate.
"Oh." Guo Jiani responded thoughtfully, and then asked me, "Can you tell me about him?"
"Oh, I forgot to bring my toothbrush! Lu Nanxi, please accompany me to the supermarket outside the school." Wang Sisi broke my embarrassing situation at the right time.
I quickly said "Okay", left Guo Jiani there, and followed Wang Sisi out of the dormitory.
At first, I didn’t have a very good impression of Wang Sisi, but at this time, her high ponytail seemed so friendly to me.
She said: "Lu Nanxi, even being a nice guy has its limits!"
My heart trembled, and for a moment I didn't understand what she wanted to say.
"Ah, I really hate people like you." She looked up at the blue sky, her expression unable to tell whether she was happy or sad. "Lu Nanxi, if you don't want to do something, why don't you just refuse it?"
I looked at Wang Sisi in astonishment. Did she see it? Did she see that I didn't want to tell anyone about Song Yan? Did she see my selfishness and my unwillingness to let others see his brilliance? Yes, if possible, I even hope that his brilliance belongs to me alone.
But I'm a coward! For so many years, I didn't dare to confess, and I didn't dare to tell anyone about my secrets, but this doesn't mean that I am willing to push him to another girl!
Especially that girl, I have only known her for a short time.
" It's really easy to guess what's going on in the minds of people like you. I can tell with just one look." Wang Sisi glanced at me with a hint of indifference in her eyes, "That's why I hate people like you the most!"
"Huh?" I was stunned. I thought she helped me out, asked my name, and invited me to have dinner together as a friendly gesture. But I didn't expect that these were just my illusions. She said it so directly.
I hate guys like you the most.
Am I such a guy?
I couldn't help but smile bitterly.
I thought of the girl with long bangs, whose name I still don't know. Wang Sisi hates me, so, probably from the beginning to now, she also hates the girl who always keeps her head down, dares not even show her eyes, but quietly cleans the dormitory!
Before I had time to calm down, the military training that is required to enter university arrived.
I finally knew the name of the girl with long bangs. It was because during a class, when the instructor called the roll, she raised her hand when she read Lu Feifei's name. I then knew that the girl with long bangs had a very nice name - Lu Feifei.
Today I think about it, it is raining and snowing.
The sentences in the Book of Songs are always so lingering and sad.
As I wished, I was assigned to the same class as Song Yan. When we gathered in the classroom that day, Song Yan widened his eyes and looked at me in surprise: "Wow, Lu Nanxi, fate is so amazing! We were in the same class in high school, and not only did we study the same major in college, but we were also assigned to the same class. What a small chance this is."
I quickly lowered my head. Before I learned to face him with a natural smile, I thought it would be better not to let him see my nervous and expressionless face.
"Yes, what a coincidence!" I answered.
In fact, it’s not a coincidence at all. It’s something I have put a lot of effort into doing!
I don't want to recall the days of my senior year in high school. It was so tiring and hard, but now, facing Song Yan, I feel that such hardship is nothing. Because I can still stay in the corner where I can see him, continue to watch him, and absorb the sunshine from him that keeps me alive.
Song Yan and I were in the same class, and the happiest person was Guo Jiani. She fell in love with Song Yan at first sight after seeing him in the cafeteria on the first day of school. Now that she found out that they were actually classmates, she was in such a good mood.
She even began to plan how to pursue Song Yan.
I looked at her pretty face and inexplicably felt a little sad.
I always think that if I could be a little more lively and cheerful, have a better temperament, and have a more perfect face and figure, then I probably wouldn't dare to hide in a corner and secretly admire someone.
How could an ordinary girl like me, who would disappear into the crowd without being seen again, have the courage to take the initiative to narrow the long distance between me and Song Yan?
Guo Jiani looks gentle and well-behaved, but she is actually a person of action.
On the third day of military training, under the scorching sun, the instructor asked us to stand at attention. After standing for half an hour, Guo Jiani staggered and fainted, right next to Song Yan who was standing behind her. The instructor immediately asked Song Yan, who was also the sports committee member, to carry her to the infirmary.
Song Yan had no objection. He carried Guo Jiani on his back and walked away, soon disappearing from everyone's sight.
Looking at this sudden scene, I just stood there in a daze. I didn’t even hear the instructor say “dismiss”. It was only when Wang Sisi pushed me that I came back to my senses.
Looking at Wang Sisi's slightly sarcastic eyes, my heart sank, like a sponge full of water blocking me and making it hard for me to breathe.
"Aren't you going to chase him?" Wang Sisi asked me softly, "You care a lot, don't you?"
I instinctively feel afraid of a girl named Wang Sisi. Maybe it's because in her eyes, all my little thoughts cannot be hidden.
On the first day of school, she easily broke everything I wanted to protect. I was afraid of her, especially afraid to face her eyes.
Song Yan left quickly and came back quickly. He came towards the sunlight, which shone on his handsome face, making the sweat on his face seem to be glowing.
Sparkling Song Yan - my Song Yan.
"So handsome!" The girls around him whispered, "Wow, he's the class hunk, definitely the class hunk!"
"I'm going to faint too! I also want him to take me to the infirmary. Guo Jiani is so lucky." Another girl said in an envious tone.
I never dared to imagine being carried by Song Yan at such a distance!
I turned around and walked forward a few steps, and then stopped when I could no longer hear the discussions.
At this moment, I felt as if someone was looking at me. I looked over subconsciously, but unexpectedly saw nothing.
During the afternoon military training, Guo Jiani also returned to the playground, and the instructor praised her for this.
The military training item in the afternoon was running. It was not an easy thing to run on the scorching hot playground on such a hot day, especially after having already stood at attention for half a day in the morning.
My body can still bear it, but many girls with weaker health have begun to show various symptoms of heat stroke. Although it is autumn, the autumn heat is still wreaking havoc.
During the break, Song Yan handed me a bottle of mineral water. I took it and I felt someone was looking at me again. I turned around and met Guo Jiani's eyes. She was looking at me, or more precisely, at the bottle of water in my hand.
"Drink it . It's so hot today. You'll die of thirst if you don't drink water." Song Yan said as he unscrewed the bottle cap and started drinking in big gulps. Soon most of the bottle of water was gone.
I was twisting the bottle cap, but because I was so nervous, my palms were sweaty and I couldn't twist the cap open for a while.
Song Yan took the bottle directly from my hand, easily helped me unscrew the cap, and put the water back into my hand.
I took it and said softly, "Thank you."
"Thank you, old classmate. How polite." Song Yan said, and put his hand on my shoulder, acting like a good brother. "Look, don't we two look like we depend on each other?"
The sponge blocking my heart seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, making it hard for me to breathe.
I tried to raise the corners of my mouth and smiled: "Your adjectives are really interesting."
"Haha, think about it, in such a big school, even though Chen Xingyu is here, that guy values ​​women over friendship and has abandoned me a long time ago. You are all I have left." He lamented, "It's really abominable that a guy has no humanity towards the opposite sex, classmate Lu Nanxi, you can't do this!"
"Well, no," I said.
I want to ask him, how did he get along so naturally with classmates he was not familiar ? I am really not flexible enough, not smart enough, and I can't learn such skills!
I turned my head inadvertently and Guo Jiani was still there, with an emotion in her eyes that I was not familiar with.
Girls are always very sensitive in this regard. They can easily spot potential rivals and see the whole thing from even the slightest clues.
This is truly a terrifying ability.
After a short rest, the hard military training continued.
The instructor asked us to run in circles along the road in the campus. I don't know when Guo Jiani ran to my side and asked me in a low voice: "Lu Nanxi, what is your relationship with Song Yan?"
"I said we were high school classmates." I answered quickly, but feeling a little guilty.
Yes, guilty conscience.
Because I am not honest, I dare not say that he is the one I have been looking up to silently.
I know that this is definitely not the answer Guo Jiani wants to hear.
Sure enough, she chased me and asked, "Lu Nanxi, do you like Song Yan?"
I didn't answer her. Do I like Song Yan?
The answer is of course yes.
But for me, I prefer to express my feelings for him with one-sided crush.
Because when you like someone, you are willing to tell the people around you, but when you have a crush on someone secretly, it is the most humble kind of liking that you only want to know yourself and want to hide it secretly in your heart.
"Why don't you speak? I'm asking you a question!" Guo Jiani's voice rang unpleasantly in my ears, bringing my wandering thoughts back.
I was about to answer when I felt her suddenly push me. I was not paying attention and my left foot tripped over my right foot. The girl behind me pushed me up without paying attention, and I fell heavily to the ground.
Guo Jiani seemed to be startled by my sudden fall and froze there, but she quickly came to her senses: "I didn't mean to do that, Lu Nanxi, why are you so careless?"
I wanted to get up, but I landed on my knees. My thin military training uniform rubbed against the rough asphalt road, and my knees ached excruciatingly. I probably broke a bone.
When I fell, I instinctively supported myself on the ground with both hands to avoid hitting my face. Now my palms are burning with pain, probably because the skin was scraped off.
"What's going on?" Song Yan was leading the team beside the instructor at the moment. Suddenly he saw that the girls' side was in chaos, so he hurried over.
He quickly saw me lying on the ground in such a mess, and immediately bent down and reached out to pull me up.
"Pah——" However, at this moment, someone slapped away Song Yan's hand. I seemed to hear the girls around me gasping for air , and I almost cried because of the pain.
My eyes were blurred by tears and the sunlight was too glaring, so I could hardly see the person in front of me.
A shadow covered me, and then someone grabbed my arm, and another hand circled my waist and lifted me up from the ground.
"Classmate, who are you?" I heard Song Yan asking.
His voice seemed a little more serious, unlike his usual cheerful smile.
However, the person who was holding me did not answer him, but just held me and walked away from the crowd step by step. I was full of doubts. I blinked hard and finally saw clearly the person who was holding me.
It was a boy, and from my angle I could only see his pale profile. His profile was very good-looking, with a hint of slenderness and fragility.
But this is not the point. The point is, I don’t seem to know this person!
"Classmate..." I wanted to say let me go, I can walk by myself.
But as soon as I said the word "classmate", he spoke again. He whispered, "Don't talk. I'll take you to bandage your wound."
I subconsciously looked down at my knees and realized that my pants had been rubbed to pieces. My knees were bloody and a large area had been rubbed off. No wonder it hurt so much. I looked at my hands again and found that the palms of my hands were indeed broken, with sand and dirt stuck to them. It looked horrible.
"Classmate, wait a minute! Where are you taking her?" Song Yan caught up with us from behind and stopped in front of us. His expression became serious for the first time. "She needs to go to the infirmary now. Otherwise, it will be bad if the wound gets inflamed in such hot weather."
As he spoke, he wanted to come forward and pull me over, but the boy in black clothes stopped talking again. He didn't answer Song Yan's words, and when Song Yan was about to touch me, he pulled me away a little. It seemed that he had made up his mind not to let Song Yan take me to the infirmary.
He could obviously have answered Song Yan. He was about to take me to bandage my wound, but he refused to say anything.
I pursed my lips, took a deep breath, and said to Song Yan: "That... this classmate said to take me to the infirmary."
Song Yan frowned and asked me, "Do you know him?"
I shook my head blankly . A handsome boy like this would be unforgettable once you meet him, but I really don't have the slightest impression of him in my mind.
This clearly shows that I have never seen this boy before.
"So, who are you?" Seeing me shaking my head, Song Yan turned around and continued to ask the boy who was supporting me.
The boy still didn't say anything, but this time he directly pulled me away from Song Yan and walked forward.
Song Yan quickly grabbed my other arm, and I subconsciously screamed, "It hurts!"
Song Yan loosened his hand as if he had been electrocuted. He looked down and saw my elbow, which was obviously rubbed as well.
Oh, this fall was really hard.
"Well, Song Yan, you go back and lead the team. I'm fine here. This classmate will take me to the infirmary." Seeing that the boy in black had made up his mind not to speak, I had no choice but to say this to Song Yan.
"Okay then." Song Yan seemed a little worried, "Call me if you have anything."
I nodded. The boy seemed impatient and just pulled me forward. Every step I took made my knees ache. I prayed in my heart, hoping that I didn't break any bones.
Just when I was grimacing in pain, I felt my body suddenly lighten, as if I were weightless. Then I found that the boy actually picked me up!
"Hey!" I exclaimed, "Classmate..."
"Don't talk, I mean no harm." He said softly, his voice was calm, but in my heart, it was cold, "I just want to take you to get bandaged."
I had a lot of questions in my mind and I wanted to ask a lot of questions, but after he said that, I didn’t say anything and just let him hold me and walk forward.
At this moment, I was so glad that I was light in weight. It shouldn’t be that difficult for this kind boy to lift me up.
When I arrived at the infirmary, the school doctor was not there, so the boys found medical alcohol and iodine for disinfection to help me treat the wound.
The infirmary was too quiet, with only the occasional sound of bottles colliding. I felt a little uncomfortable because it was the first time I was so close to a strange boy.
I looked at his face. He was really a very handsome boy. And, perhaps only a boy like him could be described as handsome.
What a strange boy, he doesn’t seem to like talking. He doesn’t say anything no matter what Song Yan asks him. But the strange thing is that he is willing to answer my questions.
I was shocked and had a strange feeling in my heart. Was it just a coincidence that he would answer my question? I thought about it for a long time and couldn't help it, so I asked softly, "Can you tell me, what is your name?"
"Xu Minyou." He answered me softly, his tone so light, as if he was afraid of disturbing the silence in the room.
"Xu Minyou." I repeated it subconsciously. I don't know why, but this name always makes me feel very gentle. "What a nice name."
His hands that were cleaning my wound slowly stopped, and it took a long time before he looked up at me.
At that moment, something sparkling seemed to flash in his beautiful eyes.