Chapter 11 Lin Huimei 2
When Albert Ou walked out of the next room and closed the door, Hui Mei felt her jaw drop in shock. Albert Ou was actually her neighbor, a neighbor she hadn’t seen for almost a year!
"where do you live?"
“Yeah.” Ou Weiming’s smile was somewhat unfathomable.
Later, Huimei learned that Ou Weiming was a self-funded graduate student. Because his family opposed him continuing his studies, he could only rely on his own efforts to earn money to support his studies. After that day, Huimei felt that she could see him with a temporary worker badge on his chest wherever she went. When Ou Weiming saw her, he always liked to chat with her and asked her to wait for him to go home with him for various reasons.
Albert Ou liked to tell Huimei about his own affairs, to make her happy, and to play tricks on her occasionally, as if her presence added a little more fun to his busy life.
He told Huimei that he was trying to get a place in the school to study abroad. He wanted to see a wider world and see if the starry sky abroad was more beautiful and the sea was bluer.
When Huimei heard him say these words, she would think of Xu Shushu who was far away in Canada. The ocean and starry sky abroad could be seen from his circle of friends. It was really beautiful, but that kind of beauty was beyond her reach, so she could only listen quietly and watch Albert Ou's expectant expression and infinite longing eyes.
"I never thought about going far away. I just want to take root in this small city." Huimei looked up at the dark night sky, where the sparse stars were twinkling lonely.
“Then don’t you want to see the outside world?” Ou Weiming asked.
Huimei shook her head and smiled sadly: "People should pursue things within their reach. The only place within my reach is probably this small coastal city. I once liked a boy, and he went to a beautiful place abroad. We never contacted or talked again, and were separated by distance into two worlds." When Huimei thought of her secret love experience, the smile on her face was beautiful and sad. "When I watched him leave, I always thought, how nice it would be if he could stay in this city for me. But in that case, I would be too selfish. After all, everyone has their own pursuits."
That day, Albert Ou didn't say anything else. He accompanied Hui Mei to the bustling downtown area to buy a bunch of snacks. The two climbed up a small hill, where they ate snacks while looking at the stars. This was the first time Albert Ou felt that the night in this city was also beautiful, so beautiful that he didn't want to leave.
The cold of winter gradually faded away, and spring came. The temperature gradually warmed up, and soon it was the hot summer. During these seasons, Albert Ou always liked to stay by Huimei's side. Every morning before going to work, he would prepare breakfast and leave a portion at Huimei's door. There would always be a small note on the breakfast, and the content on it was different every day.
When Huimei was not at work, Albert Ou would ask her to go shopping, saying that she would not have the chance to visit the city again after she went abroad. Huimei felt that she had gained a friend, but she also felt that her friend was not like the current state they were in. Huimei often walked out of the door and looked at the apartment door to see if the boy had returned.
Albert Ou is rarely at home, and he seems to appear in every corner of this city. Once, Huimei ordered fast food, but she didn't expect Albert Ou to be the delivery man. That time, she was teased by people in the company for a long time, and they all pestered her to ask if that man was her boyfriend. Huimei blushed in embarrassment and avoided the topic.
As summer was coming to an end, Albert Ou came home late at night almost every day. Huimei could always hear the door next door opening and closing in the middle of the night. Albert Ou was not as active as before, as if something was standing between them. He had to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination and work, so he would sleep until noon every day, but he still kept the habit of getting up early to make breakfast for Huimei.
One day in late summer, Huimei opened the door and no longer saw breakfast at the door. There was a small note at the door, and the neat handwriting on the note touched her heart - I can study abroad, thank you for accompanying me during this time.
Hui Mei took a deep breath, keeping her usual calmness, and put the note in a small box. In the box were all the small notes written by Albert Ou in the past few months. Hui Mei looked at the box, and suddenly poured out all the small notes inside, and read them one by one again.
Perhaps she cannot keep the person she likes, and can only leave an incomplete memory.
Huimei started to cry as she watched, and she didn't know why she was crying. The person she was used to being with suddenly disappeared like this, and she didn't even have time to say "I like you" .
Huimei was tired of crying, so she leaned on the pillow and fell asleep. The phone on the bed received a text message and vibrated slightly for a while, but she was too sleepy to get up and check it.
The next day.
Qiu Zhuoping drove to pick up Chen Yiying, who planned to move to Qiu Zhuoping's house to take care of Qiu's father. Huimei, with a look of "a girl should not be kept at home when she grows up", helped Yiying carry her luggage.
After Yiying left, she was left alone.
"The luggage has been almost moved. I'm leaving first. You should live well on your own." Yiying patted Huimei's shoulder, said goodbye and got into the car.
Huimei stood there and saw through the car window the two people in the car who were very affectionate.
The car slowly drove away and disappeared from her sight. When Huimei turned around and wanted to go back, a huge bouquet of roses blocked her way.
Because there were so many roses, she couldn't see the person holding the flowers. She originally thought that the person's vision was blocked and couldn't see her, but when she moved left and right, she was blocked and realized that the person was doing it on purpose.
"Who is it?" In a bad mood, she kicked the person who was blocking her way to his knees. A familiar scream came from behind the roses.
Albert Ou held the bouquet in one hand and rubbed his half-kneeling calf with the other. He raised his head and looked innocently at Hui Mei, who looked bewildered.
"You're being too harsh, aren't you?"
“Didn’t you…go abroad?” Hui Mei looked at Albert Ou who appeared in front of her in disbelief. He wrote in the note that he would leave the city today, so why hadn’t he left yet? Was the flight delayed?
“Didn’t you get the text?”
"Text message?" Huimei fumbled in her trouser pocket and found her cell phone in the room.
"But that's not important. Lin Huimei, I stayed for you, you have to compensate me."
"ah?"
"Our friendship has come to an end."
"The end?" Huimei still looked confused.
And Albert Ou put down the rose in his hand, stood up and kissed her lips, grinning evilly and said, “I want to start another relationship with you.”
Later, Huimei saw the text message that she had not had time to check. The text message only contained a brief confession: I will not go abroad, I want to stay in this city and take root with you...
