I sat on the bench in the couples' corner and watched the couples around me being affectionate with each other. Occasionally, someone would look back at me, smile sarcastically, and then turn his head away.
This is where I saw Yu Xia and Yan Anyan hugging each other, and this is also where my heart was broken.
These past two days, whenever I think of that hug, my heart always feels so blocked. I wonder if Yu Xia has already known about this matter, and if he believes Yan Anyan's words and thinks that I did all this?
This time, will he stand by me or by Yan Anyan?
Or maybe he still won't say anything, as if nothing had happened, and won't mention it again, leaving Yan Anyan and I to deal with it on our own.
Once upon a time, I thought I was the one who knew him best, but now I realize that it was all my self-righteousness. I didn’t understand him at all, and I didn’t even know why he suddenly distanced himself from me.
While I clearly remember the hug between him and Yan Anyan, I also remember the hug when he gave me birthday wishes. We were so close that I could clearly hear each other's breathing, but even though we were so close at that moment, I still felt that we were very far away, as if we would never be able to touch each other again.
Did he decide to stay away from me from that hug?
My mind is in a mess and I can't find a clue.
"Su Bei, we are really destined to meet!"
It's that annoying voice again. Even without looking up, I know who the owner of the voice is.
"Why haven't you left yet? Don't you think the security guards haven't chased you away enough?" Putting away my sadness, I glared at Chen Hao who was grinning at me, feeling extremely disgusted.
"You're so fierce. It's not easy to get familiar with you!" Chen Hao squeezed in next to me and sat down, looking me up and down with a probing look. "But it doesn't matter. I'm born to like challenges. In the past, when I liked someone, I would always be enthusiastic for only three minutes. Now it seems that this habit may have to be broken..."
"Chen Hao, get out of here! Stop saying these things to disgust me!" I stood up in disgust, not wanting to sit on the same chair with him.
"Su Bei, I don't have a good temper. Although I like you, you can't do whatever you want to me just because I like you, understand?" Chen Hao pulled my arm closer, his tone a little fierce. I wanted to break free, but found that he was very strong and couldn't break free at all.
"Chen Hao! Let me go!" I shouted.
The couples around me saw this situation and quietly moved away, not expecting anyone to come and save me.
I tried to calm myself down and observed the situation around me, hoping to find an opportunity to escape.
The face was getting closer and closer to me. I wanted to hide, but my arms were clamped and I had no room to struggle.
Just as I closed my eyes in despair and prepared to endure Chen Hao's next disgusting move, a roar rang out in front of me: "What are you doing? Bastard!"
As I roared, the force that was holding my arm loosened.
I opened my eyes and saw Yu Xia pulling Chen Hao like crazy and throwing him aside.
"Hero saving the beauty?" Chen Hao was not a pushover either. After being treated like this, he punched out.
Yu Xia stretched out his hand to block and swung his fist out.
The two men started fighting in front of me. After a few rounds, Chen Hao had several bruises on his face, and Yu Xia also had bruises on the corners of his lips.
"Enough!" I stepped in between the two of them and stopped them.
I knew this was a very irrational action, and I couldn't think of any other solution at the time.
Fortunately, the two of them stopped at the same time. Chen Hao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at Yu Xia angrily: "Why are you pretending to be a romantic? Bah!"
"Get out!" I yelled at him.
Seeing me screaming at the top of my lungs, Chen Hao had a look of reluctance on his face, but he gritted his teeth and held back his anger. He glared at Yu Xia viciously, and said, "Su Bei, I'm leaving not because I'm a coward, but because of you," and left.
After Chen Hao left, I helped Yu Xia sit down on the bench and asked distressedly, "Apart from the corner of your mouth, are there any other injuries? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
As I said this, my eyes started to turn red.
"He's just a gangster, how can you fight with him? People like him fight all the time and they have been trained for a long time. Do you think you are so powerful?" I complained.
"Su Bei, I'm fine." Yu Xia originally wanted to pull the corner of his mouth to smile at me, but who knew that it would pull the wound, and he gasped in pain.
"Are you really okay?" I was still a little worried.
"It's really okay. On the contrary, you should stay away from Chen Hao in the future. Although he is pursuing Lin Momo on the surface, he has no good intentions towards you. It's a good thing that I showed up this time. What if I didn't come and something happened to you?"
"Yu Xia, are you here to see me?" I looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you know about what happened between me and Yan Anyan?"
He is not good at lying. Whenever he lies, he dare not look the other person in the eye.
"Yeah." He nodded.
"Yu Xia, do you have anything to say to me ?"
Cool, handsome, a top student... these are the descriptions given to Yu Xia by others.
Perhaps only Sheng Yinuo and I have seen the gentle Yu Xia who occasionally likes to tell a joke in private. I have said more than once that I am the one who knows him best, but just now, when he and Chen Hao were fighting, I suddenly felt strange.
Is this Yu Xia? Is this the other side of her that I don’t know about?
Time has covered the past ten years of our acquaintance like water. The memories of the past have been swept into the air like sand in the desert. I can no longer remember how much has disappeared in the wind.
I remember that there were always the quiet him and the lively Sheng Yinuo by my side. Every morning when I went downstairs, I would see them both looking at me with smiles.
On the way to school, Sheng Yinuo and I were always chattering. He would occasionally interject a word or two, but most of the time he was silent.
I can still clearly remember that the wind blew up his white T-shirt, revealing a small piece of skin, which was enough to make me blush and turn my head away. Once, I almost bumped into a tree on the side of the road.
When did it start?
Since when did I start to fall in love with this boy named Yu Xia, instead of just liking him?
"Yu Xia, you really have nothing to say to me?" I asked again.
He remained silent.
"If you don't say it, then how about I ask you? You just need to say yes or no." I looked at him without blinking.
He nodded.
"Did you come to see me after you found out about me and Yan Anyan?"
"Yes."
"Will you still stand on Yan Anyan's side this time?"
"no."
"So you believe me, right?"
"Yes."
"Yu Xia, are you deliberately avoiding me?"
He didn't speak.
"You like me, don't you? You like me too, right?"
He still didn't speak.
"Yu Xia, why don't you say it? I know you like me in your heart!" I choked with sobs, and the muffled voice came out from my chest, "You obviously like me, I know, I know."
As I spoke, two lines of tears flowed from my eyes.
"Su Bei..."
"Why? Why did you distance yourself from me so suddenly?" I grabbed his hand and held it tightly. "Yu Xia, why? Can you tell me why? Can you tell me?"
"Su Bei..." He didn't answer me, but just called my name over and over again.
"I don't want to hear you calling my name, I just want you to tell me the truth." In order to force him to tell the truth, I said resolutely, "Yu Xia, if you tell me today that you don't like me, we are just friends, or we can't even be friends in the future, I will stand up and leave immediately, and I will never bother you again. But if you tell me that you like me, no matter what happens in the future, I am willing to stand by you through thick and thin. So, can you tell me?"
"Su Bei, don't force me..."
"Who is forcing whom?" I shook off his hand and stood up, crying, "Yu Xia, aren't you forcing me? Do you know? In these few short days, I feel like you're driving me crazy! I can clearly feel your love for me, but why did everything change after I confessed to you? Why did you deliberately distance yourself from me and hug Yan Anyan?"
"Su Bei, you are very excited now and it is not appropriate to talk about this topic. Let's go back first!" Yu Xia stood up and prepared to leave.
I grabbed his sleeve, walked to his side, leaned my head on his shoulder, and let my tears wet his shoulder.
"Yu Xia, I really like you, can you like me a little more?"
I have never been so humble in front of someone. I thought my humility could get something in return, but Yu Xia just turned around and wiped away my tears. Then, just like the day I confessed my love to him, he said an insignificant "goodbye" to me and left in a hurry.
I always thought that this was the extreme pain I could go through since my father passed away, but compared with what was about to happen, such sadness was simply not worth mentioning.
When I received the call that Sheng Yinuo was in the hospital after a car accident, I was still immersed in the sadness of Yu Xia's departure. At that moment, I thought Xu Shihan was playing a long-overdue April Fool's joke on me to cheer me up.
But when I heard Lin Momo crying on the other end of the phone, I realized that this was not a joke, but a real fact.
I rushed to the hospital like crazy. The ambulance had just arrived at the hospital. Sheng Yinuo was carried down by the doctor and pushed to the emergency room. I staggered to catch up with the car, grabbed Sheng Yinuo's hand, and shouted his name over and over again.
"Sheng Yinuo, I'm Su Bei, please open your eyes and look at me. Sheng Yinuo... Sheng Yinuo..."
"Su...Bei...Xin...Xin...Xin..."
He kept repeating the word "faith" and was pushed into the emergency room.
I sat down on the bench dejectedly, feeling like my head was about to explode.
Looking up at the words "Emergency Room", I clenched my fists tightly, and my knuckles made a cracking sound. I didn't need to look in the mirror to know that I must be pale at this moment.
"Have a drink of water!" A disposable paper cup filled with warm water was handed to me. "The operation may take a long time, so you have to cheer up!"
I looked up at the boy who handed me the water. I had been keeping my head down for a long time, and when I suddenly looked up, my neck creaked and hurt badly, like a robot joint that had forgotten to be lubricated.
But no matter how much pain my body feels, it can't compare to the pain in my heart.
"You may not know me. My name is Cheng Jiayang, and I'm Sheng Yinuo's teammate on the basketball team." Cheng Jiayang sat next to me with paper cups in both hands. From him, I learned everything about the car accident.
When Yan Anyan was injured, Sheng Yinuo and Cheng Jiayang were called by the basketball team captain to coordinate the postponement of the suspension. When he came back and learned that I was called to the infirmary by Yan Anyan, his face changed and he rushed to the infirmary.
In the infirmary, Sheng Yinuo and Cheng Jiayang saw Yan Anyan chatting and laughing with a group of people, but they didn't see me. At that time, Yan Anyan's face was still covered with tears, but he was still smiling brightly.
Seeing Sheng Yinuo coming in, a girl from the cheerleading team asked, "Are you here to see Su Bei?"
After getting Sheng Yinuo's response, the girl said sarcastically, "Sheng Yinuo, I really don't understand how you fell in love with a vicious girl like Su Bei. Look at what she has done to our An Yan. If she dared to do it and take responsibility, I would think she had some backbone. I didn't expect that she would even falsely accuse An Yan of acting. Why doesn't she try to fall like this herself?"
"Shut up!" Sheng Yinuo glared at the girl, then turned to ask Yan Anyan, "Do you know where Su Bei went?"
"I'm not her mother. I have no obligation to care where she goes." Yan Anyan picked up a piece of fruit with a toothpick and put it into his mouth, replying nonchalantly.
"Yan Anyan, I don't care what happens between you and Yu Xia. If you want to do anything to hurt Su Bei, I will never allow it." When Sheng Yinuo was about to leave, he warned her again, "If you dare to hurt Su Bei again, I will never forgive you."
Sheng Yinuo and Cheng Jiayang walked out of the infirmary. They searched for me in the school for a long time but couldn't find me anywhere. My cell phone was turned off and Yu Xia's cell phone was unreachable. Sheng Yinuo wandered around the campus like a madman. When he saw someone he had some impression of, he would rush up to ask if they knew a girl named Su Bei and if they had seen where she went.
He asked many people, and the answers he got were: they didn't know or didn't know.
Seeing him like this, Cheng Jiayang advised with some distress: "Yinuo, calm down first. Su Bei is not a child anymore. She will be fine."
Sheng Yinuo shook her head: "She couldn't accept being wronged since she was a child. If she was wronged like this, she would definitely find a corner to hide and cry. If I hadn't found her, I don't know how long she would have hidden. It's so cold now, what if she gets sick?"
Hearing this, my tears flowed uncontrollably. I turned off my phone because I thought Yu Xia was too sad, but I didn't expect Sheng Yinuo to worry about me like this. I am still too selfish, always doing things because of my own likes and dislikes and ignoring the feelings of people around me.
Cheng Jiayang took out a pack of tissues from his pocket and gave them to me, then continued talking.
Just when they couldn't find me anywhere, Sheng Yinuo saw the boy named Chen Hao on the side of the road.
Chen Hao appeared in front of them in a rather embarrassed state, with wounds on his face and his clothes in a mess. He did not notice them at first, but Sheng Yinuo rushed up first and punched him without saying anything.
Chen Hao was beaten by two people in one day. His eyes turned red. He glared at Sheng Yinuo and yelled, "Are you crazy?"
"Don't think I didn't recognize you. The person who was pestering Lin Momo before and then went to the gate of the community to look for Su Bei was you, right?" Sheng Yinuo looked at Chen Hao as if he saw an enemy. The ferocity in his eyes was something Cheng Jiayang had never seen before, and it shocked him a little.
In Cheng Jiayang's eyes, Sheng Yinuo was always laughing. Even when he was injured playing basketball, he never lost his temper. He even comforted his injured teammates.
Today was the first time he saw an expression other than a smile on Sheng Yinuo's face.
"Oh, you really pay attention to that little girl!"
"I know everything about Su Bei. I have wanted to teach you a lesson for a long time, but I didn't expect you to come to me on your own!" Sheng Yinuo said as he tried to hit him again, but was dodged by Chen Hao.
I didn't ask Cheng Jiayang why Sheng Yinuo knew that Chen Hao was harassing me. Come to think of it, he probably didn't know about it, right?
Chen Hao, who had been beaten by Yu Xia, was already angry, and when he met Sheng Yinuo, who started fighting without saying a word, he became even more angry. The two men started arguing.
"You little brat, don't think I can't beat you! I'm not in the mood to fight you today, get out of here now!"
"But I'm in a bad mood today, and I just want to fight with you."
"You and that kid named Yu Xia are both crazy, right? You two have gone crazy just for Su Bei. Crazy!"
Hearing the name Su Bei, Sheng Yinuo rushed forward like crazy and grabbed Chen Hao by the collar, asking: "Have you seen Yu Xia and Su Bei? Where are they now?"
Seeing Sheng Yinuo so nervous, Chen Hao suddenly laughed: "Oh, it turns out to be a love triangle. What an interesting scene. You want to know, but I won't tell you."
"You're asking for a fight!"
The tragedy happened at that moment.
Sheng Yinuo, who was still holding Chen Hao's collar with his left hand, raised his right hand and hit Chen Hao hard .
At this time, the red light just ended and the vehicles on the road began to move quickly again. Chen Hao suddenly turned over and grabbed Sheng Yinuo, pushing him onto the busy road.
After a loud brake sound, Sheng Yinuo was lying in a pool of blood.
The driver got out of the car in a panic, crying, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me, he jumped into the middle of the road by himself."
After Cheng Jiayang rushed to Sheng Yinuo, there was no trace of Chen Hao around, so he quickly called 120 for emergency assistance.
After saying all this, Cheng Jiayang asked me how I knew that Sheng Yinuo was in trouble, because he had not had time to notify anyone.
I replied that my friend called me and told me. As soon as I finished answering, my head tensed up, wondering why Xu Shihan called me so promptly?
Or...the connection between Lin Momo and Chen Hao is much closer than I know.
But now I am no longer in the mood to care about so many things. I just hope that Sheng Yinuo can come back to me and call me with a smile: "My dearest Su Bei."
Sheng Yinuo, you will be fine.
Is that right?