"Here are the shrimp balls. I remember you loved eating them when you were in junior high school."
After squatting on the roadside and crying like a fool like Lin Jiarui for an unknown amount of time, he dragged me to a spicy hot pot restaurant at the intersection to eat.
Lin Jiarui actually doesn’t like spicy hotpot. When I was in junior high school, I would occasionally go out with the girls in my class to eat spicy hotpot. When he saw us, he would always say that the food was crude and unhygienic.
But today, he enjoyed his meal with me. One reason was that this store at the intersection was still closed, and another reason might be that he was really hungry.
Lin Jiarui said that he had not eaten since last night. At first, he was too excited to eat because he was waiting for An Xiaoduo. Later, he was too sad to eat because he could not wait for An Xiaoduo. Later, he did not see me after returning to the hospital and did not find me at school. He was too anxious and did not have time to eat.
Seeing Lin Jiarui wolfing down the spicy hot pot that he used to disdain, I silently lowered my head and bit the extra shrimp balls in the bowl. I had clearly cried just now, but now my eyes were a little sore again.
I just couldn't learn my lesson. Lin Jiarui's little attempt to please and make peace made me unable to bear it and I believed him again. But the main reason was that I felt a little sorry for Lin Jiarui.
Just now he squatted on the ground, crying and saying that he sat in the airport lobby last night waiting for An Xiaoduo, waiting for a long time, until it got dark this evening. When he heard the broadcast that the plane from the United States had arrived, he hurried to the passenger exit to look for the unforgettable girl in his memory, and waited until fewer and fewer people came out of the exit and he didn't see An Xiaoduo, then he gave up and came back to find me.
Seeing Lin Jiarui's body which was much thinner than before, my eyes felt like they were smoked by the hot steam of spicy hot pot. I couldn't help but cry. Afraid of being discovered by him, I wiped my eyes randomly a few times and chewed the food in my mouth slowly, but found it difficult to swallow.
I feel sad when I think of the helpless and confused feeling when I was abandoned last night. If I put myself in his shoes, what is the difference between Lin Jiarui and me at that time? We are not as important as others, and those who are abandoned by the people they want to cherish are always waiting , letting a passionate heart slowly cool down.
The crying on the side of the road was for ourselves and for each other, because we both realized each other's sadness.
"Jian Lening, I really don't have the energy to like Xiaoduo anymore. Please teach me, what should I do? Didn't you like Qixuan before? How can you just dislike that person just by saying you don't like him?" After crying, Lin Jiarui pulled my trouser leg and asked me pitifully.
I sniffed, reached out my hand to wipe my wet eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Just remember that the person standing next to that person is not you; remember that person was not by your side when you were most sad; remember that person went to the United States with another person and left you behind again and again. That's all. Remind yourself of this every day, and then your heart will never warm up to that person again."
That’s what I told myself, so I haven’t dared to like Qixuan for a long time.
But Lin Jiarui is not me after all. He chose another way, a very stupid way that he had used before, and as a result, one more person was injured.
After dinner that night, Lin Jiarui took me to his sister's house.
The next afternoon, he came to pick me up and we went to school together.
On the way, we got along with each other calmly, as if the previous sadness had never existed.
When I got to the dormitory, most people had already arrived. He Yiran was cleaning, Wang Hong was visiting the next door dormitory, Tang Yu was lying on the bed with a facial mask, and Sun Yu's bag was on my bed, but he was not there.
I didn't go downstairs for dinner. When Lin Jiarui sent me to school, he bought me some sushi and asked me to bring it over to eat with everyone.
I gave everyone two sushi rolls, and I didn't even look at the flavors, I just took them randomly. Sun Yu wasn't there, so I put the food on her desk. When I handed it to Tang Yu, she heard that Lin Jiarui bought it, and she looked at me with a strange expression, pouting and looking a little unhappy, but she still accepted it, but I didn't see her eat it.
I know why she is unhappy. She must have misunderstood me and Lin Jiarui again.
That’s right, if it were me, and I liked a boy, but this boy was nice to another girl, I would naturally feel bad.
I don't know how to explain to Tang Yu. In fact, I don't think highly of Tang Yu and Lin Jiarui. In my opinion, Tang Yu shouldn't like Lin Jiarui, at least not when he hasn't completely forgotten An Xiaoduo, because she will be hurt.
But what I never expected was that around seven o'clock in the evening, Tang Yu suddenly jumped off the bed happily, rushed to me, hugged my neck and jumped up and down, shouting excitedly: "Jian Lening, Lin Jiarui actually accepted my confession and is willing to date me!"
My head felt like it had been hit hard by someone. My thoughts were in a mess. I stared blankly at the smiling Tang Yu and was stunned for a moment.
I didn't expect Lin Jiarui to really be with Tang Yu.
Seeing Tang Yu's happy smile, I once again thought of the child star Yu. Sure enough, Lin Jiarui did not follow my method to forget his feelings for An Xiaoduo. He once again chose to seek comfort from other girls in his own way, indulge himself, and hope to get out of the shackles brought to him by An Xiaoduo.
But Tang Yu is not Tong Xingyu who doesn't care about anything for money. Lin Jiarui cannot buy her feelings with money. What Tang Yu has given is her true love.
At that moment, looking at Tang Yu's smiling face, I felt a tingling pain in my heart. I seemed to be able to see that one day in the future, this girl who smiled at me and said "Lin Jiarui is willing to date me" would cry to me and cry and ask "Why doesn't he like me?"
Lin Jiarui's relationship started too suddenly. As an outsider, I could only play the role of a bystander and not interfere in his relationship with Tang Yu.
Sun Yu's grandmother eventually passed away. It was on the fourth day . The head teacher brought Sun Yu's mother to see Sun Yu and said that her grandmother had passed away and they wanted to take her home.
That was the first time I met Sun Yu's mother. I don't know why, but when I heard Sun Yu talk about her mother, I felt that her mother was a very gentle woman, like a calm lake. In fact, Sun Yu's mother is indeed like this. She is a native Shanghai woman, but she seems to have walked out of the Jiangnan water town, exuding a gentle breath.
Sun Yu was taken away by her mother, and the rest of us continued with our class.
After Sun Yu left, Tang Yu was still the one who took care of my daily life, but most of the time it was she and Lin Jiarui who took care of me together.
She wanted to eat three meals a day with Lin Jiarui, but Lin Jiarui would always ask me to come along, saying that I was not mobile enough.
Tang Yu didn't say anything on the surface, but I could see that I was too much of an eyesore, so every time Lin Jiarui asked me to have dinner together, I would say that I had already finished eating, or take the initiative to ask He Yiran and the others to eat together, and occasionally eat with my deskmate Huang Wei. When Sun Yu came back, I would hang out with her again.
Although Tang Yu didn't say it, he was very satisfied with my behavior in his heart. He was especially nice to me recently, often calling me "Le Ning Le Ning". Even when he went out for a date with Lin Jiarui, he would bring me some snacks when he came back.
Even when I occasionally see Lin Jiarui, I can hear the sneer in his words: "Jian Lening, I think Tang Yu likes you, not me. Why do I feel that she treats you better than me? I never see her go out to buy me food, but she always asks me to buy it for her."
I smiled at Lin Jiarui, looked at the boy's gradually red face, and said meaningfully: "Tang Yu is very good, she is just a little childish, don't play with her."
Lin Jiarui nodded, stopped smiling, imitated me, leaned on the railing of the corridor, and said lightly: "I understand what you mean, Jian Lening, I am really determined to forget An Xiaoduo this time. When I was with Tang Yu, I felt that she had a lively personality and was not bad. I didn't mean to play with her. I really have begun to slowly forget her."
I looked at Lin Jiarui's clear profile with concern, sighed helplessly in my heart, raised my head to look at the sparrows flying on the electric wires, and fell into deep thought.
I didn't ask Lin Jiarui why he bought a white dress for Tang Yu if he really had started to forget An Xiaoduo, why he habitually bought vanilla ice cream for Tang Yu, why he liked to look at the small mirror when he went shopping with Tang Yu in the jewelry store...
Tang Yu likes red and purple things, while An Xiaoduo likes white; Tang Yu likes strawberry flavored ice cream, while An Xiaoduo likes vanilla flavored ice cream; Tang Yu likes looking at earrings and rings in the jewelry store, while An Xiaoduo likes small mirrors...
Tang Yu just thought of it as a gift from Lin Jiarui. Even if she didn't like it, she thought it was the best, because she didn't know that those were what An Xiaoduo liked.
Lin Jiarui transferred all the wishes that he could not realize with An Xiaoduo to Tang Yu. This was what he called starting to forget An Xiaoduo, and it was true for Tang Yu.
I feel sorry for Tang Yu and also feel sorry for Lin Jiarui.
Is An Xiaoduo really that unforgettable?
Lin Jiarui stayed with me for a while, and Tang Yu happened to come. When he saw Lin Jiarui, he came over, and the two of them immediately started chatting happily.
I walked into the classroom wisely.
My foot is almost healed, but I can't walk too fast.
The plaster was removed at the hospital with my mom when I went home for the National Day holiday. I didn't want to tell my family, but I couldn't always use tutoring as an excuse to not go home. Xiao Jingjing came to see me at school suddenly, and she happened to see my foot injury. She kept scolding me for not treating her as a friend. If I didn't tell her about this, she would have to go back and tell my mom why I was still in school with a foot injury.
Xiao Jingjing has never liked studying since she was young, so she wouldn't understand how I feel about not wanting to fall behind in my studies.
In the end, I couldn't persuade Xiao Jingjing. After the National Day holiday, I took her car home. When my parents saw me like this, they naturally asked me about it. Seeing that my foot was almost healed , they didn't say much, but just told me not to help others in the future. They were calmer than I thought. I suddenly felt a little amused. I was afraid that they would worry. I kept discussing with Xiao Jingjing on the way how to say it to make them less nervous.
As soon as I returned to my seat and sat down, Sun Yu leaned over and whispered in my ear.
"Hey, I say, do you really not want to snatch Lin Jiarui away? What a good handsome guy, you just gave him to Tang Yu. The one who is close to the water gets the moon first. With your friendship with Lin Jiarui, are you afraid that you can't snatch Tang Yu away?"
I rolled my eyes at Sun Yu in annoyance, shook my head helplessly, and joked, "If he wanted to like me, he would have liked me a long time ago. Why would I have to snatch him away? We've known each other for so many years and there's no chance. How come I have a chance once Tang Yu gets together with him? Do your homework!"
"That's true."
Sun Yu nodded, held up his chin and glanced at Lin Jiarui and Tang Yu who were still reluctant to part in the corridor. He clicked his tongue a few times and then lowered his head to do his homework.
I reached out my hand to look for the exercise book in the drawer, and my fingers accidentally touched the mobile phone lying in the corner. I couldn't help but stop and was stunned for a moment.
The cell phone was brought to me by Xu Yan through a classmate. Since I left his house that day, I haven't seen him again, and he hasn't come to see me either. However, he would still put more money on the bank card he gave me from time to time, presumably for me to give it to his biological mother in the form of buying groceries.
As soon as I touched the phone, I couldn't help but think of the moody boy. It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't seen him for a long time.
There are always people talking about him.
What happened to Xu Yan from Class 9? What happened to Xu Yan from Class 9 again?
I don’t know why such a change has occurred. In the past, I never cared about those remarks, but now, I am surprised to find that I often can’t help but listen to news about Xu Yan.
Xu Yan from Class 9...