Chapter 5: Naked Running, the Promise of the Three Knights 2
After an unknown amount of time, the lake shore returned to peace. Surrounded by green trees, the lake surface was like a mirror, with only the milky white boat floating quietly in the center of the lake.
Suzaku slowly climbed over from the other side of the railing and landed his feet on the ground. He raised his head, as if he sighed, and then his dark eyes found me.
"Why are you still here?" he asked, and when I was about to answer, I saw a mocking sneer on his face.
"To laugh at me? The girl I love... everyone knows that she likes my brother, and everyone hates me. Hum..."
"No need." He said softly, brushing past me and walking forward alone. For a few minutes, I stood by the lake, gazing at the wide lake in front of me, and my heart seemed to be the lonely white boat on the lake.
My phone rang at this time, I picked it up and found that it was Yaoyao calling. She must have a lot to say to me, she must want to share her happiness with me. Today is her most adventurous and rebellious day, and it is also the first time she has gained freedom through hard work. She must be very happy, she must need me by her side, she...
I answered the phone and heard her excited voice coming from the receiver. As if my soul had left my body, I heard her say in a trance: "Tomorrow, did you see it? I did it! I did it!"
"Tomorrow, are you happy for me? Are you happy for me?"
I……
"I'm happy for you, I'm so happy." I answered, not even knowing what I was saying.
"But, Yaoyao, I may not be able to be with you for the time being, because..." I thought Yaoyao wanted to be with me. As a result, she interrupted me, and an excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "It's okay, tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may be better for us not to meet recently. But you will help me, right? You are my personal bodyguard and my best playmate, you will definitely help me, right?"
Just guards and playmates?
Suddenly, I became even less aware of myself.
"Tomorrow, please tell me all the news from Suzaku, okay? I'm so scared that more things will happen. I'm so scared..."
After talking into the microphone for a while, I numbly put away my phone. For several minutes, I didn't know what I should do. After a long time, I remembered that I was also Suzaku's bodyguard, which was the only reason why a girl with my background could stay in TK Academy. I turned around and walked silently in the direction Suzaku left.
Passing through the woods, through the rose fields of the Red Knights branch's Knight Hall, and around the large number of houses belonging to the Red Knights branch, at the edge of the branch, the unluxurious single-family villa is Suzaku's home. As the greatest knight, he is said to have lived alone in that house when he was very young.
The door was not closed tightly, so I gently pushed it open. The room was very clean, but empty and deserted .
I stood in the house for a while, at a loss, and heard a faint sound coming from the back of the living room.
I followed the sound and pushed open the half-open kitchen door. The sound suddenly became louder and sounded like low sobs.
The winter air was dry and transparent. The abundant sunlight shone without warmth on the wooden cabinets in the kitchen. I walked around the large table in the middle and saw a pair of long, beautiful legs appear on the other side of the table.
Zhuque was sitting on the ground, holding a glass of clear unknown liquid. I couldn't see his face because he had his head buried between his knees, holding his head, like a child who was bullied and crying on the ground. The low sobs were also coming from him.
Seeing him like this, I suddenly didn't know what to do. I stood beside him, not daring to say a word, but unwilling to leave.
"Why are you following me? " he asked suddenly.
My heart skipped a beat and with my mouth open, the air seemed to freeze in my throat.
"I'm asking you, why are you following me?" He yelled at me again, his voice hoarse, full of anger and resentment.
"I..." After a moment's hesitation, I saw his shoulders trembling in the cold air, and he said helplessly, "I'm your bodyguard, have you forgotten?"
"Bodyguard? If you don't want to be a bodyguard, you can leave anytime!" He muttered in a low voice. I stood behind him for a long time, not knowing what to do. Finally, as if I had finally let go of my pride, I gently said to him, "I don't know where else I can go."
"Are you a stray cat or dog? Don't know where to go?"
"I..." Hesitantly, Yaoyao said the two words she used to me on the phone. Guard and playmate? Aren't we friends?
"Don't you want me to be your bodyguard?" I asked him, not knowing why I had an indescribable feeling in my heart.
"I..." he began, finally raising his head a little so that I could look into his eyes.
There were tears on his curly eyelashes. I didn't know if he was crying, and I didn't dare to ask him if he was crying.
"I didn't say no." He suddenly spoke as if he had admitted defeat, then lowered his head again, hugged his knees and said nothing more.
Time passed by minute by minute, and he just sat there hugging his knees, not speaking or moving. I suddenly felt so angry. How could this arrogant guy, this proud guy who made everyone in TK Academy hate him so much, be so childish and be hurt so badly that he couldn't fight back?
"In that case, Suzaku, I won't leave ." When I realized something was wrong, I had already said it desperately, "Even if I hate you, I hate you very much, even more than I hate white radish, but I won't leave you, especially at a time like this."
Is this me speaking? Even I can't believe that I am the one speaking at this moment.
After a long time, so long that I thought this guy named Gao Gong Zhuque would just sit there and rot, he suddenly raised his head, looked at me with his big eyes, and asked, "When is this time? When you are like a stray cat or a stray dog with nowhere to go?"
"No! It's this..." I flinched a little, but seeing how focused he was as if he wanted to swallow me with his eyes, I gritted my teeth and said to him, "When you are alone like this, I will not leave, I will stay by your side, because I am your..."
bodyguard.
I couldn't say the last two words because I suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, it seemed like the scent of rose mixed with tea, and there seemed to be a little bit of bitterness, like the mellowest and most fragrant chocolate.
That was the scent of Suzaku, noble and elegant, with an innate aristocratic aura. Was it because he was holding me that I smelled his body scent?
I felt like my whole body was shrouded by the shadow of another person. As he held me tightly in his arms, I realized how petite I was in front of him, and he was so tall, big enough to easily wrap me with his body.
Is this the difference between boys and girls?
No matter how capable a girl is, even if she is constantly called an "ape" and is trained and used as a bodyguard since childhood, she will instantly turn back into that petite, soft creature that can be easily wrapped up in front of a boy.
Time is like a river, quietly flowing by me. I can feel its passage, but I have no intention to do anything to break the tranquility of the moment. Through the place where our bodies are tightly pressed together, I can hear his heartbeat, one by one, and next to his heart there is also a girl's heart beating, accompanying him, being with him, and the owner of that heart seems to be me.
What is wrong with me?
What's wrong with me?
The high temperature suddenly hit my body, making me realize that at this moment I was hugging a man named Takamiya Suzaku - it was that Takamiya Suzaku, the Takamiya Suzaku from the Red Knights branch!
I should have pushed him away, should have stayed away from him resolutely, and shouldn't have gotten even one meter away from him.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I know I shouldn't do this, but... please... just like this... "
His voice was low and painful, coming from my shoulder.
I heard his breathing, and the little sobs mixed in with it, and I knew I should leave, and the best way to do that was to pretend that I had never run into him that night.
But I hugged him gently, stroking his trembling back with my hands and patting his shoulders, as if doing so would make him feel better and also make me feel at ease.
"I'm sorry... I shouldn't have done this... I shouldn't have done this to you... But... I'm afraid you'll find me crying... I'm afraid you'll see... Only this posture will prevent you from seeing my crying face. Don't look at the First Knight crying, don't look..."
He spoke with sobs, as if he were a child.
I stroked his back and felt happy when I heard him sigh in relief.
"I can't see it. I can't see your crying face. I didn't know that the Greatest Knight would cry. I really didn't know. I can't see it, and I can't hear it. I promise you..."
I told him softly that I felt the warmth and quietness in the room was like a dream.
"Your promise is useless. You don't keep your word at all! You can even betray the number one knight. You are the most annoying and the worst..."
Suzaku seems to have a special ability, which is to destroy all good atmospheres.
However, this time, when I heard him nagging on my shoulder again, I don’t know why, but I was so happy.
Such an annoying person is the proud Suzaku!
