Chapter 7: Pain passes by and disappears
When you have expectations, you will find time passing too slowly. But now I really want to hold back the pace of time, because it passes too fast.
One leaf tells us that autumn has arrived overnight.
When a stone is thrown into a calm lake, ripples appear and the lake returns to calm again. But although the surface is calm, the stone also exists in reality.
The test papers He Xubei gave me were indeed the latest, and the notes he took were very detailed, which was very helpful for my study. He once said that he would not care about me anymore, but now he still cares about me. I don’t understand why he does this, especially what he said under the banyan tree. I don’t know if that should be considered a confession. I thought that a person’s secret love was actually known to everyone.
He Xubei is the stone thrown into my heart.
When everyone was busy with their homework, there was one person who was wandering around leisurely, as if the school was his backyard. This person was Li Ye.
Li Ye said that it didn't matter whether he went to college or not, because his father had plenty of money for him to spend. He said this in a tone that deserved a beating. I knew that he actually had his own ideas, and his grades were above average, so if he tried a little harder, he would be able to get into college.
Senior high school students were not required to participate in the school's autumn sports meeting, in order not to delay their studies for the college entrance examination. However, a few members of the student union became agitated and represented the so-called "public opinion" to negotiate with the school leaders, saying that appropriate exercise could relieve the intense study pressure, and repeatedly assured that it would not affect the college entrance examination.
After the negotiations, the school leaders agreed, but with a condition, saying that each class should just pick three or five projects as a token of appreciation.
Several people from the student union also nodded in agreement, and then the news spread to every class. Every class began to boil, some wanted to leave some memories for their last high school life, and some would rather bury themselves in a sea of questions in order to get a few more points in the college entrance examination.
As the class monitor and a student with a specialization in sports, He Xubei signed up for two events. There were still several events that no one was interested in.
I walked up to Li Ye and bumped him with my elbow: "What did you participate in?"
Li Ye looked at He Xubei, then rolled his eyes at me: "Why should I participate?"
Seeing He Xubei walking around the classroom with the registration form looking for people to fill it out, and then being ruthlessly rejected, I actually felt a little sad.
When the sports meet started, the only athletes in our class were the class monitor, the deputy class monitor, and three girls, and I was one of them.
The competitions that had been signed up were almost over. When it was the turn of the 1500 class, I thought no one from our class would participate, so I planned to take a break and then come back to cheer. Unexpectedly, Li Ye's name came on the small radio. I looked at He Xubei with a puzzled look. He smiled at me and said, "He filled out the form after school yesterday."
I didn't expect Li Ye to have such athletic talent. He won first place in the 1,500-meter race. When the rankings were announced, I praised him, but he didn't take it seriously: "That's nothing. What I like is speed and passion."
"Peace, peace!"
Fu Yu ran and called me, looking a little flustered.
"Fu Yu, what's wrong?"
"We came to watch your competition after class. Xiao Lin from Class 1 tripped Yang Cheng and said that Yang Cheng stepped on his shoes. Now they are about to fight!"
I was still in shock, but Li Ye ran towards the east side of the playground pointed by Fu Yuzhi. As expected of the first place, he was really fast.
When Fu Yu and I arrived, Li Ye had already held Xiao Lin down so that he couldn't stand up. He was bent over and hunched over, shouting, "I was wrong. I won't do it again."
"You are really capable of doing bad things, accusing others and bullying your classmates!" I knocked Xiao Lin on the head a few times, feeling a little gloating. When I was about to praise Li Ye again, I saw a cut on his hand that was bleeding.
"Li Ye, are you injured?" I pointed at the wound and asked Li Ye . When he heard what I said, he looked in the direction I pointed.
"Wow, it's such a long cut, but I didn't feel anything?" Perhaps because he was afraid that we would worry, Li Ye smiled as if he was relaxed.
It turned out that when Xiao Lin couldn't beat Li Ye, he saw broken glass on the ground and used it to scratch Li Ye.
I asked Fu Yu to take Li Ye to the classroom, and then quickly got a band-aid and disinfectant iodine from the school clinic. I held Li Ye's hand and disinfected the wound with iodine, then waited a while before putting on the band-aid.
Li Ye kept staring at me, motionless.
After I finished, I looked up and met Li Ye's eyes. I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. I dodged and prepared to send the iodine to the infirmary, but was held back by a hand. Li Ye looked at me and said, "Yi Ping'an, I like you!"
Li Ye actually confessed to me at this time! I thought I was hallucinating again, maybe I should check if there is something wrong with my ears one day.
But everyone in the classroom suddenly became quiet, and Li Ye repeated loudly: "Yi Ping'an, listen, I, Li Ye, like you! Will you be my girlfriend?"
The classroom, which was quiet just now, suddenly exploded and I was still in shock.
I saw He Xubei at the door of the classroom. He must have seen what happened just now. I actually found a trace of pain and loss in his eyes.
Li Ye's confession to me frightened me, and the ending was a failure. I didn't know how to reject him, nor did I know whether I should agree to him.