Chapter 7 The Longest Movie six
I was stuck in painful memories. The wind whistled in my ears, and I even heard the sound of trees breaking not far away. Maybe the typhoon had landed.
My body was getting colder and colder, but my thoughts were unusually clear.
Because the last time I saw Hexue was also on a typhoon day like this, so the memories came flooding back like the prologue of a movie.
It was the afternoon she planned to confess her love to me, and for safety reasons, the school decided to dismiss students early. When I was packing my schoolbag in the classroom, suddenly everyone in the teaching building became excited.
Some girls ran back to the classroom screaming and spreading gossip: "This is unbelievable! Our school will definitely be on the headlines this time. Did you know? There's a 'beautiful girl' downstairs who wants to confess her love!"
My heart skipped a beat.
As expected, the girl said with a strange smile: "The key is, this 'beauty' is that ugly bastard Song Hexue."
A shrill laugh sounded behind me, and someone was exaggeratingly describing He Xue's funny and ridiculous appearance.
I rushed out of the classroom without thinking about anything else. I looked down from the corridor on the fourth floor and saw Hexue on the lawn below. She was bending over awkwardly, trying to arrange the candles for confession into a heart shape. However, the wind was too strong, and the candles were blown to pieces before they were lit. She ran to pick them up, and the pink dress that was one size smaller on her body was blown up by the wind, and the crowd watching upstairs burst into laughter...
As the rain slowly began to fall, she stumbled and fell into the mud amidst the deafening laughter.
I couldn't bear to watch any longer and was about to go downstairs to find her, but someone grabbed my arm. That was the girl who always wanted to compete with me for the first place in the school.
She looked at me with an evil expression that she couldn't hide: "Song Xihe, isn't that your little follower? Oh, it's really embarrassing, why don't you do anything about her? She comes out to embarrass herself anytime and anywhere. People who don't know would think that all the girls in our Baisha School are as shameless as her."
"It's better not to have such an ugly face like yours." I pushed her away and strode downstairs, so hurried that I even forgot to take my umbrella.
However, when I ran downstairs in a panic, I suddenly lost the courage to break through the crowd and take Hexue away. The boys who were curious surrounded her and passed the candle to each other as a prank, leading her to fight for it, and then laughed contentedly .
I stood outside the crowd, clenched my fingers again and again, and took a small step forward. The little man in my head screamed at me, "It's so embarrassing, Song Xihe, can you afford to lose face like this?"
I shook my head, gritted my teeth and took another step forward. At this moment, Hexue found me. Through the rain curtain, I seemed to see her eyes light up the moment she fell on me.
She stopped all movements, stood in the heavy rain, and looked at me from afar across the crowd. Her black and white eyes were full of sadness and expectation.
It was as if everything fell silent at that moment, and everyone followed her gaze and turned to look at me. There was only the sound of rain around me, and the crowd was so quiet that it made people panic, as if they were all waiting for some important moment to come, as if in the next second, no matter what I did, they would not hesitate to contribute their laughter.
Yes, at that moment, I retreated, I stopped and did not move forward. The sound of the rain was like people's whispers, and when the crowd burst into laughter again, I slowly turned around and left.
The moment I turned my head, I saw He Xue surrounded by the crowd. I saw her wet eyes dimming little by little because of disappointment, and finally there was only dead silence.
Later, for a long time, I often thought of those eyes, the eyes that I lit up hope for, and then extinguished hope bit by bit. I will always remember the last look she gave me, sad and desperate, but without a trace of resentment.
This may be the reason why I have always been bothered by my cowardice. Even if she hates me a little bit, I will feel more at ease now.
I'm sorry, Hexue, the rain was so cold that day, but I left you with a cold back.
Thinking back to that scene, my heart suddenly ached again, and I couldn't stop crying. I cried like this, leaned against a big tree, and fell into a deep sleep.
