Chapter 8: Find your wish, but how could this wish belong to someone else? 3
Until breakfast was almost over, Ye Zixi was still staring at me in disbelief, and it seemed endless.
I finished my breakfast before him, packed up my lunch box, and glared at him: "Why are you looking at me?"
"No, no..."
He shook his head, finished the remaining fragrant omelet in two bites, then covered the lunch box and cleaned up with me.
"Give it to me. I'll wash it and bring it back to you tomorrow." I didn't even lift my eyelids.
"Oh..." Ye Zixi responded obediently, which was rare.
Then, he took a breath and looked at me cautiously: "Luo Huayin... why do I feel... when did you dare to talk to them so calmly?"
Hearing this, I stopped moving, stared at him without blinking, and asked, "Did I talk to them?"
“Uh!” Perhaps frightened by my overly calm expression and tone, Ye Zixi twitched his lips awkwardly, then thought for a moment, “Well, it seems not…”
"That's it."
I pulled the corners of my mouth with a fake smile, and then continued to pack my lunch bag: "You're not leaving yet? You're not going to class?"
"Ah?" Ye Zixi was stunned. "I'll wait for you for a while, and we'll go together later."
"The high school and junior high school departments don't seem to be in the same building, right? You should leave now and we'll talk about it at noon."
"oh……"
For the first time, Ye Zixi didn't talk back. He responded honestly, still looking at me in disbelief. Then he left the place, looking back every few steps, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
After Ye Zixi left, the whole small garden immediately became quiet.
I stood up holding my lunch bag.
Suddenly, the guy next to me who had been invisible all morning finally coughed in a pretentious manner.
I pretended not to hear and continued walking forward.
"Um... Luo Huayin, let's talk."
He took two long steps and walked up to me, looking down at me as he walked backwards.
I looked straight ahead through his translucent body.
"Well... I'm just telling you something..." Ye Jing's shy expression made people feel embarrassed. His fair face turned slightly red. He hesitated for several times before finally saying, "To put it simply, it was because I was sick that time that Tang Yiwen went to give me review materials on her own initiative. I couldn't kick her out, could I?"
I said expressionlessly, without even looking at him: "Shut up, thank you."
Ye Jing immediately changed the subject, looking righteous: "I always felt that she should have been kicked out at that time. Really, she should have been kicked out."
Without saying anything, I looked at him.
This handsome boy who looked so handsome that it was unreal, with a panicked look on his face but pretending to be calm, almost made me laugh out loud. Inexplicably, the strange anger in my heart gradually disappeared... I rolled my eyes and decided to be generous and not get angry with him.
Although those people's inexplicable hostility is all because of him...but it seems that this guy is also innocent, right?
For the whole morning, I was in silence, attending class, going home, then attending class again, and going home again... I didn't pay any special attention to him, but I wasn't . I was just thinking about something.
But this translucent guy seemed to have misunderstood something and kept chattering in my ear, sometimes mocking that Tang Yiwen, sometimes complimenting me without any context... He was so active that I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
At noon, less than three minutes after the bell rang, a familiar figure appeared motionlessly at the door of our classroom.
After seeing that guy, I couldn't help but glance at Ye Jing next to me.
Haha, these two brothers are surprisingly attentive today... When Ye Jing saw that I finally looked at him, he immediately gave me a smile that seemed brilliant but was actually flattering.
Speechless, I rolled my eyes, took out my lunch box and walked out.
Unconsciously, the glances coming and going on the roadside no longer mattered to me.
Ye Zixi and I didn't say a word as we walked from the noisy teaching building to the deserted small garden behind the library.
We sat side by side on the bench as usual, and I opened my lunch bags, handed him his box, and then took my own.
"Well..." After a while, Ye Zixi looked at me cautiously while eating, "Luo Huayin, I've been thinking about it for the whole morning, and I feel... I still have something to tell you."
"explain."
I ate my meal and glanced at him.
"Uh, that's it..."
It was the first time I saw Ye Zixi hesitating like this, and I was too embarrassed to say anything.
"Luo Huayin, don't worry, Xiaoxi is definitely not confessing to you." Suddenly, Ye Jing seemed to see what I was going to say, and stopped me the moment I opened my mouth, and emphasized again righteously, "Don't worry, it's definitely not."
I rolled my eyes secretly and was speechless… If it’s not true , then it’s not true. Why do you look so serious?
When did this guy become so humorless... "Luo Huayin!" Ye Zixi took a deep breath, as if to muster up courage, and stared at me with wide eyes, "There are only two of us here, and what I am about to say absolutely does not mean anything bad to you, and I will not tell anyone else! I want to explain it clearly first!"
"Will you tell me or not? Not about eating."
"Say..." Ye Zixi immediately wilted like an eggplant hit by frost. He glanced at me timidly and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito's hum, "Have you heard that there are a lot of rumors about you in school? Many people said that they saw you shouting my brother's name to the air, and also talking to yourself..."
I was stunned and paused.
After Ye Zixi finished speaking, he immediately shrank his neck unconsciously, as if he was afraid that I would beat him.
After a while, he was startled to see me in a daze , and he hurriedly apologized to me: "No, Luo Huayin... Hua, Huayin sister! I told you I didn't mean anything else... Don't feel bad!"
When I came to my senses, I looked at his face full of guilt and anxiety, and my heart felt warm.
well……
I sighed softly and shook my head: "I'm not upset, I just didn't expect you to say this suddenly."
"I..." Ye Zixi bit the chopsticks and looked at me pitifully with his big eyes.
After looking at him for a few seconds, I raised my eyebrows pretending to be relaxed: "Whatever they say, I can't control their mouths, so you don't have to take it seriously."
"But……"
Unexpectedly, Ye Zixi suddenly frowned and hesitated for a while.
He picked up the lunch box, took the chopsticks, put it to his mouth and prepared to eat - then, those big eyes that were almost exactly the same as Ye Jing's stared at the rice in front of him without blinking.
"But... I have seen it with my own eyes a few times... in the hospital, in school..."
His voice was clearly getting smaller and smaller, but I felt like I was struck by thunder.
After Ye Zixi finished speaking quickly, he no longer had the courage to look at me. Without even raising his head, he began to eat the rice seriously, acting like a person who would not talk while eating or sleeping.
I couldn't make a sound for a long time and could only stare at him eating.
turn out to be……
It turns out that what Ye Jing said before was true...
Ye Zixi actually... he actually felt everything. It's not that he didn't know... he just didn't say it out loud...
I don’t know how long it took, but I saw that he had almost finished the lunch box, and finally... he reacted and looked stiffly at Ye Jing who was standing under the tree next to him.
Every time we had lunch, he would stand there and watch us.
Just as I looked at Ye Jing, I met his gaze. Ye Jing looked at me helplessly, then pointed at Ye Zixi, motioning me to look at him.
What's the meaning?
I turned back to look at the child again, and the next second, I was surprised to see those big, somewhat bitter eyes.
"Look..." After a few seconds, Ye Zixi forced a smile and broke our awkward silence. "Luo Huayin, you know what? When we were having dinner together, I saw you looking at that big tree many times, as if there was something there..."
Having said that, the smart kid didn't say anything else and just looked at me.
I stared at him for a long time.
"I don't know..." Suddenly, I looked at him, pulled the corners of my mouth helplessly, and smiled awkwardly, "Sometimes, even I wonder if there is really something wrong with me... Who knows what's going on?"
Ye Jing, who was standing next to the tree, immediately protested in dissatisfaction after hearing this: "Hey, Luo Huayin, what do you mean? We have discussed this issue a long time ago!"
I pretended not to hear his chatter.
Ye Zixi looked at me straight for a long time.
Then, he continued to pick up his lunch box and eat, his facial expression had returned to normal, as if what he had just said had never happened.
Well?
Is that all?
Even if you let me go and don't ask any further questions?
Phew… I thought he was going to get to the bottom of this, luckily, this guy is sensible…
