The winter vacation finally arrived with an extremely rare heavy snowfall.
On the first day of winter vacation, which was the day after the final exam, I wrapped myself up tightly and prepared to go to the library.
However, as soon as I reached the door of my house, a basin of ice-cold water was poured over my head.
I looked up in shock, only to see Shen Xiaoxi standing by the second-floor window holding a plastic basin, looking at me with a smug and provocative look.
"Oh, you are so careless when you walk! I can pour the dirty water for washing the rag on you." She said slowly with an expression that said "I did it on purpose".
"Shen Xiaoxi!"
The icy water seeped into my clothes, and it felt like I was pushed into a cold pond in an instant.
She and I had an argument just yesterday, but just one night later, she couldn't wait to provoke me again.
I was extremely angry. I said I would not be a coward anymore, but Shen Xiaoxi seemed to ignore my words and still treated me as Bai Xiaodie from three years ago.
I turned around and pushed the door open, ran upstairs in one breath, pushed the door of her room open with force, rushed over and slapped her hard, and yelled, "Have you had enough? Shen Xiaoxi, can you stop this childish game?"
"Bai Xiaodie!" She covered her face and stared at me blankly, her eyes somewhat dazed, "You dare to hit me?"
"You dare to throw dirty water on me, why shouldn't I dare to hit you?" At this moment, I was very cold, shivering with cold, and more angry than ever. "Shen Xiaoxi, why did you throw dirty water on me so early in the morning? Whether you are hated or liked by others, it's none of my business. Why do you take out your anger on me? Are you mentally ill?"
"Bah!" She threw the plastic basin in her hand away. "What qualifications do you have to criticize me? I just don't like you. I did it on purpose. What can you do about it?"
"What can I do?" I laughed at her words, "I can even beat you up!"
I gave it my all. It wasn't the first time that Shen Xiaoxi and I had a fight. Last time she falsely accused me of hurting her eyes. I didn't explain, but that didn't mean I wasn't angry.
I pounced on her, and she didn't dodge. Instead, she grabbed my arms with both hands and pushed me out hard.
"Want to beat me up? Hahaha, Bai Xiaodie, what kind of joke are you talking about? Just because you want to beat me up, let's see who will beat who in the end!"
"What's going on? Why are you fighting so early in the morning? Stop it!" Today is the weekend, and my father was reading in the study. Probably, the quarrel between Shen Xiaoxi and I disturbed him, so he ran over and tried to pull Shen Xiaoxi and me apart.
"Go away!" I pulled away his hand that was holding my arm, "Don't interfere in my affairs. You have no right to ask me to stop!"
"Bai Xiaodie!" Dad's voice was slightly higher, with a hint of severity. In fact, he hadn't spoken to me in this tone for a long time. After the celebration, he was always friendly to me. "Stop it right there. I'm your father. Of course I have the right to ask you to stop!"
"Go away!" I felt confused and couldn't tell whether I was angry or annoyed.
Why did he just tell me to stop but didn't say a word about Shen Xiaoxi?
"Xiaoxi, if you have anything to say, talk it over. Don't fight." He couldn't stop me, so he turned to look at Shen Xiaoxi. "Fighting won't solve any problems. Sit down as a family and talk it over no matter what the problem is."
"Fighting won't solve any problems." I couldn't help but say, "But at least it can let off some steam!"
I bit Shen Xiaoxi's hand that was holding my arm hard, and she let go of it in pain. Then, I raised my hand again, and with a "snap" sound, I left five finger marks on the other side of her face.
"No one will always play the role of being bullied, Shen Xiaoxi! You always told me not to look at you with that expression, as if you were bullying me, but you have indeed been bullying me all the time. However, from today on, I will not tolerate you anymore! Don't even think about bullying and trampling on me with a clear conscience anymore!"
Shen Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, as if she was a little surprised that I would say such a thing, but the daze only lasted for a moment, and she quickly grabbed my collar and pushed me out hard.
I lost my balance and was pushed out of the door. Dad was anxious to stop us, but neither of us was willing to listen to him.
"Xiaodie, Xiaoxi, I'm talking to you, can you hear me?" Finally, when we were fighting all the way to the stairs, Dad shouted loudly, using all his strength, so much so that I could feel the house shaking, "Whoever continues, get out of this house!"
I looked at him in surprise. From just now until now, he had been just trying to persuade me with kind words. Has he finally taken off the mask of a good father?
That’s right. It has been more than a month since the celebration. I guess both Shen Xiaoxi and her father have reached their limits.
Shen Xiaoxi hated me to the extreme.
Dad is playing the role of a good father to the extreme.
So the disguise was easily removed.
I suddenly felt bored and stood there without moving. I looked at my father, who was looking at me with a complicated expression. He opened his mouth to speak, but I turned away and didn't want to listen.
I want to just leave like this.
However, before I could take a step, someone pushed me hard on the back. My mind went blank, and before I could come to my senses, I heard Shen Xiaoxi shouting in a sharp voice: "Go to hell!"
"Xiaodie!" Dad yelled and ran over to help me, but he was still too slow.
I felt the cold wind from his hand brushing against my arm, and then I rolled down . As I rolled down, the only thought that came to my mind was that I was thankful.
I'm glad it's a cold winter, and I'm glad I wrapped myself tightly from head to toe before going out.
If I rolled down the stairs like this in the summer, I would definitely be seriously injured!
I lay on my back and moved my arms and legs. I found that except for some scratches, my muscles and bones were fine. So I reached out and tore off the scarf around my neck. The water that Shen Xiaoxi had just splashed had completely soaked my clothes. I was shivering with cold.
I don't know why, but I started laughing.
My father ran to me in a panic and reached out to support me, but when he saw me smiling, his hand stopped in mid-air and didn't fall down.
I shifted my gaze to Shen Xiaoxi who was standing above.
She looked down at me like a queen ruling the world, her expression so proud, so strong, and so impeccable.
As I was watching, I suddenly felt a warm current flowing out of my nose and down the corner of my mouth. I reached out and touched it, and when I got closer, I saw that it was blood.
Maybe he hit his nose when he rolled down the stairs just now!
Anyway, this is not the first time I have had a nosebleed.
Shu Nian told me that when you have a nosebleed, you need to find some cold water to "calm" the blood down.
Looking for cold water...
I stood up from the ground and looked up. I thought I must be in a very bad state now, because I saw Shen Xiaoxi's face change slightly when she stood on the high ground, and a trace of fear flashed in her eyes.
She must have pushed me down the stairs just now because she was impulsive.
If something really gets out of control, she must be afraid!
"Xiaodie?" Dad finally came to his senses and grabbed my arm. "Xiaodie, don't be afraid. Dad will take you to the hospital."
"Ah?" I felt a little puzzled. "I'm not scared. Bai Xiaodie wouldn't be scared. And it's just a nosebleed. There's no need to go to the hospital. Just some cold water can stop it."
"It's not just a nosebleed." His eyes rested on my forehead.
I touched it subconsciously and felt a sharp pain.
"Xiaodie, you need to go to the hospital," Dad insisted.
"It's okay, it's just a scratch." I said lightly, "Bai Xiaodie is not that fragile, she won't die from a fall. It's just a little bleeding in the head, it will stop eventually."
I turned and walked into the bathroom downstairs, turned on the faucet, and held the cold water in my hands, but I didn't feel cold at all. Maybe it was because I was already extremely cold, so I couldn't feel any colder.
I lowered my head and washed my face with cold water. I could hear the sound of my teeth chattering. I took a breath and looked up at my pale self in the mirror.
There was a big scratch on my forehead, which looked a bit scary, but it wasn't really that deep. The nosebleed gradually stopped due to the stimulation of the cold water, it was really miserable!
I grinned and forced myself to smile.
"Xiaodie." Dad followed her out of the bathroom, his tone was very concerned, "Come with Dad to the hospital, okay?"
“Not good,” I said calmly before walking out of the bathroom, brushing past him and heading straight upstairs to find some clean clothes.
I filled the bathtub in the upstairs room with hot water, then took off my clothes and lay down in it.
I felt so comfortable that I wanted to sigh. The coldness that penetrated deep into my bones was finally dispelled by the hot water in the bathtub.
Lying in the bathtub, I glanced at the time displayed on the water heater and realized that only fifteen minutes had passed from the time Shen Xiaoxi splashed cold water on me to now when I soaked myself in hot water.
But these fifteen minutes were so long that I had the illusion that fifteen hours had passed.
"Xiaodie, take a shower, change your clothes, and go to the hospital with Dad." Dad's voice came from outside the bathroom.
He really is still haunting me, even though I rejected him from the beginning.
"I told you it's okay, don't worry about it." I felt inexplicably annoyed.
Did he want to show how much he loved his daughter? But no, I didn't need him anymore!
"But I'm your father. If I don't take care of you, who else will?" There was a hint of pain and helplessness in his voice. He stood motionless outside the bathroom, as if he wanted to turn himself into a statue.
I don't know if it's because of the heavy steam in the bathroom, but I always feel that my vision is becoming blurry. I tried to recall some happy things, but all those happy memories were gone.
But I am your father. If I don’t take care of you, who else will?
It was just one sentence, but it made me feel inexplicably depressed.
"Why... did it turn out like this?" I couldn't help but whisper, "The remaining people should rely on each other, but why did we become so tense?"
He didn't say anything and there was dead silence outside, but his shadow reflected on the frosted door of the bathroom still didn't disappear, he was still here.
"You must hate me! Because Mom was indirectly killed by me. If she hadn't bought me a birthday present, she wouldn't have gotten into trouble." I never said these words after Mom passed away. I kept these thoughts in the deepest part of my heart. I never thought that I would say these words one day. "I also cried under the quilt because I hated myself more than anyone else. Why am I so bad? I'm so bad that I killed my own mom, and even Dad doesn't want to look at me anymore. Or maybe it was all my fault from beginning to end, and I deserved it."
The figure outside the door moved. I don’t know if it was my illusion, but I heard a very low cry, and then he took a step and left quickly.
I stared at the bathroom door for a long time until I felt the water in the bathtub become a little cold. I stood up and wiped the water off my body with a towel.
Looking at the scrapes on my knees and elbows, I should feel a little relieved!
It's really rare that he only suffered such injuries after falling from such a high staircase!
After getting dressed, I came out of the bathroom. The warm sunlight shone through the window onto the desk, and I felt as if I were in another world. I sat on the bed and let out a long breath. Only then did I feel relieved.
The nosebleed had stopped, but the scratch on my forehead had not been treated yet. I went downstairs to find the medicine box and happened to run into Shen Xiaoxi sitting in the living room, pressing the TV remote control as if to vent her anger.
I ignored her and walked to the TV and squatted down. The medicine box was placed in the TV cabinet. I opened the cabinet and was about to take the medicine box out when I felt a gust of wind blowing past my ears. Then, with a "snap", the TV remote control hit the TV hard, and the LCD screen shattered like a spider web.
"You're blocking my view of TV!" Shen Xiaoxi yelled, her voice cracking because she couldn't control her emotions well, "Can you please stop being an eyesore here?"
"Excuse me, this is my home." I glanced at her coldly.
"What?" She looked at me in surprise. "Your home? What do you mean?"
"That's what I mean." I shrugged, not wanting to argue with her. "If you don't feel comfortable living here, please move out."
"Are you going to chase me away?" She glared at me fiercely.
I stood up with the medicine box and wanted to go upstairs to treat the wound on my forehead, but Shen Xiaoxi rushed in front of me like lightning and blocked my way.
She looked at me angrily and shouted, "Bai Xiaodie, explain it to me clearly!"
"It means exactly what it says. What's there to say?" I looked into her eyes and said slowly, "Or do you not understand? Shen Xiaoxi, no one will stay in the same place forever. You are no different now than when I first saw you three years ago."
I walked around her and stepped onto the stairs, saying, "Shen Xiaoxi, you are so childish that I don't even want to talk ."
She froze there and didn't continue to stop me.
When I walked down the last step and looked back, she was still standing there motionless. Because her back was facing me, I couldn't see what her expression was at that moment.