Chapter One 2
The sudden voice froze me in place. This unpleasant voice belonged to Ruiqing.
I looked up and saw Ruiqing, who was wearing the uniform of Shengying College, with one hand in his trouser pocket and the other fiddling with my mobile phone, with his usual playful look on his face.
I was wondering why I didn't see the broken pieces of the phone, it turns out he caught it.
"Give it back to me!" I rushed over and snatched the phone, then stared at the smiling boy opposite me and quickly pressed the power button. What a joke, there are photos of Tsurugahara on the phone, even though they were secretly taken, but if this vicious guy knew about it, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Oh, you're reluctant to do so so soon? Weren't you disgusted with it just now?" Ruiqing still looked at me with a smile, which made me feel a little guilty for some unknown reason.
"Who dares to mess with our lovely classmate Ge Ruya? Who is so brave?" He said with a playful look on his face. Why did the caring words taste so bad when they came to his mouth?
"What the hell is that to you, huh!" I said angrily.
Ruiqing looked at me meaningfully, then turned and walked away with a big laugh. I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't see it. If this big mouth knew that I had a crush on Tsurugahara, I would be finished.
I glared at his back fiercely, ignored him, turned around and walked away.
"Student Ge Ruya, I want to remind you that you are going in the wrong direction, hahaha..." Just as I was sighing to the sky, Ruiqing's voice came from behind me. The laughter was more shrill than the air raid sirens.
I just want to shut his mouth now.
The moment I rushed into the classroom, I felt the silence of the whole class. Fortunately, the teacher was writing on the podium and didn't see me. Standing at the back door of the classroom, I glared at Ruiqing who arrived a minute earlier than me, then crouched and walked towards my seat.
I rolled my eyes at Ruiqing's back, but he covered his face with a book, then turned around and smiled at me smugly. I was so angry that I turned my head away and ignored him. But just when I was about to sit down, my chair was suddenly dragged with a "puff" sound, and now the eyes of the whole class, including the teacher, were looking in my direction.
"Who farted just now?" the Chinese teacher asked with a sullen face.
What fart? It was clearly the sound of a chair being dragged. I stood up with a face full of grief and indignation, with an expression more bitter than taking Coptis chinensis: "Teacher, I'm sorry..."
"Okay, I get it. It's not your fault. Since you've apologized, forget it. Sit down." The teacher opened the textbook and said, "Okay, students, please turn to page six..."
Although the teacher did not pursue the matter any further, all the students in the class had expressions on their faces where they were trying to hold back their laughter. My desk mate and good friend Xiaoyi even covered her face with her textbook and laughed so hard that she was bent over. I was extremely dissatisfied and contemptuous of her ungrateful behavior of treating her good friend as a laughing stock.
"Xiao Yi, I didn't fart, just now..."
"I know, haha... I know you didn't fart, but... haha..." Xiaoyi laughed so hard that she couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
I had no choice but to let go of my grudges and turned around to stare at Ruiqing who had arrived a minute earlier than me: "Tell me, was it you who did it?"
Ruiqing had a face that was trying not to laugh: "Haha! You bumped into the chair when you were crouching, Ge Ruya, you are so cute!"
If this were a comic book scene, you would definitely see the black lines all over my head and the crows flying over my head.
I think today I can vote for the world's best "Unlucky King".
Forget it, it's better to be embarrassed than to be caught by the teacher for being late. You know, the punishment for being late in our class is to clean the classroom for a week.
I lay weakly on the desk and looked out the window. In fact, the weather was good today, the sky was still as blue, the clouds were still as white, but my mood was not good at all. So many things happened in one morning, and no one would be in a good mood. However, what bothered me the most was seeing Tsurugahara being confessed.
I bit the pen and flipped through the book, my mind was a mess. After laughing, my deskmate Xiaoyi continued to eagerly flip through the romance novel hidden under the textbook. If it were normal, I would happily go up to her and read it, but today I had no interest at all. The scene of Tsurugahara being confessed in the morning kept flashing in front of my eyes. I could do nothing but stare blankly. I was so depressed!
During this period, Ruiqing sent me two notes, but I sent them back without even reading them. I am not in the mood to pay attention to him now.
"Did you have a fight with Ruiqing again?" Xiaoyi asked me without even raising her head.
"No, I'm just too lazy to pay attention to him," I replied.
"You two quarrel every other day, and I'm too lazy to care." Xiaoyi shrugged said softly, "But Ruiqing doesn't seem to be doing well recently. His grades in the past two exams have dropped significantly. The teacher has contacted him several times."
"I don't care about him!" I don't believe that someone as heartless and smiling as Ruiqing could have bad moments!
"Alas..." Xiao Yi suddenly lowered her voice and sighed sadly, then immersed herself in the novel again with a tangled look on her face. Looking at her expression, I knew that the novel must have a bad ending, so she was depressed again.
"What happened again? Is it the hero or the heroine who died this time?" I asked quietly. Nowadays, tragedy novels basically only have a few forms: car accidents, amnesia, leukemia, nothing new.
"Alas, they are all alive this time." Xiaoyi heard what I said, raised her head and looked at me with a sad expression.
"Isn't that a happy ending? What's with that expression on your face?" I asked confusedly.
I am different from Xiaoyi. She likes to read sad stories, but I only like happy endings. In Xiaoyi's words, my emotional intelligence can only accept such an ending. I can't accept anything too complicated.
"A was never able to be with B in the end, and chose to leave instead. B is with C, but he is not happy at all, because after A left he realized that the person he really liked was A. Woohoo... What a sad ending!" Xiao Yi yelled angrily.
"Don't you like tragic endings the most? This is exactly what you like!" I joked.
"But...but if A confessed to B earlier, they could be together. Why didn't he say it? You obviously like him so much but you didn't say anything, so of course he doesn't know! Some things must be said. It's a pity to miss them. You miss out on them for the rest of your life!" Xiao Yi said indignantly, "If I like someone, I will tell him the first time. I would rather be rejected than be so unclear..."
Xiaoyi was still talking nonstop, but I was lost in my own thoughts. Confession? The scene I saw this morning came to my mind again. If I confessed, would I not miss it?
I like you.
Would Tsurugahara accept such a straightforward confession? I ran too fast in the morning, and I don't know how he answered the girl in the end.
What you miss may be a lifetime, is it really like this?
"Xiaoyi, I think, I..." I opened my mouth softly, but I couldn't say the rest of the words.
"What's wrong? You're so hesitant. Are you in love with someone? Tell me who it is? Tell me!" Xiaoyi immediately jumped out of her lost mood and stared at me with a gossipy look on her face, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Uh... no, no, I just said that, nothing!" I quickly denied it.
I don't know why, but I don't have the courage to say his name, even in front of my best friend. Is it because I don't have confidence? No, I just feel embarrassed.
"Listen to the class carefully." I changed the subject and pretended to listen to the teacher carefully.
"Hey, why are you like this?" Xiaoyi muttered and ignored me, continuing to read the novel in her hand with relish.
I was in no mood to listen to the class. The dense words on the Chinese textbook were like ants moving around in front of my eyes, making me upset. My eyes couldn't help but glance at the phone in my pocket. It lay there quietly, reminding me of everything that happened this morning.
Liking someone should be a very happy thing, but now I feel a little bitter, and Tsurugahara and the blushing girl keep flashing in front of my eyes. Did he accept it or reject it? If it were me, would he... But he doesn't even know who I am. If he doesn't tell me, will I miss him and I for the rest of my life?
I bit the pen and scratched the corner of the book with my fingers, my mind full of these messy questions. What's wrong with me? Am I possessed?
"Haha!" I laughed out loud unconsciously. If one is possessed, it must be the obsession of love. Love can really make a person lose his soul.
I was absent-minded the whole day today. Even when I was with my best friend Xiaoyi, I felt bored. I kept thinking about whether I should confess my feelings to Tsurugahara.
Xiaoyi came to find me after school, but I was still lying on the desk in a daze.
"Ge Ruya, school is over, why are you still sitting here like an idiot? Really, I don't know what's wrong with you. You look like you're out of your mind the whole day." Xiaoyi patted my head and said to me with some concern while looking at me.
"Ah? School is over?" I looked around in surprise, and there were really few people in the classroom.
"Yes, what are you thinking about alone? I see you are absent-minded." Xiaoyi became even more worried when she saw me like this.
"No, nothing!" I said perfunctorily. I didn't want Xiaoyi to know my embarrassing thoughts, so I patted her shoulder and said, "I'm thinking about studying. Don't I have an exam the day after tomorrow? I'm thinking about that!"
"You're really great. Keep thinking about it. I'm leaving first." Xiaoyi looked at me helplessly, then left with her schoolbag.
I could only look at Xiaoyi's back and apologize silently in my heart. I'm so sorry, Xiaoyi, I didn't mean to lie to you. I'm really afraid of being rejected and it's too embarrassing. Please forgive me.
Of course, Xiaoyi couldn't possibly know what was going on in my mind. I stretched my body and started packing my schoolbag. I felt particularly tired today. I haven't been this tired in the past ten years. All kinds of emotions messed up my mind. I almost smashed the iPhone 4S that I asked my mother to buy for me this year because of my anger. Oh, come to think of it, I was so irrational to be angry. A prince-like boy like Tsurugahara is of course very charming. There must be many girls like me who secretly like him, and there must be many girls who confessed to him.
How does it feel to be confessed to? I reached out and touched my face. Thinking about it, I felt like a failure. Why didn't anyone confess to me?
But then again, would Tsurugahara accept such a confession? Would he accept that girl, or... I unconsciously took out my phone, and a familiar figure appeared on the large screen. Looking at the handsome prince on the screen, my heart was still full of hope. Maybe he didn't accept that girl. As long as he didn't have a girlfriend, I still had a chance.
Thinking like this, I unconsciously became more brisk in my steps, but just as I walked out of the school gate...
"Goriya!"
Before I turned around, a hand was already on my shoulder, with slender fingers, wheat-colored skin, and very neatly trimmed nails. Just by looking at this hand, I knew who it was, and I really didn't want to see this person now.
"Take your hands away!" I rolled my eyes at him.
"You have such a cute expression!" Ruiqing continued to talk recklessly. I thought if my eyes could spit fire, I would already be a Quanjude roast duck.
Ruiqing certainly wouldn't listen to me and take his hand away, so I could only shake him off. There were a lot of people at the school gate after school, and I didn't want anyone to see me and this guy.
He didn't care when I pushed him away, he just pursed his lips and looked at me inscrutable. Ruiqing is such a person, smiling all day long, like a heartless big kid, but his eyes are like a pool of bottomless water - he can see everything on the surface of the water, but he can never see the undercurrents surging under the water. So sometimes I really don't know whether he is bottomless or heartless. Although I have known him for many years, I have no idea what is going on in his mind.
"What do you want me to do?"
Since I don't know what he is thinking, I'll just get straight to the point. I have never been a person who likes to beat around the bush, because if you keep beating around the bush, I'll definitely be the one who gets confused in the end.
"Oh, classmate Ruya." Ruiqing, who was so energetic when he took a photo of me just now, suddenly wilted like an eggplant hit by frost. His smiling face suddenly wrinkled into a ball, his thick eyebrows were knotted, and he looked at me pitifully.
