DIARY Eleven Compared to those gifts 2
When my arms were sore from carrying the ornaments, Yuan Cheye walked beside me easily, without any gentlemanly manners at all.
"Hey, can't you help me carry it?" I muttered dissatisfiedly.
"It's a birthday present for you. Of course you asked for it yourself." He answered very confidently.
sweat!
It's not gentle at all! It's just cruel!
I overturned all my previous comments about him and simply stopped walking. Next to me was a small stall selling goldfish, so I simply squatted beside it and looked at the goldfish.
In the transparent glass fish tank, black goldfish swam happily. The black on their bodies was like a kind of fine silk, extremely soft.
"Are you angry?" Yuan Cheye leaned over secretly.
"snort!"
"hehe……"
"why are you laughing?"
He didn't say anything, but just puffed up his cheeks like I did when I was angry. Then, at my puzzled look, he pointed at the black goldfish in the glass fish tank, which also had puffed cheeks.
"Are you laughing at me?"
"Absolutely not."
"So what did you just mean?"
"You look like a goldfish."
"Uh... aren't you making fun of me?"
"Like a goldfish, but I'm not laughing at you."
Sweat! There is no way to keep up with his thinking pace.
"Classmate, do you want to buy some goldfish?" At this time, the boss came over.
"What is the name of this goldfish?" I pointed to the black goldfish.
"This is the black butterfly tail. You see, the tail of this fish looks like the wings of a butterfly. It is very interesting to watch, so it is called this name."
Sure enough, the black butterfly's tail stretched out in the water, like a butterfly's wings.
"Boss, give me a pair." Yuan Cheye said next to him.
"I didn't say I wanted it." I looked at him blankly.
"You don't like it?"
"I like it. But..."
"Just like it. This is your birthday present next year."
"Ah? Next year?" I looked at him strangely, puzzled. "My birthday isn't even here yet, so I don't need to do that next year..."
"You just need to choose. I've decided to buy you a birthday present for your tenth birthday."
"Ah!" I was surprised. "Ten years? Are you crazy? Or are you kidding?"
But Yuan Cheye looked very serious, staring at me intently. For a moment, I felt an inexplicable emotion surging in my body...
"Yuan Cheye..."
"Um?"
"Did you get stimulated by something?"
"No, I'm just afraid..." Yuan Cheye suddenly stopped talking here, a dark light flashed in his eyes, and then he smiled brilliantly, "Silly, you have to pick up all the gifts yourself anyway."
"Humph! So you just want to torture me in disguise, right? You made me carry so many things."
This is really a cruel move! I can't refuse a birthday present, and I can't refuse it for nothing!
Yuan Cheye neither denied nor answered, and I finally couldn't resist the temptation and really chose ten birthday gifts in one go.
Fortunately, Yuan Cheye didn't really let me carry all the things by myself. He took the initiative to act as a porter and only let me carry the tank of goldfish.
Following the crescent moon in the night sky, we walked together on the way home. Looking at Yuan Cheye's face glowing slightly in the moonlight, an unreal happiness and worry came over me.
"Yuan Cheye, the birthday present you gave me ten years ago, does that mean you will be by my side on every birthday from now on?"
"Do you wish that?"
"Yeah. Do you know what you represent to me?"
"What?"
I probed the space in front of me with my fingers and replied, "Air."
"Air?"
"Well, you have become my air. Without you by my side, I will gradually feel like I can't breathe."
"fool!"
"Haha, a fool will like someone for life after life. Ye Xiya loves Yuan Cheye for life after life after life after life, and for many lives..."
Yuan Cheye paused for a moment, then continued walking forward.
"Haha, there aren't so many lifetimes! Maybe... maybe I will leave this world before you..."
He said this very softly, but it aroused an inexplicable fear in my heart.
"No, you and I will grow old together! If you really leave this world first... then I will leave with you, just like in the movies!"
Yuan Cheye seemed frightened by my oath and stood there in silence.
"Because I said I would never leave you! I will definitely do it." I stared into his eyes and spoke word by word.
"Silly." Yuan Cheye uttered these two words slowly, his clean eyes were as gentle as a feather gently touching my heart.
This was the first time I heard him call me in such a tone, and he didn’t call me a fool, but a fool.
Actually, stupid and fool are similar, right? But I always feel that this time, these two simple words uttered from his mouth hide a lot of emotions that I don't understand.
Before we knew it, we arrived at the door of our home.
"Wow, being a farmhand is really not easy. I'm so exhausted." Yuan Cheye piled all the things in my arms, then flicked my forehead with his hand, "Take them home and keep them well, don't lose them."
"Yes!" I nodded excitedly. I have never received so many gifts at once. I will definitely laugh in my dreams tonight.
Yuan Cheye walked away two steps and turned back: "Good night! Xiya."
I smiled foolishly when I heard his goodbye.
It was the first time I heard him call my name in such a gentle and cautious tone.
For the first time, there was no joking expression.
For the first time, it seemed like... he was solemnly promising that he would give me happiness.
All the air around me was jumping with joy. Watching him turn around and prepare to leave, I suddenly remembered the most important thing: "Yuan Cheye, the answer to that question..."
"Am I special to you?"
Yuan Cheye turned around, and the smile on his face seemed a little hazy and unreal due to the distance.
He slowly walked towards me and then without any warning he hugged me.
There was a gift between him and me, but I could clearly hear our heartbeats.
Beating.
Beating.
The heartbeats blended harmoniously.
For a long, long time, he hugged me tightly, which reminded me of the first time I went to his house and was hugged by him under the street light. He hugged me just as tightly, just like that... as if he was afraid of losing something...
A strong feeling of uneasiness attacked my heart, and the scene of catching fireflies with him inexplicably emerged in front of my eyes.
He carefully placed the firefly in my palm, but before I could close my hands, the firefly spread its light wings and flew away without hesitation.
The green light danced in the air, gorgeous but unreal...
Time passed slowly. Finally, he let me go. After taking a deep look at me for the last time, he turned around and waved his hand with his back to me, just like the first time he hugged me.
"Tomorrow, I'll tell you the answer when I get to school tomorrow."
"Again!"
Under my dissatisfied gaze, his figure quickly disappeared into the shadows around the corner.
Seriously, is that question really that hard to answer?
However, when I saw the pile of gifts in my hands, I immediately shook off the hidden uneasiness in my heart and smiled happily and sweetly again.
