you are all star

Chapter 24
After dinner, as usual, Nuana cleaned up the house, and Louis took Neil for a night run.

As soon as Louis and Neil walked out the door, Louis looked straight at Neil and said, "Boy, how about I run a different way tonight?"

"Dad, let's run along the road to the top of the mountain!"

Louis stared at Neil with a silly smile, praised his idea a little bit and said, "Not bad, little guy, you can come up with such a unique idea."

"Hee hee... don't even look at whose son I am."

"Okay, let me start running, let's run out of eternity under the starry sky, leave a mark, and when we run to the top of the mountain, we can look down at the beautiful night view of the city we live in, and we can also chat. While immersed in the night view of Alexandria."

"Hey... Dad, your idea is also good, but I just want to count the stars in the sky and see if I can count them. I think I can count them."

Louis looked at him with a silly smile, and didn't say that you can't count the stars in the sky, but nodded to him, expressing his belief that he could count them. At the same time, Louis's move was also to prevent Neil from being influenced by external factors. Interference, only if there is always innocence, will there be happiness forever.

Neil also looked at his father and smiled silly, and then the two ran towards Alexandria, a mountain near the slum called Resurrection Mountain, which is also the highest mountain in Alexandria.

The altitude of this mountain is about 2000 meters. It is said that if anyone can run to the top of the mountain without stopping, he will make a wish on it, provided that it is from the heart, he will be able to realize his wish, and he will be like Jesus the next day Resurrection, so this mountain is called Resurrection Mountain.

The father and son ran up and climbed for nearly three kilometers. Neil couldn't run anymore, his legs and feet were numb and weak. He suddenly played a little temper again, looked at his father with a silly smile, and deliberately flattered his father. Said: "Dad, I'd better not go up, I'm too tired, besides, we can see the night view of Alexandria City on the mountainside, the sparse and unclear street lights are too dark, I'm afraid! "

"Boy, please remember that although you can see everything you want to see on the mountainside, there are always some scenery above you that you can't easily see. You always look up, how tired you are, Besides, if you want to get closer to the stars and count them more accurately, you have to forget all the objects that can block your sight, so that you can count the stars more accurately."

After hearing this, Neil stared at Louis with a puzzled expression, and kept scratching his head to think, but he still didn't seem to understand what he said, but fortunately, he could understand what he said, and being closer to the stars, The stars can be counted more clearly.

Neil thought about it carefully, as if what Dad said was right, the more I walked up, the closer I was to the stars, who cares, just run, whoever is afraid of others.

Neil, who was more than five years old, was afraid that his father would lie to him, so he asked again: "Dad, is what you said true? When I reach the top of the mountain, I can get closer to the stars and count them more clearly?"

"Why am I lying to you? If you don't believe me, look at the stars yourself now, and then look again at the top of the mountain to see if the stars are bigger and clearer."

After hearing his father's words, Neil was surprised to look up to the sky through the bushes. He circled a starry sky in his eyes, and after thinking about it, he took them to the top of the mountain to have a look again. See if they are more clearly visible.

Seeing Neil's expression, Louis knew that he was already curious, so he looked at him and smiled, and then deliberately teased him to lose his appetite: "Boy, are you sure? If you don't tell me the answer, I won't go. We headed home."

"Farewell, Dad. I'm going to the top of the mountain. I also want to make a wish on the top of the mountain and count the stars to see if you have lied to me."

"Okay, then I'll start climbing!"

"Dad, wait a minute!"

"what happened?"

"Look, except for a little light on this small road, the rest of the place is dark, and there are also the crowing of nightingales and owls. I'm afraid."

"Yeah, you boy, I thought it was a big deal. It turns out that you are afraid of the dark. Don't be afraid. Dad has been holding your hand and never letting go, even after reaching the top of the mountain. Is this okay?" Louis said. Touching the melon of his small head, looking into the dark distance like a veil, then staring at him and answering.

"That's about the same, okay, then I'll go!" Neil said, looking up at his father, and then staring at the path that sometimes straightened and sometimes curved.

As soon as he finished speaking, Louis stretched out his right hand to hold his left hand, and then began to climb and run towards the top of the mountain again.

After about half an hour, the father and son finally reached the top of the mountain and sat down on a smooth boulder. Because they were too tired, their backs ached, and sitting was like lying down. Lying down, both eyes stared straight at the starry sky full of stars.

Under the echo of the stars, Neil suddenly remembered the starry sky he had circled in his heart when he was on the mountainside. It was indeed as his father said, the stars were more clearly visible, as if they were overhead one by one.

So, he slightly sat up on the flat body, stared at his father, and said with some excitement: "Dad, I really seem to be closer to the stars. I can see him so clearly, and it feels like they are right above my head."

"Now you won't say that I lied to you, will you?" Louis, who was lying flat on the boulder, asked with a smile.

"Not anymore."

"okay!"

"Then you lie down, close your eyes, and think that nothing can stop you from looking at the stars, count the stars, and now the whole world is yours, the whole starry sky is yours, and there are so many Are you still afraid when the stars are staring at you?" Louis responded with a nod, and continued.

"Okay, let me try!"

"Remember to only think about the stars in the sky and nothing else."

Neil nodded towards his father, and then he laid his body flat on the boulder again like his father. At this time, the father and son were side by side, head to head, feet to feet, facing the starry sky, with their eyes tightly closed .

After a while, Louis suddenly asked, "Boy, are you still afraid?"

"Dad, at this moment my mind is full of stars and stars, and you are by my side. I don't seem to be afraid at all. I feel so happy and happy in an instant."

"Then you just close your eyes like this, facing the starry sky, say out loud your dream and the life you want in the future, and then you feel it again, how does it feel?"

"Okay, Dad!"

"I want to become a basketball star in the future. This is the dream I decided when I was three years old. Whether it can be realized or not, I will work hard to cure my mother's illness and make my father no longer suffer. The family is far away from the current slums. Buy a large house in the city, with a bedroom for my parents, a bedroom for me and my beloved girl, and a small one for my future son or daughter, a large bathroom, and a small one dining room and living room."

When Neil had finished looking forward to his future dreams and the life he wanted in the future, Louis had already burst into tears, almost crying, but because it was night and Neil's eyes were closed, his father's Neil didn't notice this move.

It took a while for Louis to sort out his emotions, and asked with a smile while crying, "Boy, are you finished?"

"Yeah, after I finished speaking, I also said what's wrong with you, why you suddenly lost your voice."

"It's nothing, isn't Dad listening to you quietly?" Louis replied with a forced smile.

"By the way, Dad, what is your dream?"

"Dad? Dad's dream is also to cure your mother's illness. There is a house in the urban area as you imagined. Our family lives happily in it, far away from the slums, so that you can go to any school you want which school."

After hearing this, Neil also felt that his father loved his mother and him very much, so he moved his body and hugged his father and said, "Dad, my mother and I will always love you!"

"I love you all too!"

As soon as the words fell, Louis wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands.

Louis asked again after a while: "Boy, how are you feeling at the moment?"

"Father, I feel a force in my heart constantly rushing to my heart. It is so beautiful. I have you by my side, and there are so many stars in the starry sky listening to my dreams. I am so happy!"

"Boy, I will remember. In the future, don't tell others about your dreams, but tell the stars, because the stars will illuminate you, and others will make your surroundings dark and make you afraid."

Although his father's words were too profound, Neil, who was over five years old, couldn't understand them all, but he could understand them. He wanted to tell the stars about his dreams, but he couldn't tell others.

Louis felt that he had ulterior motives for Neil tonight, so he sat up and rubbed his eyes, looked at Neil whose eyes were still closed and said, "Boy, you can open your eyes now, let's go home!"

Neil quickly opened his eyes, let go of his father's hands, sat up and nodded and replied: "Okay, Dad, I think it's time to go back, I want to sleep, and Mom must be anxious."

Louis stood up from the big rock, took his little hand, and the father and son ran all the way home.

(End of this chapter)