Chasing Summer

Didn't you think it would be you.

…

Didn't you ever think that the people I kissed and loved were all you?

Lin Zhexia was stunned by these few words.

"You... kissed me?"

Lin Zhexia's brain went blank for a moment, and then slowly restarted: "When, why don't I know."

A group of people came in groups from the back street, laughing and laughing.

But the voices of these people seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier, Lin Zexia could only hear Chi Yao's voice.

The young man said in a cold voice:

"The day I left."

Lin Zhexia's memory followed his words back to more than a year ago.

That day she told Lin He to wake her up, but she still overslept on the bed, and when she woke up, Chi Yao had already left.

Her impression of that day was only an empty room. An empty afternoon.

"You were lying in bed with a fever, and I didn't wake you up that day."

As Chi Yao said, he let go of the hand pinching her chin.

He originally wanted to take the opportunity to tell her that he had liked her for a long time.

Unexpectedly, this person was thinking wildly and asked him to reconsider their relationship.

Hearing that it was this day, Lin Zhexia was even more confused: "You kissed me secretly while I was asleep?"

Chi Yao responded without the slightest bit of embarrassment.

It took her a while to digest these two things, and then asked, "Where did you kiss?"

"Forehead."

"..."

"You seem disappointed? I wanted to kiss somewhere else," Chi Yao paused, "If you think about it, let it go. It's not very good."

After all, there is no confirmed relationship.

Unexplainable, taking advantage of others.

And he was too nervous that day, cautiously, he was not willing to touch her at all.

Lin Zhexia was a little angry: "Who is disappointed, it's too late for me to condemn you, and you know it's not good?"

Chi Yao: "Well, I finally have a little conscience left."

"..."

What made Lin Zhexia even more angry was that the "first kiss" between her and Chi Yao actually happened while she was asleep. She was not impressed at all.

Such an important thing.

And she was, completely, unaware.

"I fell asleep when you kissed me," she complained with a blushing face, "Why do you remember it alone. In this way, I am at a loss, aren't I?"

Chi Yao asked nonchalantly, "Then what should I do?"

…

How does she know what to do.

When Lin Zhexia was immersed in the regret of "she missed the first kiss with Chi Yao", Chi Yao, who had just let go of her hand and retreated slightly, leaned over to approach her again. Chi Yao himself was a bit taller than her, so he easily lowered his head and approached her, and then, a light kiss fell on her forehead.

Obviously it is a very simple action.

The kiss is not anywhere else, just the forehead.

But from this feathery kiss, she felt a feeling of being extremely cherished.

The boy's kiss was very light and restrained, almost surrendering.

His eyelashes drooped, casting a shadow under his eyes.

Lin Zhexia's reaction became very slow from the moment he said those few words, she blinked her eyes, and then remembered that she hadn't asked him another question: "When you were in high school, who was the person you liked? I?"

Chi Yao didn't answer her directly.

After a while, he straightened up and said before stepping back, "Tomorrow weekend, if you have no other plans, I will take you to a few places."

"You'll know when you're done."

The first time Lin Zhexia sent him back to the men's dormitory, Chi Yao didn't let her go downstairs, and when he was two blocks away from the dormitory floor, he suggested sending her back again.

"You don't have to see me off," Lin Zhexia felt troublesome, "It's a bit silly to send me back and forth like this."

"And the school is very safe. It's not too late now. I can go back by myself."

Chi Yao let go of his hand: "Send me a message when you get to the dormitory."

Lin Zhexia waved at him: "Understood, you go in quickly."

On the way back to the women's bedroom, Lin Zhexia still felt that her forehead was hot for no reason.

After returning to the dormitory, she first sent Chi Yao a sentence "I'm in the dormitory", and then after washing, she thought about where Chi Yao would take her tomorrow.

She thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of it.

Where are the places, and you will know the answer if you take her there?

Before going to bed, she tapped Chi Yao on WeChat:

- can you tell me a little bit

- otherwise i'm afraid i won't behave well tomorrow

- i'm going to prepare in advance

Mao Maotou only replied with two words:

-sleep

Lin Zhexia: ...Oh.

But there were too many things happening today, and she couldn't sleep for a while.

From the shattered dreams and almost "breaking up", to knowing that the person I have always liked has also liked me a long time ago.

She turned over on the bed, thinking, Chi Yao actually liked her when he was in high school.

That person is not a human being all day long.

Get mad at her every day and quarrel with her.

But after thinking about it, she felt that Chi Yao had always been very kind to her.

And... It seems that since a long time ago, he has only been kind to her.

Lin Zhexia thought a lot, and in the end she had nothing to do, looked at Chi Yao's cat head portrait for a while, and then went online to find other similar portraits. You can find a lot of pictures of this kind of cat by searching the Internet. She found a picture of a cat of the same breed, and after saving the picture, click on her own picture to change it.

Her original avatar was changed when she first opened WeChat. The avatar is a cartoon grimace with simple lines.

After changing to a new avatar, she looked back at the chat records of the two of them.

They're all cat heads.

Looks like they're in the same group.

The next day, Lin Zhexia woke up very early.

Lan Xiaoxue and the others were lying on the bed, discussing how to order breakfast: "Let's order together, I'm too lazy to go to the cafeteria, Xia Xia, what do you want to eat?"

When she said this, she thought that Lin Zhexia might go out to eat: "Are you going to eat with your brother? By the way, you had a conflict yesterday, did you talk about it?"

"Let's talk about it," Lin Zhexia said with a ponytail, "...I misunderstood, he should, um, not a scumbag."

Lan Xiaoxue: "It doesn't look like he looks like that. Is there such a scumbag that strangers don't want to enter? I can't imagine how a scumbag a person who won't even allow friends to add is such a scumbag."

"..."

In fact, she couldn't think of it either.

She even didn't expect that yesterday she would eat her own jealousy.

"Are you going out today?" Seeing that she was tying up her hair with a silk scarf, Lan Xiaoxue asked again, "Do you want me to make you up?"

"No need," Lin Zhexia thought that it hadn't been long since her last date with Chi Yao, and if she dressed up again today, it would look exaggerated, "...and today shouldn't be considered a date."

She and Chi Yao ate in the school cafeteria, and then went to the school gate to take the bus.

At first she didn't know where the destination was, but since she took a taxi, it shouldn't be too far away, at least in the city.

"How long will it take?" she asked.

"Two hours."

As Chi Yao said, he added, "If you're sleepy, just sleep on me for a while."

"Forget it, I'll just memorize vocabulary," Lin Zhexia's focus on studying in her third year of high school has continued to the present, and she recalled a time when she was riding with him in the car, and said, "In case you say that I is pig."

Chi Yao suddenly said: "That time, I asked you to rely on me."

"...?"

Chi Yao added, "Shoulders."

Lin Zhexia Xin said that she felt something lightly touch her in her sleep that day, so it was not a dream: "Then you still framed me, you are really sinister."

Halfway through the drive, the scenery outside the window became familiar.

Lin Zhexia looked up from the word software, and saw the famous landmark in Cheng'an District in the distance.

She has lived in Cheng'an District for so many years, and she is very familiar with the nearby roads and some landmark buildings.

She didn't expect that Chi Yao would take her back to Cheng'an: "...Why are you back?"

"You don't want to take me home, do you?" Lin Zhexia said, "My mother is at work today, and Uncle Wei is not at home."

Chi Yao didn't say where he was going, but said, "I won't take you home."

There are still ten kilometers to the destination.

Lin Zhexia stared out the window, and found that their car turned all the way, and finally turned into a road that she could walk with her eyes closed.

The road outside the car window seemed to be repeated and extended according to her memories, with familiar road signs, stone bricks, and the school gate, as well as the words "Cheng'an No. 2 Middle School" that could be seen from a long distance away.

Lin Zhexia was wearing her own clothes and her hair was tied up. Now at the gate of the high school, she was in a daze.

She watched in a daze as Chi Yao went to say hello to the guard and asked the graduate if he could go in.

The uncle still remembered the two of them, and said with a smile: "It's you - I always saw you two going to school together, I remember you, let's go in. But this weekend, there is no class, if you want to see the teacher, you have to confirm in advance whether they are there or not." School."

Chi Yao said, "Thank you, sir."

It is a special feeling to return to Cheng'an No. 2 Middle School as a college student.

In Cheng'an, it was mandatory to wear school uniforms.

Every day I sit in the classroom and attend classes, preparing for the college entrance examination.

There are countless school rules.

Lin Zhexia grabbed the satchel on her body, glanced at the bulletin board as she walked past, and found that a new list of new students had been posted on it.

On weekends, there are still students in twos and threes walking around the school.

"Hurry up—the blackboard competition will be held next week, the class next door has already finished, and we have to finish drawing today."

"understood-"

Even though they have just graduated, they seem to be separated from high school by an insurmountable distance.

Lin Zhexia followed behind Chi Yao: "Where the **** is it, a classroom? What did you bring me to school for? Did you leave a message on the school rooftop?"

Lin Zhexia said that the school roof is an "outlaw place". There is a white wall on the roof, which is always scribbled by people, especially during the graduation season, everyone will go up to "message".

"I'm not that free." Chi Yao said.

Lin Zhexia couldn't help complaining: "I think you seem to be quite free today."

Finally, Chi Yao took her into a teaching building, and after entering, he said to her, "Close your eyes."

"So mysterious."

"..."

She closed her eyes, was led up a few steps by him, and then walked for a while, as if she had passed through a long corridor.

Then Chi Yao held her hand and stopped in a certain place.

"Stand here," he said, lowering his head to her ear, "I tell you to open your eyes and then open them again."

Lin Zhexia nodded.

She thought, according to the route just now, which classroom this is, and waited for Chi Yao to let her open her eyes.

She waited for a while, and the first thing she heard was not Chi Yao's voice, but a "sizzling" sound of a poor electrical connection.

After the sound of "Zi La", someone casually tapped the microphone.

A muffled slap came through the wires, and then the boy whispered "Hello" into the microphone.

Then he said, "You can open your eyes, girlfriend."

Lin Zhexia opened her eyes and found that she was standing in the school auditorium.

The auditorium of No. 2 Middle School is still the same.

There are rows of seats, and the front is a stage performance area.

Red velvet cloth hung on both sides of the stage.

She was very impressed with this auditorium, because many things happened here in her high school days. It was the first time she mustered up the courage to participate in a speech contest, the first time she led the class to perform poetry recitation at the school celebration, and it was also the first time... in Listen to Chi Yao singing on stage here.

It's just that every time in the past, there were many people in the audience. Thousands of people sat in the auditorium, and the whole auditorium was very lively.

Not like now, empty.

She was the only one in the audience.

Chi Yao stood in the center of the stage. He found an old guitar from nowhere, clamped the microphone on the microphone stand, pressed his fingers across the strings, and the familiar prelude melody flowed out.

Lin Zhexia could tell just by listening to the prelude that the song was "A Midsummer Night".

Sure enough, Chi Yao lowered his eyes, and the first line he sang was: "I remember the first heartbeat that summer."

"You trespassed unintentionally/Unspeakable"

"..."

"A Midsummer Night's Wind / Buried Out of Control"

Lin Zhexia froze in place.

The scene in front of me gradually overlapped with the memory.

The appearance of the young man on the stage was not much different from before. The spotlights on the top of the stage shone down on him, making his whole body glow.

And this time, she was the only one in the audience.

It seemed that the person on the stage came just for her.

Chi Yao's voice spread farther because the auditorium was too spacious.

"And I'm stuck/Chasing your time and space"

The part that Chi Yao was in charge of was only half of the song, so after half of it, the piano sound gradually stopped.

…

He lowered his hand holding the guitar, and his voice continued. His voice was clearly transmitted through most of the auditorium through Lime, and reached her ears: "At the time of the school celebration program, I didn't want to participate, but someone followed me I said she wanted to see me on stage."

"From the very beginning, I only wanted to play this song for one person. That person's name is Lin Zhexia."

Lin Zhexia has a sense of illusory unreality in her whole body, which comes from the overlapping of past and present.

She remembered a trivial conversation from a distant memory.

— “Besides, I really hope you can come on stage.”

-"…You want to see?"

Following Chi Yao's words, the sense of unreality slowly faded away, and the two stages completely overlapped at this moment.

It turned out that what she felt just now was not an illusion.

The dazzling young man she once secretly hid in the audience and secretly photographed in the crowd really came for her.

Back then, she secretly photographed them, wanting to keep them privately, fantasizing about someone who could be her own.

It turned out that it had always belonged to her.

After a while, Lin Zhexia blinked his eyes, blinking away the tears that suddenly came up: "This is where you want to take me."

"Then I asked you at that time, and you said that you wanted to show your charm on stage."

Chi Yao: "I didn't dare at that time."

Lin Zhexia: "Don't dare to do anything."

"I dare not say I like you," Chi Yao stood on the stage and looked at her, "I'm afraid you'll be embarrassed."

That would be embarrassing indeed.

If she hadn't found out that she also liked him at that time, the two of them probably wouldn't be able to be friends.

Lin Zhexia opened her mouth, but before she had time to say anything, Chi Yao interrupted her: "I want to take you there, there is another place besides this."

In addition to the auditorium, there is another place.

Lin Zhexia couldn't even think of the auditorium, let alone another place.

She shook Chi Yao's hand all the way, and asked him, "Where is it? You tell me quietly, and I pretend not to know."

Chi Yao: "Going around like this, you might as well just not know."

"..."

The next destination is also a bit far away.

Moreover, the scenery outside the window was very strange. She could only judge from the driving direction that she was going to the suburbs.

The suburbs...the place she and Chi Yao have been to together...

She caught a few fragments, but didn't dare to confirm them.

It wasn't until she fell asleep in the car and woke up that the car just arrived at the destination. She looked out the window and saw the words "Luoshan Botanical Garden" that she confirmed that it was really here.

But why did Chi Yao bring her here.

Because have they ever pulled a tick here?

Lin Zhexia couldn't figure it out, Chi Yao didn't give her time to think about it, he opened the car door and took her out of the car. After buying tickets at the ticket office, he led her in again.

At this point in the afternoon, there are not many tourists visiting Luoshan Botanical Garden.

Lin Zhexia passed by the pile of hydrangeas at the door. This year's pile of hydrangeas is similar to last year, but the color is a little different.

She thought that the last time she squatted here, Chi Yao took a "landscape photo", and he used it as a screen saver for his mobile phone.

"You didn't do it on purpose at that time, did you?" Lin Zhexia finally turned the corner, "I said on purpose that I was taking pictures of landscapes, but in fact, I was so fascinated by me that I couldn't control myself, so I couldn't help but take pictures. my beautiful face."

"..."

Chi Yao glanced at her, didn't deny it, but said habitually: "You're pretty good at putting gold on your face."

Lin Zhexia: "Since you liked me when you were in high school, then my guess is completely reasonable."

In the end, the place Chi Yao took her to was under the wishing tree.

The wishing tree covered with red wishing strips.

The summer sun is still hot, and the sun shines on the red everywhere. Countless wishing bars faced the wind, occasionally swishing.

Chi Yao took her and searched under the tree for a long time.

There are too many wishing slips, even if you remember the specific location, there are dozens of them hanging on each position, and new wishing slips are hung on it every day, it is difficult to find the wishing slips that were hung more than a year ago.

"Let me help you find it together," Lin Zhexia stood beside, also wanting to help, "Anyway, I can recognize your handwriting."

At this moment, Chi Yao's hand that was looking for the wish slip paused.

Then he clamped one of them with two fingers, turned his head and called her: "Come here."

Lin Zhexia was a little slow to react before realizing that he was asking her to read the wish note he had written.

Chi Yao hung a very high position. After she walked over, she stood on tiptoe and was about to look at it. Before she saw the content on the wish note, she heard him say something: "Even if you don't recognize my words, you can't read my words." can be found."

Almost at the moment when his voice fell.

Lin Zhexia saw her name on the wishing slip.

Her familiar handwriting reads:

— "Lin Zhexia, I like you."

The world is spinning because of this line of words at this moment.

She recalled that day, she wanted to see Chi Yao's wish note, but she didn't see it.

Both of them hid their wish slips.

This towering ancient tree full of countless wishes, it turned out that in that year, it also hid the love of the young man who dared not show it.

After reading the wishing strip, Lin Zhexia couldn't stand on tiptoe, so she let go of her hand, and the red wishing strip fell back into the layers of red again.

She said in a low voice, "It turns out that the wish you... wrote back then was this."

The sunlight dyed the boy's pupils, refracting a warm light.

Chi Yao looked down at her: "The day I confess to you is not in my plan."

"It may be a little hasty," he said, "but my liking for you is not sudden, nor is it an illusion."

"If you feel insecure and afraid that my liking for you is just an illusion, then I will formally confess my love to you again."

His voice fell into the wind: "I like you, I have wanted to take off your hair rope for a long time, Zhiding has been you since junior high school, the first time I wanted to kiss you was in Haicheng City, you pulled me into the safe The moment of passage."

"Coward, in those moments and moments that you don't know, I have secretly confessed to you thousands of times."

Lin Zhexia's "uncertainty" has finally become "certainty" at this moment.

So rubber bands are no accident.

The "always" that has always been on the top, it turned out to be from then on.

…

Even the first kiss in the safe passage was premeditated.

She gradually couldn't hear what Chi Yao said later, and she didn't need to listen anymore. Relying entirely on instinct, Lin Zhexia stretched out his hand to tug on Chi Yao's collar. He froze for a moment, then bent down obediently, letting her pull him down.

In the next second, her lips pressed against his, blocking the rest of the words.

At the moment of kissing.

She thought, she caught the wind.

I also fulfilled that birthday wish that I thought was impossible.