guarding you for seven years

Life will give you countless faces, and you will always choose the one that hurts you the most to touch.

Second Year (Part [-])

When school started again, it was already the second year of high school, and Xia Lu still stayed in the original class, and Xiao Zi never said anything about letting Xia Lu work hard to get into the key class.

In just one year, it seems that something has changed, but nothing has changed.

"Xia Lu, is your illness really cured? But you are still so thin. Have you grown taller? It feels much taller than last year." Xiao Zi compared the heights of the two, and Xia Lu said quietly. Standing, it seems that I have grown taller, and I have time to measure it another day.

"Xia Lu, for your health, starting tomorrow, we'll get up at six in the morning and go for a morning run." Xiao Zi nodded firmly, as if making this decision was so important.Xia Lu glanced at Xiao Zi lightly, and said yes.But I thought in my heart, I don’t know how many days you can last, because of your sleepiness, I really don’t believe you can get up at six o’clock.

The setting sun elongated the silhouettes of the two people, and the tree-lined campus path seemed extraordinarily quiet, and it was so beautiful that people wanted to walk endlessly like this.

At six o'clock in the morning, Xia Lu looked in surprise at Xiao Zi, who was already fully dressed, standing at the door waiting for her. She really didn't expect this girl to really wake up.

The morning sun has not yet risen, and there are already people reading in the playground. Xia Lu and Xiao Zi are jogging slowly in the morning. Xiao Zi obviously lacks sleep and is not very energetic, but it is rare to get up so early to breathe the outside air. The mood is still good.Xia Lu quietly followed Xiao Zi one meter behind, Xia Lu with Xiao Zi's ponytail swaying lightly was full of thoughts, and suddenly thought of the word "years".Although he was clearly only a teenager, he suddenly felt like he was in his decades.What if, ten years later, 20 years later, or decades later, can I still stand behind you and watch your hair fluttering and your smile like a flower?

For three consecutive days, Xiao Zi got up at six o'clock to accompany Xia Lu to run, eat breakfast, and then went to the classroom for morning reading to prepare for class.On the third morning, while having breakfast, Xiao Zi said: "Xia Lu, from tomorrow onwards you will go for a run by yourself, and I will accompany you for three days. The alarm rings once every 10 minutes, so loud that the whole dormitory has objections to me, so you have to persevere and don't be lazy." Xia Lu nodded and continued to eat buns. Xiao Zi saw Xia Lu's expression that he had guessed a long time ago. Not in the mood for breakfast.He snatched Xia Lu's delicious steamed buns, and bit them without hesitation. There seemed to be Xia Lu's saliva on them. Seeing Xia Lu's face, the steamed buns were stuck in his mouth and he couldn't swallow or spit out. , I feel inexplicably good.

Xia Lu was indeed choking on the steamed stuffed bun, and the two of them had eaten an apple or drank a bottle of water together before, but watching Xiao Zi gently bite down on the marks where she had bitten, was a touching feeling. Xia Lu felt embarrassed by the nervous movements, she clearly knew that Xiao Zi only regarded her as a good friend, and all the intimate movements were just because of their good relationship, nothing else.But since Xia Lu realized her feelings for Xiao Zi, she has become more and more out of control. She has been paying attention to her actions all the time, for fear that Xiao Zi will hate her if she shows her feet, and they can no longer be friends.

Xia Lu silently picked up the teacup to drink water, and swallowed the steamed stuffed bun with difficulty, her heart ached, but she was inexplicably excited.

Xia Lu always thought that she would not be Xiao Zi's only friend throughout high school, but she should be the best one, and Xiao Zi would be the only one who wanted to be close to her throughout high school, and even longer. people who are fleeing.

After school that day, Xiao Zishen took Xia Lu to the cafeteria mysteriously, and sat in a slightly off-centered position. Xia Lu was a little puzzled. Usually, the two of them never ate in such a sneaky way, like thieves.Xiao Zi ordered some food casually, sat on the seat and looked around.Xia Lu looked at Xiao Zi, and felt that she was looking for someone, "What are you looking at?" Xia Lu asked softly.Xiao Zi smiled mysteriously at Xia Lu with an expression of "you'll know later".Xia Lu ignored Xiao Zi and lowered her head to eat.

"Here we come, here we come." Xiao Zi shook Xia Lu's arm, the rice in Xia Lu's spoon spilled all over her body, and the vegetable juice splashed onto the school uniform. The blue school uniform instantly turned dark blue, and Xia Lu put it down speechlessly. The rice spoon looked at the direction Xiao Zi was pointing at.

When Sun Shike walked into the cafeteria, Xiao Zi was very excited, and held on to Xia Lu's sleeves tightly. Xia Lu looked at Sun Shike lightly, and then at the excited Xiao Zi beside her, feeling a little confused but heartbroken. Sisi sober. "Xia Lu, do you know? He's a new transfer, and his name is Sun Shike. He's in the key class next door. He's also handsome. I heard that he studies very well. This morning, many people circled around their class just to get to know him. What about the news." Xiao Zi's shining eyes made Xia Lu feel uncomfortable, she turned her head to look at Sun Shike not far away, tall and thin, her fragmentary hair was trimmed just right, every corner of her face They are full of vigor, attracting young girls who are ignorant at this age.Xia Lu's mood is a bit complicated, but she can't explain why she has such complicated emotions. Everything seems to be normal and there is no fault, but she just finds it unacceptable, and even her breathing becomes short of breath. The sweat in her palms makes Xia Lu feel restless , Xia Lu lowered her head, picked up the rice spoon, and continued to eat.

Xiao Zi found that Xia Lu was not excited at all, and was not interested in knowing who the other party was at all. Xiao Zi leaned his head on Xia Lu's shoulder, "Xia Lu, don't you think he is handsome? Are you not even interested? You I don't know, but now the girls in our school are basically asking about him, even the first year of high school." Xia Lu just paused for a while, and continued to fiddle with the Chinese food on the plate, "Why are you interested? Hurry up and eat well, see Can he be full?" Xia Lu was a little impatient.Xiao Zi sat up and picked up the chopsticks, "I'm full, I'm not hungry now." Xiao Zi's eyes were still on the man, Xia Lu didn't know what to say for a moment, and the food in his mouth felt hard to swallow.

Xia Lu didn't pay much attention to the whole afternoon's class, she was in a daze, her mind was circling Xiao Zi's shining little eyes, and Sun Shike's face that made her want to be crushed.

Xia Lu has been insisting on running in the morning. When she got up to run in the morning, her speed was extremely fast. The depression in her heart almost overwhelmed her. She wanted to vent. Running can make her lose the pretense in front of Xiao Zi regardless of reason.When the footsteps stopped, I took a big mouthful of air, my mind went blank, there was nothing, I didn't have to think about anything, and I didn't have to face anything.

Pain is often irreplaceable, but it can be alleviated when consciousness is unconscious.

During the second class, Xiao Zi came to Xia Lu and said that she could not have dinner with Xia Lu at noon. Before Xia Lu could ask her what was wrong, Xiao Zi left. Xia Lu didn't care, but on that day Xia Lu Lu tasted a new kind of pain in her life, a bone-eroding pain that oppressed her heart, slowly exceeding its capacity, and then got lost in the cold street.And what she didn't know was that in the years to come, and in countless nights, she would be accompanied by this bone-piercing pain, which entangled Xia Lu like poppies until the lights ran out.

Because she didn't have to eat with Xiao Zi, Xia Lu wanted to take advantage of her lunch break to go to the hospital to check her teeth. The steel wires of the braces were a little off, so she called the dentist who was in charge of her. It happened that the dentist was on duty at noon.Xia Lu hurried to the hospital after school. After fixing her teeth, it was already an hour later. When she walked out of the hospital, she found that she was really hungry. When she came, she didn’t have time to eat. Now that she went back to the cafeteria, there was nothing to eat. Xia Lu wanted to find someone to eat The place.

Xia Lu went to several restaurants and didn't know what to eat. She usually eats whatever Xiao Zi eats, but now she is asked to choose by herself, so she really doesn't know what to eat.Xia Lu hesitated, or else he would have a quick meal, and then hurry back to school.She raised her foot and was about to step into the fast food restaurant when two people came out from the restaurant next to her. Xia Lu stopped and looked at the two people who had left, the one she was familiar with but not now, walking with a boy, And that boy turned out to be Sun Shike whom he met in the cafeteria before.

Xia Lu felt that she was petrified, her body was stiff, and she couldn't move a step. The weather in December was extremely cold and the sky was gloomy. Pain, the bottom of my heart looks like a glacier in the North Pole, wisps of cold air emanates from the heart, invades the blood and flows all over the body.Xia Lu quietly watched the two people walking farther and farther away talking and laughing. Xiao Zi's face that used to smile like a flower at her, now smiled brighter at the boy next to her, with a little girl's smile on her face. Xia Lu had never seen the shyness and brightness that she should have. She felt that Xiao Zi was very strange at the moment, but that face and figure were still familiar to her.Take a deep breath and lift your feet, your limbs are terribly cold, like crawling out of a cold hole.But I don't know where to go. In the vast streets, everyone has their own direction, but at this moment Xia Lu has lost her direction, lost her mind, and lost herself.