chained brother

"Teacher, are you leaving?"

As the sun was setting, at the small school gate, the students raised their heads and surrounded Chun, their big eyes full of reluctance.The pitiful look in this puppy's eyes made Chun's heart tighten when he looked at it.

But thinking of what her mother said on the phone, Tsubaki's mood to go back became even more urgent.

He knelt down and touched the head of the nearest child

"I'm sorry, but there is something wrong with the teacher's house and we must go back."

The kid scrunched up his face in obvious displeasure.

"It turns out that the teacher is not from here."

"Yes, the teacher's home is in Tokyo."

"That's it..." The child's tone was full of disappointment, but the next second, he asked Chun with curious eyes.

"What happened to the teacher's house?"

The child's childish words froze Tsubaki's smile, and then, the tingling pain in his heart began to spread throughout his chest.After taking a deep breath, he reluctantly replied with a smile on his face.

"It's the teacher's...brother."

Qiu Ye took care of everything very well. Chun thought that he would be a teacher for the rest of his life in this small rural place, leading a mediocre but comfortable life. Although he was sorry for his parents, he could finally leave the tree far away.

But it seems that since their relationship started to turn sour, the thread of fate of the two people has been tightly tied, and they can never be separated again.Chun ran away for five years, but in the end he couldn't escape a phone call from his mother.

Sitting on the Shinkansen, he looked at the scenery outside the window and gradually became familiar, and the feeling of depression in his heart became heavier and heavier.His mother's crying voice still lingered in his ears.

"You are too cruel! How can you leave the tree alone."

At the moment when he heard his mother's accusation, Tsubaki almost subconsciously refuted, but what his mother said next made all his emotions freeze at that moment.

"The tree is crazy, you know?"

His mother's almost shrill voice hit his heart so hard that he didn't react for a long time.He held the phone tightly, and even asked with a naive dry smile.

"How come? Mom, you are joking."

Mother answered him coldly

"Would I joke about my son's mental state?"

Tsubaki can't laugh anymore...

After hanging up the phone, he fell on the bed, staring at the ceiling with a blank mind for half an hour.He thought that no matter how deep the tree's obsession with him would dissipate little by little with the passage of time, in the end, his life and his life would return to the normal track, but he didn't expect that the tree was so extreme.

"Why... did it become like this, tree..."

Chun clutched the quilt tightly, crying uncontrollably, he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, remorse or helplessness or pity, it didn't matter, no kind of emotion could undo the ending between him and the tree.

The anger of his parents was within Tsubaki's expectation, after all, he abandoned not only the tree, but also his parents.He also took his mother's slap firmly, and he lowered his head and covered his face and whispered to his mother

"Can you show me the tree?"

Mother bit her lower lip hard, and after a moment of silence, she turned her head abruptly.

"I'll take you."

I heard from my mother that after Chun disappeared, the tree was very manic in the first few days, almost day and night looking for Chun without a leader. If someone stopped him, he would have almost smashed Qiuye's house, and Qiuye's mouth was also very strict. , No matter how mischievous the tree is, it will never say where Chun is hiding.

Seeing that Shu seemed to be a different person, the father and mother were very shocked and puzzled. After all, in their hearts, Shu had always been a very well-behaved top student.

Shu's mentality was already at the breaking point, but his parents' constant inquiries finally made him explode.

he yelled at his parents

"Yeah, I just like my brother! It's not brotherly love, it's a love that only wants him to be owned by me alone. Brother, he... obviously fell in love with me, why did he run away in the end!"

The degree of explosion of these words can be imagined. After the shock, Shu's parents took it for granted that they severely scolded and preached to Shu, and all morals and ethics were brought out and talked about.

But the strange thing is that from the beginning to the end, the tree just sat quietly at the foot of the bed without saying a word, staring blankly at the front.

In the next few days, the tree hardly said a word.

Shu's parents thought that he had scolded too much, and Chun's departure made Shu's heart aggravated. They thought that if Shu was quiet for a few days, he would be able to recover.

But what waited was that the tree became more and more silent.

Finally, one morning, Shu Yang stood on the stairs with a childlike innocent smile and said to them

"Why doesn't brother get up yet?" At the time, they knew that the worst and most unacceptable thing had happened.

"The doctor said that he was too stimulated, he chose to escape himself, and subconsciously made himself think that he was still at the age of eight."

Looking at the tree playing with Lego toys in the room, the mother felt sad and helpless.But in just a few days, her son changed from heaven to hell.

But looking at the tree's carefree look, she felt that it was better to be like this than to live in the pain of losing Chun for the rest of her life. What's more, because of the tree's change, Chun, who was planning to escape all the time, came back.

After five years, after experiencing such a huge change, she no longer wanted to pursue the complicated and unspeakable relationship between the two brothers.

As a mother, she only wants her two sons to be well.

The moment he saw the tree again, Tsubaki was not as excited as he expected, on the contrary, his heart was calm and calmer than usual.

He just stood at the door, quietly watching every move of the tree inside the house.

Not seeing each other for five years, Shu's face and figure are completely grown men.So the action of him staring and clapping his hands vigorously to these children is also very unsuitable.

But these actions fell into Chun's heart and only made him feel pity.

Until now, he still doesn't understand why the tree's obsession with himself can be so deep.Is this deep love?But this kind of love has made the two of them what they are now. Is it a kind of irony?

Chun smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"elder brother!"

Just when he was thinking deeply, the clear voice of the tree suddenly sounded.When Chun raised his head, he saw the tree that had become the mind of a child running in front of him, lowering his head and looking at him with a smile, his eyes no longer had the calculation and sternness of that time.

It is as clear as a spring on a mountain.

The sourness in his eyes surged up in an instant, and Tsubaki stepped forward and hugged the tree that was already half a head taller than him.

Shu was a little overwhelmed by his brother's sudden hug, and didn't know where to put his hands in the air.he asked suspiciously

"Brother, what's wrong?"

The completely childish tone made Tsubaki's pent-up tears fall from his eyes, and his strength in hugging the tree became stronger.

"It's nothing, it's just that I haven't seen the tree for a long time, and I miss you a little."

Shu seemed a little shy, he whispered in Tsubaki's ear

"I saw my brother yesterday."

When Shu said this, Tsubaki remembered that he no longer had any memory after the age of 8, and naturally he would not know about the five-year separation from him.

The tree now is just a child, just the younger brother he held in his hand and loved so much.

So he sniffed and said with a smile

"My brother has a bad memory."

"Brother is an idiot!"

"Yeah, my brother is a fool, a big fool."

"But I also like my brother who is an idiot. I like my brother the most in the whole world!"

"Well, I know."

"My brother also likes trees the most, right?"

"Well, I like trees the most."

"Then brother can only like me!"

The domineering words just like a few years ago made Tsubaki stunned for a moment, but soon, he dispelled this weird feeling from his mind.

He didn't know if Shu fell in love with him when he was very young, and he didn't know if Shu, who had regained his mind at the age of eight, would go back to the old way after "growing up slowly", or in other words, he would be in a certain place. Suddenly woke up one day.

Chun didn't want to think about these issues any more, since God gave him a chance to start over, he would go on with Shu.

How could he let go of his younger brother, no matter what kind of relationship he is, he is his favorite person.

Favorite……

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath

"I only like you."

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The author has something to say:

The extra episode is probably the brother's adoptive brother's diary? ? ?