Tentative

Shen Yizhuo's voice was not low, he didn't speak much at all.On the contrary, there are a few gangsters around him, chatting about where there are beautiful girls.Qu Zhe has been listening carefully, as if afraid of missing anything Shen Yizhuo said.Until Shen Yizhuo parted ways with them and walked alone into the newly built residential area a few years ago.

When it was first built, it was said that it was positioned as a high-end residential area, but after it was actually built, it was just an ordinary staircase room.Compared with Qu Zhe's house built 40 to [-] years ago, the walls are whiter, there are more street lights downstairs, and the greenery downstairs is more beautiful.

He stood between two street lamps and watched Shen Yizhuo's figure disappear at the entrance of the corridor.Counting the time silently in his heart, after about 30 seconds, he walked lightly, stepped forward quickly, and stood at the entrance of the corridor where the voice control light was still on.

Echoing footsteps could be heard upstairs.

The voice-activated light went off without warning.The pitch-black corridor looked like a man-eating monster, with its mouth open waiting for Qu Zhe to enter.He didn't dare to follow, but when he heard the footsteps stop, he hurriedly withdrew and distanced himself from the building.

Qu Zhe looked up, and clearly saw that the lights in the stairwell had reached the fifth and sixth floors, and did not go up.Then the house on the left of the fifth floor lights up.

——That's Shen Yizhuo's residence.

As if he had learned a shocking secret, Qu Zhe gasped excitedly.Even though it was still winter, he had followed him all the way from near the billiard room until now, and he didn't feel cold at all, even his palms and forehead were sweating.

I don't know when, he couldn't help but devote 100% attention to everything related to Shen Yizhuo.He was so nervous, so excited.And he knew very well that if someone found out that he was following and spying on Shen Yizhuo like this, he would definitely be regarded as a pervert.Or something more serious - he even secretly took Shen Yizhuo's MP4 today, although he didn't seem to notice it.

After standing downstairs for a while, Qu Zhe walked back.

On some quiet streets, he hummed an unknown song softly, with uncontrollable excitement surging in his heart.

Suddenly, Qu Zhe raised his wrist and looked at his watch—it was already 10:30.

"Oops!"

While following Shen Yizhuo, he completely forgot the time and the promise with his sister.Realizing this, Qu Zhe quickened his pace and walked towards the appointed intersection.He was not sure whether Qu Xiaoyu would stand there waiting for him, or whether he would go back early.

But if she goes back alone, it will be difficult to explain where she is going, and her parents only need to ask a few words and they will be confused.After walking for about ten minutes, Qu Zhe panted slightly, and finally saw the intersection.

He has been in poor health since he was a child, especially in terms of physical strength, which is much worse than his peers.This also led to his poor performance in physical education. Over time, he took time off from physical education class whenever he could. Anyway, he couldn't do well in anything arranged by the teacher.

At the intersection where they parted, stood two vague figures.While watching, Qu Zhe quickened his pace again until he could clearly see one of them, which was his sister.

Next to Qu Xiaoyu stood a girl with slightly curly shawl-length hair.As the distance got closer, he vaguely saw the girl raise her head, with a long and thin cigarette between her fingers.

"Xiaoyu!" Qu Zhe shouted.

Qu Xiaoyu turned around, looked at him angrily, but didn't speak.

The smoking girl also turned her face away.With the light of the street lamp, Qu Zhe could clearly see the face of the other party - she was an out-and-out beauty.Although he was wearing a coat, he could still see his slender figure from his legs, with light makeup on, and looked at himself with a smile from the front.

Very mature.This is Qu Zhe's first impression of her.

"Why did you come here..." Qu Xiaoyu complained.

Qu Zhe was taken aback for a moment, then nodded foolishly: "I have something to do when I meet a classmate..."

The younger sister's complaints were many times gentler than usual, even a little coquettish.The girl lightly threw away the cigarette butt, nodded to Qu Zhe, then raised her hand to pamper Qu Xiaoyu's head: "Then I'll go back first."

"Senior Lin..." Qu Xiaoyu let her touch his hair, "Senior, be careful."

"Well, see you on Monday."

"meet on Monday."

After waiting for the person to leave completely, Qu Zhe asked softly, "Is that your classmate?"

"I want you to take care of it. It is agreed that you will come at this time at nine o'clock!"

"Sorry……"

As soon as the person left, Qu Xiaoyu returned to his previous appearance.

"Ah, I'm really annoyed when I see you." She said, and walked towards home angrily like when she came here.

Qu Zhe followed behind and stopped talking.

When they got home, Qu Yihao and Lin Xiuyan were still sitting in the living room watching TV.As soon as the door opened, Qu Yihao scolded him with a cold face: "What time is it?! What does it look like?!"

"I'm sorry..." Qu Zhe honestly bowed his head and apologized, not knowing how to explain it.

If he hadn't forgotten the time, he wouldn't have come back so late.

Qu Xiaoyu also had a cold face and didn't speak.

Lin Xiuyan stepped forward with concern: "Is nothing wrong?"

"fine."

Qu Xiaoyu changed his slippers and immediately walked to the room.She had only taken a few steps when Lin Xiuyan called her: "Wait!"

"Ok?"

"Why do you two smell like cigarettes?!" Lin Xiuyan raised her voice, "Are you smoking? Or Xiaoyu secretly smoking?"

Qu Zhe has never been able to understand why his mother's mood fluctuates so much.One second before, she asked the two of them gently if they were okay, and the next second she suddenly asked loudly.Especially her expression, her eyes are always wide open, as if she is afraid of something, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is hysterical.Every time she did this, Qu Zhe would feel scared for no reason.

Hearing this, Qu Yihao asked angrily, "What's going on?"

Qu Xiaoyu immediately explained: "It's my brother, and my brother's friend smokes."

"is not it?"

Qu Zhe glanced at his sister, but he didn't expect that she would blame him for the fact that the girl who sent her back was smoking.Only at such times would she obediently call herself "brother".

"Ah? Isn't it?" Lin Xiuyan grabbed Qu Zhe's shoulder and asked repeatedly, "I told you not to play with those punks!"

"...It's just by chance." Qu Zhe had no choice but to admit, pursing his lower lip.

"I'm sleeping." Qu Xiaoyu said, hurried into his room, and closed the door with a "bang".

Qu Zhe stood at the door and was scolded by his parents for half an hour. It was nothing more than "not studying well", "making friends randomly", "I don't know what I am doing all day long", and his ears were callused.

He didn't go to wash until it was nearly eleven o'clock, and finally returned to his room.

Qu Zhe also struggled with poor study.In the third year of junior high school, he also tried to work hard, often studying until two or three o'clock before going to bed. During that time, his vision deteriorated rapidly, and he put on heavy glasses.Even so, he's still on the verge of entering the sky -- a slightly better high school.

Some people are born proud and some are born fools.

Qu Zhe has long admitted that he is an idiot.

He turned off the lamp by the bed, curled up in the cold blanket, and waited for the blanket to warm up.

Fumbling under the pillow for a while, he grabbed the cold lump.He carefully untied the earphone cable, turned on the MP4, and put on the earphones, as if he was performing some solemn and sacred ceremony, with a serious expression on his face.This little thing contains Shen Yizhuo's hobbies... Just thinking of this name makes Qu Zhe feel very excited.

It's only natural for the favored one to hate the fool, so it's only normal for the fool to hate the favored one.

If Qu Xiaoyu hadn't suddenly barged in this afternoon, he should have started this important matter long ago.

Qu Zhe really wanted to know what kind of songs Shen Yizhuo would like to listen to and what kind of movies he would like to watch.

It doesn't matter what the answer is.As long as he thinks of Shen Yizhuo, who is unknown to others, being dug out bit by bit by him, and the mask of the top student peeling off bit by bit, he will be very happy.

He flipped through Shen Yizhuo's favorite songs and listened to them one by one.Most of them are songs in foreign languages, some in English and some in Japanese, but for Qu Zhe, they are collectively referred to as unintelligible languages.But they are all very nice, which seems to show the owner's good taste.

There are not many songs, just over 20.After Qu Zhe finished listening, he began to flip through the movies inside again.The titles of the video files are almost all in English, and with his English level, he couldn't understand a single word.The only Chinese title is a 95-minute movie called "Happy Together".Just seeing the title, Qu Zhe could imagine something erotic.

If those girls knew that Shen Yizhuo would secretly watch pornographic movies, what kind of expressions would they show?

Qu Zhe was breathing heavily and was a little out of breath under the blanket. The MP4 screen was soon covered with a layer of water mist. He wiped it off with his thumb, and selected the shortest video and clicked on it to watch.

Although it is the shortest, the video has thirty minutes.

Clicking in, there is no opening as imagined, but the last played position is automatically played.

The man's heavy breathing intertwined in the earphones, and Qu Zhe's mind went blank for a moment before he realized what it was.

He turned down the volume in a panic, and suddenly realized that he was wearing earphones, and only he could hear the sound.

On the screen, two naked men overlap each other, and the camera pans past their junction and then falls on one of the men's faces.

Qu Zhe had never seen that expression on a male face.

He frowned slightly, and his mouth was also open, from which the coquettish panting that was not like a man overflowed, undisguised, flattering... even pleasant.

If it was just pornography, Qu Zhe probably wouldn't be surprised.His eyes were fixed on the screen, as if someone was forcing him to watch.

Before that, Qu Zhe had never imagined that men and men could do the same.

The 16-year-old boy already has a vague understanding of "sex", and the precocious ones even have a clear understanding of the details.As a bystander of the class group, he has heard boys discussing pornography, and he has also heard them discuss obscenely about the breasts of girls in the class.

But no one has ever told him that two men can be like this in the video.

When his mind was blank, the men had already changed their positions and continued their actions.

After reacting, Qu Zhe quickly took off the earphones and exposed his head outside the bed.

The cold air calmed him down quite a bit in an instant. He was out of breath and could hear his own violent heartbeat, but he didn't know what kind of feeling it was.

He realized a terrible thing - Shen Yizhuo is gay.