King of 25 Cubs

"Dangdangdang~ Look who I brought!"

The little white lotus who called herself "Hino Maki" pulled me out from behind her: "Takaho Yuka, I was very lucky to meet her on the way here, so I pulled her over!"

[Host, are you really here with her?Why are you here, besides Kise Ryota, the others here have nothing to say to you. 】

"I wasted so much to see what the chemistry would be. And I'm curious as to what she wants to do."

At this time, the atmosphere in the KTV private room was heated up, but fell into a short silence when I appeared, but then resumed the excitement.

"It's Gao Sui, so I haven't seen you!"

"Gaosu-san is getting more and more beautiful."

"Gao Sui, come on, come and sit by my side!"

……

Amidst the greetings one after another, an eye-catching blond boy suddenly stood out from the crowd, walked towards me, grabbed my wrist first, and dragged me to the side where he was sitting just now.

"We're familiar with each other, so it's up to me to take care of her. Let's keep playing."

Kise chatted familiarly with the classmates present, and sat beside me frankly under the teasing and ambiguous gazes of the others.

"Why are you here?" Amidst the noisy sound and singing, Kise leaned close to my ear and asked in a low voice.

"That classmate Higurashi insists on pulling me over, and I can't refuse."

"It's Hino... In fact, class reunions are quite boring. If you feel uncomfortable or bored, just tell me and we will find an excuse to leave early."

"No, I think it's quite novel." I looked around curiously, and said while looking around: "I have never played with many classmates before, and I always feel a little regretful."

Kise hesitated to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything. As a result, a group of boys and girls ran over to chat with me, forcing Kise to be pushed aside.

In the past, I was most afraid of this kind of scene of being surrounded by people and asking questions, but now I don’t feel any special, and I even feel a little more comfortable. I followed them to talk about things, and even gradually began to grasp the direction and rhythm of the chat.

Experience is really a good thing. It can make you easily become the center of the topic and the focus of the crowd, and it can also make you quietly disappear from the crowd at the right time.

I took a moment to take a look, and found that Hino Maki, who brought me here, sat beside Kise at some point, and was tilting his head to say something to him, with a sweet smile on his lips, misty eyes, just like a flower A white lotus swaying in the wind with dew on it.

"So this is ah……"

I thought.

【What's wrong? 】

"Then Xiaobailian likes Huang Lai, and treats me as an imaginary enemy." I said a little funny, "If it's just jealousy, it's meaningless. I think I'd better go home early."

At this time, a girl suggested: "Let's play truth or dare!"

I stood up at the right time: "I'm going to the bathroom, you guys can play, don't worry about me."

·

After Takaho Yuka left the private room, Kise also stood up: "You guys play, I'll go to the toilet."

"How come every time you play truth or dare, you are either absent or not participating?"

The boys who have a good relationship with Huang Lai joked: "I can't afford it, you are not allowed to leave this time, if you leave, you will be a turtle bastard!"

A look of impatience quickly flashed across Huang Lai's eyes, but the friendly expression of the hippie smile remained on his face, and he hugged the boy's neck: "Yeah, I just can't afford it, brother win a few more for me. No, I have to I have to go to the toilet, I just drank too much juice and I can't help it!"

"Hey, if it doesn't work, you just choose the truth!"

·

I originally planned to leave the ktv directly after going to the bathroom, and then send an email to Huang Lai, asking him to help convey that I was in a hurry to leave first, so as not to appear impolite to leave without saying goodbye. I didn't expect that I just came out of the bathroom after washing my hands I saw Kise leaning against the wall, waiting for me outside the door.

"Why did you come out?"

"It's boring inside, so I came out." Kise straightened up and turned to you: "Do you want to go home?"

"I--"

As soon as he started talking, he saw Xiao Bailian running over from an unknown direction, panting, with anxiety and a little water vapor in his eyes.

"Takaho, yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

I raised my eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

"Just now, a classmate asked me whether I had talked with you on the way here, and what you were doing during the time you were out of school. Then...then I slipped my mouth. I really didn't mean to reveal your secret, really! Gao Sui, I'm sorry, you obviously didn't let me tell others that you were taken care of by a rich man and became a mistress... Ah, I'm sorry!"

Hino Maki glanced at Kise quietly, tears were about to fall.

"Kise-kun was also laughed at... I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

Huang Lai's expression was a little dazed for a moment, and then he seemed to realize something, and looked at the girl's eyes coldly: "The mouth is so broken, the tongue is pulled out if you don't want it."

The little girl was crying in a fake way, but this sentence stunned her, and then the fake crying became real.

Sister, Huang Lai is usually in the fashion model circle, and his rank is high. If you use this little trick on him, I really think he won't be able to see it?

I sighed: "Go back and explain."

I don't care about my own reputation, but I can't implicate others.

"It doesn't really matter to me. The mouth grows on other people's faces. They can say whatever they want. Anyway, they will graduate in half a year."

The boy's smile was as bright as the blond hair, and the earrings shone brightly under the light ball: "But Xiao Yuka can't be slandered by others, leave this matter to me, you go home first, and I will take care of everything , to ensure that all rumors stop at that KTV room."

I blinked, looked at Kise Ryota blankly, and suddenly found that this boy had grown taller and more mature.Compared with when Gao Yi first dated, he looks like an adult now.

It turns out that we have all grown up.

"Actually, I don't care, but I don't like the feeling of being designed by others." I scratched my head: "I'd better go back to the private room with you."

As soon as I walked a few steps, I stopped suddenly and turned back to the bathroom door, where the little flower was still standing there blankly, looking at Huang Lai with hope.

I smiled kindly at her, stretched out my hand, grabbed her hair suddenly, and dragged her to the bathroom.

"Ah!!!! Takaho Yuka, what are you doing?! Let go! Kise-kun, save me!"

Huang Lai said coldly, "It's not bad if I didn't hand over the knife, let's be content."

I turned on the faucet, pulled her hair and pushed her head into the sink, and the cold water instantly poured her head into a drenched chicken.

"Are you sober?"

"Yuko Takaho, you bastard—"

I pulled Xiao Bailian's hair, turned her head around, and twisted the water flow so that the water rushed directly to her face.

"Whoever you like is your own business, it has nothing to do with me, but if you step on my head, don't blame me for being rude."

I bent down slightly, and leaned close to her ear: "Be careful, why do you believe everything I say?"

"you--"

"The following is the truth, remember it well, don't forget it."

"The domineering president surnamed Gaosui is me; the richest man in the country is me; the lychee pay and lychee purchase in your mobile phone are the codes I typed out after staying up all night for a week, and it is because my team and I have not enjoyed it for several months I didn’t sleep well, I killed countless competitors, I got countless sponsors, and I almost got alcoholic liver when talking about business, so I pushed it to the market little by little.”

"The villa as big as a castle belongs to me; the front yard comparable to a forest belongs to me; the luxury car for pick-up and drop-off belongs to me; the private beach belongs to me; the octopus as big as a cruise ship belongs to me the Almighty Handsome Deacon, it's me..."

Realizing my last slip of the tongue, I suddenly stopped.

After a while, I cleared my throat and continued: "Although these will not be mine soon, they are also given to others because I don't want them."

"I was taken care of? I was a mistress? I married a wealthy family?" I chuckled lightly: "Heh, is he worthy of a wealthy family?"

The girl coughed from the cold water, I let go, took out my mobile phone and called the housekeeper: "My classmates are having a party at XXKTV today, help me find out whose shop this is... Oh, it's not that the hospitality is bad, but also It's not to ask Tianliang Wang to break, it's just to say hello, don't make up your mind."

After a while—

"The boss said that the consumption is free this time, right? And give each person a VIP card? Okay, thank him for helping me, but it's not easy to open the door for business, so there's no need for a free bill. I should invite my classmates out to play due."

I put away my phone, and gently touched Xiao Bailian's wet head, which was leaning against the edge of the pool, not daring to lift it up: "Actually, I have a pretty good temper, and I usually don't beat up high school students like you, after all, you are all children. Okay." Now, go home and take a hot shower, don't catch a cold."

After saying this, the girl trembled even more.

·

Because the boss of KTV went to the private room to call me Miss, and told my former classmates that I will pay for all the expenses this time.

The reason why I am called Miss is because I don't want him to say that I am the current head of the Takasu family, and he doesn't know what to call me, so he came up with the title of the second and dream girl.

It was already dark after the show ended, but today is the Tenjin Festival in Yokohama, and there will be a fireworks display that night. Kise said that he hadn't seen me in so long and wanted to catch up with me, so we walked along the path of the temple fair for a while.

The night falls, the lights are bright, and the beautiful red paper lanterns along the road are overwhelming, reflected on the girls’ bathrobes and the boys’ wooden clogs. The performances and parades are drifting away, and the street vendors are shouting one after another. It composes ordinary and ordinary human fireworks.

With his hands in his pockets, Kise walked slowly ahead.

"Little Yuka has been out of school for a year and a half, right? Don't you plan to go back to sell your leave?"

"No more."

"Any plans for the future?"

"Maybe I'll go abroad after a while."

Kise turned his head: "Are you back?"

"Not necessarily. Where's Kise-kun? What do you want to do in the future?"

"I want to be an actor. I have been working as a graphic model before. I managed to get some connections, which will be beneficial to my future development. I have already found an economic company and the contract is being drawn up. However, I plan to enter the entertainment industry after graduation. .”

Speaking of his future plans, the young man seemed to be shining. Although he usually does nothing, he is shining just standing there.

"I feel that this is a very suitable career for Kase-kun. Congratulations in advance. You will become a big star in the future."

"Whether you can become a star or not depends on luck. I just like the feeling of living on the stage and on the screen." After a pause, Kise continued: "When I film a movie, if you are abroad, you should also be able to appear on TV. Did you see me on the show?"

"That's for sure." I smiled: "Come on, big star, get on TV early, I'm waiting to show others that you are my classmate."

"I would like to borrow your auspicious words... By the way, happy birthday."

"Thank you."

Before we could say a few words, we fell into a wordless silence at the same time.

After a long time, Huang Lai suddenly said: "I have never played truth or dare again, and I will never play again in the future."

I opened my mouth and said hesitantly, "Actually, you don't need to do this, it's been a long time."

"Okay Yuka may not have cared for a long time, but I still do. For a long time, I wondered if we would have ended differently if we started in a different way. But there is no point in thinking about it, after all, it hurts It has been done."

"You are here again." I felt a little helpless: "As I said, you did nothing wrong. We made everything clear before we fell in love. Two years have passed, and you can't get out of your horns." ?"

"That's not the case." Kise pursed her lips: "If I didn't like you then, let's say I didn't do anything wrong."

I turned my head abruptly to look at him.

Although there were similar speculations after the breakup, I didn't expect him to admit it so frankly. After all, the beginning of the relationship was quite unreasonable.

I touched my nose: "To be honest, I didn't see it at all."

"In the first year of high school there was a basketball game between classes, you remember." Huang Lai rubbed his hair and said with a wry smile: "In that game, every time I scored a goal, I would secretly look at you pretending to be inadvertent, but you They didn’t even look at me, they just lowered their heads and sat in the auditorium with their notebooks in their arms, not knowing what they were writing or drawing.”

"Later, I accidentally touched your notebook, and on the page I just opened, there was a picture of me playing basketball... My heart was beating very fast, and I was a little happy. I thought it was not me who had a crush on you. He was looking at me all the time, it's just that we didn't meet our eyes."

"I also secretly tore up the painting, kept it as a collection, and put it in a photo frame."

When he mentioned this incident, I had a vague impression, but it was too long ago, and the impression was so vague that it was barely visible.

"It seems that there is such a thing." I couldn't figure it out: "What did you like about me back then?"

Kise raised his head, as if lost in memory: "At first, I just thought you were different from others. I can always see you on the way to and from school, walking alone, eating alone, going to the library alone, quietly Yes, I don’t cry when I’m bullied, I don’t say a soft word, I look at those people like I’m looking at garbage, I pat the corner of my skirt and go back to the classroom, I’m full of resilience, cold and cool, as if something happened Neither will break you."

"I admire you for being a girl with a bit of a tough temper and not being coquettish at all. Later, when I started to care about you, I went to the classmates who bullied you and warned them...I didn't expect them to get worse later on."

"At the time, I couldn't figure it out. For such a beautiful girl, shouldn't there be many people around you? I don't deny that a good appearance can really help people. Your life should be colorful and lively. Yes, but why do you look...depressed?"

"After a while, I ran into you crying by chance." Kise made a gesture with his hand: "It's like that corner, where you hugged your phone and huddled together, and you didn't know why you were crying. I'll go to a nearby convenience store I bought a pack of tissues, and you disappeared when I came out. I asked your neighbor, that is, the uncle in the western restaurant, and I found out that you received an email from your mother that day. You opened it happily, but found that It's just a transfer notice."

"It turns out that you cry too, and you cry miserably, like a little tabby cat. Then I did a very stupid thing, do you still have any memory?"

"The next day I helped the class monitor and took the roster of the statistics school trip to collect the parents' signature consent form. You didn't hand it in, so I pretended to ask casually: Why didn't your family sign it?"

Huang Lai was a little embarrassed and said: "A person like me whose motto is 'Don't embarrass others', even if I'm curious about you, I shouldn't ask this kind of question. It can be seen that falling in love will indeed make people lose their intelligence."

I have the impression that Kise talked too much at the time.But he made up for it immediately, and I still remember what he said very deeply.

——"Let me sign for you, I am very good at imitating signatures!"

So, because of Kise's help to sign that time, I went on a school trip, and only then did I have a confession later.

I lowered my eyes, pursed my lips, raised my head after a while, smiled and said to Kise: "You are such an excellent boy, you will definitely meet a girl who is better than me in the future, and then you will feel that the past is just a cloud. "

After hearing this, Huang Lai didn't look back, but asked me nonchalantly, "How do I know I've met him?"

I thought about it, and said seriously: "When you are willing to play truth or dare again..."

This time it was Kise who fell silent.

The biggest firework of the year is about to bloom, and there are more and more people on the road. I was pushed by someone, and as soon as my shoulders were crooked, Kise helped me up.

"Xiao Yuka." He said suddenly, with a clear voice: "Actually, there are some words that have been held in my heart for a long time. I thought it was inappropriate to say them before, so I didn't say them. I thought I would never have a chance to tell you."

"You disappeared for a month after your 15th birthday, and after you came back, you changed a lot. I don't know what you went through in that short month, but I think that to make a person change completely, she must have gone through a very difficult time. Because you are going abroad, you may not come back in the future, so I chose to tell you all the frankness just now."

Huang Lai turned around, the dim lights were reflected in her clear eyes, proud and bright, but neither buoyant nor restless.

"Maybe now you don't need my encouragement anymore, you can take your own life path, but I still want to say. Xiao Yuka, I like you just because I think you are excellent. You are great , you deserve everything."

"I tell you this, not to get back together with you, let alone to trouble you, but to say that if you encounter difficulties again in the future, when you are confused, lose your courage, or even start to deny yourself, you can remember what you once had. I have been such an excellent me, and I have liked you who are equally excellent. In the future, no matter who you choose or who you are with, your boyfriend can’t be worse than me.”

Bang!

The first bouquet of fireworks rises brightly, and the starlight shines all over, polishing the night sky.There was a moment of silence, and then people cheered, and the seething din quickly heated up in the air.

The sudden influx of people came between me and Kise, and the distance between me and him was getting farther and farther. I was quickly taken away by the rushing crowd, while he was left in place.

Kise waved at me with a bright smile, as if he had said something.

I can't hear the sound, only the lip movements.

——"Student Gao Sui, you said that we are dating, shouldn't we use a more intimate name?"

——"What do you think it will be replaced with, Kise-kun?"

——"Hmm... Hello Yuka, I'm your boyfriend Kise Ryota, you can call me Ryota~"

Across the sea of ​​people and fireworks, the night and the lights, the young man smiled and moved his lips.

"Gaosu-san, goodbye."

The author has something to say:

Kise's last words were adapted from Haruki Murakami.

Original sentence: I tell you that I like you. I don’t necessarily want to be with you. I just hope that you in the future will not be discouraged when you encounter the trough of life. At least someone has been attracted by your charm. It used to be and will always be .