shining moment

In the morning of the next day, the students were all discussing the basketball game with Xiangyang yesterday, and the students who did not go to the scene also learned about the victory of Xiangbei from the newspaper.

"Ah, look, that's the main member of Xiangbei Basketball Club!"

"Those five people really look very powerful when they gather together!"

"Akagi, this year we are going to enter the national competition!"

"Come on, basketball team!"

"Sakuragi, you have to work hard too!"

The students who saw the members of the Shonhoku Basketball Club at school all said this.

There is still some time before the next game. The members of the basketball club used this time to carry out targeted basketball training, and the teenager who felt a little lack of physical strength in the last game also resumed his daily morning run early. to exercise your physical fitness.

On the days when there is no basketball game, Anderson repeats the days when he goes to school and occasionally receives tutoring from tutors after school.

The girl at night watched TV boredly, wrapped the thin blanket tightly around her body, cleared her throat, and felt a slight tingling sensation. The girl got up, heated a glass of milk in the kitchen, drank it with her head up, and closed the door from entering. The TV was always on, and I went back to my bedroom, ready to go to bed, hoping to wake up tomorrow, and my throat would return to normal.Even after drinking milk, the girl still tossed and turned, laying on the bed and having trouble falling asleep, and she fell asleep slowly at some point in the middle of the night.

Waking up again and again in the middle of the night, in the haze, I only felt a little headache, and my body was a little cold. The girl wrapped the quilt tightly, rubbed the cold skin, thinking that maybe she had a cold and fever, and originally wanted to wake up It would be good to get up and take some antipyretics, but after touching her forehead, her drowsy head thought again, she should just go to sleep, what's the matter, and wait until she wakes up the next day to talk about it, the girl was finally defeated by her own drowsiness.

Until the next morning, the sky was still slightly bright, the sun had just risen, and the orange sky showed a slight color of blood. After the girl who felt chills all over put on her coat, she hurriedly ate breakfast, and before going out, she picked up the phone at home , dialed the number that I would dial from time to time that I knew by heart.

"Moses, is this Mr. Matsui? I'm Yasuda Morimata, I'm not feeling well, please take a few days of sick leave, yes, yes, yes, yes, teacher, goodbye."

In a single ward of a general hospital, a nurse pushed the door in, "Ala, it's Yasuda-san, um, remember to take good care of yourself, you see, I'm sick again, I really feel sorry for my sister." The familiar nurse took An Tiansenyou's hand, and felt a slight tingling.Yasuda Mori, who was lying on the hospital bed, watched the liquid in the drip bottle drop drop by drop, slowly merging into his blood. A cold touch spread and spread from the back of his hand. The cold loneliness reminded the girl of the past. Countless dark nights spent alone in the hospital.

In the past, the girl often stayed alone in the ward like this, and the days when she was accompanied by someone began one afternoon two years ago.

"Mitsui... eh? Mitsui? Why are you here?" The girl who stayed in the ward all day was about to go down to relax, when she met a boy on crutches at the stairs.

"Ah, this is a long story. In short, hurry up and talk about it first." The young man looked around nervously, wanting to hurry to the ward.

After the girl opened the door of the ward for the young man, she watched the young man nervously return to the ward. He was quite proficient in walking with both hands on crutches. The young man put away his crutches, and with the support of the young girl, he sat on the hospital bed.

"Arnuo, if your foot injury is still not healed, and you are worried about being discovered by the doctor, don't go out from the beginning, just stay in the hospital and recuperate, okay? Or is it because of basketball? Did you go to the basketball team's training?" The girl Looking helplessly at the young man on the hospital bed, he went back to his own ward as if he was terrified like a thief. The young man was probably afraid of being discovered by the doctor. He could disregard the doctor's orders and persuasion when his foot was injured. Except for basketball, The girl couldn't think of any other reason, and now that this year's summer season is getting closer, the girl thought, the boy who couldn't play basketball with a foot injury, maybe he went to watch basketball training to relieve his boredom , just like herself who stays in the ward every day, and occasionally wants to go out for a breath of air.

"No, I've been fine a long time ago! I played basketball today, so the pain has been gone for a long time!" The young man patted his feet, trying to convince the girl opposite him that he was completely fine.

"Eh? Are you still playing basketball? I said, the doctor must not have allowed you to exercise. There is still some time before the summer season. Mitsui, you should take a good rest during this period. With your strength, even if it is not a few weeks Practice, there must be no problem, right?"

"The foot injury has been fine for a long time. If I listen to the doctor, I won't be able to catch up with the summer league!" The boy is always so persistent about basketball.

Girls know that basketball is the persistence, dream and absolute pride of teenagers.

The girl looked at the photo of the Wushi Middle School championship team placed by the boy on the bedside of the ward, and couldn't help but think of the fact that basketball has occupied almost all of the boy's life in the past few years. Almost all memories of the period.

"I will definitely lead Xiangbei to win this championship! Just like leading Wushi Middle School to become the champion of the competition last year, no, I will definitely do better this time, not only for me, but also to repay Anxi Coach!" That's right, the girl recalled the game at Wushi Middle School, the boy was encouraged by Coach Anxi, and he was determined not to give up until the last moment. The boy decided to give up other colleges at that time in order to repay Coach Anxi Invited to study in Xiangbei.

When the boy mentioned the topic of basketball, he seemed to have endless things to say, but the girl could always see the twinkling light in the boy's eyes. The girl who listened felt as if she was being warmed by this ray of sunshine. Dispelled the past cold.The hospital time accompanied by teenagers is not as long and boring as before, nor is it lonely and desolate as before.What the girl saw was a young man who pursued his basketball dream and went forward bravely, as if nothing could stop the young man from continuing to walk on the road to his dream.This is undoubtedly a stone thrown into the girl's heart, causing ripples in circles. The girl feels that the appearance of the boy has brought a touch of color to her original black and white life, and also comforted the girl who is about to undergo surgery. Inside, restlessness and uneasiness were soothed.

When the girl lies calmly on the operating table, looking at the strong white light in front of her eyes, she firmly believes that her future will also be bright. At least, she will continue to work hard to get rid of all the shadows of the past and live a good life.

Under the effect of the anesthetic, the girl whose whole body was a little stiff fell asleep slowly, as if she had had a long, long dream.Consciousness began to drift, first covered with blood, sitting alone in the middle of the road, after a long wait, the girl who woke up from the dream sat on the bed, looked at the night outside the window, only felt that the temperature in the air had dropped to zero After that, the girl seemed to remember something, the scene in front of her eyes became blurred, and then she woke up in the basketball court again.The basketball games played one after another, as if there would never be an end. Looking at the athletic teenagers shining under the lights on the field, the girl seemed to have regained her body temperature and no longer felt cold.

The girl on the hospital bed had dreams one after another. The girl in the dream recalled her past, and also constantly recalled the gradual growth of the boy who had important meanings in her life, and the details of getting along with each other.And at this moment, the teenager, leaning on crutches, on the court in the summer game, saw the basketball team that was still active in the game without him, and felt that he was no longer important. The team still centered on Akagi, and continued the basketball game as a complete basketball team. The never-before-seen strong sense of disappointment and powerlessness made the young man want to escape. Dispensable existence, the young man thinking this way has since left the Xiangbei basketball team, lost and hesitant on the road of basketball dreams.

The girls at that time stayed in the hospital for several months, and the teenagers at that time not only kept away from basketball, but also often accompanied other teenagers who didn’t like reading, wandering aimlessly after school. on the street.It will be more than half a year after the girl returns to school. Until then, the boy has already been given a bad name. I thought that the two of them would have no intersection, and when they gradually drifted apart, The invisible rope of fate pulled the two back on track again.

After the fever subsided, the girl was discharged from the hospital two days later. The rain had not stopped since the morning. The moment she walked out of the hospital gate, the girl rubbed her arms. Seeing the windy and rainy weather, the girl sighed helplessly. , I just feel that I am really unlucky. I was discharged from the hospital and caught up with such bad weather. If I rush home in the wind and rain, I don’t know if I have to come back in two days after my fever has just subsided and I am waiting in the hospital. , I don't know when the rain will stop. When the girl was hesitating, a voice interrupted the girl's thoughts, "Antian?" The boy unexpectedly saw the girl who was at the hospital entrance.

"Mitsui! Why are you also in the hospital!" The girl turned around and saw the boy standing not far away.

"To see the dentist today." The boy shook the umbrella in his hand, "Didn't you bring an umbrella? I'll take you home."

"Thank you so much, I didn't know what to do just now." The girl breathed a sigh of relief.

The boy remembered that the person standing beside him hadn't come to class for two days, and looked at the girl's pale face and asked, "Is your body alright?"

"I just had a fever before, but I'm fine now." After the girl replied lightly, she quickly changed the topic, "After defeating Xiangyang, I will soon compete with several other teams in Kanagawa for the national competition. It's the ticket."

"Yeah, this time I will definitely qualify for the national competition. Did you watch the match with Xiangyang?" The boy held an umbrella to block the pouring rain outside.

"Well, I watched that game with Uesugi Yuko, do you remember her, our classmate in junior high school, she went to Xiangyang after graduation." The girl slightly raised her head to look at the boy walking beside her.

"Remember, your deskmate, Uesugakura's younger sister."

"Oh, by the way, after the last match against Xiangyang, Uesugi Yuko originally wanted to go to the lounge to say hello to you, saying that it was a long time since I saw you, but unfortunately you were all asleep when you went."

"Yeah, it's been a long time since I've played a match like this, and it's only in the match against Xiangyang that I feel physically weak."

"After that, the competition with several other schools..."

"So, I've started running in the morning now, and I don't know if it will be better in the next race, although it's not a few weeks."

"Well, if you qualify for the national competition, it must be fine."

"of course!"

The two people walking side by side under the protection of the umbrella seem to be in a different space from the rainstorm outside the umbrella. The heavy rain outside is torrential, but only the two of them are talking in a low voice under the umbrella.

The raindrops continued to slide down the umbrella surface and landed on the ground under their feet, splashing tiny water splashes, reflecting the figures of the two people who were drifting away in front of them.

The moist air, wet shoulders, slightly wet shoes, and the clear and pleasant sound of the consistent steps in the ears slapping the watery ground became lighter and lighter until they completely disappeared in the heavy rain.

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