fastball under a clear sky

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the single room floor in the hospital was dimly lit and silent.

Wu Yiwei, who was going to compete the next day, took a lot of effort to escape from the dormitory, and sneaked into Long Hao's ward.

When he entered the ward, he saw Long Hao lying flat on the bed.Wu Yiwei walked to the bed, looked at Long Hao who had closed his eyes and looked pale, thought he had fallen asleep, so he tried to call him softly.

Long Hao turned his head in surprise, when he saw Wu Yiwei, his doubts were revealed in his eyes.

"Why can you come here?" Long Hao tried to sit up, moved a bit, but frowned because of the wound.

Wu Yiwei was very sad to see it, Long Hao's already pale face was even paler now.

"Don't get up! I'll raise the bed." Wu Yiwei walked to the side of the bed, sat down and pressed the button, so that Long Hao could sit at the same height as himself.

Long Hao was wearing a white hospital gown, and Wu Yiwei saw bandages wrapped round and round on the chest exposed by wearing loose clothes.

"Does it hurt?" He stared at Long Hao and asked.

"It's okay." Long Hao smiled, "You sneaked in?"

"Yeah!" Nodded. "They won't let me see you."

Wu Yiwei's hand moved over the quilt covering him: "Is it because you don't want to see me? These two days, I'm the only one thinking about you, are you going crazy?"

"That's not it!" Long Hao's voice was rare, and then he lowered his head and whispered, "I miss you too...but... so what?"

Long Hao sighed again, "It's better that we don't meet again!"

"Why?" Wu Yiwei raised his eyebrows and asked.

"My dad is coming to Taiwan!" he said.

"I know, I met today, and he taught me a lesson." Wu Yiwei scratched his head.

"He promised me that he wouldn't trouble you." Long Hao frowned.

"We talked for a long time this morning, and this is the condition he promised me."

"I just came to ask you this."

Wu Yiwei folded his arms around his chest, and asked Long Hao with a firm attitude: "Tell me! What kind of exchange did you make with your father?"

"Ah?" Long Hao looked away in embarrassment, "It's nothing!"

"Hurry up!" Wu Yiwei grabbed his chin and turned his face to face himself.

"My father is very angry about this incident!" Long Hao looked down again.

"He said that this happened because I insisted on going to Taiwan, so he forced me to go with him. He said he would never let me stay in Taiwan alone again, and he wanted me to go back to the United States to study."

"You agreed?" Wu Yiwei seemed to be angry again, "You agreed because of me, right!"

He raised his head: "There is no way! Even if I don't agree, he will cut off my money and everything to force me to go with him. You have seen him and you know who he is!"

With a wry smile, Wu Yiwei said sourly: "I know, your father is a famous star and a rich man! I can't afford it."

"I'm sorry! So let's break up..." Long Hao showed his usual smile again, but Wu Yiwei knew it was a sad smile, "Although it hasn't been long, I'm really very happy."

"Don't break up with me casually! Everyone tells me to break up with you, why? Did we do something bad? What does it matter to other people if we date?" Wu Yiwei angrily beat the wall hard, he hated Long Hao the most A compromise attitude.

"Are you the one who wants to break up? You want to get rid of me, don't you? Tell me! Are you the one who doesn't want to be with me?"

Long Hao hurriedly grabbed Wu Yiwei's clothes, trying to prevent the other party's emotional outburst: "Otherwise, what can we do? This can't be solved by fighting, what else do you want to do?"

Listening to what he said, Wu Yiwei couldn't refute at all. Long Hao always analyzed things rationally, but he was always reckless and only knew how to act according to his intuition.

Facing the wall, Wu Yiwei put away his fists and said with a sneer, "I'm really useless at all..."

"I don't know if gays can elope? Ordinary couples would elope!" Long Hao sighed again after speaking, he shook his head and held Wu Yiwei's hand and said, "I don't want to dream either. Forget it. , That's fine, you will definitely be a famous pitcher in the future, and you will have a lot of lovely girls to choose from, so take this period of time as another part of your life experience, don't think too much about it."

"I haven't thought of such a far future." Listening to Long Hao's words, Wu Yiwei felt his heart was torn into several pieces, he said coldly: "I only know that you want to abandon me after playing with my body and mind. "

"Are you kidding me?" Long Hao stared at him with wide eyes, "It's the first time I saw you making fun of me."

"Except for the time I confessed to you, I have never been so serious in my life."

Wu Yiwei reached out and touched his face: "Is it okay just this once? Don't use your head to think, just like you said, let's elope!"

Wu Yiwei looked directly at him, hoping that Long Hao could understand his intentions, that he could really give up everything for Long Hao, he knew that it was irresponsible for him to say this, and he didn't think about how bad the future would be, but he now He just wants to be with Long Hao simply, and he doesn't want to care about the rest...

Long Hao's expression changed from astonishment to a smile, and then he said with tears in his eyes, "Why are you so stupid? I've already said that, why don't you give up and still say such things to me?"

Wiping away the teardrops rolling down from his eyes, Long Hao was moved by Wu Yiwei's sincerity: "Do you think you are acting in a movie? Doing so will destroy yourself!"

"Can you come with me?"

Wu Yiwei stretched out his hand and said, "I don't know anything except playing baseball, but I can go to work to make money, whether it's repairing cars or working, as long as I can be with you, I'm willing to do anything."

"I'm a man, not your woman, don't talk me down."

Long Hao smiled, and looked at Wu Yiwei seriously: "This is the most stupid thing I've ever done in my life, and I might regret it later."

Hearing his answer, Wu Yiwei grinned happily: "Oh, this is the smartest thing I have ever done, and I will never let you regret it."

Long Hao was startled by Wu Yiwei's actions at this time: "This is the first time I see you laughing, it's so strange."

"Stop talking!" Wu Yiwei scolded him with a blushing face.

"Yes! Yes!" Long Hao stared at the shy Wu Yiwei and smiled softly. This smile seemed to hurt his wound again. He held his chest and said, "It hurts! I won't laugh anymore..."

The joke between the two ended here, Wu Yiwei turned his back to him, wanting to carry Long Hao behind his back.

Watching Long Hao remove the drip needle from his hand and move his body onto his back with difficulty, Wu Yiwei clearly felt that the person on his back was very sad, but he thought that everything would change as long as he left here, so Still carrying Long Hao on his back and fleeing outside.

Wu Yiwei's naive idea only lasted for a few hours before being completely shattered by reality. Their childish elopement did not even succeed for a day...

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Wu Yiwei had been walking for almost an hour with Long Hao on his back.

Without saying a word, Long Hao put his face on his back, so weak that even breathing made Wu Yiwei feel very weak.

The two of them sneaked out of the hospital first, and took the last bus for almost an hour to the countryside. This is the place where Wu Yiwei lived in primary school.

"Long Hao!" Wu Yiwei tried to tell him to keep him awake.

"Um... where are we going?" He responded aloud.

"This is the countryside where I lived when I was a child. I lived here before I was in junior high school. You can see the elementary school I went to soon after walking. I am familiar with this place. Grandpa also left an old house. We are here Let's live."

Wu Yiwei said his plan, he hasn't thought about the way to go in the future, but after he has a place to live, other things can be solved slowly.

"Hmm..." Long Hao responded softly.

"Long Hao?" Wu Yiwei called him again, but he didn't respond at all.

"Long Hao? Long Hao?"

Long Hao didn't respond to him, Wu Yiwei became flustered now, he quickened his pace and walked on the deserted country road, even if he wanted to ask for help in this place, it was very difficult, finally the dilapidated school that he hadn't seen for a long time appeared in front of him, Wu Yiwei rushed over with Long Hao on his back , Then he tried to find a classroom with an unlocked door and brought Long Hao in.

Wu Yiwei carefully placed Long Hao on the classroom table, and then patted his face. He was unconscious, but his breathing was very even. Wu Yiwei was very worried about the large beads of sweat on his forehead and his unusually pale face. He untied Long Hao. The button of the shirt, it is clear that the blood seeps out from under the bandage again.

Is the wound open?Wu Yiwei frowned, thought for a while and decided to help Long Hao wipe his body. He took the bucket from the classroom to the sink to fill it with water.

What the hell am I doing?

Only now looking at the painful Long Hao, Wu Yiwei's head began to think.Hearing Long Hao's father's words at school and seeing Long Hao's helplessness in the hospital, he was overwhelmed by anger and anxiety, unable to think at all.

He couldn't imagine the day when he lost Long Hao. He was afraid that Long Hao would leave like his mother, and he couldn't bear someone to take his place by Long Hao's side, because he was afraid and reckless to take Long Hao away. Although the words were very beautiful, he asked Long Hao not to think too much and follow him, but now that he saw Long Hao in such pain, he couldn't help but think about whether the decision he made was really correct?

Is this really good?Why did you take him away?Wu Yiwei asked himself again.

Staring at the bucket with both eyes, the water overflowed the bucket, and the water from the faucet kept flowing into the bucket, as if a series of realities were hitting him.

Here Long Hao's father can't find them, but the same, there is no doctor here to treat Long Hao, and he has no money, so what about the future?What should two people do?Now Wu Yiwei finally realizes that he is just a child.

When he was in a daze, his memory suddenly returned to when he was a child, he remembered the numb expression of his mother when his grandfather took him away, and his father was holding on to the crying self like crazy, preventing himself from rushing towards the taken away mother. popped up in my mind.

Just like that, Wu Yiwei thought of the past for no reason. He remembered what his mother said to him. His parents eloped. His father took away his mother, just like he took away Long Hao. Then he will be like them in the future. It is the same?Wu Yiwei couldn't help but tremble when he thought of this.

After turning off the tap, Wu Yiwei carried the bucket and walked to the classroom.In the dark corridor, he saw a coin-operated shared telephone. He stopped there for a long time, took out the remaining change from his pocket, and mustered up the courage to drop the change. He thought, since he couldn’t start, So let's end it!

After dialing the only familiar phone number, a familiar voice came from the other end, and Wu Yiwei swallowed, before saying what was stuck in his throat.

In addition to being called to the training office with Wu Yiwei in the afternoon, Lin Bairui was called by the coach for an interview as soon as he returned to the dormitory.

He was about to take over as the captain in the third grade, because of this incident, he was severely taught by the coaches. Afterwards, he dragged his tired body back to the room. He was going to sleep after cheering up, but this guy didn't know where he went.

Lin Borui scratched his head, because the dormitory had access control during the competition, and Wu Yiwei would be stopped immediately if he went out, so Lin Bairui thought he might not know where to hide, but he was still nowhere to be found after searching several places.

"Haha——" Lin Bairui yawned a lot, and finally gave up after stretching. He walked to his room and soon fell asleep.

But things were not as simple as Lin Bairui thought. At twelve o'clock in the evening, he was scooped up by the youngest coach in the coaching staff. Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Lin Bairui listened to the coach in a daze.

"Long Hao from the gifted class is gone! Wu Yiwei is not in the dormitory either. The hospital is looking for Long Hao like crazy, saying that his life will be in danger. The principal called me personally and asked me to deal with it. Lin Bairui, you have a way to find Wu Yiwei ?"

Lin Bairui looked at the coach's flustered expression. An important big game was in front of him, but his ace pitcher gave him so much trouble. Thinking about bringing such problematic players, their coach is really pitiful.

"I can't help it..." Lin Bairui frowned and replied honestly: "Wu Yiwei doesn't have a mobile phone. As far as I know, he can only go to Long Hao's house other than school, but I think Long Hao's father should have looked for it too. Now We can only wait for them to take the initiative to contact us.”

"Damn! This Wu Yiwei doesn't pay attention to the game? Is he still a baseball player? Every time he makes us a lot of trouble, and the head coach follows him in everything." The young coach was so angry that he was about to Break a hole in the wall.

Lin Bairui has also thought about this question, Wu Yiwei said today that he only cares about Long Hao, why can he give up baseball so easily?Wu Yiwei clearly said before that his life is nothing but baseball, and baseball has given him the opportunity and way to survive, so why is he doing this now?

"I think he found a treasure more important than baseball..." Lin Bairui suddenly said this.

"What are you talking about?" The coach stared at him with wide eyes.

Lin Bairui looked at the coach and said, "Wu Yiwei has a treasure that he never wants to let go of, so he has no choice but to give up baseball."

The coach who can't understand what Lin Bairui is saying at all doesn't know how to answer his words. Why is it so difficult for children to understand speech nowadays?

At this moment, Lin Bairui's cell phone rang. He looked at the phone with no displayed number, and only hesitated for a moment before answering it.

"Hello? Hello?" The other party didn't make a sound, Lin Bairui tentatively asked: "Wu Yiwei? Is it you?"

"It's me..." The person on the other end of the phone responded.

"Is Long Hao with you?" Lin Bairui asked anxiously.

"En!" Wu Yiwei responded again.

Hearing the news about Wu Yiwei, the coach's eyes widened, but Lin Bairui gestured for the coach to leave the matter to him.

"You took him from the hospital? He was badly injured!"

"If we don't take him away now, we won't be able to see each other." Wu Yiwei's firm voice reached Lin Bairui's ears, "We want to be together."

"You really like him!"

Lin Bairui didn't know what to say when he heard this, but he still analyzed the reality to Wu Yiwei: "But Long Hao was injured so badly, you took him out of the hospital secretly, he should be in pain now." As far as he knew Long Hao Hao now even has to take painkiller injections to be able to sleep.

"Actually, he's having a lot of trouble just sitting..."

Wu Yiwei let out a sad laugh while talking: "Now his face is pale from the pain, and the blood keeps coming out of the wound, but I can't do anything about it."

Wu Yiwei's laughter gave Lin Bairui goosebumps all over his body, and he had a bad feeling: "Then you haven't sent him to the hospital, what are you thinking?"

"I called you to thank you. I am very grateful that you stand by my side these days." Wu Yiwei's tone now is the most polite Lin Bairui has ever known him.

"I'm such a bad friend, I get you into trouble all the time. I'm sorry to keep you wiping my ass behind me, Lindbury, I want you to know that you are the best brother in my life."

Wu Yiwei is really wrong, Lin Bairui's uneasiness keeps rising, he can't help asking: "What! What are you talking about? What are you going to do now?"

"Long Hao and I are in Zhongxiao Elementary School in Sanlin Village. I want to finish here. You can ask the teacher or others to find us over there." Wu Yiwei's voice sounded calm.

"Damn it! You and Long Hao won't commit suicide, will you?"

Lin Bairui jumped up and scolded anxiously: "You bastard has endured all kinds of hardships and survived. You wouldn't do such an idiotic thing as suicide, would you?"

"The problem is that Long Hao can't make it through!" Wu Yiwei choked up and yelled back: "He is sweating in pain now, and he feels like he can't take it any longer. If I send him back to the hospital, he will definitely be taken away. I'm just a Kid, do you think I can fight his dad? Do you know how distressed I was when he pulled my clothes and told me not to leave? We just want to be together but there is no way, why is this? You say I Is there any way to go?"

Wu Yiwei was cornered, he almost collapsed and grabbed his hair, complaining hoarsely.

Can't let them die!

This strong thought flashed through Lin Bairui's mind. Although he felt a chill all over his body, he clenched his teeth and tried to persuade him: "You can't die. If you die, everything will be over. If you die, everything will be gone. Wu Yiwei, if You still treat me as a brother and listen to me. You are only now, but you can’t be together now. You still have decades to find opportunities. Yes! You are just a kid now, with neither money nor power, Then do everything you can to make yourself powerful!"

Lin Bairui kept saying a bunch of things, he was deeply afraid that Wu Yiwei would do something stupid if he hung up the phone.

"Do you really have the confidence to see Long Hao die? Seeing Long Hao smiling at you and crying at you, taking his last breath in front of you, you can't do it, right!"

Wu Yiwei's mind went blank, and Lin Bairui on the other end of the phone yelled at him desperately, making him wake up, there were too many firsts with Long Hao.

Falling in love with someone for the first time, laughing for someone for the first time, crying for someone for the first time, heartbroken for someone for the first time, crazy for someone for the first time, and this is the first time I feel like an adult Generally made a decision.

Wu Yiwei didn't say anything, he was silent for a while and then slowly said: "Come here quickly..."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

To send Long Hao back - this is Wu Yiwei's only thought now.

"Coach, they are in Zhongxiao Elementary School in Sanlin Village, please notify the hospital!"

Lin Bairui hurriedly put on casual clothes, while the young coach picked up his mobile phone to make a call, finally heaving a sigh of relief.