Stand by me

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Yuxiang Nakajima and Ryosuke Yamada will send a lot of text messages to each other. In fact, Yuxiang wants to call him more, because Ryosuke Yamada is very afraid of loneliness and always needs someone to accompany him.During the second year of high school when they were good friends, they often talked on the phone at night. If Nakajima Yuxiang didn't say goodbye to him first, he would never stop the conversation.

The bright lights in the city reflected the silence in the study room, "What are you doing?" Yuxiang Nakajima dialed the phone, but there was the voice of Ryosuke Yamada laughing with someone on the other end.Yuxiang Nakajima and him dealt with each other casually, "Great, then... goodbye." He hung up the phone, only to remember that he called Ryosuke Yamada, presumably that person would stare at the screen in a daze , feel bewildered.

Nakajima Yuxiang doesn't like to miss someone from a long distance. There is only half of the world around him, and the other half depends on imagination. This situation is too ridiculous.Yuxiang Nakajima is a highly independent person and basically does not depend on others. Sometimes he needs someone, just like a drowning person needs a lifebuoy. If that person is not there at this moment, why should he be there in the future.

A semester away from home, although Nakajima Yuxiang will not forget the entanglements at home, but he has matured and stabilized a lot. He just misses his family and the old house with white walls and white walls.Before going back for the winter vacation, he bought them all presents.What I gave my father was a HAMILTON watch with a white face and blue hands, like the wind far away, and farther than the distance.Nakajima Yuxiang tried it on, and he had the air of "a real celebrity is self-styled".The fruit candy for Ryosuke Yamada was the old local "Eitaro" fruit candy, and he specially bought a big bag of it, otherwise he would have finished eating it in two days.I even bought a gift for Mama Yamada, a pair of earrings made of seawater pearls that are a specialty here.

It has been snowing in Hokkaido for a long time, and Ryosuke Yamada's school is already on holiday. He said in a text message that he would pick up Yuxiang Nakajima at the airport.Relying on the strength of the good wind, the flight arrived earlier than the stipulated time. Yuxiang Nakajima dragged his suitcase and faced the bustling crowd.

"Yuxiang." A call penetrated the noisy voice and reached his ears.It was a haunting sound.Yuxiang Nakajima turned around, feeling turbulent in his chest.

Yamada Ryosuke stood there.The face is no longer soft like a girl's, but has more manly edges and corners.Only those eyes have not changed at all compared to those years ago, they are still warm and dark.Yamada Ryosuke has a habit of looking at Yuxiang with his chin down like a little girl taking selfies, which makes his eyes look bigger, smart and naughty.This little action made Yuxiang Nakajima in a trance for a moment, maybe Ryosuke Yamada still loves himself as before.

Both of them stared at each other trying to find a topic, but neither could open their mouths.Yuxiang Nakajima had a lot of words in his mind, so in order to ease the atmosphere, he made a face at him.

Yamada Ryosuke's eyes were half-curved with a smile, and a few fine lines piled up at the corners of his eyes, making him look very cute.

Yamada drove his father's black off-road vehicle to pick up Yuxiang Nakajima. On the return trip, Yuxiang asked him to sit in the passenger seat and drive by himself.Yuxiang Nakajima drove the car very fast on purpose, and Ryosuke Yamada stretched his hands out of the car window to feel the wind, like the Bond girl in the 007 blockbuster with the leading actor's sports car, which made Yuxiang Nakajima want to laugh at him.

The family was waiting in the living room to greet him.Dad is still so tall and straight, but his hair has become gray, and he needs to go to the supermarket to buy a comb of jet-black hair dye to use, but Dad wants to save face and says to them solemnly: "Then let's take a look, it Is it false propaganda?" Yamada's mother no longer has beautiful long curly hair, but short and medium hair cut to the shoulders, perhaps for the convenience of others to take care of.Her cheeks were much thinner, but seeing the two children by her side, her spirit was rare.Nakajima Yuxiang didn't want to cry at first, but he couldn't help but shed tears.Ryosuke Yamada kept patting him on the back, whispering "it's okay" softly, trying to comfort him.

A week after returning home, it was snowing heavily in Tokyo.At dusk, Nakajima Yuxiang and Yamada Ryosuke built a snowman in the yard and had another fierce snowball fight. Tired and staggering, they sat side by side under the old bare willow tree in the garden.

Snowflakes fell on Yamada Ryosuke's soft hair and curved eyelashes, shining like stars.Makes him look very pure and noble, like a Braddol cat.Yuxiang Nakajima couldn't decide for a moment whether to reach out and brush them off for him, or let them stay.

"I thought of a fairy tale by Andersen, Dream Under the Willow Tree." Yamada Ryosuke said, breathing into his cold little hands.

"Don't spoil the fun, you Two-dimensional person." Nakajima Yuxiang patted his head, "How can you think of a tragedy on such a beautiful day as Chuxue." Nakajima Yuxiang can't forget this story to his young heart What a shock.Johanne loves to be prosperous and to perform. Although she and Knud are childhood sweethearts, she only regards him as an older brother, and later she couldn't even recognize him.Johnny was always so gentle and kind, but she was just a gingerbread girl.Knud lived in the dream under the willow tree all his life, but Johnny had long forgotten it.