After accidentally kissing a roommate

After Chen Aowen came back, his footsteps rang around in the living room, and when he reached the door of Song Xuan's room, his footsteps slowed down slightly, but he didn't stop here, but went directly to his room, took the bath towel and a change of clothes into the bathroom.

The sound of water in the bathroom reverberated, and Song Xuan sat at the desk completely unable to read the book. After hesitating for a while, he simply closed the book, found the three sheet music of the band from his bag, and sat on the sofa in the living room.

When Chen Aowen wiped his hair and opened the door, he saw Song Xuan sitting in the middle of the sofa. After hearing the sound of the door opening, Song Xuan looked up at Chen Aowen.

Entering December, North Carolina has already entered winter, but Song Xuan was still wearing a slightly thin pajamas, showing his ankles. Chen Aowen turned to look at the wall clock by the wall, and the time displayed on it was 09:30.

Chen Aowen asked: "Why come out and sit here? Are you still not asleep?"

"It's still early, I can't sleep." Song Xuan didn't want to be too direct about the bass player, so he rolled up the sheet music in his hand, leaned his upper body slightly forward and asked, "Why did you come back so late today?"

Chen Aowen said: "I quit the ice hockey team today, and I will have dinner with Adrian and the others tonight. What's wrong?"

Song Xuan said: "It's nothing, it's just... I'm not used to seeing you when I came back."

As soon as this remark came out, Song Xuan and Chen Aowen were taken aback at the same time. Song Xuan thought that this remark seemed a little wrong, so he asked again: "You retired from the ice hockey team? Then will you have a lot of free time in the future?"

Chen Aowen shook his head: "No, the experimental project I participated in is coming to an end, and the next two weeks will be the final exam preparation."

Song Xuan: "Oh..."

Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?never mind?

However, Chen Aowen noticed Song Xuan's hesitation to speak: "What do you ask me about time? Are you looking for me? What are you holding in your hand?"

Song Xuan stood up and spread out the paper in his hand: "It's our band's sheet music. In fact, I just wanted to ask you, can you come to be our bass player?"

Then Song Xuan told Chen Aowen about Jiang Xiqing's affairs.

Chen Aowen took the score, carefully studied the score of Bass, and immediately nodded in agreement after Song Xuan finished speaking: "Okay, I will help you."

He answered without hesitation.

"Really?" Song Xuan felt a little sorry, especially when he heard what Chen Aowen said during dinner, "You can refuse, I'm just asking casually, don't force yourself to squeeze your time..."

"It's not forced, nor squeezed." Chen Aowen folded the sheet music and put it in his pocket, "If I can spend the extra time rehearsing and playing with you, I will be very happy."

Song Xuan: "...um."

Chen Aowen: "The performance will be after the end of the term, right? We don't have much time left for rehearsal, so I would like to ask the keyboard player Song Xuan, when is our first rehearsal?"

The first rehearsal was the next afternoon.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the five people who finished the course rushed to the rehearsal room of the glass house one after another from each campus, including Jiang Xiqing who was injured. Her right hand was wrapped with several layers of gauze, and her thumb was raised all the way. The tiger's mouth is at a standard right angle, and the whole arm looks a little stiff.

Song Xuan saw her and asked, "What are you doing here? Aren't you going back to the dormitory to rest?"

Jiang Xiqing said: "If I don't go back, I have to hold my hand like this wherever I go. There is no such thing as rest or rest, and I have nothing to do in the dormitory alone, so I just come to see you."

"Leave her alone, I'm afraid I'll run into those little bastards." Compared with Jiang Xiqing's calmness, Tan Min's temper is much more irritable. She cursed angrily, and then said, "We will discuss on the way here. After that, since Jiang Jiang can’t go on stage, on the day of the performance, she will go to the sound control room backstage to help us tune. Last year’s tuning was too bad, and this year we happened to come by ourselves.”

After saying this, Tan Min calmed down a little, looked at Chen Aowen beside Song Xuan and said sincerely, "Thank you for coming to help."

Chen Aowen said lightly: "It's nothing, you're welcome."

Tan Min pointed to the bass in the corner and said, "Song Xuan said you didn't bring your own bass to America, so you should use Jiang Jiang's first."

"it is good."

In this small band, the four of them have a clear division of labor - Luo Ziyang is the drummer, Jiang Xiqing plays the bass, Tan Min plays the guitar and lead vocals, and Song Xuan is in charge of the keyboard. If the song has a male part, he will also open his voice .

Now Jiang Xiqing has been replaced by Chen Aowen, and the rest of the division of labor remains unchanged.

After getting the bass, Chen Aowen first tried to pluck the strings and tune, and then followed his own part to the score.

The bass part in the main bass band controls the rhythm, and the change of the melody is not complicated. Originally, no one else, including Song Xuan, had much hope for Chen Aowen's playing level, as long as he can achieve a similar level of coordination. , who knew that he only tried it for the first time, and he already had a good sense of rhythm. After the second time, he suggested that he could try a four-person ensemble.

Tan Min: "...a cow."

This rehearsal was surprisingly efficient.

The agreed practice time was three hours. In the original idea, it would be good to be able to perform a four-person ensemble without making mistakes in three hours. However, Chen Aowen's perfect fit managed to reduce the completion time to one After half an hour, the effect of the final performance was almost the same as that of Jiang Xiqing's rehearsal before he was injured.

So in the last hour of rehearsal, they began to try to add singing effects.

Among the three songs selected by Tan Min, the first two are female songs with brisk melody and strong rhythm, sung by Tan Min alone, and the last song is a love song for men and women, with Song Xuan and Tan Min singing in duet.

It was no problem to play and sing at the same time, but when it came to the third love song, Tan Min and Song Xuan hadn't practiced well, so they often competed for the lyrics. Together with Song Xuan, they redistributed the lyrics.

Taking the pen and paper, Tan Min dragged a chair to sit next to Song Xuan, Luo Ziyang and Chen Aowen also put down their musical instruments one after another, and walked to the bench next to the wall of the classroom to rest.

When Song Xuan was not here, Chen Aowen always seemed very silent.

He was unfamiliar with Luo Ziyang, and although they were sitting on the same bench, they didn't talk to each other.

Luo Ziyang unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water. From the corner of his eye, he noticed that Chen Aowen had been looking in the direction of Tan Min and Song Xuan, his head kept at that fixed angle of rotation for a long time, without moving.

Luo Ziyang's eyes moved back and forth, and seeing that Chen Aowen's eyes seemed to be a little emotional, he asked, "Cough... what are you looking at?"

Chen Aowen: "Looking at them, sitting so close."

Luo Ziyang raised his head, Tan Min and Song Xuan looked at the same piece of paper, their heads were indeed touching, and the distance was very close.

Chen Aowen asked again: "Is there anyone Song Xuan likes? Does he like Tan Min?"

Luo Ziyang said: "Ah what? No, he doesn't like Tan Min, don't talk nonsense. But I don't know if he likes other people."

When the band debuted last year, the two of them also sang a love song together, because they both had outstanding looks. At that time, some people speculated whether Tan Min and Song Xuan were lovers, but it didn't take long because of the two people's love. The feeling of siblings is too strong and there is no context.

Taking another look at Chen Aowen's eyes looking directly at Tan Min and Song Xuan, Luo Ziyang felt that something was wrong, and he had a guess in his heart, he tentatively asked, "Why? Do you like Tan Min?"

"I don't like it." Chen Aowen replied very simply, but his eyes never left the two people over there, "I have someone else I like."