God knows

Beth's side face facing the light is well-defined, her skin is very white, almost glowing under the light, and there are some freckles on her cheeks, but not the kind that are so many that it is scary, the small embellishments make that face look quite cute.

I found that her eyes are also blue, as blue as the blue sea, and her brown hair looks golden in the sun.

She turned her head, and before she could say a word, she looked at me and laughed out loud.

I squinted against the light, as if against something invisible.

"Ann, you don't like basking in the sun, just let me know."

Beth stood up and patted the grass clippings on her body.

"I...uh..." I said slightly embarrassed.

"Very few people like it."

With a gentle expression on her face, she reached out to me and pulled me up.

"We're not dating," I declared abruptly.

She laughed out loud.

"It's not good to complicate things, Ann. I didn't find Carol for love." Beth said, stretching her waist. "It's rare to make friends with the same interests."

I'm noncommittal, sometimes I rely so much on Phoenix's feelings that I don't know what other people think of me.

"Do you have a date with Jeffrey at noon?" she asked.

"He said he had a date, so he wouldn't hang out with a bitch like me."

I snorted angrily, but in fact I knew very well that Jeffrey saw Beth approaching from a distance, so he just made up excuses to get out of the way, and his intention was obvious.

"Do you have any plans?" I asked, twisting my neck.

"Let's sneak into the school kitchen to play." Beth bent down and picked up the backpack and threw it over her shoulder. The casual attitude looked familiar. "You can mix something to eat. Sometimes Auntie will save chocolate biscuits for me."

"Damn!" I jumped up, "Why didn't I think about such a good fortune?"

"Come on." Beth smiled and strode across the grass, "There is more than an hour before the next class, let me take you to see the new world!"

I caught up with her slender back, full of anticipation, and felt that I hadn't experienced such excitement for a long time.

"Maggie, the kitchen aunt, knows me, so it's absolutely no problem to meet her." Beth pressed her hand on the iron kitchen door, and turned to tell me, "But if you meet other people, it's not good, you must pull your legs Just run, or if you get caught, you may enter the principal's office."

I nodded, feeling that there was a taste of experience in her tone.

"...It's okay to enter the principal's office, but it's best to avoid such troubles."

I listened and laughed.

She pushed the door slightly and glanced through the gap.

"Ann, there's a person cleaning the workbench with his back to us. I don't think it's Maggie. It's better not to let him find us."

I nodded, and found that I liked how Beth hadn't tried to dismiss the obstacles as soon as she entered.This kind of bold and informal character makes people feel involuntarily wanting to get close, and at the same time I feel envious. With my character who is afraid of trouble, there will definitely not be such exciting and fun plots in my life.

"There is a shelf on the left side where you can hide, just follow me as soon as you enter the door, keep your body down,"

"Why are you so familiar?"

She grinned at me and pointed to her head, indicating that this was not the first episode.

"Let's go!"

She finished speaking without waiting for my response, and pushed the heavy iron door wide open with both hands, and rushed in without hesitation. I had no time to think about other things, and tried to keep up with Beth's speed and ran in with my body pressed down.She wore ADayToRemember's band T-shit, and the close-fitting fabric outlines the shape of the shoulder blades. I stared at the line of university on her back that should be the name of the album, not daring to lag behind.

She was right, there was a shelf on the left side filled with boxes of ingredients, we went around and hid behind it, and then we heard the iron door that was pushed open just slam shut.

The series of actions in less than a few seconds made my heart beat fast.

"Who? Who is it?" asked loudly the man who tidied the workbench in front, and the voice moved towards the iron gate.

"Maggie isn't here," Beth told me in a breathy voice that was clearly a man's voice, "and it sounds like Howard, he hates me."

"So what do we do?" I asked.

"Don't let him catch you."

She smiled playfully, reached out and took out three bottles of juice from the carton, and threw two of them to me.

"Give a bottle to Jeffrey, and let him know how shameful the behavior of forgetting friends is."

I couldn't help but smile when I heard it.

Beth walked around the work table familiarly, checking from bottom to top through the gaps. After checking the iron door, Howard was walking around the shelf we just hid.

"Ann, tell me what you want to eat?"

"I... I'm fine anyway..."

Speaking of it, I felt a little nervous. After going around half a circle, I realized that the kitchen was not as big as I imagined. I felt that it would be a matter of time before Howard found us.

"Hey, let's order a meal, 'whatever' is not challenging at all."

As she spoke, she pulled me to move, and Beth walked with skill, as light and silent as a cat on the ground.I tried to learn her ways and felt awkward around her.

"Peanut and jelly sandwich," I whispered, wondering if the option was too difficult, "Is this possible?"

"no problem."

She gave me a thumbs up, and after confirming Huo Hua's location, she pulled me back to the shelf where I was just hiding.

"Would you mind if the toast hadn't been toasted before?" Beth asked in a low voice, with a smile, "It's okay to toast, but it's the first time you come in, I hope the difficulty is not too high. "

I almost laughed out loud.

Beth straightened up and rummaged behind the shelves, an outrageously risky act while Howard was still on the other side of the kitchen.

"Ann, do you like it with strawberry jam or blueberry jam?"

she bent over me and asked.

"Do you have honey apples?"

"Hmm... good taste." As he said that, he straightened up and rummaged through it, and finally handed it to me with honey apples and peanut butter, leaning on the shelf and squinting, "I always feel that Huo Hua is quite strange today."

"How do you say it's strange?"

"You know, that guy can't be said to be smart, usually when I sneak in, he usually has nothing to do with me, and finally gave up..."

"...I feel particularly indomitable today, which is strange."

"Have you ever been caught by him?" I whispered.

Beth nodded.

"I want to try frying bacon that day."

Too pulled.

"Now?" I asked Beth, looking through the gap.

"The toast is on the workbench. Howard can easily see it from where he is standing now. We can't just run out." Beth said, "I want to go get a spatula first, wait a minute if you find him approaching If so, just move it." Before I could protest, I saw her rushing out and stuffing herself into the gap in the container, just like a spy movie.

I stared anxiously at the corner where Beth was hiding, feeling so helpless to be left behind by her.

Thinking about it carefully, Beth's corner can't fit two people at all, as clumsy as I am, I'm afraid it will slow her down, but after a whole day, I suddenly realize how much I feel to have her company. not alone...

…almost made me forget what it was like to be abandoned by another human being.

Phoenix knows how I feel, how does it feel?

She has always been the clearest interpreter of my emotions. When I feel sunny and hopeful because of Beth and at the same time think about the emptiness and loneliness of Phoenix leaving, will she say that I am always like this, with mixed emotions?

Maybe she never cared.

If Phoenix never cared about me, shouldn't I just stop thinking about her?

It's a pity I can't do it.

I shook my head, went back to peek through the gap in the shelf, and found that Howard was walking towards the shelf.

"Oh shit."

I cursed lowly, picked up two jars of jam, and prepared to run away.

Unfortunately, as soon as I walked around the shelf, I stepped on a plastic bag, and the sound of the plastic bag was almost like shouting "Here I am!".

I frowned and closed my eyes, in disbelief that I'd made such a stupid mistake.