damaged

Zhou Zhou was startled by a sudden knock on the door.

She wiped the tears on her face with the backs of her hands in a panic, subconsciously stood upright, but because of squatting for a long time, she almost fell to the ground.

Before she turned around to see who it was, she heard the voice first.

"what's wrong with you?"

should be.What’s wrong with you?

Zhang Ailin's voice came from behind Zhou Zhou.The words were eager and blameful, mixed into an indescribable taste.

After crying for a long time, my eyes should be swollen from crying.Zhou Zhou supported Wang Bing's office chair with both hands, with his back to Zhang Ailin, not daring to face her directly.

"It's okay." A tone almost crying.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Ailin stepped forward, and Zhou Zhou hurriedly hid behind him in a panic.

I didn't see you back in two classes, so I came to you.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't come here again." The panic in his heart was greater than the sadness, Zhou Zhou turned his head and pushed Zhang Ailin in the opposite direction.

"Because of something?" Zhang Ailin asked again, taking a step forward against Zhou Zhou's words.

"No! No... No, don't come here again." Zhou Zhou had already tried his best to avoid Zhang Ailin.

Zhang Ailin was puzzled.

Was it beaten?

"Then watch me talk." Zhang Ailin held Zhou Zhou's shoulders with both hands, and pulled hard, forcing Zhou Zhou to turn around.look into her face.

At that moment, the originally hesitant wind seemed to rush into the house all at once.Push the breath of early summer outside the window.It is the smell of newborn cicada wings mixed with soil and leaves.

Zhou Zhou fell into it again.Get lost in the face in front of you.

The gentleness and heroism in the eyebrows cannot be hidden.

Suddenly, Zhang Ailin let go of her and pushed her back.

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Zhou Zhou's overflowing emotions came to an abrupt end.

"I thought you were beaten." Zhang Ailin breathed a sigh of relief.

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Zhou Zhou was full of doubts and asked, "Why?"

"You keep turning your head." Zhang Ailin imitated Zhou Zhou's movements.

Zhou Zhou subconsciously raised his hand to hit her.

Zhang Ailin smiled and raised her arms, making a slight defensive movement.Zhou Zhou's fist hit Zhang Ailin's arm softly.

"It's fine." Zhang Ailin said.

Zhou Zhou restrained himself and sighed: "No matter how you say it, you are also your parents, so how could you do anything?"

Zhang Ailin's face darkened, and then changed into an expressionless face, just like Zhou Zhou's when he first saw her.

"That's right." She responded to Zhou Zhou's words.

Zhou Zhou noticed Zhang Ailin's subtle emotional changes from her face, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Did you quarrel with your mother?" Zhang Ailin didn't answer her question.

Hearing this, Zhou Zhou felt dissatisfied.The meaning of what she said was correct, but the word "mother" sounded so strange when it came out of Zhang Ailin's mouth.

It's like an elder greeting a child whose teeth have just changed.

I don't like the tone.

Zhou Zhou also refused to answer Zhang Ailin's questioning, and said, "Let's go back to class."

Zhang Ailin heard Zhou Zhou's dissatisfaction in the topic change, so she didn't act. She stood there, looked at Zhou Zhou's face, and tilted her head with a half-smile.

Zhou Zhou understood what she meant tacitly.Zhang Ailin's casualness collided with Zhou Zhou's stubbornness, and she felt angry in her heart.

"I don't like it when you look at me like a child." The soft and waxy voice said such words, making her look even cuter.

Zhang Ailin laughed out loud.Can't help it.

"We are the same age." Zhou Zhou frowned and added this sentence.

Zhang Ailin put her hands in her pockets with a smile, opened her legs, and said, "Okay."

He didn't even have a chance to answer Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou just felt that he was put together for no reason.

Some words came to my lips, and I wanted to spit them out, but then I thought again, why did I have to lose my temper for no reason?

"I'm sick!"

He stomped his feet and followed.Although I don't want to follow, there is only one way back to the classroom.

Zhang Ailin was striding ahead, Zhou Zhou followed behind, her eyes hadn't completely subsided.Makes it look like it has a story.

After walking for a while, Zhang Ailin looked back at Zhou Zhou.

This action made Zhou Zhou feel even more dissatisfied.

Gritting her teeth, she ran in front of Zhang Ailin, deliberately opened a long distance, and then slowed down and walked with a normal pace.In a fit of anger, he walked forward without looking back.

The tug-of-war between the two turned into Zhou Zhou walking in front and Zhang Ailin following.

Looking at Zhou Zhou's thin back, Zhang Ailin felt sad for a while.

When Zhou Zhou left the classroom and went to Wang Bing's office, Zhang Ailin had been able to hear the general meaning from Fang Zheng's words of accusation and scolding in the conversation with others.

If it wasn't for me, how could Zhou Zhou be involved.

Zhang Ailin knew how uncomfortable it was to hide alone in an empty office and secretly wipe away tears.

Guilt entangled in Zhang Ailin's heart.

"She is a very good person." Zhang Ailin looked at Zhou Zhou's back and said silently.

Don't get involved with her anymore.

Watching Zhou Zhou go up the stairs, Zhang Ailin stood at the bottom of the steps without taking a step.

Injuries all over the body, healed or not completely healed.Scattered in various parts of the body, faintly conveying pain.It was as if a sharp or not-sharp needle was stuck on her body.

Now the blood from the wound seeped into her heart.

Instead of continuing to follow Zhou Zhou's footsteps, she turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

The exact same pace as before, the opposite destination.

After repeating the back and forth, Zhang Ailin went straight back the same way, walked to the door of Wang Bing's office, held down the handrail, and pushed the door open.Still empty and no one there.

She sat on that bench, her eyes downcast, staring at her toes.

She tried to remember where she had bought those brown-gray ankle boots, but she couldn't.Apart from being calm, there was no other emotional turmoil in her heart.

Don't want to continue anymore.

Why have you dropped out of school so many times, but you haven't been dropped out.

At school, as at home, it was the same feeling, being locked in one cage after another.The only purpose of coming to class is to see more of Meng Wenjun.But now Meng Wenjun is no longer Ah Ding.When Meng Wenjun left in a hurry without saying anything that day, Zhang Ailin really felt heart-piercingly sad.

Treat her well and treat her badly.Treat her kindly, but don't treat her kindly.Separated by layers of fog, separated by layers of gauze.Even if she wasn't sure, didn't understand, didn't know, she still showed her sincerity.

Stuck so many times.Zhang Ailin never thought that the only time she wanted to give up was when she felt so calm.

She sat in the same chair she sat in a few days ago, doing the same thing as a few days ago.wait.

Waiting for Wang Bing to return to this office.She can tell him that she wants to leave.

too tired.

Zhang Ailin leaned back, put her hands in her pockets, pressed her entire back against the back of the chair, and closed her eyes.

It's like a prisoner on the execution ground waiting for the final execution.

The whole afternoon was rubbed and stretched for a long time, and the sun's fine light was rubbed into the sky and gradually disappeared.

Zhang Ailin turned her head and could clearly hear the shouts from the basketball court downstairs coming from the window.

When class was over at the end, Wang Bing didn't come either.

Zhang Ailin stood up, kicked her slightly numb legs, opened the door again, and closed it with a sound.

She sighed softly.

It happened that Bu Congming and his friends ran over in groups, and he saw Zhang Ailin just coming out of the office.He stopped and said hello: "Sister Irene, why are you here?"

"Hmm." Zhang Ailin reluctantly responded.

Bu Congming saw Zhang Ailin's low voice from her face, and deliberately raised her voice, almost shouting, "Zhou Zhou is looking for you."

"Huh?" Zhang Ailin raised her eyelids, and surprise flashed in her eyes.

Bu Congming keenly captured this momentary change, raised his hand and pointed behind him with his thumb, and said, "It was still there just now."

"What is she looking for me for?" Zhang Ailin asked in her heart.

Before she could say anything, Bu Congming explained with a smile: "You won't see anyone all afternoon, so don't worry." As he spoke, the smile on his face gradually turned into a mockery.

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"What are you laughing at?" Zhang Ailin frowned.

Bu Congming smiled again, patted the shoulders of his friends, waved to Zhang Ailin, and said, "We still have to play ball, don't forget to find someone! It seems that we can't find you and don't plan to go home! Let's go!" After saying that, he laughed and ran away.

Zhang Ailin stood where she was, suddenly at a loss.

"Why are you looking for me? Obviously I implicated her." Zhang Ailin kept repeating this sentence in her mind.

With an inexplicable mood, Zhang Ailin inexplicably began to glance around again, looking for the figure of a thin and small girl among the people coming and going.

When she returned to the classroom, everyone had already left.

Only in the last row, Zhou Zhou’s schoolbag with a bunny pendant was placed on her desk, and next to her, the bag she had thrown on the ground was neatly placed on her desk .

Zhang Ailin stepped forward and opened the zipper of the schoolbag, and the books inside were arranged neatly in order from small to large.

On the top one of the textbooks, there is also a post-it note for the puppy, on which the homework that should be done today is neatly copied.

"Zhang Ailin!"

A sudden cry scared Zhang Ailin and almost threw away the note in her hand.

She looked towards the source of the voice. Zhou Zhou was standing at the back door with his hands on his waist, and his face was full of anger.

Zhou Zhou stepped forward angrily, raised his hand, and clenched it into a fist. Without saying a word, he punched Zhang Ailin's shoulder.

Although the punch was not heavy, it caused injuries. Zhang Ailin felt the pain, subconsciously shrank back, and rubbed her shoulders with her hands.

"Why did you go!" Zhou Zhou asked angrily.

There is no one who coaxes people well, and disappears as soon as they turn their heads.

"I...I..." Zhang Ailin stammered, unable to say a word.

It's not easy to tell people directly that I'm going to drop out of school.

"I hate you!!"

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