you are all star

Chapter 79 The Beauty in the Sunset
Half an hour after the game, with all the relevant personnel of Beiyang Middle School leaving, the sports committee organizing the event will hold an award ceremony for Edward Middle School and announce the list of players participating in the National Youth Basketball Competition in December this year. This award ceremony, Edward and related school leaders also participated, and the principal delivered a speech.

When the principal's words slowly receded amidst the applause of teachers and students and the noise of the whole school, the host specially asked Neil to say a few words to everyone. Since he had never had such an opportunity to speak before, he had the opportunity today, but The host hadn’t mentioned that he was going to come out beforehand, he was afraid that he would tremble in the face of so many people, and he wouldn’t be able to say a word, so he hurriedly shook his head with a smirk, scratched his head, glanced around, and said blankly : "I don't even know what to say."

Marcus looked at Neil and said in an encouraging tone, "Neil, just say something to everyone, you can say anything."

As soon as Marcus said this, everyone present who had been watching him all the time expressed their long-awaited, pleading voices and said, "Neil, Neil... just tell us a few words?"

Hearing the loud voice, Neil was extremely nervous, excited, and worried. He was afraid that he might not speak well. After all, there were relevant media present, and he was afraid of embarrassment.But so many people present are so supportive, and if they don't say a few words, it seems that they can't bear it logically, and they will appear even more rude. In desperation, they had no choice but to go to the host with all kinds of eyes and words, and smiled innocently at him , took the microphone from his hand, stared at everyone present for a while, thought for a while and said: "Teachers, classmates, although I am over 12 years old this year, I still don't feel that I still want to A child, a child who grew up in a slum without any family background, because whenever I watched my parents work so hard, and I couldn't do anything, because of this, I used to almost give up. I started when I was three or four years old. I like basketball, but in the end I lost the bet to my father, so I had to continue to stick to basketball. This year, I am also in the second year of junior high school. If I think back, if my father hadn’t made a bet with me, I would not have come here, and I would not have played with my teacher. We won the welcome cup today, and we are not qualified to participate in any national youth basketball game, so I am especially grateful to my father, my mother, my teacher, and my teammates."

Everyone present was moved by his words, and many of them were already in tears, especially the principal and Marcus, who cast a sympathetic look at this honest, lively, and grateful boy , And led all the teachers and students and the sports committee to applaud him.

Lavender, who was applauding for him, wiped away tears with wet eyes, and stared straight at Neil. Seeing that he could stand in front of so many people and say this, he was very happy for him.

Lavender's staring eyes were caught by Neil, and he smirked and stared at Lavender for a while.

After a burst of applause, Neil raised the microphone to the host, and said thank you very politely, then took a deep breath, and walked to his teammates and teachers energetically.

After the host announced the successful conclusion of the welcome cup competition, the principal Edward and the relevant personnel of the sports committee hugged and said goodbye.

Neil called Lavender, and then said to the teacher and teammates: "I have something to do, I have to go first!"

Seeing that he called Lavender, the teammates smiled with impure thoughts and said, "Oh... are you going on a date?"

Marcus smacked the players' heads lightly: "What are you guys thinking? Believe it or not, I'll slap you?"

Seeing that Marcus favored Neil in this way, and his mouth was twisted, he was not convinced, but he didn't dare to speak out, so he had to dodge quickly, and Marcus slapped him lightly.

"Neil, wait a moment!" Marcus called to Neil.

Neil and Lavender hurriedly turned their heads and asked, "Teacher, is there anything else?"

While answering, Marcus took out his phone from his pocket and handed it to Neil: "It's okay, Neil, you take the phone and go."

Neil's heart was suddenly moved, and tears rolled in his eyes. He stared at Marcus and asked in a low tone: "Teacher, how did you know that I need to call at this time?"

"Boy, it can be seen from your speech and your eyes that you can't wait to tell your parents at this moment that you finally got your wish and led your teammates to win the Welcome Cup championship, and you are afraid that they won't believe it. I specially called Lavender."

"Teacher, thank you, you are so right, I love you!"

"Go, boy! The teacher loves you too!"

Before Marcus finished speaking, Neil and Lavender hurried away with a wave.

Marcus watched Neil's back, and said to himself with appreciation: "What a good boy!"

Marcus will turn around and stare at the players with wide eyes.

The team member hurriedly ran away with a hippie smile on his face, and waved his hands hurriedly and said, "Teacher, we didn't say anything just now."

Marcus looked at the group of kids and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

I don't know what Neil was thinking today, but he chose to call his parents at the pavilion where they had a quarrel last year.

The two silently walked towards the pavilion in the setting sun. Lavender couldn't think of what Neil wanted to do. She knew they were good friends and Neil would not do anything to her. , Neil is also a good character boy.

He didn't say anything, just followed quietly, his face was a little blushing.

As we walked, Neil suddenly said, "Lavender, thank you!"

Lavender was so frightened that her heart was pounding, she covered her heart with her hand, took a breath, calmed down, and then replied with a smile: "No, Neil, we are good friends!"

Neil nodded slightly, and his long shadow nodded too. Lavender saw that his shadow was also nodding, and suddenly had a whim, like a silly princess, took two steps back in a very humorous way, while stepping on Neil With a long shadow, he smiled like a lady and said, "Neil, I'm stepping on you, don't you feel any pain?"

Neilton burst out laughing with a "poof...", the smile was so innocent and undisguised, in Lavender's eyes, this was the best time he had smiled in front of her.

After Neil laughed for a while, he looked at Lavender: "Lavender, why don't you be so funny, you stepped on my shadow, not me, how could I be in pain?"

"Anyway, don't worry about it, I see you smiling, I'm happy." Lavender raised her head domineeringly, pouted, and stared at Neil who turned around to look at her with a half-smile.

Then echoed Neil and walked forward, while she followed and stepped on his shadow.

Neil was also afraid that he would suddenly lose his temper with the princess just like last year, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to let her step on and follow.

When they came to the pavilion, Neil greeted Lavender to enjoy the beautiful sunset first, and he called his parents first.

Neil called home.

"Mr. Marcus, is that you?" Louis asked on the other end of the phone.

"Dad, it's me, Neil!"

"So it's you! Boy, how are you doing?"

"Dad, I'm fine. How are you and Mom?"

"We're fine, and our savings are increasing. Do you still have money to use?"

"That's good, I still have some."

"By the way, is there another competition in the Welcome Cup this year?"

"Dad, I'm just about to tell you that I did it this year, led my teammates to win the championship, and will go to the National Youth Basketball Tournament in December."

"Really?" Louis asked doubtfully.

"Father, if you don't believe me, ask Lavender, she's right next to you."

Neil handed the phone to Lavender.

"Hello, uncle!"

"Hello, Lavender! Neil said he won the Welcome Cup, is that true?"

"Uncle, it's true, he did it."

After Lavender finished answering, she handed the phone to Neil.

"Dad, do you believe me now?"

"Yes, congratulations, my son, Mom and Dad are proud of you. When you go to the national youth basketball game, Dad will definitely take time to accompany you."

"Okay, thank you dad!"

"You must not have eaten yet, go and eat soon, my mother and I love you!"

"I love you all too!"

As soon as Neil finished speaking, Louis hung up the phone and ran excitedly to the kitchen to tell Nuana about the happy event.

After Neil put the teacher's phone in his pocket, he and Lavender looked up at the sunset shooting from across the lake.

At this time, Neil, like Lavender, felt that everything in front of him was particularly beautiful. It seemed that he was no longer like a year ago, because he was dazzled by the victory, and forgot the existence of beauty around him.

The two quietly looked up at the setting sun in the west, and the clouds reflected yellow by the setting sun. Finally, Neil couldn't help praising all of this, so he smiled and said: "Laveng, everything in front of me is so beautiful! "

Lavender smiled, nodded, thought for a while and said, "Neil, maybe everything is not so beautiful before the dream is realized, but when it is realized, everything feels so beautiful!"

"Lavender, thank you for understanding me a little bit today. Indeed, that's what I thought at the time, but in the end things backfired."

"So, Neil, you shouldn't deliberately live for something, you have to have your own way of living, like me, smile when you should smile, walk when you should walk, stop when you should stop, and stay to appreciate Stay and appreciate, never deliberately care about anything."

"Okay, Lavender! I remember!"

Neil glanced at Lavender's face reddened by the setting sun with grateful eyes, smiled slightly, and continued to stand side by side with Lavender, remembering all this beauty with his eyes, quietly feeling the existence of beauty, quietly accepting the beauty Baptism of things.

(End of this chapter)