summer and roses

In the 200-meter sprint, just as Lin Zhan said, You Yi took the lead to reach the finish line for the time being and entered the final.

The athletes are not very tired after the field, which is in stark contrast to the students in the other class next door who are holding their knees and panting like dogs.You Yi raised his hand and wiped his forehead, feeling that he didn't sweat much.But he is not a person who likes to show off, so he touched his neck - remembering that he seemed to have been bewitched just now, and somehow gave out the amulet.

The man wearing his amulet came over at this moment, handed the mineral water to You Cruise, thought for a while, and said, "Drink slowly."

The Guanyin jade pendant around his neck is too intimate in every sense.

The local tradition is for males to wear Guanyin. This is the consecration amulet that Youyi’s mother took time out of her busy schedule to go to the temple to pray for him. She strung it with a red string in the year of birth, and it has been four years since then.Youyou stared at Mucha's collarbone, the red string made his skin whiter.

After handing over the water, Mucha took a few steps back and looked around, as if nothing happened just now.

You Yi didn't say anything, he took two sips of water and put the bottle on the sidelines casually, not in a hurry to get his jade pendant back, and walked towards Mu Xia slowly.

An officer from the student union came to take away his number cloth and issued a new one, signaling him to prepare for the finals later.The schedule of the high school sports meeting is extremely fast, and the typical eyes are big and the belly is small. It takes two and a half days to compare with the field and track competitions. The students are all tired.

Youyou looked around looking for Lin Zhan with his number cloth - he was a little afraid to call Mu Xia, last time when he was helping him with something, Youyou didn't know where to look.

He was afraid that Mu Xia might have misunderstood a little, and he didn't dare to face his heart.

"Brother Xiao Zhan!" You Yi yelled, but the person who kicked a small stone next to him came towards him, the person whose name was called was indifferent, he was too far away to hear it.

Mucha put his mineral water bottle under the cruiser's feet, and calmly took his number cloth: "I'll come."

You Yi said stiffly: "I'm afraid you'll get stabbed again."

Mu Xia's hand really stopped clapping, the corners of his mouth raised in a smile that was not a smile, and he said slowly, "No."

After saying that, he brought up the bottle of water and voluntarily retreated to the sidelines without even saying a word of cheer.You Yi didn't expect much ivory to spit out from his mouth, so he shrugged and ran to line up for the opening.

There are only eight finalists in the whole grade, which is just enough to rank, and it is over after running one round on the track.Some of them looked much more professional than Yau Yu, with tank tops and shorts, short crew cut, muscular calves, and some were surrounded by two girls of the same age, like a romantic who hugged left and right before going to the battlefield.

Mucha held the mineral water bottle and raised her arms to lean against the wall, trying to stand in the shade.He squinted his eyes, raised his head slightly, and looked at the track where he was preparing.

When the starting gun sounded, he flinched for a moment, his heart hung in his throat, and he took a breath until he saw the cruise cross the finish line.

The result of No.2 is not bad. Youyou looked around the finish line in a daze, as if he hung his head a little disappointed because he didn't wait for his own mineral water and celebration.

Mucha moved over, still at a leisurely pace.Just as he was about to speak out and call Youyou to stop, he raised his hand to give him a high-five, when a figure flashed by his side and quickly ran over: "Senior!"

He smelled the special fragrance that belonged to a 16-year-old girl. It was clean and refreshing, and it made every passerby look at her.But Mu Xia frowned when he saw the person running past, and lowered his arms.

"It's you." You Yi said, standing up in embarrassment, and retracting the hand that was about to wipe the sweat from the corner of his clothes politely, "Do you have a project in your class?"

The school girl shook her head: "I just came to see you."

She said it bluntly, but You You didn't know how to respond.He put on a smile but didn't smile, dodging the eyes of the school girl looking over, no matter how suspicious he looked in the eyes of others, he pretended to be shy while trying to please others.

The junior girl took out a towel with her hand behind her back: "Here's this one for you. It's a new one. I heard that I'm going to jump high later. It's so hot and windy, so I'm afraid I'll catch a cold if I don't dry myself after sweating... use it first?"

You Yi struggled for a while, and under the eager eyes of the school girl, he said, "Is that right..."

"It's not easy to return it to you after you use it, why don't you take this, our roommates don't care about it, right?" The young man inserted himself between them, and put a small handkerchief on You Yi's head involuntarily, He pressed and rubbed it, feeling that the other party's long hair made his palms itch.

As if he was rescued suddenly, You Yi let out a sigh of relief, and went down the donkey: "Well, it's not very convenient, thank you."

The junior girl stood there in embarrassment, unable to hand out the towel, she withdrew her hand in frustration.The voice of registration on the radio heard the excitement around him one after another, Youyou tilted his head, as if he was half-hiding behind Mucha, the scene was a little funny, but the junior girl couldn't laugh, she just felt extremely embarrassed.

She didn't know how long she had done ideological work, brushed her broken hair that fell to her ear, and said courageously: "Senior, why don't you give me an attitude, it's always like this...don't feel like you're wasting other people's thoughts."

You Yi said, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

The school girl laughed instead: "Don't comfort me, it's not wrong not to like it."

When Lin Zhan came to find her, the school girl had already left. He looked at the leaving figure of the girl from the primary school, then looked at Mucha with a playful face and Youyou with red ears, raised his eyebrows and said, "That's why I refuse." Someone's confession?"

You Yi gave a muffled "Hmm", and Mucha said, "It's not a rejection, I think she's quite open to it."

Lin Zhan was puzzled: "Oh?"

Mucha left the two of them behind and walked ahead, and didn't talk about it after the close.Lin Zhan's appetite was whetted, and he ran over to chase him unwillingly and asked, "What, what do you mean by not refusing? Doesn't the school girl actually like us cruising? Oh, just tell me, don't be like this... "

The wind blew cold on the back of the cruise, the sun hid behind the clouds, and the sky became overcast.

Just now Mu Xia saved him from the siege, the junior girl finally waved her hand easily and said that I will try my best not to like you in the future.Looking at it this way, it was true that she didn't listen to the refusal, but at least it came to an end, but You You felt panicked.

He found that he still couldn't face it, and couldn't say freely: "It's not your fault, because I don't like girls."

Thinking of this sentence, he felt as if there was a thorn in his throat, and he couldn't make any sound.The atmosphere is not the same as it was a few years ago. Most of his peers didn't take this sexual orientation seriously, but he couldn't come out.

At that time, Mu Xia lit a cigarette and talked about his crush on the elder brother who led Jujia, and half-jokingly asked him to introduce others. On the surface, You You accompanied him to make jokes, but in his heart he thought: "Where should I go to meet people?"

"Cruise! Come here!" Lin Zhan called out to him more than ten meters away.

The sun came out again, and he looked down to see his own shadow, which was longer than before.You You covered the small veil on the back of his neck, and strode over: "Here we come!"

After the solo competition, there was a relay, and Mucha even changed into a different set of clothes during the American time.The short-sleeved shirt he was wearing was replaced by a sporty school uniform, with two buttons unbuttoned at the neckline and trousers rolled up.

Lucky Cat personally brought people to condolences to the athletes, and several main class committee members followed behind him to apologize.

"We don't ask for rankings this time, okay, the focus is on participation. You just ran two 200s and it's quite tiring, everyone just do your best." Lucky Cat patted each of them on the shoulder with such force that Mucha almost vomited. "However, in order to boost morale, the teacher still has to say that there is a prize for winning the ranking, and I will buy it for you personally—"

You Yi suddenly raised his head, becoming interested: "What to buy?"

Lucky Cat smiled: "Buy a brand new English exercise book."

You Cruise: "Excuse me."

Mucha: "Farewell."

They finished speaking neatly in unison. The group of people were all in a daze at first, and then they laughed out loud together with the teacher.Mucha turned to look at You Cruise, the other party was surprised for a moment, propped his forehead and smiled smirkly, showing a mouthful of small white teeth.

The originally stagnant atmosphere was relieved just like that. Lucky Cat waved them helplessly and sent them to the side of the runway.This joke may have had a great effect, Meng actually let out a short laugh from time to time when he was about to go on stage, his yin and yang were strange, causing the classmates in the physics class next to him to look sideways, with vigilance written all over his face.

He ran the first leg, You You said that the third leg was the key to let him go, Mu Xiafu took the second in his heart, and then the few of them tacitly threw the heaviest sprint segment to Lin Zhan.

Lin Zhan resentfully walked towards the last straight, turned his head and said, "You guys are really talented."

The "March of Athletes" on the radio was still playing, and Mu Xia turned his head to see that Meng had already assumed a very standard posture of preparation.His eyeballs rolled slightly, and the color of glazed glass appeared in the sunlight.

...and even started to get nervous.

The referee raised the starting gun high: "Ready——"

"Come on, class six!" A girl in the same class who couldn't name her shouted loudly, and then the surrounding seemed to be infected by her, and cheers sounded one after another, almost drowning out the order.

Meng, the first shot, rushed out like an arrow off the string.

Mucha's whole body was shocked, and he experienced the "blood boiling" described in novels and comics for a long time.

He had the illusion that he heard the sound of breathing, and before he had time to react, he made preparations first.Stretching his arms back and moving his body, Mucha felt that Meng had actually given him the baton, and whispered in his ear: "Come on, Brother Xia!"

He hasn't exercised for a long time, but his foundation of regular exercise is still there.Meng didn't have the advantage of grabbing the first shot, so Mucha had to try his best to suppress the No.3 behind.

The wind seemed to gain strength suddenly, and the skin on the face was sore.His chest was exploding, and he couldn't breathe. He only looked back at his cruising, lost consciousness of his steps, and instinctively wanted to go faster, faster——

The moment Mucha put the baton into You Yi's hand, he nearly fell to the ground, and when he regained his senses, You Yi had caught up to No.1 like a gust of wind.

"Come on, Youyou! Brother You! Overtake him, don't give him a chance!" Meng Ran, who caught up half a step later, shouted, and the surrounding cheers changed from "Sixth Class" to his name.

Perhaps it was affected by the atmosphere, or perhaps it was too lively an environment suitable for expressing the words that are usually locked in the bottom of my heart. Mu Xia and Meng ran all the way across the playground towards the handover point. He jumped three times and called his name loudly: "Cruise !"

The man turned his head to look this way, Mu Xia didn't pay attention to his expression, but for some unknown reason, at that moment, he suddenly felt that You You shouldn't hate his shouting.

The person whose name was called put the baton firmly in Lin Zhan's hand, and stopped a few steps forward out of inertia, breathing slowly with his hands on his knees.After it was over, You You didn't cheer for Lin Zhan like the others, nor did he shout all the way like Meng Ranran, making himself look like a young man running towards the finish line.

He walked from the track to the sidelines, panting slightly, and gave Mu Xia a "victory".

Mu Xia froze in place, and when he came back to his senses, he rolled his eyes and smiled happily. He raised one hand in a daze, as if to say hello, but also as if he was waiting for some tacit agreement to celebrate.

"Wow! Brother Xiaozhan is mighty! Brother Xiaozhan is awesome!" Meng Ran's loud voice almost penetrated the entire playground, "Brother Apple is amazing, number one! We are number one! Class six——"

The students at the finish line hugged Lin Zhan, rubbed his hair vigorously, and celebrated the unexpected surprise.And only 100 meters away from there, two teenagers who had just finished the relay race approached each other, drifting away from the edge of the crowd, but they also saw joy and joy in each other's eyes.

"Awesome." You Yi and Mucha clapped their hands together.

He thought that Mucha wanted to give him a high five, but the next moment Mucha held his hand, palm to palm.You Yi was taken aback for a moment, and wanted to pull back, but his hand was held tighter, and then he was pulled out by a force——

Just after running a short distance, his explosive power was exhausted, and he was extremely weak. When Mu Xia pulled him, he fell forward unsteadily.His legs went limp, and You You instinctively grabbed the person closest to him.

Mucha patted his back with his arms around him, and there was a nondescript hug between them.

He heard Mucha's slack voice panting a bit, talking in his ear: "That's great, thank you. I might not have experienced this if I didn't participate, so... thanks to you."

You Yi asked in a daze, "What do you feel?"

Mucha laughed, muffled in his ear, tapped his chin lightly on his shoulder, and returned to him the words Youyue said when he signed up before: "Sense of collective honor, isn't this the last time. "

"I'm not used to you being so serious all of a sudden, brother Xia." You Yi called his brother always with a joke.

"Fuck you, shit." Mucha cursed with a smile.

You Yi: "Hey, I'm used to it now."

He immediately pushed the cruise away, and walked towards Lin Zhan by himself.As a result, the young man whose legs were weak just now caught up with him in three or two steps, hooked his shoulder, and said, "Aren't you not good enough? You are still trembling when you walk. To be honest, how long has it been since you exercised? Artist, take care."

There was an ambiguity in the words he was concerned about. Mucha gave him a deep look, and then said implicitly: "You don't have to question my physical strength. Whether I can do it or not is not reflected in this kind of place. If I’m really interested, and I can try it myself some other day.”

You Yi: "Huh?"

He had a question mark on his face for a while, and finally understood from Mu Xia's ambiguous eyes, his face, which was already a little red from sweating, turned a little darker, and bounced away from Mu Xia: "Grass, why are you such a person?" ah!"

Mucha laughed loudly, and kicked You Yi: "It's not too late to find out now."

You Yi said seriously: "I want to stay away from you, you faggot. I treat you like a brother, and you actually want to..."

Realizing what he blurted out, he suddenly stopped talking, trying to smooth his goosebumps.You Yi coughed dryly twice, and moved a little further away from Mu Xia as if nothing happened.

Mucha suddenly asked: "Have you reconciled with Xu Wenke?"

With a strange tone, it seemed to be crazily implying that he had some ulterior relationship with Xu Wenke.You Yi gave him a strange look, since Mucha didn't chase after the sentence of "brother or brother" to tease him, he didn't need to find it unpleasant, so he answered following the topic: "The other day Apple asked him to come out to play together."

Mucha: "Oh."

Youyou thought for a while and then said: "Apple seems to be trying to match us up a bit, so I'll go when she keeps mentioning this."

Mucha, who was walking forward in a serious manner, was tripped by the steps and staggered. He couldn't bear it anymore, and his voice was raised several times: "Match you? With Xu Wenke? Don't tease me."

You Yi: "Let us make up, but the effect is not very obvious...Xu Wenke has a heart, he is too straight."

After listening for a while, he finally felt that he had grasped the flash of deep meaning in You You's words.Mucha asked hesitantly, putting the thumbs of both hands into the shape of fingertips touching: "You said that Apple wanted to 'match' you and Xu Wenke, did you mean this? Give it up, there will be no harm if you are with a straight man. Good luck."

"No—" You Yi almost jumped up, and asked him again with a frown, "It seems that I used the wrong word?"

Mucha couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped him on the head.

The two were speechless for a while, and walked back to their seats in the class side by side.The festive atmosphere of winning No.1 in the relay race was still there. As soon as You Yi took his seat, Lin Zhan dragged him over to bargain with the Lucky Cat. Obviously, the young man was still worried about the reward of the English workbook.Mucha picked up the notebook from the stool, sat down, and bent his legs.

He looked at Xu Wenke, who was at the end of the class queue, who was sitting by the flower table and using a stool as a desk to do his homework.

"I'm not from the same world." Mucha thought, scribbling sketches on the blank notebook, he drew everything, from the colorful flags waving in the wind by the playground to the classmates wandering away from the hustle and bustle.

After You Yi finally came back from there, he casually hooked Mu Xia's neck to look at his works.

Although the things drawn in half an hour are decent, they are still far from the level to take the exam later.Mucha tilted his head, feeling that this person was a bit annoying: "You are blocking my light."

Cruising without moving, Mu Xia made a "tsk" sound, raised his head and was about to repeat, when the other party's finger pressed on the back of his neck, and the bright autumn light of noon was reflected in his eyes: "Would you come and cheer for the high jump this afternoon?"

Mucha: "Huh?"

You Yi withdrew his hand, and scratched his hair a little shyly: "I don't know why, I feel like I should be able to break a school record if you come."

Mucha laughed dumbfounded: "Who told me not to say something that would be misunderstood, what you said is just like..."

You Yi himself also felt that it was not appropriate, he sat back on the chair, and suddenly fell to Mu Xia's side again—the torn-off paper that was put on the notebook and sketched was picked up by the wind, and Mu Xia hadn't reacted yet. A furry head was buried in the knee, and an arm was wrapped around the calf.

He awkwardly pushed You Cruise: "Hello."

The cruising voice was muffled, and when his body stretched out, the corners of his T-shirt rolled up to reveal a small waist: "I'm tired, take a break...it's a bit strange."

The endless words made Mucha stop pushing him, he let You Yi lay on his knees, put his palms on the back of his head, and rubbed him a few times.

The place where they were was quiet, with the shadows and light spots of leaves vaguely reflected on the hems of their clothes and trousers.Mu Xia felt tired only at this moment, he motioned to You Yi to lie down a little more, and he fell on his back.

He heard the cruising and his own heartbeat slowly overlapping into the same frequency.

"You are poisonous." Mucha said, "This time you provoked me first."

You Yi said: "Fart, come over in the morning...you have to meddle."

Mucha: "Okay."