cold flame

The gray and old open-air stairs in front of you stretched along the thick night to the place where you can look up. The third floor is the art hall, a place for high school clubs and art students to practice. It is a place that Lin Mo often haunted in high school.

He stood outside for a moment, hesitated for a second, and stepped up the steps to the small balcony on the side of the third floor. He saw a figure smoking with his back facing him. The sparkle on the end of the cigarette was particularly dazzling.

"Why are you here?" Lin Mo asked standing still.

Wearing a coat, Gao Wenxuan leaned his tall and straight body against the guardrail, and replied, "I'm coming up to smoke a cigarette."

"I mean, why are you here today?"

"Watching your performance, let's take a look here."

Facing the dark training room around, Lin Mo did not expect him to appear here, frowned and said, "You didn't study here in high school."

Gao Wenxuan smiled, took a puff of cigarette, and put out half of the cigarette on the concrete guardrail, "You also came to see the former practice room? Let's go."

Perhaps it was used as a rehearsal area before the performance. The door on the third floor was unlocked, and the corridor in front was lit with snow-white lights. They walked straight into the depths and came to a piano room that was half the size of the classroom. No one turned on the lights on the grand piano, looking at the old piano chair through the moonlight outside the window.

"It hasn't changed here," Gao Wenxuan said.

It's still the same as before, empty and cold, especially in this kind of night, it makes people feel that this place seems to be an abandoned storage room.

Lin Mo couldn't help walking over to touch the body of the piano. There were a little dust particles within the normal range, which indicated that this place was not unpopular.Gao Wenxuan saw all his actions from the side, and said with a smile: "I want to see if anyone has used it, just play the keys."

Gao Wenxuan stood by the piano, stretched out his hand and stroked the neatly arranged black and white keys without making a sound, and said softly: "You played very well today, it reminds me of your New Year's Day performance in the third year of high school a few years ago. , I only watched the second half of the song when I came here, but today I finally saw your complete solo on stage."

"I almost forgot what song I was playing at that time." Lin Mo said, staring down at the keys.

Gao Wenxuan showed a somewhat surprised expression, "Didn't you always have a good memory?"

Lin Mo avoided the important and ignored the trivial: "It doesn't mean that I will remember everything clearly."

The moonlight through the glass shone on the open space by the window, Gao Wenxuan walked over, and took the initiative to talk about the topic of their estrangement, "I arranged another doctor for Peng Jing, so that her treatment would be better, you Have you met her recently?"

"No, I saw her before and said she was helping to pick up a relative's child."

"It's fine if you don't."

I was speechless for a while, as if I couldn't find a topic to continue.The estrangement and estrangement between the two for many days has not been eliminated.Lin Mo leaned against the piano, looking at the back of the opponent's shoulders with a faint silver glow.Only the applause echoing in the grand auditorium downstairs broke the silence from time to time.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Mo seemed to say something casually, and finally made a sound in the silence.

"I'm looking at the scenery outside the window without snow." Gao Wenxuan turned his head, "There should be no snow this year."

"It's a city that doesn't get much snow."

"So people like you are looking forward to snow in winter? Although the snow scene is beautiful, I still like the scene of the first snow when it just fell."

"Pure and flawless... and supercilious." Gao Wenxuan's expression was engrossed, as if he was about to reach out his hand to catch the snowflakes thrown to the ground one by one in his memory.

And in his deep murmur, Lin Mo also fell into the memories of what happened here that year.

This was the fifth time Lin Mo played the same piece of music tonight. The twilight had already spread around, and most of the art students had left. The entire third floor changed in a short period of time, empty and silent.Maybe there is another practice room with the same people as Lin Mo. On the eve of the New Year's Day performance, they are still rehearsing the carefully prepared program nervously and tirelessly.

In this dark practice room, only the sometimes ethereal and sometimes deep piano music echoed constantly.When Lin Mo hit the last button and stopped, he found that there was an extra person in the practice room. Even without turning on the light, he could recognize who it was from the figure.

"I didn't expect you to choose this piece of music." The other party took a few steps forward, and stood out of the darkness to the place next to the piano illuminated by the moonlight.

"My sister chose it." Lin Mo replied while sitting on the piano bench.

"Fate is knocking on the door..." Gao Wenxuan shifted his eyes to the black and white keys, and said, "It's really suitable for playing."

Lin Moyan returned to the main story and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I went to your house for dinner. Xiao Ran said that you were still at school and didn't come back. I happened to pass by your school to take a look, and we went back together by the way."

"I still want to practice, you go back first." Lin Mo bowed his head, ready to continue playing the piano.

"I think what you lack is not skills, but an emotion, so if you continue to practice, you won't make much progress." Gao Wenxuan directly expressed his opinion with a smile.

"I know I can't play well..."

Lin Mo's always indifferent and proud expression showed a bit of discouragement and helpless distress, but under the moonlight there was a transparent and fragmented brilliance.Gao Wenxuan naturally stretched out his hand to gently touch his head, and said softly, "No, in terms of technique, you have already played very well."

Lin Mo has seen him do this to his sister many times, and he has also had contact with himself a few times. It is as kind and natural as an elder brother caring for his younger brother. But for some reason, he feels a little different this time. Maybe it is because Lin Ran is not there.

Lin Mo turned his face away slightly, and said calmly: "I think it can be better."

"It's good to be high on yourself, but don't you have to settle the dinner first before continuing?" Gao Wenxuan originally looked at Lin Mo's eyes and glanced out of the window inadvertently. He bent down and lowered his head and said, "Maybe, do something else."

"what's up?"

Gao Wenxuan's smile deepened, and he said, "Turn your head and have a look."

Lin Mo turned his head and looked over. Apart from a window of silver light, there were also pieces of falling white snowflakes.Snow rarely falls in southern cities, not to mention it was so massive and sudden, he felt a strong shock and joy slowly overflowing in his heart.

"You can see the snow now." Gao Wenxuan dropped this sentence lightly, and approached the window.

Lin Mo also stood up involuntarily, impatiently watching the rare scenery outside the window.

Every piece of huge and light white snow sprinkles from the dark blue sky to the earth, densely layered like feathers flying among tall buildings and dead trees, but it is more transparent and pure than feathers, and has the chilling feeling of falling into water.They are eloquent and unrestrained, showing the beauty without knowing it, and they are bound to turn the vegetation into a flawless brilliance.

It fell at such a reckless falling speed, and then the same snowflake came, which made Lin Mo dizzy, staring at them almost fascinated.

"It's not easy for you to get off the stool." Gao Wenxuan laughed beside him.

Lin Mo still stared out of the window and said, "Because it's rare, and it's also very beautiful."

"Yes..." Gao Wenxuan suddenly called out "Momo."

Lin Mo turned his head, but met the other party's eyes as deep as the night sky, containing countless flickering meanings. Gao Wenxuan lowered his head slowly, closing the distance between the two as the snowflakes fell silently outside the window.

Slowly approaching, when the lips were about to touch, it stopped in summer.Gao Wenxuan smiled, and said: "In this way, you should know how to take the initiative to chase girls. This is what your sister said about the right time and place."

It turned out that this was just an impromptu teaching continued during the mid-autumn festival joke.

Lin Mo felt an unspeakable loss. This kind of emptiness was unprecedented. Surrounding him was even more bewildering than the action just now.This feeling has been faintly felt countless times before, but at this moment today, he suddenly understood.

It was this person in front of him who unknowingly began to affect his emotions during getting along with him. Every quiet throbbing, every secret joy in him was all caused by the other party's accidental actions.Before, he never wanted to think about it, let alone face this special feeling, but when he turned around, he found that he had walked to the edge of the cliff.

He only saw all this clearly when the unfinished kiss was about to happen, because at that moment, Lin Mo's heart was not only shocked, flustered, and unbelievable, but also mixed with a trace of expectation.

I actually have expectations?This realization immediately cast a shadow over his heart.

Just like the first snow that is pouring into the earth calmly and freely, it either turns into water when it encounters water, or is covered with a layer of light fluff gently, waiting for someone to step on it and become filthy.And his "like" is destined to be obliterated by himself after he makes it clear, otherwise, he will only be riddled with holes.

Anyone is fine, but why is it my sister's lover?