Spring and summer

What happened later, no one expected.

After that incident in the park, Kirihara expressed his displeasure with his senior during practice, but this emotion dissipated within a few days.

The national competition won't start until August and a half. Throughout July, Kirihara who wanted to find Haruka couldn't find her because she didn't know her contact information or where her family lived.

But it was very easy for her to come and find him. After all, the tennis club continued to practice in the school during the summer vacation. If she didn't take the initiative to find him for such a long time, she must have gone to Fukuoka.

Kirihara, who was thinking like this, spent a summer vacation completely filled with tennis before he knew it.

Until the national competition ended regrettably, Li Haida's dream of three consecutive championships came to naught in the year he joined.

For him, the summer of that year was too unforgettable. At the end of the summer spent amidst the endless chirping of cicadas, an incomplete ending was drawn with unwilling tears.

But as I recalled later, this was just one of the most memorable things, and the other thing was her.

On the last day of summer vacation, Kirihara, who was lying on the bed in the room with the air conditioner on, enjoying the end of summer, was startled when his sister pushed the door open with a wicked smile on her face.

"Chiya, my girlfriend called you~"

Qieyuan jumped up, and was about to rush downstairs, but her sister grabbed her ear and said, "When did it happen? You kid, you really hid it so well, you even wanted to keep it from me."

"Ah, sister, let me answer the phone first, okay..."

Kirihara rubbed his ears, and picked up the receiver with some excitement.

"Senior." There was a soft voice that had not been heard for a long time on the other side of the phone.

"Hmm, um, long time no see."

"Do you have time right now?"

"Hey, hey? Ah, free, what can I do?"

"Can you come out for a while? I'll wait for you in front of Tsujido Station." Afraid that Kiri would get on the wrong station because he was not familiar with the station, Haruka said that it was very close to the school.

"Oh, good." Although I didn't know what it was, I was a little confused, but my girlfriend, whom I hadn't seen for almost two months, called, and there was no reason to refuse.

"I'm sorry! Sis!" Kirihara quickly changed his clothes after getting his sister's temporary forgiveness, neatly set the hairspray, and went out quickly.

Not a while after running to the station, I saw Haruka sitting on a bench eating a lollipop.

"Senior!" Yaoxiang stood up and waved to him, then fumbled in the bag for a while, took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat.

He looked down at her, he seemed to have lost a lot of weight, his complexion was not very good, and - short?Oh, no, it should be a few centimeters taller, right?

"Well, did you just come back?"

The hand that wiped his sweat froze for a moment, then let it go: "Well, I just came back this morning."

Haruka, who had just returned to Kanagawa, took Kirihara tirelessly and began to wander around, from the gymnasium to the seaside park, and then went back to the gate of the school for some reason.

"Huh? Why are you here~" Yaoxiang couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.

"..." I really followed her completely, and I couldn't even get in the middle of the conversation. Every time I wanted to talk about whether she would be too tired when she came back, I was unknowingly distracted.

"Hey, senior, take me home, okay?" Yaoxiang looked at him and said, "You don't know where my home is, do you?"

Kirihara, who was tall but not brainy, didn't react at all.When she recovered, she was already standing at the door of her house.

"Then... I'll go first, you have a good rest." Although I felt a little weird today, I tried to ask several times but failed.

As soon as he turned around, the corner of his clothes was grabbed by the girl.

"Senior... go in and sit for a while."

If Kirihara Chiya didn't know the subtext behind what the girl said before that day in his life, it was Haruka who taught him that day.

Compared with people of the same age, it was indeed earlier, but after many years, no one regretted it.Although Yaoxiang blamed herself for paying a heavy price for this behavior during the period, and felt that it was a reckless and willful experience, but after a long time passed, she was relieved that everything was an arrangement of fate.

Kirihara still remembered the sound of cicadas chirping outside Haruka's room that day, and the leaves in late summer were still lush and green like fresh green.The two were lying on the bed, their heads were covered with a thin layer of sweat, Yao Xiang was panting with some exhaustion, the tender red cheeks made the young girl look very cute and moving.

"Let's break up, senior." After being forced to ask by his sister when he got home, he was completely stunned by the unexpected content when he received her first call.

"what?"

"Break up, senior, although I'm very sorry." The voice over there was calm and reluctant: "I like senior because he looks like the idol star I admire, and the relationship with senior is unexpected. However, I’m still very happy, let’s stop, I don’t want to continue, it’s not fair to seniors.”

A moment of silence.

The people here were completely shocked. They didn't know what to say, and they stammered as soon as they opened their mouths: "Wait...wait a while..."

"I'm sorry, senior. Senior is a very good person. I will definitely find a better girl. Thank you these days." After speaking, the busy tone of the phone beeped from Kirihara's receiver.

Tossing and turning in a daze all night, Kirihara, who came to school with dark circles under his eyes, rushed to the first grade after the first class, and happened to meet a girl who was often with Haruka on the corridor.

"Huh? Haruka didn't tell senior?" Tomomi looked at the tired Kirihara, pulled him to a corner and said, "Because mom lost her job, Haruka transferred to her father's place."

Nioh, who was enjoying a beautiful lunch break on the rooftop, heard soft sobs coming from behind the wall, and was thinking about when the rooftop, which usually belongs to one person, has become a place specially inclined for sadness.But when I took a look, I found out that it was the cute elementary school boy in my club.

"Chi Ye." Seeing him crying with his head buried in his arms, King Ren felt that he should kindly comfort the younger generation.

Kirihara raised his head, with two dark circles and red eyes, Nioh couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Okay, if you lose this year, you can win it back next year." Probably because of the national competition, he I think so.

But knowing the truth came later, and this matter was widely circulated in the few main elections in Lihai that year.

"Youth, youth" - Marui said so.

The summer of Heisei 11 came to an end in this way. With the seasons gone forever, there are still young first loves and innocent years.Everything is like the cool wind in the end of summer, blowing past, a gentle blow on the face, and then flying to the other side and never going back.

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