world without empathy

Drowning.

As if being packed into a huge bubble, except for the blurred vision and buzzing eardrums, there is only boundless coldness and hollowness left.Blue is still blue, the suffocating blue is like a sponge meeting the water source after being exposed to the sun, hysterically kneading me into my body, as if it wants to crush me completely in its blood, bones, and life.But with no power to restrain the chicken, I can only let myself be dragged away from the air and home that should belong to me.

I woke up suddenly, greedily breathing the reunited oxygen and the sweltering heat and stickiness unique to that summer.It turned out to be just a dream. The air conditioner was turned off at some point. I wiped off the fine beads of sweat on my forehead and planned to go to the bathroom to wash my face. At this moment, intermittent knocks on the door sounded.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Who could it be?My uncle's house is locked with a code, everyone in the family knows the code, so there is no need to knock on the door, so someone else came to find my uncle?

"Who is there?" I walked towards the door and looked out through the cat's eyes, but there was no one within the range of the cat's eyes.Strange, did I hear wrong?

Just at this moment, there was another knock on the door.

"Boom, boom, boom!" What's going on?I checked again with my peephole, and this time I saw a small figure diagonally below my line of sight, and I opened the door.

"How do you know my family lives here?"

"Your family lives here?!"

The two spoke at the same time, their faces full of surprise and confusion.

"Then how did you find it?"

"My house is opposite... There is no one at home. I forgot to bring the key and I can't get in." She scratched her head in embarrassment and said, "Can you go in and stay for a while? Just wait until they come home. Once they come back I’ll leave right now.” She stretched out three fingers and looked at me, without an exaggerated expression but inexplicably giving off a pitiful feeling, she added another finger and said, “I’m sending four!”

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"Come in." I turned to her to let her in.

"Hey, let me see what your parents look like~" When she saw me turning sideways, she couldn't wait to take off her shoes and wanted to come in. I grabbed her in time and lifted her whole and stuffed her into the bathroom before her feet touched the floor.

"Wash your hands and feet first."

"I hate that you're always carrying me around!"

"Then grow taller than me, little sister, you are so short that you can't see it with cat's eyes."

"Obviously you look about my age."

"How old are you?"

"I'm 13, what about you?"

"..." I couldn't help but twitched the corners of my mouth, so is this guy who is shorter than a schoolboy and can't see with a cat's eye the same size as me?

There are two people sitting side by side on the sofa opposite the TV. One is scooping up ice cream with a spoon, and the other is obsessed with grabbing ice cream from the other's bowl.

"I just said you should be about my age." She dug out a large scoop of ice cream from my bowl and stuffed it into her mouth and asked me vaguely: "But why did you drag me out to buy ice cream when there is ice cream in the refrigerator at home? "

"..." Because even if I came to play, my relationship with my uncle is not that close, which is a lot of inconvenience.I know that no one will say anything even if I eat the ice cream in the refrigerator, but I still instinctively want to avoid causing inconvenience to others, even if I am inconvenient.But if I tell the truth what I think, she should laugh at her...

In my entanglement, I didn't see Shaonan who was holding a spoon next to me looking at me thoughtfully. I only saw her snatching my spoon and scooping out a large scoop of ice cream from her bowl and handing it to me as a gesture. let me eat it.

"Ok?"

"Do you know that there is a delicacy in the world called food in other people's bowls?"

I shook my head, expressing my incomprehension.

"Eat this if you don't understand." She shook the spoon in her hand to me.

I hesitated for a moment, and took the spoon she handed over to my mouth.It is a kind of refreshing sweetness, as the cold spoon lingers on the tip of my tongue and spreads in the taste buds, it blossoms into light green flowers.This is the first time I have eaten mint ice cream, the kind of sticky and sultry flavor that can make people forget the summer for a while.At this moment, I smiled with a spoon in my mouth, and it was the first time I discovered the gentle and delicate heart of this thin figure beside me.

She took the spoon out of my mouth and said to me, "My name is Shaonan."

"My name is Shen Ru."

"Then Shen Ru, see you in swimming class." She stretched and got up to put on her shoes, and put the ice cream in her hand on the table in the living room.Seeing her bending over to put on her shoes, I asked her inexplicably, "Where are you going?"

"go home."

"Doesn't it mean that no one in the family can't get in, and you have to wait for the family to come before going back?"

"Well, I just heard someone coming from home."

"Really...? I'll see you at the swimming class." Why did I only hear the sound of the TV——|||

Fortunately, Uncle and the others haven't come back yet.

After Shaonan left, I turned off the TV and poured all the ice cream down the kitchen sink. After cleaning and sorting, I started to clean up step by step.I don't want to be seen as an ignorant child who only knows how to eat and play. I need to work hard not to inconvenience others. I need to work hard to be mature and sensible like an adult. I need to work hard to be good enough to let me The man watching saw me in the crowd as well.

After cleaning, I washed the rice and went to the bathroom to take a shower before the meal was finished. The moment I turned on the warm water, the picture of the short girl leaning against the wall in the swimming center and watching me take a bath appeared in my mind.

"I see that you fell so badly just now, and I came here specially to give you bruises, and to see how you are in shape."

I shook my head vigorously, thinking about who is wrong but thinking about the short man.

As soon as I walked out of the bathroom after taking a shower, I heard a cheerful knock on the door.

"Shen Ru, open the door quickly, I'll bring you delicious food!"

——|||I really want to see who will come.

When I opened the door, I was not surprised to see the enlarged face of someone leaning against the door.

"I made Kung Pao Chicken at home. Seeing that your family hasn't come, I'm afraid you won't be able to cook and you will be hungry. I'll bring you some to try. Thank you very much?"

"..." How on earth do you know that my family has not come back yet, and do you want to be so narcissistic——|||

As soon as I took the plate and wanted to say thank you, she glanced at my breasts and said with a half-smile: "I didn't see it clearly last time, so I can see that your breasts are really flat."

I shut the door with a dark face.

"roll!"

"Tsk tsk, so fierce." Someone outside the door sighed, and then said loudly towards the closed door a few seconds ago: "I'm so scared!" Then went home contented.

Inside the door, I looked down at my chest and muttered, "It's obviously because the clothes are too wide."

The author has something to say: When it comes to Kung Pao chicken belly, he will be disobedient, and the baby also wants this kind of good neighbor who delivers home~