[Master K] The bad one next door

Chapter 18

On the way back, Maya didn't say a word to Zhui Tian.

The two, who have always talked about everything, fell into a rare silence, and this silence came from Mami's unilateral anger.Yazawa Maya considers herself to be a very good-tempered person, but all the things that happened in the past few days made her feel exhausted. Today's farce caused her to fall into an unprecedented situation. of anxiety.

The short-haired girl beside her was leaning on the back of the chair and listening to music with her eyes closed. The white headphone cable was winding from her brown hair into her pocket.She crossed her hands and crossed her legs, her indifferent expression seemed to be indifferent to everything around her, including this quarrel that started and ended inexplicably.

With her schoolbag in her arms, Mami stared blankly at the bustling scenery of the street passing by outside the car window, her face was slightly scalded by the scorching sun.

How did this cold war start?

When Zhui Tian dragged her out of the ward almost arbitrarily, the joy that had quietly gathered in her heart because of seeing her childhood sweetheart had disappeared, replaced by a puzzlement of her friend's behavior.She stopped in place, bit her lower lip and looked at the cold-faced Zhui Tian: "Mayue...?"

The short-haired girl was silent for a while, her face softened a little, but she was still a little ugly: "You really should keep a little distance from Hatta."

Mami was stunned for a moment, then slowly frowned: "Are you too prejudiced against Misaki and the others? I told you before, Misaki is a good person..."

"It's not me who is really prejudiced, but you!" Chaitian interrupted her words unceremoniously, with a trace of sullen expression in his expression, "Take a good look at those people around him! They are all gangsters! Look at that This kind of strong evil spirit, they are all guys who may fight if they disagree with each other! It is said that like attracts like, how do you know that the Misaki Hatta you see is not one-sided?"

Mami opened her mouth, but Chaita didn't give her a chance to speak at all: "Yes, you have played with him since childhood, but all you see is Misaki Hatta who is your childhood sweetheart! Now that you have grown up, Everyone has their own circle of life, everything is different from before—to put it bluntly, have you really known Hatta Misaki?"

If she still had the strength to refute before, the last sentence really hit her sore spot directly.

The dark-haired girl fell silent.

Nothing to say.

Completely speechless.

She already had this feeling after what she saw on Thursday, and now she was directly exposed by her best friend as a scar—she always thought that Hatta simply didn't like studying, It wasn't until that day that she saw the hidden side of the orange-haired boy from the perspective of a silent bystander.

Crimson flames.Brutal violence.The excitement of seeing blood.

There are two extremes with the arrogant and shy boy next door she has always seen.

After that, she just lied to herself like self-hypnosis, cheating over and over again that "he must have his own reasons for hiding you", and as time passed, she seemed to really think so.Until Zhui Tian Wuyue spread it out clearly and exposed it to the glaring sunlight, as if mockingly saying: Look, everything is just your wishful thinking, and you are the only one there foolishly singing a one-man show. Don't treat you as a friend.

Zhui Tian didn't realize that her mood fell to the bottom in an instant, and still frowned self-consciously: "To be honest, I always feel that Hatta is not as simple as we saw. You also know that my athletic ability is the best in the whole grade. It's pretty good, but when I looked at him, I actually had a feeling of 'If he wants to, I will be torn to pieces by him in a second'."

Chasing Tian Wuyue's intuition has always been accurate.Zhenya, who knew the truth, knew that she was right this time.

Zhui Tian turned to look at her worriedly: "Even I am like this, if you meet him, it will definitely be even more...so you'd better stay away from him."

—May is caring about you, you always know, she is your best friend.Being deceived is only your own business, it has nothing to do with her——Yazawa Maya, you can't just vent your anger casually, it's wrong.

She silently advised herself like this, but still couldn't help clenching her fists tightly.

Then it became the embarrassing situation now.

Maya put his arm on the window of the car, endured it, but couldn't help but look at Zhui Tian beside him.The short-haired girl wore earphones with a peaceful expression, completely unaffected by the bumps along the way, and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

She sighed silently, and continued to turn her head and stare out the window in a daze.

<<<<<

When Maya came home, Yazawa's parents were not there.

The huge room was empty, and there seemed to be a tinge of coldness in the lifeless air, which made her shiver involuntarily.

She kicked off her white student shoes with the heels of her shoes, took off the fur hat given by a patient and hung it on the hanger by the door, picked up her schoolbag and walked towards the room.When she was dragging her pace past the coffee table, she caught sight of something out of the corner of her eye. She paused hesitantly, then turned around abruptly, staring down at the coffee table in a daze.

There was a brown envelope on the coffee table.

The edge of the envelope was slightly wrinkled, as if it had been pinched hard by someone, and the deep nail prints on the seal were surprisingly clear.The black font in the center of the cover was as straight as it was printed on a computer, and the familiar name was reflected in her eyes, making her pupils tingle slightly——.

Ryoko Orihara, accept.

Before her mother married her father, her surname was Orihara—perhaps because this surname contained a strange meaning, which was unknown to everyone except a few relatives who were more familiar with her.Leaving aside how the sender knew about it, just adding the surname "Orihara" before the name of Ryoko, who is married, is enough to make people think deeply about that person's ulterior motives.

In any case, the letter was addressed to my mother.

——It was the letter in my mother's hand that day.

After receiving this letter, her whole family has become something wrong. At this time, the ordinary brown envelope has become like a demon from hell in the eyes of the girl.She bit her lower lip and stared at the letter. Subconsciously, she retracted her outstretched hand after touching the cover, and her fingertips behind her back trembled slightly.

This letter should have been hurriedly thrown on the coffee table by my mother after reading it, and it didn't mean to reveal it to her.Mami stood there and struggled for a while, but finally made up her mind.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, stretched out her hand, and grabbed the envelope slowly and firmly.

……

"Maya? Are you listening?"

Someone tapped the bowl in front of him lightly with chopsticks.Mami raised her head abruptly, and stared at Yazawa's mother with a worried expression.

"What's the matter? She looks absent-minded."

"I..." Maki opened her mouth, and she swallowed the words that were about to blurt out.She paused, shook her head slowly, and smiled at the corner of her mouth: "It's nothing, I just remembered something about the hospital."

Dad is not at home.This has been the case for several nights.

He often came back crookedly when she was about to go to bed, and sometimes even opened the door late at night when she was already asleep, exuding a pungent woman's perfume; When you go out, you can't see a word with your family members for a day.But my mother, who has always been in charge, turned a blind eye to this abnormally.

A few days ago, Maya might still feel puzzled, bewildered and scared about this, but now—after reading that letter—she has completely understood it, and chose to keep silent about it.

The truth of the matter is nothing more than that simple, but it has created a rift between the family that can no longer be bridged.

It's really frustrating.

After that, she put the envelope back in a trance, for fear that her mother would know that she had read the letter when she came back.Then she stayed in the room in a daze, and after a few hours, her mother told her to finish eating before going downstairs sullenly. As expected, she caught a glimpse of the brown envelope on the coffee table from the corner of her eye.

"Really?" Mom had no doubts about what she said, she held her chin and thought for a while, "Ah, so you did participate in the school's voluntary activities. How do you feel?"

Mami lowered his head and picked up a piece of grilled eel, tasted it, put down his chopsticks, and picked up the water glass beside him: "Mmm... I met a new friend."

Mom's reaction was full of almost exaggerated surprise: "Eh? What kind of friends? Boys and girls?"

"...So Mom, is your focus on gender?!"

"This is very important. From now on, I will screen sons-in-law one by one, but you are not indifferent to boys except Misaki..."

"It's a girl! A lovely girl!"

"Huh? What a pity..."

"So what's the pity!"

While laughing, it seemed to return to the previous scene for a moment.Mami looked at her haggard black eyes, but still teased her mother as briskly as before, and the sadness that had been suppressed in her heart gradually surfaced.

When this kind of thing happened, the most sad thing should be her as a wife.

But this woman never said a word of complaint to her daughter, or even mentioned it to her at all, just to keep her from worrying and distracting, and to prevent the beautiful and happy home in her memory from being shattered into empty bubbles. Alone, he stubbornly provoked the burden of the family, and when he was sad, he still gently smoothed the waves between her brows.

Maya thought of the one or two dried water stains on the brown envelope from before.

The person who once hid alone in the dark and cried, but forced a smile on the child under the light——

Your name is mother.

Yazawa's father didn't come home late until Maya took a shower and was sitting in the living room drying her hair with a hairdryer while watching the evening news.

As soon as he opened the door, a strong smell of alcohol scrambled into her nostrils, and this smell was even worse when he came to the living room crookedly.The man who always pays attention to his image seldom blushed from drinking, and even the skin on his neck was as hot as burning.The smell of alcohol and the faint smell of rouge mixed together, stimulating Maya's sense of smell.She stopped hesitantly, looking at the father who was drinking Gao gasping against the shoe cabinet, feeling mixed feelings in her heart.

She was hesitating whether to say hello, but Dad shuffled and walked past her to the room, belching along the way.After the door of the parents' room slammed shut, the only sound left in the living room was the "hum" of the hair dryer blowing hot air.

Mami sat awkwardly on the sofa, a little sad but relieved at the same time.

Then she started worrying again.

<<<<<

When Mami opened his eyes in a daze, what caught his eyes was the bright moonlight cast into the room through the gap in the curtains.

The moonlight cast a cold halo on the floor, and the lingering chill in the air at the end of winter woke up the dazed girl a little bit.She rubbed her eyes, sat up on the bed, groped with one hand at the head of the bed, grabbed the terminal and took a closer look.

— 3:36.

The white figures glow softly in the dark.

Mami was stunned for a while, lifted the quilt, got up and got out of bed, then walked lightly to the door, and pushed it open.

It was dark outside the room, but she could clearly see the outline of the object after sleeping.As soon as she went out, she walked towards the bathroom, and when she passed her parents' room, she stopped suddenly.

The door opened a crack.There are traces of light in the cracks.

There was a conversation in a low voice in the room, the tone was fierce, it seemed that the two were arguing about something.She couldn't hear it very clearly, and could only vaguely hear some key words such as "little three", "that woman", "cheating", "divorce" and so on.

It seemed that some extremely angry topic was mentioned, and my mother scolded something, and then there was the sound of something smashing on the ground.

Mami stood there silently, the light from the crack of the door casting blurred shadows on her calm to pale face.She bit her lower lip, turned around in silence, and continued to walk to the bathroom.

After going to the bathroom and returning to the room, she fell on the bed as if she had lost her center of gravity. She curled up into a ball, buried her face in the soft quilt, but opened her eyes in frustration, and she never felt sleepy again.