under the filth

The British winter holiday is very short, only half a month later, the students of the University of Bath have started a new semester.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the temperature slowly rose, and even the classroom became much warmer.The sophomore class is more intense than the freshman class, so it is inevitable that there will be a few students in the classroom during this time who can't hold on to sleep in the middle of the class.

When Tang Cen almost knocked his head on the desk for the third time, Andy finally couldn't help pushing him: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Tang Cen rubbed his eyes, and there were still red marks on his cheeks from his hands.Although he dozed off very much all morning, he couldn't sleep comfortably even if he held on like this, and his heart was stuffy.

Taking advantage of the moment when the professor lowered his head, Andy leaned up to look at Tang Cen's face, and whispered, "You don't look like you're okay." When the professor raised his head, Andy had already shrunk back, and he looked at Tang Cen's face. The classmate lying in the corner suggested to Tang Cen, "Go to sleep for a while, and I will organize a copy of the notes for you later."

Tang Cen rubbed his forehead, his head was drowsy: "Mmm..." He really wanted to sleep, but he had already tossed and tossed about three or four times in one class, and the professor was still in class, so he definitely couldn't sleep well in the classroom.

Seeing that Tang Cen was still struggling, Andy remembered that last year when he was sick and didn't come to class, he found a video to make up for it on the weekend: "You can watch the video for the next few classes. If you don't feel well, don't come to class for now. ?” After speaking, he persuaded, “Sleeping in the dormitory is more comfortable than lying on your stomach in the classroom.”

Tang Cen shook his head and took a deep breath: "Lend me to make up your notes later."

"Oh." Andy responded quietly and took notes quietly. He was used to Tang Cen's behavior. Anyway, he couldn't persuade this monster of learning.

After the afternoon class, Tang Cen borrowed Andy's notebook and went back to the apartment first.When Lu Sheng went out this morning, he said that he had other things to do in the afternoon, but he hadn't come back yet, the apartment was empty, only Tang Cen was alone.

Tang Cen went straight back to his room, and put the textbooks and Andy's notebook on the desk.He changed into loose pajamas, sat at the desk, opened his notebook and flipped through two pages, looking at the parts he was missing.

There was a lot of wind blowing from the walk all the way back just now, the wind in Bath in early summer was still cool, and Tang Cen was a little sober after blowing it.But not long after walking back to the room where the temperature was only a few degrees higher, Tang Cen began to feel drowsy again.

The season of spring sleepiness had passed, but Tang Cen still felt obvious sleepiness.He's not staying up all night like he used to, but even though he sleeps all day on weekends, he still doesn't feel like he's getting enough sleep.

Andy's notes were neatly written and organized, but Tang Cen couldn't read a single word.He bent down and took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer - this was bought when he went shopping in the city some time ago, and Tang Cen would smoke one or two cigarettes every day.

After the drowsiness symptoms appeared, Tang Cen began to consume nicotine and alcohol crazily and irresistibly, so as to paralyze his nerves.

In the past, every time Tang Cen bought cigarettes, he used various reasons to avoid the sight of others.And no matter whether Lu Sheng was in the apartment or not, he always smoked in the bathroom, turned on the exhaust fan, and used the hot air from the shower and the scent of body wash to cover up the smell of burning tobacco.But since he took a cigarette from someone else three weeks ago, Tang Cen no longer hides it.

Although Tang Cen tried his best to control the number of times he smoked and drank, he obviously felt that he had begun to become addicted and out of control.During this period of time, Tang Cen could often feel that the low-tar thin smoke was gradually unable to satisfy his spiritual needs, and his body was clamoring greedily, asking him to take in more nicotine.

So Tang Cen began to attend the parties in Lily's apartment more and more frequently, and had to use the parties to cover up the fact that he was drinking and smoking.

When Tang Cen took the cigarette from Lily's roommate for the first time, it was as if someone had pressed the pause button, and the noisy living room instantly fell silent.

Andy and Lily looked at Tang Cen with a cigarette in surprise, even the roommate who handed the cigarette was stunned.Everyone knew that Tang Cen didn't smoke, and that roommate just passed the cigarette out of habit, but Tang Cen picked it up before he could take it back.

Tang Cen ignored the surprised gazes of the people around him, and asked vaguely with a cigarette in his mouth, "Is there a fire?"

Lily's roommate was still holding up the cigarette case in her hand in a daze, and only reacted when she heard Tang Cen's question, and hurriedly took out the lighter from her pocket.He pressed the lighter, and Tang Cen leaned forward to half-cover the flame with his hand, lowered his head to light the cigarette in his mouth.

Tang Cen's inexplicable skillful movements fell into the eyes of others, and they suddenly realized that the top student in front of him who had always been self-controlled was not trying new things out of curiosity, but he was serious.

"Don, do you drink beer?" A brown-skinned woman asked holding a beer. She is a graduate student from another department. She happens to know people who live here, and she often comes here when she is not busy.

Tang Cen took the beer, nodded and thanked her, and the woman responded with a warm and generous smile.The interaction between the two dissipated the weird atmosphere just now, and the living room returned to its original excitement.

Pressing his lips against the cold glass, Tang Cen raised his head, and the cool and irritating liquid poured into his mouth along the mouth of the bottle, flowed down his throat, and slowly slid down his esophagus into his stomach.

Tang Cen was obsessed with the sensation of alcohol and nicotine paralyzing his nerves.Unlike the heaviness when you are sleepy during the day, when you are awake, it is like a brain that is being cut and stabbed by a knife, as if you have lost your pain nerves, it is erratic and relaxed.Even when he woke up the next day and still had to face those terrible things, Tang Cen was still intoxicated in the wine glasses he kept exchanging at night, knowing that he was addicted but never quitting.

Tang Cen took out a lighter and an ashtray from the deep drawer with a cigarette in his mouth, and put the ashtray in the empty space on the table.With a "pop", the smell of burning tobacco mixed with mint escapes from the faint spark.

Holding the cigarette between his knuckle fingers, Tang Cen took a deep breath. "Huh—" The white smoke drifted away from the eyes, and the air was filled with a faint smell of smoke with the fragrance of mint.

The thin mint-flavored smoke is cooler than other smokes, and it can make Tang Cen's brain regain some sobriety when he suffers from narcolepsy.A small amount of nicotine and tar not only paralyzed Tang Cen's pain, but also numbed the continuous drowsiness.

Tang Cen hardly listened to anything in this morning's class, and now he was copying notes while flipping through the textbook.The phone on the bed suddenly vibrated twice, it was an email from Lily Johnson: "There is a party at the apartment this Friday night, please ask Shang Lu to come along."

But Tang Cen was already absorbed in reading the textbook, and he didn't see the message until he couldn't ignore the soreness from his shoulders and neck and stood up to move around.Seeing Lily's invitation, Tang Cen wondered if Lu Sheng would go, when he happened to hear the sound of him opening the door.

Tang Cen opened the door and met Lu Sheng who had just come back from the outside.Shaking the phone, Tang Cen asked, "There is a party on Friday, are you going?"

Lu Sheng doesn't smoke and doesn't like to drink, so he rarely attends such parties.But ever since Tang Cen stopped hiding his smoking, Lu Sheng was worried that he might be contaminated with other things at such parties, so he followed him frequently to and from various apartments.

"Go." Although it was faint, Lu Sheng could still smell the smoke on Tang Cen's body.

Lily and Andy would invite Tang Cen to the party. Although sometimes it was a bit crazy, this group of college students was still in good order. At least when they opened the door, it wasn't full of smog and (sexual) promiscuity.

On the day of the party, Lu Sheng was sitting next to Tang Cen, answering the professor's email with his head down, the cup in his hand hadn't moved.Tang Cen was smoking a cigarette at the side, taking wine glasses from strangers or familiar people one after another, no matter what kind of wine was in the glass, he would never refuse anyone.

Tang Cen flicked the cigarette ash, and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.At the moment of swallowing, the people beside him said a few words, Tang Cen collapsed on the sofa and laughed with them.

Mixing beer and whiskey, Tang Cen couldn't hold it no matter how good he was.After drinking a few glasses of wine back and forth, Tang Cen felt the stamina after laughing. He put his arm around Lu Sheng's shoulder and leaned against Lu Sheng's body in a daze.Lu Sheng was taken aback by the smell of alcohol on Tang Cen's body, he didn't even bother to read the mail, he waved his hand while supporting him and pushed away the glasses of wine that were handed over to him.

"Tang Cen? Go back?" Lu Sheng followed Tang Cen's back, and pressed the back of his hand against Tang Cen's cheek, the skin that was pressed against it was hot.

"Go back." Lying on Lu Sheng's body, Tang Cen's voice was muffled, but Lu Sheng who was next to him could still hear him clearly.Tang Cen's strong smell of alcohol and muttering made him look like he was too drunk. Lu Sheng began to regret letting him drink tonight.

Lu Sheng looked at his phone, it was getting late, and he thought that he might be busy taking care of drunks tonight, so after saying hello to Lily, he helped Tang Cen to leave early.

Tang Cen's wine can be regarded as the best among the people present tonight. The whole journey was quiet and quiet, neither loud nor noisy, but it was inevitable that he would feel a little drifting when he was drunk, and most of his body was hanging on Lu Cheng body.

But when Lu Sheng was looking for the key to open the door, Tang Cen leaned against the door frame and stared at him.The drunken man had a lazy expression on his face, and there were some watery glints in his eyes.

While inserting the key into the keyhole, Lu Sheng put his hand on Tang Cen's head and kissed him. With his lips and tongue intertwined, he pushed Tang Cen into the door.The lips are pressed together, the tongue is entangled, and the quiet apartment makes the sound of the water between the kisses clearer.

During the kiss, Lu Sheng half-dragged and half-hugged Tang Cen into the room. Tang Cen's wrist was around his neck, and the two of them fell on the bed together by inertia.The bodies of the two were tightly pressed together, and the double weight made Tang Cen sink deeply into the soft bed.

Lu Sheng pressed Tang Cen to deepen the kiss. Tang Cen meekly let him control her, her soft hair fell on the bed sheet.Tang Cen's every clumsy response made Lu Sheng lose his sanity, and his hands became restless.

Slowly stroking Tang Cen's hips upwards with his hands, Lu Sheng felt his body through the material of the clothes. It was a little thin, but the muscular waist and abdomen felt very good.

That strange feeling made Tang Cen's breathing disordered for a moment, his chest heaved greatly, and the warm breath mixed with alcohol sprayed on Lu Sheng's face.

When the two of them could hardly restrain themselves, Lu Sheng took the initiative to end the kiss.When they parted, a silver wire was still connected between their lips, and as the two separated, they were stretched and snapped and disappeared.

Lu Sheng propped himself up and wanted to distance himself, but Tang Cen still hooked him, and he refused to let go after coaxing him for a long time.

Lu Sheng looked down at Tang Cen, his eyes were still wet and he didn't seem to be awake.Reason told him to push Tang Cen away even if he didn't leave, but when he met Tang Cen's eyes, his mind was left blank.The heart in the chest was pounding, and the sound made Lu Sheng's eardrum ache.

Just as Lu Sheng was about to forcibly break Tang Cen's hand, his glistening lips closed and opened.

"Do it?"

Lu Sheng's hand stopped, and he felt that Tang Cen was now grabbing the string called "reason" in his brain, pulling it to both sides little by little.He brushed away Tang Cen's messy hair sticking to his cheeks, and said helplessly, "You're drunk, don't make trouble." Even though he couldn't ask for it all the time, Lu Sheng didn't want to sneak in when Tang Cen was drunk. Do too mean.

"Lu Sheng, don't you want to do it?" Tang Cen rubbed Lu Sheng's hand affectionately. He looked completely different when he was drunk and when he was sober, looking ignorant and provocative.He hugged Lu Sheng's shoulders, leaned close to his ear, and said in a soft voice, "I promise you if I do it."

Lu Sheng was stunned for two seconds, and then he (pressed) Tang Cen on the bed, pressed his forehead against his, nose to nose: "Don't regret it."

Tang Cen slightly raised his head and rubbed his lips: "No."