Love is like the hole in a donut

Didn't delete that data? ]

[I just fiddled with it so you don't want to look at that phone number again. ]

Cang Lin hurriedly took back the phone.

["Minuet of Forest Bears and... Rabbits"? ]

Rinsheng just changed the name of the contact person.

[This is not...]

[The donuts you hate, manager.So you won't want to watch it again? ]

Seeing the tricky product name appearing on the phone, Cang Lin was really dumbfounded.Facing this kind of Canglin, Rinsheng felt a little funny, so he laughed "haha".

While laughing, Linsheng also realized that he hadn't laughed out loud like this for a long time, and it turned out that being able to laugh was so comfortable.

This is closer to the stars in the sky than where we usually stay.Lin Sheng didn't look up at the night sky, but spent this time looking at Cang Lin's face uninterruptedly.

Although it was an ordinary night, Lin Sheng had no reason to think that he would never forget this night in his whole life.

[...Damn it, the water is cut off again. ]

Cang Lin sat at the gray desk in the office, facing a pile of written materials, he took a ballpoint pen to scribble, and then cursed at the intermittently written words.

[I can lend you a pen. ]

The boy who put the absence card into the clock machine poked his face out from behind Canglin.

It was not yet six o'clock in the evening.This is the working hours of the night shift part-timers.

During the summer vacation, Linsheng mostly had morning shifts, but after entering September, except for holidays, he resumed the original shift method, only working at night.

After all, he is a high school student, so this is a natural arrangement.Rinsheng seemed to go home after school first, and then come back to work.Cangbayashi seldom sees him in the store in his school uniform, but sometimes he can feel that Linsheng is a "student" from some small details.

Linsheng took out a navy blue canvas pencil case from the nylon bag hanging on his shoulder.

[Take out the pencil case from the school bag... I feel like a student. ]

[Because... I am indeed a student. ]

It was a pencil case in the shape of a pencil case.Linsheng spread out the pen roll bag, and Canglin took a black ballpoint pen from it, and then his eyes stopped on the writing utensil next to the ballpoint pen.

[what is that? ]

[What... oh, it's just an ordinary pencil. ]

It was indeed one of the ubiquitous hexagonal yellow pencils.The reason why Cang Lin paid attention was because there seemed to be something carved on the side of the pen body.

Looking closer, it turns out that it is a delicate flower with a diameter of about two millimeters.

[What is this... Did you engrave it? ]

"Pencil sharpening" - Cang Lin remembered the words written on the interest column of the resume, but he couldn't believe that the scene in front of him turned out to be the true meaning of those three words.Using the vocabulary that Cang Lin knew, this couldn't be called a pencil sharpener at all. It was carving, and it was a very delicate embossing.

[This is a failed work.I originally wanted to cut it all out, but one part broke during the carving process, so I didn't continue to carve it. ]

[……What?Carved into hollow? ]

[It's like this.This is a hollow work made by hollowing out the inside of the wood.Sometimes I just leave the refill in the middle and just play around with it...]

Lin Sheng took out another pencil and showed it to Cang Lin. There was a wide range of engravings on it, making it almost impossible to tell that it was originally a hexagonal pencil with a yellow skin.The whole pencil is only left with the refill in the middle, and all of them are carved with hollow shapes.

[Amazing! ]

[It’s just for killing time. ]

[Student Uehara, you are amazing!What a coincidence your hands are.what about others?Are there any other works! ? ]

[... You have seen enough. ]

Cang Lin was clearly praising Linsheng, but Linsheng quickly put away the pencil.It seems that he is not used to having his works viewed by others, nor is he used to the feeling of being praised.

[What does it matter?Let me have a look. ]

Cang Lin begged Rinsheng so obsessively, partly because Rinsheng's shy reaction was so rare.The boy took a few steps back, put the pen roll bag into the bag, and Cang Lin hurriedly got up and chased after him.At this time, Cang Lin suddenly felt a strange feeling.

[Hey... wait a minute. ]

The problem is not with the pencil.

It was the angle at which he looked up at the boy.

[You... seem to have grown taller? ]

[Grow taller?Oh, after all, I'm still in puberty...]

[Even if you are still growing, you must have grown too tall, right? ]

[I grow one centimeter every month, since I started working part-time, I should have grown about three centimeters now...]

[Three centimeters... You are growing as fast as a bamboo shoot, 17 years old is really an amazing age. ]

Cang Lin estimated that Linsheng's original height was at least 180 centimeters. How many centimeters does he plan to grow to?Cang Lin looked up at Lin Sheng's face in admiration, and Lin Sheng couldn't help turning around suddenly.

[It's already six o'clock, I'm going to change clothes. ]

Cang Lin's hand was thrown away by Lin Sheng, which made him startled.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that he had unconsciously grabbed Lin Sheng's arm just now.

Lin Sheng left the office, and Cang Lin returned to his desk. He was about to continue filling in written materials with a borrowed ballpoint pen, when he inadvertently felt that the sky outside seemed to be getting darker.In summer, the position by the window will be quite stuffy due to the western sun, but in this season, there is only weak sunlight that can penetrate the sandblasted glass and shine into the room.

Sunset should also be earlier.

Summer is long gone, and September is almost over.

The donut shop is still the same, but the job is much easier.After the summer, none of the part-timers resigned, and they were still willing to continue working.Although everyone seems to be reluctant to get close to me as the store manager, only Lin Sheng is willing to chat with him often——

The 17-year-old child, Cang Lin, originally believed that they and Ben were creatures that could not communicate with each other.

Adults and children belong to different groups.There is no need for excessive entanglement between the two groups, and there is no need to interfere with each other. Adults only need to play the role of adults well, and children only need to play tricks occasionally.

However, for some reason, Cang Lin always felt that Lin Sheng seemed to be deliberately getting closer to him all the time.

The two of them just went to the observatory together to look at the stars after get off work.Is this alone enough to make me feel this way?

Cang Lin looked at the right hand holding the ballpoint pen, and a slender figure in line with today's aesthetic standards emerged in his mind, and then suddenly realized that the arm he touched just now was actually quite muscular.

When riding a bicycle uphill, Lin Sheng's back was right in front of his eyes.In the kitchen, Cang Lin often saw the back of the boy working silently.

Looking from behind, Linsheng's hands and feet are slender, which makes Canglin feel that it is a waste to decorate donuts with this figure.Linsheng's hands are obviously very skillful, but the bow around the waist of the apron is always tied crookedly; the head with the hat is small, the neck is not short, and the straight back of the neck is covered with light chestnut hair .

Cang Lin felt that he seemed to be observing Lin Sheng a lot recently.

If he kept staring at Lin Sheng, Cang Lin was afraid that his heart would beat faster because of it.

——Who taught Rinsheng how to speak that kind of words at that time?

"what about me? 』

It is impossible for a high school student to become his love object.

However, Cang Lin did not dare to assert that it was completely impossible. Cang Lin was born an out-and-out homosexual. He was never attracted to women. The first person he fell in love with was his tutor in his middle school class. .

Basically, he thinks he likes older men.

This incident made him inexplicably relieved at this moment.

[...What the hell am I worried about? ]

Cang Lin reached into the pocket of his uniform and took out his cell phone.

Turning on the phone, the name of the phone book that greeted my eyes remained the same as Linsheng's modification that day.The lengthy name beginning with the four characters "Forest Bear" went beyond the screen and was cut off at the middle. Seeing this string of characters, Cang Lin couldn't help feeling the urge to laugh.

Before you know it, the reasons for turning on your phone and staring at your phone book screen are not the same as before.What used to make Cang Lin tense his shoulders and stare at the screen with a frown is now something that makes him relax.

Since he was the only one in the office, he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud, and at this moment——

The phone rang in his hand.

[...Scared, scared me to death! ]

It felt like the phone hadn't rang for a long time.Looking at the text displayed on the screen, he couldn't help wondering if he read it wrong.

"Minuet of Forest Bear and Rabbit".

For a moment, Cang Lin couldn't even understand what the text scrolling along with the ringtone of the call meant.

His mind went blank.

Cang Lin held the phone close to his ear tremblingly.

"...Yuhe?it's me.haven't seen you for a long time. 』

Donuts, fluffy and delicious donuts.

Honey, icing sugar, lemonade.The chocolate shell on the right is made into honey flavor.

White chocolate, strawberry jam, milk and a little dried berries.On the left, a strawberry chocolate chip is created.

Finally, decorate with caster sugar and icing florets.Sprinkle a little chocolate rice, sprinkle a little more chocolate rice, don't forget to make the overall shape look harmonious and lovely.

Facing a pile of freshly fried "Original Donuts", Linsheng was very focused. His hands danced like a conductor, bowing left and right and decorating two kinds of donuts at the same time.

Until a voice sounded in my head for no reason——

"Uehara-san, you are amazing! 』