Stand by me

(11)

After sending Ryosuke Yamada on the tram home, Nakajima Yuxiang drank a large cup of Coke and opened the door with the key. Dad was sitting in the lobby with a gloomy face, as if he had just seen a ghost.

"Dad... what happened?" Yu Xiang silently put down the Coke in his hand.

"Huh?" Dad responded casually, maybe he was talking to Yuxiang, maybe he was talking to someone who didn't exist in the air, but he still looked at his hands.

"I don't think Mr. Ogawa will speak ill of me. By the way, I am No. 3 in the biology exam, and I have not failed." Yuxiang Nakajima said.

Dad raised his head as if he had just woken up from a dream, his lips twisted, and he said, "It's none of your business, it's just a problem with my work. Have you finished your homework? Go to bed early after reading the book."

After five o'clock in the morning, Nakajima Yuxiang got up to make coffee for the two of them, "Oh my God, he didn't sleep all night!" Looking at his father who had hardly moved his position and the red blood in his eyes, Yuxiang felt a burst of pain in his stomach. feeling of fear.

Yamada Ryosuke enthusiastically checked Yuxiang a lot of information on the Internet about improving the relationship between father and son, and brought him a registration form for a hug club called "expressing thoughts and exchanging emotions". "It's so easy to join the hugging group, come and hug." Ryosuke threw himself into Yuxiang's arms, encouraging him.Yuxiang felt that Ryosuke felt as comfortable as a dumpling, and really wanted to hug him forever.

But at the end of this month, Yamada Ryosuke's situation also became extremely bad.He seemed exhausted every day, and his aura of not being close to others was terrifying. He was not physically injured, but his spirit seemed to be crushed by something.

"Ryosuke, you are in exactly the same situation as my old man." Nakajima Yuxiang really loves him, and sometimes he is afraid.

The answer was an equally long silence.

"Can I share a little trouble for you?" Yuxiang Nakajima asked.

He shook his head and refused: "I will find a way by myself."

Yuxiang asked again worriedly, Yamada Ryosuke looked at him with big wet eyes, his heart softened, and said: "If you don't want to say it today, don't say it. If you are still like this tomorrow, you have to tell me the reason, okay?" ?”

Ryosuke let out a "hmm", and lay down on the table distractedly, ignoring him.

The next day, Ryosuke Yamada didn't come to school.Teacher Ogawa said that he took two weeks off because his family was sick.

On the afternoon of the weekend, Dad came back from outside and learned that Yuxiang hadn't eaten yet, so he offered to go to the famous Italian restaurant nearby. This was the first time they ate out after their mother passed away.Nakajima Yuxiang ordered the cheese baked rice and vegetable soup in the A set meal. "I want the same as him," Dad said to the waiter after he finished ordering.

Yuxiang had two tickets for parent-child lectures in his pocket, and he was determined to persuade his father to go with him, and he also told the great hero who tried his best to facilitate it about the lecture. Impossible.

"Yuxiang, I have something to tell you." Suddenly, Dad looked into his eyes and said with a solemn expression.

Nakajima Yuxiang froze for a moment: "Really? I also have something to say."

Dad was very surprised, with a look of all ears.

"You're so serious, I can't open my mouth." Nakajima Yuxiang avoided his gaze awkwardly, "You should talk first."

Dad closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again, this time staring at the wall of the restaurant, not at Yuxiang."We're going to have an auntie and her baby coming to our house next week," he said.

"Is it your friend, come to stay at home?" Nakajima Yuxiang asked.

"I intend to marry her."

Nakajima Yuxiang stopped the spoon stirring the soup in his hand, "Are you going to remarry?" He hoarse, as if he had experienced a scream.

"Yes." Dad replied. Seeing Yuxiang's staring eyes, he didn't mean to answer, so he had no choice but to continue, "Her name is Aki, and she was my childhood sweetheart in my hometown when I was young. We couldn't be together."

This kind of lines of tragic lovers like Romeo and Juliet, when spoken by father, will only make Yuxiang Nakajima sneer, "Mom has only passed away for more than a year, are you still a man? At least after I finish the college entrance examination, Leave this home and let her come again! It's only been two years, you won't wait for this little time—"

"She was seriously ill!" Dad said painfully, "She broke away from her family for me back then. I was so disheartened that I fell in love with Ai Hui when I arrived in Tokyo. I can't give up on her anymore, I want to be with her It is my duty to finish this journey!"

Nakajima Yuxiang didn't listen to anything, he was not interested in outsiders at all.

"I met Yaji at the college entrance interview. She said she was living happily now, but when I drove her home, she passed out in the back seat. Later, I bought gifts to visit her, and she She is still sick, and she doesn't even have the strength to stand up. According to her neighbors, she has been living very hard these years, and there are a few hooligans who have been unwilling to let her go..."

Yuxiang stood up and was about to leave. He felt sad and tired. He rubbed the ticket into a ball and wiped his mouth. He was about to throw up after listening to it.

"Yaji is a kind woman. She has no resentment towards that child, and she will treat you very well." Dad said almost pleadingly.

Nakajima Yuxiang turned around and shouted: "Who the hell cares, I miss my mother more, and hope she will live to love me!"

Everyone in the restaurant is watching them.

"Whose parent is she? Her child is my classmate, right?"

Dad's answer made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and the cold went straight to his bone marrow.

He said, "She is Yamada-kun's mother."