One of the Twelve Kingdoms

Joshua was squatting on the toilet, and the narrow and damp bathroom smelled of soap and sweat.He was holding his mobile phone and staring at the frosted glass door. There was the sound of the refrigerator being opened outside. The owner of the house seemed to have taken two bottles of beer and was now turning on the TV, as if he was going to show a movie or something.

Two men, a couch, a boring movie, and what happens next is self-evident.

Joshya swallowed nervously, trying to stay calm until Kathy's voice came from the phone.

"Josh?" Casey didn't expect to receive a call from Joshya at this time: "How are you playing?"

"I met a man, and I'm at his house now." Casey exclaimed happily from the other end immediately: "That's not bad, is he good-looking?"

"He's so handsome, the kind that every man in a bar would strike up a conversation with."

"Cool." Casey paused for a while, and then said briskly, "Introduce me another day, if your relationship can last until you get out of bed."

"But he's just a stranger, and I don't even know him." Joshya retorted eagerly, and then felt that this reason was both natural and ridiculous-who would go to a bar to find an acquaintance?Casey obviously thought the same, and asked, "What's his name?"

"Alexander."

"Look, you already know his name, that's enough."

Joshya argued poorly: "I just feel a little uncomfortable. Shouldn't two people introduce themselves first when they meet..."

"And go|to bed."

"If you feel good, let's have a drink together..."

"And go|to bed."

"Then chat and watch a movie..."

"And go|to bed."

"Shut up, Casey." Joshah yelled in a low voice unbearably, and the other party retorted speechlessly: "Please, what you said is just a boring foreplay for the last | bed, I thought you comrades would have stopped playing That's it."

Joshua slumped his shoulders, curled his lips and said, "You're right, oh my God...how did I become so rough, it's like a lace edge."

A knock on the door suddenly interrupted their conversation, and a vague figure was reflected on the frosted glass door. Alexander asked, "Honey, are you okay?"

Joshua covered the phone and replied, "It will be fine soon."

"Wait, you're hiding in someone else's bathroom and calling me now?"

"...well." Joshua had completely lost the excitement in the bar, "Honestly speaking, I feel guilty for betraying Xi Qi."

"Don't worry, he'll never know if you don't tell me."

"I know, I know very well... But I'm conflicted, Kathy, you don't see Alexander's eight pack abs, and the muscles that are hard when he kisses me passionately, and even the accent when he speaks Charming... But Yan Qi would never do this to me in his life, have you ever seen him kiss me? I only kissed my grandmother like this when she was lying in a coffin."

"He's an asshole." Casey's attitude towards Xi Qi seemed to turn 180 degrees, and he condemned sincerely: "Then why don't you go out and enjoy it? Josh, find out what you really desire, don't let anything Bind you."

But Joshua didn't listen to her, and only eagerly poured out her own thoughts: "Look, maybe I'm likable now, but in a few years I won't be able to keep up with the trend, dress old-fashioned and talk silly, like A country boy who came out of nowhere." Joshah excitedly found a bunch of reasons, and sighed, "I'm not sure... maybe because this may be the only chance I have to stay with my comrades .”

"Poor Josh..."

Alexander knocked on the door again: "Do you need my help?"

"I'll be right out." Joshua lowered his voice and said, "I have to hang up." Then he put away his phone and opened the door: "Hi."

Alexander seemed to be relieved. He was naked at this time, and his white teeth were smiling like sunshine on the African grassland. "Is beer okay? I only have beer here."

"Okay." He is obviously a romantic person, and the music played by the saxophone is melodious.Joshua became nervous again. He watched the other party come to the table and raised his neck to take a sip of beer, and then walked over slowly, staring into his eyes silently and provocatively during the process.Joshua tried his best to muster up the courage to look at him, and the next second Alexander raised his jaw, and the warm and spicy wine flowed into his mouth along the connected lips.

A tremor suddenly rose in Joshua's heart, and he raised his hands, wondering if he should hug him, maybe his entanglements and contradictions were also passed on to the other party, and Alexander stopped.

"You should be an adult, right?" Alexander asked, Joshya froze for a moment and then took out his ID to show him: "Of course."

"Very well, you look really small." Alexander glanced at the year of birth on it and joked, "You know I don't want to be caught in the police station as soon as I wake up."

Joshua averted his eyes and gave a perfunctory hum, and the other party continued to come closer: "Can we continue?"

"I have a boyfriend." Joshua tilted his head back to avoid his second approach, and said in a daze, "I'm sorry, I have to go..."

"What?" the man asked with a smile, and when he realized that the other party was not joking, he had an expression of disbelief: "Are you kidding me?"

"I, uh...I'll call you." Joshua quickly put on his undershirt, and under the depressed eyes of the man, he left the place without looking back, as if fleeing from a magic den.

"Damn it!" After walking for a while, Joshua scolded himself angrily, feeling so annoyed that he didn't want to go home or return to Qiaoguo.In front of him are the familiar street scenes and pedestrians, but suddenly he likes the man's brother, the death of Anisa, his parents, and Kathy's weird attitude all make him full of doubts.

Unknowingly, Joshua slowly passed a movie theater, and a group of girls were queuing up and discussing something excitedly inside the guardrail on the side of the road.Joshua couldn't help but glanced at the huge poster at the entrance of the cinema curiously, thinking that it was probably the premiere of a Hollywood blockbuster, and these girls were waiting here to meet their idols.

Crazy girls.Joshua couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth, but the next second he stared at the words on the poster and was stunned.

"Hey...can anyone tell me what year it is?"

The girls around were absorbed in their world, and no one noticed the boy who was talking to himself in a low voice.

It took Joshya a long time to recover. With numb fingers, he took out the phone with great difficulty. The screen still showed [-]. He just breathed a sigh of relief, and the automatic networking logo appeared on the phone, and the year on it was instantly updated to The year [-] is exactly the same as the number on the poster.

Joshua couldn't lie to himself this time that he was delusional.But what a joke, why did he suddenly come ten years later? !

"Hell, I've been a virgin for 26 years..."

There was a sudden burst of excited screams from the crowd, and Joshua raised his head in bewilderment, and the glare of the headlights suddenly shone, and he reflexively covered his eyes.The girls pushed and rushed forward, and he was also pushed forward several steps, and finally escaped, his consciousness gradually returned, and his heartbeat was so violent that he seemed to be in a nightmare.

Everything has become more absurd, and it seems that there have been some explanations miraculously.Joshua stayed away from the crowd and quietly called for his messenger.

"Kaka."

The blue bird that was supposed to be flapping its wings didn't appear.

"Kaka? Qingyin?" Joshua frowned, and called Xinniao's real name and his own name several times in turn, but there was still no movement.

Without that bird, Joshya, there would be no way to contact Gong Qi. He thought that in this case, he should go home first, and thought that it must be because his parents and elder brother had not changed their appearance since they had a fairy book, so he didn't notice something was wrong.As he was walking, Joshua suddenly turned pale and cursed, and immediately called Jason, but he was told that the number was empty after calling several times in a row.

Well, now he has to pray that his parents haven't moved in ten years.

God obviously heard his prayer, and when Joshya returned to the door of the house he remembered, he found that the owner had changed there long ago.

"Didn't I write to tell you that we moved out of that block?" Mrs. Fiennes shrugged her shoulders when Joshua finally reconfirmed with her mother on the phone and angrily asked for an explanation. Poured a cup of coffee.

"When was the last time you saw me?"

Mrs. Fiennes thought for a while, and her expression seemed to be quite used to Joshya's long-term assignment: "About seven months ago."

Joshua's heart fell back to the original place in an instant, at least he didn't have to worry that he would not live long because he had been away there for too long.He raised his eyebrows and sucked his mouth, and then his mother disliked his strange appearance: "Don't look like a baby."

Joshua immediately restrained himself and looked up at the much smaller new home. The furniture was very old and the ceiling was damp.

"Why did you move here?" He asked inexplicably, and his mother looked around, with helplessness and self-mockery in her words: "I don't know, maybe it's because we won't grow old and this place is secluded enough?"

"Oh... are you blaming me?" Joshua was dumb, and Mrs. Fiennes was stunned for a moment, her eyes softened immediately: "No, baby, it's none of your business. I'm just... just... bastard..."

"Mom?" Joshua looked at his mother's back and asked cautiously, "Are you crying?"

"No, no." She denied in a low voice.

"Very well, I can't coax girls, you know I can't coax people, right?" Joshya was a little at a loss: "Do you want me to wipe your tears?"

"Go upstairs to bed, you bastard!"

"Okay." Joshua went upstairs silently and found his room, which hadn't changed at all.But nothing can hide that they are living a terrible life.Joshua fell on the bed guiltily, turned over and buried his face in the quilt.

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