mr frank is faithful to love

(FR. Hilde Frank)

I stayed in the yard for four or ten minutes when Ethan came downstairs. He was wearing a clean denim jacket and a black baseball cap today. He jumped down the two steps in front of the building and greeted me Come here.

Said: "Standing all the time...why didn't you sit down?"

I said, "I took a stroll around, and the new urban area here is still well built."

"What? Do you have any investment ideas?"

"No, I just took a look." I touched my pocket, there were still a few chocolates in it, and I took them out and handed them to Ethan, and I said, "I was taking something to eat on the road, but I forgot."

Ethan unscrewed the cap of the purified water bottle, raised his head and swallowed half of the bottle, and then put the chocolate into his mouth, speaking inarticulately that it was delicious.

I asked him if he wanted to go shopping and what he wanted to eat.

Ethan suddenly smiled, but he still couldn't hide the tiredness on his face. He said, "Go, of course, I want to eat something delicious."

I didn’t ask for a driver when we went shopping. Ethan and I walked there. The sun was warm on our bodies. It was a bit hot at noon. This area is surrounded by natural scenery and many species. The use of plastic products has been reduced on a large scale, and public transportation has been promoted. The streets are very clean and tidy.

Ethan was wearing a mask. He suddenly opened his arms to feel the sunshine, and said: "Sometimes I feel that a small place is good. When I get old, I must find a place with a good view to build a villa. I grow flowers and vegetables myself. Build a stage and hold a music festival every day."

"Can I ask you a question?" I said.

Ethan walked freely on the clean street, and said, "Your words are a problem in themselves."

"What the hell happened to the band?"

"Pu Feizi..." Ethan took a deep breath. This was the first time I heard him called Fei Zi by his original name.

I was interrupted, and I said: "I know that. I have seen the police report. I want to know why you have been silent for so long. What happened? In fact, everyone knows that you can leave the band and continue. Development, but you chose to advance and retreat together.”

"It's not going together, it's running away, and only I know how much the band means to me," I thought Ethan wouldn't bring it up, but he poured it all out, "She's just a kid , when I found out, I felt very complicated, it was all my fault that I didn't lead her on the right path."

Ethan almost choked up, he took a deep breath, and continued: "I have also been suspected by many people, because I have a good relationship with Feizi, but it's okay, it's nothing, I regret it, if I was a person in charge Brother, she definitely won't do this."

No matter how long it took, Ethan never lost the clarity in his heart, and always said something that made people feel warm. I patted his shoulder near me and said, "You shouldn't blame yourself."

"I haven't said this in months, and today is the first time I've said it," Ethan said with a breath. "It feels like nothing but regret and remorse."

I bought Ethan a cup of milk tea that he wanted to drink, and went to eat the famous local barbecue. Ethan’s eyes were always red, and he was also red when he smiled. , having dinner with you here for this reason."

I said, "By the way, I forgot to ask just now, Qi Hao...how is he? Is he okay?"

"It will take some time to recover, but he always misses his students. We chatted for 10 minutes, always talking about school affairs. He suffered such a serious injury, and he is still the same as before, very cold and humorous."

While talking, Ethan chuckled. I picked up the metal tongs and turned the meat on the charcoal fire. I saw Ethan lifted the bottle and took two sips of beer.

I was wondering if Ethan liked Qi Hao, but after thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn’t ask. All of this has nothing to do with me, not to mention that I have never met Qi Hao formally, so I don’t know what he is like people.

Without inquiring, I did a lot of inner work myself. I ordered a cake for Ethan online and let the driver secretly put it in the trunk.

In nine hours, it will be Ethan's 23rd birthday.

I'm really glad that it's a sunny day, and I'm also glad that the weather is not so cold, and the night in the mountains is extremely cool.

I don't know what else to prepare, and buying flowers is a bit ambiguous, so when I passed by a flower shop in the city, I only glanced at it, and after thinking about it, it was actually inappropriate to buy anything.

The cake was packed in a transparent box. I didn't choose complicated styles, so it was quite complete after the bumpy mountain road.

A fellow traveler asked, "Who did you buy the cake for?"

I said, "Ethan, he had his birthday in the early morning, and he's 23 years old."

"Hey, you really..." Come to think of it, he also more or less knew about the past between me and Ethan, he hesitated to speak, I don't know what he really wanted to say.

I really...

Really entangled, really dull, really regretful, really stupid.

It was sunny, so there were many stars and it was beautiful. I called Ethan at the gate of the school after eleven o’clock. He ran out hurriedly in a thick coat, carrying a bunch of heavy keys, opened the big iron gate of the school, and looked at it with a frown. to me.

Said: "I warn you not to do anything, I will cry, don't mess with me."

"It's just a birthday," I said.

Ethan stood there, staring at me, looking really unhappy, he put on his clothes, zipped them up, and said: "Then don't stay here, there is still a teacher on duty sleeping inside. Well, let's go and find another place."

So, Ethan locked the gate, I walked behind, and he led the way with a flashlight. We walked to the edge of the whole village. There were no neon lights and nightlife here, and it was already late after eleven o'clock.

The road is very quiet, only the sound of insects can be heard.

It was the beginning of the month, so the moon was just a not thick arc. We stepped on the weeds by the roadside. It took a long time for Ethan to speak.

"I fell asleep at first, and I've been on the road today, so tired."

I urged him: "Then hurry up, it's almost midnight, eat cake and go back to catch up on sleep."

"You are so annoying, why are you urging me?" Ethan spoke a little aggrieved, but his voice was very small, probably because he was really angry because he was worried that the voice conference would be misunderstood.

He took me to the old house at the end of the village, no one lived there, it was on the edge of the cliff, and as far as the eye could see, there were shadows of mountains in the distance.

It is difficult to describe the scenery here in words. In short, it is a whole dark blue sky above the mountains, with stars, big and small, densely covered and twinkling, as if they were randomly scattered by someone.

Ethan held the flashlight, and I held the cake with candles, pinched the time to light the fire, and said "Happy Birthday" to him at midnight.

"Thank you." Ethan looked very calm, he closed his eyes and made a wish on his own, and he made a wish for a long time.

He opened his eyes again and started singing Happy Birthday, which I suddenly realized was in German.

So, I sang with him, and Ethan said: "I don't speak German, and I learned this song for your birthday."

I asked, "Is the promise over?"

"Not yet." Ethan closed his eyes again.

After blowing out the candles, he said "thank you" to me again. By the light of the flashlight, I saw Ethan's unshed tears, like the stars in the sky at this moment.