[Volleyball Boys] Moonlit Night

Before Lin Xingning's 9th birthday, his mother Reiko Hoshino passed away.

She was not very old at that time, and she didn't have deep memories of the funeral. Her mother had been ill for too long. When she was younger, she learned the concept of death from the nurse doctor in the hospital and the aunt of the neighbor.

It's dead, it's gone, it won't appear again.

No more talking to her, braiding her hair, humming a nice song.

The mother's death was not too sudden, but her father was still not ready. He seemed to lose all motivation to live at the moment her heartbeat stopped - he didn't want to die, but felt that life was meaningless, like a walking dead.

From Lin Xingning's point of view, her father also "died". After finishing her mother's funeral, she left home as if fleeing.

Grandpa came from his hometown to take care of her for three years, but was picked up by his aunt because of poor health.

Before grandpa left, he found a nanny, told her the password of the account his father used to remit money, and said: [Ning Ning, don't blame your father, he just likes your mother too much. ]

She didn't understand it when she was a child. After she started junior high school, she also saw friends crying because of childish and immature love, and she gradually began to understand.

Love is like wings that make people float in the sky. One day it disappears, and people will fall and be smashed to pieces.

So she chose to stand on the ground, without love or wings.

"Xing Ning, it's almost time for school."

When Lin Xingning heard someone calling him, he responded vaguely, rubbed his eyes, and put his face on his face to wake up for a while: "...I woke up."

Qing Shui handed her a bottle of water: "Did you have a nightmare just now? Seeing that you have been frowning."

Lin Xingning thanked him for taking the water, thinking about it carefully, but felt that everything was vague: "I don't know, I can't remember."

When I got home at night, Lin Xingning sat in the porch with no energy, yawning and changing shoes: "I'm so sleepy..."

"After dinner, take a shower and go to sleep."

"Ah."

Mingguang Yuedao heard a voice at the door, and opened the door of the entrance: "Yo, you're back."

Yue Dao was a little surprised, he didn't expect Ming Guang to be at home: "Brother?"

Lin Xingning also greeted naturally: "Long time no see, Brother Mingguang."

"Oh~ Long time no see, my lovely sister!"

Seeing his brother chatting with Lin Xingning, Yue Dao deduced that they met during the consecutive holidays in May, because his brother has been busy with graduation and never returned home, so this is the only possibility.

Yue Dao's mother heard the commotion, and came to the entrance: "Xing Ning came to let me see, she's all tanned, go wash your hands, I've made a big meal today~"

Neglected Tsukishima: "..."

He changed his shoes in a complicated mood. This family has changed.

After dinner, Lin Xingning took Yuedao's mother to have a private conversation.

Mingguang asked Yuedao: "Would you like to practice catching the ball?"

When the two brothers went to the yard, Ming Guang joked: "Mom's attention is all on Xingning, don't be jealous of my sister?"

"...Who wants to eat that guy's jealousy."

"Haha, the relationship is pretty good."

Not long after sharing the interesting stories about the expedition, Yuedao's mother saw Lin Xingning yawning profusely: "Okay, let's go take a shower and sleep."

"Ok."

When Lin Xingning passed by the living room, he heard movement in the yard. It must be Brother Mingguang and Yue who were chatting?

Yue... actually has a good relationship with brother Mingguang, right?Thinking so, she went back to her room to look for a change of clothes, and noticed the crystal ball on the bedside.

——Tsukishima gave it to her on her birthday.

"Use the AA battery, it can be used when there is a power outage." He said a word after stuffing the gift into his hand, not even saying "Happy Birthday".

Tsukishima's personality is a bit awkward, and he is not very good at expressing his concern for others, but...

Lin Xingning turned on the switch of the crystal ball and turned off the lights in the room.

The warm yellow light softly reflects on the walls and ceiling, and with the "snowflakes" falling in the crystal ball, the light also flickers with little shadows.

But for her, compared to frank concern, such awkwardness is just right enough not to cause her a sense of burden.

For the first time in so many days, Lin Xingning faced up to his heart.

She sat in front of the closet with her clothes in her arms, wondering what she was thinking.

mutter softly.

[Ah, really.

[If you like it, you will like it, why think so much.

[I am not breaking the law. ]

After two weeks of high-intensity training, there was no training scheduled on the first morning after returning, but Lin Xingning was woken up by the biological clock, and went to the bathroom to wash up sleepily in the morning.

After washing up, I saw a note and change left by Yue Dao's mother on the table in the living room: She had something to go out and asked them to buy breakfast by themselves.

Lin Xingning simply went to buy breakfast by himself and then woke up Yuedao and Mingguang through the door.

Ming Guang was very moved: "It's different to have a caring sister in the family!"

"Uncaring younger brother" heard this and gave him a sideways glance, seeing his elder brother patted Lin Xingning's head as an elder, and went to have breakfast with a sullen face.

"Is Yue unhappy?"

Ming Guang didn't think too much, and replied briskly: "That kid wakes up very angry."

After breakfast, Yue Dao wanted to go back to the room, but was stopped by Lin Xingning: "Do you want to do summer homework together?"

"……why?"

"If you ask why... because we haven't finished it yet?"

By the way, Lin Xingning is the type who will finish homework in school when he doesn't attend classes and class meetings, and he is a well-deserved top student.

Her strange behavior during the expedition has passed, and the two of them have returned to their original way of getting along, but Yue Dao faintly feels that she seems a little different from before.

Lin Xingning continued: "I don't know modern and ancient Chinese, please teach me."

"……Fine."

The two of them were doing their homework on the left and right sides of the dining table in the living room, exchanging topics from time to time, making Ming Guang, who was watching TV in the living room, restless: "Well, will my watching TV affect your studies?"

"It's okay." Neither of them raised their heads, and worked hard on the question.

On the contrary, Mingguang didn't know what he saw for half an hour, and went back to the room silently.

"Did you do the third math problem on page 32?"

Lin Xingning flipped through it: "I did it, it's a bit difficult, and it involves some theorems that I haven't learned yet."

She took homework and scratch paper, stood up and walked to Tsukishima, and began to calculate: "This theorem is..."

The two got a little closer, and Tsukishima smelled a faint, pleasant fragrance similar to sweet milk on each other.

He unconsciously looked at her for a while. Her eyelashes were long and thick, and her pupils were light brown. When she smiled, her eyes would bend into a beautiful crescent shape, shining brightly.When speaking in a low voice, the tone is gentle and soft, and it feels more coquettish than deliberately pretending to be weird.

He has always known that she has certain advantages in appearance, but this is the first time he has realized the charm of the other party as an "opposite sex".

Because of the posture of bowing her head, Lin Xingning's hair on the side of her face fell forward to cover her sight. She reached out and put her hands behind her ears, and turned to look at him: "...It's probably like this, do you understand?"

The weather in August was very hot, and the short-sleeved shirt she was wearing was unbuttoned, revealing her slender and fair neck. Following her movements, Tsukishima's eyes couldn't help but follow her swaying hair tail to her delicate and delicate collarbone...

"Hmm..." He turned his head to look at the other side, and responded softly, as if a small brush was slowly brushing over his heart, bringing a strange feeling.

Lin Xingning sat back again. After solving two math problems, he thought something was wrong. He was too focused on studying. Shouldn't he use this time to exchange common topics to promote mutual understanding and then...then why?

... In short, why don't you think about it first, but the problem is that summer homework is a common topic!

She glanced at Tsukishima quietly, and the other party looked focused, so she wandered off for a while, tore up a small note and wrote in Chinese: Yo~ classmate Tsukishima Hotaru on the opposite side, I like you so much Do you know what to do?

She simulated in her mind what kind of reaction the other party would have if she passed the note to him. She probably raised one eyebrow and asked herself with a sarcasm if she had eaten something bad, right?

Just because she knew Yuedao very well, she felt inexplicably satisfied. After snickering for a while, she retracted her thoughts and began to work on the questions seriously.

Under the circumstances that Lin Xingning wanted to promote the relationship between the two parties, the two finished their summer homework before the spring high school qualifiers officially started.

But all her wisdom is used for learning, and she has no talent in emotional matters, let alone let it be, pretending to casually ask the other party what kind of girl she likes, and she even seldom chats, but communicates a lot Problem solving ideas...

Lin Xingning was in his room recalling the rhetoric he had made during the expedition, imagined for a moment the scene where he actually confessed, and then took out the scratch paper and began to draw a tree diagram: [Now there are two options, to confess or not to confess.

[If you don’t confess, it’s the same as before. If you confess, you will be rejected and accepted. If you are accepted, you will say something else. If you are rejected...

[Will the atmosphere change?As before, considering my mood started to alienate, or be hated.

[The probability of being accepted by random probability is 25%, and the probability of being hated or alienated after rejection is 16.5%...]

However, this is the probability without the influence of other factors. Combined with real case analysis, from the time of enrollment to the present, a total of 3 girls have sent love letters to Yue, and the success rate is 0.

Think back to that time with Xiaoya...

"Thank you, but sorry to be unable to reciprocate your feelings."

If so, just thinking about it makes me feel a little sad.

She rested her chin on the desk and wobbled, and finally drew a circle on the option of "No Confession".