[Volleyball Boys] Moonlit Night

Lin Xingning returned to the room, besides the night lamp and crystal ball, there was a golden medal beside the bed.

During the sports meeting, she and Yamaguchi didn't even make it to the top three, not to mention the gold medal. This was thrown to her by Tsukishima after winning the men's 1000m.

He turned his face away in embarrassment, and said in a nonchalant tone: "Leave it to take up space, and take it if you want."

She hugged the pillow and rolled around on the bed: "Yue is so shy~"

Completely forget the embarrassing scene where he escaped just now.

When she calmed down, she went to the desk and took out a notepad and began to write and draw. Yue Dao's birthday was coming soon, but she hadn't decided what gift to give yet, and none of the answers she could find from the search engines were satisfactory.

[...Yue seems to like wild animals quite a lot, so why can't I give you an encyclopedia?

[Is the gift made by yourself too nasty?Or choose a more practical pen or something?

[Let’s ask Yamaguchi and brother tomorrow. ]

The next day, Yue Dao felt that Lin Xingning was sneaky, and whispered to Yamaguchi at school, but after returning home, he and his brother did not know what whispered.

When doing homework, he asked: "What did you say to Yamaguchi and your brother today?"

"Huh? No...nothing."

Yue Dao couldn't help sighing: "I wanted to say it before, you really can't lie at all."

"...Then what's the matter, it shows that I'm an honest and good boy." Lin Xingning puffed up, "That's right, I asked a little bit about Yue."

"Ask me differently? And it's the correct answer."

"...Because I wanted to surprise you on Yue's birthday, I asked Yamaguchi-kun and my brother. It feels like even if you ask Yue what he likes, you will only get an answer like 'I don't like anything'."

Because his guess was very accurate, he didn't know how to refute it for a while.

"It's the same as giving anything. Anyway, Yue won't express if he likes it, and he will say thank you if he doesn't like it." Lin Xingning suddenly entered the state of complaining, "If I don't say anything, I will have a hard time guessing."

Tsukishima is really not good at expressing, so he replied unnaturally: "If it's from you, it's fine."

"Can be different from liking," she changed the phrase, "What do you want most in that month?"

What do you want most?

"...nothing in particular."

"Look, look, it's like this again."

Hearing her complain like this, Tsukishima asked with a little displeasure, "Then want you? Can you?"

"Of course not!" Lin Xingning's face turned red, and he forced himself to look at him, "There is no need to wait until the birthday, as long as Yue winks at me, I will leave with you."

Tsukishima didn't expect to hear such an answer, feeling his face was burning, he quickly covered his expression with his hands and turned to look at the other side.

Lin Xingning won the "battle" this time. Even though he was in the same boat, he had the nerve to say, "Why is Yue so shy~"

He became angry and decided to go to the desk to do his homework.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and after two knocks, Yue Dao's mother pushed the door open: "Xing Ning, your father's phone number."

The call was answered from the landline in the living room.

The phone call was very brief, and after Lin Xingning took over the call, he only said a few words before handing it over to Yue Dao's mother.

"...So, please be sorry...Okay, I will book a ticket for tomorrow...Xing Ning is a good boy, no trouble at all..."

After saying goodbye to the other end of the phone, Yue Dao's mother hung up the phone and patted Lin Xingning's head: "Auntie will book a ticket right away, don't worry."

"Well, thank you, auntie...then I'll go back to my room first."

Yue Dao’s door was knocked again, but the person who came was still Yue Dao’s mother. She glanced at Lin Xingning’s closed door, and said to Yue Dao in a low voice: “Yue Dao, please help Xing Ning get a friend when he goes to school tomorrow. During the holidays, her grandfather had a car accident and is now in the hospital, and the situation is not optimistic."

"……Okay, I know."

Mama Tsukishima left first.

Yue Dao packed up Lin Xingning's textbooks and homework and knocked on her door, but there was no sound inside, but she didn't have the habit of locking the door, so he just opened the door and went in.

Originally thought that she would curl up in a corner and cry at this time, but she just sat blankly at the end of the bed, only to realize when she heard the sound of the door opening: "What's wrong?"

"Schoolbag." Tsukishima put her schoolbag on the chair in front of the desk, confirmed that at least there was nothing wrong with her, and she didn't seem to want to talk, "Then I'll go back first."

After he finished speaking, he was about to leave, but Lin Xingning grabbed the hem of his clothes: "...can you not leave?"

The two sat next to each other on the tatami mat with their backs against the wall. Lin Xingning was silent for a long time, and suddenly said without preparation: "It feels very strange."

"what?"

"Isn't it feeling sad, feeling empty inside, not knowing what to do, as if doing nothing makes sense... Is this the effect of hormones on the brain?"

"... At this time, you don't need to think about biological knowledge."

Lin Xingning didn't answer: "Can Yue lend me your hand?"

She took Yuedao's raised hand and squeezed it like studying the structure: "When my father left home, my grandfather came to take care of me for three years, and was picked up by my aunt because of poor health. At that time, Because I was immature and sensible, I always felt betrayed, so I never took the initiative to contact him. However, after I gradually didn't mind that matter, I didn't know how to talk to my grandpa. Except for the new year meeting Apart from the above, we didn't communicate with each other until we stayed at my aunt's house for a few days after the kidnapping incident.

"My aunt complained that I was not so close to them and didn't know how to contact them often. Then grandpa stopped her. He said, people, as long as you remember to eat on time and sleep well... This is what he said to me in my memory. My last words."

Yue Dao held Lin Xingning's hand instead.

"...I seem to be getting better." Probably because there is someone who can rely on me and feel the real body temperature of the other person, so it seems that the feeling of emptiness in my heart has dissipated, and I have a feeling of stepping into the real world again, "Thank you ,moon."

"Need not……"

After saying a few more words, Tsukishima finally hugged her and was about to leave. When he opened the door, he saw his mother was at the door and was about to knock on the door.

Yue Dao's mother didn't ask why her son was in the girl's room, and the door was still closed. She greeted the somewhat embarrassed Yue Dao calmly, and then told Lin Xingning when her air ticket was scheduled, and she would accompany her the next morning Let's go to the airport together.

"So tomorrow Hotaru will solve lunch by himself, there is no bento."

"……OK."

The next day, Yamaguchi saw Tsukishima going to class alone, and asked worriedly, "Is Lin Sang sick again?"

"No, she's back home."

Yamaguchi breathed a sigh of relief: "If you're not sick..."

Um?Back home? ?He was frightened and guessed wildly in his heart whether it was a breakup, a quarrel, or family pressure and other reasons, and he didn't dare to ask directly.During the morning exercise at school, he stopped everyone who wanted to ask why Lin Xingning didn't come, and secretly analyzed the information he got in the morning.

Yue Dao was indeed a little worried about Lin Xingning, so that he didn't notice their small movements.

Until the end of the morning exercise, he noticed Hinata's gaze: "I said, don't look at me with that look? It's disgusting."

"...People are caring about you! Yue Dao is so ignorant of good people!"

"Is there anything I need you to care about? My height?"

"Ah? Why are you attacking my height when you're broken in love?" Hinata angrily pretended to roll up his sleeves.

"Huh? Who's broken in love?"

Two minutes later, Hinata learned through Tsukishima's "kind explanation" that Lin Xingning had only asked for leave to return to China because of something at home, so he sold Yamaguchi: "Yamaguchi told us!"

"Mountain, mouth——"

"Listen to my explanation, Yue!"

Another day full of energy and excitement.