desolate

By the time I returned to the classroom the same way, the one and a half hour lunch break was almost over.

The classroom was full, but it was much quieter than before, only the voice of whispering, although it could not be called noisy, it was even more unbearable.

When Zhou Ze and Pei Ye walked in one after the other, the whispering voice stopped abruptly as if someone had pressed the stop button. After a brief second or two, the voices of two, two, three gradually boiled up again.

Zhou Ze walked towards his seat, halfway he glanced at Li Pingan's seat, it was empty.

"Damn, is what is said in the post true or not? After posting a chat record, it disappears?"

"I don't know, the host doesn't respond to messages."

"Hey, it's okay to like men, it's too much to do it in the dormitory, and AIDS..."

"No wonder I've been living in a single dormitory. I was caught when I was a freshman in high school, but it was kept secret by the school."

As soon as Zhou Ze sat down, he heard Wen Jialang and Xu Duozhi discussing the post.The two were having a good time, seeing him back, they even wanted to pull him to participate together.

Facing the two excited faces, Zhou Ze couldn't give any response other than shaking his head and saying he didn't know.

After chatting for a while, the two of them seemed to be belatedly reminded that Zhou Ze and Li Pingan were roommates, all the words froze on their lips, and their expressions became extraordinarily exciting.

The embarrassment is the embarrassment, Wen Jialang still couldn't bear the curiosity and asked: "You live with Li Pingan, do you feel any difference?"

Different?

Zhou Ze honestly recalled many things that happened when the two were roommates, but there was really nothing that could be assigned these three words.

So he honestly said no.

The disappointment and doubt that the other party showed afterwards were very glaring.

Zhou Ze knew in his heart that in their eyes, everything about Li Ping'an had become "different".

How ridiculous, it is a good thing to distinguish right from wrong, but unfortunately most of the time it is used to measure a person's motivation.As long as that person is "bad", all his actions become "sinful".

guilty of eating;

drinking water is a crime;

guilty of speaking;

It's a sin to live.

Not long after, about a few minutes before the end of the lunch break, Li Pingan walked into the classroom with slow steps.

His expression was as flat as ever, as if he didn't know what happened during the time he was away.

Of course, the peace was only for a moment. When his deskmate deliberately moved all the books on the table from left to right, and moved the chair to the outermost side, Li Pingan finally noticed something strange.

—Malicious.

The pure malice revealed from the eyes, movements, and expressions.

"Something fell..."

Li Pingan picked up the knocked-off notebook and wanted to return it to the deskmate, but he didn't expect that just as he stretched out his hand, the other party stood up as if suddenly frightened.

Now both of them were a little embarrassed, Li Pingan was puzzled, and the tablemate was overreacted.

"Gu Xiaona, change your seat with me!"

"Why..."

"Didn't you always want to change?"

"It's not that after the monthly exam..."

Usually Gu Xiaona and Li Pingan have a good relationship, but now they are neither crying nor laughing.

Li Pingan still held the notebook in his hand, looking at all this blankly.

The table was completely moved, and Gu Xiaona moved next to Li Pingan, so she had to give him an ugly smile.

"what happened?"

"No……!"

Gu Xiaona hesitated, didn't know how to speak, and finally had to hand him the phone.

"I don't know how to say it, you can see for yourself."

Zhou Ze watched the movement over there from a distance, his pale face was slightly lowered, and his thin back was arched like a shrimp.

I haven't finished reading the post, but Li Pingan has already returned the phone to Gu Xiaona.

"Li Pingan, is what the post said true?"

"Li Pingan, are you gay?"

"Li Ping'an..."

"..."

Now that the person involved has found out, some daring troublemakers started yelling recklessly.

Li Pingan shook his head from them and opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute.

"What's it like to be a man? Is it good?"

"Do you have someone you like?"

"Isn't Zhou Ze your roommate? You two can't..."

A strange gaze was projected over immediately, like a glow on his back, and with a few words, Zhou Ze was also pulled down from the center of public opinion.

Oh, it turned out to be this feeling.

Zhou Ze met those gazes.

uncomfortable……

nausea……

disgust……

full of negativity.

Those who were warm and close in the past changed their faces in a blink of an eye.

"Stop arguing! The teacher is here!"

Sun Tianwang stood on the podium to maintain discipline, and the students became quieter.

"What are you doing in your class!"

Suddenly, Director Yan broke into the door and strode in. Visible to the naked eye, because of this group of disobedient bastards, there was lightning, thunder and flames above his head.

The students who were still flying around just now dared to shrink their necks.

"It's class time now! Your class is the only one in the whole building that is still noisy!" Director Yan reprimanded at the top of his voice.

Suddenly, his eagle eyes narrowed, he walked quickly, strode to a boy, stretched out his iron palm, and pulled out the boy's hand and the mobile phone in his hand.

"I..." As soon as the boy looked up, he saw Director Yan's face, and immediately shrank back.

"How dare I play with my mobile phone here? Let me see what is so fun."

The phone was put away too quickly, before it even had time to lock it, the screen remained on the group chat interface.

"'Ha-ha-ha, that man made me laugh so hard', what man made you laugh so hard?" Director Yan read the chat history on the phone while swiping, "Hey, there are posts..."

"Hey--"

The boy reached out his hand to stop him, but Director Yan stared at him, so he had no choice but to withdraw his hand resentfully.

However, Director Yan didn't look much, and his face became very ugly.

Seeing that he was going to get angry, no one in the classroom dared to speak, either lowered their heads, or were curious about his reaction.

At this time, the teacher of the first class finally came late.

Director Yan put away his mobile phone: "Li Ping'an, come to my office." After speaking, he glanced around again, "Study seriously! Don't make any nonsense."

When the dean left, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The boy whose phone was taken said angrily: "It's over, why did I see it..."

The English teacher gently patted the blackboard and drew a short comma on all of this.

"Stop talking, class is on!"

……

Li Pingan did not return to the classroom all afternoon.But the voice of speculation never stopped, but because of his disappearance, it became richer.

In addition, I don't know if Zhou Ze's situation has become strange because of that joke, at least he can feel the sudden change of some people's attitudes - very unreasonable.

The time for evening self-study is used to talk about last week's math papers, with a 15-minute break in between.

Until now, things during the day have gradually lost their freshness, as if nothing happened. People still complain about their studies and schools as usual, but they don’t hear Li Pingan’s name anymore.

"Hey, isn't that Meng Chuyu? Why is she here?"

Xu Duozhi patted Wen Jialang's shoulder.

Zhou Ze followed their voices - the outstanding girl was standing at the door waving to them.

Xu Duozhi and Wen Jialang had just discovered her, and before they could stand up, Meng Chuyu had already walked over when they turned their heads.

"Hi—" She greeted the two of them, then knocked on Zhou Ze's desk, "Are you busy?"

Looking for him?

Zhou Ze raised his head hesitantly.

"what happened?"

"Aren't you going to compete tomorrow? Teacher Xu told us to gather at school in the morning, and I'll let you know."

"The specific time?"

"At eight o'clock in the morning, under the flag raising platform."

Zhou Ze hummed, paused, and asked thoughtfully, "Is it okay if you just tell me in the group?"

Meng Chuyu was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized: "I happened to be passing by too, so I wanted to come in and say something."

After finishing speaking, she brushed the hair around her ears, and glanced at someone in the last row from the corner of her eye.

She was surprised: "Pei Ye, are you coming to class? I thought you weren't coming."

Zhou Ze: "..."

It turned out that the drunkard's intention was not the wine.

Pei Ye, who was playing Xiaoxiaole, was also concentrating on the phone. He was a little uncomfortable when his name was called suddenly, and it took a few seconds for him to answer.

"... I won't be here in the future."

"What's wrong?" Meng Chuyu walked up to him, "Are you really going to drop out of school?"

The movements of Pei Ye's hands didn't stop for a moment: "Yes."

"why?"

"……Um?"

"Why don't you read it?"

The number of steps in this level has been used up, but the clearance conditions have not been completed.

I lost...

Pei Ye finally raised his head.

"...Does it have anything to do with you?"

"..."

Meng Chuyu was stunned, and seemed a little surprised.

"I... aren't we friends?"

"No."

Pei also stood up, walked around Meng Chuyu in front of him, walked to the empty seat next to Xu Duozhi and sat down, and then played the level he just lost again.

He didn't even look at Meng Chuyu again.

Xu Duozhi smacked his lips: "It's so cruel."

Wen Jialang looked at the back of Meng Chuyu leaving, and said worriedly: "Brother Pei, this is not good, is it?"

Pei also didn't raise his head: "Why, don't you like her?"

Wen Jialang's ears turned red: "I'm... hey, forget it, people don't like me."

"I don't like her either."

"..."

Wen Jialang immediately covered his chest, turned his head and buried his face in Xu Dazhi's clothes.

—It hurts so much!

Zhou Ze stared at the paper on the table, and the sound effects of the game kept coming from behind him, always interrupting his train of thought.

"Didn't you go through the formalities today?"

Pei Ye's eyes slowly moved from the phone screen to Zhou Ze's face.

"Oh, yes."

"Then you said you won't come anymore?"

"Is there a difference between one time and zero times?"

"Yes." Zhou Ze said seriously, "There will be a sports meeting next week, why don't you go after you don't participate?"

I'm about to drop out of school, and I still participate in a gross sports meeting.

Pei Ye was silent for a while, then turned his gaze back to the phone screen.

The night wind blew the branches and leaves outside, and the window lattice made a soft noise. The two people's voices were not loud, but every word was clear.

"……talk later."