until the last minute

Zhou Yin walked into the convenience store at [-]:[-] in the morning. At this time, Li Qing was paying a customer, lowering his head and concentrating on finding change.When he raised his head, he saw Zhou Yin holding two cans of drinks, with a smile on his lips, and walked to the cashier as soon as the previous customer left.

Li Qing glanced at him, picked up the barcode scanner and scanned the barcode of the beverage can.Zhou Yin put down the change and took away one of the cans, Li Qing pushed back both the change and the other can of drink, Zhou Yin pressed his hand and muttered, "Here for you."

Li Qing lowered his eyelids, held his hand instead, and asked, "Hands are cold, are you cold?"

"It's not cold." Zhou Yin replied, but his body flinched a bit.

The temperature has not dropped this winter, the daytime is still sunny and warm, and the wind will blow up and cool down at night.Zhou Yin was so anxious that he forgot to put on his coat. He took a sneak peek at Li Qing, saw that he was still serious, and said deliberately: "I just came to see you, and now I have to go back."

There was a moment of surprise in Li Qing's eyes, he concealed it very well, and immediately said: "Okay, you go back, and I will call a taxi for you?"

"No, the driver is waiting for me outside, don't come out." Zhou Yin waved to Li Qing, and walked out of the convenience store with a can of drink.

Li Qing watched Zhou Yin go out, then turned his head and glanced at the wall clock on the wall, it was 46:[-].It was too late, and there was no other business place nearby, only a construction site with mixed people. After thinking about it, he was still uneasy, pushed open the door of the cash register, and rushed out of the convenience store.

The main road outside is empty, and the night outlines the low bungalows across the road and the bare trees nearby, but there is nothing else.

Li Qing stood at the door and looked around for a long time, annoyed that he didn't come out in time.Maybe he should have watched him get in the car just now, maybe he shouldn't have come over.He had no choice but to do nothing to keep him, he didn't even dare to show the ecstasy in his heart, so he could only pretend to be calm.

Maybe Zhou Yin thought he was boring and disappointing.

Li Qing couldn't stop thinking wildly, he blew the cold wind for a long time, his sleepiness was driven away but his mind was still not clear.He felt that he had fallen into some kind of frenzy, and when Zhou Yin's voice came from behind him, he turned around abruptly, walked over with big strides, and stretched out his hand to pull him into his arms.

He hugged extremely hard, clenched his teeth, Zhou Yin's weak struggles and protests were directly ignored by him.

"You can't tease me like this," Li Qing lowered his voice and said word by word, he urgently needed to accuse and vent, "You are too bad, Zhou Yin, you can't treat me like this."

"Look, I'm right, you're really difficult to coax." Zhou Yin smiled lightly, he hugged Li Qing's waist back, and relaxed his body as if showing weakness, completely sticking to this hot and firm body.The drink fell out of his hand, hit the ground and rolled far away.

It was windy at night, even if Li Qing didn't want to end the hug, he had to let go of him for the time being.He took Zhou Yin to the warehouse, took off the school uniform jacket he was wearing, and forcibly put it on Zhou Yin.

Zhou Yin didn't make any other moves, and let it be manipulated obediently.Li Qing put one of his arms into the sleeve, and then pulled his hand out from the cuff.Zhou Yin suspected that Li Qing regarded him as a child, he wanted to laugh, but Li Qing had a serious expression on his face, so he also suppressed his smile.

He guessed that Li Qing had something to say to him.

"I may not be able to keep that agreement, you can only be friends." Li Qing opened his mouth.

Zhou Yin looked at Li Qing quietly, watched him zip up his jacket, folded the collar, and then said: "Why? Got bored so quickly?"

"No."

"why?"

Li Qing reached out to the back of Zhou Yin's neck, kneaded it tentatively, and forced him to approach him.When their breathing gradually merged, Li Qing's hand went all the way down the back of the neck, and finally stopped on the back of the waist.

He gasped a little, his breathing became heavy, and his eyes spoke of longing.

Zhou Yin immediately understood, he tilted his head to avoid Li Qing's fiery breath, "You can find someone else, if you need to solve something—"

"You know I don't mean that," Li Qing interrupted him, "You know I like you, don't you?"

Zhou Yin looked at him without blinking, and suddenly smiled, "I know, but I want to see how long your love can last."

"Are you testing me?"

Zhou Yin shook his head, "This is not a test. I said you can find someone else, and you don't have to do it with me."

Li Qing stared at him, eyes full of indignation and incomprehension.

"I'm just giving you a little time to see your own heart clearly, so that we all have room for turning around, isn't it good?" Zhou Yin was still persuasive, and the arc of the corners of his lips was just right, enough to make people itch.

"You are too bad Zhou Yin." Li Qing murmured, in a trance, he realized that he was the one who was caught by the gate of life.

"Take this as a game, stay with me." Zhou Yin wrapped his arms around Li Qing's neck when he said the last two words, and moved closer, his moist lips pressed against his dry and flaky lips.

A mischievous kiss.

Zhou Yin didn't go back that night, and Li Qing was guarding outside. The camera was installed above the cash register, so he couldn't leave for too long.Zhou Yin was in the warehouse, hugging his coat, nestling on the bench, drowsy.

The store closed at four o'clock in the morning, and Li Qing took Zhou Yin back to his rental house.He didn't feel uneasy the first time, maybe it was because his hand was held by Zhou Yin the whole time, and Zhou Yin turned his back and urged him to walk faster, faster.

His heart suddenly settled down, he knew that he was accepted unconditionally, and those things that made him feel inferior may never have been a real obstacle.

Back at the rental house, Zhou Yin was so sleepy that he went straight into the bedroom without his call, and fell headlong on the bed.Li Qing took off his shoes and socks for him, covered him with a quilt and tucked in the corners of the quilt.Zhou Yin opened his eyes half-closed, and muttered that he needed to wash his face before going to sleep.Li Qing got up and went outside to boil a pot of hot water, wet the towel, wring it half dry before taking it in.

Zhou Yin fell asleep, he held the towel and carefully ran over Zhou Yin's face, his eyes wandering inch by inch.

There were so many things that happened that day that he didn't feel a moment's respite until now.

Li Qing took a shower and was about to go to bed when he found that Zhou Yin had left half a pillow for him, and the quilt was only half covered.He climbed onto the bed lightly, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, Zhou Yin immediately leaned over and snuggled up to his shoulder.

"Li Qing."

"Huh? Did I wake you up?"

"No, I don't want to sleep yet, I have something to tell you."

Li Qing turned over and lay on his side, but Zhou Yin didn't dare to look at him. He buried his face in his neck, and his voice was so soft that it seemed to come from a dream, "Li Qing, don't treat me as a bad person. looking at you."

Li Qing hummed.

"I didn't tell you that my name, Yin, was not this word before, it was another word."

"Which one is it?" Li Qing thought for a while, "Shadow of light and shadow?"

"Shadows of shadows."

Li Qing firmly held Zhou Yin's hand hidden under the quilt. Zhou Yin's voice was cold, and his tone was as calm as a bystander. Let me and my mother be like shadows in this life, hiding from people?"

Li Qing hugged him distressedly, patted him on the back, and coaxed: "Don't think about it, good boy, go to sleep, don't think about these things."

"I'll give you a chance to get out in advance. I'm not that bad, am I?" Zhou Yin raised his face, which seemed to be stained with tears. He grabbed Li Qing's pajama collar, and said with a little cry: "I said I like you a little bit, remember?"

"remember."

"This is something that can be done with a little weight." Zhou Yin stretched out his hand to hook Li Qing's neck, raised his face, and kissed him on the lips.

Li Qing was passively kissed by him without any response.He felt Zhou Yin's lips, which were cold and soft, and he also tasted Zhou Yin's tears, which were salty and bitter.

He finally knew the reason why Zhou Yin was hot and cold towards him, it turned out that he was afraid.

He wanted to let himself retreat in such a way.

The next day Li Qing listened to the class with all his strength.The night before, he slept for less than five hours, and he was still able to get up in the morning because of Zhou Yin.

Zhou Yin became very clingy when he fell asleep, wrapping his hands and feet around him, treating him like a human pillow.Li Qing maintained a sleeping position without moving, and let Zhou Yin hug him. Even though it was not comfortable to sleep like this, it was already a great satisfaction to be able to hug each other and fall asleep.

In the morning, half of his body was numb, but the warm body in his arms gave him the most direct stimulation.Zhou Yin was still in a deep sleep, with one thigh resting on his waist, his face unconsciously rubbed against his shoulder, and his lips pressed against the side of his neck.

The strong impulse woke him up from the stupefaction, and he was full of energy somewhere, he wanted to get up and go to the bathroom to solve it, but Zhou Yin hugged him tightly, such a toss would definitely wake him up.

He didn't dare to make any movements, wanting to wait for it to subside naturally.Zhou Yin, who was sleeping unconsciously, seemed to be having a sweet dream, his lips slightly parted to hold his Adam's apple, and he grinded it gently with his teeth, as if he was tasting an unripe hard fruit.

Li Qing felt the blood go straight to the top of his head, he wanted to pick him up and ask him what he was doing, and he also wanted to kiss him until they couldn't breathe.In the end, none of the ideas could be implemented, he broke free from Zhou Yin's hands and feet, got up and rushed to the bathroom.

He took a cold shower, took more time than usual to unwind and release, then brushed his teeth and washed his face.

It was still very early, he boiled eggs and warmed milk for breakfast, and then went in to wake Zhou Qian to bed.Zhou Yin had already gotten up, so he sat on the bed with the quilt in his arms and smiled at him.

When he was about to leave for school, Zhou Yin noticed that the window was not closed, so he walked over to close it.He was holding the curtain with one hand, and the wind chime in front of the window with the other.Before closing the curtains, he glanced back at Li Qing, Li Qing seemed to suddenly understand the meaning of that glance, and walked straight to him.

He stretched out his arms to wrap around Zhou Yin's waist, and Zhou Yin fell into his arms without warning, and the wind chime swayed and rang softly behind him.

Zhou stared at him intently, a smile slowly appeared in his eyes.

He raised his arms, wrapped around Li Qing's neck, and kissed Li Qing briefly and softly with his lips.

When lips parted, Li Qing asked: "Is kissing something that friends can do?"

"We can take it as it is," Zhou Yin's lips became moist, and his eyes were wet, he smiled and kissed again, "There is time, we can kiss for another 60 seconds."

Li Qing thought that he would never forget this day.He and Zhou Yin kissed three times in one day, and the last time lasted 60 seconds.