Summer of Fireflies

lovers. "

"You stand here." I pushed the young man to stand somewhere on the street, and covered his eyes with both hands: "Wait a minute I call one, two, three, and when the count reaches three, both of you close your eyes together? "

Letting go, the young man smiled and nodded to me.

Staring at the position where the young man was standing, I stepped back twenty steps.

The pedestrians around me came and went, and the setting sun dazzled my eyes. From a certain distance, I glanced at the crowd, blurring the outline of the young man.My eyes locked tightly on the figure of the young man in the crowd, I took a light breath, and immediately closed my eyes after shouting "one, two, three". While thinking silently in my heart: one step, two steps, three steps, four steps...

Why play this boring game?

Scientists have proved that when people close their eyes and walk in a straight line, the first few steps can still maintain a straight line, but after N steps, affected by the rotation of the earth's gravity, people's steps will spontaneously deviate to the right. The farther and farther away from the straight-line target that I originally wanted to go, the further to the right.

The distance of twenty steps is neither long nor short.

After ten steps, the straight line you walk will spontaneously turn into a curve, let alone in this crowded street, if you are unfortunately hit by a passerby, let alone a straight line, you may even lose your original direction.

Two couples standing opposite each other, when walking in a straight line with their eyes closed, their steps subconsciously deviate to the right, so two people standing in a straight line, one to the left, one to the right, the two shifted towards different directions Walking, they will only go further and further away. The noisy crowds and streets drown out their hearing, and it is difficult to find their way when they are bumped by passers-by.

Barring a miracle, their attempt to find each other is like looking for a needle in a haystack with their eyes closed.

Many couples have played the same game of finding someone on the street. Most of the couples either completely deviated from the direction or passed by. There are only a few couples who can find each other.

So, don't underestimate these twenty steps.

Based on the feeling, I took every step carefully, for fear of deviating from the straight line. When I walked to the fifteenth step, I was hit by someone on the side. There, there are all kinds of noises all around, the noise of the crowd, the sound of footsteps, and the sound of noisy cars.

These voices covered my hearing and completely lost the direction of my youth.I stood there in a daze, my heart was already in a mess, I wanted to open my eyes, but I couldn't open them due to the rules of the game.

When I was depressed, I managed to muster up the courage to take a step forward. I felt a force hitting my shoulder, and my center of gravity was off. When I thought I was about to fall, my whole body was pulled away by another force. And was held tightly in his arms.

The familiar dry smell drifts over the tip of the nose, as warm as a quilt that has been sun-baked, and the hesitant heart suddenly becomes peaceful.

I slightly raised my head and tried to open my eyes: "Gang..."

The following words were blocked by a pair of moist lips, and the lower lip was tightly squeezed, and it was lightly understated in an instant.

He didn't kiss very hard, his movements were extremely gentle, the kiss that was not light but not deep fell on the tip of my heart, like a pool of clear water muddying my heart pool.

This kiss contained all his emotions.

I can feel his cherishment, love, reluctance, and tenderness for me from his lingering lips, just like my love, distress, and reluctance for him.

I quietly closed my eyes to feel his heartbeat, passed my hands from both sides, and wrapped my arms around the back of his neck, responding to him with all my heart.

……

——Obviously I agreed to break up, but I found that I like you more and more, and I don't want to leave you more and more...

The next day when I flew back to Palermo, I sat in the window with An An in my arms and looked at the ground—the town where I was born and raised.

When I left, the young man didn't come to see me off.

He can't leave until tomorrow, deliberately staggering the time with me.

He didn't say goodbye to me yesterday, and neither did I. He still didn't come to the airport to say goodbye to me today, as if we were just a couple who were separated for a short time because of other things.

Looking at this piece of clear sky across the clear sky, a few white clouds drifted by, and the town of Naimori on land became smaller and smaller in sight until I could no longer see its shadow.

An An lay on the side of the glass window, writhing uneasily in my arms.

He seems to particularly like to look at the clear blue sky outside the plane, and every time he takes a plane, he is always in a state of excitement.It's like being beaten with chicken blood.

The parting did not dilute his excitement about flying.

Seeing that I was silent all the time, the little guy knew how to read words and expressions. After calming down his excitement, he tapped my brow with a tender little hand: "Lisa is not sad, you will get wrinkles when you are sad."

"...Don't you get wrinkles when you're angry?"

"Negative emotions cause wrinkles!"

"...Come on, are you still reasonable?" I pinched his tender little face.

Maybe it was because I used a little more force, and An An, who was pinched by me, immediately yelled with watery eyes: "Oh, Lisa, why are you swollen and pinched my face again? I want to tell my uncle and grandpa that you bullied me!"

"If you want to sue, just sue." Unless you can grow wings and fly back to Bingsheng Town, I squinted my eyes slightly, and I am familiar with the means of suing him for not coming to the stage.

"I can call them."

"Do you have a cell phone?"

I raised my eyebrows, even if I had a mobile phone, the Emperor Shan Gao was far away.

"... Lisa, you know how to bully me!" He said in an aggrieved voice, pointed at me, and glared, "You only bully children, Lisa, you are so weak!"

I glanced suspiciously: "So you think you are strong?" I can't blame An An for being suspicious, he has short arms and legs, and I can lift him up with one hand.

The little guy immediately exploded when he heard it: "Lisa, wait, one day I will drive a Gundam to rescue you!" God, An An really saved me once, but instead of driving a Gundam, he turned into a little bird monster.

After An'an made such a fuss, I felt much more comfortable than before boarding the plane, which shows that An'an is indeed my happy fruit.

——Maybe there will be no more young people in the future, but I still have An An.

After returning to Palermo, my life returned to the original track: going to work, leaving get off work, picking up Ann from kindergarten, and cooking at night.

Although I can live well without Sawada Tsunayoshi in my life, only I know that when I left Namori Town, a piece of my heart was already missing.

In my free time, I often think of the young man, his voice, the warmth of his hands, everything about him, whether he has returned to Palermo, and what he is doing now...

Time passed without a trace, and until the weather gradually warmed up, passers-by on the road removed their thick coats and put on spring clothes one after another, jumping from the end of winter in February to the beginning of spring in March, and several new faces in the office were replaced by old ones. Only the initial liking for him remained unchanged.

When I saw Anna and Malik together, I thought there was something wrong with my eyes.

"Honey, who will you show your soul out of your body?" Anna smiled and put her arms around my shoulders, and I finally came back to my senses.

I thought about it, stared at her very seriously and asked, "Excuse me, are you still the Lily? Anna? Christine I know?"

"...Of course." Anna's mouth twitched slightly.

"That's good." I breathed a sigh of relief.To be honest, I was really afraid that her brain would burn out before I dated Malik, but seeing that she looks fine, it should be really fine.

At the beginning, Anna chased Malik for a month and the two failed to form a good marriage. Later, Malik chased Anna for three months before she softened.

Anna and Malik, a pair of passionate and ruthless lovers, their relationship history can be written into a book.

Once the dust settles on Anna's partner, things are back on track as usual.

It is worth mentioning that I received a pack of white toffee from a young man on White People's Day, March 3th. Of course, that pack of toffee ended up filling An An's stomach.

Soon, the grass began to grow and warblers flew in the season. It was not until the bare branches on the street were full of green shoots again that I realized that the beautiful spring had come.

Fast-forward to late spring, when Janice's unborn child was born.

I remember that she married Jos last summer, and now almost a year has passed, and Janice, who was pregnant in October, finally gave birth to a lovely daughter.

Anna and I went to drink the full moon wine, but we didn't see the shadow of the young man at the banquet, so we couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.In mid-June, when Janice's baby was just one month old, something happened to the baby's father, and Anna and I hurried to her house—

The author has something to say: Late night code word party + a final paper not written + next Tuesday exam + this week's vitality list can't afford to be hurt!

63. Want to see you

When they rushed to Jos's house, Janice sat in front of the cradle with a haggard look, her beautiful blue eyes were as red and swollen as walnuts from crying, and her thin and thin body seemed to collapse in the wind.

Ana and I had never seen such a vulnerable Janice.

The baby in the cradle was already asleep. In order not to wake up the baby, Anna and I pulled away Janice, who was in a trance.

"What's going on?" Anna supported Janice's shoulders and sat on the head of the bed, and I sat on the other side, both of them were frowning tightly.

Janice cried intermittently when she called us, and it was not clear what was going on.

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