[Comprehensive British and American] The predecessors are missing one

Yili bit her lower lip and began to hesitate.She is hesitating.

Suddenly, I felt dizzy; everything in front of me gave me a paradoxical sense of déjà vu.Like it happened somewhere, in some form.It made my chest throb.

"No." I blurted out, but I didn't even know what I was talking about, "No, you don't want to do this. Ellie, I won't leave you this time."

Yili lowered her hands, and her hesitation was temporarily withdrawn.She looked at me puzzled.

"what?"

I came to my senses.The dizziness subsides. "...What did I say just now?"

"You said you wouldn't leave me this time." Yili repeated my words, her expression becoming uneasy again.She fidgeted restlessly in the round high chair, her agitation was evident.

I took Ellie's hands and tried to calm her down. "Eli, listen to me. Don't push me away. Why do you have to?"

"Because I don't want you to think I'm using you," Elly explained, taking a deep breath, then sighing heavily, "but, oh my god, I feel like I'm using you. I want to break the curse, so I'm looking for a relationship, and it's not right. I've been hurting you, before, and now."

"Do you mean……?"

"I deliberately didn't tell you, I'm going to transfer schools." Yili said, looking away, not daring to look at me, "I had countless opportunities to tell you about this, but I didn't. I was worried for two weeks, no Stop thinking about when you're going to ask me that question. I... I did something terrible."

I slightly opened the corners of my mouth.Ah, she was talking about this. "I know. You just want me to remember you."

In an instant, Yili opened her eyes wide.She looked at me with tears and guilt in her gray-green eyes.

"I'm sorry," she said, trying to force back the tears, "I'm sorry, Barry. I was so scared at the time that I forgot that I was supposed to love you so much. I thought about staying, somewhere...but Bo Xi, I can't leave him alone, he is so small and needs someone to take care of him, my mother has to work to make money, I can't, I don't want to be a willful and ignorant adopted daughter..."

I took Eli in my arms. "I understand." I said, patting her on the back lightly, once, once, "I know you don't want to leave me."

"I feel worse now," Elly murmured, her forehead resting on my left shoulder. "I always have reasons and excuses for you. I don't like myself. I should do better."

I frowned, wanting to hold her tighter, but afraid that it would make Yili afraid instead.

"I don't need you to do better. All I need from you is you to be yourself."

Eli fell silent.

I lowered my head, absently playing with the brownish-red strands.From this angle, I couldn't see her expression, so it was hard to guess what Yili was thinking at the moment.

Suddenly I thought of a very serious problem.

I let go of Yili, grabbed her shoulders with both hands, and forced her to meet my eyes.

"Wait, wait. Ellie, you're not going to do something stupid, are you?"

Eli looked innocent. "What stupid thing?"

I wish I hadn't twitched the corners of my mouth and made any kind of eye roll like, "You're definitely going to do that. I know what you're thinking. You're going to push me away and go find Clark or something of yours... I don't know where you are." Your ex-boyfriend from time to time, help you break the curse! And you haven't even tried to kiss me!"

Yili's gaze drifted away for a second.She dared not look at me.

……I knew it!

I feel hurt and a little angry.

"Seriously? Evangeline, what are you thinking?"

"Otherwise what should I do! I want to die directly. There is no solution to this problem. How can I know whether this person will become my true love from the beginning?"

Yili unconsciously raised the volume.This provoked strange glances from customers in adjacent seats.

"I hate falling in love too! But, if I don't try one by one, how will I know who is the true love! I should work hard to break the curse, I should work hard to find true love, everyone around me is so serious and dedicated to helping me, I I don't want to be a burden to everyone, this curse has a time limit..."

After speaking, Yili's tone became hurried.I think she was too agitated and needed to be reassured.

"Eli, look at me."

I held Eli's face in my hands.But she looked away.

"Look at me, Ellie." I repeated, emphatically, "You're no one's burden. Never were."

I think about Ellie finding out she was an adopted daughter around seventh grade, when we first met.During that time, Yili's mood was always low, and she occasionally gave up on herself.I told her that I could understand how she felt because I was also an adopted child.She didn't know who her real parents were, and my mother was killed in front of me, my father was defiled and imprisoned, and I was no better off than she was.

Maybe that's the beginning of our mutual acquaintance.

"Remember? I will be loyal to you," I said, softly, "from the day we decided to date. I will always be your friend, the most loyal friend. I will tell you the truth, and the truth is ..."

At that moment, I almost told Ellie—the truth is, in the future, we will get married and have a baby, and she will let me name the baby.

I think of our midtown apartment, and the mornings where Ellie will always be grilling bacon, and road trips and techno season, and the kids I never got to see.

our children.

...If I say this, it will scare Ellie.

"The truth is, true love is not just changing when something is wrong." I temporarily changed my words, "It is impossible to find true love if you are always changing partners. You will only find more distrust and dissatisfaction with love."

Eli turned her gaze back slowly.She finally agreed to look at me.

I believe that, deep down, Elly agrees with my words.I could read it in the look in her eyes.

"But what should I do?" Yili frowned, her voice revealing confusion and bewilderment.

"You can trust me," I answered her, looking sternly into her eyes, "do you think I'll let you die? No, of course not. You owe me a lot, and I won't pay you off I will chase after you, it's not that simple."

Fortunately, Eli smiled.I was also afraid that this joke would be too cold to be funny.It's not easy for me to think of a joke in this situation.But I am willing to give everything in exchange for Yili's smile.

"I'm telling the truth, you have to trust me." I relaxed my expression, but told Yili again more seriously, "There must be another way to solve your curse. I will definitely find a way."

Eli pursed her lips slightly.Her eyes revealed how moved she was.

"I still feel," Ellie said, eyes twinkling, "that we should kiss now, prove that you can't do anything to my curse, and then we never see each other again, and you get as far away from this trouble as you can .”

"You'll only say these things to me." I parted my lips in resignation. "Okay, let's kiss. But this will not change my decision, no matter what happens after the kiss. And, I remind you, you You really shouldn't try to date anyone else when your heart belongs to you. Really. It's not going to work."

Eli looked at me suspiciously.

"Don't pretend you don't know." I raised my eyebrows, maybe showing a provocative expression, "You love me."

Eli blushed instantly.She opened her mouth, wanting to refute but unable to refute.

"I may not love you that much. I just..."

"Just what? You know I'm right. How else would you explain what you just said? And all your reactions?"

Eli slumped her shoulders in frustration.She stared at me, her cheeks flushed with embarrassment.

"That's why you dare not kiss me." I sighed and stroked Yili's cheeks with my thumbs, "You're afraid that I won't be able to break your curse."

Although, in my feeling, this curse cannot be solved with a kiss, I am sure that I am the other half of Yili's destiny; in Yili's feeling, this may mean that I am not her true love, she should Stay away from me right now, so that we don't hurt each other more in the future, I will be frustrated by her curse, thinking that I killed her, and of course she will not be much better.In the end we are still headed towards the end of destruction.

Eli hugged me tightly.She buried her face in the crook of my neck and said nothing.

I held her, and at this moment, I felt that the puzzle piece that had been missing in my heart for many years had been found.It’s not like the kiss and hug I’ve had with Ellie in the future, it’s a hug that calms me down and makes me feel like I belong.

In fact, I am the one who needs each other more.

"If..." I thought for a while, and reluctantly opened my mouth, "If, you still decide to find, um, try your other ex-boyfriends, I will also... um, stay with you, as a friend. You Just believe, I will not give up on you, leave you, I will find a way to save you."

Eli looked up at me.

"Didn't you tell me to go on a date with someone else on the premise that I don't want to belong?" She raised her eyebrows, "Where is your confidence, hero. Who was the one who just swore that I loved him?"

"It's me." I grinned, and reached out to brush her hair behind my cheek.

Yili stared at me, her eyes revealing her complicated emotions.Sometimes, usually with acquaintances, Ellie's face is like an open book.

"I've decided to trust you," Ellie said, softly but firmly.

I looked at her with anticipation.

"What are you going to do?"

"Not dating anyone," Ellie replied, laughing self-deprecatingly, "Sounds like I'm going to kill myself. You better start thinking about how you can be with me and explain this to other people, I can imagine everyone will Very angry."

I recalled Yili's group of relatives and friends... I suddenly remembered something important.

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