The 15th Section of the Left Ear (15)

  Article 15: Left Ear (15) I swallowed hard, a small tolerance can ruin great plans.

  "What are you looking at?" Xu Yi asked me, "Do you know him?"

  "I don't know," I said, "I just think he's a bit handsome."

  Xu Yi smiled hard and said: "Is he handsome or am I more handsome?"

  "Of course, my boyfriend is more handsome!" I said, holding onto Xu Ye's arm. "Look at them, let's go over and compare with them, see which pair of golden boy and jade girl ranks first!"

  He stretched out his hand to pull me forward, one hand holding the umbrella and the other hand damply and carefully grasping mine as we hurried through the drizzle of the night. We turned a corner, then another, and yet another, until finally we arrived at what he thought was a safe place, under a large building.

  It was an office building, empty and deserted at night, pitch black.

  I leaned against the wall, and Xu Yi's arm stretched out, placing itself above my head. I smelled the scent on his body, young, vigorous, and completely different from Zhang Yang's. This kid who had been spoiled by me, at this moment, I was afraid he would kiss me, so I gently turned my face away, my chin resting against my own shoulder, with a bit of self-loathing fake innocence.

  Xu Yi said in a low voice: "Bala, the more I look at you, the more beautiful you are, really."

  "Are you going to play ball at the stadium tomorrow?" I dodged the question.

  "Didn't I say I'd spend the day with you tomorrow?" he said. "Think carefully, where shall we go to have some fun?"

  "I have nowhere to go tonight," I said.

  "What's wrong?"

  "I had a fight with my family's old lady and I ran away from home," I said.

  "What? What should I do?" He was somewhat flustered.

  "I'm being unreasonable," I said. "I want you to stay with me tonight. The whole night."

  "But, bala......" He hugged me and said, "But my mom......"

  "Whatever." I gently pushed him forward and walked ahead, pretending to be casual: "Whatever, I'll just go to the bar for a night, anyway it's almost dawn, you hurry back home, bye bye oh bye bye!"

  "Hey!" He rushed over and grabbed me, "Don't be angry, can't I think of a way?"

  "What's on your mind?" I said.

  "Or you go to my home!"

  I stared at him with wide eyes.

  "My house is big, my parents stay in their own rooms at night and won't come out. You wait in the corridor of my building first, wait for me to go home, when it's safe I'll send you a text message, open the door and let you sneak in. Then early tomorrow morning, you leave early, they will definitely not know."

  "Then where did I sleep?" I asked directly.

  "Sleep..." He thought for a moment and said, "You can sleep wherever you want."

  "Done." I said.

  That day, my brain was probably 80% broken. I just had an impulse to do something bad. I couldn't control myself at all. I thought of Xu Yi's mother, who was full of charm and charisma, and in my heart, I said to myself with great passion: "Lei Ba La, you really have guts! You know there are tigers on the mountain, but you still insist on going up the tiger mountain."

  Xu Yi took me home with him. As we were approaching his house, he turned around and made a waiting gesture to me before going upstairs.

  His home is on the fourth floor, I sat between the third and fourth floors in the corridor, with one leg propped high on the railing of the corridor, and started smoking my 555 again. The cigarette was down to its last one, I crushed the cigarette box and threw it under the stairs, suddenly wondering if that good kid Xu Ye had any cigarettes, if not, how would I spend the long night at his house.

  Just then, my phone rang. I had put it on silent mode, so there was no sound, only the words "Zhang Yang" flashing continuously on the screen.

  I answered the phone in a fluster.

  "Where are you?" he asked me.

  I mumbled with a cigarette in my mouth: "I'll wait under Xu Yilou's building, and after his parents fall asleep, I'll sneak into his house to spend the night with him."

  "How dare you!" Zhang Yang said.

  "Maybe," I said.

  "Come to our usual place, I'll be waiting for you there." Zhang Yang said and hung up the phone.

  8

  I was lucky that day, I didn't wear my high-heeled shoes. I put away the phone and ran down from Xu Ye's building, almost at a speed of 100 meters sprint to reach that small path. That familiar, dear muddy little path, thinking that my loved one is waiting for me there, I felt like a light pigeon, the wind whizzing past my ears was the wings I had grown out of nowhere.

  He is really there.

  I halted my footsteps, calmed my rapid breathing, and slowly approached him.

  I'm afraid it's just a dream.

  "Hey." He put on his duck tongue cap again, leaned against the wall and greeted me. Jump to it!!!

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