Chapter 49: How can you know the outcome without trying?

  "He and I... are friends!"

  "Can friends kiss casually?" Vera pouted.

  "I... uh... " I was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say.

  "But you can't never see him forever, right?" Yu Bing said.

  Yīng Bīng said the same thing, I couldn't hide from Gu Yue Xuan forever. "Alright then, since the news club has a task, Wei Er, let's go together after school!"

  I took a look at Wei Er, she was still standing there lost in thought!

  The three of us met Yezi at the stairs on our way back to the classroom. She was about to head down, and I smiled at her, "Yezi—"

  "......" The leaves just looked at me for a moment, but didn't respond to me, and instead walked straight downstairs. My heart felt like it had been hit by something. It's so sad...

  "Ouyang Ye didn't scold you, it seems she already knows that Gu Yue Xuan likes you. And it looks like she sees you as a love rival." Wei Er looked down at the stairs.

  "Vier, say less, we go back to classroom first." Yinyin pulled us two away.

  Why did things turn out like this? Yezi is ignoring me now. We were the best of sisters, not rivals as Wei'er said. I want to find Yezi and clear things up.

  After school in the afternoon, because the teacher dragged on the class, Wei Er and I arrived at the news agency when they had already started the meeting. We rushed in and found our seats to sit down. Gu Yue Xuan was speaking on the other side of the conference table, and Zhao Yi Nian was also sitting beside him. From the moment I entered the conference room, I kept my head down. Because we were late, I didn't know what had been discussed at the beginning of the meeting.

  "Regarding this issue of the school newspaper, you will be divided into pairs, with different divisions of labor for each pair. I'll have Chen Bin send you the list, and I hope you can do a good job on your own tasks." Gu Yue Xuan's voice stopped. Because he was looking down, it couldn't be seen what he was doing.

  Wei'er nudged me with her elbow and whispered, "Gu Yue Xuan is looking at you." Upon hearing this, I lowered my head even further.

  "I'm talking to you." Vera poked me again and I ignored her, poking her back with my elbow. "Don't talk."

  "This sports meeting, I hope to see your wonderful reports. Who has questions, now can ask!"

  "After waiting for a while with no response, Gu Yue Xuan said: 'OK, meeting adjourned.'"

  As soon as he finished speaking, all members stood up and prepared to leave.

  "Alas! Why is it that every time Old General Guo holds a meeting, the time is always so short. I think he hasn't even had enough yet!" said a girl standing next to me.

  "Are you getting straight to the point? Do you want to fight?" Chen Bin didn't know when he walked over.

  The girl lowered her head and didn't say much, took over Chen Bin's list and turned around to leave.

  "This is for both of you." Chen Bin handed each of us a list, "If there's anything unclear, come ask me directly." Then he turned and left.

  I took the list, looked at it, and quickly found my own name. Hehe, I'm in a group with Wei Er. We're going to be responsible for reporting on the high jump event.

  "We're in a group!" Vielle pointed at the roster sheet in her hand.

  "Hehe, yeah! If I didn't come for the meeting, I wouldn't have known that school is going to hold a sports day."

  "Ouyang Yue..." A familiar voice was calling me. I knew that person was Gu Yue Xuan. It's just strange why he didn't call Cháng Fā Nǚ (Long Hair Girl) anymore?

  I raised my head and said, "Hehe, good morning, President!"

  Wei'er looked at me curiously, Gu Yue Xuan was also a bit surprised, but he smiled and said: "I hope you can complete this task well."

  "Uh-huh, I will! Nothing's wrong, let's go first!" Before Gu Yue Xuan could say anything, I pulled Wei Er and ran out.

  I don't know what's wrong with me either, every time I see Gu Yue Xuan, I think of Ye Zi. It's as if I want to leave...

  In the following days, I rarely saw Yezi, even at home, we passed each other like strangers. I didn't want it to be this way, really didn't want it to be. I missed the times when we could talk about anything. I went to look for her, but she wouldn't pay attention to me either!

  Alas! I lay listlessly on the balcony. "Alas!!!"

  "I heard that sighing makes you age easily!" Ou Yang's voice came from beside me, I turned my head to look at him, he was gazing into the distance. His hair had grown a bit and covered his eyes, the earring on his left ear sparkled under the messy black hair. It seemed like we hadn't spoken since that night.

  I didn't answer him, using my hands to support my head on the railing of the balcony, gazing into the distance.

  "A little monkey and a giraffe were competing to pick peaches under a tree, but no matter how many they picked, neither could win. Hmm? I looked at Ouyang Luo, he was still gazing into the distance, was he telling a story?"

  Ouyang Luo didn't respond to me and continued: "Later, the elephant suggested that they go pick the highest fruit on the tree. The giraffe stretched its neck as much as possible but still fell short by a little bit. And the little monkey was afraid to climb up because the branches of the fruit tree were very thin, with its weight, it would probably fall off if it went up. So it was about to give up. Just when it was about to come down, the little monkey's mother encouraged it to go pick, but the little monkey kept saying that it didn't dare and would get killed."

  I was listening intently when Ouyang Luo suddenly stopped. I looked at him and asked: "And then? Did she go to pick it?"

  "I don't know!" Ouyang Luo said calmly.

  "'Don't know?' I was surprised by his answer. How could he not know? Doesn't storytelling have a beginning and an end?"

  "If you were a little monkey, would you go pick some?" Ou Yang Luo turned his head to ask me, his expression very serious.

  "Of course I will, how would I know if I'll definitely fall down without trying?"

  "Oh—" Ou Yang smiled faintly and turned his head to look into the distance again.

  I'm completely confused, what does "oh" mean?

  "You're right, some things, if you don't try, how will you know the outcome!"

  "If you don't try, how will you know the result?" "Ah..., I understand now, thank you Ouyang Luo!"

  I happily said thank you to him, I saw him smile too, really, very good-looking...