Living with the school flower

  A sleepless night came unexpectedly due to a series of surprising and exciting events earlier, my mind kept wandering around Tong Chen's scene where after being suddenly kissed by me, her eyes changed from wide-eyed surprise to slowly closing them and passionately embracing me. The current situation makes me feel a bit complicated, I don't know if Tong Chen understands my feelings for her, will she take my seemingly reckless and frivolous behavior as a joke or a light-hearted performance? Or can she empathize with the faint love I have for her.

  In this series of anxious and disordered thoughts, the brothers in the dormitory got up one after another, started folding their quilts, washing and preparing for class.

  "Are you okay? Not going to class again?" Lao Si asked with concern while combing his hair in front of the mirror.

  "I'm not in the mood..." I replied vaguely as I lay on the bed.

  "The instructor said that if you skip class ten more times, you will be expelled!"

  "Hah! Don't worry, there are still ten classes left! What's the hurry?" I said nonchalantly, trying to comfort Old Fourth. From his complex expression reflected in the mirror, it seemed like he was also wondering "Who is actually skipping class?"

  After everyone left, the dormitory suddenly became quiet, and I fell into another aimless thinking again. Before I knew it, I started to doze off and closed my eyes, and in my dream, Tong Chen and I were embracing and kissing passionately on a snowy street.

  Like the idiotic scenes in many movies, my beautiful dream was broken by a sudden ringing sound. I unwillingly opened my eyes from the wonderful dream and picked up the phone on my bedside table. But after seeing the number displayed, I immediately felt excited again because it was Tong Chen's number. So I sat up nervously, took a deep breath, and answered the phone with an extremely magnetic and gentle voice.

  "Hello!...... Ah! I'm looking for Kang Jian!" But the voice that came from the phone was Zhao Lijia's somewhat uncertain tone, which made the passion that had been cultivated in my heart quickly dissipate.

  "Ah! Are you stupid? You called me and then said you couldn't find me!! Who answered the phone if not me!!" I shouted at Zhao Lijia in exasperation.

  "You just made a noise like a rutting boar, who knew it was you!!" Zhao Lijia also shouted at me over the phone.

  "What's wrong with you, calling Tong Chen's phone randomly?!"

  "My phone is out of service!"

  "What do you want from me?!"

  "Tong Chen seems to have caught a cold! She didn't feel well since she came back yesterday, I need to go to work soon, can you take care of her for me? I'm a bit worried!"

  "Ah! Wasn't it too cold outside last night when you were out for a walk?!" I anxiously asked over the phone.

  "How did you know? Were you together yesterday?" Zhao Lijia asked in surprise.

  "Ah……I guessed it……wait for me at home, I'll be right there!" After hastily saying that to Zhao Lijia, I hung up the phone, jumped out of bed, quickly tidied myself up and rushed to Zhao Lijia's house.

  After Zhao Lijia opened the door and told me that Tong Chen was still sleeping, she briefly said a few words and hurriedly went out. After sending off Zhao Lijia, I gently pushed open Tong Chen's bedroom door. Tong Chen was lying quietly on the bed, as peaceful as a child. I walked over quietly, carefully tidying up her disheveled hair in front of her forehead, then quietly walked out of her room...

  After leaving Tong Chen's room, I went downstairs and bought a lot of vegetables at the vegetable market on the first floor. For this opportunity given by God to me, which allows me to show myself more comprehensively and make great contributions that can move others, I will not let it slip away.

  After I went back into the house, I started busying myself lightly in the kitchen. After passing Zhao Lijia's picky test, I had great confidence in my cooking skills and secretly thought that this might become a decisive means of conquering some girl one day. Unexpectedly, just as I was bitterly complaining about having no use for my heroism, an opportunity suddenly appeared before me.

  Maybe I was too focused in the kitchen, and Tong Chen appeared at the door of the kitchen wearing thick pajamas without me noticing.

  "How did you come out!? Hurry back and lie down!!" I said somewhat nervously to Tong Chen.

  "I don't have anything to do, I just lie in bed with a headache... Are you cooking?" Tong Chen asked, seemingly disbelieving.

  "Right! Have some more food! Doesn't the book say 'Medicine is inferior to food as a tonic'?"

  "Haha! I've heard the legend of your cooking skills from Zhao Lijia before, but I didn't expect to witness it with my own eyes and even get to taste it myself! I'm truly honored!" Tong Chen said with a smile, her beauty was somewhat diminished by her cold, but still gave me a different kind of aesthetic pleasure.

  "Keep a low profile... just don't give me too much publicity, okay? Having Zhao Lijia promote for me is enough! You go inside and wait for a bit, it'll be fine soon!" I said with a smile.

  "No!" Tong Chen smiled and refused, "I'll stay here with you, it's more boring for you to cook by yourself!"

  Tong Chen then stood at the kitchen door, starting to chat with me in a leisurely manner. After a while, she slowly walked behind me, her actions making me feel a bit uneasy as I stood there. In my heart, I began to fantasize about her tightly embracing me from behind. Just as I was smiling inwardly and rebuking myself for such a ridiculous expectation, Tong Chen actually did just that - she tightly hugged me from behind. Everything felt so natural, just like the hand-holding yesterday. We continued chatting calmly as before, but through our close contact, I could feel Tong Chen's intense heartbeat at this moment...

  Tong Chen's physical condition wasn't as bad as I had imagined, especially when facing the dishes I made for her, she seemed to have a good appetite and her spirits lifted greatly, which also revitalized mine. Suddenly, I realized that in those stupid TV dramas, most of the time the female lead would gaze at the male lead with a happy and infatuated look as he wolfed down the food she made, it seems there's still a gap between reality and art.

  The sweet scene was interrupted by the phone ring again, Old Four called to say that the instructor would take attendance in the next class, and I'd better go back. Thinking of the instructor's expression whenever he found out I skipped class, a hateful and vengeful look, saying "no worries" is just nonsense. Tong Chen was also beside me, listening to the phone call, and she urged me to hurry back quickly. Under her urging, I willingly walked with her to the door.

  "What's wrong?" Just as I was about to open the door, Tong Chen suddenly turned around and asked with some tension. But I ignored her question and slowly moved closer to her. As our distance decreased, Tong Chen's face gradually turned red, and finally she quietly closed her eyes, seemingly having already seen through my thoughts and made preparations.

  "What are you doing?! I'm just telling you to take care of your illness, I'll come back and see you after class!" I suddenly felt that continuing like this would be out of line with my usual casual style, so I stuck close to Tong Chen's ear and whispered to him. After hearing me, the last patch of white on his earlobe also turned bright red, and he started punching me with his fists...

  PS: My computer is broken, after sending it to the after-sales service for repair, I have been waiting anxiously but there has been no news. So I had to run to an internet cafe to type this out. Please forgive me, and I am also planning to suggest that IBM's after-sales service change its name from "Blue Express" to "Blue Slow Train".