Fleeting Midsummer FM Chapter 22 (1/2)
Chapter 22: Trusting someone with Sincerity
Fang Yu Ke, the CK representative, and I (with a flat chested stature) mutually appraise each other.
Julie forced me to go buy a bikini. The reason that she used to persuade me was extremely convincing: A person who is single should wear clothes that attract the opposite s.e.x. Later, I decided that Julie was definitely a very high-level schemer. Because when I wore my bikini, I immediately changed into cannon fodder. That is, I was being used for setting off Julie’s scorching figure. I would forever just remain the friend beside the hot girl.
I accepted Julie’s bikini recommendation, but my other reason for accepting it was that swimming cla.s.ses were separated into a male cla.s.s and a female cla.s.s. In this way, wearing a bikini was still okay, so much so that it didn’t matter if we were naked during cla.s.s. But, I didn’t expect that even though the cla.s.s would be divided into male and female cla.s.ses, we still had to share the cla.s.s location. Because Peking University had only one swimming pool, and this was a required course, males and females occupied each of the four lanes in the swimming pool. At this end of the pool, it was the female’s cla.s.s. On the other side, it was the men’s cla.s.s. Two cla.s.ses of people were separated into broad lanes and we surrept.i.tiously, or brazenly surveyed each other, and sized up each other’s circ.u.mstances.
In the first cla.s.s, the physical education teacher wore a T-s.h.i.+rt and came over. She introduced herself quite frankly and said: “h.e.l.lo all cla.s.smates. I was originally the teacher for the basketball cla.s.s, and I am surnamed Zhang. This year, of the teachers majoring in swimming, one got pregnant, and the other one went to our national swimming team to support them. Thus, this teacher is a bit nervous, I was only used to make up for the lack of teachers. I hope you cla.s.smates can take care of me more during cla.s.s.”
I was dumbstruck. What kind of circ.u.mstance was this? A student who was afraid of water had come across a teacher who specialized in doing exercises on dry land. I couldn’t say whether I could master swimming this semester.
The teacher once again said: “Those of you who already know how to swim, please raise your hand.”
About ten hands raised into the air. Among them was Julie. I calculated that our cla.s.s had 20 students, which meant that the remaining individuals were what I counted…
The teacher satisfactorily indicated that everyone should put their hands down: “After a while, these students will swim for me. Remember, b.r.e.a.s.t.stroke and doggy paddle do not count. If your posture is to the norm, then you don’t need to come to cla.s.s. Next week you can go immediately to take part in the 200m exams. The other people can only learn how to swim b.r.e.a.s.t.stroke with the correct posture, and cannot stop in the middle of swimming 200m. For the rest of cla.s.s, you can also apply for the test early and take it early. Everyone who has pa.s.sed the exam only has to sit for a makeup exam of the theoretical content on the last cla.s.s. I will help you guys take this cla.s.s.”
My heart thought that I was finished. Would a teacher who didn’t know how to swim and the rest of the 19 students look at me taking the 200m test on the last cla.s.s? Such a humiliating prospect, please do not let it happen to me!
To let me despair thoroughly, the teacher added: “Of the remaining students, those of you who have never touched water, please raise your hands.”
I s.h.i.+vered as I heaved my hand up. When I looked back, I was the only one to raise my hand out of the twenty people.
Can you not be so dramatic?
I am a weak student, but you are not allowed to bully me.
The teacher let us line up along the pool, and do some warmup exercises before entering the pool. I dispiritedly followed the teacher’s tempo, extending my hands and turning my neck. Right when I was about to turn my neck to the center position, I saw that within the ranks of the schoolboys across from us, there was a familiar yet strange figure–Fang Yu Ke
I surprisedly felt my neck almost snap. At once, I gave a meaningful look at Julie. Julie had also seen Fang Yu Ke. But she was very valiant, and didn’t express the slightest amount of wonder. She only exclaimed in admiration: “His figure is so great!”
I fell backwards…This was the first time I had seen Fang Yu Ke this semester. Last time, on the bridge, when I had expressed my heartfelt feelings, I could only pretend he existed as an imaginary character. Right now, seeing him, I always felt a little uneasy, and a faint bit of regret that we had talked so frankly. When one takes off his or her camouflage and revealed his or her true opinions, then one won’t have a thread of a sense of security. It just felt as uncomfortable as me wearing this swimsuit, standing in a crowd of boys who weren’t that far away from me. But I never thought that Fang Yu Ke would be frank with me to the end …..Even though I said that from now on, I would take him as a good friend, G.o.d did not need to overlook other arrangements, right?
But, as for the charm of the present, if I didn’t take a look it would be wasted. I also managed to look quite a bit…
Yup. It was indeed a masculine figure…
I had to feel those pectoral muscles if I had an opportunity, to see if it really was as strong as it looked.
I was embarra.s.sed to comment on the part in the middle of his body, but he had everything he should have had…
His legs were very straight and slender……
He could completely be an endorser for CK…
I drew back the corners of my mouth into a smile. Because there was a distance between us, I did not have to worry about being too engrossed. Haha…
I quietly said to Julie: “Julie, now, do you still have the mood to test early?”
Julie immediately said: “How can I take the exam early? I must come here every week to toughen up and cultivate my mind.”
I hoped that Fang Yu Ke could attract some female cla.s.smates until I learned how to swim. But I also hoped, contradictorily, that he’d better take the exam early so that I would not have to “be exposed” in a crowd that gradually lessened.
After cla.s.s, Julie and I finished bathing at the public baths. We planned to go to the nearby dining hall to have a meal. We hadn’t walked a few steps before I saw Fang Yu Ke had also come out from the public baths. A towel even dangled from his neck. I hurriedly pulled Julie over. Julie didn’t understand the situation and looked around everywhere for any strange circ.u.mstances. The moment she saw Fang Yu Ke, she pulled away from my hand and loudly yelled at Fang Yu Ke: “Fang Yu Ke—”