Fleeting Midsummer Fm Chapter 32 (1/2)
KISS（2）
All words in italics were originally in English
The next day, within my haziness, I was woken up by three pairs of eyes br.i.m.m.i.n.g with resentment.
My throat nearly discharged smoke as I waved to them: “Hey, don’t stand in front of me and block the way. If you don’t have anything to do then pour me a cup of water.”
Julie obediently went to go pour some water. The water sounds flowed in the midst of the quiet dorm. I smelled something fishy: This was the quiet that comes before a rainstorm…..
I got off the bed and quickly took the cup: “I’ll do it myself, I’ll do it myself……” while looking at the three of them.
I drank the water, feeling as if I was drinking cardboard [1]. I was really being stared at so much that I got gooseb.u.mps. So I could only gain the initiative by striking first: “I can’t do with people like you. If you have things to say then say it. Why are you ravaging my mental vigor?”
w.a.n.g Jie held the manner of the leader of the dorm. She dragged a chair and sat in front of me: “Lin Lin, do you remember what you did last night and how you returned?”
After she reminded me, I began to recall what had happened. Sitting upright and still, I tried to recall anything, at all costs.
Julie was someone who would suddenly erupt with anger, and almost as if she was shooting me with machine gunfire: “w.a.n.g Jie, don’t look at her trying her best to remember. You’ll know as soon as you see her empty expression. She forgot everything. If you don’t believe it, look her face to face for a whole day. I bet that before she remembers everything you’ll fall apart first.”
Sure enough, the scariest people are the people that know one better than oneself.
w.a.n.g Jie persevered: “Then do you remember what you did last night?”
I had some impressions: “I went out to hold a welcoming dinner for my friend. Before, he was out of the country, rarely does he ever come back for a whole half year. This time, he even came to Beijing. It’s too rare…..”
Ah Tao made a rest motion [2] with her hands, and cut me off: “Stop stop stop, I’m not interested in your person who travels far from home. Tell us who you went with and what you did.”
“I went with Fang Yu Ke. We didn’t do anything. We talked and drank…..”
Julie patted her thigh: “Finally, we’ve gotten to the main point. What happened after you drank the wine?”
I continued to remember: “After we drank, we still talked. Then, we drank some more…..” omg, stopstop, I seemed to have done a very brave thing. Was it real or an illusion? Did I do it? Did I not do it? Did I do it? Did I not do it? As I thought, I casually repeated: “Did I do it?”
Julie directly swatted my head, rather than patting her thigh: “You’ve thought of guys to the point of becoming crazy. In all your confusion you’ve already thought of getting onto the bed and settling the matter in one go after drinking? You don’t even know if you did it. Yesterday from your foolish laugh, if anyone did do anything to you, then they would have to be doubly blind and deaf.”
Actually, I wasn’t referring to this much later step. I only wanted to know if I had kissed him or not, along with some of the foreplay and so on……
“You came back covered completely. But,” w.a.n.g Jie calmly said, “when Fang Yu Ke sent you back home, your clothing was not in good order.”
Julie also wailed: “Look at you. You won’t change your character. From a little age, you’ve learned how to take advantage of a male. After this gets out, will you be able to marry? Last night when you returned, you were even hauling Fang Yu Ke out to tear off his clothes. And you even blamed the other person for having too many b.u.t.tons. I even blushed for you. Fang Yu Ke didn’t dare bring you back to his house, but when he carried you on his back, your shouts that involved your tearing heart and splitting lungs…ohhhhhh”
Julie had sure been immersed into last night’s memories. It wasn’t clear if she could be Dao Ming Si’s mom, but she could definitely be Shan Cai’s mom’s subst.i.tute [3].
Ah Tao continued to supplement: “Don’t worry, this time you started off successfully. All the girls in the girls’ dorm and even the Dorm Manager Auntie has remembered you. Of course, I believe this kind of gossip has already reached Ru Ting who is vacationing in Europe. I’m afraid she’ll immediately return. Alas, the fire has started in our backyard, and disaster will escalate into a miserable wall.” Ah Tao looked like she was mourning for her country and for the citizens, but how long would she pretend for? Immediately, she patted my hand and said: “Then we will have a great show to watch. Lin Lin, you must fight on, so that making the gossip post sticky on bbs won’t be in vain.”
Cold sweat started forming as I listened: “Then what did Fang Yu Ke say?”
Julie stuck one leg over the other and said: “So we must say that Fang Yu Ke is a good person. He personally helped you wipe your face and even told us to explain everything, and made us take very good care of you. He even said that when you sleep, you might kick the blankets off and told us to be more careful. Say, what have you been hiding from us? How many times have you gone over to Fang Yu Ke’s house? How come he knows that you can even kick off two blankets off the bed?”
Alas, before when I had been cramming for computer cla.s.s, I had fell asleep on his bed many times……
Julie saw that I looked extremely depressed. So she added oil onto the fire and asked: “Did you know how many enlightening remarks you issued last night? That was practically an undisguised attack, an attack that occurred in front of the whole girls’ dorm….. But this type of suicidal method challenge really let us feel very sad. The listeners all cried. If you have these types of thinkings, then you must wait until the time is right. In addition, asking for numerous autographs, when you have a 1% chance of success isn’t great to publically declare. Right now, you’re so bombastic…..oh dear…..”
I couldn’t stand Julie’s talkative and flippant manner: “What exactly did I say?”
“Hehe, you said,this famous blossom has a master. Lin Lin has come to plow through and loosen the soil. I have taken advantage of my concubine, Fang Yu Ke tonight! I’ve even kissed him…..”
O. M. G. She wouldn’t be kidding me, right……
At that time, phones that could take pictures were all high end phones, but I also forgot that in this school, many people who could read were **. Last night, my shameful performance was uploaded to the Web by some busybodies. This was the first time I thanked our old dorm’s dusky lighting which made the expression on the person not that distinct. But on the whole, I looked like I had practically run out of a mental hospital.
It wasn’t too long before I received Fang Yu Ke’s text: “Have you woken up? Shan Shan wants us to go to his hotel and meet up. In the afternoon, we’ll go to the Summer Palace.”
I didn’t want to go. As a child, to even now, I had done stupid things, but I had never done such a stupid thing ever. If I really were to go, I would have to have skin as thick as a city wall.
But if I didn’t go, it would look like I had a guilty conscience…..
Right when I was considering, Shan Shan texted me: “If you don’t go because of yesterday’s matter, all the flesh on my body will despise you.” Alas, when did this rascal get such a high IQ?
My IQ wasn’t that high either. As I was forced by Shan Shan, I obediently went.
After I got downstairs, I first met up with Fang Yu Ke.
I had never been so quiet in my entire life. Seeing him come out from his dorm, I lowered my head even more and waited for judgement like a sinner who was about to be executed.
Fang Yu Ke was also very quiet, as if he had offended me somehow as he stood next to me. The two of us blockheads stood in our original place for a while. By and by, absolutely all the females with bigger mouths had already begun to discuss it: “This is the pair that caused all the torment last night right?”
After I heard this, even if I was very brazen like the atmosphere, I also had to s.h.i.+ft my steps and begin moving.
The whole way, we remained silent. It sure was weird.
Yesterday on the bus, we had even fought and quarrelled. Sure enough, making oaths and promises with a poisonous tongued person was too malicious. I couldn’t bicker with him anymore.