Chapter 16 (2/2)

Close to Lan Lan’s house was a small town that made violins, a town of violins.

When I went past, I saw lots of stores selling violins which made me really, really miss a little boy.

I remember when he was little, he would carry his violin to music cla.s.s. When he walked past the window of my art cla.s.s, he would always raise the bow of his violin to say Qing Xi ah, I’m going la, I’m off to learn violin la.

Thus, Lan Lan and I went into the store. I said, I wanted to buy a violin.

Lan Lan said that we didn’t know how to play so the sound would be awful to listen to and we’d get complaints from the neighbours.

However, I still bought one and I put it at home to look as decoration.

They said, I was very cold to Wei Yu,

But it’s true, at the time, I really missed him.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but my family, my little brother and Xu Wei Yu were all overseas.

I lived alone for……seven years. Occasionally, my mother would come to live with me. That time was really lonely. I also didn’t really understand and I would distastefully think, what’s so good about outside, the people I care about were all outside.

Later, the four years of university really made me warm up.

I met a group of very, very good girls who will be my best friends for a lifetime.

Once, I went to the beach with Lan Lan.

We had finished eating dinner at a food stall and went for a walk on the sand. Someone had started a bonfire on the sand and there were a few people crowded around. There was a boy, or I should say, a young man, playing the violin for a girl. The people around them were all shouting, accept him, accept him. It made me really, really miss my violin boy.

Later, he came back and another two years went by, Wei Yu proposed to me and I accepted him.

It feels like we finally finished a very, very long marathon. In the middle it was very tiring but finally, we’ve reached the end.

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