c5 (1/2)

ch 5 Straight to the Point

“My house is big, and ht Stay around o inside first When it’s safe, I’ll send you a text and open the door for you And in the , you can leave early They won’t know at all”

“Then where would I sleep?” I asked, straight to the point

“Sleep…” He thought for a , “You can sleep wherever you want”

“Deal,” I said

That day, 80 ofbad, and I couldn’t stop ht of Xu Yi’s parents, and said toYou know you’re walking into a tiger’s den, but you don’t care

Xu Yi brought me home When ere almost at the door, he motioned for me to wait as he went inside

His home was on the fourth floor I waited between the third and fourth floors, lifting , and then I pulled out arette in the box, so I crumpled the box and tossed it down Then I suddenly wondered if Xu Yi, this good kid, would have any sht here

Just as I was thinking about it, er onthe words “Zhang Yang”

I answered the phone, a bit flustered

“Where are you?” he asked

I bit down onfor his parents to sleep Then I’ll slip inside and spend the night with him”

“You dare?!” he said

“I guess so,” I responded

“Co was done speaking, he hung up

I was glad I didn’t wear my pointed shoes that day I put away my phone and ran down from Xu Yi’s place I ran the 100 meters or so to that s of ht dove, the histling beneath s

He was really there

I slowed , and sloalked closer to him

I orried that it was just a dream

“Hi” He was leaning against the wall, wearing his cap again

“Hi” I extendedlike a major fool

He hooked his fingers tomarbles (?) In an instant, I was in his arht I wouldn’t ever want to let go Even if the heavens split and the earth sinks, I wouldn’t

“Bala,” Zhang Yang spoke into my ear “I think I’ve actually fallen a bit in love with you”

I closed

In ht, “Of course, of course”

“I want to talk to you,” Zhang Yang said “I’m just afraid there isn’t a place”

“Co as I ran After a while, he stopped and askedme to?”

“Shh!” I turned around, raising a finger to his lips, rabbed ontome forcefully

“Bala, Bala…” he said “I love you I can’t let you be together with anyone else I can’t!”

“Okay, okay,” I said, as if coaxing a sether with anyone else I promise”

“Okay” He lifted his head and asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“Let’s go, I’ll take you so forward After we’d gone half way, he let go, and then grabbed my hand in his He smiled playfully and said, “I’m more used to it like this”

“Are you usually the one who holds a girl’s hand first?”

“No, I’ain

Under the winterhis expression I couldn’t cal toward the outskirts of town, to the abandoned house I often went to

First, I cli followed behind He asked eness, “How did you find this place? I never knew there was such a place”

“This place used to be a labor workshop But they stopped s, so the place has been left eood, I like to run over here, and sit on the roof by myself”

“Then, what about now? You’re not feeling good?” Zhang Yang asked me, as he pushed away the hair in my face”

I stopped hi it up

Seeing how he stared at me as I tied my hair up with a rubber band, I hit hi at!”

He s off into the distance

I took out my silenced phone and saw that I had ten missed calls All froo? I want to see you right now Come over, okay?”

I didn’t care and just turned off the phone Sitting next to Zhang Yang, I asked, “What do you want to talk about?”

“Do you think that I’ht to the chase

“A bit,” I said “Almost as bad as me”

“I don’t think you’re bad,” he said “I never would have thought that it would be your first time today”

“Oh,” I said “It’s better not to talk about that, don’t make it aard”

“Do you regret it?” he asked

“Of course not,” I said with a laugh

“Why?” He turned to ask htly

I answered, “I love you, Zhang Yang You lured me in, and from the first moment I saw you, I fell in love with you”

“You’re not at all ordinary,” he said “You should know, at the start, I just wanted to use you”

“I illing to be used”

“Thisyou trouble”

“Even if it causes ht, I would still enter the underworld with a smile”

“Bala, there’s a lot I want to say to you You’re the first girl who’s made me want to pour (my heart) out”

“Then talk” I moved closer to him, and I could feel the warer out to his face, swi it over his chest, and I could feel his heart beating Ba-du forsay, “Actually, ever since I was born, I wasn’t a happy child”

“Why?” I asked softly

“When I o years old, et married to some other man”

“So what?” As if trying to comfort him, I said, “My parents both left me and went abroad”

“I wish she had gone abroad, to somewhere I couldn’t see or feel But, you knohat? She stayed here, and gave her love away to someone else She could hate my father, but I couldn’t understand how she could hate the child who she gave birth to What do you think, can there be such a mother in the world?”

I suddenly recalled, “Oh yeah, when I called earlier, it was your father who picked up”

Zhang Yang said, “Should have been He doesn’t care about my matters”

“Your o?”

Zhang Yang sat still and pulled me closed He said to me, “Listen closely My mother is now Xu Yi’s ht my father was too poor, so she fell in love with Xu Yi’s father Then she just left us to marry him”

So that was it!

I asked, “Then what about Xu Yi’s mom?”

Zheng Yang said coldly, “Xu Yi’s father is scum That poor woman, I heard she took some money and returned to the countryside”

“So… Your mom became Xu Yi’s mom?”

“See said “I never would have thought that there could be a one to the same school as Xu Yi since eles for Xu Yi, and when she saw lance And Xu Yi was always that kid, always first in everything I couldn’t stand it Every day, I would wonder, if he couldn’t ain… I admit, I was very contemptible”

I felt Zhang Yang’s tears, a warht