Vol 1 Chapter 23 (2/2)
“Really?”
“Why would I lie to you? Dreams are opposites, the worse the dream, the better the reality will be!”
I was skeptical butspirit I clenched my fist, turned around and ran outside Wu Zei called after ot here? You’re not drinking any more beer?”
“I’ back to do maths questions”
“Don’t forget to return the money”
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After the co Jun Teacher Gao didn’t ask how the test went, she only asked to treat us to a meal I wanted to reject but the invitation ca the h it all, the suppressed breath I had in my chest disappeared anda nosebleed
Flustered, Zhang Jun rolled up a paper napkin and handed it to me I unexpectedly wasn’t able to control myself and hit away his hand with force The action was too outright, too intense, not just him, even Teacher Gao was stunned I yet calmly stretched my head back, rolled up a paper napkin and stuffed it in my nose
After the co Jun and deliberately avoided him
Zhang Jun wasn’t an idiot, he could definitely feel that I was ignoring him but he still often came to talk toto ith me but I always rejected him
Zhang Jun’s tenored him, don’t say corily turn his head and leave But not two days after, he would appear before rily turn his head and leave
After so me and suddenly disappeared froht as the bell rang and hurriedly leave after school He rarely stayed in school Sometimes, I would occasionally see hiroup of students h ere in the same class, it seemed like ere in two different worlds
Later, I heard that during the New Year festival, Zhang Jun pried open a store with two others and stole lots of cigarettes After the situation was revealed, the parents gave the store owner lots of money and tried to cover up the event
Zhang Jun still stuck to his old ways but the parents of the other two sternly warned theht that it was Zhang Jun as a bad influence on their children The situation spread through the parents and prettywith Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun didn’t know all this in the beginning and still ran to other people’s houses to play However, the parents who opened the door wouldn’t even let hi told hi on, he i with the students in our class and started to hang out with people in society ouldn’t turn their back on him
I guess he definitely also thinks that it was due to this reason that I alienated hiain
In the second half of our second term in Year 6 , the results from the maths competition came out I o points off the score for first division and received the prize for second division Zhang Jun’s score was lower thanraising cere perfor Jun at all and only praised me
My highly strung heart could finally be at peaceThere were only five ainners in the entire city and our school had two Teacher Gao had only just started working but she had already gained glory for the school and for the school which only looked at teaching achieveh for the other teachers to have nothing to say
Due to the ained my first certificate in my entire life It was only a thin piece of colored paper with the words Luo Qi Qi gained second division in the Maths Coraphy but to old
After arriving home, I shyly showed the certificate to mom and dad Dad stuckhard Little sister watched on the side, pouting My heart continued much excitement and anticipation, I liked this dad, his eyes were focused onhome certificates every day for dad to stick
At night when it was ti at the certificate on the hile secretly s with excitement
The next day after I woke up, I found out the certificate had been scribbled on with a crayon by so out my name and the second division
I flew into range and without even bothering to dress, I barged into little sister’s roo on her She started loudly crying
Mom and dad hastily rushed in and pulledwhat had happened, they were both ary about it
Little sister huggedMom and dad didn’t bear to blame her, dad said, “Qi Qi, isn’t it just a certificate! Even if little sister rong, you can still nicely talk it out, why are you hitting her? Quickly get changed and prepare for school…”
I glared at them, it wasn’t just a mere certificate! It wasn’t just a mere piece of paper! But dad had already hurriedly rushed off to eat breakfast and e clothes
I sloalked back to my room and tore down the certificate on the ith force I ripped it into shred and threw it in the rubbish bin No one cares about it anyway, so why should I care?
I don’t care, I don’t care at all!
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I’ve always been confused about the definition of childhood, before what age would you count as a child exactly? Later, I decided to differentiate based on whether or not you celebrate Children’s Day Our city held an arts show on June the 1st, Children’s Day Up to Year 6, June 1st was always a holiday, and students who could sing and dance participated in the show Every Children’s Day, the teacher would give everyone a pencil cased filled with hard guht back to Children’s Day, I would reumdrops
This was our last Children’s Day Thecloser After the exaood results will advance to key o to ordinary ht in front of our eyes, sadness and fear filled the air of our class However, I didn’t have any feeling, instead, I checked the calender every day to see how
I was a child with no confidence, when faced with my pain and inferiority, the path I chose was to run away and hide, so I saw middle school as a brand neorld where I could start all over
The students all brought memory books for each other to write in, it asked for your ideal future, what you wanted to do the enerally wrote “none”
[A book where you got your classraduate to remember them]
I bought a beautiful memory book but I didn’t ask anyone to write in it At the very, very last moment, I don’t knohat exactly , but I actually asked Guan He to write in it Guan He flipped open hed surprised, “I’m the first!”
I s, she didn’t know that she was also the last
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Finally, ere going a graduation ceremony!
Many students perforraduation, the students went a bit overboard with their perfore pant legs, and black leather gloves to break dance The threeJun wore a white unifor, ‘Love’
Myin a group and one of two of the guys were also using their red scarves to wipe tears I felt very uncoraved in my heart and the tears wouldn’t come out
After the Principal and teachers finished speaking and distributed the graduation photos, the students left one after another I still sat in my seat next to theand looked outside, ht that I hated this school the most and couldn’t wait to excape from it but unexpectedly, at the very last moment, I was reluctant to leave
“Luo Qi Qi”
It was Zhang Jun’s voice I needed to prepare myself before I dared to turn around, “what is it?” He stood in front ofand falling, like blue waves The sun shone in fro on his white shi+rt towhite There were a few students talking on the podiu around in the corridor but all the sounds were bloay by the warm breeze of summer It was as if I was in a different space with him, the stillness would make people afraid and uneasy
My nose becaain, “what is it?”
He fixed his eyes onI want to tell you”
Under his focused gaze, I felt my heart beat faster and faster
“Zhang Jun” Guan He and a girl from a different class called from the door
Zhang Jun looked at the step back I looked at him then looked at the lotus flower by the door, Guan He I suddenly didn’t want to listen to anything, I hurriedly stood up and walked out the classroom with ave et into a key middle school”
I was impolite however, and walked off without a sound Whether or not you were able to get into a key middle school depended on your own hard work, not so out of the classroo to leave my unhappy childhood days behind me forever The warm breeze of summer blew past s behindraved deep in my heart
Into rush forward, I didn’t even have the confidence to wave farewell, and like this, I hurriedly sent off my childhood years
End of Chapter 2