Chapter 096: Childhood friends if line: (Six)

"I'll go home first."

At the department dinner, Yu Wen drank a few cold drinks, his stomach was twitching, and he felt unwell and wanted to leave early.

His friends were worried about him and suggested taking him home.

Yu Wen refused and said, "It's okay, I'll go sit outside for a while, someone will pick me up."

Music was flowing in the corridor, gentle and quiet. Yu Wen sat on the sofa in the rest area, and the soft top light illuminated the last conversation on the mobile phone screen.

Xie Heyu: [I'll pick you up.]

He subconsciously scrolled down, but didn't see his reply. He remembered that he didn't reply, turned off the screen angrily, and put the phone back in his pocket.

He and Xie Heyu have been in this awkward state for a long time.

In the past, he always took the initiative to send messages to Xie Heyu, sharing all the interesting and boring things at once. After the confession, he intentionally reduced the contact between him and Xie Heyu, and gradually became less fond of sending messages. The dialogue box became a one-man show for Xie Heyu.

He learned from Yu Wen in the past, posting some boring daily life, using the trivial details of life to fill the distance of hundreds of kilometers.

Yu Wen didn't know how to reply, and most of the time he didn't reply, and occasionally chatted a few words to make the conversation seem less awkward.

He found a perfect excuse for his perfunctory behavior - busy. He used to be too lazy to update his circle of friends once every half a month, but now he updates once a day on average, either busy with this thing with the student club or helping the teacher with that thing. He even lied to his parents. Every time they called, they just asked him to eat well and not tire himself out.

He wanted to distance himself from Xie Heyu, so he could only act poorly like this.

But sometimes when he flipped through the dialogue box and saw that Xie Heyu didn't respond and the chat came to an abrupt end, he couldn't help but feel distressed, feeling that he had handled it so badly.

Xie Heyu would also read his poorly acted Moments and often sent messages to remind him of his three meals a day. Half an hour ago, Yu Wen took a photo of the dinner party, and within two minutes his phone began to vibrate. Xie Heyu sent several messages in a row, reminding him that his gastritis had not healed yet and not to drink ice drinks.

Yu Wen didn't see it at the time, but when he saw it, his stomach had already started to feel uncomfortable.

He replied, "It hurts already." 】

After replying, he began to panic and hastily withdrew the message, but it was too late. Xie Heyu was probably staring at the dialog box and replied to the message he withdrew: [I'll pick you up. ]

The Moments had a location, so it was easy for Xie Heyu to find him. Yu Wen knew that he was always swift and decisive in doing things, and it was too late to refuse at this time, so he had to sit outside the private room and wait for him to pick him up. Halfway through,

a friend came out, brought him hot water, and asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital.

Yu Wen shook his head.

In fact, it was not a big deal. After two cups of hot water, he felt much better. It was just that I just heard what was said at the table. After the dinner, everyone planned to go to the evening singing. Yu Wen was afraid that he would die suddenly, so he took this excuse to slip away.

The friend asked: "Where is the person who picked you up? Hasn't he come yet?"

Speak of the devil.

Xie Heyu walked towards this direction with his coat draped over his arms. Yu Wen hadn't seen him for a while. Looking at him from a distance, he felt that he had grown taller, with a straight and neat figure, a higher nose bridge, thinner lips, and fully developed facial features. He looked less childish and more aggressive.

A friend asked, "Who is this?"

Yu Wen stared at Xie Heyu's approaching figure in a daze, and didn't hear his friend's voice.

Xie Heyu answered himself, "His guardian."

The friend showed a meaningful expression.

The two walked out of the hotel hand in hand and stood outside the gate. Xie Heyu waved for a taxi. The first thing he did was to take a taxi to take him to the hospital.

"No need." Yu Wen came back to his senses and said, "I'll just take a pill."

Xie Heyu: "Where's the medicine?"

Yu Wen: "...I forgot it in the dormitory."

Xie Heyu looked at him, said nothing, and opened the map to search for nearby pharmacies.

The nearest pharmacy was only a few hundred meters away. Xie Heyu quickly determined the direction. His palms transmitted the hot body temperature. Yu Wen only then realized that their hands had been held together.

He moved his fingertips and wanted to struggle, but the command seemed to be unable to reach the nerve endings. The hand curled up quietly in Xie Heyu's palm, wrapped in a slightly damp temperature.

"You said before that you came to S City to visit friends. Where are you staying now? Hotel?" Yu Wen took the initiative to speak, breaking the silence between the two.

Xie Heyu came to S City a week ago.

He also got the admission quota early, and came to S City right after finishing the school business. Yu Wen was nervous for several days after hearing the news. He finally prepared himself mentally and took the initiative to ask if he wanted to accompany him.

Xie Heyu declined, saying that he was here to visit friends.

How could he have friends in S City? Yu Wen didn't believe it, but he didn't feel comfortable asking more. He just said that if he needed anything, he could call him anytime.

"I live outside and rent a house." Xie Heyu asked him to wait outside, and quickly went into the drugstore to buy medicine. When he came out, he bought a bottle of room temperature mineral water at the small supermarket next door.

Yu Wen gulped down most of the bottle in the same way he fed him water. After drinking it, he stood with his hands behind his back and watched Xie Heyu screw the bottle cap on and put the remaining medicine back into the small plastic bag.

He licked his wet lips and asked, "Do you want to play for so long? We still need to rent a house."

Xie Heyu packed up his things and naturally came to pull him. Yu Wen didn't react and was pulled again.

"No, I don't live on campus, I live outside."

Yu Wen: "... But school doesn't start until September. Isn't it a bit early to prepare to rent a house now?"

Xie Heyu said, "It's already rented."

Yu Wen suddenly remembered who he came for, and the words were on the tip of his tongue, and he was silent in panic.

"Does your stomach still hurt?"

Yu Wen shook his head anxiously, "No."

Xie Heyu stopped talking and slowly took him to the road.

The road was quiet, with cars occasionally speeding by. Yu Wen didn't know where he was being taken. The road was so long that it seemed endless, just like the misty relationship between him and Xie Heyu.

Xie Heyu: "Are you hungry?"

Yu Wen: "... A little."

Xie Heyu: "I'll make you some noodles, do you want to eat?"

Yu Wen: "Where are you going?"

Xie Heyu: "My home."

Yu Wen: "...No."

Xie Heyu turned around as if not surprised by his answer.

"How long have we not seen each other?" he asked.

Yu Wen was quiet for a moment, looking at his eyebrows and eyes that were stretched to a little unfamiliar, "...half a year."

The last time they met was during the Chinese New Year. On that birthday, he closed the door of the balcony, and the "ladder to the sky" could not reach him. The fairy wands were set off in the corner where he could not see, turning into a pile of lonely black ash.

That night, Xie Heyu stood on the balcony next door, staring at his direction for a long time. Yu Wen saw a shadow in the floor-to-ceiling mirror. He was in a daze in the room for as long as the shadow stood there.

Later, when the shadow entered the room, he quietly closed the curtains and went to bed.

After the winter vacation, Yu Wen returned to school, and he never saw Xie Heyu again.

"Half a year..." Xie Heyu lowered his eyes, murmured these words, and then smiled lightly and happily, and stretched out his hand to Yu Wen, "Half a year, don't you want to hug me?"

"..."

Yu Wen said nothing, looking straight at him, the atmosphere became tense, his expression was doubtful and alert, like a young animal relying on his poor experience to try to judge whether the trap in front of him would devour him.

Xie Heyu raised his hand again, and the plastic bag of medicine in his hand rustled.

Yu Wen's expression relaxed a little, and finally he couldn't control himself and took a step forward.

Stupid.

Knowing it was a trap, why did you jump into it?

Yu Wen put his arms around Xie Heyu's waist a little awkwardly, and felt the strength of her arms gradually increase, and finally she was like iron around him.

His nose suddenly felt sore and his throat became hoarse.

"Xie Heyu...you hugged me too tightly."

"Yeah, because I miss you so much."

Yu Wen was embarrassed to say that I miss you too, very much, and not being able to send you a message is like having ants crawling on me. These days are like quitting drugs...

They exchanged a hug with all their strength under the street lights, as if their bodies could express all the words that could not be said.

Yu Wen said, "I know you like me... I understand what you said that night."

Xie Heyu: "Yeah."

Yu Wen: "I'm sorry for not replying your messages; I'm sorry for not going back to see you; I'm sorry for locking you out of the balcony on your birthday... And, I'm sorry for rejecting your love."

When Xie Heyu said the last sentence, his shoulders tensed up visibly.

After a long moment, he slowly let out a breath, touched the back of Yu Wen's head, and said something incoherent: "I understand."

He may understand Yu Wen better than Yu Wen.

He understood Yu Wen's soft heart, Yu Wen's ostrich nature, and Yu Wen's strange sense of responsibility...

His love was a feeling from a minor. The two of them usually fought and quarreled, but in fact Yu Wen always remembered that he was two years younger than him. This concept would be triggered at critical moments, such as when he suspected that Xie Heyu had a "mental illness", such as when Xie Heyu confessed his love.

Yu Wen's first consideration was not his own feelings, but that he should not fall in love too early.

Xie Heyu understood his sense of morality, so she calmly accepted the estrangement for a year. When he said that, he expected this result.

"Yu Wen," Xie Heyu whispered in his ear, like a few close kisses, "Are you in love?"

"..."

Yu Wen refused to speak.

"Yu Wen, tell me."

He opened his lips, his voice a little muffled, "What do you think..."

Xie Heyu let go of his hand, stood up straight, and looked down at his expression.

"...No." The moment he trembled and uttered these two words, Yu Wen realized that he had failed. Xie Heyu had received everything he should and should not express.

While he was daydreaming, a shadow approached in front of him. Xie Heyu bent down and tentatively kissed the tip of his nose.

Yu Wen did not dodge.

Xie Heyu kissed his cheek again.

Yu Wen still did not dodge.

So Xie Heyu kissed him on the lips.

The kiss was cautious, unfamiliar and simple. Yu Wen saw Xie Heyu's emotional face between his eyelashes and couldn't help but ask in a hoarse voice: "You, um... when did you like me..."

Some of the words were drowned between his lips and teeth, and they were unclear. Xie Heyu leaned against his forehead and whispered: "I can't remember... It's probably been a long time..."

Every time Yu Wen climbed over the fence, accompanied him in a daze, accompanied him to watch ants... pulled him to do something wrong, and smiled and said that he wanted to play with him because he liked him...

These were the moments that Xie Heyu kept in his heart.