Chapter 14
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Happy New Year everyone!
In this chapter, I plan to go back and continue writing about what happened between me and Brother 6 in junior high school fourteen years ago. You can take a look at Chapter 10 for a review. I feel like you all must be very interested in seeing what happened in the past.
After the yearbook incident, my relationship with Brother 6 made new progress.
After all, this guy confessed his feelings to me in disguise through the yearbook, and I was also interested in him, so at that age, which now seems like childish play, we became little "boyfriend and girlfriend".
The classmates around us soon knew the news. After all, children are very sensitive creatures. Seeing us always talking to each other with flirting, they knew that there was something going on between us. They basically spared no effort to tease and match us up. He and I were both young and ignorant, and although we said we were in a relationship, in fact, we just chatted together after class and during lunch breaks.
At that time, Jay Chou began to become the memory of my youth.
During lunch break every day, classmates would play Jay Chou’s songs in class. That was the era of cassettes, the era of Octave, Ye Huimei, Qilixiang, and Still Fantasy.
I don’t remember much else now. I just remember that before summer vacation, I was quite relaxed after the exams. After lunch, Brother Liu would sit next to me and chat with me with Jay Chou’s songs playing in the background. Then, suddenly one day, he held my hand under the table.
The first time I held hands in my life was probably quite romantic.
Now when I write this, I recall the summer breeze blowing on my face and the shy and nervous blush on my face.
Anyway, at that time I felt that my first love was really the white moonlight of my life.
Soon, summer vacation is here.
I remember that I didn’t have a mobile phone at that time, and neither did Brother Liu. We left each other our home phone numbers and added each other’s QQ numbers, and then said goodbye to each other.
At the same time, that summer, our junior high school had a short study trip to Australia. I had wanted to go, but I was young at the time, and my parents were worried about my safety, so they didn't agree. Sixth Brother and another boy from our class, Xiao Lu, were the only two people in our class to go. I later learned that this program was actually a study trip for all junior high school students in Shanghai. My current best friend, Aqi (who lived in a different district than us), actually signed up for that study trip. When she talks about it now, she still remembers Sixth Brother with his mushroom-haired look, which was quite funny.
After the summer vacation began, my brother and I could only talk on QQ. Since our family members were at home most of the time, we didn’t dare to call him. Not long after, he went to Australia.
After he went to Australia, we were in a semi-disconnected state. After all, there were no mobile phones at that time, and they were usually in class or sightseeing during their study trips, and they had almost no time to go online on QQ. I couldn't contact him, so I could only wait for him to contact me when he could go online.
How should I put it? At that time, I basically stayed at home doing my summer homework and watching TV every day. Occasionally, I went out with my classmates to the bookstore and sing KTV. I didn’t feel the feeling of missing him too much. Moreover, maybe it was really because I was young. When I was alone at home, I thought that I was "prematurely in love". I always felt guilty and felt as if I had let my parents down (now thinking about my mentality at that time, it seems very funny).
One afternoon two weeks after he left, I was watching TV at home alone when I suddenly received a phone call from home.
I checked the caller ID and saw it was a complicated international number.
After I picked up the phone, I heard laughter from the other end, and then a male voice called out my full name with a laugh.
When I listened, I realized it was Xiao Lu, the male classmate who went to Australia with Brother 6. I was surprised that the call was from Australia, so I asked him, "Xiao Lu, what's the matter?"
Xiao Lu continued to laugh, "Wait a minute, Brother 6 wants to talk to you. He dialed the number himself and then shyly handed the phone to me. Wait a minute, I'll call him."
When I heard that, I felt a little happy, but then I also felt super nervous. After all, I never thought he would come all the way from Australia to call me internationally. Thinking about it now, I even tease Brother 6 about how I felt so girly at the time, and Brother 6's reaction was just a look of bewilderment: Huh?! I actually did something like that!
...I really want to beat him to death.
After Xiao Lu left, there was noisy conversation and laughter on the other end of the phone. After a while, I heard a familiar voice ringing in my ears.
"Hello."
“…Yes, it’s me.”
Everyone on his end was clapping and cheering, and it seemed that both he and I had red faces, and we could only hear each other's breathing.
"...Um, what are you doing?" After a while, Brother 6 asked shyly.
"I'm watching TV. What about you? Are you sightseeing anywhere?"
"No," Brother 6 said, "I just finished my homework and came downstairs. I happened to see a public phone that I could use to make a call, so I called you."
I laughed.
"Hey, hey, all of you please go away and stop crowding here and eavesdropping, okay?"
The next second, I heard Brother 6 seeming to chase away the classmates around him, and then I heard someone laughing, "Hahaha, Brother 6 is calling his girlfriend!!"
After a while, when it was quiet over there, I heard Brother 6's voice, "I chased them away. They were really annoying."
I didn’t know what to say, I just kept holding the phone and laughing.
"I missed you a lot."
After a while, he spoke cautiously in a tense voice.
My heart beat rapidly, and even though I was standing in an air-conditioned room, I felt sweaty.
"I'll be back in two weeks. Do we have to see each other again when school starts?" he said.
"Yeah," after all, I didn't dare tell my parents that I went out to play with my male classmates at that time. I could only endure it for two months until school started.
"All right," he said, "I have to go up. I'll call you when I have time."
“Okay, be safe and have fun,” I said.
After hanging up the phone, I slid down on the sofa and felt my face was incredibly hot.
Now it seems that this kind of thing is really commonplace, but at that time, I always felt that it was really remarkable that he could call me across the ocean.
After a while, I called my best friend from junior high and told her about Brother 6’s touching story. My friend was very envious, “Wow, he’s so nice to you, isn’t he?? So sweet!”
I laughed, but for some reason, I didn't feel too happy at that moment.
In the next two weeks, he didn't go online much and we didn't communicate much. He was probably busy and didn't call me again.
The inexplicable feeling in my heart grew stronger and stronger. Perhaps it was the unfamiliarity of not being able to see him, the fragility of youth, or a sense of guilt for falling in love too early. One night, I said to my good friend, "I want to break up with him."
The friend was shocked, "Huh? Why? Aren't we supposed to meet soon after school starts?"
"I don't know," I felt sad. "I don't dare tell him. Can you help him on Q?"
Although my good friend was very confused, he tried to persuade me for a while and didn't say anything else. He could only turn around and help me tell Brother 6 the news on QQ.
I sat on the bed alone, stupidly and dazedly, not knowing what I was thinking. My eyes were red and I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. At the same time, I felt very scared, afraid that he would be very sad. It was really a mixed feeling.
After a while, a good friend called me.
"What did he say?" I asked, gritting my teeth and holding my breath.
The good friend sighed, "He said yes."
My heart skipped a beat, and I felt completely chilled in this midsummer day.
This was the first time we broke up in junior high school.
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