Chapter 22
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This time the head teacher is really serious.
Before class the next day, I was thinking that I could pass notes to Brother 6 later in class, but who knew that the teacher would directly announce on the stage, "I am going to change seats slightly in the back row now."
She didn't say the reason or who to replace.
My heart skipped a beat.
I exchanged glances with my deskmate Xiao Zhou, and she immediately understood that this was a move directed directly at me, Brother 6, and the other couples in the back row.
As expected, my position and Xiao Zhou's position remained unchanged, and Brother 6 was directly moved to the last row of the group farthest from me.
Several other couples were also separated significantly, and the back seats were basically completely replaced.
After the change, the old teacher started the class directly, leaving the people in the back row all angry but unable to say anything. They sat down in their new seats with their schoolbags in their hands, their faces livid. The atmosphere was quite solemn and depressing.
Brother 6 and I looked at each other from a distance, and our faces darkened.
Well, now even our last means of communication, the little notes, are useless. Since we are sitting so far away, we can't ask each of the nearly ten classmates between us to pass notes for us, right?
I felt depressed all morning.
At lunchtime, Xiao Ma patted my shoulder and whispered to me, "Brother Liu told you to eat and go to the horizontal bar area below. I will go with him and help you cover over there."
"Okay," I nodded, immediately feeling a little better.
After quickly finishing my meal, I rushed to the horizontal bar area below. Brother 6 and Xiao Ma were waiting for me there. As soon as Xiao Ma saw me coming, he immediately went to talk to other classmates.
My brother 6 and I just stood in front of each other and looked at each other. I didn’t know what to say for a moment, and I felt a lot of emotion.
"Let's walk together after school," he said to me.
"...We'll be seen, right?" I rubbed my temples. I also wanted to go home with him, but I really felt that if anyone saw us, the teacher would know.
"It's okay. I'll wait for you at the place where we met yesterday. It's quite far from the school, so we shouldn't be seen," he said. "Otherwise, I really won't be able to speak to you all day."
Although I still felt nervous and scared, my longing for him outweighed everything else, so I agreed immediately.
Then we leaned against the wall and chatted about random things. I never knew that it would be so difficult to talk to the person you like.
We went back to the classroom in batches.
I went up first, and after ten minutes, Brother 6 and Xiao Ma came back together.
For some reason, the teacher returned to the classroom early at noon that day. As soon as Brother 6 came in, he called him and asked him to go outside.
I felt tense all over, and Brother 6 was also confused as to why they were looking for him, but he still followed the teacher and the two of them went to the corridor to talk.
When they came back after the talk, Brother 6's face also became very ugly.
I don’t know what they talked about, but subconsciously I always felt that it might be something similar to what I was talking about.
Before school was over, I asked Xiao Ma to help ask Brother 6 whether we wanted to change the plan. Brother 6 replied that we should keep the plan and go home together.
I really acted like a thief. After packing my schoolbag, I got up and left. Before leaving, I could see Brother 6 still packing his schoolbag. The teacher standing in front of the podium glanced at me, then glanced at him again. I quickly took the opportunity to slip away.
Then I ran as fast as I could to the path where we met yesterday.
I don’t know how long I waited there, probably at least fifteen minutes, before I saw Brother 6’s figure appear at the intersection from afar.
My eyes lit up immediately and I waved at him.
He looked unhappy at first, but he smiled when he saw me.
"What's wrong?" I went to meet him. "Are you feeling unwell?"
"No," he shook his head and immediately took my hand.
"What did the teacher say to you?" I asked with concern.
Brother 6's eyes flickered, "Nothing."
He was still very introverted at that time, and he liked to keep many things to himself and didn't like to speak out. I thought about it and said, "Did she also tell you about us and warn you?"
He seemed a little unhappy when talking about that incident, and said expressionlessly, "...that's about it, ignore her."
I didn't say anything else, as I felt it would ruin the atmosphere, so I went home with him.
Originally, we could have walked together for 20 minutes, but because the meeting point was far away, it was shortened to 10 minutes, and we were almost home in a short while.
When we reached the intersection near my house, he turned his head to look at me and called me, "Baby."
"Yeah," I nodded.
He looked at me, came over and kissed me.
I felt that there were thousands of words in his eyes, but in the end he didn't say anything.
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Because the basketball game has not ended yet, Brother 6 still has to practice regularly when he has free time after school.
We really acted like strangers in the class and hardly talked in class. After school, if we didn't have basketball practice, we would meet directly at the meeting point. If he had practice, I would hide in a corner on the first floor where people upstairs couldn't see me and watch him and wait for him.
This went on for about a week. The teacher didn't come to see us, and we didn't seem to reveal that we were still in contact with each other.
One night, because there was a small test in the last class, school was already over late, but because there was a competition the next day, Brother Liu had to practice, so I waited for him in the classroom while doing my homework.
There were a few other classmates in the class. I was doing homework for a while when the teacher suddenly came in.
When she saw me, she greeted me and asked, "Why aren't you going home yet?"
My mind raced, and I immediately replied, "I want to finish my English homework before going home. If I don't understand something, I can still look up the book. I don't want to memorize the book."
She looked at me for a few seconds, said nothing, nodded, and went to find other classmates.
Then I waited for her to leave, and after a while I went to the corridor railing to look. I felt that Brother 6 was almost done, so I went back to the classroom to pack my schoolbag and went downstairs.
When I got to the playground, he saw me as I passed him and said to me gently, "The usual place, I'll be there soon."
I smiled, nodded, and walked out of the school gate.
After meeting at the meeting point, we deliberately sat in a small alley nearby where there were not many people and chatted for a while longer than usual. We were having a great time chatting and really didn't want this short time we spent together every day to end immediately. The two of us kept hugging each other and talking sweetly, and we were really inseparable.
The weather was getting colder at that time, but when I hugged him, I felt warm all over.
When it was completely dark, we reluctantly parted ways and went home.
As soon as I entered the house, I found that my father, who usually greeted me with a smile, had a dark face today.
He came to the entrance to help me with my school bag, then went into the living room without saying a word.
I panicked, "Dad, what's wrong?"
"Come in first," Dad said in the living room.
I put on my slippers and went in, and saw my mother sitting on the sofa with a dark face.
"Teacher Chen just called your mother," my father said expressionlessly, "and said that you were having a premature relationship with a boy at school."
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That was truly like being struck by lightning.
When I heard this and looked at their faces, I was so pale that I couldn't say a word. I felt like the sky was about to fall.
My mom then hinted at something more serious. "She also said that you two have been together for a long time, and she's warned you multiple times, but you're still maintaining a relationship that's more than just your average classmates. And your grades have dropped because of this. Next year will be the third year of junior high, and if this continues, she's really worried you won't be able to get into the good high school you deserve. She told me this as a last resort."
I opened my mouth, completely unsure of what to say.
"She said that you waited for that boy to finish his basketball practice every day before going home together. That's why you came home late every day, not because you were doing homework at school."
"Is this true?"
My father and I have a very good relationship and he has always trusted me. Looking at his expression at the time, I felt that he must have felt that I had been deceiving him all along, and he was very sad and angry.
My whole body was shaking, my mind was blank, and I could only nod unconsciously.
I don't remember clearly what happened next.
It should be a violent storm.
I only remember that after I finished dinner and returned to my room, my mother talked to me for more than an hour and explicitly forbade my sixth brother and I to stop having sex immediately. She also said that starting tomorrow my father would come to pick me up from school every day.
After she left, I heard her and my dad sighing and discussing whether to send me abroad.
I cried all night long that night.
When I went to school the next day, my eyes were swollen. My classmates asked me what was wrong, but I just smiled and didn't say anything.
I asked Xiao Ma to tell Brother 6 what happened yesterday. Xiao Ma later told me that Brother 6 also encountered a similar situation yesterday.
So he looked very haggard and unwell.
From that day on, we could no longer talk to each other, nor could we go home together.
We don't even have the slightest bit of strength to continue fighting against these external forces.
For a period of time afterwards, I lived like a walking corpse every day. I had to concentrate on studying hard to improve my grades, regain my parents' trust so as not to be sent abroad, and reassure my class teacher.
At the same time, I have to start slowly letting go of this boy whom I like so much.
I can only pretend that I can't see him and that he doesn't exist.
Because I want to cry when I see him, and I want to cry when I get home.
I am really, really sad. I can't let him go and I can't forget him.
But I know I have no choice.
He had no choice.
We are like two lines that were forcibly separated, originally intersecting but now parallel.
Sometimes when I see him talking to other girls in class, I feel uncomfortable, and sometimes when he wants to look at me, he finds me chatting and laughing with other boys.
We are not even allowed to ask each other about our situation. My parents don't allow me to use a computer, and I can't contact him through the Internet. All channels are blocked. We must continue on this path, concentrate on studying and graduating, even if we no longer have each other's company.
We didn't say goodbye properly, but we really became strangers from then on.
Spring passed and winter came, and until we graduated from the third year of junior high school, neither of us spoke another word.
However, I never stopped liking him until the day I graduated.
After that, we were admitted to different high schools and started ten years of independent life paths.
But even now, I still remember the heartbeat, happiness and joy every day when I was with him... We would smile at each other whenever we had the chance during class. Even after we separated, I would still miss each other's face, smile and every move. I would think of him when I was doing homework at night and when I was sleeping.
He filled my entire junior high school years.
To have such an unconditional and wholehearted affection for someone, to have my heart beat so fast and bubbles pop out of my eyes when I see someone like that, I have never experienced that before and I will never experience that again.
Before I met him again, I often told my best friends that I would never fall in love with anyone as sincerely as I did with my first love. Even though it seems like we were just playing house at that time, the teenage years with him are the memories I cherish the most.
I still remember it so clearly until now, like a treasure.
Because he is the only white moonlight in my heart.
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6 Brother read this chapter in front of me, and I saw his eyes were red after reading it
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