you were there

That familiar figure from the back has not appeared side by side in this world for a long time.

Xia Mozhen had mixed feelings at this time, and seemed hesitant to speak.On the contrary, Shi Rui was very indifferent.

"Thank you for the umbrella, I forgot to return it to you."

Xia Mozhen really wanted to say "you're welcome", but a question was on his lips, blocking the polite words.

"do you love me?"

The two stopped at the same time, and a scene from an idol drama was staged in the corridor.

Shi Rui hesitated for a long time, not knowing whether to nod or shake his head.After all, he has been in love with another girl for the past three years.He is much better than her, but the biggest difference is gender...

"You're my good friend, best friend..."

Shi Rui turned his head and left, leaving Xia Moqiao leaning against the wall in the corridor, tears rolling in his eyes.

Qiu Chen, who was hiding upstairs and eavesdropping, was extremely surprised, her eyes widened.It turns out that my deskmate is gay!Such a handsome man turned out to be GAY!

However, even so, he didn't dislike him, so he just walked away.

He turned sideways, afraid that Xia Moqiao at the stairs would find out.He looked at his side face, his eyelashes were trembling, and the crystal light shone dimly on his cheeks.

Qiuchen pursed her lips tightly.The emotion in the bottom of his heart surged and impacted his heart.He didn't know what it was, maybe it was a desire to protect, he wanted to protect this fragile but stubborn person...

He walked down the stairs slowly, the footsteps were not light, but Xia Moqiao didn't notice the slightest.

Qiuchen took out her pocket and found that there was only a piece of toilet paper in the pocket that she had wiped off her sweat.

Whatever it is, don't drop the chain at this time.So he handed the crumpled piece of toilet paper to Xia Moqiao.

Xia Mozhen turned her head slowly, and found that Qiuchen was nodding her head, but handed herself a piece of paper.He didn't care about him, just wanted to quickly dry his tears.Men don't cry easily, let alone in front of outsiders of the same gender.

In Xia Moqiao's eyes, such a talent is considered exceptional.

After wiping away her tears, Xia Moqiao stuffed the piece of paper into her pocket, turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey, you want to go to the class teacher with red eyes!"

Xia Mozhen stopped, not knowing what to do, but the waves in her eyes were still rolling, she didn't know which sentence or scene would make her cry again.

Qiuchen went straight down the stairs and went directly to Zheng Qiaomei's office.

"Are you looking for Xia Moqiao?"

Zheng Qiaomei was puzzled, and asked him back: "No!"

Now Qiuchen was angry and puzzled, but she didn't shake Shi Rui out.

Zheng Qiaomei suddenly realized that get out of class was not over yet.

"Why are you here when you're not in class?" Zheng Qiaomei questioned in the tone of the class teacher.

Qiu Chen shrugged: "Just now I wanted to go to the toilet, but suddenly I didn't feel it anymore, so I went here to find the feeling."

"Get out!"

Qiuchen went out again like this, but there was pity hidden in her smirk.

……

After school that day, Xia Moqiao's face was very gloomy and she didn't say a word.The girls in the class still came to invite him to go with them, but he didn't make a bad face and still politely refused.The girls were not disappointed, they still walked away in a hurry...

Qiuchen was the first to pack her schoolbag and rush out every time, but this time she deliberately procrastinated.

He thought he would finish cleaning up before Xia Moqiao, but Xia Moqiao was already standing at the door holding the lock.

Qiuchen stepped out of the classroom quickly, for fear of being locked in the classroom by him.

The weather was cool and there was no rain.But as October approaches, the autumnal equinox is approaching, and the sky is getting darker and earlier.

After practicing the chorus for two hours, Xia Mozhen was exhausted.Not only physically, but also mentally.

Qiuchen followed behind him like a shadow in the dark, following closely behind.

Xia Moqiao is very afraid of the dark, especially the dark alleys.

He walked calmly, but without fear.It's not because there are people behind to protect him, but because of the desolation in his heart, so that he no longer fears the darkness.His world seemed darker and more terrifying than this one.

Qiu Chen followed him cautiously, for fear that he would frighten her with a roar when he looked around.

This is not the way to the subway station!

Xia Moqiao turned to a corridor and went straight in.

Qiuchen was not afraid of anything, and followed in directly.

The lights were dimmed, and the only light was gradually annihilated in the early autumn breeze.

Qiuchen moved forward slowly, and finally saw a glimmer of fire at the end.

He stepped forward quickly and found Xia Mozhen leaning against the corner of the wall, smoking a cigarette there feebly.

The scene in front of her surprised Qiuchen. It turns out that the good students in the eyes of the teacher who are well-educated and reasonable also have this bad habit.

Xia Mozhen saw Qiu Chen, looked at his somewhat surprised face, and didn't seem to care.

"Are you surprised?" Xia Moqiao exhaled thin smoke, "I've learned it since I saw him smoking. When I learned it, I couldn't breathe, but now..."

Xia Moqiao coughed a few times, apparently choked.

Qiuchen looked at him with an unfamiliar posture and appearance, and seemed to seldom smoke. She probably only smoked a few when she was so helpless and sad.

"The cigarettes you smoke are really disgusting." Xia Moqiao complained, and in his pocket was the "Blue Diamond" mentioned by Qiu Chen.

"If you smoke Zhonghua, don't you just smoke Zhonghua?"

"My uncle is not the director of moral education, and my family is not rich." Xia Moqiao flicked the cigarette ash, "It's different from you, it's different from him. He lives in a high-end residential area and drives a luxury car. Come to me..."

Maybe Qiuchen didn't know that Shi Rui's family was also considered a middle-class family, so they should be quite rich. She already knew it when she saw his father pick him up in an expensive car.

"I have loved him for three years, because he loves a girl, and I dare not tell him my heart. I have to help him write a love letter, and I have to apologize to that girl for him when we quarrel, and his mobile phone was confiscated Sometimes I borrowed his mobile phone to let them have an affair," Xia Moqiao threw the cigarette butt into the corner and shouted, "I have provoked someone, why should I apologize for my rival!"

Xia Mozhen confides like a complaining woman.However, he himself didn't know why he was able to confide the secret hidden in his heart to this person who had only met for a few days.

Qiu Chen squatted down slowly, and the tall figure became smaller under the moonlight.

He sat next to Xia Mozhen, deliberately leaving a little gap between him and him, lest he would hate him for being too close to him.

The moonlight was hazy, like a layer of mist shrouded the full moon, shrouded in the air of the silent night...

"Do you love him very much?" Qiu Chen asked him in a low voice.

Xia Moqiao was still smoking a cigarette and ignored him.

He kept all his sorrows in his heart and didn't want anyone around him to find out.My own emotions, anger, sorrow, and fear are carefully wrapped in that layer of skin.Politeness, modesty, and friendliness deceive everyone.Perhaps the him at this moment is the most real him.Vulnerable and helpless...

"Don't you just like a man? What's the big deal? Those who claim to be avant-garde are still clinging to feudal and backward ideas. If they want to confess, they can confess."

Qiuchen didn't hear any answer and was silent.When he said that sentence, his heart actually hurt a little.

The wind is very soft, but also a bit chilly, like Xia Moqiao's eyes.

Not long after, the wind stopped.Qiu Chen nodded and asked him, "Do you love me?"

The cigarette in Xia Moqiao's hand fell to the ground, and the smoke in her mouth did not spit out for a long time.

After a long time, he snuffed out the cigarette butt with the stone at hand before spitting out the smoke from his mouth.

The wind blows in Russia, and the heart ripples.

"Do you frankly like men too?" Xia Mozhen was slightly annoyed, "Girls say that men are smelly men, and they absolutely don't want to like men in the next life, but you still..."

"Aren't you the same, and still talking about me." Qiu Chen smiled.

"Except for him, I don't refuse girls." Xia Moqiao replied in a low voice.

And why not Qiuchen?Junior high school flirts with girls every day, cuddling and hugging.I don't know if it's because of excessive indulgence, and I'm starting to get bored with girls.

"I've had more women in junior high school than you've ever seen. You say I like men?"

"Ghost knows if those girls are chasing you for their boyfriends."

"Anyway, no man is chasing you!"

At that moment, Qiuchen really wanted to use the brick at hand to open a ladle for him, but when he finished speaking, he saw that tears were welling in Xia Mozhen's eyes.Perhaps in the next second, the turbulent tears poured out.

It turned out that it was not a bickering just now, but a quarrel.

After a while, Xia Mozhen closed her eyes, and the corners of her lips trembled slightly.

Qiuchen knew that what she said was serious, but she didn't know how to change the subject.Suddenly, Xia Moqiao's eyes burst, and tears poured down with a "swoosh".

Qiuchen wanted to hold him in her arms, but she was afraid that he would kick her and cripple her.While hesitating for a while, Xia Moqiao had already fallen on his broad shoulders.Tears gradually wet his clothes and warm his strong skin.Tears slid down his skin, and the warm feeling reached Qiuchen's heart.

Xia Mozhen cried for a long time, and the soreness in her nose did not subside.He dared not speak, fearing that the strong nasal voice would betray his sadness.

After a while, Xia Moqiao got up and wiped her tears with her arm.

"This is the second time I've cried in the past few years, and the first time was in front of you. You know what to do."

The fine hair on Xia Moqiao's arms was wet, and she walked straight out of the corridor, leaving only Qiuchen wondering.

Damn, this person's split personality is too serious, just now he started crying and whining, why did he turn his face and deny him so quickly?

Qiuchen touched her shoulders, the shirt and shoulders were wet with tears, and the collar was also wet with tears.

well!I have to do laundry again...

However, the excitement in his heart was exposed at the corner of his lips.

……

"Why did you come back so late?" Liu Xuanya asked.

"The chorus practice is late today, so I won't have dinner."

Xia Mozhen went straight into the house and closed the door.

Liu Xuanya sat on the stool by the coffee table, and said to the man watching TV, "What's wrong with my son today?"

That man is Xia Mozhen's father, about 1.8 meters tall, Xia Mozhen looks very similar to him, especially the big double eyelids and big eyes are completely inherited from his father, and the stingy "family spirit" is also He looks so much like him!

"Then you have to ask him!" Xia Yun replied.

……

For several days in a row, Xia Moqiao was "squeezed" by Qiuchen.In addition to asking him to do the questions every day and play basketball with him, Qiuchen also asked him to go to class and pass notes to himself every day.The content on the note made Xia Mozhen even more speechless——

When did you know you were gay?

Why is the person you like so short?

Is the calcium tablet from the island country or the calcium tablet from Europe and the United States?

Is there a real story in "Brokeback Mountain"?

If it weren't for the fact that he was so tall, Xia Moqiao really thought he was a rotten girl.Once, their small strip was discovered by the grade leader, and Qiuchen snatched it directly, chewed it and swallowed it, and did not turn the face of the grade leader, the physics teacher, into a green face, so she went to complain to Zheng Qiaomei after class .

I don't know if the teacher in the department is cowardly or smart, he likes to kill people with a knife, anyway, he doesn't directly offend the students.However, on the contrary, such a teacher who likes to sue black is even more disgusting.

Qiuchen was invited to the office by Zheng Qiaomei and asked him why he wanted to pass the note, Qiuchen asked her solemnly: "Didn't you ask me to get in touch with him more?"

Qiuchen's words always hit the nail on the head, and she can even choke the other party until they have nothing to say.Unlike the grade group leader who was yelling and making trouble for no reason, although his words were joking, they were thorny and always wanted to make people have the urge to overturn the table.Although Xia Mozhen cherishes words like gold, every word is precious. A rational analysis of a topic or an event can make Zheng Qiaomei amazed.

Zheng Qiaomei also knows that although Qiuchen looks rational, she is a bit reckless, and sometimes emotions will control the body, and all reason will be destroyed by impulse.Xia Mozhen is different from him, no matter how difficult the situation is, he can always use the most rational mind to judge right from wrong.

Once in a political class, Zheng Qiaomei asked several students to analyze knowledge about "consumption".Most people just talked about the relationship between "production and consumption", except Xia Moqiao.He has strung together the knowledge about "consumption", from "consumption concept" to "consumption mode", whether it is in the text or hidden in the small print, he can speak clearly without reading the book.

At that moment, Zheng Qiaomei had already decided to let him study liberal arts in his sophomore year of high school. That kind of macroscopic thinking is an indispensable condition for studying liberal arts.

The note was passed on, basketball was played, and the questions were solved. Xia Moqiao really didn't know what other ideas he had that would be useless.

Until that day, someone added his profile.That person's profile picture is still the "non-mainstream" profile picture that people were obsessed with when I was in elementary school, with a big cigarette in his mouth, wearing big sunglasses, and the weird profile picture of Sha Matt. One guess is Qiu Chen.

"How about it, brother's avatar is a dick?" Qiu Chen asked.

"It's very similar!"

"Fuck you, uncle! I'm asking if your brother's avatar is awesome?"

"You are like a cow!"

Xia Moqiao ignored him and went to take a bath.After he took a shower, a piece of news came out that made him speechless.

"I want to eat your mother's cooking tomorrow?"

"Tell me clearly, did you eat my food or my mother's?"

"Eat what your mother made first, and eat what you made when you come back."

Xia Moqiao actually wanted to cook for him, because in that case, another bed would be vacant in the mental hospital, but on second thought, another urn was wasted.If this kind of person dies, it is best to die without a whole body, even if you want to be cremated.

As a result, the next day, Xia Moqiao brought an extra lunch box.

Seeing that Xia Mozhen took out two lunch boxes from her schoolbag, she was already salivating.

"What did Auntie do?" Qiu Chen's eyes lit up.

"That's what your grandma did."

Qiuchen didn't react for a while, but after five or six seconds, he did, and kicked Xia Moqiao's calf.

Xia Mozhen frowned, gave him a contemptuous look, and threw the lunch box on the window sill.

Because both of them came early, there was no one in the classroom, and Xia Mozhen would not be seen by his classmates if he played a temper tantrum.

Qiu Chen saw that something was wrong, and quickly apologized: "I was wrong!"

Xia Moqiao turned her head and looked at him with a smirk on his face, without any regrets, he lifted the lunch box on the windowsill and was about to throw it out.

Seeing this, Qiu Chen quickly grabbed it.

"Aren't you apologizing because you're afraid that I'll throw away your food!"

In fact, both of them knew the reason why they apologized...

Xia Mozhen didn't know why, but she thought that she could spoil the boy next to her with her petty temper.The pressure and grievances that seemed to be backlogged elsewhere were all poured on him.The definition of Qiuchen is just three words - punching bag.

However, before he knew it, he had already forgotten what Shi Rui said that day.That period of grief that was about to end might have been cut off by this boy who had only met for a month.

Qiuchen didn't return the lunch box, but put it on the desk next to the water dispenser behind her.

Xia Moqiao smiled, handed him the lunch box as well, and said, "If you want to eat, give it to me too."

Qiu Chen cheerfully took Xia Moqiao's lunch box.

The chemistry teacher who did the self-study in the morning didn't come, Zheng Qiaomei called Xia Moqiao and said it was because her electric car was tied up.When Xia Mozhen heard it, she wondered for a long time whether it was done by the people in the class, because the people in the class hated this teacher who loves to complain.

In this way, this is the first morning self-study session hosted by the monitor without a teacher in the class.Because Zheng Qiaomei said that he and his classmates should summarize the performance and problems of the first week of school, as well as plans and changes for the future.

Xia Mozhen wanted to stand behind and talk casually, but Qiuchen yelled to let him go to the podium, and then the boys and girls in the class booed him to go up.

Xia Mozhen's popularity is beyond words, both boys and girls like him very much.It's just the kind of friendship, or for most boys...

Although he was able to talk eloquently in front of his classmates, he felt a little shy when he came on stage, and his face turned red unconsciously.

"Ah! The monitor is blushing!" shouted a booing boy.

Suddenly, laughter filled the entire classroom.

Xia Moqiao raised the eraser, patted the table lightly, and said pretending to be serious: "Okay, okay, let's get down to business!"

As a result, I couldn't help laughing at first, but I was poked at the point of laughter by my prudence, and my back molars came out happily.

He turned his head hastily, covering his face with a smile.

At this time, the door of the classroom was pushed open, and the teacher from the next class disliked the mess and came over to rectify it.As a result, when she came in, she found that the classroom was suddenly quiet, so she left straight away.

"Crazy!" Qiu Chen shouted.

As a result, several people laughed again, but Xia Moqiao's face became serious.

"Let's talk about this week's situation now." Xia Moqiao bent down and looked at the duty list on the table, "I found that there doesn't seem to be Qiuchen's name here?"

The sanitation committee member was a girl, so she hurriedly stepped forward to have a look, only to find that she had indeed forgotten to write it down.

In fact, Xia Mozhen had already discovered that Qiuchen hadn't done a single cleaning after more than a week.

"Make him up on Saturday, he's alone on Saturday!"

Xia Mozhen pursed her lips and smiled: "It's not every Saturday, it's unfair to other students."

Immediately, the students in the seats were a little surprised, because this was the first time that Xia Moqiao rejected other people's suggestions.

"There is a classmate who cooks rice every day in our class, how about asking him to help deliver and pick up the meals every day?" Xia Mozhen felt that it was not enough.

At this time, Qiu Chen, who was at the back, was already so angry that this grandson deliberately made things difficult for him!

"He has to be responsible every day, how tiring!" said a kind girl.

"Who made him tall and strong, and there are people who just eat and don't work?" Xia Moqiao glanced at the lunch box next to the water dispenser, her face was about to calm down, and her heart was already full of joy.

"Squad leader, I have objections!"

Xia Mozhen also had a smirk when she saw Qiuchen behind, and didn't want to talk to him at first, but who knew that the students in the class wanted to laugh as soon as they heard his voice and his name, probably because they were doing too much in class. Too much, even people have become a laughing stock.However, in Xia Moqiao's eyes, he is definitely the pee spot of this class!

"Our class brings a lot of meals, I wonder if I can ask someone to help?"

Xia Mozhen felt that something was wrong, and was about to refute, but it was too late.

"Students who agree, raise your hand!"

Basically a unanimous vote.

Xia Mozhen wanted them to Calmdown, but failed.

"Stop arguing, it's up to you!"

More than 20 people in the class all looked in the direction of Qiuchen's finger.Yes, the people on the podium!

As a result, the daily work of delivering and taking meals was contracted by the two of them.Xia Moqiao wanted to play tricks on him, but ended up leading herself into a ditch.Not only do you have to clean up, turn off the lights and lock the door, but you are also responsible for preparing meals every day.well!Who made him the monitor!

"You discovered this problem very well, you can't let him just eat and not work!"

After being praised by Zheng Qiaomei, Xia Moqiao was a little happy.

"You two seem to have a good relationship."

Xia Moqiao didn't know if it was a question or an exclamation.If it's a question, you have to answer what is good; if it's an exclamation sentence, you have to answer it modestly.

"fine……"

"I heard from my classmates that it was the first time you took the stage to preside over such a meeting today, and you performed very well. If there is still such a situation in the future, I will ask you to do it for me."

Xia Moqiao didn't answer, it was actually a kind of default.Sometimes, he likes to talk more with his peers and less with the elders.Too much talk is bound to fail, he firmly believes in this!

"Zheng Qiaomei, ask the students to go to the Moral Education Office to collect the entry form for the sports meeting."

"Go ahead!"

Xia Mozhen nodded slightly and left.

Zheng Qiaomei has always pretended not to know that he and Qiuchen passed notes in class, on the one hand, it was to save the chemistry teacher from accumulating "cursing", and on the other hand, she did not want to burden them both.

The heart of a rotten girl, the needle in the sea.