Star Trek

Two young men, one Asian, one curly-haired, had obviously known Kirk for a long time.After the three had settled on a get-together for next weekend, Kirk ended the call and PADD went back to the standby screen.

Uhura swears she didn't do it on purpose.She just had too good eyesight to catch a glimpse of Kirk's wallpaper - was that...Professor Spock?

Even though all Vulcan males had the same hair and hair color, Uhura would not have mistaken her mentor.

The small cloud of suspicion that had been planted in her heart before began to swell.She raises one eyebrow like Spock did—unfortunately, unsuccessfully.She cleared her throat, and said straight to the point, "You like Professor Spock too." Affirmative.At the same time, she did not deny her favor.

As a girl, she felt a little ashamed to set another person's photo as the wallpaper of her communicator.But Kirk let it out so aggressively, he was really not afraid of anyone's criticism.

Kirk raised his left eyebrow (the same as Professor Spock, and the movement is very natural) knowing that she saw his wallpaper, he didn't hide it, and didn't show it again, stood up, and replied with a smile: "No one doesn't like Spock .”

Uhura realizes he said "Spock", not Professor "Spock".

He pulled back his chair, "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first. I had a nice lunch, see you Nyota."

"Uhura."

"Okay, Nyota."

4.

Uhura finally realized that Kirk wasn't interested in Gaila or himself - the so-called Surak poetry class, this guy was here for Professor Spock.

Even though the initial antipathy stage and the past, she gradually got to know Kirk during more than two months of getting along, and realized that he is a brave, intelligent and optimistic young man.But he'd never held back his good looks and used it to indiscriminately radiate hormones—a fact that she still gave Kirk a very low score in the category of "love partner."

Uhura felt she needed to remind Professor Spock.If Jim Kirk really wanted to seduce him.As a student—assistant—or friend?Nor does that mean that Professor Spock has acknowledged that they are friends.

Gaila was wearing bright red nail polish in the bedroom, and was using a newly purchased ion dryer: "I don't think you like your Professor Vulcan."

If the Orion girl wants to say that Spock has no intentions for her, she doesn't deny it, but her feelings for him instead—"Why do you say that?"

Gaila raised her fingers, looked left and right: "If you really like Spock, then you should feel angry when someone comes to grab him from you - you have always been the kind of girl who can love and hate ’” She looked at her, “but I didn’t realize you were angry with James. Are you angry with him?”

Before Uhura answered, Gaila added another sentence: "You are just curious about James. You are more curious about the future direction of these two people than you think."

Uhura didn't answer.She didn't know what to say, Gaila had a point, and she couldn't admit that she really—just made sense.

Yes, she was indeed curious.She wondered if Professor Spock would be furious if he found out that a student had set a picture of himself as his wallpaper, wondered if he'd be curious about someone who knew the ancient language of his planet so well—that's a mouthful, but it was true, and, Spock never showed concern for this gifted student.

Likewise, Kirk is weirder.If the object of his crush was indeed Professor Spock, why had she never seen them alone together? Kirk hadn't even approached Spock with the pretext of teaching.

So weird, boys.

Uhura sat in the college's most prestigious coffee shop, flipping through a rare paper magazine borrowed from the reading room, and enjoying a wonderful harmonica coffee - the name was given by the diminutive Andoli barista , she said that this is because she hopes that this type of coffee will taste like a jumping taste bud.She has a pair of almost transparent eyes that are always radiant.

When she picked up the coffee from the table again, the chair in front was pulled away by someone, and several people sat down not far from her. Uhura caught a familiar figure: Kirk with his back to him, and sitting opposite him were two young people he had seen in a brief video before - if Uhura remembers correctly, the second grader Sulu and first grader Chekov.

Curiosity swirled in her mind; Uhura tried to make it less deliberate in the way she swung the magazine over her face, watching them from behind the screen.

She began to understand Kirk's silent probing of her back then.

They looked like they were waiting for someone, and they were so far away that Uhura couldn't hear their conversation.The Asian young man is a good teller of cold jokes. He repeatedly teased the other two while I stood still. Kirk laughed so hard that his shoulders were shaking.

Then, Chekov seemed to see someone approaching, waving at him from a distance; Uhura didn't look away until the person they were waiting for came up to him - exactly behind Kirk, across from her .

Uhura's eyes widened in surprise.

That's Professor Spock. Spock was the man the Three Musketeers had been waiting for over there.

Sulu and Chekov greet Spock friendly, Spock nods, and Kirk throws his head back with a big, intimate smile.Yes, intimacy - Uhura's stomach tightens suddenly - those distant, even sly smiles that Kirk had shown Spock in class before were all fake, like playing "The Stranger Game" something, but in fact they must have known each other for a long time—

What happened next made her jaw drop in shock.

Even though the cafe was dimly lit, she could still see the small details: Kirk's hand on his shoulder, and then, naturally, Vulcans, who are notoriously averse to physical contact, reached out and took his. ; if she read correctly, Spock was also stroking Kirk's fingers lightly.

Yes, so naturally, as if they have repeated this action thousands of times.

It's like this kind of action doesn't mean other intimacy in Vulcan.

The other two sitting across from them didn't look surprised either, just inviting Spock to sit down and join in on the conversation.

It's as if Spock and Kirk didn't exchange an understated but hard-to-ignore kiss in front of them just now.

Uhura thought she understood.She finally understood why Kirk was so fluent in Vulcan, why Professor Spock never had any other emotions for this wonderful intruder, why Kirk had always been friendly and politely curious about her - it turned out they were just a couple , she hadn't noticed the emotion in the eyes of these two people when they looked at each other. It was obviously turbulent and rolling like ocean waves, but she actually ignored it.

She thought of her first conversation with Kirk, who had spoken the line with rare tenderness.

If you don't hide your deep love for another person in your heart, how can you read the complicated and intricate syllables into a low chant?

Her secret love, which ended without a cause, should come to an end.

She wasn't sad or angry that those two guys had deliberately or unintentionally concealed or twisted the truth for her for three months like a fool (it wasn't, but she thought she had the right to do so at this moment), and she hadn't felt angry for a long time The curiosity, entanglement, and doubts made her feel uneasy, like eating a super strong mint and then drinking a whole bottle of ice pop soda, countless small particles danced in the chest, telling her, oh , Nyota, you are such a fool.

What a nuisance, boys.

+1.

On the shuttle ride to Little Duke for vacation, Uhura holds the PADD and reads Gaila's email.Her good roommate did the front-line research and came back with the latest information in real time.

"God, Nyota, can you believe that James and Professor Spock were married - and four years ago! On Kirk's 18th birthday. And James has been studying at the Vulcan Academy for four years, After obtaining a degree certificate, he came to our college to continue his studies."

Four years ago was also when Spock officially became a professor at the Academy.

"The two of them have known each other since they were young. The marriage contract made at the age of seven-in fact, it is not a marriage contract. Sulu said that it is a kind of connection that Vulcan wood needs to complete when they are young. Wow, this is an amazing childhood event. .”

Lucky little bastard James Kirk.

"Listen to little Pasha, Professor Spock said they were T-T-what, uh, you know I'm not good at foreign languages. Anyway, soulmate in Standard