[Comprehensive British and American] After the Raiders

"Neil..."

As the two looked over, Peter's body called out the name faster than his mind.

He glanced briefly before, so that Peter didn't have time to take a closer look, but now standing in front of that person, he felt that he didn't seem to have changed much in the past few years.

Neil paused for a very brief moment as he was about to leave.

The world is so big, but he met two former raiders in a row. With such a probability, for a moment, he even had the illusion that he was still being manipulated by the system.

"Peter, long time no see, I didn't expect to meet you here."

Neil walked up to Peter according to the previous route. His eyes were so calm, and even his smile was very natural and gentle, making Peter almost think that the things that happened in the past did not exist. What they had was just an ordinary and And pure teacher-student relationship.

No, maybe Peter should have thought about it a long time ago, when he held up the cheap silver ring bought by working, he hoped to ask Neil to be with him forever but was rejected.

He still remembers that after Neil was silent for a long time, he told him in that extraordinarily calm voice that it was impossible for them to get to that step.

Neil then resigned from the school and moved, so that Peter could no longer find him.

Peter probably knew the reason why Neil refused to leave. He was only sixteen or seventeen years old at the time, and he was even his student. No matter from which point of view, they would have no future.But even knowing this didn't stop Peter from being sad and hurt.

The blond woman beside Neil smiled politely at Peter, "Neil, who is this?"

Then he heard Neil introduce the woman very gently, "This is my former student, Peter Parker."

Then I saw Neil put his hand with the blonde woman on his chest, and said to him with a peaceful smile, "This is my new wife, Daisy."

When the word "wife" entered his ears, Peter's expression froze completely.

He had imagined the various lives that Neil would have after he left him, and imagined more than once that Neil might have married a wife and had children, but he still couldn't predict it. When guessing, he will be so uncomfortable, he feels that his chest is so tight that he can hardly breathe.

But at this time, he welcomed Neal's wife, Daisy's smile became sincere,

"Nice to meet you, Parker." Daisy thought of the Neil who refused to be thousands of miles away when they met, and she had never been able to associate that Neil with the word "teacher".

Daisy has a high degree of affection for Neil's acquaintances, and she tries to leave a good impression on them with a relaxed tone, "I used to suspect that Neil was a teacher. It's hard to imagine that Neil was a teacher at that time. What's it like?"

Peter's eyes fell on Daisy, and the friendly and sincere expression on her face made Peter's eyes dodge a little. He tried hard to restrain the repulsion and guilt surging in his heart, and recalled the memories of Neil in his memory. look.

Neil's gentleness, his smile, his earnest eyes, and his caring words were almost the happiest period in Peter's high school life.

Thinking about it now, Peter's heart is still filled with the same fiery feelings as before.

"Teacher, he is very gentle..."

Those intense emotions made him almost tell Daisy everything in his heart, but he soon woke up, the beautiful woman standing in front of him was his teacher's wife.This made his expression quickly become stiff and embarrassed again.

Even though Peter has gone to college, he is still not good at organizing and hiding his expressions, which makes Daisy notice that Peter's emotions are not right.

Before Daisy could think about it, Neal was about to end this conversation.

"If you're going to compliment me, please don't do it in front of my face. I don't want you to see me shy." Neil joked with a smile, which ended Daisy's conversation.

His tone was unhurried, with a calm demeanor, but there was no room for the two of them to answer the conversation.

Neil looked at the boy in front of him with a smile on his lips,

"Peter, we haven't seen each other for a long time. When Daisy and I come back from our honeymoon trip, we must contact those classmates to get together."

He still looked like the gentle and kind teacher in Peter's memory, but he didn't mention the reason why Peter appeared here at all, and his expression was very natural and gentle. He even took the initiative to ask for Peter's number before bidding farewell to Peter with Daisy .

When Peter watched Neil and the others disappear into the elevator, he suddenly came back to his senses. He saw Neil again after many years, but he couldn't say anything about the words that were stuffed in his heart.

This made Peter feel a little frustrated.

But the shock it brought to him today made him so distraught that he was in no mood to regret it.

For so many years after Neil left, Peter could not prevent Neil from appearing in his memory, and he was completely unable to get out of the relationship that had long ended. He had thought countless times that if he had the chance to meet again, if Neil Even if Neil still has a little affection for him, he will do his best to regain Neil's feelings.

He is an adult and will graduate and work in a few years, and they are no longer teachers and students. Even Aunt Mei is confident that he can persuade him. He has considered almost all obstacles he can imagine.

He also imagined countless kinds of life after Neil left him, imagined that Neil got married and had children somewhere in the world, and he thought that even then he could put Neil down slowly.

But even though he had imagined so many futures and so many outcomes, Peter at this moment was still at a loss, and a wave of hopelessness surged up in his heart, almost burying him.

He was not as free and easy as he thought, and even thinking of the number entered into Neil's phone could bring him some positive emotions.

Even now that he knows that Neil has married a wife, even if he knows that it may no longer be possible between them, he still hopes that they can have a closer connection than "familiar strangers".No matter how distant their relationship was now compared to what it had been, at least he didn't want Neil to disappear from his life again.

So he was full of anticipation, looking forward to the day when the number stored in Neil's phone would be dialed out by its owner.

After returning to the hotel where she was temporarily staying, Daisy brought up the topic of meeting Peter in the hospital again.

"I thought you were always like this before you met me..." Daisy recalled the scene when we first met, the corners of her mouth curled up, "Indifferent and incomprehensible."

She remembered Peter's extremely short answer before, and couldn't help laughing again, "I didn't expect that you seemed to be a good teacher before."

Daisy's tone was joking, and she didn't seem to have any doubts about that meeting.

But these words are full of irony for everything Neil has done.

He was never a good teacher, his tenderness as a teacher was fake, his concern was also fake, even his teacher's license and identity certificate were fake, starting from putting on that professional disguise, Everything he showed was for the purpose of attacking that boy Peter.

Wrap him with tenderness, seduce him with illusions, and in the end, Neil only needs to watch him with focused eyes, watching him step into the trap step by step, watching him struggle in the forbidden secret love.

At that time, Neil had been a so-called raider for a long time, and under the monitoring and spur of the system, nothing could shake him, even if Peter was immature at that time, it almost made people feel guilty.

And in Neil's mobile phone contacts, he could no longer find the phone number named "Peter" that had just been recorded.

The author has something to say:

Thank you~ Mr. Soy Sauce threw a landmine~ ok~