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Glass kicked towards the door

One spark after another

By Lista ReamPublished 3 years ago 6 min read

Pang Sinan's call came at dusk, and he listened to me ramble on about the day's events before speaking slowly: "Didn't you say you were going to the movies the other day, and I bought movie tickets."

"What movie?"

"The Ice Age movie you said you wanted to see, didn't you?"

"When?"

"The eight o'clock show, I'm downstairs with you now, by the way, you don't have class tonight, do you?"

I hung up the phone indignantly, or honestly went to change clothes, Zhou Zhou sat on the edge of the bed reading a book, maintaining the same posture as three hours ago, and heard the sound of me slamming the locker door before looking up at me and put his attention back to the book in his hands.

"You swallowed the gunpowder?"

Not to say okay, a said I was angrier: "You say that Peng Southwest, invited me to see a movie also did not say earlier, this will be six o'clock to say eight o'clock to see the movie, but also do not have to ask me whether there is no class, you say excessive or not?"

"Even more excessive you are not going out? The heart is happy!" She didn't even raise her head this time.

I was choked by Zhou Zhou's words, coldly grunted, and went downstairs, just as I threw the door open hard, I heard her cloudy voice: "Xia Xin, bring me a cup of milk tea when you come back."

Because of her attitude, I decided to bring her a cup of milk tea with pudding, because she does not eat pudding.

When I went downstairs, Peng Xinan was already waiting there, he wore a white shirt and jeans today, obviously the simplest match but drawing numerous eyes. I saw Ji Ke Ran when I walked up the stairs and took the initiative to greet me: "Yo, talk about Xia Xin, dating ah, boyfriend is good."

I nodded, not wanting to pay attention to her, and walked towards Peng Xinan, her cold hum accompanied by her titillating perfume smell also slowly drifted away.

Pennsylvania reached out and habitually rubbed my hair, seemingly forgetting our war of the past few days. He asked me, "Xia Xin, isn't that your roommate? Why don't you say hello to her?"

"Fancy her?" For some reason, I always looked like a musket to Peng Xinan, who always had a good temper and never lifted a finger with me again.

The cinema is not very far from the school, two bus stops away. But on this dreary windless autumn night, the heat steamed out of me all sweaty, T-shirt sticky against my backbone. I was standing in front of the movie theater waiting for Pang Sinan to buy a Coke and popcorn, and I searched for a long time for him in the bustling crowd.

Suddenly someone bumped into my back.

"Eh, excuse me."

I turned my head back, the "it's okay" stuck in my throat, my eyes moved from the tall, thin stranger to the person standing next to him, her face is delicate makeup can not hide the pallor, I looked at their hands clasped, pulled the corner of my mouth: "Teacher, and boyfriend to watch The movie?"

Zhang Shishi clutched her boyfriend's hand tightly, her knuckles a little white, although she hid it well, I still saw the hatred and fear in her eyes. She frowned and nodded at me, pulling her boyfriend quickly away from me and towards the cinema.

"Isn't that one of your students? Why are you acting so cold."

"The movie's about to start, let's go."

As their backs slowly drifted away side by side, I took a deep breath and tried to push down the acid churning in my stomach. A large hand slapped on my shoulder, I looked back with a fierce face and glared at Pang Sinan who had a brain shoving both coke and popcorn into my arms.

He was startled by me.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, go inside and watch the movie!"

The dark cinema was quiet, except for the movie sound effects and the tiny rustling sounds from the food, not even the sound of talking. I glanced at Peng Southwest, he was staring intently at the screen, half a cup of Coke raised on his chest, not close, let alone put down, I expressed silence at his bizarre posture.

I was staring at the movie screen but distracted, watching for half an hour without knowing what the movie was about, and finally simply shook the popcorn around, pretending not to see the condemnation of the eyes cast around.

When I walked out of the cinema, Pang Sinan asked me: "What's wrong with you? The movie has not yet been released and has been haunted to see, come to the cinema to see you and do not seriously look."

"Peng Southwest, do you still remember Zhang Shishi?"

He suddenly stopped walking in front of me, and I didn't pay attention and hit him on the back, which made me grimace. Pang Sinan stretched out his hand helplessly to help me rub my nose that hurt but did not open his voice. I thought he did not hear clearly and repeated: "Do you still remember Zhang Shishi? I met Zhang Shishi, she is our counselor."

His face didn't show any particular expression and asked, "And then?"

"And then?" I unconsciously raised my tone, "Don't you remember Zhang Shishi? Do you know what happened back then, if it wasn't for her in junior high school, our family wouldn't be like that! I remember what she did to our family at the beginning, and I said so! What she brought me will one day be returned to her without reservation."

I kicked the stone under my foot so hard that it made a beautiful arc in mid-air and then hit the trash can with a "ding". I was so annoyed by Pang Sinan's silence that I felt I had to say something more to express my innermost emotions, but he interrupted me loudly: "The car is here, let's go!"

The words I wanted to say were thus stifled.

Zhang Shishi was our counselor, and I was the group secretary of the class, so we had a lot of interactions, such as now.

I confronted her with the application for party membership for half an hour, and she still said, "The application for party membership is already closed, and the notice can no longer be submitted up." She paused again, "Originally you are not careful enough, as a group secretary you should count all the documents before submitting them, it is impossible to make all the people come to wait for your copy!"

"When I handed it in a few days ago, it was twenty-three copies, but who knows how it became twenty-two!"

"But in fact, only twenty-two copies came to me." She also raised her voice, "Would a teacher lie to you?"

I didn't bother her any further and walked out of the office indignantly.

What happened was that a week ago, after I had collected all the twenty-three applications from the class and submitted them, a female student in the class, Qi Yue, approached me today and said that the counselor had called to tell her that she had missed her application for Party membership. I had to ask her to submit a new one after searching several times in the classroom and dormitory as well as the teacher's office, but when I found Zhang Shishi, she told me that the deadline had passed and she couldn't submit it anymore.

I couldn't wait to break her into pieces, and even when I called Zhou Zhou she could hear my emotions and asked me, "Did you eat a dynamite packet or something?"

"Screwed by the class! Not to mention, accompany me to have a meal not?"

In the distance are stretches of fire clouds, Zhou Zhou lightly said, "Well, today is my birthday, call Peng Southwest in the evening, together with dinner."

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