Girl under umbrella

One morning in early autumn, the sun shines on this old dormitory building as always, coating the walls with golden. No different from other old-fashioned industrial buildings, this dormitory building also appears monotonous and rigid. The wall that has not been painted has become a paradise for the creeper. The creeper is black, green, black and green. If you look closer, you will feel that you are about to enter a virgin forest with no one to set foot. They may have occupied the southern wall for a long, long time. As for the highest point, it reached the fifth floor.

It was time for class, and the students crowded out the door of the dormitory in a bustling manner. They are all leaving, there is only one person, standing abruptly in the crowd, like a stone statue.

She was a girl with ordinary appearance, short, and her clothes were of the same style that can be seen everywhere in the mall. I think the only way she can distinguish her from others is that she has an umbrella on a sunny day.

Maybe it's for sun protection, maybe it's some kind of quirk. In short, she is out of place in the crowd. She pressed the umbrella very low, gradually covering her acne-prone face. But after a while, she raised her umbrella again.

The students passed by her as if they hadn't seen her.

I think she must be waiting for her classmates, but I was wrong because I didn't see her classmates coming. After raising and lowering the umbrella several times, she left casually.

I think she has innocence that does not belong to this age, because she is like a child who is addicted to her toy kingdom. The children named their dolls, talked to them, and she talked to her Haig umbrella.

For many days after that, I always saw the girl at the same time and place. She kept repeating her actions, and I kept thinking about the meaning of her actions.

And those students are faster than I'm used to, no, maybe they are not surprised from the beginning.

In short, she came in the early morning every day, repeating her actions blankly. Gradually, I didn't even have curiosity about her anymore.

"It must be a girl with a mental illness like obsessive-compulsive disorder. After all, everyone is under a lot of pressure this year." I thought.

One day later, the girl disappeared. I, who had become accustomed to her appearance, became unaccustomed. Occasionally in my free time, I think, "Ah, where did that little girl go?" But no matter what I think, she still hasn't appeared. Just like this, the sun will still illuminate the creeper, and the students will still rush out. In class, I also continued my boring dorm work, and the girl gradually disappeared in my memory as if she had never appeared here.

Until a rainy day.

The weather was gloomy and terrible that day, and the clouds in the leaden sky were very low and low, as if they were about to collapse at any time.

The girl appeared again, to be precise, the girl's umbrella appeared again. I was reading a book at the time. It was obviously not there just now, but as soon as I raised my head, the umbrella was placed on the ground in a daze.

"Could it be that she is back today?" I thought, but couldn't find the girl. Instead, it was a white kitten, which was all dirty, standing under the umbrella, and screaming miserably, which sounded like a baby crying. My hairs stood upright by the sound. I just wanted to go out to see the kitten, but in the blink of an eye, the umbrella and the little white cat were gone...

Later, I talked about this with a female student who had a good relationship with me, and she told me the truth lightly.

She said that this was the trick of the campus "witch". The "witch" was a girl with magic. It is said that she had also attended this school. Of course, some people said it was a rumor. She was only temporarily staying in this school. The witch once waited for her companion for a day and night, until she was soaked in cold rain, and then formed into an ice sculpture in the wind and snow, and her companion did not come. So she hates this kind of people who have missed their appointments, so if someone who has missed their appointments asks a witch, the witch will let the person who has missed their appointment hold an umbrella every day and make some funny actions under the person's residence. If it is not completed, the curse of the witch will take effect and the person who breaks the promise will become a cat.

I asked her, "Where did those people who became cats go?"

"I don't know. But those who have seen the witch say that the witch has a lot of cats, black and white, raccoon, long-haired, short-haired."

"Then those who become cats, their families will be very sad, right?"

"Why? Becoming a cat. Naturally, it has nothing to do with people. So their memories as humans and their memories as humans in the minds of others will disappear and be replaced by others. After all, whoever leaves this world It's like revolving around the sun. After becoming a cat, he will live as a cat happily eating and drinking every day.

However, there are some people who are not the ones who did not break the appointment, but they think that being human is too boring. It is better to be a cat that basks in the sun every day, so they find the witch. After the witch listens to their stories, if they are moved, they will Fulfill their wishes. "

I thought for a while and said, "It seems that this witch has a bad temper, but after all, she is not a vicious person."

"Of course." The girl left after speaking, her footsteps were very light, like a dancing elf in the forest.

The moment she left the house, I vaguely saw a black lattice umbrella in her half-open schoolbag...