Total defeat
The next afternoon, Zhou Anran flew back to South City with her boyfriend and two best friends.
She was sitting next to Chen Luobai, with an aisle between her and Yan Xingqian and Sheng Xiaowen.
After playing around too late the night before, Zhou Anran chatted with Yan Xingqian across the aisle for a while, and his eyelids began to droop.
She told them that she wanted to take a nap, then leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.
Half asleep and half awake, Zhou Anran felt his head falling to the side, and then a big warm hand held it and gently placed it on a shoulder with a familiar scent.
She felt inexplicably at peace even in her dreams and fell into a deep sleep again.
When she woke up again, it was Chen Luobai who pushed her.
Zhou Anran was still dazed and couldn't open her eyes. She rubbed his shoulder and said with a nasal voice, "Are we there yet?"
The boy's voice was low and gentle: "Almost there."
Zhou Anran slowly opened her eyes and continued to lean on his shoulder. After she got over her sleepiness, she remembered the message Ms. He sent her before boarding the plane.
She grasped his sleeve and looked up at him again: "Would you please leave us later?"
Chen Luobai narrowed his black eyes: "Why do we have to go separately? I can't stand it?"
Zhou Anran hurriedly shook her head: "How could that be, but didn't I tell you that my parents would come to pick me up? I don't know how to tell them about you."
The boy looked at her quietly without saying anything.
Zhou Anran's hand, which was clenched on his sleeve, slid down slightly, grasped his slender index finger and shook it gently.
"Is it good?"
The voice penetrated Chen Luobai's ears softly and gently. His Adam's apple rolled down and he suppressed those inappropriate thoughts.
"Zhou Anran."
"Are you sure that I can't stand your coquettishness?"
Zhou Anran: “…”
"No way."
She smiled at him, revealing a sweet dimple on her lips: "I'll call you tonight."
Chen Luobai stared at her for two seconds, then reached out and pinched her face, eliminating the dimples, and spoke in a deep tone.
"You'd better remember."
*
After Zhou Anran left the station with her two best friends, she unexpectedly discovered that Ms. He and Zhou Xianhong, who had come to pick her and Yan Xingqian up, had happened to meet Sheng Xiaowen's parents, who had also come to pick someone up.
Several parents had attended the parent-teacher conference in their first year of high school. Since their daughters were good friends, they greeted each other at the time and still remembered each other. They had been chatting animatedly for quite a while before they came out.
Zhou Anran and a few others walked over and greeted a few parents. The group chatted for a while before going their separate ways.
Because He Jiayi and Zhou Xianhong had to work overtime the next day, their original plan was to send Yan Xingqian home, sit for a while at Yan Xingqian's house, and then return to Wucheng.
But Yan Xingqian's parents hadn't seen He Jiayi and Zhou Xianhong for a while, and hadn't seen Zhou Anran for more than half a year, so they warmly invited them to their home for dinner.
After dinner, when Zhou Anran followed his parents into the car and returned to Wucheng, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening and it had already darkened.
The two parents sat in the front, and Zhou Anran sat alone in the back seat. Suddenly, he missed Chen Luobai a little.
She took her cell phone out of her bag. She couldn't make calls for the time being, but she could still send messages.