"Okay... Thank you... for the game in the afternoon, Catherine, please help me to speak to the main committee... I can only abstain..."
"no problem!"
Just like that, Kevin hailed a taxi and took Lin Yifei to St. Anthony's Hospital.
At the guidance office of the hospital, the nurse told Lin Yifei that the person who had the car accident was on the second floor of the inpatient area, and his condition had stabilized. Lin Yifei hurried over, and when he knocked on the door of the ward, he saw Mama Lin sitting by the bed, walked a little further inside, and saw Papa Lin sitting there too. And the person with a leg in plaster hanging on the bed should be Xiao Yang who helped them deliver the goods.
"Dad... are you okay..."
Father Lin and Mother Lin saw their son's surprised expression: "Yifei, why are you here? Is Dad okay? Xiao Yang is the one who got hurt!"
"But... Manman came to me and said it was Dad, you were in a car accident?"
"That's your Uncle Chen who misheard in a hurry!" Papa Lin explained, "I originally took Xiao Yang's car to transport food with him, but halfway I got out of the car to go to the toilet, and Xiao Yang was in the car. A young man driving a sports car must have taken something out of his mind and crashed into our truck. When I came back, I saw that Xiao Yang had passed out, so I quickly called an ambulance!"
Only then did Lin Yifei exhale, and raised his hand to look at his watch. He knew that even if he passed, the game should be over.
"There's nothing wrong with you here. Xiao Yang is only fractured. I'm afraid he needs to recuperate for two months. Xiao Fei, you have to eat by yourself tonight. We have to take care of Xiao Yang."
"Mmm... okay..." Lin Yifei turned his head blankly, walked out of the ward and found that Kevin was still waiting for him. When he told Kevin what had happened, the other party also showed regret.
"... It's a pity to abstain like this."
"That can't be helped..." Lin Yifei turned around and looked at Kevin, "So you have to make it up to me."
"Me? How can I compensate you?" Kevin smiled with interest.
"Come to a dark game with me!"
"no problem."
At this time, in the competition venue, Chris watched the referee announce that because of Lin Yifei's forfeit, another contestant would win the second place.
When the audience all left, only Chris was still sitting where he was.
That afternoon, Kevin took Lin Yifei to the fencing club. Lin Yifei was full of arrogance this afternoon, and Kevin felt a little difficult to resist. He seemed to have vented all his disappointment in not being able to participate in the national finals at once.
Lin Yifei was constantly attacking throughout the afternoon, while Kevin was just defending in a very gentlemanly manner.
Lin Yifei jumped on the spot and pointed his sword at Kevin, "I don't need you to let me go, because I can accept any fiasco!"
Kevin was slightly shocked, Lin Yifei's aura made people feel that he wanted him to be severely frustrated.
"Oh, then don't regret it." After speaking, Kevin attacked him fiercely.
Throughout the afternoon, Lin Yifei was in surprisingly good condition. Although he was hit by Kevin many times, it didn't affect his judgment in the slightest. Often a few strikes were unexpected, and it took two seconds for Kevin to react when he was hit.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yifei sat on the floor and took off his mask. He was really tired after fighting for more than two hours. Kevin bought two cans of soda and walked in, handing him one.
Lin Yifei snapped open the soda can, and there was a burst of cow's drink.
"you are awesome."
"Thanks."
"But I feel that today you are not just sad because you lost the right to the final." Kevin clinked a cup with Lin Yifei.
"...Maybe I don't know what to do." Lin Yifei reached out and touched his sweaty bangs.
"I don't know what to do? Is it because of your little boyfriend?" There was a playful smile on the corner of Kevin's lips, but there was no sense of frivolity.
"Ah... little boyfriend?" Lin Yifei was stunned.
"It's the boy named Chris Osborne. He beat you today, but from my observation of you, you are not the kind of friend who wins you, and you will ignore the other's child."
"Of course, I'm not so petty!" Lin Yifei remembered something, and his expression sank again, "He did something to me... Then we don't know how to face each other..."
"Did what he did to you make you angry?" Kevin raised his head and looked at Lin Yifei's profile.
"No."
"So he thought you would be angry?"
"I don't know. In fact, I want to take the initiative to find him to reconcile, but I don't know how to say it."
"It's better to let nature take its course." Kevin reached out and touched Lin Yifei's head, "Time will ease everything."
In the evening, Kevin sent Lin Yifei back to Chinatown. The night is alluring, especially the neon colors of Chinatown reflected on Kevin's face, which looks extraordinarily elegant.
"I'm going up!" Lin Yifei waved at him.
"Lin Yifei." Kevin grabbed him by the back collar and pulled him back in front of him, "I'm going back to England tomorrow."
"Ah... that's it..." Lin Yifei scratched his head, "But I can't go see you off. Classes are due on Monday tomorrow."
"So I just want to say 'goodbye' to you now." Kevin smiled helplessly, "I hope you can remember me."
"Kevin Phil—it's hard to forget you."
"Thanks, is that a compliment?"
"No, this is an affirmation of your ability." Lin Yifei raised the corners of his lips, the youthful self-confidence made one want to hold it in his hands, "The World Championships in the second half of the year, the world sword world will remember you. "
"I wrote down your prophecy." Kevin leaned down, brushed Lin Yifei's forehead away with his fingers, and kissed him on the forehead, "Good night, my little prince."
After speaking, Kevin turned and left.
Leaving Lin Yifei blinking his eyes, he stretched out his hand to touch the place where he was kissed.
It took me a long time to realize, oops... these Westerners are really annoying, they kiss each other at every turn. Lin Yifei muttered to himself while walking into Chen Linji.
And under the streetlight opposite Chen Linji, Chris leaned with his head down. For a long time, he didn't raise his head.
Pedestrians come and go, traffic flows through, and occasionally someone stops to look at this lonely boy.
Went to school the next day, Lin Yifei ran into Catherine and the others. When they knew the whole story, they all felt a pity for Lin Yifei's voluntary abstention.
"Lin, actually, just come back next year." Catherine patted Lin Yifei's shoulder.
"It's okay, next year if there are newcomers entering our fencing department, and if they are sabers, we will really be able to participate in the saber team competition." Lin Yifei looked looking forward to it.
"Ah, you don't play singles?" Mark asked.
"It depends." Lin Yifei put his arms around Catherine and Mark, "The time in middle school is very short, I hope to compete with you."
Although Lin Yifei is no longer able to participate in the national finals, Chris's match is still worth watching. Not to mention the final game, he played really well. It was also a weekend, and of course Catherine and the others went together, and Chris finally won the opponent 10-15. Catherine propped her chin and said emotionally, "I think Chris' opponent in the final is not as good as Lin!"
When Chris stood on the championship podium, Lin Yifei smiled softly. No matter where you go, where you stand, no matter what our relationship becomes...
I will follow you and watch you all the time.
After the game, the group got up and left.
"Aren't you going to congratulate him?" Catherine asked, "Have you been in this cold war for too long? It's been almost a month from the national eighth-finals to the quarter-finals to the semi-finals..."
Lin Yifei turned his head and looked at Chris who was holding flowers and smiled slightly, "Maybe we can wait a little longer."
When we are all grown up and can look at our childhood in a joking way, maybe we can reconcile at that time.
Soon, Lin Yifei's first year of middle school ended. Throughout the summer vacation, he practiced fencing with Catherine and Mark or watched videotapes of fencing competitions.
Although Catherine and the others were wondering why Lin Yifei hadn't contacted Chris throughout the summer vacation, as friends, they also knew that it was best not to bring up some things.
In the last week of summer vacation, Chen Manman hoped that Lin Yifei would take her to the amusement park. She put the two tickets in front of Lin Yifei, clasped her hands together and begged, "Brother Yifei, it's about to expire. This is the ticket I drew half a year ago. It's a set ticket. You can play all the games. Buy a ticket." Want our pocket money for a month!"
Lin Yifei was a little moved by her, so he called Catherine to cancel the day's practice. Manman packed her schoolbag, prepared snacks and water, and the two of them took the bus and set off. In fact, Lin Yifei also felt guilty. He spent the whole summer vacation hanging out with Catherine and the others, so he didn't take care of Manman's mood.
At the gate of the amusement park, Manman's smile is like those sweet and crispy popcorn.
"Hold hands, if you get lost in a while, you can't find it!"
"Hmm! What should we go to play first?" The two checked the tickets, because there were a lot of children in the amusement park during the summer vacation, and many of them were accompanied by their parents, which made people look a little envious.
"What do you want to play first?" Lin Yifei asked her.
"Roller coaster!" Manman ran towards the track circling in the air, Lin Yifei could only shout "slow down" and followed behind her. It took about 20 minutes to line up. When they sat down and the safety lever was slowly pressed down, Manman grabbed Lin Yifei's hand.
"Brother Yifei, I'm afraid."
"Are you afraid?" Lin Yifei frowned, "It's too late now."
So, during the whole sliding process, Manman screamed, but when she reached the highest point and fell upright, she couldn't scream except for holding Lin Yifei's hand tightly. Lin Yifei seemed very calm, until the finish line, when the safety bar was slowly raised, Manman began to cry.
"It doesn't look so scary..."
Lin Yifei pulled Manman out amusedly, and sat with her on the chair by the side of the road, taking out a napkin to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Not far away, a pair of young boys and girls are preparing to board the roller coaster.
"Chris, you've been looking over there since just now... What are you looking at?"