"En." Lin Yifei touched his cheek with his left hand, and Chris, who lowered his head, slowly closed his eyes, turning his face sideways to feel the temperature of Lin Yifei's fingertips.
At that moment, Lin Yifei suddenly pinched him on the face, and Chris let out a deep cry, "Heh..."
He looked up blankly, looking at Lin Yifei with a bit of innocence in his eyes.
"Do you feel the pain? Right?" Lin Yifei laughed like a child, "It means I'm not dreaming! You're really back!"
Chris looked at Lin Yifei's cast, and asked after a long time, "Does it hurt? When I was hit by that guy."
"I didn't feel it." Lin Yifei lowered his head, "I didn't feel the pain until I entered the hospital."
"Don't do something like this next time."
"Understood. I believe you will not want to have another 'kidnapping'. Being a child of a rich family is not all a good thing." Lin Yifei looked at Chris, "Ah... I believe I can still catch up with next year's Contest."
"Yeah." Chris nodded.
"At that time, I will participate in the singles competition." Lin Yifei paused, "You are right, I did have thoughts of running away from you."
Chris looked at Lin Yifei silently.
"But not now. I will look at you squarely." Lin Yifei smiled, "Chris, next year's season, wash your neck and wait for me."
"Yifei, you shouldn't be like this." Chris said slowly.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yifei asked puzzled, "What should I do?"
"You shouldn't say such things to me with such an expression." Chris turned and walked towards the door, "I won't know how to let go."
"Why did you let go? We're more than just good friends."
"Yes, good friends don't do this..."
Chris lowered his head slightly, covered Lin Yifei's lips, tearing and licking Lin Yifei's tongue.
It was clearly a domineering and possessive kiss, but it was so gentle that there was no reason to refuse it.
Chris's fingers gently combed Lin Yifei's hair, he loved the touch of his hair very much, and whenever the two of them lay together, he liked to hold the ends of his hair to fall asleep.
They can still give everything for each other, not just best friends.
After Lin Yifei stayed in the hospital for two days, he rented a wheelchair and went home. Catherine and Mark are very loyal, and they will wait downstairs in Chen Linji's every morning, pushing the wheelchair to accompany him to the station.
George often sends some things, of course, the most sent is milk, imported from New Zealand, with a one-month shelf life.
"The young master said that Lin must drink a carton of milk every morning and night."
"Oh! This Xiaofei still wants Chris to stare at him and drink milk!"
And milk has become Lin Yifei's nightmare every morning and night, hiccupping in his dreams.
The arrival of summer vacation makes teenagers jump up again. What made Lin Yifei the happiest was not the removal of the plaster cast, but KK's plan to come to Washington to see Lin Yifei. Although there was no spare room for her to live in, Manman was very happy that she had a friend who could sleep and talk with her at night.
On Friday night, Lin Yifei went to the train station to pick up KK. The two sat on the subway and chatted. From the scene of the first meeting in elementary school to the scene when Lin Yifei left New York and everyone cried until there were a lot of snot and tears.
"I really think it's strange, why didn't Chris come with you?" KK asked half-jokingly, "You know what? Since you guys got to know each other well, I think that guy Chris will be as long as he doesn't stay with you." It will be uncomfortable. He will look at those people who have a good chat with you with those freezing eyes."
"Is it so exaggerated?"
"Why not?" KK stroked his braids, "I still remember that there was a Valentine's Day in elementary school, girls would give boys chocolates, do you know why Mi Gao received so many chocolates?"
"Why?" Lin Yifei raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it because he is a handsome guy?"
"Because he's behind you." KK rolled his eyes at him, "Although you—a yellow-skinned Chinese boy don't fit American aesthetics very well, you're smart, you're good at everything from math to other subjects, And you never look proud, you are always enthusiastic to teach everyone, maybe you don't feel that you are very popular in the class."
"Then why is there no chocolate in my drawer?" Lin Yifei was surprised, since he is very popular but no girls give him chocolates, what is the logic
"Because every time a girl tries to get close to you, Chris kills them with his eyes. If someone's shy and tries to sneak chocolates into your desk while you're away, oh... that's classy part."
"Oh? How classic?" Lin Yifei asked amusedly.
"They walked around your table as if they were under control under Chris' watchful eye and put the chocolates at Michael's."
After KK finished speaking, Lin Yifei almost died of laughter.
"Thank you... for taking the trouble to comfort me."
"But what impresses me the most is... You had moved to Washington for a while at that time, but I didn't expect that Chris didn't know that you were in Washington."
"Huh?" Lin Yifei recalled that at that time George put away all the letters sent to Chris, and they couldn't get through on the phone.
"That morning, he showed up at the gate of my school. I knew he was there to wait for me. He was wearing old clothes from when he was in New York, carrying a faded bag and saber case, as if he was going to wander. To the ends of the earth... He just asked me if I knew your address."
Lin Yifei's eyebrows trembled. He knew that Chris ran away from home to find him, but he didn't expect that Chris would go back to New York to find KK in order to get his information.
"So I told him. That was the first time I heard him say 'thank you'." KK looked at Lin Yifei, "There was no hesitation when he turned and left. I knew he was looking for you... yes Sometimes I don't understand why Chris is so attached to you. He is like... like a fish, and you are his water. It's like he can't live without you."
Lin Yifei was stunned by KK's words, unable to recover for a long time.
In the next two days, Lin Yifei took KK around and visited the White House and some famous art museums in Washington.
After the summer vacation, Lin Yifei ushered in his third year of middle school. As he had told Chris in the hospital, this was his last year of junior high, and he was going to compete in the individual saber competition.
When he was filling out the registration application at the organizing committee, Chris also came into the office. He was not in a hurry to get a pen and application form, but just stood not far from Lin Yifei and stared at him.
Lin Yifei turned around and saw him, thinking that he and Chris hadn't seen each other all summer, so he took the initiative to go forward.
"Hey Chris. Did you fill out the application?"
"No." Chris put his hands in his pockets, motionless as if he didn't intend to fill out the form.
"Have you filled it out?"
"I just came here with people from the fencing club." Chris suddenly looked away from Lin Yifei, "I won't participate in the fencing competition this year."
"What?" Lin Yifei felt choked, "What did you just say?"
"... I'm going to transfer from Griffith soon. Our family has to stay in Geneva for a while." Chris paused, as if to give Lin Yifei time to react.
"Are you moving again?"
The world suddenly became silent and aching.
"No. I just went to live in Switzerland for a while. My mother's grandmother is Swiss, and she was born in Switzerland. Recently, my mother's physical condition has become worse and worse. She said that she must go to Switzerland in her lifetime. Take a look, if one day she is going to die, I hope she can close her eyes in Switzerland." After saying this, Chris stopped talking.
Lin Yifei froze there, it took a long time to digest the information in his head.
"when are we leaving?"
"next week."
It doesn't matter whether he can participate in this year's fencing competition, because Chris's mother is the most important thing.
"You...won't you suddenly disappear like before? I'll crush you to death!" Lin Yifei's heart seemed to be put into a wine glass full of ice cubes, shaking gently, it was cold and painful.
"No, don't worry. George won't hide the letter you sent me, and he won't stop you from calling me." Chris stretched his neck and kissed Lin Yifei's cheek, "Wait for mom I'll come back when I feel better. I really want to take you with me."
"You have to take care of your mother, how can you get tired of being with me every day?"
Having said that, Lin Yifei suddenly had the feeling that he was being left behind by Chris.
"You will definitely come back." Lin Yifei said the latter sentence to himself.
For a while, the two didn't know what to say.
"I don't like your indifferent expression every time you leave, it makes me feel unimportant." Chris's voice was low.
"I have a parting gift for you, come with me." Lin Yifei pulled his lips and laughed, and pulled Chris to walk quickly in the corridor.
Pulling his own bicycle, Lin Yifei patted the rear frame: "Come on, I'll give you a ride."
"Do you want to go back to Chen Linji?"
"yes."
"Let me ride." Chris stepped onto the bike instead, patted the rear frame, "Come on."
Lin Yifei raised the corners of his lips. It had been a long time since he rode a bicycle with Chris. In the past two years, when Chris returned to Ozburn's house, he used cars in and out, but now he is not unaccustomed to riding a bicycle.
Lin Yifei, who was just holding on to the rear frame at first, became melancholy when he thought that he and the others would not see each other for a long time.
In fact, life is divided and combined, and reunion and parting are common occurrences.
There are people passing by in a hurry, the car honks occasionally, and the open-air tables outside the cafe are filled with aroma.
Lin Yifei stretched out his arms to hug Chris, and put his head on his back, just like the movie "Tong Xiao Wu Gu".
Arriving at Chen Lin Ji, Lin Yifei and Chris went upstairs to the room together.
Chris sat beside Lin Yifei's bed, watching him bring out a box from the cabinet.
"Open it and have a look." Lin Yifei's mouth curled up with a hint of complacency.