I stared with my eyes wide open, and beads of sweat were dripping down my head in anxiety, but I just held the phone and muttered to myself, answer the phone, answer the phone...
Then I kept pressing the redial button, but the taxi I was in stopped because of the red light at the intersection. The driver shook his head helplessly and sighed, picked up the Coke beside him, and the unique bubbling sound was heard as the bottle cap of the Coke was twisted open. I seemed to fall into the abyss of memory with the sound of the bubbles, but this time what appeared in front of me was Bai Lu's back, who was waiting to buy something in front of the counter of the convenience store opposite the elementary school, and I was standing behind her, urging her impatiently, hurry up, you're going to be late.
The little Bai Lu turned her head and nodded at me and said, "Yes, right away." After she finished speaking, she turned her head and looked anxiously at the uncle who brought her a Coke, but she immediately turned her head back and asked me, "Don't you want to buy some drinks?" I shook my head vigorously and said, "I don't drink. My mother said that drinks are not healthy."
Bailu nodded as if she understood, then turned around to pay the money and took the bottle of Coke from the counter. As soon as Bailu's two little hands got the bottle of Coke, she quickly handed it to me and looked at me expectantly with her big eyes. I impatiently took the Coke from her hand, and then with a look on my little face, I finally unscrewed the cap of the Coke bottle. Then I handed the Coke to her and said, "Unscrew it."
Bailu held the Coke in her two little hands, and then nodded vigorously at me with a grateful look on her face, and then began to gulp down the Coke. I stood there and swallowed subconsciously, watching her gulp down the Coke that I usually don’t have the chance to drink but looks delicious. Bailu drank a big gulp, then put down the Coke bottle with both hands, then blinked her big eyes and asked me, do you want to drink some
I looked at the Coke in her hand and gently licked my dry lips with my tongue, but I shook my head vigorously and said to her, I don’t want to drink it. Let’s go, we’re going to be late!
Xiao Bailu used all her strength to screw the bottle cap on and then ran behind me towards the school gate. At the school gate stood the senior student who checked the red scarves. He lazily checked our red scarves and let us in. I gasped for breath after entering the school gate, secretly thanking luckily that I was not late. But then I realized that my mouth was very thirsty from running, so I subconsciously took out the Coke bottle filled with water next to my schoolbag. I looked at the Coke bottle filled with white boiled water and hesitated for a moment. I didn't even realize that a hint of loss flashed across my eyes, but Xiao Bailu, who was holding the Coke in her two little hands, saw it. Just as I was about to unscrew the cap of the bottle of water that I brought from home, Xiao Bailu next to me pulled my arm hard. I looked back at her puzzled, wondering what she was going to do.
She then took another big gulp of the Coke, then swallowed it with great effort while saying to me, "I can't drink it anymore, I'll give it to you!"
Xiao Bailu handed me the half remaining bottle of Coke as she spoke. I blinked at her, seemingly not understanding why she suddenly couldn't drink it anymore. However, I didn't ask anything. I just looked at the half bottle of Coke she handed over, swallowed subconsciously, then nodded, took it and said, "Okay then."
As I was talking, I held the remaining half bottle of Coke and started drinking it. Although my mother said that Coke was the most unhealthy thing, but for me at that moment it was the most delicious thing in the world. Little Bailu, who was watching me drinking the Coke in big gulps, also showed the happiest smile on her face.
From then on, Bailu would never finish a bottle of Coke, and would always ask me to drink the remaining half. Although I sometimes felt embarrassed to drink the half bottle she handed me, she would always say, if you don’t drink it, I’ll throw it away.
I could only drink the remaining half bottle obediently, but we stopped talking because we were not old enough for the kids to say that we were kissing indirectly. The taxi stopped, I took out the money from my pocket in a daze and handed it to the driver, then got out of the car in a daze. I even almost forgot to take the change from the driver because my eyes were always on the bottle of Coke in the car. I knew that I would think of her every time I drank Coke, but I suddenly realized now that she had already integrated into my life, and I would never see her again!
Thinking of this, I rushed towards the ticket inspection hall like crazy, and kept calling her on my mobile phone, but no one answered my call. I was nervous and gasping for breath, and then desperately searched for her figure in the hall, and I kept whispering subconsciously, wait for me, don’t go, don’t go...
But I didn't see her at all. After looking at the entire first floor, I rushed to the second floor. At this time, I suddenly remembered that I could check the train schedule to Beijing to determine which waiting hall she was in. Thinking of this, I quickly ran to the information desk and asked where the nearest train to Beijing was. After being informed by the conductor, I quickly ran to the waiting hall to Beijing, but I carefully checked everyone sitting there, and I didn't see Bai Lu. At this time, I was really panicked, but I kept comforting myself in my heart that maybe she hadn't arrived yet, and she would be here soon. But just as I was thinking this, my mobile phone suddenly vibrated. I quickly picked up the phone and found that it was a text message from Bai Lu!
I nervously clicked on the text message, but I saw the content of the text message, I'm sorry, I didn't answer your call, I'm about to board the plane, and I won't use this phone number anymore. Oh, by the way, please tell Zhang Nuan and the others that I'm sorry, I can't go tonight, and you have to take good care of yourself.
After seeing this text message, I collapsed to the ground with a thud. I felt as if the whole world collapsed in front of me in an instant, but I just breathed out through my nose and smiled like an idiot, because I really didn't expect that she didn't leave by train, but by plane. I, a jerk, couldn't even think of this. Now I don't even have the chance to see her for the last time, let alone want her to stay. My heart felt like it was torn apart as I sat there looking at the collapsed reality in front of me.
At that time, I always had the impulse of a teenager, but not a mature emotion, because I didn’t think about what would happen if I really caught up with Bai Lu that day and tried my best to make her stay. Maybe it would only hurt other people. Maybe this is the best ending. Some people are destined to be together. We meet, get to know each other, and understand each other, but we cannot be together for life.
Sitting there, I understood clearly that this time she decided to leave completely, completely forget about this place, completely forget about me, and there was no room for redemption. Even if we meet again in the future, we are destined to be strangers, a stranger who was once so deeply hidden in my heart. Although I know she should be on the plane now and her phone should be turned off and she can no longer receive my text messages, I still sent her a text message, the last text message I sent her.
When I was little, I always thought that I would be with you all the time, going to school and coming home from school. I thought that was the most normal thing. Every time you were sick and I went to school alone, it was the time I was most uncomfortable with. I would subconsciously look to the left where you usually walked. But this time I know that from today on, I will never see you on my left side again. It is even more impossible for you to suddenly appear behind me with a sick and feverish body. Forget me. When you can no longer remember me, it means that you can put down all the memories and move forward alone. Isn't that what you have always longed for? What you think is what I wish for. Maybe one day in the future, I will suddenly appear in front of you from the sky. I hope that when I see you again at that time, you will be a happy and confident you. Take care.