Although the lips of both of them were closed, Yu Ran pressed them so tightly that there was almost no gap, which made the kiss more presentable.
Yu Ran unconsciously held his breath for a long time, and when he left Chu Mian's lips, he involuntarily let out a heavy gasp, and tremblingly said, "Happy birthday."
After finishing speaking, he felt the strength of the arms around his waist loosen. Looking carefully, Chu Mian's eyes were narrowed and did not open.
A few seconds later, Chu Mian completely fell asleep and fell backwards. Yu Ran put his arms around his back, moved slowly, letting him sleep on his lap. Both the exercise book and the pen fell to the ground, Yu Ran didn't have time to pick them up, so he took off his coat and covered it for Chu Mian.
The sun rose slowly, and the intense light enveloped the entire campus, and the reflection of the glass was particularly dazzling. Chu Mian didn't know when she would wake up from this sleep, Yu Ran stayed with him motionless, and heard the bell ringing several times before and after class, as well as the sound of reading from the classroom in the distance.
In this peaceful atmosphere, the throbbing in Yu Ran's heart slowly returned to tranquility. Seeing that Chu Mian was still holding the lipstick in his hand, he secretly picked it up and unscrewed it, and put some on for the other party as well.
In this way, their lips are all equally moist.
After the end of the first class, Chu Mian finally opened his eyes in a daze. He realized that he was late for class, so he sat up quickly and hit Yu Ran's chin with his forehead. The two of them rubbed the painful parts, picked up their schoolbags and rushed to the classroom.
Both the first and the bottom one in the class were late, everyone was not surprised, and some students reasoned out the reason seriously: "Yu Ran is usually late and late for self-study, today he missed the first class, Chu Mian Follow along, what does this mean?"
"It means they lived together yesterday."
"Yep."
Chu Mian had a dream just now, and the content was as complicated as ever, which made him a little unsure of what happened before he fell asleep after waking up. Until he unconsciously touched his pocket, the existence of lipstick reminded him: the first kiss has been dedicated to Yu Ran.
Of course, Yu Ran's first kiss also belonged to him.
Compared with "holding hands" and "hugging", this is a contact of two magnitudes, and the impact on Chu Mian's emotions is obviously different. He sat on the seat, his lips seemed to be numb and weak, and even his body skeleton felt itchy.
But Yu Ran was much calmer than him, so he couldn't stop shaking his legs excitedly, and even took time to copy homework.
It took Chu Mian a few more minutes to recover, and then she asked Ye Xi to borrow the biology notebook just now, and when he got the notebook, he suddenly remembered that what he and Yu Ran missed was an open class.
"Did the school leader come this morning?" Chu Mian asked.
Ye Xi nodded, "That's right, I didn't have enough chairs and I borrowed from you two."
The biology teacher informed everyone last week that this class is very important to her, and I implore the students to perform well. For every question she asked in advance, she found a caregiver who would answer her questions in advance, and Chu Mian was one of them.
Chu Mian asked again, "Did the class go well just now?"
Ye Xi twitched the corners of her mouth, and said with a dry smile, "Ms. Hao is too nervous, she often stutters today, and some students didn't answer the questions, so she seems to be even more panicked..."
There was a limit on the number of questions in the open class. Teacher Hao saw that Chu Mian was not here, so he temporarily picked Zhao Zhijie, who was also good in biology, to answer. However, she didn't expect that Zhao Zhijie's good grades actually depended on his talent. The boy didn't listen carefully before he stood up, and his answers were irrelevant, which made her embarrassed all of a sudden.
"What?" Yu Ran's hand stopped for homework, "Damn, why did I forget this, Teacher Hao needs me in class!"
"Are you going to answer the question too?"
"No, I took the lead to applaud her." Yu Ran sighed regretfully, "What should I do, if she doesn't do well in this class and is scolded by the leader, it must be my responsibility."
"That's not enough." Chu Mian said, "But I did cause her trouble."
The two pondered for a while, and decided to go to the office to apologize to Teacher Hao during the big break. Chu Mian was really a little guilty, and Yu Ran was just looking for a reason not to do the break exercises.
As soon as they entered the office, they saw Fang Zhao, the class representative, sorting out his homework, and Teacher Hao sitting beside him with a sad face.
Yu Ran thought she was hit by the failure of the public class, and asked Fang Zhao quietly, and found out that the teacher had recently encountered boyfriend cheating, and now both relationship and work are not going well, and the frustration made her breathless.
Yu Ran is usually very active in biology class, but now she can't help comforting her: "Teacher, don't be discouraged, isn't there a saying called 'suffering is rewarding', you can be a master when you suffer, if you don't believe me, look at Chu Mian —”
Yu Ran took the arm of the person next to him, and said, "He suffered a lot from sleeping sickness, he looks like a human being now."
Chu Mian pushed him away, and Yu Ran hurriedly added, "It's the person above the word 'public'."
Before the teacher could speak, Fang Zhao patted Yu Ran on the shoulder and drove them away, "It's alright, alright, other people's comforting is at most just sprinkling salt on the wound, and you are attacking indiscriminately."
This remark made Yu Ran not reconciled, and immediately added another sentence: "It's okay, teacher, the hardship of breaking up is nothing. You see, your class representatives don't even have a chance to endure hardship."
Fang Zhao kicked him away, "Get lost."
In the slightly noisy atmosphere of the office, Teacher Hao recovered a little, not because Yu Ran's consolation was effective, but because he was infected by the vigor of these boys. The world of the students is simple and clean. Although they always make things difficult for her in class, she can still get a kind of precious happiness that contains memories.
She gently thanked Ran.
Chu Mian saw the tiredness on the teacher's face, and quickly pulled Yu Ran away.
Teacher Hao is about the same age as Chu Heng. Chu Mian understands the pressure of his aunt’s life, so he can naturally understand the teacher’s suffering. Recently, he often thinks that he must experience the same state when he grows up. Will also show a cowardly side.
Her peers were looking forward to the free time in college, but Chu Mian began to think about the further future. Now he is seventeen years old and is actively growing up with Yu Ran, so when he is twenty-seven years old, what kind of mood will he and Yu Ran be in.
Chu Mian walked down the steps slowly, stopped Yu Ran, and asked, "Do you think you will be as anxious as Teacher Hao in ten years' time?"
"2023?" This distant number appeared in Yu Ran's mind, "Forget it, I can't even predict what will happen ten minutes later. What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Chu Mian followed him, "I just can't imagine how confused you are."
"Confused... I did it before, on the day I found out that I had unreasonable thoughts about you." Yu Ran quickly jumped down the steps, stopped where he was and waited for Chu Mian to come down.
"What day is it?"
"Forget... I just remember that it rained heavily that day."
The two walked side by side in the stairwell, and when they turned into the corridor, Chu Mian grabbed one of Yu Ran's swinging arms.
Then hold his hand.
Yu Ran was surprised, this was indeed something he could not have expected ten minutes ago. During the more than a month of dating, Chu Mian has never wanted to show close relationship with him in front of others, but at this time, she blatantly held hands with him and passed by many classmates.
They are so eye-catching, Yu Ran immediately tightened his fingers to prevent Chu Mian from regretting this move.
The scores of the mid-term exam were announced, and Yu Ran worked hard this time to improve his class ranking by one class compared to the monthly exam, ranking second from last.
"Remember what we said last time?" Yu Ran sat in the back row of the classroom and asked in a low voice.
Chu Mian shook her head, smacked Yu Ran's tongue, and lightly smacked his shoulder with her fist, "It's okay if you don't remember, I'm asking you for a reward now."
"It's already been given in the morning..." Chu Mian didn't look sideways.
"But you didn't know that my grades improved in the morning, which means that it had nothing to do with rewards at that time, and you just wanted to insult me." Yu Ran plausibly said.
Chu Mian didn't expect him to think so quickly on such a matter, so she quietly stretched her legs, kicked his heels, and said, "We'll talk about it after school."
Satisfied, Yu Ran went to class honestly and revised his answers according to his test paper.
The penultimate place in this midterm exam was Lu Ziyao, and Yu Ran specially thanked her for her drop in grades at noon. Lu Ziyao was in a hurry to climb over the wall and leave school, and had no time to talk to him, Yu Ran found out after asking that she was going to sneak out to make an appointment.
"Brother, you are already a sophomore in high school." Yu Ran persuaded, "Fighting is so boring, if you get hurt, your mother will feel bad."
Lu Ziyao moved a stool over to step up, jumped onto the wall, and said casually: "It's okay, my mother is used to it, anyway, I didn't hit it, and I called a few friends over."
Yu Ran sighed, "Forget it, I'll go out with you, as I also have something to buy."
He took a few steps back to run up, leaped up smoothly and nimbly, and climbed over the wall.
Yu Ran made many appointments in junior high school, and often helped his friends out, not necessarily hands-on, mainly to support the scene. He asked Lu Ziyao carefully that the purpose of this conflict was to resolve the emotional conflict. When the two arrived at the meeting place, Lu Ziyao said, "Don't talk nonsense, just do it directly."
"Oh." Yu Ran took a rough look around the people in front of him, and kicked the most vicious-looking person among them.
After all, no matter how light a fight is, it can be regarded as intentional injury. Not only did Yu Ran not have much strength, but he ended up on the other side's shoes.
Lu Ziyao hurriedly pulled him back, "You fucking stepped on one of your own."
"Fuck, my AJ!" The boy who was stepped on cursed loudly, more angry than being punched.
Before the fight started, Yu Ran made enemies on the friendly side first, and when it came time to fight, he became the main target of everyone with his excellent stamina. In the end, Lu Ziyao commented on him dumbfounded: "You are really tough."
Yu Ran's attack power is actually very good, but compared to his endurance, it seems mediocre. Lu Ziyao couldn't help but added another sentence: "Chu Mian is blessed."
"I have to hurry to buy a birthday cake for Chu Mian." Yu Ran was always thinking about the most important thing.
"I'll pay the bill, thank you."
Yu Ran smiled brightly, and said: "No, just promise me not to waste time on fighting in the future, and you may have a physical accident, how bad it is."
"Are you still talking about me? Didn't you fight with the seniors in your first year of high school? We all know it."
"Well, it won't happen again in the future." Yu Ran walked quickly towards the cake shop, "The only result of violence is injury. There are only a few years in high school, and I have more important things to do."
— For example, falling in love with Chu Mian.
Yu Ran bought two cakes with different flavors, and ran back to school with the paper box. Just as he entered the corridor, he heard brisk music playing on the radio as usual. Today is the day for students to submit manuscripts every week.
"The following is an anonymous letter from the first grade: 'Hello, Senior Chu Mian, Class One, Senior Two, first of all, I would like to wish you a happy birthday...'"
Hearing this familiar beginning, Chu Mian lay down on the table and closed her eyes to take a nap indifferently. Almost every semester, someone uses the radio station to confess anonymously. Anyway, there are not many people with such courage, and it is difficult to find out who the contributor is. The teachers all turn a blind eye.
"Senior, you must not have imagined that I was admitted to Chengjun Middle School because of you. When I was in junior high school, I saw you outside the examination room of a physics competition. At that time, a big cicada fell on my shoulder. My The screams frightened the surrounding people, everyone subconsciously stayed away from me, only you came over silently and helped me gently slap the cicada away, before I could say thank you, you turned and left."
Unexpectedly, the other party would explain the previous trifles in such detail, Chu Mian frowned and began to listen carefully.
"It's just that one contact, I remember it until now, and every time I recall it, I will keep adding a more complete picture, and there is also an element of my fantasy..."
"... I know that many people like you, and many people have been rejected, so I dare to tell you here, of course I am prepared to be ignored by you, but as long as there is a slight possibility of success, I will Don't want to give up."
The possibility of success... Chu Mian opened her eyes and directly set this number to "0" in her mind.
He didn't listen to the following radio script, covered his mouth and yawned, got up and left the classroom.
Yu Ran stayed in the corridor all the time, listening intently. The girl wrote a lot of little things about Chu Mian's junior high school in her anonymous confession letter, although they were all insignificant, but he was pleasantly surprised to hear it. For example, Chu Mian would pick up the flowers that fell by the roadside, pick out a clean one and put it in his pocket; he would often bring biscuits and break them up to feed the pigeons outside the campus.
He was listening intently when the voice of the letter read on the radio stopped abruptly and was replaced by another person's words.
"Thank you for the birthday wishes, but I'm sorry."
This voice came from the boy he was most familiar with.
Standing in front of the microphone in the broadcasting room, Chu Mian said softly and expressionlessly, "I'm already someone else's boyfriend."
As soon as the words fell, all the classes in the first and second grades that could listen to the radio, all the girls showed varying degrees of surprise, and the atmosphere in the first class of the second grade was even more heated.
After Chu Mian finished speaking, she finally let out a long sigh of relief.
He really doesn't like to make his affairs public, especially this kind of thing that doesn't conform to the behavioral norms of middle school students. But the words of the girl's confession today reminded him that in fact, every person who came to show their favor was thinking "maybe it will succeed", but he didn't tell him in advance that the possibility was zero. enthusiasm.
And for Ran, he was supposed to be his private property, but now he tacitly allowed to be targeted by outsiders, so he might not be considered a competent lover.
After listening to what Chu Mian said on the radio, Yu Ran was so dazed that he could hardly walk, and he smirked while carrying two boxes of cakes, and almost entered the wrong classroom.
As soon as he returned to class, many students who were familiar with him called out his name loudly, in a gesture of booing: "Yu Ran, did you hear what the school beauty said on the radio just now?"
"School flower" naturally refers to Chu Mian, no one dared to call her that, but Yu Ran has been unscrupulous towards Chu Mian many times in the class, and everyone has learned to tease her.
Yu Ran still had a smile on his face, he forgot to move while standing at the door, he heard footsteps by his ears, and turned around to find that Chu Mian had also returned.
Now the atmosphere in the class is more lively, with coughing one after another.
"I bought it for you." Yu Ran handed over a cake box, he just opened the box deliberately, and when Chu Mian lowered his head to close it, he quickly slapped another piece of cake over.
Chu Mian's side face was covered with pure white cream, he feigned anger and grabbed Yu Ran's collar.
It doesn't mean that Ran opened his mouth to beg for mercy, but the crowd below let out a long "sigh" and instigated Yu Ran with malicious intentions: "Lick him clean!"
Yu Ran bit his lower lip to hold back his smile, raised his middle finger at them, then took out a tissue and helped Chu Mian wipe it clean with his own hands.
The faces of the two were very close, and at the same time, they noticed that each other's ears were turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye. When looking at each other unintentionally, the eyes of each other are full of dependence.
Before finishing wiping, Yu Ran couldn't help but turned around and faced the whole class, cleared his throat and said, "Let me introduce to you, this is—"
"No, no, no, no!" Everyone quickly waved their hands, laughing at his unnecessary actions.
But everyone immediately heard Yu Ran solemnly say: "This is the school grass."
"Nonsense!" "Do you need to say that?" "You are also you!"
They thought that Yu Ran was correcting the title of "school beauty" just now, but in fact, only Chu Mian, who was closest to him, could clearly hear—
Those two words actually mean "Sister-in-Law".
Thinking about it again, I found that Yu Ran also emphasized that he is a school grass.
Chu Mian couldn't help laughing, and without letting go, she pulled Yu Ran by his collar and dragged him out of the classroom, then turned back and closed the door.
The students were about to move on the window sill, Cui He quickly slapped the table, and scolded them: "Don't watch it! Is that what you should watch? Watching other people's mates, you will never find a mate in the future!"
Her words were very intimidating, and everyone consciously sat back in their original positions.
After only ten seconds passed, Yu Ran opened the door and walked in, this time covering his face.
… with cream on the corner of his mouth.