falling angel

Chapter 10

Eat the city.summer.On the map, Checheng is the city farthest from my father.


Yueying and I made an appointment to meet in front of the school's main gate.Moonshadow seemed to have been there a long time when I arrived.Give each other a familiar hug.There was a nice natural scent in her hair, and I took a deep breath.Then smile at her:
"Shadow, we meet again."

"Yes, we meet again."

Maybe it's because we're too used to each other's existence. The separation from each other during the two-month holiday made us all miss each other very much.

Yueying accompanied me through the school admission procedures, took my hand and walked leisurely on the tree-lined road of Sucheng University.There are so many boys in this school, and we, who are very unfamiliar with boys, feel uncomfortable all over.I tried hard to bring up some memories of boys in my mind, but I could only go back to elementary school:
Those rich or only sons of wealthy families who are spoiled by their families are always domineering and domineering to create disputes in every corner of the campus.They bully girls and do all kinds of pranks that can't be imagined.In addition to these, their other specialty is to make all kinds of brand-name clothes and pants into an extremely sloppy look on the playground, and then put on a bad smell and smile at the beautiful girls in the classroom.Then there are my two younger brothers.The first one, Xiao He, I only remember that I once held his hand, weak and boneless, as fragile as a glass doll in a window.He was indeed a glass doll. Otherwise, why did he keep getting sick in just three years of life, and finally fell to his death?The second one is Xiao Yun.I have almost no impression of his appearance, because he has always been a shameful shy look.No matter who said anything to him, he would look timidly with those flickering eyes, like a thief.It is such a boy, but he is held in the palm of his father, grandma and grandpa, as if he is the king of the whole world.

"What are you thinking, Yao?" Yueying squeezed my hand, "Be happy. You are far away from them now. It's just me and you here."

I nod.Led by Moon Shadow, I entered a tall European-style building. It felt like a church in a nursery, and it seemed that it might collapse at any time.Our dormitory is on the fifteenth floor, which is also the top floor.When I got out of the elevator, I deliberately glanced at the stairs. On the top of the wall, there is a ladder that can lead to the top floor. I don’t know if there is a heavy big lock on the cover like Nursery Middle School.

"Are you here alone?" Yueying asked suddenly.

I nodded, then shook my head: "The driver will take me to the airport, and then I will fly by myself."

"You didn't bring any luggage?"

I nodded and took out a bank card from my pocket: "There is this."

"Oh." Moon Shadow's speechless expression meant she understood and got used to it.

Already at the door of the dormitory: 606, Xiangyin.

"My mother sent me here, you have seen it. Do you remember?" I was in a daze, and the kind and beautiful woman appeared in my mind.I haven't seen her for many years. I don't know what she looks like.

The moment I opened the door, I saw the back of a woman: long curly hair, a white yarn spun shawl, a red cheongsam, a full buttocks curve, and slender legs.When she heard us coming in, she turned her head - it was a familiar yet unfamiliar face of a mature woman.If I hadn't met her once before, I don't think I would have thought she was Yueying's mother.Because she looks so young and so beautiful, it seems that more than ten years have left no trace on her body.

"Is it Xiao Yao?"

"Well, hello, auntie."

Moon Shadow smiled and took my hand and walked to her mother, took her mother's hand again, and sat down on the bed by the window.

"Mom, you and Xiao Yao haven't seen each other for many years."

Auntie smiled, it was a very blunt smile, blunt and cold.This smile seemed to be rejecting and repelling something, which made me feel very uncomfortable.

"I heard from Yueying that you often took care of her when she was in school. Thank you very much. I have been very busy with Yueying's uncle, and Yueying's younger brother needs someone to take care of me, so I haven't taken time to see it. you."

I unconsciously raised the corners of my mouth and smiled—how familiar this story is.Maybe it was stimulated by my dismissive smile, the woman stopped chattering, Yueying squeezed my palm vigorously, I took a look at Yueying, she looked at me with almost pleading eyes, let me My heart was pulled hard.So I tried hard to give the woman a smile:
"Sorry, Auntie, I want to go to the bathroom."

After that, I climbed up the ladder leading to the top floor, and unexpectedly found that no one had locked it.So standing on the top of the highest floor within sight, I can clearly feel the soft touch of the wind blowing.The entire top floor was empty, perhaps because it had just been completed.The only shade from the sun is a water tower at the other end of the building.I walked over and sat in the shadow of the water tower, staring into the distance absently.This city is so beautiful, it looks like Jasmine many years ago, so many flowers are blooming layer upon layer in this season.You don't need to breathe hard, you can smell the fresh and natural floral fragrance.It was already August, and gardenias had already passed their flowering period, and the city was filled with the intoxicating aroma of a small flower called osmanthus.Behind the floors in the distance, there are still floors, and there are no big broken chimneys like those in Mocheng.So the end of the sky is very blue, and the clouds are very pure.I lift my hand up and look up through my fingers at the blue overhead.Momos say that above the blue sky is a place called heaven, and all pure souls will return to God after their physical death.In the past, I always laughed at Yueying, thinking how childish it was for her to pin her beliefs on something as fleeting as God.And since my mother died, I've come to wish there was a heaven up there.If there is a heaven, my mother must be in it.She will live happily up there with my brother, right?I am the only one, lonely, alone, and my only family member is actually my sister Yueying with a different surname who has no blood relationship with me.I took out a cigarette from my pocket and lit it casually.Close your eyes and let the familiar smell of tobacco carry you to your lungs through your breath.I think there must be a lot of ashes from the past deposited there, otherwise why would it always oppress my chest and make me unable to breathe?Tears flowed down the corner of the eyes slowly, and the sky gradually dimmed.


As the day draws to a close, I feel the shadow of the moon coming.She just sat beside me and said nothing.She's been sitting next to me like this for most of the past time, not saying anything.

"Is she gone?"

I looked into the distance, and the sun had completely disappeared.

"Just went to the airport."

"It's rare that she remembers you."

"Yao... I know, she has changed over the years. But she is always my mother."

"Heh" I sneered, lit the lighter, lit a new cigarette, and the fire light shone scarlet in my drooping hair.I felt Yueying's head resting gently on my shoulder.

"After all, in this world, besides you, she is my relative." I raised my hand in an elegant arc, and threw the cigarette in my hand not far away, and the scarlet bouncing on the cement on the roof After a few clicks, it finally disappeared.

"Yao, will you leave me?"

I'm a little surprised, there are a lot more talking about Moon Shadow today than before.She asked a question that I had never considered before.would i leave herI spent a few minutes of silence in my thoughts, and finally, I gave Moon Shadow an answer—which she later took as an oath.

"When I leave you, it is time to leave this world."

"Me too." I watched the beautiful Moon Shadow curled up in my arms with a very trusting look. I don't know why, but the expression on her face at that moment made me feel a little strange.But where is the abnormality, but can't figure it out.



(End of this chapter)