Mask

Chapter 10 Laurel Lover (1)
1
early morning.

Very early on, Masako came out of his house, and left him breakfast before leaving, and also left a note: "Thank you."

She thought that if she stayed any longer, some feelings would become complicated.

When I arrived at school, as soon as I sat down, Lu Jianer couldn't wait to ask: "Masako, what happened to you yesterday?"

She shook her head, fiddled with her bangs, and covered the bruises on her forehead: "I'm a little tired, so I just rested at home for a day."

"Is it better now?"

"Ah."

Lu Jianer finally breathed a sigh of relief.

During the third class, Yi Xialing walked into the classroom wearing a big mask with her head down, and sat in her seat without saying a word, like a ghost.

"I'm afraid this child is frightened..." Yang Xin and the others snickered together, and Lu Jian'er also smiled gloatingly.

She glanced at Yi Xialing's pitiful back, and continued to read without expressing her opinion.

"Yu Qi is looking at you..."

Suddenly, Jane pushed her arm.

She looked in Yu Qi's direction, Yu Qi was indeed looking at her, and stared at the bruise on her forehead without avoiding it.

She lowered her head so that her bangs fell down.

At noon, the girls in the class were talking, saying that they had just seen Duan Yousi come to school.

An Qi said that nothing happened there, it was very quiet.

Listening to the sound of the cedar leaves being blown by the breeze outside the window, Masako felt a little dazed.Duan Yousi was right, An Qiyan did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary.

Duan Yousi is right about another thing...

All afternoon, her attention has not been very focused.

It was late after school today, and Masako left the classroom after helping Lu Jianer organize her math notes.When I arrived at the station, there were not many students, or even very few, but there was him.

When she was five meters away from the station, she saw Duan Yousi.

He was standing under the license plate, listening to the phone, while the two first-year girls next to him stared at his profile and covered their mouths, their cheeks flushed.

About three meters away from him, Masako stopped with palpitations and cast her eyes on the passing vehicles.

Not long after, he closed the phone and put it in his pocket, and saw her when he turned his head.

She straightened her wind-torn hair and looked towards the end of the road.

He was still looking at her, and the eyes of the two girls slowly focused on her.

A gust of wind blew by, and Masako's bangs were blown. At the same time, Duan Yousi put his hands in his trouser pockets, turned towards her, his tie was slightly raised by the wind, and he walked slowly.

The girls pretended to turn their heads away from him, but from the corner of their eyes would drift from time to time.Duan Yousi was three steps away from Masako, but she still didn't look back.

"You were very bold before, but now you don't even dare to look at me." He finally spoke with some emotion this time, and looked at her with lowered eyebrows.

"What about An Qiyan?" She was evasive.

"Ask her what to do?"

"She's your girlfriend."

"You pretend again." He said straight to the point.

Her breathing finally began to be unsteady, and she avoided his sight.

The bus arrived at the stop at this time. It was the bus that the two first-year girls were waiting for.

The car drove away.

There were only him and her left at the station.

"Mo Yazi." He held her arm and pulled her to his side, "Stop talking, you look at me differently."

She lowered her head, closed her eyes and frowned.

"Since when did you like me?" he asked.

Her arms were tightly held, and after a long time, when the night wind blowing gradually cooled down, she sighed: "I like you, Duan Yousi, but what can you respond to me?"

"You've really taken a fancy to me." He smiled.

"Do you wish?"

"A top student in Class [-], Grade [-], you have rejected many boys."

"Do you wish?"

"If I pick you up, your head teacher will probably cut off my head teacher."

"Do you wish?"

She still asks this.

"Do you dare?" He finally responded to her, "Give up your honor as a top student, become an enemy of An Qiyan, and stay with a bastard who might not pay you much attention, do you have the guts?"

"How do you feel about me?" she asked.

Hearing this question, he squinted his eyes, looked away and said, "Better than what An Qi said."

Here comes the bus, the one she was waiting for.

The car door was opened to her, and her fingertips trembled a little, which came from her confession to him—it turned out that she was a very bold girl.

"Also..." He stopped her from behind, "I won't break up with An Qiyan right now."

She was already standing on the bus, and after hearing this, she turned her head and looked at him deeply.

He also looked at her, the words just now are very real, there is no doubt about it.

"Wow—"

The door was closed.

The scenery outside the window gradually moved, the phone in Masako's bag vibrated slightly, and she received a text message from Duan Yousi——

"If you can bear it, be one of me. If you can't bear it, forget it."

She understood deeply what "one of" meant.

2
The small courtyard is damp with dew, and the green plum tree at the corner of the stone wall casts its shadow.

When she opened the courtyard door, the woman was sitting on the wooden steps washing clothes.

It was a somewhat unpredictable scene. The woman looked very quiet and normal when she was washing clothes. Compared with the heart-piercing before, it seemed a little weird.

"mom."

With a soft call, she leaned against the courtyard door and could not go in or out.

The woman raised her head according to the sound, her face was a little haggard, and after squinting for a while, she suddenly put down the clothes in her hands and stood up.

Masako took a step back, and the door creaked.

"Where have you been?" The woman hurried forward, grabbing her arm, with an eager expression on her face, "I'm going crazy..."

"I just got out of school."

"Come back early next time, do you hear me? Mom has been looking for you since yesterday morning, really..."

Still as before, women can forget everything.

"Mom, I'm going upstairs."

All Masako can do is to cooperate with the woman's amnesia.

After everything was tidied up in the room, she turned on the small light on the table, took out her mobile phone, and stared at the text message.

Her mind was full of his appearance and his words.

You know that feeling?The feeling that my whole heart hangs when I see the boy I like.

When Masako walked to the school gate, she saw Duan Yousi and An Qiyan who were entering the school gate opposite.

This time it was just the two of them, An Qiyan was holding a cup of freshly ground coffee in his hand and a bag in his right hand, walking side by side with him while talking with a smile.Duan Yousi occasionally replied, sometimes he would wrap his arms around An Qiyan's waist.They are really a couple who have been dating for a long time, every movement is familiar and natural, and they reconciled.

When Masako stopped, Duan Yousi also saw her.

She looked straight at him calmly, and he gave her a glance in return, a very ordinary look, and then walked into the school gate.

People flow in and out as usual.

His look may be indifferent, or it may be a cover-up.

§§§The bell rang for the end of the second period.

"Masako." Lu Jian'er put down the book, turned around and looked at her seriously, "You seem restless during these two classes, are you in a bad mood?"

She clenched the pen in her hand and looked at the exercise book. In fact, she had read it for a long time, but she still didn't move.

"Tell me, don't hold back alone."

She turned her head and looked into Jane'er's eyes, hesitated for a long time, until the second before the class bell rang, she said: "I like someone alone."

"Ding……"

Amid the rapid and sharp ringing of the class bell, Lu Jianer asked excitedly, "Who is it?"

"Duan Yousi."

Jane was stunned for a moment.

"Really, I like him."

The class bell is still ringing.

Jian Er suddenly grabbed her hand and ran out of the classroom.

"Lu...Moya..." The speed of the two was so fast that even Yu Qi didn't realize it.

"Lu Jianer!" The head teacher who had just walked to the door of the classroom looked at their flashing figures in surprise, "Mo Yazi, Lu Jianer! Where are you going after class?"

"Teacher, I have diarrhea!"

Lu Jianer dragged her all the way to the sink next to the school's flower garden, and when she got there, Lu Jianer let go of her hand, no, almost shook her off.

"Masako, do you still remember what I told you here!" Lu Jian'er pointed to the sink, gasping for breath.

"Remember." She put her hands on the edge of the sink and adjusted her breathing, "He already knows that I like him."

"Duan Yousi will play with you, he won't take you seriously!" Jian'er shouted.

"I know." She replied.

"Mo Yazi, you can't be so stupid!" Jian Er immediately grabbed her arm, "You are going to take the No.1 exam, why do you like Duan Yousi?"

"Because he helped me." She answered simply, "I like him beyond my control, and I promise it won't affect my studies."

"But..." Jian'er's nose was red, she wiped her face with her sleeve fiercely, and then spoke after a while of silence, "But, does Duan Yousi have feelings for you?"

"I don't know." She said softly, turned on the faucet, and let the cool water soak the light blue handkerchief she carried with her.

Lu Jian'er had nothing to say, she stood there anxiously, occasionally stomped her feet unhappily, but didn't speak.

After wringing out the handkerchief, she walked over to Jian'er and wiped her cheeks.

Lu Jian'er pulled the handkerchief, wiped it by herself, and began to complain: "Why do you like him, Xi'er too, and you too..."

"Hamada Creek?" She vaguely remembered the name.

"That's right!" Jian'er wiped her nose vigorously, "He's handsome, yes, but it's strange, why girls like you are so irresistible to him." Then he asked, "Then he Did you make it clear?"

Her thoughts were wandering, and with a "ding", the phone rang.

Masako opened it and saw that it was a text message from Duan Yousi——

"At 12:50, the student union meeting room, wait there."

3
"Lu Jianer, Mo Yazi." In the classroom, the class teacher looked at them displeasedly, "Come find me in the office after class."

The result is obvious, Lu Jianer and Masako must submit a [-]-word self-criticism tomorrow morning, because the head teacher asked a girl to go to the bathroom to find them, but found no one, and Lu Jianer refused to say what happened , the head teacher got angry.

At noon, Jane sat sullenly on the wooden chair by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the dining room and stirred the coffee round and round.

Masako seemed very composed, as if it was preordained, and accepted it calmly.

"You're alright." Lu Jian'er scratched her head irritably and said, "When a boy I like asks me to meet up, I'll always feel better, but I'm different!"

She smiled absently when the phone on the table vibrated, she put down her glass and opened her text message inbox.

"Hello, I'm a senior who is one level older than you. I want to ask if you have a boyfriend. Junior, I want to make friends with you."

Lu Jian'er came over and reminded after reading, "Masako, you are actually very popular with boys."

She wanted to delete the text message, and Lu Jianer snatched the phone anxiously: "You should also ask who he is first, at least you need to know who likes you, maybe it's not bad..."

While talking, the phone vibrated again, and Lu Jianer opened it excitedly, it was still the senior.

"Actually, I've asked my friends about you, and I know that you don't have a boyfriend yet. I like girls like you very much, so can you let me chase you?"

"Delete it." She said to Jane.

Just as Jian Er was about to talk about her, she suddenly stared past her to the outside of the glass wall, unable to look back.Masako followed her line of sight and saw some students from Class [-], Grade [-] who were slowly walking towards the restaurant.

The most dazzling is always him.

In fact, he was very low-key, walking behind Wan Ye, and casually listening to An Qiyan beside him.

Wan Ye was still alive and kicking, occasionally turning his head to tease Yu Wenyi, causing Yu Wenyi to reach out and pat him on the back several times.In addition, there were two other boys walking beside and behind Duan Yousi respectively, talking and laughing and playing around.

An Qiyan held his arm all the time, and he put one hand in his trouser pocket, looking very nice sideways.

Lu Jian'er caressed her forehead and murmured: "He's really handsome..."

When they walked into the restaurant, other students were more or less affected. The girls whispered private words to their partners, and the boys kept their voices quiet, their aura weakened imperceptibly.

In fact, Duan Yousi didn't do anything, he just appeared.

They sat at a table in the corner, but that was already the focus.Wan Ye thought of some cold joke again, and his mouth didn't stop once he sat down.

An Qiyan smiled and leaned towards Duan Yousi's arms, the sunlight over there sprinkled on the white wood table through the glass window, dazzlingly gorgeous.

Masako kept looking at him indifferently, but he never looked at her.

Jian'er carefully observed Masako until finally Masako looked away and said to Jian'er: "Keep the text message."

Lu Jian'er raised her eyebrows, swallowed, and nodded.

Lunch break.

After entering the classroom, she saw Yi Xialing at a glance. Her face was covered tightly, but she still stared fiercely at Masako with only two piercing eyes.Lu Jian'er also stared straight at Yi Xialing, to see when she was going to see her.

"Look at what!"

Yi Xialing's voice came through the mask.

"Crazy..." Lu Jian'er turned around muttering, "It's obvious that she couldn't stop watching first!"

"Don't look at her." Masako didn't care, and put the notebook on Lu Jian'er's desk, "Don't look around during the lunch break, do more questions, what time is it?"

"The lunch break has just started, about 12:30..."

She stood up, and Lu Jian'er immediately grabbed her sleeve: "Are you going?"

"Ah."

"You really like it so much?"

"Ah."

"Will you agree to whatever he says?"

"Ah."

"What if it's against you?"

"He's not that bad." She smiled and pushed Lu Jian'er's hand away.

"Then come back early, teacher, I can only help you cover until the lunch break is over..."

"Thank you, Jane."

When passing by Yu Qi's side, he was looking down at his schoolbag, saw Masako, and stopped her by the way: "Mo Yazi, have you seen my math workbook?"

"No."

The light in the meeting room of the student union is very dark, which contrasts strongly with the light outside.

In the center of the room is a magnificent oval desk, and the swivel chairs are placed neatly against the desk.Because it is usually only used for student union activities, when there is no one, the gray curtains of the meeting room are drawn, and the whole meeting room looks gloomy.

Masako closed the door and saw the gray notebook lying quietly on the other side of the round table. At this moment, there was a "click" sound from the reference room on one side.

The reference room is connected to the conference room, and there are still people at this time. When the gentle-looking boy came out with a stack of files, he bumped into Mo Yazi, and he was slightly taken aback.

"You... classmate, you..."

"I forgot the president's notebook here." She walked to the other side of the round table and picked up the notebook, "I'll get it for him."

"Oh..." The boy just nodded, but he didn't look away, and even asked excitedly, "Your name is Mo Yazi, right?"

"Yeah." She replied casually, looking at the clock on the wall.

12 points.

"Are you interested in joining the student union?" The boy rubbed his hand on the back of his neck, carefully extending the invitation.

"Thank you, I'll consider it."

"Oh, I'm the monitor of Class [-], Grade [-], and the president of the previous student union. Because of the change of term, I'm now the assistant to the president. If you're interested in joining, just give me the application form."

Masako nodded.

Only then did the boy feel a little embarrassed, and after sorting out the portfolio in his arms, he walked towards the door.After he left, Masako walked towards the door unhurriedly, watching him disappear around the corner of the stairs.

She looked back at the clock—

12 points.

The student union meeting room is located in the left passage on the top floor of the second-grade teaching building. It is very hidden and low-key, and it is difficult to detect whoever enters and who exits.

It was 12:55, and she sat in the swivel chair, waiting patiently.

4
"Ding……"

At one o'clock, when the bell rang at the end of the lunch break, there was a "bang" at the door, and someone kicked the door shut.

Masako's swivel chair turned her back to the door, and the toe of her shoe that was rubbing against the marble floor stopped, feeling nervous.

"It really came."

Duan Yousi's voice sounded clearly and lazily in this gloomy space, easily grabbing Masako's heart.

The chair was turned suddenly, she couldn't see anything clearly, but when the chair stopped turning, she felt his breath.

With his hands on the armrest of the swivel chair, he leaned over to look into her eyes, and she also looked at him without fear, her eyes were indifferent and bottomless.

"How much do you like me?" he asked her.

"Just let me see you." She replied slowly, "An Qiyan won't know."

"You're the most inconsistent woman I've ever met."

"Did you have a little heart for me?"

She looked seriously into his eyes.

He didn't answer.

Her fingers clawed uncontrollably at the armrest of the swivel chair.

In the teaching building, the bell rang again.

"I'm going to class." Masako didn't hear the answer all the time, she simply looked away and pushed his hand away.

There was jasmine fragrance in her hair, which wafted out when she rubbed shoulders with him, and when her hand finally touched the doorknob, Duan Yousi asked, "What time do you leave school?"

"Same as yesterday."

He came behind her, held the doorknob and her hand at the same time: "Mo Yazi, who else can you seduce besides me?"

This sentence should be sarcasm but she could hear the meaning of it. She looked at his side face, which cast a nice shadow in the gray and dark.

"Crack-"

The door opened and a ray of light shone in.

The meeting was declared over, and he turned and walked towards the passage of the third grade classroom, while Masako was still standing at the door, feeling the residual electric shock-like feeling on the back of his hand.

By the time I got back to the classroom, it had been 10 minutes of class.

Masako knocked on the door. The teacher was holding the textbook and was talking happily. He waved his free left hand to signal her to come in, but didn't say anything.

When she passed by Yu Qi's table, she put his notebook lightly on the corner of the table. Yu Qi looked up at her wonderingly, and replied "thank you".

She sat back beside Lu Jian'er, Jian'er couldn't hold back, and immediately asked in a low voice: "How is it? Has he come?"

She nodded.

"What did he say to you?"

"He asked me what time school was over." She said as she opened the book.

Lu Jian'er's voice was excited and worried: "Maybe he will wait for you after school and walk with you..."

"He will go with An Qiyan," she said.

Speaking of An Qiyan, Lu Jian'er's eyes darkened instantly: "Masako... are you going to intervene between the two of them?"

She listened to this sentence and did not answer.

After school.

Lu Jian'er had no part-time job that day, so she went to the station with Masako.

The sky is dark blue, and the wind is a bit cool. After all, it is the end of summer, and the tentacles of autumn are slowly extending over.

When we arrived at the station, Duan Yousi was already there.

There were more students than yesterday, and he was leaning against the stop sign just like last time. There were still some students from Class [-], Grade [-], who were very eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)