To Love You Again

Xiong Zhi was singing her heart out . her angelic voice was like a whisper of confession of love, her soft, lovely voice echoed out in the entire ground floor. Halting others who were playing and onlookers were growing in number.

"Always and forever I know,

I can't let you go

I'm in love with you,

And now you know "

She closed her eyes that were filled with many emotions that Linfeng couldn't count and decipher. Xiong Zhi opened her eyes again, in her eyes, the remnants of the past was gone, the emotions that wanted to be let out was gone, her eyes...her eyes only portray courage, boldness, and proclamation.

"I'm in love with you,

And now you know"

The last line was soft and almost like a whisper. However to Linfeng, it was an explosion. A volcanic eruption. The lava seems to traveled down to his every cell, every words of the song that was sang by Xiong Zhi was like an arrow in his heart. Oh! His poor heart! It should be shrank by now after a rain of arrows hit it, however , contrary, it was full. So full that Linfeng felt stuffy,  suffocated, he could not breath...the moment Xiong Zhi sang and point her jade like fingers on him, when she stared at him like he was the only person in the world, like the words she was singing were for him...like she was proclaiming her love to him, he forgot to breath. He just watch every move of her lips as it produce an angelic voice. Her eyes was never living him. How could he move at that? Or how can he look away? if her magnetic eyes was pulling him to listen more and just look at her? Her every sway in the beat of the song was so captivating . Only her....in his eyes it was only her....

When the song was finished, the acc.u.mulated big crowd clapped and cheered, some even whistled. This jolted Linfeng awake. He did not even noticed that they gathered such crowd.

Linfeng walked towards Xiong Zhi, his heart was still not calmed though, but his face was calm and have a polite smile. He was about to praise Xiong Zhi's singing skill when one of the people shouted something and followed by the the crowd, they chanted.

"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"

When Linfeng heard this , his calm appearance completely broken down. The heat that he tried really hard to suppress rush out in his system. His cheeks were so red so were his ears. He did not even make an eye contact to Xiong Zhi, he grabbed her hand and quickly run away to the building.

The crowd who saw this cheered more, some girls even shrieked .

"Kyaahh! They're so cute! Why the boy is shy? No need to be shy, your even wearing couple shirts!" One of the girl said loudly that Linfeng caught on it before he leaves . and of course, this made him redder. He quickened his steps more, dragging Xiong Zhi.

Xiong Zhi was little taken aback by his sudden action. Why run away? Then she saw how his ears were red. So she asked,

"Are you hurt?" Worried was in her voice couple by series of breath.

Well, they were running, not for Linfeng, but for Xiong Zhi it is.

Linfeng stopped when he realized he was being impolite. He just wanted to be out of that place, to be out of discomfort. He thought by distancing himself with the crowd he could breath. However, hearing her voice made him red again. He put his other hand holding the bags in front of his face. A gesture that he was wiping his forehead with the back of his hand but the truth was , he was using it as cover to his face. Because undoubtedly, his face was red due to the stuffy feeling he has and hyperventilating.

"Ah, no, it was.....hot there...so crowded..need fresh air.." He mumbled incoherently. Ah! his mind! It was not working properly. He never stuttered for he was trained since young to be sharp in any circ.u.mstances. But now....every time he was with Xiong Zhi...he mind would shut for a while.

Xiong Zhi stared at Linfeng. She could not see his expression so she did not know if she hit an arrow to Linfeng's heart like what Song Xuantin said.

It became silent for a while. One was calming himself, thinking of reasons to counter why he should not harbor any thoughts more to what he was guessing he was feeling and what this girl was feeling. All logical reasons, such as she just wanted to sing for someone, she was bored, that there was no meaning in every gesture , and at the same time, equating all his feelings to zero. No result, no profit, nothing, he was feeling nothing...if there's any... it was the aide feeling... He kept reminding it to himself. Which  worked to soothe his panick heart and complicated mind. He regained his usual posture.

On the other hand, Xiong Zhi was contemplating. How many percent did she affect Linfeng with her song today? Did he manage to caught on what she wanted to portray? Xiong Zhi looked at Linfeng. Who at that time had a war on himself .

' Never mind. If he caught it or not, I will just keep going . Even I could not enter his heart hundred percent right now it is OK. 2 or 5 percent is fine. Better to struck the iron while still hot.'

Besides she was not even sure how a song could affect a man.

"Linfeng, There's a food stall that I really want to try-"

Linfeng who was calmed down was clear headed now and more guarded, turned towards  Xiong Zhi. He had a polite smile on his face but his words cut Xiong Zhi.

"Young miss Xiong Zhi, I bet your friends were waiting for us. Maybe we should return first and then we can all try the food you want to taste." He empathize the way he addressed her. Better to cut all the feelings that was sprouting between the two of them. He was not sure how his young miss felt towards him, but he came up with a conclusions and solution. No matter what they felt. Better to stop now.

Xiong Zhi was startled by his action, even it was only a sentence it brought sharp needles in her heart. Prickled her a little. However, it was only a needle, a small object against her big will and steel heart. She could caught on what Linfeng was intending to say. However, would she back down? Too bad, the war was only starting. She had still many plans and tactics to win him over.