Insufficient balance
The time for the third year of junior high school has entered its final stage. The countdown to the middle school entrance examination on the blackboard in the classroom is changing day by day, with smaller and smaller numbers.
Most students are working hard for their first important exam in life.
Under China's exam-oriented education system, the results of exams are like the pulse of life, and the high or low scores often determine the direction of most people's future lives.
Li Jingru sat at her desk, constantly copying notes during class made Li Jingru's eyes a bit dry. At this time, Li Jingru looked out the window of the classroom to the corridor, letting her eyes rest slowly.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in the constant stream of people walking through the corridor, causing Li Jing's heart to skip a beat.
That figure is so familiar. Li Jingruo could feel him even in the midst of those bustling crowds. The owner of that figure was Lin Xiaoyu, the boy who had grown up playing with Li Jingruo since childhood.
Li Jingru felt that Lin Xiaoyu had changed and become more subdued. The lively and cheerful Lin Xiaoyu seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of melancholy, making Li Jingru feel somewhat estranged.
At this time, Lin Xiaoyu had already walked out of Li Jingru's classroom. He didn't notice at all that there was a concerned gaze watching him in the classroom he had just passed by, just like he didn't know that there was a girl who had fallen deeply in love with him...
Li Jingru's gaze remained fixed on the window, even though Lin Xiaoyu's figure had long since passed by.
Li Jingru knew why Lin Xiaoyu had become somewhat silent. Li Jingru knew that Lin Xiaoyu became like this because of a beautiful girl named Murong Huimin.
A scene she didn't want to recall appeared in Li Jingru's mind:
In the parking shed, Lin Xiaoyu sat on his bicycle, and on the red mountain bike that Li Jingru had ridden countless times, a girl named Murong Huimin was sitting with her head gently leaning against Lin Xiaoyu's chest. Lin Xiaoyu lowered his head to kiss the girl who was slightly tilting her head back. This romantic and happy scene pierced into Li Jingru's heart like a sharp sword, making Li Jingru's heart slowly bleed.
Xiao Yu fell in love, the person she liked fell in love, but the one they loved was not her. Li Jingru felt like her brain was spinning around...
After Lin Xiaoyu rode away on her bike with Murong Huimin, carrying a happy smile. Li Jingru silently walked out of the school building's corridor to her own bicycle. Li Jingru had already forgotten that she was here waiting for Lin Xiaoyu to go home together...
Li Jingru felt that her originally dry eyes now seemed to have some kind of turmoil. Li Jingru slightly raised her head upwards. Li Jingru didn't want others to see the tears that were about to flow out of her eyes.
First kiss. Li Jingru thought of the scene where Lin Xiaoyu kissed that girl named Murong Huimin, and a picture that had been hidden in her heart for a long time appeared.
At that time, Li Jingru was ten years old.
Lin Xiaoyu is also ten years old.
Two naive children were watching TV together at home without their parents. When they saw the male and female leads embracing and kissing passionately on screen, the two children exchanged a curious glance.
After discussing it with each other, the two children decided to try out what those two people on TV were doing and see how kissing felt.
Then, two childish faces leaned together, and two small lips were pressed together.
When the two children parted with a smile, Li Jingru felt that kissing didn't have any special feeling. It was only when Lin Xiaoyu's small mouth kissed her own that she felt a hint of sweetness.
Is this a kiss? Li Jingru, who grew up slowly, never forgot that one kiss. And Li Jingru always regarded Lin Xiaoyu as the prince who took away her first kiss.
But the prince who took away the princess's first kiss did not fall in love with the princess and didn't even know that the princess loved him.
Originally, two lips coming together didn't have much meaning. It was like a light handshake. But that magical love gave the kiss special meaning.
Li Jingru felt that her tears had slowly stopped swirling in her eyes, and she slowly lowered her head. Li Jingru's gaze fell on the countdown timer for the exam on the blackboard. There was less than a month left before she would end her three years of junior high school life. Li Jingru didn't know which middle school Lin Xiaoyu would be attending, and she hadn't filled out any application forms because she wanted to attend the same school as Lin Xiaoyu.
To Li Jingru, any school is almost the same, the only difference is whether this school has a classmate named Lin Xiaoyu.
Li Jingru didn't want to see Lin Xiaoyu's current state of being uninterested in anything, this was a side of Lin Xiaoyu that Li Jingru had never seen before in all the years she had known her.
Lin Xiaoyu's mother, Ke Auntie, also asked herself what was going on with Lin Xiaoyu lately, and she always felt that something was off about him. But Li Jingru couldn't explain it, she couldn't say that Lin Xiaoyu had become like this because of his girlfriend's transfer, so Li Jingru could only find an excuse to brush it off.
Li Jingru wanted to help Lin Xiaoyu get out of this state, but Li Jingru couldn't find a way to start talking, and she herself was also a little trapped in the mist of love.
At the age of fifteen, the flower season is always accompanied by various disturbances that plague the hearts of young boys and girls. It's as if a rainstorm with autumn winds keeps pouring down on this world of flowers, again and again. This somewhat long but fleeting autumn rain will never return, and after it passes, countless beautiful petals will be scattered all over the ground, just like those broken and fragmented hearts...
PS: It's the graduation season now. This season always floats with a hint of sadness in the air, making people think of past events. Life goes on, and there is no banquet that doesn't disperse under heaven.
