Stargazing with You

Chapter 4 The Forest of Fireflies

After being obsessed with skateboarding for a while, Bai Ying became obsessed with tennis again in the second year of junior high school. This sport was too unpopular in our school, and I couldn’t find a partner. Play basketball.He said that you can't reach the basket if you stack the two, what kind of basketball do you play.I'm pissed off:

"Why can't I reach the two when I stack them?"

"You are only 1.6 meters tall now, and you are only [-] meters tall when stacked. The height of the basket is [-] meters, of course you can't reach it." Bai Ying said.

I was stunned for a moment, but I didn't expect: "...the basket is so high?"

Bai Ying let out an "um" and shrugged her shoulders sympathetically.

God knows how I was fooled by his rumors for a long time. I didn't know the height of the basket was only three meters "zero" five when I was in high school!When I think of how I foolishly believed in his evil, I wish I could dunk myself into the hoop. Bai Ying must have laughed wildly in my heart at that time, thinking that I, a basketball player, don't even know how high the hoop is!

This is the most hateful thing, I have never doubted the words from his mouth, how can he play with my feelings like this? !

On the way back from school, we bought two hot dogs for a while, watched the square dance for a while, and wandered in the video store for a while. During this time, Bai Ying found all kinds of reasons to convince me that there were too many people playing basketball and it was noisy. , Tennis just the two of us, quiet.

I said you want to be quiet, why don't you stay at home and study the code?

"Try again? Do you want me to sign for you to highlight the key points?"

When I mentioned this, I was not happy: "Don't keep threatening me with this, let me tell you that if I play tennis with you, it is not because of this."

"What's that for?"

"Why else? Think about it yourself. I've been with you for so many years. Can it be just because you signed for me to highlight the key points?"

He glanced at the girl group DVD on the shelf, and looked at me suspiciously: "Why, you still covet my beauty? I don't have an Opie."

I blushed: "Bah! You narcissist!"

Bai Ying has a personality that will not give up until he achieves his goal. For example, if I say tennis rackets are expensive, he will say I will buy them for you.

I just said I want to look like Djokovic.

"It's not bad to buy it for you, you still choose."

"I didn't rely on you to be your training partner."

Bai Ying rolled her eyes and said, "Understood, Djokovic, don't even look at how far you are from Djokovic."

I followed him and rolled my eyes, aren't you two or three centimeters taller than me, what a fart!Sure enough, Bai Ying gave me a Djokovic racket, that racket was really beautiful, I was a fool at that time, and I couldn't stand the corrosion of sugar-coated bullets, so I happily went to play tennis with him.We practiced for two months, and Bai Ying was already able to draw with the tennis coach. He was very athletic, and I played so-so.

When he won the coach for the first time, I said it was all my fault.

Bai Ying said: "It's true, you either missed the net or brushed the net. I had to run all over the court to catch your ball." He put away the tennis bag while talking, put it on his back and looked up at the sky, feeling deeply moved One time, "an opponent who is like a pig is often a partner who is like a god."

Sometimes I really want to do something that ruins everything...

Bai Ying has too many hobbies, and I can't keep up with him. Not long after he fell in love with tennis, he became fond of collecting plant and insect specimens. He asked me to go to the forest on the mountain to catch fireflies together, when I was playing with my liver.I made an excuse that the mountain was too far away, and the bus and subway would be charged when I came back at night. He said yes and ended the call.I thought he had given up on this plan. Two days later, when I came back from my grandfather’s house, I saw a very cool white mountain bike parked downstairs, but it had a pink back seat that didn’t match. I thought to myself It's for the girls.

When I got home, I picked up the mountain bike I saw downstairs with my mother. The old mother who was drying clothes on the balcony said without looking back: "That bike is Baiying's." I spit out a mouthful of water.

Sure enough, Bai Ying's call came in the afternoon, and I saw him riding a mountain bike downstairs waiting for me from the balcony, squatting on the ground along the balcony in agony, thinking that this guy can do anything to achieve his goal, When there's an obstacle he fixes it, it's scary!I must never offend him in the future!

When I went downstairs, I looked at the hard pink rear seat and my butt was sore. I asked him why he got a pink one. He said that he might use it to carry his girlfriend in the future. I said unconvinced that it is now Take me.

He said carelessly: "Then you can blacken it with a marker pen."

"..."

I sat behind him that day and asked him if you could ride?Bai Ying said that when you said that, I thought I was carrying a man with a height of 1.8 meters, but it was just a bean sprouts with a height of 1.6 meters.I said I am 1.6 meters eight, rounded up to 1.7 meters!Aren't you only 1.7 meters!Bai Ying immediately changed the subject and ordered me to hold on, I put my hand on his back and said let's go, Your Highness~~

If someone calls me His Royal Highness, I have to beat him up, only Bai Ying, who enjoys the word prince very much, when you scold him, he is crazy and he will not let you go, and he is probably sick if you scold him will forgive you.

It was already evening when we arrived in the forest, and it was unrealistic to go up the mountain by bicycle, so we walked up the mountain with our mountain bikes. When we entered the forest, night had already fallen, and there were no lights in the woods. Bai Ying took a small flashlight and led me to the forest. Go deeper and deeper inside.I held the net for him, and when there was no light in the surroundings except his light source, I was also a little scared. I pulled his clothes and said that we should go, maybe the fireflies had already fallen asleep.

Bai Ying turned her head impatiently, and shone a flashlight on my face: "Are you talking to a three-year-old child? If you don't want to accompany me, go down the mountain by yourself."

I turned away the glaring flashlight, looked back at the direction I was looking at, and asked uncomfortably: "Then what should you do if I leave alone?"

Bai Ying turned her head: "Do you really want to run?"

"Isn't this too infiltrating in the woods? I heard that there was a case of dumping corpses here. It's so evil!"

"Really?" Bai Ying's eyes were not scared at all, he thought it was interesting, and the next sentence was, "If you can't see fireflies, maybe you can see ghosts and ghosts, then this trip is not in vain~"

I thought to myself, prince, please forgive me: "I will accompany you to the top of the mountain to watch the stars, the visibility is good tonight!"

He kept walking into the depths of the forest, stepping on the dead leaves and turf, making the rustling sound even more pervasive: "Why do you like stars so much? Are you a girl?"

"Hawking also likes stars!" I said.

Bai Ying stopped in her tracks, shone the flashlight into the distance, and said to me, "There are stars here."

Before I understood it, he turned off the flashlight with a "slap", and my eyes were blackened immediately, which really scared me, and I was about to scold my mother: "Bai Ying, if you dare to scare me—"

I was pushed on the back by him, turned around, and suddenly saw the fireflies scattered in the distance.

It was not obvious at first, but as the eyes got used to the darkness, they lit up little by little, until yellow fireflies lit up the whole forest like stars.The scene was very dreamy, and I didn't blame him for playing a prank at once. Because of this beautiful scene I had seen in TV movies, I also felt that this trip with him was worthwhile.

"Give me the net." Bai Ying said.

I couldn't bear it: "You really want to catch fireflies?"

"if not?"

"Just... let them fly freely here." I said, "We can see them again next year."

"It's not that I want to massacre fireflies. I just catch two or three and bring them back. Besides, they won't fly until next year, and they will die in a few days."

I was taken aback by Bai Ying's inadvertent introduction, "Huh? Really?"

"Well, so give me the net..."

I looked at these fireflies, and my heart sank. When Bai Ying's hand was about to grab the net, I ran away: "I want the net to chase me!"

"Jiang Hyuk!!"

Bai Ying, who was left behind by me, was furious, and I could imagine His Royal Highness rolling up his sleeves and trying to deal with me at the expense of his character.

The woods are so dark, he couldn't easily catch up with me, but after a while I heard him shout:

"If you run around, be careful not to step on the snake!!"

I rely on this guy to pinch my life!Immediately, the scene of encountering a snake in the community when I was in elementary school came to my mind. I blamed our community for its good ecological environment. I remember that day was after nightfall in summer, and it was precisely on the hillside behind the community. We were I don't remember why, when I saw the black coiled object in the grass, I didn't sound the alarm for the first time, until one end of the black coiled object suddenly lifted up, and I realized what it was , I was scared out of my wits and stood on the spot in a daze.I just remember that Bai Ying ran up to grab my hand and said to me, "I count three two one, close your eyes and we turn around together", my whole body was petrified, he counted to one, grabbed my hand hard, I closed my eyes reflexively, and turned around with him straight.

It was true when he saved me, and he is really not stingy at all with scaring me now. When he said there was a snake, I immediately felt that there were black discs lurking everywhere, and I didn’t dare to move even half a step. up.But I didn't want to return the net used to torture fireflies to the executioner, so I threw it far away with all my strength.

Bai Ying caught up, picked up my clothes from behind, and said to run again? ... Where is the net?

I said throw it away, if you have one, you can find it yourself.

The two of us stood there, surrounded by dark tree shadows, only fireflies like little stars circled around us.So friendly, so beautiful, I don't know why he wants to kill them.

Bai Yingye's eyesight is better than mine, and I'm afraid that he will find the net that I threw in front of me. After all, I can see where the insect net landed, so it will be easier for him to find it.But for some reason, he seems to accept the fact that I threw the net away. I think maybe he really didn’t see it. In fact, I may not really see it. It’s just because I threw the net. Where is the son, I don't really see it.

In the end, Bai Ying didn't do anything to me, he took the next best thing to take a few photos of fireflies, and left sullenly.

When we went down the mountain, we finally didn’t have to walk, we could ride bikes. The air in the forest area was surprisingly good. The mountain bikes slid along the winding mountain road, and the evening wind was blowing. I looked at Bai Ying’s white shirt that was blown by the wind, and said Bai Ying , I will accompany you in everything, why don't you accompany me?

Bai Ying said that your hobbies are too vulgar, either porn comics or porn games.

I said, why are shonen comics called porn comics, and do you believe it or not when I tell people that Overwatch is a porn game, fans can beat your head swollen?

Bai Ying snorted and ignored me.

I know he has his moments of cowardice.

Although he failed to catch fireflies and take them home to abuse him that day, I felt that he was not in a bad mood. There was a pearl-like moon above our heads, and the city’s lights were at the foot of the mountain. Even though the mountain road was not bright, he still rode on such a Hurry up, I'm not afraid at all, and I feel a little poetic, but I can't write poetry.

I said, "Bai Ying, I want to sing."

The prince held his neck high and said yes.

I sang a song I heard recently, I only remember the chorus, but I thought it fit the occasion.

I can

accompany you to see the stars

I don't need to say any more I want to be with you

I do not want

separated from you again

How I miss every beauty is because of you*

That day I was 15 years old in one month, and Bai Ying was 15 years old in three days. Both of us knew half of everything and were curious about everything, which is the so-called middle school age.

*Cai Minwoo "I Can"