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Finally back to the original days, with Xuyouning promoted to the second year of junior high school, she has become close with her classmates. She still goes to school with Chen Jiahan, who is already a third-year student. However, Chen Jiahan, as a graduating class student, has an extra class, so Xuyouning waits for him in her own classroom to do homework, etc.
Waiting for the boy standing in the classroom doorway against the backdrop of the evening glow.
"Xu Youning, come home." He always carries snacks in his hand, the taro bread she likes, the orange soda she likes, or the mango-flavored lollipop she likes.
He would also buy her snacks on the way home from school, saying it's his reward for making her wait for him.
Until Chen Jiahan entered high school and Xu Youning entered the third year of junior high, he still went home every day and waited for Xu Youning at the school gate where she attended evening classes. She said, "This is not on your way home anymore." He said, "You are still a young girl, and our grandparents are still worried about you."
They both lived on the second floor of the house and would call out to each other from that distance, knowing each other's bedtime.
At that time, he and she were really close.
Until her graduation from junior high school, until her sudden disappearance without a word.
It was a sudden decision by her parents to transfer her back to their city after graduating from junior high school. They felt that she was about to enter high school and needed to study under their supervision. It also eased their work. There was no hesitation, no discussion. They felt this was the best arrangement and swiftly took her away. They didn't wait for her to finish school or say goodbye to her. They disappeared suddenly from her world.
Grandpa and grandma also moved to the city where her parents live for the convenience of taking care of her.
They all left the small town called Xicheng.
She lost contact with him.
Later I learned that it was also in that year when Grandma Chen passed away in a rainy day accident.
He really was the only one left.
Grandpa and grandma both say he is a pitiful child. His parents' relationship is not good, his father is not working properly, he drinks, smokes, and gambles, and fools around with other people outside. He has been in a state of uncertainty. His mother has already remarried and has her own new life, carrying resentment towards his father and no feelings towards him. She does not want him to affect her stable life now.
For his mother, leaving is a relief.
But him, no one has ever thought about him, they all left him outside of their world, only Grandma Chen, but she's gone too.
He really is a child that no one wants.
When I was a child, all kids were especially afraid of becoming unwanted, feeling like the sky was falling on their heads. That kind of fear was indescribable.
She didn't know about his fear.
When Xuyou Ning entered the new school, the town called Xicheng became a memory, but she still cherished everything about that town - the school's evening glow, the snacks on the way home from school, the colorful vegetable garden, the kitchen with the smell of firewood, the windows that revealed the furnishings, and the poor boy...
But as she grew up, she gradually forgot, or perhaps time passed, and so many other things swept in, burying that memory deep down, covering it tightly, not revealing even a hint of its edges.
Just occasional bumps, will be shaken out of a moment of traces, revealing striking colors.
Nostalgia will also be reduced in frequency by the passage of time, eventually becoming zero.
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