Chapter 16 Truly Only A Teenager
Li Xiaolang's body ached all over. Yesterday was not the best day for him but it was the only way to get his mind off things. Everytime he thought of the violet eyed girl continuing to surpass him, he couldn't help but click his tongue in annoyance.
He walked into the dark class early and saw Yingfei at the back, with her arm stretched across the desk, and her head gently sleeping on it. He chuckled silently.
He walked towards his own desk next to hers and sat down. Her sleeping face was facing straight towards him. Most of it was covered with her messily tied up hair and her displaced glasses but he could definitely see that she was anything but ugly. He could even see a little drool threatening to fall but didn't feel disgusted by it at all. In fact, she appeared quite silly, cute even. During this peaceful moment, he didn't want to wake her up in the slightest. He just felt like staring and admiring the girl.
The past few weeks while being in the North have been nothing but stressful. He felt like the only times he'd been at peace or having fun, was when he had spent time with the pure girl.
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ.
He wanted to savour the moment he felt with her while he had the chance. He himself didn't realize he was having such thoughts. But to him, they were just random thoughts towards a normal girl and nothing more.
He never noticed before, but her skin appeared exceptionally smooth, not a blemish in sight. He originally thought it was a given that commoners had bad skin and disproportionate figures, which was why she covered herself the way she did; to hide her insecurities. But maybe she took care of herself more than she let on.
He couldn't really see her figure anyway but it didn't matter. She was fun to be around. Her friend Aiyan wasn't half bad either but Yingfei was definitely the one he felt drawn to.
He just felt like brusing her hair behind her ear, just so that he could watch her sleeping face a little clearer. He struggled with the thought until finally he lifted his hand and gently moved the hair covering her face behind her, slightly brushing her cheek.
The unexpected touch caused Xiaolang to quickly pull his hand away nervously and his face to turn pink. The girl shifted slightly but didn't appear to be waking up at first.
However, as if feeling the strong gaze on her, the originally sleeping girl opened her tired eyes and looked straight back into his.
๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ.
"..Xiaolang?" her sleepy voice gently called his name. She sat up drowsily from her sleeping position and faced him properly. Her face was in complete disarray, her eyes were half open, there was some drool at the side of her lips and her messy hair that he had pushed back seconds earlier had threatened to re-cover her face. Even her glasses had completely fallen off at this point. The classroom was dark, with the only light coming from the window behind her.
Her face was barely visible, but the sun behind her illuminated it enough for him to see her adorable expression.
Xiaolang could feel his face get hot. He felt like he'd seen something he shouldn't have. This was the first time he'd seen her without glasses on yet he couldn't keep his eyes straight. Her eyes were lucid black that looked at him with pure innocence. He looked down in embarrassment and clumsily reached for her fallen glasses.
"Here.." he said softly.
"..Ah. Thank you." Yingfei quickly rubbed her sleepy eyes and took the glasses from his hand, slightly brushing his fingertips.
The feeling of her skin touching his again gave Xiaolang a jolt of electricity. His heart started pounding hard within his chest, the sudden feeling giving him great confusion. He quickly balled his hand into a fist, feeling the hot sensation within his fingertips.
The girl quickly put on her glasses and gave him a silly smile. "Eheh. I guess I fell asleep. Thankfully it was you that saw me."
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด.. ๐ฎ๐ฆ...?
Xiaolang stared at the girl's smile, an alien emotion welling up inside him. Perhaps he was out of his mind, had lack of sleep and wasn't thinking straight. But his balled fist suddenly moved unconsciously towards her lips and wiped the side of it gently, clearing away the drool from her catnap.
"Ah.." after realizing what he had done, he jolted and stood up. "I'm sorry!" he apologized, actually using his normal tone of voice instead of his controlled softer one. He could feel the blood rushing to his head and even the steam bursting out from his red ears.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต.. ๐๐ฉ-๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต??
"Eh? Ah?" the young girl reacted confusedly and touched the side of her lips. She was obviously still half asleep. "Oh! I'm sorry! Hahaha. I must have drooled while I was sleeping again," she giggled naively and beamed at him. "Again, thank god it was you, Xiaolang!"
๐๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ?? He just couldn't understand it.
Seeing her unaffected face, his heart rate slowly calmed down. He sighed in relief to not being taken accountable of what happened but somehow he felt a bit of disappointment from her carefree reaction. He was perplexed. He had just went into her personal space without meaning to and should feel glad she didn't take it to heart. Then what was this bitter feeling? Why did he do such a thing in the first place without feeling disgust? Why did he want a different reaction from her?
He was truly only a teenager, unaware of the reasons behind any of his current emotions.
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