Long Qi went to the attic and first patiently knocked gently on the door with her index knuckle, there was no sound inside, she hovered at the door with her arms in her arms, then knocked twice with her knuckles, followed by three times.
Snap!
She tapped on the door with her palm.
But she couldn't shout her name, and if she did, she would draw attention to herself, and with fire welling up in her heart, she tapped the door three times again, with a crisp rhythm.
Finally, there was the sound of someone slowly walking towards the inside, and Long Qi waited for the door to open with bated breath.
Four minutes, from the time she knocked on the door to now a full four minutes ah four minutes, four minutes in the head of the person is doing? Normal people from hearing the sound to open the door for at most ten seconds, four minutes can do how many things? Put on a dress? Put on pants?
The door handle clicked and turned.
She immediately faced the door and saw Jin Yiken when the door was slightly open. She pushed the door inward with a snap and Jin Yiken was pushed against the wall, she glared at him while walking in, but then, Bai Ai Ting's voice came from inside.
"Long Qi?"
She stopped dead in her tracks.
The attic was a small studio with curtains drawn, the light was dim, Bai Aiting was standing by the sofa with his face flushed and his collar a little open, while Jin Yiken was standing silently by the door.
When Long Qi looked back at him, he gestured to her with no expression! Boring!"
"Long Qi." Bai Aiting called her.
She stopped at the door and took a hidden breath.
"What exactly do you have against me?"
Bai Aiting asked this, Bai Aiting actually asked this, Long Qi dryly laughed twice, turned back and said, "Where can I be upset with you? I have nothing to do with you at all, okay?"
"But you have hostility towards me, I can feel it."
"Ai Ting." Jin Yiken spoke up.
"Every time I post a status, you post an insinuating status, I don't know what exactly have I done to piss you off?"
Long Qi said, "You're pulling the tab with me now?"
"Yes!" Bai Aiting's voice suddenly got louder.
Long Qi walked towards her, Jin Yiken didn't even pull her back, the two were face to face at once, Long Qi told her, "Who sneered at me in front of Zhuo Qing when I met him? Who spread the content of my chat with him into your girl group? Who said that the instructor's visit to the sick during military training was an hour alone with the instructor? When I had an appendicitis attack, the instructor brought a female school nurse to see me, and you were the only one who saw me when I returned to the dorm because my stomach was not feeling well. I'm asking you what's wrong with me! What did I do to you that you said that to me at the beginning of the new school year! "
Long Qi said a word Bai Ai Ting's chest heaving vigorously once, she gasped a quick response: "I only told one or two people about that! And also said is not sure! The versions that were passed around later were not from me!"
"Then why didn't you just keep your mouth shut in the first place? It's like you pushed me onto the road and a car happened to come and chuck me out, do I blame the car or you?"
Jin Yiken saw that this situation could not be persuaded, so he simply closed the door to soundproof, Bai Aiting shouted: "Then you do not need to sleep with my boyfriend!
As soon as she shouted out, Jin Yiken looked over, and the hostility in Long Qi's eyes was slightly restrained, and the only sound in the gray room was the light and shadow of the curtain and Bai Aiting's excited breathing.
Her eyes were red as she pointed at Long Qi and looked at Jin Yiken, choking on a sob, "Do you know that she has been bullying me? Long Qi, has been bullying me!"
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"Jin Yiken I know you don't have feelings for me, you never even kiss me of your own accord, but can you at least save me some face in front of her, we are going to get married in the future ah."
When really endured a long time, she said, while crying out: "I know you love to play, your heart can not be collected, I never say a word of redundancy, but also to cover for you to Uncle Jin Jin aunt, now gone a dragon seven and came a Dong Xi, I admit that I panicked also did something wrong, but now I took the initiative for you to ask Dong Xi, I do not want to face in front of the whole school, why do you just Why can't you care a little more about me, Jin Yiken? Huh?"
Long Qi tried to walk away and Bai Aiting grabbed her shoulder, causing her to crash into the back of the sofa.
"What I hurt you is out of proportion to what you hurt me, do you know that now? You have no right to blame me, no right to boss me around!"
Jin Yiken stopped Bai Aiting, Long Qi held the sofa back to look at her, Bai Aiting turned to hug Jin Yiken's waist, buried into his arms and cried.
Long Qi suppressed the emotions in her heart and said after a while, "I'm sorry."
But also said, "But obviously you will only blame me alone, not this scum, so I won't say anything else, I only feel sorry for you, but I don't sympathize with you at all."
As she was about to leave, Jin Yiken grabbed her hand.
He still had Bai Aiting in his arms, but he held her hand firmly, the three figures stood still in the projection, Long Qi took a deep breath, closed her eyes and wrenched his hand away, then walked away wordlessly.
When I left the villa, I finally saw Dong Xi under the wisteria shelf through the fence.
She was sitting alone, with her hands on either side of her body, head down, touching the leaves on the ground with her toes, the wind blowing, blowing her long hair behind her shoulders.
Long Qi watched her through the fence, the state of her eyes is very peaceful, really peaceful, the whole villa and courtyard as if the restlessness has nothing to do with her, as long as she wants, a person seems to be able to stay all afternoon.
Long Qi looked and watched, his eyes got red.
And Dong Xi unintentionally glanced out into the courtyard, saw the seven across the fence, she stood up from the rattan chair.
Long Qi's eyes were sore, and Dong Xi looked at each other across the hedge planted with green bushes, like ah, really like her, but the more I like the harder it is, I can only withdraw my eyes and continue walking, Dong Xi stayed in the courtyard watching her side until out of sight.
An hour later, Long Qi came out of the public bathroom on the street and sat down on a wooden chair by the flower garden.
It was going to rain and pedestrians were walking fast, just the sound of footsteps, cars, and wind swirling leaves were all buzzing in her ears, she took her cell phone from her bag, searched for people one by one in her address book, found the number with the word "mom" and pressed the dial button to her ear.
A bus rolled across the road in front of her in a cloud of dust.
She said, "Mom."
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"Are you busy?"
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"No. There's enough money to go around, and I'm making my own, as I told you."
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"Hmm."
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She looked at the overcast sky while on the phone, "Mom."
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"Can I come and stay with you for two days?"
As she said that, a drop of rain snapped on her forehead, then her shoulders and knees felt the cool rain in turn, pedestrians picked up their pace, and the road began to jam with cars honking harshly.
"No," she continued, plopping her right leg up, "just missed you."
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"Hmm."
Waiting for the other party to hang up before putting the phone down, she leaned back into the wet back of the chair and sat alone in the rain, resting her arm on her crossed right leg.
She had the bag on her knee, which revealed a pregnancy test stick.
There were two clear purplish lines in the stick's viewing window.
Two lines.