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Chapter 19 – Front Door
Is this a dream, or is it reality?
I was stunned and almost couldn’t maintain the posture of opening the door, my forehead was still half-glued with a fever-reducing patch that had not yet been removed, and my vocal cords seemed to be shaken by this impossible scene, and I couldn't make a sound: Outside the door is… Luo Zhuowei?
She stood quietly in front of me, her hair loosely hanging out at this moment. She tilted her face up to look at me slightly, and the sunset fell on her through the semi-open hallway, creating a soft halo of orange-red color.
The scene in front of me is exactly the same as the beginning of the absurd dream that happened during break time.
Especially under the effect of a low-grade fever, this cloudy sense of déjà vu is intensified into an imagination, and it becomes a follow-up to the dream. The next would be: she should be pulled in by me while staggering through the door, blocking the entryway, and then leaving her mouth completely unable to make a sound other than a whimper.
I frowned, almost falling into this ridiculous fantasy.
Luo Zhuowei, who was watching me, gently raised an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry, I came to your house so suddenly."
The dizziness from reality and dreams mingling together was shattered.
"It's okay, what's the matter?"
Fortunately, my sanity had not been swept away by the fever, so I smiled back politely, raised my empty left hand, tore off the fever-reducing patch on my forehead that was about to fall off, and pinched it in the palm of my hand, and the fingers holding the doorknob tightened a little.
In fact, it is rude to block a girl out of the door and talk to her, but for various reasons, I am not willing to let Luo Zhuowei into the house and sit with me to slowly discuss something.
If I let her into the apartment, I can't guarantee how calm I will be under that kind of stimulus. With such a beautiful girl, being alone with her inside a house with just the two of us, there will not be a guy who will not be moved!
In addition, even if the above rational analysis is not going to happen, the agitation of adolescence has not died down, but rather is about to stir with the energy of a low-grade fever.
Based on these, I don't want Luo Zhuowei to see my embarrassing side.
"After you took leave today, the class issued a very important homework." Luo Zhuowei didn't care about my embarrassment, her demeanor was normal, and I didn't see a trace of embarrassment of coming to a boy’s apartment all alone, and her posture showed the generosity and uprightness of the school goddess that I was familiar with, "I originally wanted to give it to your friend and let him bring it to you, but he had something else to do."
[Lin Haoyuan: I've brought you something, remember to open the door when the doorbell rings in a while.]
Luo Zhuowei's words matched the WeChat message that Lin Haoyuan sent me half an hour ago, and I still maintained a smile on my face, but I had already gritted my teeth, and was already planning Lin Haoyuan’s demise in my heart.
I'll just say, how could this brute, who has always come as he pleases, and never said hello, suddenly be so polite!
“So I took the liberty of bothering you like this. Speaking of this,” Luo Zhuowei pursed her lips slightly, as if observing my expression, and then said with a gentle apology, "Is it troublesome for me to be here?"
"No, on the contrary, I’m the one who is bothering you. You still had to come here after school.” I shook my head and took the initiative to reach out to her first, "It's almost dark now, I'll help you call a taxi to take you back."
For some reason, Luo Zhuowei's expression became a little hesitant, as if she wanted to say something to me, but I was still tired and didn't notice her unspoken words: "Never mind.”
She took out a neatly folded set of papers from her schoolbag and handed it to me: "Here you go."
There was a thunderclap.
With a low cry from Luo Zhuowei, the papers fell to the ground.
The sound of torrential rain soon came.
At the moment when the thunder exploded, I saw Luo Zhuowei's shoulders visibly tremble.
"Luo Zhuowei, are you okay?" I didn't care about the paper that I wouldn't actually look at all, and asked with some concern, subconsciously reaching out to hold her shoulder, but stopped in mid-air because of the sudden realization that this move is impolite, "Are you scared?"
“I’m fine.”
Luo Zhuowei whispered half a beat slowly, if it weren't for the fact that I was still close to her, her voice would have drifted in the incredibly loud rain.
"Then, I'll go back first." Somewhat flustered, she picked up the paper and slipped it into my hand, nodding to me.
There was still a shallow layer of water in her eyes, and it was obvious that her fear had not faded yet.
It shouldn't be like this
The string called sanity, which was constantly being tightened, had begun to quietly be pulled.
I actually understand that this shouldn't be the case, but I was losing to the bottom line that I have put up for myself and succumbing to it step by step.
"Wait a minute, Luo Zhuowei." Just as Luo Zhuowei was about to turn away, I stopped her and turned slightly to the side, revealing the entrance that had been blocked by me.
“If you don't mind, come and sit down for a while, and I'll send you back when the rain is a little lighter.”
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