The next morning, Hongzi was woken up by a phone call.
"Mother……"
"We're home. Is Hongzi going to come back?"
"Uh...eh?"
She opened her eyes completely and felt much more awake, "Are you back?"
Looking at the window, the curtains were tightly pulled, and it was difficult to tell the time. She took off her phone and looked at it again, only then she realized that it was almost ten o'clock in the morning.
"Hongzi won't sleep until now, right?"
The person on the other end of the phone was replaced by his sister Aoko, "What did you do last night? You can't be with Zong Gujun... It hurts so much! Mom! Your ears are about to fall off!"
"What nonsense?"
Mrs. Yoshikawa took her cell phone back and said, "Go home to have lunch. I brought a lot of fruits and vegetables from my grandmother's house, all of which are Hongzi's favorites."
"I see……"
The phone hung up, Hongzi was stunned for a while after watching the time on her phone, and then looked to the side.
This is the room upstairs, and Akane Kirino has disappeared and has already gotten up.
When did she come up last night?
Hongzi had no impression, and only remembered that she was alone in the living room below until late at night.
When she got up and changed her clothes, walked out of the room, and passed by the next door, she heard the conversation inside.
Akane Kirino is inside.
After hesitating for a moment, Hongzi opened the door of Zonggu's room.
“…”
The two of them looked over at the same time and stopped the topic just now.
Very close.
Sitting too close.
Have you confessed?
No, it can't be so fast.
What was Akane laughing at again? Was she talking about her just now?
When they all knew it, pretended to like that...
Hongzi shook her head and cleared the distracting thoughts that appeared in her head in an instant.
"Good morning……"
"It's still early, it's almost ten o'clock." Soya looked at her, "but you don't seem to have enough sleep."
"It's okay." Hongzi walked into the room, "Mom called and woke me up."
"Hongko's family has returned?" Akane Kirino looked at her.
"Um……"
Hongzi squeezed out a smile at her, "I'm going home later and come over after lunch."
Akane Kirino nodded.
When the two looked at each other, she tilted her head again, "Hmm?"
“…”
This way, there should be no confession yet?
Hongzi shook her head, "It's okay."
"Are you hungry? Go down and eat something casually." Zong Gu said.
"good."
The three of them went downstairs, Soya went to the kitchen, and Akane Kirino and Hongko sat in the living room.
“…”
There were a lot of tissues piled on the table, and they were tearful last night, but they were already dry at this time.
Why are you still here?
Hongzi quickly cleaned up and threw it all into the trash can.
Akane Kirino looked at her, "Hongko..."
"It's okay!"
Hongzi threw away the last ball of tissue, "It is easy to feel sad at night, and I accidentally cried for a while... It's really okay now."
Akane Kirino expressed understanding.
"Don't tell Soya."
“Hey…”
"It's very embarrassing."
"But he already knows."
Hongzi pursed her lower lip and looked at her: "Did Akane tell him?"
Before she woke up, the two of them were talking about her in the next room.
"No." Akane Kirino shook her head, "Soya saw it himself."
She clicked on the table, "Hongzi still remembers she fell asleep here last night? It was Sun Gu who carried you up."
Hongzi was stunned for a while, "Is that true?"
No wonder she doesn't have the impression of going upstairs by herself.
“——That’s it.”
Zong Gu came over with a plate of snacks, "You slept so hard that you didn't wake up even when you carried it upstairs."
“…”
Hongzi looked at him for a while, "Is it morning?"
"It's past one o'clock in the morning." Akane Kirino said, "I was already asleep at that time. Soya came in with Hongzi in. I didn't wake up either. He told me in the morning."
Zong Gu put down the plate and pushed it in front of her: "Eat something casually."
Hongzi picked up a piece of snack, "Did Zong Gu not sleep at that time?"
He glanced at her, "Ling said you're downstairs."
“…”
Hongzi didn't say anything, stuffed the snacks into her mouth and chewed them one by one.
"I'll go and pour a drink." Akane Kirino got up and went to the kitchen.
"What happened last night?" asked Zong Gu.
“…”
Hongzi pretended not to hear it.
"When I hugged Hongzi upstairs, you were crying while calling my name."
"Impossible!" she blurted out.
"So, what happened last night."
“…”
She stopped talking again.
Akane Kirino returned to the living room with the drink, and then she quickly whispered, "Don't worry."
Zong Gu raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
After eating a few snacks and drinking half a drink, Hongzi said she wanted to go home.
"Don't forget to bring the Alps home," said Zonggu.
Akane Kirino also reminded, "There are also dog food in the Alpine."
"Um."
Holding Shiba Inu, Hongzi was about to pick up a bag of dog food on the side of the fate, and Soya stretched out his hand first.
"It's very heavy, I'll get it back for you."
“…”
She did not refuse.
"Soya will remember to go home later." Akane Kirino sent the two out, "Or I wouldn't have lunch."
"Then you'll just come to Hongzi's house for lunch too."
"I'm very embarrassed to come to have lunch..."
"Then you have the nerve to let me come back."
"Who asked Sonoko to live in my house...ah." Akane Kirino suddenly remembered Hongko's words last night, "Songko is going to live in Hongko's house today?"
"Um?"
"Cancel!" Hongzi said quickly.
Zong Gu glanced at her.
"Cancel?" Akane Kirino asked.
Hongzi became weaker and weaker the more she explained. She pretended not to notice the sight that Zong Gu had cast, so she had to perfunctorily: "Let's talk about it when I come here in the afternoon..."
"All right."
He led Alps away from Kirino's old house. As soon as he turned the intersection, Sogo grabbed her.
"I want to live in Hongzi's house?"
“…just a joke.”
"What a joke."
"Don't worry."
Soya's hand fell down, holding it with hers, "But I will care."
At around 1 a.m., Chao Wuling told Hongzi to be alone in the living room downstairs. What he went downstairs was the scene of her lying on the table and crying. She piled up half of the table with tissues for wiping tears.
"Hongzi's eyes were swollen from crying."
“…”
She immediately raised her hand and touched her eyes, her fingertips touched the foundation of her eyes, and closed her eyes in pain.
"Is it obvious?"
"Um."
Hongzi hesitated on the spot, "I can't go home..."
The dog leash in his hand was stretched straight, and Alps looked back at the two stops in front.
"Then go back."
Zong Gu let go of her hand, took the leash from the other hand, and turned around and walked back.
After walking a few steps, he turned around and Hongzi was still standing there.
"No...it's better go home."
After looking at her, Zong Gu was back.
After taking a few steps, Hongzi followed and followed behind him.
"Did she say anything to Hongzi?"
"No."
"Then you cry so badly."
"I met someone wrong when I cried."
Zong Gu looked at the sky.
Walking the next corner, she speeded up and took the leash from him.
"When I get home later, I will say it's the problem of Mei Tong, so don't say anything."
Zong Gu has not submitted any permission.
After walking for a while, Hongzi turned to look at him: "What did Akane and Soya talk about in the room before."
"Nothing to talk about."
“…”
"Do you care a lot?"
She turned around and said, "If you don't say it, forget it."
"I talked about Hongzi."
She stopped again.
And Zong Gu just looked at her and didn't mean to continue talking.
He didn't speak, she looked at him for a while, and did not ask, and then walked forward.
"She said Hongzi..."
"You really hate it!"
The Alps were startled and stopped and looked back.
"Can Hongzi understand my mood now?" Zong Gu came over and held her hand, "I don't know anything, I care too."
“…”
She bit her lip and her eyes turned red again.
"I didn't say anything to her, I was just chatting." Soya said, "There weren't much talk about Hongzi. Kirino just said he cared about your condition..."
Hongzi lowered her head and said after a while: "Akane hasn't confirmed her feelings yet."
He was not surprised, "Yeah."
"What Akane wants to do now is to confirm whether she likes Soya's feelings...and then consider the confession."
He nodded, and Hongzi heard another "fool" who seemed to be there and there.
She raised her head, and he was looking at her, "Then how did she plan to confirm?"
"have no idea."
Zong Gu thought about it again and met her eyes: "Will she say this? Do you still don't know what Hongzi wants?"
“…”
Hongzi pursed her lips.
"I see."
He almost understood.
All the bad expectations that had turned a blind eye were now realized one by one, and in front of Akane Kirino, Hongko chose to give in as if she was evasive.
"Let's go."
She turned around and walked, leading the Alps forward.
Soya quickly followed.
Walking out of the alley, Yoshikawa's family is right in front.
Hongzi stopped at the entrance of the alley, took out her cell phone as a mirror, and looked at her face, especially her eyes.
“It’s not obvious…”
The redness and swelling in her eyes was not as exaggerated as he said. She breathed a little relieved, but she still felt a little painful when touched.
"If you don't want to go over, I can take it myself." She wanted to take the dog food in his hand again.
Zong Gu shook his head and hid back.
Hongzi didn't say anything, put away her phone and walked towards her home.
When I arrived at the Yoshikawa home, the Alps regained their freedom and turned around in the yard where I had been separated for a few days, smelling every strange smell.
"Just put it here." Hongzi pointed at the door.
Zong Gu put down the dog food and was about to say something when the door suddenly opened.
"Zonggujun..."
Mrs. Yoshikawa was a little surprised, "Long time no see."
"Long time no see, Mrs. Yoshikawa."
She looked at her daughter again and frowned quickly, "Hongzi, why are your eyes swollen?"
"It's not because of Soya."
“…”
Zong Gu looked at Hongzi, and she looked at him:
"Songgu got a pair of beautiful children from somewhere and insisted that I try to wear them. As a result, after wearing them, my eyes were itchy and painful, and I kept crying... and I became like this."
It turns out that it still has to be counted on him.
Soya said nothing else, bent down to apologize, "I'm really sorry."
“…”
Mrs. Yoshikawa looked at her two children and didn't really want to pay attention to their singing and harmony.
"It's okay, Hongzi will cry sooner or later because of Zong Gujun, I have foreseeed it."
“…”
Zong Gu was about to straighten his waist, but he bent down again, and his head lowered a little.
"Mother!"
Mrs. Yoshikawa just smiled at her daughter, "Come in, so is So Soya."
"No." He still straightened up, "I almost deserve to go back."
Hongzi looked at him and said, "I still can't go there in the afternoon, let's talk about it tomorrow... let's talk about it."
Zong Gu looked over, she avoided his gaze and looked at her home: "What did Mom bring back from the countryside? You must not finish eating it, just half of Zong Gu."
"Half or something..."
After he asked him to wait for a while, Mrs. Yoshikawa turned around and went to the kitchen.
"Are you sure you won't come in the afternoon?"
"Um."
She likes the smiles of her friends, but she is afraid that she will see them blooming in the moment she confirms her feelings. The feeling of waiting for fate to be executed makes her feel very distressed. It will at least feel a little better when she stays at her own home.
"I've been waiting for a long time."
Mrs. Yoshikawa came out with a large bag of vegetables, "It's a bit heavy, can Soya Jun take it?"
Zong Gu immediately took it, his hand sank: "Too many..."
"I just accept it, you're welcome."
"Thanks……"
He looked at Hongzi again, and he picked up the vegetables and said goodbye to Yoshikawa and his daughter.
"Zonggujun has gone far."
“…”
Hongzi closed the door and returned to the house.
"What happened?" Mrs. Yoshikawa asked, looking at her daughter.
"Nothing." Hongzi didn't stop downstairs and went back to his room.
"Hongzi--"
The door of Qingzi's room was open. When she saw her sister going upstairs, she shouted, "Pour me a glass of juice, please."
Bang.
My sister went back to the room.
“…”
Qingzi stretched her head and looked, got up and came out again, knocked on the door of Hongzi's room, "Hongzi?"
"What are you doing?"
"I don't do anything, I just come here to care about you."
The door was not locked, but as soon as she opened the door and entered, her sister threw a saying, "Don't come in."
Of course she wouldn't obey.
"What's wrong? Are you in a bad mood?"
Hongzi lay on the bed, holding her pillow and facing her back, ignoring her.
"Sure enough. But Hongzi has been rejected by Zong Gujun. Is there anything worse than this?"
“…”
She threw the pillow over and said, "Go out!"
The pillow that flew out "was crashed" halfway through.
Qingzi didn't blink for a moment, looked at the pillow, and then looked at her sister, "It's really useless except to study."
“…”
"Although I have a pretty face, love is not good at all."
“…”
Picking up the pillow and throwing it on the bed, she also sat down, "First love is a boy like Zong Gujun, and he failed. Hongzi will be doomed in this life."
“…”
"Why consider a girl and don't tell her mother. I think Xiao Qian is pretty good, she looks cute, and she seems to be quite capable of fighting, just to protect Hongzi. I heard that she is still doing Hongzi at school.
Fighted..."
Hongzi turned over and kicked over.
Qingzi easily avoided it, grabbed her sister's ankle and dragged her in front of her.
"Well, Hongzi's eyes..."
Hongzi struggled a few times and couldn't break free.
"I cried so badly, is it because of Sonya-kun?"
She doesn't speak.
"Hongzi hasn't seen a handsome guy before?" Qingzi felt helpless, "Why did you have to hold Zong Gujun and refuse to let go? You haven't known him for a long time."
Hongzi finally spoke and continued to struggle: "I have never seen anyone who looks better than Zonggu."
"That's because you have little knowledge, there are many in Tokyo...and not many, at least a few."
"It has nothing to do with me."
"oops."
Qingzi let go of her sister's feet, lay down beside her, holding her head.
"I said, Hongzi might as well go to Tokyo with me."
Hongzi glanced at her sister in surprise.
"There is a good high school near my home. It is easy to commute and is also a famous school for admission nearby. With Hongzi's academic ability, it should be no problem to transfer to that school."
The more Aoko said, the more she felt that this was a good idea: "After staying in Tokyo for a year or two, Hongko would forget Soya Kwan. If she wanted to come back, she would take the exam for Kyoto University, and if she wanted to stay there, she would go to Tokyo University.
It's not a problem for Hongzi."
"Don't go."
Hongzi turned over again and turned her back to her sister, indicating that she had no interest in going to Tokyo.
After staring at the edge of her sister's shorts exposed on her waist, Qingzi suddenly asked, "Have Hongzi done it with Jun Songgu?"
"...I'm going to tell my mother that you're harassing me."
"You've never done it, you love him to death?" Qingzi was very surprised. "If you do it, wouldn't you still marry him?"
"Mother--"
Mrs. Yoshikawa's voice came from below, "What's wrong-"
"Sister is harassing me!"
"Aoiko!"
"Damn girl." Qingzi pinched her sister's butt, got up and went out.
"It hurts...Close the door."
Bang!
The door was closed heavily, Hongzi turned around and confirmed her eyes, then hugged the pillow he had just thrown out into her arms.
The doors and windows were closed and the phone was thrown away, so she was temporarily separated from the outside world.
She was trapped in a corner, but time would not stop flowing.
"Soya should have arrived home long ago..."
When he got home, he would stay alone with Akane, just like in the room in the morning. Now that the person who might disturb him has left, Akane should have started her actions too.
But, how would she confirm her feelings?
To make yourself come back is definitely a way that is inconvenient to show it to others - even the "best friend" is not convenient to be present.
Do you use your body...
“…”
Hongzi hugged the pillow tightly and could not think about it any more.
She closed her eyes, hoping that once she woke up, she could get the final result that omitted all the processes.
"Don't think about it anymore..."
Hongzi murmured, took off her glasses, and buried her face deep in the pillow.
“…the eyes hurt so much.”
On the other hand, Soya, who was back at Kirino's old house, was processing a large bag of fruits and vegetables brought back from Yoshikawa's house in the kitchen.
"Soya brought so many ingredients back." Akane Kirino also walked into the kitchen.
"It's all given by Hongzi's mother."
"really."
She came over, looked at the vegetables in the bag, and looked at him again.
"Is there anything wrong with Sonoya in the afternoon?"
“…”
After a pause in his hand, Soya didn't look at her, "I'm going to the shrine."
"Don't go."
Akane Kirino held his arm and looked at him with both eyes.