At this time, there were not many passengers on the car, most of them were old people. The sun outside was still relatively high, and the sunlight shone into the car, bright and dazzling.
Looking away from the window, Haixing squinted his eyes, turned his head, and glanced at Naruse sitting in front.
She rarely goes home so early, and she has an appointment with a friend. All of this is thanks to him.
Although her friends' arrangements today were different from what she originally expected, which made her feel a little reluctant, she was pulled away by him obediently and even got on the bus home directly. Haixing felt that she must have lost her head. p>
【"She is my sister."】
Touching the blond hair hanging on the side of his face, Haixing looked at him again.
What are you talking about now...
She didn't know what he was thinking.
The two only had a brief exchange while waiting for the bus.
"Those people are blackmailing you, can't you see?"
"They are my friends!"
Faced with doubts, Haixing admitted that her reaction was a bit excited at the time, but he said nothing more after that and didn't even look at her before the bus arrived.
She wanted to explain that her friends weren't as bad as he thought, but she stared at the back of his head and couldn't say anything.
This probably means refusing to communicate anymore, Haixing thought.
What's more, the two of them are unable to communicate normally.
The lingering prejudices and emotions between each other, from the day he came back, no, from the time he moved into Maki's house with his former stepmother, may last until the day they forget each other...
Starfish suddenly felt like crying.
It was clear that she was not the one who was really at fault, but everyone seemed to think that she had ruined everything including family and friendship.
She looked out the window, the sunlight was really dazzling.
The sunshine was really dazzling. Naruse squinted his eyes, lowered his head to send the message, and closed his eyes.
Naruse: I have already gone back.
After a while, the phone vibrated, and he opened one eye and looked at it.
Shangzi:What's wrong?
Naruse:Something happened.
Naruse: I will explain to you when Naoko comes home.
Shangzi:Okay.
Squinting at the last message, Naruse wanted to ask her how she was doing in the club, but after thinking about it, she put away her phone.
Let’s wait until we have dinner to chat together.
He looked back again, and saw Haixing, who was a few rows away, looking out the window blankly, looking like he was about to cry.
Are you so wronged?
For a moment, Naruse thought that the person who was yelled at at the bus stop was her and not herself.
Is it because of those friends?
He had just realized that the two of them could not communicate, so he planned to find an opportunity to talk to Maki Seiichiro about this alone later, and he didn't want to say anything else at this time.
Naruse turned back again, looking through the car window to the lush and wide river bed, and raised his hand.
“Ding dong—stop at the next stop.”
After crossing Qingliu Bridge, the bus stopped on the side of the road. The two got off the bus one after another and walked one behind the other.
Passing by the convenience store, Naruse went in and bought a bottle of drink.
When he came out and saw Haixing waiting outside, he was a little surprised, but she didn't speak, so he didn't say anything.
When he reached the intersection going home, he turned back without stopping.
There was no goodbye, the two of them were like strangers who met by chance while waiting for the bus at the platform.
After staring at his back for a few times, Haixing understood: apart from pulling himself away from his friends, he had no other plan.
She was like an umbrella picked up casually and ignored.
Memories that occasionally arise will inexplicably bring a certain distance closer, even if they are one-sided and only exist in the mind.
Haixing wanted to be angry, but suddenly he couldn't bring himself to do anything, so he turned around and went home.
......
Putting down the book, Naruse looked at the time and fell back weakly.
Going home too early was not part of his plan, and it even interfered with his plan - he had finished reading the book he originally planned to read in the evening.
Naruse is going to the bookstore.
Shangzi will be back soon. If he picks her up quickly, he can pick her up by the way.
After going out, I came to Morimi Furu's main store. The owner Morimi Furu was busy outside the store.
"Mr. Morimi."
"Oh, it's Chunhai."
He was handing over the order form, and nodded to Naruse, "Kazuha is in the store."
When Naruse walked into the bookstore, Mori saw Kazuha holding a cardboard box and peeking at him from between the bookshelves.
"Welcome."
"Need help?"
"Yes. If Naruse can buy all these books, then I won't have to put them on display."
"Then I have to see what book it is first."
Naruse took the cardboard box, Morimi pushed up his glasses, moved his wrists a little, and then began to take books from it and place them.
"Are you done?"
"What?"
"Isn't Naruse helping the class prepare for the cultural festival recently?"
"I'm done." Naruse followed with the box in his arms, "That's why I have time to read some free books now."
"So enthusiastic." Morimi stuffed the book into the bookshelf.
"Where's Morimi? Don't you have to go to the school today?"
"Yeah."
After the summer vacation experience, Morimi spoke highly of the study school and signed up again after the start of the second semester. However, the first-year courses were not stressful and only required three or four classes per week.
After walking around in front of the bookshelf for a while, putting all the books in the cartons on the shelves, Morimi returned to the counter and motioned for Naruse to come over.
"This is a snack sent by a relative. If you don't mind, Naruse should try it too."
"Thank you." Naruse picked up a piece and put it into his mouth.
"How was it?"
"Not bad."
Declining the offer of another piece, he picked up the book she had just pulled from the bookshelf and flipped through it.
"Is this kind of subject matter? I've seen it a lot recently."
"This is what I want to read myself." Morijian raised his arm and took the book away, "There are no recommendations today, you can choose it yourself."
"..."
Naruse had no choice but to return to the bookshelf room.
Watching him turn around, Morimi suddenly remembered something: "Dad said that the starfish came back very early today."
"Yeah." Naruse stopped, picked up a book and flipped through it, "I came back with her."
"It's so strange."
"Well. Something happened..."
As he said this, he suddenly looked over.
Mori Jian suddenly became wary and did not speak, looking back at him calmly.
"The starfish doesn't listen to me at all."
"The so-called rebellious period is at this age."
"That's not what happened."
"Really? I don't have much communication with Haixing, and I understand even less."
Naruse walked over with the book and said directly: "Haixing seems to have been blackmailed."
Morijian was just stunned, not surprised, "Are you being blackmailed by those hot girls?"
"Yeah."
"It was a matter of time."
"Those hot girls seem to have gotten together with a few self-destructive college students recently." Naruse said, "If I hadn't stopped them today, they were going to take Haixing there too, and they seemed to be instigating her to leave their home on the way.
Stealing money from the store."
Morimi frowned.
After a while, she said: "You should tell Mr. Maki about this."
"I will remind him."
Naruse looked at her, "But considering the actual effect, I think the key lies in Haixing."
Morimi waited for him to continue.
"It's because she has no goals and no serious friends that she has nothing to do and hangs out with those hot girls."
"Naruse seems to know a lot about this kind of thing."
He tilted his head, revealing one of the black earrings: "Isn't it?"
Morimi couldn't help but shake his head, "I don't know what you are proud of."
Naruse smiled, not that he was proud.
"I just think this is more convincing."
"Then what?"
"Then, I think that for Haixing, Morimi is that serious friend, and maybe he can help her find her goal in life."
Morimi looked at him: "Naruse, you want me to help you rescue your sister from those hot girls?"
"It's my stepsister, my former stepsister." Naruse shook his head, "And she's not helping me."
"Naruse can't do it himself."
"Morimi also saw it, Haixing and I are completely unable to communicate normally."
Morimi looked at him for a while and said: "If Naruse can explain more carefully the part where you and Haixing became 'abnormal', I might be able to help you."
After a brief silence, Naruse smiled and waved the book in his hand.