I guess my expression was one of surprise at the moment, since I even forgot when I’d be entering school. “So . . . I’ve only got several days to have fun before the new semester.”

Ou Yang suddenly understood me and laughed, saying, “In fact, Zhang Hao and the others are my cla.s.smates. They are kind, generally speaking. Take it easy.”

Could she read minds?

I laughed with embarra.s.sment.

“Ou Yang, let’s go. Or do you still have something to talk about with the little guy?” The girl who’d already left came back again to call her.

I turned to look at her. It seemed that she was talking to me instead of the beauty.

“Okay, I’m coming. See you, younger brother b.a.s.t.a.r.d!” Ou Yang joked with me.

Then, she left with the girl.

Now, only I was left in such a big compet.i.tive atmosphere.

Me, with melancholy.

The remainder of my vacation days pa.s.sed quite simply for me. I played games at home, or went out to have fun with Monkey and our other cla.s.smates.

There was one thing that I should mention—that Monkey truly became Lu Li’s boy friend.

That day, after the fight against them, we went to the same restaurant to have dinner. Monkey drank half a bottle of wine, and his words were slurred. Anyway, the alcohol made him brave and he confessed his feelings to Lu Li. It was the first time that I knew the two of them had been neighbors since childhood. What a poor romantic drama!

They’d attended the same schools from nursery school until now. Meanwhile, Monkey chose the same university as Lu Li, and they both got their admission notices from the university.

Monkey was so moved by his overture that he was in tears while he was confessing to the girl he’d known since he was very young.

He cried so emphatically, as if someone attending a funeral.

But, Lu Li accepted his type of confession regardless. Indeed, she agreed to his courts.h.i.+p.

Later in the nationwide game, Lu Li told Monkey that she had always known that Monkey liked her, and that was the reason why she started to play LOL. But that was a long time later.

Beside Monkey’s happy ending, or rather, happy beginning, our cla.s.s monitor also started his romance with the fat girl, Chen Hui. At first I thought that Chen Hui’s heart was set on me, that is, until Xu Ning told me that that night, he’d also drank too much, and it was Chen Hui who helped him home. The girl even carried him on her back for the long trip. The half-drunk Xu Ning heard her confession and was touched.

So, I created two couples, thanks to this fight with Ou Yang’s cla.s.smates.

Time was pa.s.sing quickly.

Finally, the day for saying goodbye came.

Most of my cla.s.smates chose the universities outside the province, so I became the only one to send them away. At first I felt very sad, but later I got used to their leaving. We always have a day to say goodbye, I told myself, each time.

Monkey left with Lu Li. In fact, I was envious of their relations.h.i.+p.

They already told their parents they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and the parents agreed, and asked them to take care of each other.

What a blow to me, a single dog! It was like losing 10,000 HP.

When the day came, Monkey was like a woman, coming to hug me and saying, “b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I will leave you for four years. Remember to remember me. Meanwhile, I’ll cheer for you and Ou Yang. Be a man!”

When I heard this, for the first time in my long journey of sending away my cla.s.smate, I kept silent. Monkey was my best friend; I really didn’t want him leave me. When I saw them moving in the train, I felt my nose was runny.

When they arrived at the university, Lu Li sent me a video of Monkey. He told Lu Li many many things the two of us had shared, from copying each other’s homework to skipping cla.s.ses. While I was moved, the guy suddenly turned to me to apologize, saying, “Sorry, b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I had agreed to fill in the same university as you in the application, but I betrayed you. You know, girls are more important than brotherhood. I don’t want to be single anymore. But we are still brothers wherever I go.”

Wow. . . I got some sand in my eyes—the annoying summer wind. Otherwise, people might think that I was crying.

Then, Wei Zhang, Xu Ning, and more cla.s.smates went on their journey to the unknown distance.

I just had a feeling that someday we would meet somewhere back then.

After a long time, we truly met in college matches.

The day of Moon Festival finally came, which was my date to head off to college.