Linjiang Middle School always smells of rust at 3:15 during the rainy season. When Sweetheart wiped the keys with mint candy stuck on them for the 43rd time, the wet piano music was covered with calligraphy and painting. This boy, known as "the boy soaked in formalin," always disappears after biology class.
When the seventeen-year-old tide overflowed the piano keys, someone was planting the sunflowers on the Band-Aid into the rusty cicada summer of that year.
