Cicada Song and My Secret

Beneath the camphor tree by the basketball court, Gu Yu pressed a chilled soda can against her flushed cheek. "Classmate Lin, your 'sound collection notebook' missed this one."

He pressed play on an old MP3 player. The sound of cicadas mingled with the boy's stifled laughter: "May 20, 2023: Gu Yu steals his seventeenth glance at the bow in Lin Tingxia's ponytail."