The autumn sun spread over the colorful flags on the playground. At the high school sports meeting, the boy who had just finished skipping rope could not control his inertia and ran straight into the figure of the next class holding a book.
The moment their eyes met, the wind stirred the pages of the book, and also stirred the unspeakable heartbeat.
In the next two years, they were both science students, separated by a wall, and shuttled in the morning light and dusk of the same teaching building. They nodded and rubbed shoulders when they met by chance in the corridor, and looked at each other while queuing in the canteen, which became the most restrained intersection.
It wasn't until the bell rang for the senior year of high school that the fate of the two began to change after they were reclassified. When he bumped into that familiar figure again, the young man's eyes were filled with overflowing autumn light.
