The first time Bai Gu tasted mint candy was when Xia Chi handed over the candy.
On the day Bai Yu came here, she was standing at the door of the classroom holding her textbooks. Just when her fingertips were about to touch the door frame, an orange-red basketball hit her and hit the wall hard, grazing the end of her hair.
She was startled, her face was already pale, and now it looked more like a layer of snow had fallen. When he turned around, he saw a young man wearing a soaked jersey running over, with beads of sweat hanging from his forehead. The sun fell on his shoulders, making it dazzling. He picked up the ball, scratched his head and apologized.
That was the first time Xia Chi saw white eucalyptus. It was like seeing a white jasmine that was shocked by the wind, even the petals were trembling slightly.
Later, by some strange combination of circumstances, she became his seatmate, and later changed seats and became his seatmate again. He always felt that this new classmate was made of glass. He spoke softly and walked softly. He was afraid that even turning a book would break if he used too much force. However, she gradually discovered that this boy who was always called out by the teacher for "sleeping in class" had a crumpled part-time work schedule hidden in the hole in his desk. The cuffs of his school uniform were frayed, but he would always quietly close the window when she coughed.
He is the most wild person on the basketball court, and he is also the first to rush out of school after school - to go to the fast food restaurant to fry French fries, to go to the car repair shop to hand over wrenches, and to rush to hand over the saved change to the hospital before dark. But one time she had hypoglycemia and was lying on the table shaking, but he took out a piece of candy from nowhere, peeled off the paper and stuffed it into her. He licked the remaining sweetness on his fingertips, and the tips of his ears turned very red.
She is a greenhouse flower who is carefully cared for. Her medicine box is always neatly placed on the corner of the table, and her driver is waiting at the school gate on time every day. But when he was scolded by his father and his eyes turned red, she would pretend that the pen had dropped, bend down and give him a small piece of paper with "Don't be sad" written on it;
The distance between them is obviously so far. His world smells of engine oil, sweat, and the panic of counting coins; her world smells of disinfectant, books, and a well-arranged stability. But when he put the hot milk in front of her table and said "I bought too much"; when she pushed her notes over and said "I took two copies", those cautious approaches were like mints in her mouth, and the refreshing sweetness quietly overcame all the differences.
When they were seventeen years old, they didn't know what the gap was. They only knew that the day the basketball hit the ball, the sun was very bright; they knew that the day they became tablemates, when the textbooks were next to each other, even the air was filled with a slightly sweet expectation. The love I had at that time was as clean as a newly opened candy wrapper. No one said it, but every time my eyes met, there was a light that was clearer than mint candy.
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