Chen Chen is fifteen years old and lives alone in the old house left to him by his grandmother. Grandma passed away three years ago, and my parents didn't contact him for half a year. He was working part-time jobs while he was a freshman in high school. He was moderately depressed and stopped taking medication. The medical certificate was tucked into the last page of the textbook, like a piece of useless scratch paper.
Shi Tianyi was his childhood sweetheart. At the age of sixteen, I moved back and moved into Chen Chen's home with an inflatable mattress and the movies on the hard drive.
Shi Tianyi saw everything - saw him leaning against the wall in the early morning holding a cigarette case without smoking, saw him suddenly stop moving boxes in the back warehouse of the convenience store, saw him put only half of the seasoning on instant noodles, saw his ears were hot but refused to think about it.
He also saw the medical certificate.
"Don't leave." Shi Tianyi said.
He did not leave afterward.
Later, Chen Chen jumped from the roof of the teaching building.
Shi Tianyi didn't collapse, didn't make a fuss, and didn't catch up. He eats on time, goes to school on time, talks to people with a smile, and occasionally stands in front of the supermarket shelves for a long time, staring at a box of mineral water in a daze.
Everyone said he walked out.
Only he knows - he doesn't.
He just became another Chen Chen.
Purpose: From salvation to giving up for patients with depression.