Waiting for You in the City (一座城，在等你) by Jiu Yue Xi 玖月晞 ~ Chapter 62

The early morning in the winter day, the sky is slightly bright.

The street is desolate. No one is around.

In the morning 06:00 a.m., the breakfast restaurant in front of the school is not opened yet.

Song Yan drags Xu Qin to run, they pass the bridge.

Ba Yan bridge is close to their high school both of them are strolling around.

The school is empty and quiet during this time, the security guard is not awake yet.

Song Yan takes Xu Qin takes Xu Qin to run over the curb, Song Yan helps her to climb over the wall.

“Be careful.” Song Yan says.

“Em.”

It’s hard for her to climb the wall.

When she has gotten in, she waits for him. It seems to be so easy for him to climb over the wall.

Xu Qin: “…….”

“What is it?”

“…….” Xu Qin shakes her head.

She suddenly remembers their memory. They used to climb over the wall with Song Yan’s friends too.

He helps to pat the dust on her clothes: “What are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking of our high school memory.” Xu Qin holds his hand. “Do you still in contact with your friends?”

“Last month we had a gathering.”

“How are they?”

“They are living a great life.” Song Yan says.

Xu Qin pursues her lips and doesn’t continue to ask again.

She turns her head, she notices there’s no difference from the past.

They pass the steps and enters their classroom.

Their class is on the fourth floor. Xu Qin looks inside. The tables and chairs are arranged well and tidily. There are words on the board.

They get inside the classroom.

Xu Qin looks around and feels: “Why do I feel this class is so small, the tables and chairs are smaller than before?’

“Do you still remember your seat?” Song Yan asks.

“It’s been years, how could I still remember it? Moreover it seems we kept on changing seat.”

Song Yan goes to the first row and two lines. “Grade 10, you sat here.”

Everything is so quiet.

She comes over: “Let me sit down.”

“Wooo. I have a bit impression. I used to sit here. I remember that you sat down behind me.”

Song Yan goes to his previous seat. He looks at her and she just smiles brightly at him.

After getting the school, she feels very happy.

For her, her high school is a great memory.

Song Yan also smiles.

During senior high school that years, he always watched her from the far away; for every subject and he never got tired of it.

He remembers the past.

How could he like her?

Because he could only like her.

He liked the way she looks when she is bullied, how she looks fragile and weak. He liked the time she holds his collar and shows her reliance. It makes that from the whole world that only he could protect her.

That time he felt that he is alive.

It seems like before knowing her, he didn’t feel alive.

When Song Yan was little, he only had a father not mother.

In his memory, his father is a handsome man, yet because of alcohol, violent, he used to beat him up and scolded his mother. When he was sober, he would cry and hug him.

Song Yan never hates him, because he knows the reason. His father is abandoned by his mother.

He knows from other people, that her mother becomes someone’s lover for money. So he never hates him, he just feels pity for him.

They both lived together in that sate till the day Song Yan turned seven. His father came home drunk, he fell down and his head bumped to a stone.

The second day Song Yan noticed him, he was dead.

Little Song Yan pushed him and called his Papa, but he didn’t respond.

The kid just walked toward his Jiu Jiu (Uncle)’s house, which is so far away from his house. He knocked on the door. “My Papa is dead, please help me to take care it. I couldn’t move him.’

Then he was taken to live with his Jiu Jiu, he is protected and loved by his Jiu Jiu’s family.

When he was little, he heard from someone. It turned out his mother gave birth to another kid. That kid was taken to live with another woman and think of her as his own. The kid never meets her and doesn’t know her presence.

When Song Yan was ten years old, Song Yan secretly went to find his mother.

He collected information and found her apartment. When he went there, there’s no one there. He waited there for a long time and suddenly there’s a noise.

It’s the first time he saw his mother, she was prettier than the photo. She was in another mans’ embrace.

He stood there and looked like homeless kid.

That couple just passed by him and didn’t pay attention to him.

Yet that woman turned her back and looked at him for a while before she disappeared.

Without any reason, he knows clearly that she recognizes him.

But she did nothing.

He turned his body and just spitted at that man’s car.

He never looks for her again.

Afterwards for a long time, Song Yan felt that he was nothing, no one needed her. He was someone unwanted. He was like his father.

No, he was much more miserable than his father. At least that time he still needed his father. but his father didn’t need him, his mother also didn’t need her.

Even when he was in his puberty and surrounded by the young woman because of his appearance, he felt deeply disgusted. That time he was so arrogant, that he couldn’t admit that actually he was terrified.

His father also looks as handsome as him, but what is the result.

He thought that he would end up like his father.

Till one day from the window, he saw a weak skinny girl got into the classroom. She looked so timid.

He felt something inside his heart.

That moment he is trapped by her.

“Song Yan, I am afraid to fall down.” I want you to hold me oh.

“Song Yan, I couldn’t climb it.” Carry me on your back.”

“Song Yan, I’m cold.” Hug me ah.

“Song Yan, I’m a bit sad.” Coo me ah.

“Song Yan, a man touched my hand.” Go hit him.

“Song Yan, I could not be alone.” I want you to accompany me.

“Song Yan, hurry up take me out.” I just want to be with you.

“Song Yan……”

She loved to play crazy like she was missing something inside her heart. She kept on wanting to proving something, whether proving that she is important to him, or his love toward her. She kept on being dissatisfied and demanding.

He was comfortable with it, he kept on responding her by giving her everything, she was more depending and believing him. She needs him.

She was progressing in front of him.

As long as he could make her happy and let her set free, he feels satisfied with it.

In front of other people, they looked like kids. They were close for three years.

His empty hard was filled in.

Till the day they broke up, his heart felt empty once again. He felt like he was having a bad dream again like what he felt with his parents.

Song Yan stops.

He looks around the room.

Now they are together, it’s the most important thing.

He feels something so he looks over.

Xu Qin is laying her head on the table, she is looking at him with glistening eyes: “You are daydreaming? I’ve been watching for you for some time.”

Her smile consoles him.

“Em—-“ He strokes his nose, “I’m thinking about my job.”

He makes a lie and shifts the topic of conversation: “Have you ever come back to look around?”

Xu Qin shakes her head: “What about you?”

He just smiles but doesn’t answer.

He has come over few times, every time it is either early morning or late evening, or perhaps during the winter vacation. Every time he could avoid the students.

These ten years, the school for him is a peaceful and lonely city. It has countless memory of her and him. Every time he is stubbornly waiting for that person to come back to find him.

The sun is rising. She looks over and says: “Ah, the sun is out.”

She asks: “Do we need to leave now? Later on the students would come over.”

“Let’s play for two more minutes.” Song Yan says, he goes to the front of the blackboard and cleans it up.

Xu Qin is curious, she comes toward him. “What are you doing? Will you write something?”

“Em.” He takes out a chalk and wants to write something on it.

Xu Qin looks over and notices the word “Xu”, Song Yan then covers her eyes: “Go over there and write your own.”

“Petty!” Xu Qin snorts and purposely makes a distance between them. She goes toward another side and erases it.

When she is done erasing, she wants to take a chalk to write.

The time she touches the box of chalks, she just pauses. She lowers her head and notices there’s no chalk, there’s a platinum ring on it.

The fragments of the chalk couldn’t hide the shinning diamond on the ring.

Her mind is blank, she could hear her breath.

The sun rises and fills the classroom.

Xu Qin’s heart is beating erratically, she looks at Song Yan. He is still writing something on the board. He seems to make a dot.

On the board, it is written: “Xu Qin, marry me.”

Song Yan puts down the chalk and looks at her. He examines her seriously. Then he smiles brightly and says:

“Xu Qin, give me a family.”