Volume 3 - CH 26

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 26

Dt had to leave early with his team to catch a flight later in the night.

She saw him off to the door, “You’ll be late.”  He walked backwards

to the door while still looking at her.  Finally he couldn’t help himself

and bent his head down again,  “It’s raining outside.  Wait a minute.”  

What reflected in his eyes was all of her.

She lightly repeated, “Many people are waiting for you.”

His eyes lingered on her eyes, nose, and half opened lips.  He

breathed the air surrounding her.  Something, once turned on, was

difficult to control.  “The last time……”  He said lightly.  His hands

moved to her back and pressed her into his arms.  The action was

very direct, but his voice made it sound like he was begging,  “I’ll go

after this.”

It sounded like she was bullying him if she didn’t agree…...

“Uhm……”

With her approval he bent down to kiss her without delay.  She

was so overwhelmed by his kiss that she almost fell down.  Luckily

he held her waist in time and leaned her against the wall.  In order

to prevent his hands from wandering where they shouldn’t, he put

both hands on the wall, trapping her inside the small circle right in

front of him.  He continued…..

……

After Dt left, she changed her clothes in preparation to meet up with

the team at Solo’s place.  Before she left, she found a note pasted on

her cell phone.  What was it?  She tore it off.

It was a series of phone numbers at the top.

At the back…...It was in Xiaomi’s handwriting: Don’t call me if nothing

happens.  No girl has ever called me before.  My mom would mistake

you as my girlfriend.  

Great.  He was a good man.

She read the note in his voice.

He hadn’t changed after so many years.

That year, All put an arm around a short boy with a face prettier than

a girl.  He announced that Xiaomi had arrived.  She was holding a

glass bottle of Sprite and bit the straw.  She pointed to Xiaomi asking

him to say something in a northern accent.  Xiaomi looked at her

mindlessly, then said,  “I saw you playing online fiercer than any man

and thought you would look pretty ugly…..”

The words caused an explosion of laughter from over half the men in

the internet cafe.  He was accepted immediately by the group since then.

Later, Xiaomi quarreled with his family almost daily.  Sometimes after he

hung up the phone, he would indifferently say,  “My dad told me that I’m

wasting air while living, wasting the land when I die. How would I waste it.  

I’m only 170cm tall.  I take up much less space than bald All.”....

……

She felt a lump in her throat. Various emotions began bubbling up to the

surface of her mind.

This phone number was too important to her.

Though she could find a way to contact him from the club, the implication

was totally different.

Regardless whatever Dt had told him, as long as Xiaomi was willing to

leave his phone number to her meant that he was willing to accept her

Then it would be easy to handle whatever came later.

She kept the note and sent Dt a short text: Thank you.

She received a response shortly.

Dt: No problem.

…...The king of awkward silence.

He didn’t how to talk.  He didn’t like to talk.  He just liked to silently watch

his girl.  Even his confession to the girl, “give me a chance”, didn’t amount

to much. She wanted to ask him about the actual details of the conversation

between him and Xiaomi, but she gave up after she thought about it.

She would just ask him face to face after she went back to Shanghai.