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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
gla.s.s 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 s.p.a.ce 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
contacting him again……

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.

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