Post Date December, 03 2023
I met him because of my boyfriend's birthday party.
The party was very boring. A few dull boys and a few introverted girls, the scene is inevitably somewhat dull, so my boyfriend suggested that everyone go to see a movie together. "Half Life" is playing in the cinema. "I'm a bit absent-minded because I'm just whispering to my boyfriend.". At the end of the film, I stood up with relief and couldn't wait to go outside. The boy sitting next to me was like a sculpture, but he didn't have the slightest intention of moving. At this moment, a beam of blue light hit me, and I was stunned by the scene before me. I saw the boy's tearful face. I couldn't help but turn my head and look at the screen: At the end of the film, the heroes and heroines who have gone through many vicissitudes embrace each other on the screen, and I seem to be moved too. Instead of alarming the boy, he walked out in the other direction. A thin layer of snow had fallen outside, and I wrapped up my down jacket tightly. From time to time, the boy's tearful face appeared in front of him. I think: Men don't shed tears lightly, and it's rare for them to be so selfless and devoted as the boy sitting next to them. The partners continued to come out, almost all of them, and the last one to come out was the boy sitting next to them. I was surprised and thought I was so absent-minded that the friend I came out with didn't even know. "We walked back in a mighty way, and as we approached the school gate, I suddenly noticed that my scarf was missing. I probably forgot it in a hurry in the cinema.". I quietly tugged at my boyfriend's clothes and hoped he would come back with me to find them. "My boyfriend was probably afraid of being teased by everyone, so he said to me irritably, 'I forgot it at the cinema. I've already walked so far, let's go and have a look tomorrow. Otherwise, buy another one!' Everyone also said in a tongue-in-cheek manner, 'Oh, it's really cold! Let's go quickly, the bedroom is closing.' Indeed, it's so late, and a scarf is really nothing under such circumstances.". Everyone, keep moving forward. "I have been walking silently in the crowd, 'You, are you okay?'" a man asked with concern. I looked up and saw that it was the boy sitting next to me. "I glanced at him with a forced smile and said, 'Nothing, that scarf was woven by my mother for me. It's colorful and beautiful, like a rainbow. Actually, it's nothing, just a pity to lose it.'" He seemed moved and couldn't help but stop. ", Determined, he said to me, "Well, let me accompany you back to look for it. Now that theaters are all circulation theaters, they may not necessarily close." I looked at him gratefully and said, "Thank you, no need. It's too late, let's go quickly. You see, we've already been left behind by everyone."
The next day, on the weekend, my boyfriend called to ask me out and said to accompany me to the store to buy another scarf. My chest suddenly hurt. Looking at my boyfriend's pale face, I couldn't help feeling sad and moved. "I resisted the tears that burst from my eyes and smiled and said, 'Forget it, winter is almost over anyway.' But my boyfriend still bought me a colorful scarf.". I hid my scarf in the closet, like a dusty past that I never wanted to touch. But in fact, I have already forgiven my boyfriend. I am the kind of woman who spends her whole life sincerely believing in love.
That night, I went alone to the cinema we went to yesterday to find a scarf. "Half Life" is still playing in the cinema. I found where I was sitting the previous day, took a match from my pocket, and was about to light it. Suddenly, a lighter lit up next to me. With the yellow flame of the lighter, I saw the boy sitting next to me, who was holding up the lighter and searching for something in the seat where I had been sitting the previous day. I slipped back behind. When I saw him excitedly carrying his scarf into his arms, I thought it was really a miracle. After that, I didn't pay much attention to the movie. But towards the end of the film, I was attracted by the last few shots - Shi Jun using a flashlight in the woods looking for the gloves that Man Zhen accidentally left there during the day when they took photos, which were Man Zhen's favorite. Shi Jun searched carefully and finally found them in the grass. Looking at the pair of gloves, Shi Jun couldn't help smiling. I looked at Shijun's foolish smile on the screen and imagined that when he found his scarf just now, his expression should be the same as that of Shijun, right? I suddenly felt a strange feeling. In a similar feeling of confusion, I fled the cinema.
The next day, I tied up the colorful scarf my boyfriend bought me. "I don't think the boy sitting next to me will ever give me the" Little Rainbow "scarf again. When I think about it this way, I vaguely feel some inexplicable pain, a bit like a little mermaid taking difficult steps, like the solemn dedication of dancing for the prince on a sharp knife.".
In a blink of an eye, two years have passed and I am about to graduate. In the past two years, many things have happened, including the breakup between my boyfriend and me and the love between him and another girl, as well as the boy sitting next to me who has never returned the multicolored scarf he diligently retrieved. On the day I left after graduation, I received a colorful scarf woven for me by the boy next to me and handed over to my mother. Looking at the lost "treasure", my smile ran down my face like tears. As I stepped onto the departing train with my backpack on my back, I seemed to see a boy waving goodbye to me in the distance, waving a colorful scarf in his hand. The scene before us seems real and unreal. For a moment, I had mixed feelings, and scenes of the past filled my mind. I remember a scene many years ago - a boy helping a girl find her beloved multicolored scarf in a dark theater, the yellow flame of a lighter flashing in front of the boy. Thinking of this, I felt something cool sliding down my cheeks. One thing I have been reluctant to admit: in fact, I am just as stupid as him.
(Intern Editor: Cai Junyi)
