For some days, Wang Lingling would drag Lin Lirui through the place where they knew the boy. She said, "Lin Lirui, we should warn that boy again before he tells our secret."
When she said this, Wang Lingling felt very vain, as vain as she felt when she threw her stepmother's slippers into the trash again and again. She now had a new secret that she hadn't told Lin Lirui. That was that she was secretly playing with hula hoops, which she had read in a magazine could slim down the figure. She didn't know why she cared so much about her appearance now, her behavior was so strange that it was unfamiliar even to herself.
She steals her stepmother's lipstick and pins crystal barrettes in her hair, and that boy comes into her mind more and more, and she can't shake it off even when she shakes her head hard.
It was some days before they met the boy, still carrying golden oranges in his hands. In an advertisement for laundry detergent, people were walking to piles of oranges in order to give their clothes the fresh scent of oranges. It made Wang Lingling want to sniff his clothes to see if they smelled good too.
Her heart panicked terribly, but on her face she put on a big grin as she said, "Boy, you didn't reveal our secret, did you."
The boy shook his head and took the oranges out of the bag and invited them to eat them.
Because of the oranges, their relationship became friendly. Sitting on the stone steps at the entrance of the hutong, the sun was unusually bright. Wang Lingling suddenly became shy, very quietly watching Lin Lirui and this boy named Zhan Rui talk about legendary games and Doraemon.
Wang Lingling's heart gave birth to a dense sadness, if her voice is as pleasant as Lin Lirui's, she will also surely brow fluttering loud jokes.
Is there still friendship
For several days, Wang Lingling was angry with Lin Lirui, inexplicably. Lin Lirui said, "Zhanrui must be a very handsome man when he grows up, he is so handsome now!" She said with very gentle eyes.
During the relay run in gym class, Lin Lirui's wig was ripped off, and everyone looked at Lin Lirui in surprise. Lin Lirui's eyes stored up a lot of tears, she knew that Wang Lingling was intentional.
Because of the wig, Lin Lirui became unbelievable in the eyes of her classmates, and they talked a lot about her hair. They said, "Lin Lirui, don't you get hot wearing a wig even in summer?"
Wang Lingling passed a note to Lin Lirui, and she said, "I'm sorry, but I don't want to pretend there's still a friendship."
Two good friends have become strangers, and when she walks alone on the road after school, Wang Lingling feels lost. If she didn't know Lin Lirui's secret, if they hadn't been bumped into this secret by Zhan Rui, if ...... If she had a nice voice, how nice it would be!
When Wang Lingling met Zhan Rui again, Zhan Rui's first words were, "Where is Lin Lirui? How come I didn't see her?" Wang Lingling turned and ran away, there are tears, falling.
On this day, the stepmother also said to Wang Lingling during dinner, "Where is your friend Lin Lirui? Why don't you come home to play? She is quite a good girl ......"
Wang Lingling put the bowl down heavily, why does the world attach importance to Lin Lirui? If she does not wear a wig how ugly ah! Zhan Rui that day did not also see it?
She found herself jealous of Lin Lirui, jealous of her ability to face Zhanrui with confidence and openness, jealous of her ability to win her stepmother's heart, and even jealous of her ability to hide her flaws. ...... Wang Lingling found herself more and more disliking herself, disliking herself for being so inferior, disliking herself for being so jealous.
Zhanrui's Secret
Lin Lirui stopped Wang Lingling on the way out of school, she said that Zhanrui was sick and wanted them to go see him together. Lin Lirui said, "It's not that I want to care about you, it's that Zhan Rui insisted that I tell you."
They walked together awkwardly, with different minds. Silence for a long time, Lin Lirui said: "Wang Lingling, I have looked up the information, asked the experts, your voice is because of puberty voice change will be like this, as long as you pay attention to the protection of the voice, your voice will definitely become very good."
There is a warm current rippling in Wang Lingling's heart, she thought Lin Lirui must hate her, did not expect her to help her.
When they saw Zhanrui, he was very weak. His mom said: "Thank you for coming to see him, Zhanrui has been reluctant to make friends, and he has very low self-esteem. Because he grew up with a very weak physique, he can not play like other boys, the boys make fun of him."
Wang Lingling finally understood why Zhanrui looked so pale. It turns out that they both have their own secrets and unspeakable low self-esteem, and in this adolescence, their sorrows are so different and so the same.
When she went home with Lin Lirui, Wang Lingling took her hand.
She said, "Lin Lirui, I have an idea."
They began to ask Zhanrui to play basketball after school. They hoped to make Zhanrui's body better through exercise. Under the sun, they ran and jumped, forgetting their respective sorrows.