But I have been y in love with this small town without highlights, because my happiest and most carefree days are spent with this small town, plus three childhood friends.
Dai Han is the oldest among us, just like a good brother, usually take care of us. He was a musical genius, played the guitar well and wrote songs.
Wenqian is only one month younger than Daihan, but he is not like his older brother, he has a lot of ideas and loves to get into trouble. He often writes crooked poems and puts them on the door of the teacher's office, and often fights with his classmates. For this reason, he did not get a lot of his father's beatings.
Ye Xin and I are the same age, is a lively and outgoing girl, love to laugh, is our happy fruit. Compared to her, I am much more quiet and silent. Wenqian often jokes that I am as quiet as a cat, and it is thanks to him, all the students began to call me "cat". The four of us from kindergarten to high school are in a school, the feelings of the brother and sister than close.
When I was in junior high school, we were crazy about the band, buying every album and listening to every song. The education I received as a child made me not dare to do things that violate the discipline, and only in the music, I have the conditions to be unrestrained, so I can enjoy my youth and release my nature.
At noon on the day that Daihan and Wenqian were successfully promoted to high school, we sneaked out to celebrate and had a little bit of wine. All four of us were a little drunk, and fearing that our parents would find out, we went to the park to kill time.
The sun was shining that afternoon, and the sky was so blue that big clouds like cotton candy floated in the blue sky. We were lying head to head on the lawn, no one said anything, and it was so quiet that we were the only ones left in the world. Since that day, I have never seen such a beautiful blue sky, such a beautiful white cloud.
I started to sing, singing Feier's songs, one after another.
I don't know how many songs I sang, Dai Han suddenly said, "Cat, your voice is very similar to Faye."
I smiled, "Thanks."
"Really, Cat, your voice is especially good, you can be a singer." Daihan sat up half propped up and I saw the sunlight refracted in my pupils through his deep black eyes.
"A singer?" I laughed again, "I hadn't thought about it."
"But your voice really suits a singer." Daihan was relentless. I don't know if it's because of the alcohol, he's rarely this stubborn.
"Even if I wanted to be, I wouldn't have the chance."
"Let's start a band!" Wenqian suddenly said, "Like Feier, the four of us."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Ye Xin immediately clapped her hands in agreement.
"Hey, you guys are not coming for real ......" I climbed up, my head a little dizzy.
Wenqian interrupted me, "I can be the drummer, Ye Xin can play the piano, it's just right to be the keyboardist, Dai Han plays the guitar, Cat, you'll be the lead singer."
Daihan added, "We can write our own songs, I'll compose the music, Cat will fill in the lyrics, your writing is as good as your voice."
My head finally stopped spinning, and I realized they weren't kidding.
"What's the name of the band?" Ye Xin asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Cat wants one."
I thought hard and a word popped into my head unexpectedly, "Let's call it ...... Getaway."
The Getaway, then, was hastily formed by four daring middle schoolers, fueled by sunshine and alcohol.
Many years later, I realized that naming the band "Easy" was actually a reflection of my heart. I realized that the band's name was a reflection of my inner self, and that the time I spent with Easy was the only time in my 20 years that I was free and uninhibited.
The band wasn't too difficult to set up, at least the instruments and people were readily available. I was given a fountain pen for lyrics, and it was beautiful. The first time I saw this, I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world.
The first official performance of Easy is at the New Year's Eve party of the school. The limelight burned my every nerve, and my legs under the beautiful princess dress couldn't stop trembling.
"Cat, go for it!" Dai Han's voice came from behind me, I turned around and saw the three of them with firm and trusting eyes.
"Cat, you're the best singer!" Ye Xin's gentle smile gave me great encouragement. Fingertips lightly pressed, the beautiful sound of the piano was the first to break the silence, the guitar and gentle drums followed closely behind to follow, melting into the warmest melody. This was the first song that Dai Han and I had ever sung together - "Waiting for the Snowy Day". I closed my eyes and softly sang the first word, as if I was right in the middle of a winter night, seeing the crystal snowflakes dancing and painting my thoughts in pure colors.
"...... Waiting for the snowy days, will there be you, gentle company." The song ended, the stage was silent for three seconds, and suddenly burst into applause. Children in the south rarely see snowflakes, and this song, which seems to be waiting for snow, but is actually waiting for happiness, sang everyone's heart.
Getaway became famous. Soon after, the small town's art troupe invited us to perform for the Yan Di Festival the following year.
At that time, Ye Xin and I were preparing for the middle school exams, but we hid from our parents and secretly trained in the school's activity room. We sang for a while, did our homework, chatted for a while, and always seemed to have endless things to say. So many years later we sat together again, in addition to the dazzling cigarette only endless silence, I looked across the familiar face, recalling the scene of the year chatter, can only be in the heart sadly lamented things are not the same.
The more we write our songs, now it seems, but are some childish words, and at that time, that slightly scribbled pencil handwriting, but carries our full happiness.
At the Yandi Festival, our new song, "A Corner of the City," once again reaped great success, and the fame of Easy spread throughout the small town.
On that day, it had been raining heavily in the city, and we sang over and over again in the rain. The atmosphere was finally driven, and the audience, who were originally wearing raincoats and freezing their hands and feet, began to hum the melody along with our beats. There were no stage lights, no glow sticks, not even sunny weather, but that day was destined to become an important day in our lives that we cannot forget. This scene became my eternal dream, and later I dreamed of that rainy stage many times, with uncontrollable emotions raging in my heart, and waking up with nothing but grief so thick it couldn't be melted away.
After the Yandi Festival, still in that familiar park, we bought beer and cake to celebrate the first anniversary of Easy.
"What's going to happen to us?" I asked.
"Keep moving, of course!" Ye Xin said with a smile, "There's no chance that a record label will sign us away someday."
"Easy, will it last forever?" I don't know, at the time, why I asked that.
"It will be," Daikan said seriously, looking at me, "Cat, you're our lead singer forever."
Wenqian said longingly, "Cat, you take the Chinese language exam, write more moving lyrics, then we'll make an album and have a concert, and Easy will become a myth in the music industry!"
"Easy forever!" Ye Xin raised his beer.
"Getaway Forever!"
I laughed. Back then, I was so sure of what they said about forever, of all my dreams coming true.
How far is forever?
I'm not sure how much time I'll have to spend on this, but I'm sure I'll be able to make it work for you.
The summer of eighteen was a very special season for me. That year, the weather has been cloudy, sometimes sunny, sometimes thunderstorms. Our moods, like the changing weather, were up and down in the stretch of summer.
That year, the third anniversary of the establishment of the free.
That year, Dai Han, who had just finished his freshman year, went to the United States to study as an exchange student because of his excellent grades.
That year, Wenqian, who was expelled from the university for fighting in a group, finally decided to follow his relatives to Guangzhou to do business.
That year, Ye Xin failed in the college entrance exam and was only admitted to a specialized college.
That year, my results flew past the first grade line, and I was narrowly admitted to the Chinese Department of the University of C in Beijing.
From then on, the four of us were on different sides of the world. The company's name is "The Hurricane" and the name is "The Hurricane" in the Chinese language. The dream that Easy gave me was shattered overnight.
The days of the University of C are regular and monotonous, so calm that the heart is afraid.
I wrote in my blog, "...... Beijing is a very prosperous metropolis, there are a lot of new and strange things I have not seen, I have not played the amusement park, I have not seen the ancient architecture, I have not eaten the western food. Yet I can't really fall in love with this place. I never belonged here. Many early mornings, I would somehow wake up, remembering the drizzle of the small town, everything in the small town ......"
Dai Han left a comment below, "Cat, we all have to move on."
When I woke up in the morning, I would get up and write lyrics, but never compose music. I stubbornly believe that no song is complete without the music composed by Dai Han. The only thing that is incomplete is a cat's getaway.
Those early morning thoughts, scattered in the corners of the dormitory, quickly fell ash.
It took me a long time to realize that I don't like Beijing because there is no freedom here.
On my twentieth birthday, Wenqian and Ye Xin came to Beijing to celebrate my birthday, and when I saw them at the West Railway Station, I felt my breath stop.
Wenqian is a small boss, wearing a suit that is not high-grade, shoes polished, and a small purse under the armpit. He grew a circle of fat, only a year older than me but has a beer belly. Ye Xin, who followed him, dyed his hair yellow, painted a very thick makeup, black tights and red hip skirts set her off like a thirty-year-old secular woman.
Ye Xin stepped on the foot of ten centimeters high boots toward me, issued a "thump thump thump" sound, each time a heavy hit on my heart.
She gave me a hug that was both familiar and unfamiliar, then took two steps back to scrutinize me and laughed: "Straight black hair and a casual shirt, no perm, no make-up, no ear piercing, are you playing the innocent goddess, Cat?"
Wenqian also laughed, lit a cigarette and said, "Student girl."
I pulled a stiff smile. Ye Xin has probably forgotten how good she looks without makeup. I suddenly missed the pretty figure she used to have running around the playground in her baggy sportswear.
Wenqian familiarly led us into a fancy restaurant; he had been to Beijing several times to talk business and knew the metropolis better than I did.
"Cat how are you doing now?" Ye Xin asked me.
"Fine, and you?"
"Me?" Ye Xin laughed, I saw the poor quality foundation she puffed on her face peeled, "Cat, let me tell you, I now feel that the saying 'learning well is not as good as marrying well' is not true at all, you say what's the use of a woman learning so much? People only care about whether you are beautiful or not, who cares about your education? It's better to find a rich man to marry while you're still young and live the rest of your life with no worries."
My jaw dropped.
"Ye Xin you don't bring down the kids," Wen Qian smiled cheekily, "Cat, don't mind her, she just hooked up with a rich second generation. By the way, this is your dozens of boyfriends to come?"
"Go to hell!" Ye Xin punched him, "Cat, do you have a boyfriend now? How about I introduce you to one!"
"No no no! No no no ......" I hurriedly waved my hands to refuse, my tongue as if it was tied in knots.
"Also, how can anyone I know not be worthy of you, a college student." Ye Xin words can not hear any feelings.
"I ...... I don't mean this ......" I don't know what to say, a long time, only to gather the courage to ask, "you guys ...... remember Easy?"
Ye Xin did not have much of a reaction, Wenqian is a blank stare, "Cat, that's all in the past."
"But I never forgot."
"Cat, you have to be realistic, we always have to grow up, those unrealistic fantasies as a child, let it pass." Wenqian lit another cigarette, "You must not guess how much money I can make by negotiating a business now, what band ah, singing ah, which is more practical than doing business to make money? In a few years, I'll be a big boss."
I stopped talking.
It turns out that all the good things are just a fantasy, and all of them are unrealistic.
The birthday celebration call from Daikhan came at the end of the day. I told him about the changes in Wen Qian and Ye Xin.
"Cat, you are the girl who lives in a fairy tale."
I was silent.
"Cat, Wenqian is right, you have to live a realistic life. We will always have our own lives, it's not worth it to sacrifice everything for a band ......" A cacophony of voices came from Daikhan's side.
I asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm going to class."
"Go on then." I held up my phone and waited for him to hang up.
The sound of the phone hanging up was delayed in the receiver, and I wondered if Diehan was expecting me to say something.
"Daihan ......" I couldn't help but call out, and what answered me was a busy phone that shouldn't have hung up at this point.
"Daihan," I shed tears, "in fact, I have never had the luxury of free standing on the stage of the world, I can not let go of, is once you ......"
The pointer slowly points to zero, jumped to a new day, the phone in my hand, noiselessly slipped to the ground.
Once free, no longer exists; once the oath, has been broken drifting in the wind; once the friends, has been gradually far away; once the good memories, has completely become memories.
I do not know, without the free cat, how to get away again?