In the third week of summer vacation, Marco's good friend Natsume came to her house to play. Two girls are sitting on the floor, watching movies while drinking coke. Sunlight hooked several small squares on the ground through the glass, and cicadas sang one after another. Marco felt very comfortable. But Natsume doesn't seem to be happy. She usually talks a lot. She is quiet at the moment, with her head down and playing with her skirt. Marco asked her, "What's the matter with you?"

Natsume said hesitantly, "I seem to like someone."

Marco looked at her with a straight face, shook his head and went on watching the movie. Natsume said this sentence at least twice a year, and she has long been used to it. Natsume is a beautiful girl with a good family background. Her parents are famous businessmen in this city, and her brother is studying MBA in America. Such a girl has no concept of learning at all, and her goal in life is to eat, drink and be merry.

"Hey, people's mood is very complicated now. Can you comfort me? " Natsume looks very depressed.

"Your mood is never simple." Marco waved helplessly: "Say, who is it this time?"

"His name is Wang Tuo Gu, you know? I saw him that day ... "

Marco has turned off her hearing system and stared at the TV screen wholeheartedly. The movie Flying Turtle is about children during the Iraq war. Hard life, desperate girl, often planning suicide with her blind brother. Marco sometimes thinks that people like Natsume can only understand how many things in this world are more important than love after spending a month in the Middle East.

A few days later, Marco met Wang Tuo Wali himself. She was taking a nap that day when her cell phone suddenly rang. She picked it up and vaguely heard someone say, "Is that Al Marco? Your friend Natsume fainted in my house. Please come and pick her up if you are not busy. "

What? Marco was frightened and woke up. He immediately sat up and took out a pen and paper: "Please tell me the address."

Wang Tuogu's family lives in a high-class villa in the suburbs. Marco hates that she takes the time to pay the taxi fare. Something happened to these dandies, and the poor need to clean up the mess. It's time to starve them for a few weeks. She rang the doorbell angrily, but when the door opened, she stopped.

The boy in front of me is obviously a punk with messy hair, exaggerated clothes and impatient expression. But his eyes remind Marco of a poem: Your eyes have no secrets and no boundaries. At that moment, she suddenly understood why so many girls put their minds on entertainment gossip. With such a beautiful boy, even if you look at it a few times a day, you will feel refreshed.

Wang Tuo Gu let her in and explained, "I have called a doctor. It's just heatstroke. Just take a break. "

Natsume is lying on the sofa, but the air conditioner in the room is on. Marco wondered: "How can you get heatstroke?"

"I don't know. I didn't know she was outside until the security guard knocked on the door. "

His voice sounds disgusting. Marco turned to look at him, whispered "I'm sorry", and then patted Xia's face: "Hey, wake up!"

Natsume opened her eyes for a long time. She didn't understand everything around her. Chen Zhen pulled her up and walked away. In the taxi, Xia Mucai told her, "Actually, I pretended to faint. How's it going? Am I a good actor? "

Marco thought she was angry and ridiculous. If she didn't grow up together, she vowed never to talk to this person again.

2

After school starts, I will be a senior three. Marco's parents have always been very open and never put pressure on Marco. But she couldn't relax. She studied hard for ten years just for the last piece of paper. Besides, she is the teacher's most proud student, and she can't be idle anyway. While she is busy with her studies, she is preparing for various competitions and getting more awards and extra points in the college entrance examination.

I didn't expect to see Wang Tuogu again on the field. He sat behind her and was also a student of the competition. This time, he wore a T-shirt with the head of a rock star, a pair of wide plaid shorts and a shiny stud on his left ear.

Marco hesitated for a moment, hesitating whether to greet him or not. He has spoken first: "Why? I don't look like high flyers? "

"Of course not." Marco didn't care too much about him, and sat down and didn't look back. Wang Tuo forgot to follow, quietly finished answering the paper and left with others. On the way, Marco saw him again. He rode a black bike and wore a blue baseball cap, and soon disappeared.

He is really good-looking. But why is he a good student?

Later, Marco learned that Wang Tuo Gu ranked in the top ten in the school, and achieved excellent results in all subjects. And his mother is a fashion designer, personally choosing clothes for her son, so her eyes are so avant-garde.

They often meet in schools, offices, various competitions, cram schools and small auditoriums. But every time they just nodded faintly without saying hello. Excellent students in every school meet like this. On the surface, they are calm, but in fact, they can't wait for each other's grades to plummet. One more competitor is one more threat. Marco is not without emotion. Who says students are the happiest? Now the school as a whole is a concentrated society.

If not, Marco may never know Wang Tuogu. She doesn't like arrogant people, and she doesn't like people who are too eye-catching. But that day, when she came out of the teacher's office, it was completely dark. There is a piece of land in front of the teaching building, and the snow has not melted yet. She slipped carelessly and her ankle hurt badly. She let out a scream and almost cried.

A voice behind him said, "What's the matter?"

Chen Zhen looked back and saw Wang Tuogu coming downstairs. He also looked at her and immediately understood. Take a few big steps towards her, pick her up and run.

The result is a broken left foot, and I have to be hospitalized for at least half a month. After listening to the doctor's words, Marco was blindsided. She hurriedly asked, "Is there any other way, I have to take the exam ..."

Wang Tuo Gu interrupted her and said to the doctor, "Please go through the hospitalization formalities at once, and I will inform her parents."

"What? Hey you ... "

He put a glove in her mouth, turned and walked out.

From then on, Wang Tuogu became Marco's mentor. He comes to Marco every day after school to explain the main points of review. Although Marco is not very professional, he understood at once. Of course, there will be other things, such as: "Aren't your parents worried when you come home so late every day?"

"How many college entrance examination students have you seen go home early?"

Another example: "I think Beauvoir and Conde really match."

"Beauvoir is Sartre's wife, you idiot!"

Wang Tuogu's topic is completely different. His expression is focused and his words are concise. When Marco looks at him, sometimes he can't help but be distracted. It's a pity that at the age of seventeen or eighteen, all the scores were sacrificed. What a wonderful time. If you can be like Natsume, you can set aside some time to buy clothes and devote yourself to love, which is not necessarily a bad thing. What kind of cautious, implicit and sincere feelings will be?

"Hey, do you have a cramp in your head? ! "Wang Tuo knocked at her with a book:" If you don't take it seriously, I'll tear you down! "

In order to sacrifice youth in the future, life is sweet. Marco also responded to Wang Tuo Gu with a book and shouted, "Can you speak better?"

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Xia arrived before the voice sounded: "Marco, I am dead this time, and my math score is only 48 points!" Her sad face froze when she saw Wang Tuo's bone.

"Let's call it a day." Wang Tuo Gu resumed his cold expression, packed his things and left without looking at Natsume. Natsume stood at the door and didn't respond for a long time. Marco shouted "No" in her mind and asked her softly, "Should you ..."

"That's what I think!" Natsume slammed the door and left.

Marco rubbed her head: "Girl ... alas."

three

When I was discharged from the hospital, the winter vacation had already begun, and the winter of 2007 was surprisingly cold. Marco looked at the heavy snow outside the window, but no one answered the phone in summer. She originally wanted Wang Tuo Gu to help explain, but she guessed with her toes that he would refuse. So I have to give up my idea and concentrate on my study.

Before the Spring Festival, Natsume's parents visited Chen Zhen's house and kept boasting about Marco: "I really hope that Natsume in our family works half as hard as you." Oh, Jane, you usually help her more. "

"No, this exam topic is already very difficult, and I have a hard time myself." Marco is all smiles, and her parents are doing a small business. Usually, Xia's parents help her. Such pleasantries are inevitable.

After returning to the room, Marco dialed the telephone of Summer Purpose again, but no one answered. More than ten years of feelings disappeared because of a misunderstanding, and Marco was not depressed. But the bottom of my heart will ask myself, is it really just a misunderstanding? No other emotions at all?

She understands.

On the first day of school, she went to No.3 teaching building to find Natsume. But Natsume refused to get out of his seat. Marco had no choice but to run into her classroom, pulling her sleeve and whispering, "Hey, come on, don't you understand my personality?"

Natsume suddenly stood up and threw all the new textbooks at Marco. She roared: "I hate you, why are you all better than me!" " Good homework, a pair of good parents, even boys like you better! I was so kind to him that Lian Xiao never smiled at me once! "

Summer purpose tears kept flowing out, and the students around him turned to look at them. As the leading actor, Wang Tuogu seems to have heard nothing and turned the pages lazily. Marco looked at him awkwardly and reached for Natsume, but Natsume pushed her away first: "Get out! I said I hate you! "

Marco slipped and sprained his right left foot. She bit her teeth, stood up and said to Natsume, "If you have to think so, I can't help it. Think of Marco as blind and treat you as a friend! Damn it, you are more stupid than I thought! You pig! " She said that and left angrily.

Marco never took the initiative to find Natsume, occasionally seeing Wang Tuogu, and she also bowed her head and quickly left. Spring is coming, and several winter jasmine flowers in the school are blooming, timidly sticking their heads out. Marco wrapped his clothes and quickly stepped forward, feeling overwhelming loneliness and slightly cold like the wind.

Then flowers bloom in spring. At this time, the school is quiet, the college entrance examination is just around the corner, and everyone is very nervous. The atmosphere of senior three is like a besieged team. The slightest sign of trouble will wipe out the whole army. Marco was more careful, and even her breathing became lighter unconsciously.

Finally, someone couldn't hold on, but that was Natsume. After a class, the head teacher of Natsume found Marco and said to her, "Natsume hasn't been to school for several days, and her parents are abroad. A few days ago, she was in a very abnormal mood. Sometimes she cried in the middle of class. I heard that you are good friends ... "

Marco paused and ran out quickly.

She knew Natsume must be hiding in her hometown. After her father bought a new house, the old house has been empty, and Natsume is full of affection for that room. She once said that she must move there after graduating from high school.

It was evening when we arrived, the sky was groggy and the clouds seemed to be burning. Marco knocked hard at the door, but there was no sound in the room. She shouted, "Natsume, I know you're in there, you little puss-head. What can you hide? " ! Don't you hate me? Come out and fight me! "

When the eviction method failed, she changed her tactics: "You are jealous of me. You know I'm jealous of you, too? Growing up, I never had a relaxing day. How can we live up to our parents' hard work and poor grades? You think I don't want to play? Who doesn't want to live a comfortable life ... "she said, her nose sour.

At this moment, a subtle voice came from inside: "I want to see him ..."

Marco quickly dialed the telephone of Wang Tuogu. Half an hour later, he appeared in the corridor. When Marco saw him, tears came out first. Wang Tuo paused, held her in her arms and knocked on the door: "Hey Natsume, if you like me, tell me yourself, and I won't believe what others convey."

The door opened and the two girls hugged each other and began to cry. Wang Tuo watched and whistled loudly.

four

Marco remembers the hug. On the evening of late spring, the wind is cool and the air is filled with faint flowers. His shoulders are big and strong, warm, like being wrapped in a mass of warm water, with unspeakable comfort and intimacy.

In those days before the college entrance examination, Natsume did homework together at home in Marco every day. She is very serious. It's useless to sharpen a gun at the last minute, but it's better than giving up on yourself. And Wang Tuo ancient is extremely rare to have patience with her. Marco knows what he wrote in Natsume's notebook.

Later, the hot June passed safely.

On the day when the score was announced, Natsume told Marco on QQ: "Actually, I haven't been to Rainbow for a long time. He is too arrogant, and I am not in such a good mood to accompany him all the time! "

"That you that day ..."

"I just want to make him worry. Who knows that he will be so good to me later. "

You! Marco is in distress situation.

"To tell you a secret, Wang Tuogu asked me which school you want to go to. I didn't tell him that you miss Peking University."

Marco froze.

"Let me tell you another secret. He intends to report to Shanghai Jiaotong University. "

Marco smiled gently.

This summer is like a poem, moving and meaningful. Marco felt that she had suddenly grown up a lot. That kind of growth is like a flower that suddenly blooms in her heart, silent and graceful. After a long summer vacation, she visited the land of Shanghai, Magnolia and Suzhou Creek, which is a beautiful place. She looked at the crowd and wanted to call Wang Tuo Gu, but just took out her mobile phone and the phone rang. She picked it up and heard Wang Tuo's pretentious deep voice: "I'm at Peking University, and you?"

"You ..." Marco swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Hum, Natsume thought she wouldn't tell me, so I couldn't find out!"

"But ... I'm at Shanghai Jiaotong University ..."

Both of them were silent, and then they laughed.

Therefore, there is no smooth sailing in this world.