The Guest: Book 2

by Yufeng Zhuang

Chapter 14

  Grew Up In One Night

  Although it’s already autumn in the university, but the dawn was still very early, just the five o’clock of the early morning, the campus was already all bright. Today was the weekend, a lot of the students had already gone back to their homes, and the chill autumn wind let the people in the campus lose the interest to come out to have the morning exercise. The girl student apartments all had the elegant names, such as Cinnamon Garden, Plum Garden, Pear Garden… The space under the Plum Garden was all empty at this time, no cars, no lighting the candles to show love boy students, also no in-and-out and chirping nonstop girls, just a holding a bunch of flowers and carried vacuum flask boy student stood over there.

  The flowers were just collected by the side of the Rose river, still had some dew on them, just like the girl blossomed for the first time last night, in the vacuum flask was the just cooked chicken soup, no matter how long it’s put, it still won’t be cooled off, just like the fire-hot heart of the boy student at this time. In the cold wind, Sheilor rubbed his hands, looked up at a certain room on the seventh floor of the Plum Garden, had the happy smile on his face.

  He didn’t sleep for the last night, until the sunlight of the university town shined into the window, he then found out that he seemed to have done a lot of things wrong, how could he allow Charming to go back all by herself last night? Up until now, he still felt that all those wonderful things happened in last night was just a dream, he had a kind of unreal feeling… And he found out that he actually never sent flowers to Charming, this was a kind of mistake couldn’t be excused, if let Shielding to know about it, he surely would scold him strip.

  In order to not let the girl to feel disappointment, he began to have the remedial measures right away, cooked the chicken soup, collected the flowers, and even carefully went to the hours pharmacy to buy the ointment and the morning-after pill. If Charming got hurt, she could use the ointment; if Charming was afraid of accident, then she could have the morning-after pill. Of course, if Charming didn’t want to have the pill, had the baby in the future, then they would get married. With the ability he had, he should be able to find a descent job, worked hard to raise the family. And waited after Charming gave born to the baby, then he would come back to study, and then…

  The immersed in the not to the point illusion of happiness little boy student, was unaware that his smile was very stupid at this time, and he even didn’t know that illusion was always just illusion. Sheilor had already made up his mind, he would no more escape for his identity as the fugitive of the federation, he would take response for this romance and that girl. This kind of heavy feeling of growing up in one night, didn’t let him to fell sweaty, but instead he had a kind of sense of achievement sent out from his heart.

  The time pasted minute by minute, more and more girl students came out from the Plum Garden apartment, they looked at Sheilor just like looking at a fool. But Sheilor didn’t care about the people’s eyes at all, just felt happy slightly, he just wait slightly anxiously for Charming to show up. He began to feel the nervousness, because he found out, when he met Charming a moment later, what the first sentence he supposed to say with her, could it be that he asked her “Have you had your breakfast”?

  “Sheilor?” A slightly fat girl with a pony tail was yawning in front of the door of the apartment, she suddenly saw Sheilor, couldn’t help laughing up. She was the classmate of Charming, the single dormitories also next to each other, didn’t know how many times she had already seen Charming sat face to face to have meals with the little porter in the cafeteria, but this was the first time that she saw Sheilor came to the door of the Plum Garden apartment.

  “Finally give up those impractical inferiority complex, come to chase after our Charming?” That slightly fat girl student looked at Sheilor and “Heh heh” kept smiling, but actually she was somewhat surprised in her heart. Because they just showed up so lightly, therefore not that many people would really think that Charming would be together with this little porter.

  Sheilor had an awkward smile and said, “Yes.” That’s right, the development of the relationship between Charming and him was really too fast, it seemed that a lot of the inevitable processes in the middle had already been jumped over, even according to what it said on those movies, to chase after her one more time, what would he be afraid of? Wasn’t that a kind of very happy taste? Moreover… He had already had her yesterday, he thought like this in his mind.

  “No need to wait over here, Charming is not at her room at all, I was ready to ask her to come down to have the breakfast with me just now.” The words of this slightly fat girl student ruthlessly broke the preparation which Sheilor had spent the whole morning on.

  “Charming is not in?’ Sheilor was surprised to ask.

  “Yes. I heard somebody said that her family is holding a what party today, probably she had already gone back there yesterday.”

  Sheilor carried the flowers and held the vacuum flask to stand on the outside of the Plum Garden apartment, couldn’t help to shake his head disappointedly. He then found out that he even didn’t have the phone number of Charming, he then knew that he did it very badly on these aspects. As for Charming’s family, he heard her to mention a few words slightly about it. It seemed that they were also the top people of the university town. As for the specific address or something, he was not so sure. Because it was very obvious, fellow student Charming didn’t have any good feeling for her family.

  Dressed in a simple but elegant clothes, the keeping people miles away black frame glasses were put back on her nose bridge, Charming sat on the sofa in the living room and looked at the boy on the opposite side with a smile on the face, listened to the other party kept apologizing to her, said how rule he was at the gate of the school that day, asked her to please forget him, so on and so on. Today Chang family had a small party, and this young student who picked out by the elders to meet her was exactly also her schoolmate in the Pear Garden university, that angry childe of the state senator at the first day of the school.

  “I am really very sorry.” The childe of the state senator said very cordially, “I understood later, as the believer of George Colin, even stay in the federation to work, actually it also can help the federation to improve the present this kind of information imbalance condition, let the unfairness of the society to become a bit less.”

  Charming pushed the black frame glasses a bit, listened very seriously. On the one hand, she really didn’t have too much malevolence to the believer of George Colin. And more importantly, the intelligence told it very clearly about the relationship between this childe of state senator and that miss of Chad family. And that miss of the Chad family probably would be the only woman who could get close to “prince”. If she wanted to get close to “prince” in the dancing party, then she must needed a bridge, this childe of the senator in front of her, would be the only bridge she could find without any question.

  “Charming, would you like to be my dancing partner at the bi-moons festival dancing party?” The name of the childe of the state senator was Bowie Hang, a very pretty name, a not that annoying face, he apologized to Charming sincerely, and then put forward the invitation even more sincerely.

  “I’d like to, but you need to make it clear, this doesn’t mean that I yield to the arrangement of my parents.” After finished this words, Charming felt that she performed the rebellious young girl to the point, still hadn’t been swallowed by the superior rule of the federation, so she was somewhat satisfied. However, she didn’t figure it out, she was a somewhat rebellious young girl originally, didn’t need to perform it, perhaps that with far-reaching eyes senator Medellin, took a fancy to her for this trait.

  Bowie Hang had a smile and said, “Maybe you would change your mind in the future.”

  Thought of the task she had in the bi-moons festival, thought of that she had once asked Sheilor to be her dancing partner personally, thought of the looking at each other in the eyes in
the restaurant yesterday and the sweetness of last night, Charming lowered her head, had the slightly pale on the face. Bowie Hang asked with concern, “Whether feeling uncomfortable somewhere?”

  Charming had a smile forcedly, shook her head to indicate that she was fine. But at the next moment in the bathroom of the bedroom on the second floor, she began to cover her abdomen with her hands, the pale face dripped out the cold sweat, bit her teeth and said to himself in the mirror with the voice in hate, “Sheilor, you this damn bastard.”

  Sheilor was really very bastard on this matter, Charming thought hatefully in her heart, although I am going to dump you, but how could you not make a call to me, and not come to see me? The more she thought, the more she felt injustice, the more she felt that the impulse of last night would make her to appear not too self-respect, she couldn’t help crying out in the bathroom.

  Need to forget about him, need to forget about him, the bi-moons dancing party is going to start soon, she has already had him once in her life, then just forget about him, no more remember him. Charming wiped off the tears, cleared up her appearance, wore that black frame glasses on, turned back into a quiet girl student again, and walked out of the bathroom.

  “I just want you to check a phone number for me, is it that difficult?” The whole day hadn’t seen Charming Sheilor began to be on tenterhooks, just like that ant on the hot pan, at this time he thought of that he had been indulging in the H1 area some time ago, and seldom came to meet with Charming, then he felt that himself at that time was really foolish to the extreme, and had a kind of ominous feeling faintly, that made his face appeared especially serious and excited at this time, he stared at that rogue official on the opposite side of the table and roared in the low voice, “You are the section chief of the FBI, to check a phone number is just the thing of one words!”

  Shielding ignored his anger, just looked at him quietly. They two people were at a go-begging pub outside the backdoor of the Pear Garden university, there was not a customer around. Shielding frowned his eyebrows and asked, “How strict the First Charter has the protection for the right to privacy, you don’t need me to tell you, you also know it clearly, of course I can’t deliberately break the law as an official of the government, but the most concerned thing I have at this time is… Why do you want to check the phone number of that called Charming girl?”

  Sheilor silenced for a moment, looked up and somewhat sheepishly said, “She is my girlfriend, I haven’t seen her for a day now, I worry a little bit about her.”

  The cigarette held in Shielding’s fingers had a bit shiver, he looked at Sheilor seriously, said word by word, “You repeat it once again.”

  “I know that this thing is a bit strange, until now I still can’t figure it out yet. I also know that I am very bastard, even don’t have my girlfriend’s phone number incredibly… I am embarrassed to ask her classmates, this thing is really disgraceful…”

  Sheilor kept talking with the silly smile on his face, on the Capital planet, he had the friends too few, this rogue official in front of him just right was the most intimate person, he fell into the happiness, of course he would be willing to tell his happiness to the other party.

  Shielding smoke the cigarette a mouthful, waved his hand to stop his talking, leaned his back against the back of the chair, frowned his eyebrows and heaved a sigh, “Over, it’s really over.”

  “What?”

  “Look at you this boy this like idiot smile, and the talking way which is even more nagging than a woman, I am pretty sure that you are really in love with that Charming.” Shielding said with the gloomy face, “But the problem is, have you ever felt that there is a little strange in this matter?”