Chapter 77: Kiss
Auntie Chen said they didn't know when Tan Mo took the photo, and all they knew was that Tan Mo had put it there herself.
Tan Mo put Qiao Lan's photos in an album belonging to her loved ones, and carefully and secretly treasured them.
Even if Auntie Chen didn't say anything, Qiao Lan could understand that this was something Tan Mo cherished with care.
By the time Tan Mo came back in, Qiao Lan and Auntie Chen had already put away the albums and started working on the bracelet.
With Auntie Tan's help, Qiao Lan learned quickly, and once she learned, she began to enjoy playing with them, and Qiao Lan realized that Tan Mo had done the right thing in buying so many colorful ropes.
Qiao Lan not only learned it, but also made new patterns, and made seven or eight of them in various colors and combinations.
First, I replaced it with one for Tan Mo, and then chose a relatively light-colored one to wear on my own wrist.
Tan Mo saw the bracelet on Qiao Lan's wrist, which was different in color but similar in style, and the corner of her lips gently lifted up where Qiao Lan couldn't see it.
With Tan Mo's help, Qiao Lan's homework was completed three days before school started.
The remaining three days coincidentally coincide around the Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day, which is followed by Valentine's Day.
The aftermath of the New Year is still very much alive, and the Lantern Festival seems to be quite a surprise, with Auntie Chen and Uncle Chen watching with great interest.
Qiao Lan is sitting on the sofa, fiddling with her cell phone, not knowing what she's looking at.
Tan Mo, on the other hand, is geeking out because of Valentine's Day tomorrow.
Would it be inappropriate to drag Qiao Lan out tomorrow, and would Qiao Lan sense anything?
Tan Mo deeply feels that he has been getting more and more unrestrained and uncontrollable lately because of Qiao Lan's good temper, because of her endless tolerance towards him, so that he is getting more and more daring and more and more obvious.
Tan Mo think of a little paragraph on the Internet, the child made a mistake and was educated by his mother, asked him if he knew it was wrong, the child replied that he knew it was wrong, the mother continued to ask if he would dare to do it next time, but the child said he still dared to do it.
He is in such a situation now.
Knowing that his behavior was inappropriate, he dared to do it again next time, and even tried to be a little more deranged.
He even wanted to try where Qiao Lan's bottom line was, and how far he had to go before she would really rise up and really push him away.
Though he knows the end is not something he can afford, Tan Mo just can't help but try.
Qiao Lan played with her cell phone for a while and then put it on the table and got up to go to the bathroom. Less than ten seconds after she left, the screen of her cell phone lit up.
Tan Mo swears he didn't mean to see it, but he glanced at it and the word "movie tickets" in the text message caught his attention.
Tan Mo then saw that it was a message from the online booking confirming the success of the booking as well as the ticket collection code.
So Qiao Lan was ordering movie tickets?
Two text messages came, stating that Qiao Lan had booked two tickets and that the date of the booking was tomorrow.
Tomorrow, it's Valentine's Day.
Qiao Lan ordered two tickets for a Valentine's Day movie.
So who is she going out to the movies with tomorrow?
Qiao Lan came back from the bathroom and picked up her phone to confirm the text message, without mentioning the movie to Tan Mo.
Qiao Lan hadn't spoken to him, so it wasn't with herself, and Tan Mo's eyes lowered their lashes with a shudder.
Actually, it's most likely Bai Yu.
It's normal for girls to go to the movies together.
Tan Mo felt that he was simply incorrigible and now he even wanted to be jealous of a girl.
When Valentine's Day did come the next day and it seemed like everyone was celebrating Valentine's Day no matter what app they opened, Tan Mo was a little annoyed.
After having lunch and resting for a while, Aunt Chen went into Qiao Lan's room, Tan Mo and Uncle Chen were talking in the living room, when she heard Aunt Chen and Qiao Lan say, "Lanlan, you look so pretty today, you need to go out."
Qiao Lan, who had put on a little bit of light makeup to make her more and more beautiful, smiled and said, "Well, to go out."
Tan Mo Suddenly clenched his fists.
Is Qiao Lan really going out with Bai Yu? There's no need to get dressed up to go out with Bai Yu.
On the many occasions when she went out with herself, Qiao Lan never wore a face.
Uncle Chen saw Tan Mo's absentmindedness at a glance, glanced at the room and then at Tan Mo's face, and quickly withdrew from the scene, leaving Tan Mo sitting alone in the living room in a low-pressure state.
The more Tan Mo thought about it, the worse it felt in her heart. Coincidentally, Qiao Lan's cell phone was on the coffee table in the living room, and coincidentally, it was placed in a place where Tan Mo could see it at once.
The cell phone screen lit up for a moment, and Hao Ying's big, blaring WeChat stabbed into Tan Mo's line of sight.
Hao Ying sends a tweet to Qiao Lan, wishing her a happy Valentine's Day.
In fact, it is a very normal text message, just like Happy New Year, Happy Lantern Festival, but I don't know why, with the three words of Valentine's Day, and then normal text messages instantly more than a few minutes of ambiguous color.
Makes Tan Mo uncomfortable everywhere.
Tan Mo knows she shouldn't think too much, Qiao Lan couldn't have gone out to the movies with Hao Ying, but thinking about the two movie tickets, Qiao Lan who put on makeup, and then recalling the coincidental WeChat, Tan Mo's Asperger's-induced paranoia is acting up again.
Although Qiao Lan didn't like Hao Ying, Hao Ying liked Qiao Lan for two years and still does.
Even if it's not Hao Ying, is it someone else?
When Qiao Lan came out of her room, she saw Tan Mo sitting on the sofa with a not-so-flattering face.
Qiao Lan walked over and sat beside Tan Mo, "What's wrong? You look so bad all of a sudden."
Tan Mo turned around, the two faces instantly distance is only twenty centimeters, the girl because of makeup more and more exquisite incomparable features let Tan Mo chest violently stagnation, he looked at the pair of eyes he loved to the bone percolating smile, and then heard Qiao Lan said, "I booked today's five o'clock in the afternoon half of the movie tickets, let's go together to see it. "
Tan Mo froze, and Qiao Lan's eyes curled up in a smile, "I don't want to go, but if you don't go, I won't have anyone to go with me."
The girl's voice was soft, mixed with an indescribable tone of petulance. Facing such a Qiao Lan, not to mention a simple request, Tan Mo felt that he could even give her his life.
Not to mention that it would have been something he would have begged for.
So she dresses up specially, buys a ticket specially, is... To go out with him.
But it's Valentine's Day.
Does she know.
Going to a love movie on a day like this, did she know it would make it harder for him, who was already full of lust.
Tan Mo doesn't want to think about it, but he can't help it.
She had liked this girl for too long, so much so that she could not wait to rub her into the marrow of her bones, and God knows what a slightly ambiguous gesture from Qiao Lan would have caused his already insufficiently strong convictions to crumble into.
But Qiao Lan doesn't seem to know that.
She went out with him, just like the other couples who walked into the movie theater together.
Qiao Lan bought movie tickets for a special Valentine's Day screening of a romantic movie.
There were so many people that there wasn't a single empty seat in the screening room, almost all of them were couples, and everyone's face was filled with the happy flavor of love.
On Valentine's Day, sit down with your loved one and watch a love movie.
This is a school love movie, youth, ignorance, crush filled with a warm romance.
Tan Mo actually doesn't like this kind of movie, he prefers excitement and brainstorming, but today he watched this movie with unprecedented seriousness.
He watched the heroine in the movie, a girl who wasn't really pretty or good, who kept trying because she liked a dazzling boy, and the crush was heartbreaking yet touching.
But the ending of the movie is beautiful, because the dazzling hero has actually long liked this little girl who silently follows him, the final image of the movie stays in the girl leaning on the boy's shoulder, the boy lowered his head to shallow kiss on the girl's lips, the setting sun reflects the silhouette of the two people, beautiful and warm.
Tan Mo sees a couple in the front row who can't help but kiss.
After coming out of the movie theater, it was already dark, but people were still coming and going on the streets.
The little girl who bought the flowers ran up to Qiao Lan and Tan Mo and sweetly called her brother and sister how pretty you are and asked them if they wanted to buy flowers.
Qiao Lan 噗嗤一声笑了,Nowadays's little kids are so sweet-mouthed, they have to compliment you on how pretty you look before they buy flowers.
Qiao Lan bought one without any hesitation and handed the rose to Tan Mo with a smile on her face, saying, "Happy Valentine's Day, Momo."
Tan Mo received the flowers with a straight face, and he hardly dared to look Qiao Lan in the eye.
From just walking out of the movie theater, from Qiao Lan handing the flowers into his hands, he, Tan Mo was afraid that if his willpower was just a little bit worse, he would grab the girl in front of him tightly into his arms and then bite her lips heavily.
Tan Mo squeezes her fragile □□□, controlling herself with difficulty, and says Happy Valentine's Day to Qiao Lan as well.
"It's still early, let's go get something to eat and then go for a stroll", Qiao Lan said, "School starts the day after tomorrow, and we won't have a chance to come out and play again for the remaining half a year."
"Good," Tan Mo said, and he lowered his voice to just barely muffle the tremor in his voice.
They were walking in the love filled night, eating ice cream, although it was cold their hearts were hot, there were photographers wandering the streets to record every beautiful moment, Qiao Lan and Tan Mo just broke into his lens.
An exceptionally beautiful young couple, the boy gazed at the girl as if he had encompassed the entire world.
"After recording the moment with a click and wishing the two of them a long life, Qiao Lan thanked the man and looked at the clock to see that it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
The people on the street gradually less and less, the sky began to drift snowflakes, it's not early, it's time to go home, Tan Mo is ready to call Uncle Chen to let Uncle Chen pick up, but Qiao Lan pulled Tan Mo on a bus that happened to pass by.
It was the last trip of the night, and it was late enough that there was hardly anyone in the car.
"Momo, have you never taken a bus before, take this one to go back", Qiao Lan pulled Tan Mo to sit in the last row by the window, "This bus can go directly to the doorstep."
Tan Mo has never been on one.
The car is far worse than Tan Mo's sedan, which is very noisy and bumpy, but the different space and feeling make Tan Mo feel a different kind of romance.
The car stops at every station, occasionally people get on, but the last seat of the car is not disturbed by other people, snowflakes fluttering outside the window, Qiao Lan pillowed on Tan Mo's shoulder and gradually fell asleep.
She's really sleepy, her cheek resting on Tan Mo's shoulder, and she's too good to be true.
Tan Mo didn't dare to move a muscle, at this moment he just wanted the car to never stop, just like this for the rest of his life.
The car reminds the next stop to get off soon. Tan Mo carefully turns his head to look at the girl who is still sleeping peacefully, wanting to wake her up, but stops at this moment. He looks down at the girl's face which is close to his hand, and slowly lowers his head, apprehensively but reverently, and carefully kisses Qiao Lan on the lips at the stop before the car is about to get off soon.
At that moment, the girl who had been sleeping did not know when to wake up hands wrapped around the teenager, a light smile, pulled the person down, gently bit the teenager's cold lips.
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Published at: 08/10/2024 12:00