Chapter 83: Love Story

This time it was Qiao Lan's turn to be stunned.

Because Qiao Lan couldn't see or figure out why Tan Mo would ask her such a question.

Qiao Lan feels that after all they've been through in the two years they've known each other, they've finally come together, no matter what.

Why together, because I liked you a lot, for a long time, and it just so happened that by chance I found out that you liked me too, so we got together.

How natural and soothing.

Between them, even if no one had ever said the word "like", the way they looked at each other, the way they acted, had been obvious for a long, long time. And on the other side, they'd hugged and kissed, so intensely that Qiao Lan thought they didn't have to explain it at all, assuming that Tan Mo, like herself, understood everything.

But Tan Mo now suddenly asks why she wants to be together.

Tan Mo doesn't get it.

He doesn't even understand his fondness for him.

When the bell rang and everyone had to go downstairs for radio gymnastics after the second period, Tan Mo lowered her eyes and turned around to head out of the classroom, but before she could take two steps, she was suddenly grabbed by Qiao Lan.

"Come with me", Qiao Lan pulls Tan Mo in the opposite direction of the playground.

Between the school building and the school building, there is a lawn, a path in the middle of the lawn, and a spiral staircase in the middle of the path, which is very secretive, and there is usually no one here, and even less during the time of exercises.

If she didn't go to the drill, the homeroom teacher would surely ask questions later, but Qiao Lan thought it was more important to make it clear to Tan Mo.

Tan Mo obediently let Qiao Lan pull him along, and when he turned into the small spiral staircase, he held Tan Mo down on the steps before speaking, "Tan Mo."

Tan Mo sits on the stairs and looks up at Qiao Lan standing in front of him, "Huh?"

Qiao Lan pressed one hand on the small low wall at the entrance of the steps, and looked at Tan Mo with downcast eyes, saying, "I always thought that we were together because our hearts were the same as each other, so even if we didn't say something, you and I would understand," Qiao Lan seriously said, "But I now realize that some steps in a relationship really can't be skipped at all, and the sense of ceremony is really a very important thing."

Tan Mo opened his mouth, unsure of what to say.

Because he didn't understand what Qiao Lan meant.

He tilted his head to look at Qiao Lan, who stared at Tan Mo, "So let's just ask all the questions that have been dropped, Tan Mo, why did you steal a kiss from me that day?"

Tan Mo's fingers tightened.

Because, Tan Mo mumbled, listening to the sound of his heart beating.

"I like you."

Loved it to the bone for a long time.

Qiao Lan smiled, her dark eyes shining brightly as her body crouched down a bit before continuing, "So why do you think I kissed you back?"

Tan Mo was silent for a moment and spoke honestly, "I don't know."

Tan Mo doesn't know.

Even today, Tan Mo still can't figure it out, maybe because he kissed her and she unconsciously responded, or maybe she just hasn't figured it out yet.

Qiao Lan was so angry at Tan Mo's comment of not knowing that she wanted to grab Tan Mo by the collar and yell at him for not knowing! But in the end, she held back and continued, "Then why do you think I'm with you?"

Tan Mo was silent again for a moment before saying, "Have mercy on me."

Qiao Lan : .......???

Qiao Lan was really pissed off this time.

"I pity you?"

Qiao Lan didn't know what to say, probably because she was so angry that she didn't care about her image, she crossed her long legs and stepped on the step next to Tan Mo, her arm resting on her knee, and suddenly the two of them got closer and closer to each other.

"What do I pity you for? What do you have for me to pity? Don't turn your head, look at me", Qiao Lan reached out and turned Tan Mo's turned face back, "And I'm the kind of person who decides his life in a haphazard manner because he feels sorry for you?"

There were plenty of people in the world for her to pity, but Tan Mo was the only one she chose.

Besides, Qiao Lan couldn't understand why Tan Mo felt sorry for him, wasn't she the one who should be pitied more than Tan Mo?

"I can't figure out why you would think that, compared to my family's difficult situation, no father, no mother, no one to take care of me, a whole lot of trouble, have you ever pitied me?"

Tan Mo shook his head, how could he feel sorry for Qiao Lan, in his heart Qiao Lan is beautiful and smart, excellent to make people feel perfect.

Tan Mo's view of Qiao Lan is no longer simply a filter, and Qiao Lan feels a little embarrassed even listening to Tan Mo's words, and smiles, "It's so nice to say, I almost believed it."

"It's all true," says Tan Mo, who has Qiao Lan in his heart.

"Then do you know, in my heart, you are also the same?" Qiao Lan slowed down her speech, as if she was worried that he wouldn't be able to understand or hear, almost word for word, "Maybe it's true that also starting to get close to you I feel pity, but that's not all, there is no one whose relationship with anyone is only maintained by pity."

"You don't know how good you are in my heart, better than any boy I've ever met", Qiao Lan reached out and stroked Tan Mo's cheek, "so good looking, so smart, so powerful, you don't know how much I admire you, how much I want to stay by your side and go on with you like this, shh, don't talk, wait for me to finish. You don't know how much I admire you, how much I want to stay by your side and go on like this with you forever.

Qiao Lan put back her foot on the step, squatted in front of Tan Mo, looked up at him and continued, "I'm telling the truth, when you went to the US without telling me anything, every day I thought about you, when you would come back, and whether you would just leave me behind and walk away. I would also be afraid, afraid that you had met another person where I couldn't see, and that you would treat her like you did me, and I was also afraid that one day in the future you would fall in love with a girl I didn't know, and from then on be just a friend on better terms with me."

"I also tried many times to test if you like me too, so I suffered for a long time. Tan Mo, after saying so much, what I want to tell you is that I never stayed with you because I pitied you, I wanted to take care of you for the rest of my life because I liked you, I didn't like you to get too close to other girls because I liked you, that day when you kissed me I kissed you back because I liked you, and I decided to stay with you and wanted to be your girlfriend still because I liked you, never a second reason."

"I didn't expect you to be so insecure, I'm sorry I didn't say that at that time", Qiao Lan held Tan Mo's hand and tilted his head with his chin on Tan Mo's knee and whispered softly, "From now on, you can hear it as many times as you want, Tan Mo, I really like you... I've never liked anyone like this before, I want to be together for the rest of my life... I've finally finished, now it's your turn to say it..."

Tan Mo grabbed Qiao Lan's hand, just wanting to hold the person in his arms, but in the end, before he could make a move, a head protruded out from the hidden small stairway, and spoke quietly

"What are you doing here?"

Also with Tan Mo, Qiao Lan: "......"

Frozen for a split second first calmed down first Tan Mo : "...... Talk."

One look at the two people missing from the drill and the homeroom teacher who has been looking for almost ten minutes: "......"

When can't you have a heart-to-heart talk? Where can't we have a heart-to-heart? Do we have to come to this shithole to talk during recess? If you have something to say, you have to say it now, can't you wait until after recess?

The more the classroom teacher thought about it, the angrier he got.

He had turned a blind eye to what these two were doing, after all, these two hadn't fallen behind in their grades, but today's behavior was just too much! He had taken students for decades, and had never seen such a bold early love affair!

Luckily he saw it, if the headmaster had seen it, he would have been criticized by the whole school.

This can't end like this, it has to be managed!

Even if you two relationship home has defaulted, even if you two grades are the first and second in the grade, you must manage, this let the school's younger students see how to behave, teach bad who is responsible!

So a group of students in class eighteen found that the homeroom teacher angrily brought Qiao Lan and Tan Mo back, and took the two of them out again, and disappeared for an entire language class, and didn't come back until the language class was over.

Qiao Lan and Tan Mo wrote a lesson check-up, Qiao Lan was good and wrote 800 words, Tan Mo's check-up report was just one sentence, "I'm sorry teacher, I'm wrong".

No one knew what the two had gone to do, who made their grades so good that even Bai Yu thought the homeroom teacher was looking for them because of academic problems.

The homeroom teacher finally finished educating the two and gave strict orders against being so wild in school.

So the two men, who had been educated, finally settled down for a few days.

In fact, it's not the homeroom teacher's fault, but Tan Mo's confession of love from Qiao Lan that finally ended the period of self-doubt that had made him restless, and he even reacted half-slowly to the sweetness of the confession, and was happy as a little fool.

It was not until Friday night, probably because the power of Qiao Lan's words finally went down slowly, Tan Mo's sweet and dizzy head could finally think rationally, and the little fool finally stopped being stupid and became excited.

Qiao Lan was studying late at night when she received a text message from Tan Mo, who said she was outside the school building.

Qiao Lan looks at the biology teacher sitting at the podium.

Great, it's not homeroom night today, and homeroom has been a no-show this evening, so it doesn't look like it's coming at all.

Qiao Lan ran to ask her biology teacher for a leave of absence, and the biology teacher didn't have any doubts about Qiao Lan as a good student, and even asked her to take care of her health with great concern.

Qiao Lan nodded her head obediently, which led her out of the classroom and out of the building, and just as she came down the steps she was hugged.

Tan Mo almost lifted her up in the air, Qiao Lan panicked, busy hugging Tan Mo's neck and whispered, "Why did you suddenly come here at night."

"Missed you," Tan Mo whispered, her cheek buried against Qiao Lan's collarbone.

"I get to go home tomorrow for the weekend," Qiao Lan rubbed Tan Mo's head, "had to pop over today."

"Said I missed you," Tan Mo whispered after repeating it again, "Does what you said the other day still count?"

"What words," Qiao Lan said deliberately, "I said a lot of words the other day."

Tan Mo placed her on the ground and lowered his head and gently rubbed his forehead against Qiao Lan's, "You said you would speak to me whenever I wanted to hear it, and I want to hear it now."

Qiao Lan laughed softly, her fingers stroked over Tan Mo's cheeks and finally pinched on his earlobe, standing on tiptoe and whispering in his ear, "Say what? I like you, I like you so much, I like you the most, there are so many, which one do you like?"