Chapter 13: Each Other
Her sweet lips pressed against the boy’s thin lips, rubbing gently. Her movements were no longer as clumsy as before. First, she teased, then she gently pried open his teeth with her small tongue. The tip of her tongue licked his two soft lips, and their pink tongues intertwined. Their noses touched ambiguously, and they exchanged saliva, a substitute for the merging of their bodies and souls.
In just one night, she was no longer the naive little girl who was completely ignorant of such carnal matters. She had mastered these skills… just to increase the possibility that the boy would like her a little more. She had finally found her belonging.
Su Xi heard the boy whimper as if he were running out of oxygen. She instantly relaxed her grip, no longer forcing herself on him as she had before. She reluctantly let go of his lips, savoring the soft touch that lingered. She tilted her head up and met Su Yu’s gaze.
Their gazes seemed to melt in the gentle sunlight, their subtle expressions clearly visible to each other. The boy’s thick, long eyelashes fanned out in a beautiful arc, with a hint of evasion.
Zhiyan was embarrassed, Su Xi thought happily. His gaze was no longer as aggressive as a knife. Although she always pretended not to care, such a gaze seemed to be able to pierce several holes in her body, the blood gushing out, a raw pain.
The boy’s shy appearance was so cute. His soft earlobes were flushed red, his eyes evasive, as if he were afraid of her. But they had already…
Su Xi leaned closer into the boy’s embrace. The two hot bodies were pressed tightly together under the blanket. She traced circles on his chest with her slender fingers, a rare joy sparkling in her usually dark and gloomy eyes. The feeling of happiness made her heart burn. She said, a little shyly.
“Zhiyan, do you not hate me as much anymore? Oh… I don’t mean ‘like,’ it’s just…” Su Xi’s self-consciousness flared up again. She was afraid she had said the wrong thing, that he would misunderstand her. “I’m not that greedy. It’s enough that you don’t hate me. I’m already very happy.”
“Mmm…”
Su Yu looked away, revealing the flushed curve of his ear under his hair. The girl lifted her blushing face, her eyes sparkling with a dazzling light. His gentle voice fell softly by her ear, “Mmm, I don’t hate you.”
“Then…” Su Xi’s eyes were full of joy. She pressed a little closer to the boy, her snow-white thighs squeezing into the crook of his curled legs, enveloping his desire in softness. She breathed hot air on the boy, her fingers on his chest tracing the lines of his muscles. She explicitly suggested, “Can we do it again?”
“Xiao Xi, I…”
Su Yu avoided the girl’s burning gaze. The soft, white fullness pressing against his chest was almost suffocating him. Morning was the time when a young man’s desires were at their peak. He was going crazy with lust.
“What? Don’t you want to, Zhiyan?”
Su Xi pressed even closer.
The boy’s morning body seemed particularly restless. The source of the heat in the bed was the first to ignite his desire. She gazed at the boy’s obsidian-like, clear pupils, which were contracting. A crimson flush rippled at the corners of his eyes, looking incredibly beautiful. “Doing this with Zhiyan is so comfortable… I like it very much. Don’t you want it too?”
“But… but today is your birthday. Let’s celebrate properly.”
“Celebrate my birthday? Do you mean you want to celebrate my birthday for me, Zhiyan?”
Su Yu’s lips curled into a smile. In the bed, his hand, which was hidden behind him, was trembling slightly. It was still very difficult to move his fingers, but this was a good sign.
The girl’s childish appearance always gave off an innocent and naive vibe. Su Yu smiled, but the lie he had just told made him feel a little uncomfortable. After a night of madness… the girl’s trust in him seemed to have reached an unprecedented peak.
This was not a deception. It was for the girl’s own good. He clearly knew what the girl wanted, but he could only give a forced answer in his heart.
“Yes. Didn’t you say you’ve never really celebrated your birthday?”
“Zhiyan…” Su Xi was probably not as pure and harmless as she pretended to be in front of the boy. The smile on her lips suddenly stiffened, and her cat-like eyes warily sized up the gentle expression on the boy’s face. “You’re suddenly so nice to me, Zhiyan. It makes me feel a little sudden.”
“I just… a little. Did I hurt you last night?”
Su Yu glanced at the small, dried bloodstains on the pillowcase. His clear and moist eyes dimmed a little, and guilt lingered in them for a moment. He struggled to reach out and touch the girl’s pale little face, but he couldn’t cross this short distance.
“No, of course not. How could it hurt? It didn’t hurt at all.”
Su Xi looked at the boy’s struggling movements, and her heart was instantly in a mess. Her heart trembled. Her eyes were wet, and she tried her best to put on a bright and moving smile to dispel the paleness on her face. She grabbed Su Yu’s hand and pressed it against her face, shaking her head vigorously. “There is nothing happier than this. Zhiyan’s birthday gift… I like it very much.”
“We won’t do it. I’ll listen to you, Zhiyan. We’ll celebrate my birthday.”
Su Xi curved her crescent-moon-like eyes and smiled at Su Yu. Her happy face made the girl look as dazzling as the bright morning sun. He was stunned for a moment.
“You can sit for a while, Zhiyan. I’ll change and then come and help you get dressed.”
Su Xi tucked her long, messy hair behind her ear. She got out of bed, naked, as alluring and dazzling as a lotus flower emerging from the water. Her waist was slender, and the two soft mounds that he both loved and hated stood out in a proud curve, swaying in the air, creating a vast expanse of spring scenery.
The girl didn’t care at all about Su Yu’s evasive yet longing gaze. Instead, she stared at his flushed face with a smug look. She bent down in front of Su Yu and put on her private underwear, glancing at the boy. The other party had already looked away. She pouted, secretly cursing the boy for being a coward. He clearly liked it so much… yet he had to hide.
She didn’t care if the boy’s image in her heart would collapse. In fact, she felt closer to such a worldly boy.
Su Xi changed her clothes and then walked to the bed with the boy’s clothes.
“Zhiyan, should I put on the top first? Or…” Su Xi glanced at the slight bulge under the blanket with a suggestive look, a playful and alluring smile on her lips. “The bottom first…”
“The… the top.” Su Yu turned his head, the fact that he couldn’t suppress his physiological reaction making him feel extremely ashamed. And the girl was even deliberately teasing him.
“Oh… alright then.” Su Xi pouted, a little unwilling. She pulled the boy out of the blanket, lifted his left arm, and prepared to put on his shirt first.
Su Xi’s fingers couldn’t help but slide over the half-palm-sized maple leaf mark on his left shoulder blade. Her fingertips trembled slightly, and she couldn’t control her strength. She felt more and more that everything in front of her was just a dream that would disappear when she woke up.
The boy was hers. He was her gentle boy. This fact made her ecstatic.
“What’s wrong? Why are you always looking at that scar of mine?” Su Yu felt the cool touch on his back. He guessed that the girl was very concerned about that mark of his, but his memory of the dark mark was a little blurry. He was just sure that the protagonist in his memory… couldn’t possibly be the girl.
“N-Nothing.”
Su Xi reined in her thoughts and shook her head.
“Do we still need to hide things from each other? So you still don’t trust me.”
“No…”
Su Xi wanted to explain in a panic, but how could she express her love for the boy in just a few words? She stammered, unable to speak.
She lowered her head. The boy’s somewhat weak hand was on her wrist, trying to grab it. She stared blankly at the boy’s clear and gentle eyes. The desire that she had been trying so hard to hide faded. The only barrier between them should have been shattered the moment the blood had oozed out last night.
Su Xi grabbed the boy’s hand in return, their fingers intertwined. Her lips parted, and she finally spoke. She didn’t talk about the maple leaf burn, but instead turned the time back to that hot summer.
“Zhiyan, do you remember a little girl, at the school gate… she was wearing a dress with blue and white dots that day…”
