Give Me Heartthrobs 37

Chapter 37: Confusion

Near the corner of Ye Qizhen’s mouth, Wen Yu kissed her extremely quickly. At that moment, her mind was blank—no preparation, no hesitation, only an uncontrollable urge.

Feeling the other’s breath, Ye Qizhen was stunned, completely forgetting what she was going to say. Wen Yu was also quite stunned; by the time she reacted, she had already lightly kissed Ye Qizhen’s cheek.

A soft and brief kiss, like a snowflake accidentally landing in the palm and melting instantly, fleeting.

The two looked at each other, neither speaking immediately. But in this situation, a silence of half a second seemed long, overly ambiguous.

Should say something, right?

“What are you doing…” Ye Qizhen spoke first, wearing a bewildered smile.

“Thought you were cute.” A moment was enough for Wen Yu to answer Ye Qizhen calmly, although her heart wasn’t calm.

“What is that?” Ye Qizhen smiled, but her heart was thrown into turmoil by Wen Yu.

“Got a problem with it? Let you kiss me back?” Wen Yu tilted her head and smiled. Remaining calm in any situation was something she had always been skilled at.

Ye Qizhen smiled absentmindedly.

Speaking like this, the atmosphere became much more relaxed, as if the ambiguity just now was just an illusion, a small joke between friends not to be taken to heart.

It felt like something happened, yet like nothing happened. Looking at Wen Yu’s smile, Ye Qizhen felt exactly this way. But she couldn’t pretend nothing happened; the small patch of skin where Wen Yu’s lips had touched seemed different. She couldn’t help but care.

Facing Wen Yu right now, Ye Qizhen’s heart was as chaotic as could be, forcing herself to be calm. There were still a few sparklers left. She lit another one seemingly with interest and handed it to Wen Yu with a smile.

Wen Yu took it, staring at the sparks shining in the night. She was far less calm than on the surface. When she kissed Ye Qizhen’s cheek, her heartbeat was completely out of control, and it hadn’t calmed down even now.

It was windy on the rooftop, and the temperature was low today. Ye Qizhen glanced at Wen Yu. “Let’s go down, the wind is strong.”

“Mn.” When Wen Yu hummed, her nasal voice was a bit heavy.

Going down from the rooftop, stepping down the stairs one by one, neither of them spoke, walking downstairs quietly. Ye Qizhen wasn’t paying attention and almost tripped, but fortunately, Wen Yu was quick to support her.

“What are you thinking?” Wen Yu turned to look at Ye Qizhen. Ye Qizhen stood steady, really wanting to ask Wen Yu: What do you think I’m thinking?

Not long after going downstairs, seeing it was past nine o’clock, Ye Qizhen said to Wen Yu, “I’m going back.”

Wen Yu thought for a moment. “I’ll walk you to the bus stop.”

Ye Qizhen: “No need, it’s so cold today.”

Wen Yu walked Ye Qizhen to the bus stop anyway.

The snow had stopped.

Just as they reached the bus stop sign, they saw a blue bus slowing down and approaching ahead. It was exactly bus number 26. Ye Qizhen’s home wasn’t far from here, about seven or eight stops.

Ye Qizhen looked at Wen Yu. “I’m leaving.”

Wen Yu nodded, watching Ye Qizhen get on the bus with a group of passengers, her figure disappearing. She couldn’t help thinking: So eager to go back, is she trying to avoid me?

Back home, Wen Yu walked straight into the bathroom and took a hot shower, letting the water pour from head to toe, thinking random thoughts… Did kissing her suddenly tonight scare her?

She intuitively felt Ye Qizhen had sensed something.

After showering, Wen Yu picked up her phone and sent a voice message to Ye Qizhen on WeChat: “Are you home yet?”

Ye Qizhen accidentally missed her stop by one. When she received Wen Yu’s message, she was walking back in the cold wind. She clicked open the voice message and listened; gentle and pleasant concern came from the speaker. Perhaps because Wen Yu kissed her tonight, she heard it full of ambiguity.

y: Home now. Sleep early, goodnight.

Seeing this, Wen Yu also sent back one word: Goodnight.

After saying goodnight, there was no sleepiness at all. Wen Yu lay on her side in bed, looking at the empty pillow on the other side. She pulled the pillow into her arms, still thinking about Ye Qizhen.

It was 1:00 AM, and Ye Qizhen was still tossing and turning in bed like a pancake.

Does Wen Yu have feelings for me too?

Touching my lips before.

Kissing me again tonight…

But hugging and kissing cheeks between girls isn’t ambiguous, right? Ye Qizhen remembered Tang Tang also saying her lips were soft and should be good to kiss.

Going crazy. Ye Qizhen opened and closed her eyes, seeing Wen Yu kissing her. She touched her cheek, clearly remembering the spot Wen Yu kissed. Couldn’t sleep. She had never been so confused and conflicted—her feelings for Wen Yu, and Wen Yu’s for her…

Ye Qizhen had severe insomnia that night, so much so that when she met Tang Tang the next day, Tang Tang saw at a glance that she had stayed up late.

They met at a milk tea shop because Tang Tang couldn’t stand the nagging of her relatives at home and dragged her out as a shield.

“Argued with your family again?” Tang Tang saw Ye Qizhen was obviously out of it.

“No.”

“Then why look like this?”

Ye Qizhen held the milk tea to warm her hands. “Look like what?”

“Tell me what’s up?” Knowing her for over ten years, Tang Tang understood Ye Qizhen. Ye Qizhen wouldn’t tell others everything, usually digesting bad emotions by herself.

How to say it? Say I seem to have been bent by a girl? Ye Qizhen looked at Tang Tang, unable to say it for a long time.

“If you don’t say it, hold it in then.” Tang Tang saw through Ye Qizhen. Looking sunny and cheerful, she actually had a quite reticent side, and she couldn’t do anything about Ye Qizhen either.

“Sweetie.” Ye Qizhen took a breath and asked Tang Tang in a different way, “How do you judge if someone likes you?”

Tang Tang was an expert in relationships and knew all about this.

“You mean,” Tang Tang instantly got excited chatting about this topic, “Someone is chasing you?”

“No.” Ye Qizhen denied it.

Tang Tang reacted quickly. Since Ye Qizhen asked this, there must be an ambiguous partner there. “Tell me about the situation.”

“A friend I chat well with. She treats me very well, and sometimes I feel she… is flirting with me, but it also seems like a joke.” Ye Qizhen felt chaotic again as she spoke.

Seeing Ye Qizhen like this, Tang Tang kept laughing.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Laughing at your lovesickness.” Tang Tang spoke bluntly. “Do you like them? No doubt about it, Ye Qizhen, you definitely fell for them. You finally had an awakening.”

Ye Qizhen smiled bitterly. Tang Tang definitely couldn’t guess she was talking about Wen Yu. Although she had doubted her sexual orientation before, it was just a thought; after all, she had never really had thoughts about any girl. But meeting Wen Yu—

Wen Yu was obviously different.

“There’s no pure friendship between men and women. If he’s always good to you, he definitely means that. Flirting with you is basically testing you. Are you too dense?”

Tang Tang talked incessantly on the side, but Ye Qizhen didn’t listen much. Her situation was different from what Tang Tang said.

“Who is it? College classmate? How come I haven’t heard you mention him?” Tang Tang was dying of curiosity.

Ye Qizhen hesitated and didn’t say.

Tang Tang expected this secretly passionate person wouldn’t say it now. Seeing Ye Qizhen hesitating, she said, “If you really like him, you can be a bit more proactive and flirt back jokingly. Trust me, as long as two people are interested in each other, they absolutely can’t hold back for long.”

Ye Qizhen rested her chin on her hand, stunned listening. Tang Tang had only been in one relationship; where did she get so much experience?

Perhaps she was too old-fashioned, always feeling that being together shouldn’t rely on “flirting,” but on compatible heartbeats and sincerity. So she didn’t dare easily take Wen Yu’s joking words as liking…

Winter vacation was ending soon.

w: The cat I drew for you last time, you forgot to take it.

y: It’s my grandma’s birthday, I’m going to the countryside for two days. Will pick it up when I’m back.

…

Wen Yu flipped through the chat history with Ye Qizhen. Ever since that night, Ye Qizhen hadn’t come here to find her. Is she starting to avoid me?

Getting chilled by the wind on the rooftop that night, Wen Yu had a bit of a cough. Two days later, her nasal congestion got worse; she caught a cold. Coupled with a bad mood, she felt uncomfortable all over.

Ye Qizhen stayed in the countryside for two days. As soon as she returned to the city, she wondered whether to go to Wen Yu’s place. Not having gone for several days, she thought someone must be bored to death. While still in the car, she sent a message to Wen Yu: I brought delicious food from the countryside.

Seeing the WeChat message from Ye Qizhen, Wen Yu felt slightly better, wondering if she was too sensitive.

Looking at the message Ye Qizhen sent, she thought for a moment and replied with just a short sentence.

Ye Qizhen looked at the popped-up message, staring at these few words on the screen, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

w: I missed you.