"Ri-Ri, are you okay? Sigh... My legs are so damn sore. So annoying. We have to get up again. Why the hell isn't this military training over yet? If it continues, I'm going crazy!!"
Aria murmured that she was fine.
Upon hearing this, her roommates slumped back on the bed for another two minutes listlessly, then got up bustlingly. Another five minutes passed, and when the second bell rang, they were still in the same state.
The girls in this dormitory were extremely lazy.
Aria was the most diligent one. As long as she hadn't gotten up yet, it meant they would definitely not be late. So one by one, they were all dragging and relying, wishing they could drown in the bed.
The sharp bugle sound was very long.
Just when it finally stopped, Aria finally managed to drag herself out of that damn, inexplicable dream. She raised her hand and patted her cheeks, reminded the three roommates.
"It's time to get up?"
The roommates pretended to be dead: "..."
Aria: "Sophie."
Sophie moved slowly and sat up. "Hey. I'm getting dressed."
"Olivia?"
The figure jumped up.
The last one could be said to have a very strong self-awareness. Before being called, as soon as the previous voice fell, she had already sat up with the quilt in her arms and started to put on the base shirt with her eyes closed.
Aria was quick. Soon, she folded the quilt neatly, took off the military training uniform that was washed the night before from the hanger and put it on. Before entering the bathroom in slippers to wash up, she knocked on the bed rail and reminded them.
"Be quick. We're almost late."
In the next several days, Aria obediently stayed in her own class for military training. When it was time to have meals after the training ended, she slipped away very quickly, not as attentive as before.
Sydney was the first to notice something was wrong. After observing for several days, she finally couldn't hold back and grabbed the person to ask what was going on.
Aria glared at her, mumbled and didn't speak. Finally, she just threw out a sentence, "It's still those few crappy books you pushed."
Sydney: "?"
"You call those crappy books??"
She wasn't happy.
"Come on. These few books have saved so many couples who were still lost. Don't be ungrateful."
Aria: "..."
Sydney narrowed her eyes. "Come clean."
"Just... had a dream." Aria couldn't keep silent when being asked and said helplessly.
Sydney's eyes lit up. "A spring dream?"
Aria: "..."
"Understood." Sydney said. "You're shy and embarrassed to look for him."
"..." Sometimes Aria really admired Sydney's train of thought. No matter what happened to her, she seemed to understand everything at a glance.
Grabbing a small tail, she could instantly know the whole picture.
Especially when it came to feelings, she was extremely sensitive.
Aria was speechless for a long while. She really didn't know how to continue answering. Fortunately, the break time was over. The whistle sounded just in time. She grabbed Sydney's arm to line up.
"Alright, alright. I won't ask anymore..."
As the instructor shouted the command, the sun gradually moved from the east to the west.
The two-week military training was halfway through. However, the training tasks were getting heavier every day. Under the big sun, the flowers of the motherland turned into wilting cabbages.
If there were still girls who came in the morning with exquisite makeup in the past few days, now it was a state of giving up. As long as one was alive, a bottle of sunscreen spray was enough.
Lifting an arm one more time would be exhausting.
The long-awaited good news came during the evening self-study.
On Teacher's Day, there was a freshmen fellowship.
These few words were like a godsend. Not only was the evening training cancelled today, but also the matters regarding the fellowship were announced.
The program list printed on red A4 paper was distributed to everyone.
In the recent few days, except for the training, the students who performed talent shows were specially allowed to skip the evening training and rehearse the shows in the school's dance classroom and gymnasium.
Now there were still several vacancies in the class for the students who went to rehearse. Tomorrow was the festival and the day of the fellowship. This was also the last night for rehearsal. It was very tight.
Aria held her chin and lowered her head to look at the program list on the table.
She had no talents. She could only write a little. It wasn't outstanding and couldn't be used as a performance. She was destined to be an audience.
Now she had a deskmate. Sydney was sitting next to her.
She and Sydney were selected according to the student number. Tomorrow's fellowship, they would sit in the front row as the audience waving fluorescent sticks. Commonly known as shill.
Afraid that there would be no audience and it would be embarrassing.
Aria learned for the first time that there was such an arrangement in the university's fellowship. Actually, if it wasn't to avoid military training, she would rather stay in the dormitory and read books.
The location was in the gymnasium. The temperature was high and it was hot.
It was still better than military training.
The programs were very rich. Singing, dancing, cross-talk, sketches, playing musical instruments and singing. There were all kinds of them.
Sydney shook the list and sincerely sighed, "Look at how they know everything. Look at us. We can do nothing well. We're the champions of giving up."
"The gap. This is the gap."
"Alright, stop it!" Aria was both crying and laughing because of her nagging. She pushed her away and rubbed her ears.
Sydney pretended to be in a tone. "Oh no. Are you already tired of me?"
"Yes, yes. I'm tired of you!"
"Wow, Airy. How dare you admit it?!!"
Aria smiled and soothed her.
The relationship between the two became more and more familiar these days. Sydney was a very good candidate for making friends. She had a lively and carefree personality and wouldn't care about small matters.
Aria always felt relaxed unconsciously when she was with her. Besides, she knew her girlish thoughts, so they were even more intimate.
However, for so many days, she was only familiar with Sydney in the class. She couldn't even name most of the others.
Soon it was seven o'clock. The classroom consciously quieted down.
Sydney stopped bothering her. She put on headphones and played games. Aria also lowered her head to play with her mobile phone for a while and couldn't help looking at the door.
Looked twice and continued to play with the mobile phone.
Today was the fifth day that she didn't take the initiative to look for Ryder.
This school was small in some ways and big in others.
When it was small, she could even run into him when she came to deliver food to Maya Brooks at the animation base that day. When it was big, as long as she didn't take the initiative to look for him, she wouldn't meet him at all.
Actually, she didn't intentionally avoid him either.
It seemed that the fate between them was really shallow. If he was not intentional, she had to be. If she was not intentional, then there really was nothing.
This was the conclusion Aria had drawn after thinking about it these days.
Alas, it was difficult.
She also wanted to. She really wanted to be unintentional.
Aria tapped the elimination game with her fingertips. Absentmindedly thinking in her head, she didn't know if he would come today.
She missed him a little.
... She missed him a little.
Not long after, the classroom door was pushed open. She silently looked over. The boy who walked in was Ryan Bennett. He didn't close the door and there was no second person following him.
He didn't come.
Well, it was so hot. Maybe he was staying in the dormitory and blowing the air conditioner.
Aria suddenly clenched her mobile phone. Trying hard to overcome the sudden uncomfortable feeling in her heart, she slumped on the table very discouraged.
She couldn't lift her spirits.
Somewhat dejectedly, she admitted in a low voice in her heart.
Alright.
It wasn't a little. It was very much.