My Girlfriend is the Cutest in the World

 Why was he asking this!

    Lu Yuanyuan suddenly got nervous. Heart beating, her tongue was out of control, and she blurted out, “No.”

    She watched his expression, “… What’s wrong?”

    Su Lin fixedly stared at her. A serious look, it was a little probing and thoughtful.

    Lu Yuanyuan’s palms were a little sweaty.

    He suddenly smiled and returned back to his relaxed look, saying, “Oh, never mind. It’s nothing.”

    Lu Yuanyuan’s tense nerves relaxed.

    Then she heard him say, “Tomorrow morning, I’ll bring you to French class.”

　　-

    That night, Su Lin had a dream.

    In the dream, he was in a crowd of people and had to rely on her voice to identity which one was Lu Yuanyuan. Reaching out, he dragged her away to a deserted corner.

    Her lips gradually appeared in his field of vision. A light pink color, a layer of reflective moisture made them appear plump.

    Beyond that, everything was a blur.

    He heard her talking about something.

    She was going on and on, chattering, calling him “Su Lin”, her lips continuing to open and close. As the only clear picture in his field of vision, it waas very tempting.

    He was becoming jittery.

    Or maybe it wasn’t jitterinesss, but something else.

    He siimply pulled her over, leaning down to press—

    Su Lin woke up at this time.

    Because he suddenly sat up, his chest heaving slightly, he stared blankly at the pitch blackness for a while.

    After a while, he picked up his phone and looked at it.

    It was four o’clock in the morning.

    Everyone was asleep.

    The rhythmic snoring of the oldest and second oldest responded to one another.

    His ears kept replaying the “Su Lin” Lu Yuanyuan had called him.

    The words he heard in his dream intertwined with the words she called in the afternoon.

    It was like he was possessed.

    Su Lin pulled his hair.

    He didn’t know why, but he had sweated a bit. His body was a bit uncomfortably sticky.

    The oldest two wouldn’t wake up even if the world ended. He and Qin Fang were kept awake from listening to the snores of the two people above them, and were used to sleeping with earplugs.

    He went straight to the bathroom to take a shower.

    With the hot water turned on, steam densely filled the room. It condensed into water droplets on the porcelain walls, drop by drop falling on the floor.

    With the sound of rushing water, Su Lin’s mind still couldn’t get rid of the scene from before. His ears droned with her voice.

    Another sentence popped up in his head.

    —Senior, of course I’ve never been in love. I’ve only graduated from high school four months ago!”

    “…”

    Su Lin clenched his teeth: “Fuck…”

    He exhaled. Closing his eyes and wiping his face, he then reached out and twisted the shower’s water valve to the left a little.

    Blue. To the cold water.

　　-

    The next morning, Lu Yuanyuan got up five minutes earlier than usual. She rested for a moment then raised her hand and patted her face. She changed her clothes, got out of bed, and started washing up.

    At 7:30, she got downstairs on schedule.

    Next to the tree outside the dormitory door, she saw Su Lin sitting on his bike. Dressed head to toe in black, his body was slightly tilted, one leg bent on the pedals, the other leg on the ground as support, looking at his phone.

    The mountain bike seat was high, and the leg on the ground supporting his weight looked especially long.

    “… senior,” Lu Yuanyuan walked up to him, “Morning!”

    He looked up.

   She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but his eyes… seemed a little complicated the moment he first saw her.

    “Morning,” he then recovered, looking as usual, and nodded a little, “Get on.”

    Just finished saying that.

    Su Lin recalled that the last time, after she hurt her foot, the scene of her unable to get up no matter how hard she tried.

    The backseat was installed and connected to the wheel’s axle, so the height wasn’t adjustable like the front seat. He was about to get off to help her when the back of the bike slightly sank.

    “…” Actually got on?

    His movements froze, and the person behind him seemed to guess what he was thinking, explaining: “Senior, I couldn’t get up last time because one foot couldn’t exert itself!”

    She increased her voice again: “When I’m normal, I’m perfectly capable of coming up!”

    The little girl, with a little bit of a wanting-to-prove-herself tone, deliberately emphasized the word “perfectly”. He could even imagine her expression.

    Su Lin gave an ‘en’, silently laughing as he rode to the dining hall.

    It took five minutes to reach the place.

    When Lu Yuanyuan was climbing up the stairs to the second floor of the dining hall, she looked at the wall clock and thought, “Riding a bike is really faster than walking.”

    Then, she skillfully ordered at each window and bought food while he followed at her side. At each place, she asked him a question.

    “Do you want to eat this, Senior?”

    “Do you want to try this bread, it’s super delicious!”

    “Senior, you…”

    Each time, he declined.

    Lu Yuanyuan frowned.

    She tilted her head up to look at the person who had been following her around, “Senior, you can’t skip breakfast.” After a pause, she attempted to make her voice a little more serious: “If you get a stomachache, it’d be very uncomfortable.”

    “Who says I am?” Su Lin suddenly laughed.

    Lu Yuanyuan didn’t understand: “Huh?”

    A careless and very seductive smile hung from his lips, “After you buy these, what are you going to do?”

    Lu Yuanyuan said honestly: “I’m going to get soy milk.”

    “For whom?”

    “For you.”

    “Then that’s enough,” Su Lin now found himself able to utterly and completely consider soy milk as an enjoyable breakfast that he looked forward to. He even gave her a smile: “Soy milk for breakfast is enough.”

    After all, the school’s soy milk was very authentic.

    Soy milk with soy pulp was more filling than the soy milk sold outside.