GBP Chapter 502: Have you been doing well these years?
Chapter 502: Have you been doing well these years?
I don’t know if it’s because I was tired from skiing, but the crystal chandelier in the restaurant was not lit just now, but now it’s dazzling like a swaying moon.
Even though I didn't consume any alcoholic beverages, my body started to feel dizzy as if I was drunk.
"Okay, now it's your turn." I shook my head, yawned, propped my head up, looked at Gojo Kiri who was making a fuss because he was not allowed to ask the first question, and said, "Is there anything you want to ask me, Gojo-sensei?"
Ah...so sleepy.
"Go ahead." I pulled myself together and said to him, "Now I'll answer whatever you ask, how about that?"
"Eh..." He drew out the words, looking somewhat distressed, tapping the back of his hand and saying, "Then I have to think about it carefully."
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you have to let me ask something fun."
"Then you should think about it carefully."
This guy is the only one I have ever seen who likes to keep people in suspense.
I yawned again, picked up the soda and took a sip. The bubbles burst in my mouth. I forced my eyes open and looked at the scenery outside the window.
When I first sat down in this store, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon.
It took quite some time to order and eat, and now it was already five o'clock. The lights on the roadside started working on time, and the dim lights reflected the snow, dimly lighting up.
The daylight hours in winter are relatively short. Once the sunset completely crawls below the horizon, it is completely dark.
There were more and more groups of pedestrians on the roadside, everyone was out looking for food, and even in this restaurant, the tables next to me were almost full.
Because the distance was so close, even if I didn't deliberately listen, I could still know what the people around me were talking about.
The couple at the back table only had eyes for each other, and in public, they whispered some explicit love words to each other.
The family at the table opposite was out for dinner. The child was clamoring for French fries and hamburgers. The father looked embarrassed and tried to discuss it with the mother, but the mother refused, saying that she was worried that the child would get a sore throat after eating it.
emmm.....it's similar to the situation in my family.
At the table in front of me on the left, two high school students who looked younger than me kept glancing over here. They must have recognized the characters that Gojo Kiri and the others were cosplaying, so they were discussing in low voices.
"Have you thought it through?" I turned my head back and looked at Gojo Wu and asked, "I've been thinking about it for nearly five minutes."
During this time, he was not idle either, and kept staring at the back of my head with his blue eyes, as if he could see through my skull and all my thoughts if he stared for long enough.
Very present.
"I've thought about it." He nodded obediently and said, "Do you want to tell me?"
"Go ahead." I raised my chin and asked, "What's the problem?"
"Lily, you said you're already nineteen years old this year." He paused for two seconds, then smiled and asked softly, as if he was greeting a friend on the street, "How have you been these years?"
"What?" I choked and looked at him for a long while before saying, "You made such a big fuss. I thought you wanted to ask some serious question."
"Then tell me about it." Gojo Kiri swept away the frivolous look he had shown before, looked at me seriously and said, "I really want to know."
Why do I feel like someone has asked me a similar question before? What's going on with this strange sense of déjà vu?
"Well..." I sighed, rubbed the back of my neck awkwardly, and replied, "Not bad."
“There are occasional annoyances, but overall, there’s nothing to complain about.”
Even though I would quarrel with my parents and complain about them running around the country all the time for this or that thing, I would argue with Riko and my friends, and I would feel annoyed and scared when I heard Natsume say that monsters might cause trouble for me. I also met some unfriendly guys. In addition, there was also academic pressure and troubles with trivial matters in life.
But when I climb into bed at night, open the curtains the next day and see the morning sun falling on the branches, hear the melodious singing of vendors and sprinkler trucks in the distance, walk on the gravel road to the street to eat hot octopus balls and curry rice, no matter what kind of worries I have, they seem to disappear with them.
I always feel lucky for no reason.
Be thankful that you are alive, be thankful that the important people are alive, and be thankful that there are these beautiful moments in life.
"So... you can laugh from the bottom of your heart now?"
"Of course you can."
I answered without hesitation.
Because I really, really, really like this world.