Zhong Yuan and I sat in the small garden near the pharmacy . I gently swabbed the corner of his mouth with cotton and then applied the medicine . His mouth was bruised but there were no cuts . The rest of his face was intact .

Zhong Yuan breathed in sharply . I stopped what I was doing and asked him, “ What’s the matter?”

He shook his head slightly and muttered, “ Its okay . ”

“ Just endure the pain for a little while” , I said as I resumed applying the medicine . When I thought about what had just transpired, I couldn’t help wondering out aloud, “ What really happened out there ?”

Zhong Yuan smirked . His action made his wound ache and he breathed in sharply . His eyebrows danced as he smiled and said, “ Wasn’t it realistic ?”

I rolled my eyes, “ Aren’t you overdoing this?”

“ It’s fine”, Zhong Yuan answered blithely . Then he pressed his lips together and asked me,” Why didn’t you pull off Su Yan?”

“ From what I saw, you were the one who started the fight . ”

After being caught like this, Zhong Yuan stayed silent . When I applied the medicine, he softly spoke, “ Thank you . ”

His sudden politeness made me a bit uncomfortable . I tried to brush it off lightly, “ You don’t need to thank me . Anyway, I used your card to buy the medicines . ”

No one spoke . The autumn breeze had a touch of cold . I stared at the gold chrysanthemums as a strange emotion stirred in my heart . I was feeling strange .

　… . .

The elective cla.s.s at night was boring . I almost fell asleep as I sat listening to the teacher . I bowed my head on the table and started drawing endless circles in my notebook .   Zhong Yuan was by my side . As he bent over to see my notebook, he realised there were no notes . Instead the page was full of circles . He looked at me disdainfully .

I looked at the ceiling sadly and said, “ I’m bored . ”

Zhong Yuan nodded . “ Let’s do something interesting . Let’s rehea.r.s.e the script . ”

I turned to look at him . “ We’re in a cla.s.s! How can we rehea.r.s.e?”

Zhong Yuan took out the script from his bag and flipped through it, “ The film has a lot of scenes in the cla.s.sroom . Hey . . there is a scene where you fall asleep and I kiss you . ”

A chill ran through me as I muttered, “ Lil second is really something !”

“ I think it’s not bad,” he said as he put the script on the table, “so should we rehea.r.s.e ?”

I grabbed my hair and said helplessly, “ Sure . Anyway, we will have to do it sooner or later . ”

Zhong Yuan nodded and asked me, “ So where should I kiss you ? On the lips or on your cheek?”

What ? I didn’t understand, “ Doesn’t the script say where you are supposed to kiss me?”

“ Nope . ”

I despised Xiao Jie . ” Kiss me on the cheek . I want to preserve my first kiss . ”

Zhong Yuan smiled mischievously, “ You already had your first kiss . ”

I suddenly remembered what Zhong Yuan had done to me during the summer vacation . I felt like killing him, “ That was wrong of you!”

Zhong Yuan ignored my annoyance and gently pressed my head to the desk .

“Let’s start . ”

So I put a lid on my emotions and put my head on the desk and waited for Zhong Yuan to kiss me .

As I lay my head on the table, I suddenly felt nervous . My heart was beating so wildly I felt it would jump out of my body at any moment . The voices of the teacher and the students faded in the background . The only things I could hear were the sound of my breathing and the drumming of my heart . I tried to comfort myself . This is just a kiss… . I am dedicated to art…

I closed my eyes but I could feel Zhong Yuan approaching me . His breath hit my face . I felt my face heat up and my breathing turned uneven .

Zhong Yuan was very close to me . I could clearly feel his breathing, but he had not made a single move for sometime now . I kept my eyes tightly shut as my body stiffened, waiting for the imminent intrusion, but nothing happened . Finally, curiosity won over and I opened my eyes .

Zhong Yuan’s face was very close to mine . His eyes were half closed as he looked at me . His eyes were dark and bright, like black pearls in the night sky . His long eyelashes were like two small fans, framing his eyes . His eyebrows were relaxed, his face was soft and his eyes looked like two still pools in the late autumn .

He just stared at me, with no intention to act . I thought the atmosphere between the two of us was really strange . Just as I started to say something, I heard him whisper,”You are blus.h.i.+ng . ”

 My face became as hot as a furnace .

He bowed slightly and gently pressed a kiss on my cheek . I breathed in sharply as my heartbeat accelerated madly .

His lips were soft and cool, but my face was not cooled by the touch of his lips . On the contrary, my face turned warmer .

Zhong Yuan reached out and put a hand on my shoulder to shake me gently . “ What happened?”

I shrugged off the hand but refused to speak .

There was a mischievous smile in his voice, “ Are you feeling shy?”

That was an understatement . I was beyond embarra.s.sed . I really wanted to hide under the table and never come out .

Zhong Yuan sighed dramatically and then in his typical narcissistic fas.h.i.+on asked me, “ Mu er, do you like me?”

Miumiu – this is a pretty short update but things are getting exciting !!!