Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch7 - Reservoir

After his morning classes ended, Yu Hao left his classroom and saw Zhou Sheng waiting for him by the stairway entrance. Zhou Sheng waved the cafeteria card in his hand and said, "Let's eat."

The streamer girl had handed Zhou Sheng her cafeteria card after being coaxed and pestered by him with the reason "I have a share in those rockets too". Zhou Sheng then promised her that they would only spend twenty yuan in the card before he came over to bring Yu Hao to the teacher's canteen. Coincidentally, counsellor Xue Long and their new form teacher Chen Yekai sat at the table opposite them and were in the midst of an argument. After Yu Hao sat down, the two of them stopped their discourse.

They must be talking about me, Yu Hao thought.

"Come to my office at 2pm." Chen Yekai said to Yu Hao. Xue Long didn't say a word before he took his bowl and left.

Yu Hao felt a bit uneasy, but Chen Yekai nodded at him as a signal for asking him to relax.

"Yo, Kaikai!" Zhou Sheng came back with some dishes and greeted Chen Yekai in an overly familiar way.

Chen Yekai pensively uttered an "un", then got up and left.

Zhou Sheng watched him leave, then silently muttered something under his breath. Yu Hao said, "I wonder how they're going to deal with me."

Zhou Sheng, "You haven't done anything wrong, so what are you afraid of? Eat ba. If Xue Long looks for you then just tell him what happened. Tell him the truth. Don't keep silent and end up getting the short end of the stick because of your silence."

Yu Hao answered, "I need to argue for myself, got it."

Zhou Sheng was a bit taken aback, then he nodded approvingly and said, "Correct."

Yu Hao thought for a bit, then suddenly said, "What can I do to overcome my fear of some things?"

Zhou Sheng, "???"

Yu Hao was silent again. He actually hadn't stopped thinking about the relationship between the black dragon in his dreamscape and the reservoir.

Zhou Sheng said, "Beat them up, it'll be fine after one fight. When I was a kid I couldn't retaliate when my Dad hit me, but when I finally duked it out with him once I was no longer afraid of him."

Yu Hao, "But I can't beat up a reservoir..."

Zhou Sheng, "Reservoir?" Then he remembered Yu Hao's narration of his past last night and said, "O, so that's it."

Zhou Sheng was in the sports department, but he took Psychology as an elective module. Even though it wasn't as difficult as Yu Hao's course, he did understand a bit of the basic principles.

Zhou Sheng piled some meat on Yu Hao's plate, though these so-called meat were just meatballs stuffed with a lot of flour. He scooped up some rice, pondered for a bit, then said, "There are a few ways. The first way is to see the reservoir being filled up with your own eyes."

Yu Hao thought, oh yeah, it's already been so many years, what if it had already been filled up?

Zhou Sheng, "The second option is to go for a swim in it once then you might not be scared of it anymore.....do you know how to swim? You definitely can't go alone. And the third method is to convince yourself, that your mum......un......" He didn't finish the rest of his sentence.

Yu Hao clearly knew that the best method was to personally ask his mother and convince himself, that the truth was.......that she loved him, and never had other intentions.

After they finished eating, Yu Hao returned first. Zhou Sheng was still scrolling through his phone with a bored face as he sent him away with a "go ba".