Healing Sunshine

Chapter 6.3 - My Little Thoughts

She was thus engulfed with guilt, even when she had already laid in her own bed in the evening, she was still pondering, she should or should she not make up to him with a birthday present? But what he needed, she herself did not know. On waking up the next day, eldest uncle and eldest aunt-in-law, two uncles [father's younger brother] along with each of their wives came for a visit at grandfather's house as usual, but even though they did not live very far away, all left even before having lunch.

Lalisa herself took out the leftover rice from the refrigerator, dug up two spoons of luncheon meat, prepared two pieces of vegetables, cracked an egg, and made herself a plate of fried rice, throwing in chopped scallion and cilantro along before plating.

When Manobal family's food was plated, movie channel also happened to start airing a complete movie.

She carried the plate and walked over, taking in a montage that seemed very much like something she had seen before, Stephen Chow holding up a copper mirror, looking at his monkey form face, she suddenly realized, recalling that it was the ending of the movie from many years ago so this is A Chinese Odyssey 2? She had heard too many classmates talked about it, but had never caught it on television.

When those classic lines materialized into a scene, she unexpectedly found that she was not touched by the "Ten thousand years" line by Stephen Chow, but instead committed to memory Zixia fairy's words when she let her thoughts run wild thinking about her lover: "The person in my mind shall be a peerless hero......"

She was indescribably stirred, up until the end, up until Zixia's death she still lingered on that sentence repeatedly; Lalisa was again deeply affected especially by that final sentence:
"I guessed correctly the beginning, but did not the ending."

She finished the movie, only to discover that the fried rice in front of her had turned cold, could only be put back into the pot and heated up again one more time.

A day passed by very quickly, besides eating was working on practice problems; it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, when it could be said that she had finished all of the weekend homework. When she was tidying up the desk under the light of the lamp, she suddenly recalled last night, that very short walk along the city moat.

"Lili, your phone." Grandfather called her.

She ran to the living room, picking up the receiver.

"Finished the homework?" It was Jungkook's voice.

She was taken aback, "Ju......"

"It's me," he again confirmed, "Finished?"

"Um." She clutched the receiver, lightly breathing.

He said: "Then come down now, come find me at the old parking lot."

The phone was hung up just like that.

She was suddenly in a flurry.

It had always been that no one would pay attention even if she went out in the evening, it's really very normal. But to be instructed like that by him, she suddenly had a thief's guilty conscience, only thinking that he had told her to go down, also to not let herself be seen by anyone, very quickly she took out and changed into her favorite skirt and short-sleeve top, took the key, ran out of the door.

There were familiar uncles and aunts who happened to be returning from a walk, she gave greetings as she passed by, running to the old bus stop for the compound's internal buses. Because it was switched over to the new bus stop, the place actually remained only in name, there were not be many people passing by.

That black car of Jungkook's was just parked in the completely dark spot. Seemingly to have noticed her, the car's light was turned on.

Lalisa ran over, pressing her chest as she panted, the door of the passenger's seat was already opened. The moment the door was open, she lifted up her head, seeing him with his hand placed over the the steering wheel, looking at her panting short breaths.