Still, Wait For Me

SWFM14: A major incident of a previous life

  SWFM14: A major incident of a previous life  

During lunch break of the second day, the vice-principal spoke over the broadcasting system.

"I know that our students have been feeling rather repressed lately, especially the twelfth grade students on whom the pressure is immense. The school understands this, and has been as lenient as possible. Still, I hope that you can understand that there are some things that as a school, we can definitely not tolerate."

"Yesterday night, during evening self study, patrolling the school grounds, I encountered a pair of students who were being overly intimate."

"As soon as I appeared, the boy began running. Actually, running is still normal, very normal. But, he forgot to bring along that girl with him. He ran on alone ahead, the girl running after him. Then, the girl... fell, and I stopped."

"You must know that having started out as a physical education teacher, even having grown a little older now, it would still not have been a problem for me to catch that boy. However, that girl fell, falling onto a pile of grass and gravel. So, I stopped. My conscience, sense of responsibility as well as morals all called for me to stop. But what of that boy? Hearing the cry of that girl, he glanced back, and then...continued running."

"I helped the girl up. She flung away my hand and continued running. She fell down again, but this time, the boy ran off without even looking back."

"What could I do?... I let that girl go. Why? Because I don't believe that any punishment could have been any more painful and any more of a warning than what she had just experienced."

"I want to say something to this female student. I don't know who you are. I didn't ask yesterday, and I will also not be investigating into it. Still, you yourself have to consider this – was it worth it? Look at that type of thing you found. How foolish is that!"

"Finally, I wish to ask that male student – are you even a man?!"
......

Xu Tingsheng, Huang Yaming, and Fu Cheng privately found Song Ni.

Huang Yaming said, "The next time he looks for you, we will beat him up. Each time he does, we will beat him up once."

Song Ni said, "You don't have to do anything. I was the one who went to look for him."

Xu Tingsheng said, "If you look for him again, we will also beat him up. Each time you do, we will beat him up once."

Fu Cheng said, "Break his leg."

That night, the boy secretly found Song Ni, saying, "I'm sorry, I couldn't let myself be caught. If I had been caught, I would have been ruined. The university entrance examinations are right up the corner; my whole family is depending on me; I can't ruin myself... you understand me, don't you? Please, forgive me."

Song Ni asked, "What about me?"

The boy answered, "My, my hopes are a little greater. Your results..."

Song Ni said, "So you thought this way."

The boy said, "Can you come to my house on Satuday? My parents will not be home."

Song Ni returned and found Xu Tingsheng, saying, "He just came to look for me."

The trio escorted the boy to the roof and beat him up.

Afterwards. Song Ni raised her head which had been buried in her desk, smiling bitterly with a face full of tears, "You didn't injure his hand, right?... He still has to sit for the university entrance examinations."

Fu Cheng said, "I'll go back and break his hand."

Song Ni laughed, "Don't worry, I won't be so silly anymore."