"Yijuan!" Xinjie called out and head towards the table which him & his band mates were at.
Yijuan was laughing around with his band mates when he heard his name being called. He looked up and was delighted to see Xinjie and her friends. "Hey! Xinjie!"
"I'm so sorry we're late." Xinjie explained.
Frankly speaking, Junjie wasn't really sure how to handle the today's situation. He was actually quite freaked out. But he told himself to keep calm and steady. It wasn't like he was meeting the President or a Superstar. Nothing to get nervous about. But when he saw the guy whom Xinjie went forward to, his ego was badly crushed. It was those group of people with weird sense of dressing and her boyfriend happened to be that very chiseled good looking guy with sharp features.
A voice at the back of his head was ringing with, "算了吧！人家长得这么帅！你凭什么喜欢人家的妞！不自量力."
It was an 8-seater table. Their sitting arrangement was such that Jielun & Junjie were opposite each other, beside them were Xinjie & Jieqi respectively. So meaning to say, Junjie & Jieqi were sitting side by side, same for Jielun & Xinjie. On the other side of Xinjie was Yijuan. And the rest of the ppl at the table were Yijuan's bandmates, Rob, Michael, KC & Bernie. The one sitting on the other side of Jieqi was Rob.
"Right!" Xinjie said and cleared her throat nervously. "Hey, let me introduce my group J Ensemble. This guy beside me in pink top is Jielun. He's our cellist."
Jielun nodded shyly and said a modest "Hi." with a nod.
Xinjie went on, "That guy in front him in white, is Junjie. He's our band major and our pianist."
Junjie nodded and waved, "Hi! Nice to meet you all."
"And this girl here is Jieqi, she's our violinist."
Jieqi ducked her head and smiled sheepishly, "Uh.... Hello everyone. 初次见面，请多多指教."
And guys being guys, especially those hormone-ranging ones from Ferrago were all excited to introduce themselves.
Rob wasted no time and turned to his left and stretched his hand out to shake Jieqi's, "Hi, my name's Rob. I'm the guitarist of the group. I write most of the songs..."
"Erhem!" A fake cough came from Yijuan, signaling that he also had credit.
"Well," Rob continued, and his hand still holding Jieqi's, "Yijuan would provide most of the lyrics which I'd then work the melody & compositions out..."
Out of the blue came Jielun's voice, "会不会握得太久了啊?" 笨女人，不会把手拿开啊！He was the first one to notice Jieqi's uncomfortable expression.
Rob looked at Jielun and Jieqi took the opportunity to retract her hand back and smiled sheepishly.
Xinjie turned to look at Jielun, signaling him to keep that tone & attitude in front of her boyfriend and his friends down. She turned back to Rob and said, "Sorry. That's the way he speak sometimes. Don't take that to heart."
KC & Bernie also took turns to introduce themselves as the bassist and drummer respectively. Since this was a buffet dinner, few of them went to take some food back, few went to get drinks, some waited behind.
"Xinjie, what do you-"
"Xinjie, do you want-"
Both Yijuan & Junjie were asking Xinjie at the same time. Both the guys looked at each other.
Junjie automatically backed off, allowing Yijuan to speak first. "I was wondering what do you want to have? I'd go get some for you."
"Oh! It's ok." Xinjie said. "I can go with you."
"No no no… sit down. It's the guy's responsibility to serve. You'd just sit there and wait for me ok?"
Xinjie's heart was filled with happiness and nodded, "Ok!"
Junjie's heart sunk. Since someone had already asked her, he'd ask someone else then. "Hey Jieqi, let me get something for you? What would like to have."
But before Jieqi could reply, Jielun said, "你拿什么给她，她都会吃的."
Jieqi pouted, "Wei! 你很不守信用哦! What did you promise me yesterday! 你说你对我说话的态度会好一点的! 你反悔了哦!"
Jielun then retorted, "I didn't. I was merely stating the fact."
Jieqi gave him a smug, "I'm in exceptionally good mood today, I won't argue with you. Hrmp!" She then turned to Junjie and said, "Let me be the one to get the food then... what would you like to have?"
"Get me some salad please. Oh! and some braised pork! Those broccoli looks good too! Thanks!" Apparently, Jielun was the one who gave the 'orders'.
Jieqi took a deep breath and tried to force a smile while 'correcting' him, "不好意思，我是在问俊杰。你如果想吃的话，麻烦你自己拿."
But Jielun replied as a matter of factly, "反正你都要过去拿，那就顺便一下嘛."
Junjie sense another 'volcano erupting soon' and quickly said, "No, Jieqi it's ok. I can go get the food on my own." Then he turned to Jielun, "I'll get your share too."
But Jieqi was eager to impress and insisted, "No! You sit down, let me get some food for you..." she shot daggers at Jielun and said, "... and Mr Zhou too. I'll be back in a while."
Jielun flashed Jieqi a grin as she shot daggers back at her before moving on with the buffet queue! And Junjie was all puzzled by the commotion and wondered what was Jieqi trying to do and what was going on between the both of them too?
"What are you doing?" Junjie went back to his seat and sat in front of Jielun.
"Nothing." Jielun answered casually. "她要拿就让她拿好了."
Junjie eyed Jielun suspiciously, "Is there something going on between you two that I don't know of?"
Jielun shrugged, "Nah! Don't be stupid. Why would I have anything going on with her!"
对啊，干嘛啊？我的思绪干嘛要被她牵着啊？
*******
Jieqi was in line of the buffet queue and was taking a bit of everything from what was displayed, in front of her was Yijuan who saw her coming along and decided to say hi to her.
"Hi, Jieqi!" Yijuan smiled. "Need a hand?"
Jieqi was pleasantly surprised, "Oh! It's alright, I think I can managed. I'd probably be coming back here again when I'm done."
Yijuan was surprised by her appetite when he looked into her plate, "Woah! You have a big appetite!"
Jieqi smiled & explained, "Oh! These are not for me alone! I'm just taking it for everyone so that they don't have to get up and walk to & fro here."
Yijuan smiled widely, "Aww... you're so sweet. Thanks for taking care of Xinjie all these while. I heard a lot about you from her."
Jieqi explained again, "Nah! 没有什么照顾不照顾的. I'm glad to have Xinjie as my bestest friend at school too. In fact, she's the one who took care of me. I'm the muddle-headed one. 她是个做事很谨慎的人. I envy you 2 lovebirds so much!"
Yijuan's heart sunk a little. Lovebirds? "Didn't Xinjie get to meet other guys? Or... 难道没有其他男生追她吗?"
Jieqi paused to think for a while, "Occasionally there are a few but Xinjie would always tell them firmly to forget about it as she's attached to a very wonderful boyfriend. And that would be you even though you're not physically by her side."
Yijuan's heart sunk even further. That made everything even harder. He managed to squeeze a smile and said, "Oh... Ok. Hmm... I get back to the table first. See you later."
*******
Yijuan got back to the table and beemed at Xinjie, handing him the food he'd taken for Xinjie. "Nah! For you!"
Xinjie smiled at him lovingly, "Thank you, sweetheart!"
Junjie looked up and saw the both of them looking at each other endearing and was crestfallen. He didn't realy want to look at the couple in front him and was looking elsewhere but he kept getting distracted by them...
"Er..." He cleared his throat, "I'm going over to get something."
But before he could get up, Jieqi returned with multiple plates on a tray. "Hey! These are for everyone!" She struggled to bring the heavy tray over.
Jielun saw Jieqi coming over and attempted to get up from his seat to help her but from the corner of his eyes, he saw another man stepping forward.
To be continued....
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Friday, September 08, 2006
Chapter 19: Never Seen Someone As Cute As...
Xinjie was smiling to herself on the bus and picturing her boyfriend's band and J Ensemble together. Wonder what would Yijuan think! This was such a happy & joyous occasion because all of these people here were people whom she cared about. It really meant a lot of her.
She was so engrossed in her thought that she didn't noticed Jieqi had boarded the same bus as her.
"Xinjie!" Jieqi called out.
Xinjie's thoughts were broken and turned to the direction of the voice, "Oh! Jieqi! You board the bus too!"
"Yeah! I almost couldn't board this bus and I thought I'd be terribly late." Jieqi said with a sigh of relieve then asked, "Where's Yijuan?" She was puzzled why her boyfriend wasn't with her.
Xinjie explained, "Oh, cos he'd be going there with his bandmates. Since he knew the place, we could meet there on our own."
Jieqi nodded, "I see..."
Xinjie was seated while Jieqi was standing. So Xinjie was checking Jieqi's outfit out and said, "Wow! Woolen striped top and mini skirt! Since when do you wear such outfit, Jieqi? Did you renew your wardrobe collection or something?"
Jieqi blushed, "Nah...I bought these long time ago but didn't dare to wear them out or rather no chance to wear them."
"You look really pretty today! You should wear mini skirts often to get guys' attention!" Xinjie half teased and half meant it.
At the same time while Xinjie commented, several guys looked over at their direction. Jieqi was blushing fiercely, "Shhh!! Guo Xinjie! Look what you've done!"
"哎呀，有什么好害羞的." Xinjie teased again. "You must know how to show your assets!"
The red-faced girl was really embarrassed & shy, "Err...I'll try." And hopefully he'd notice later, Jieqi thought.
Jieqi probably spent a whole 2 hours trying to look for a suitable outside to go with it. She has rejected so many others and finally chosen this set. It was her first time in a group outing with her seniors, of course she'd have to dress up. She even put on some light make up to make her face glow and did a bit of styling to her hair. She thought she looked pretty ok but hopefully she won't get so shy later on while facing them...
*******
Junjie was waiting outside the buffet restaurant for Jielun and the girls to arrive so that they could go in together. While he was waiting, a group of guys with weird sense of dressing walked passed him, heading toward the buffet restaurant. They are Asians but they spoke in loud twang of British English... Junjie wondered where they were from.
Junjie then glanced up at that group of people and he eyes caught up with this chiselled looking guy with sharp features and thought he was really very good looking for a guy! His eyes sparkled with confidence and he had very good complexion. For a moment, he thought what he saw was a group of celebrities. 穿着怪是怪，不过个个都很帅，怎么会有这么帅的人啊？ he thought.
And then Junjie's mobile phone rang. He shook off the thoughts earlier and picked up the phone. It was from Jielun. "Hello?"
"Hey," came from another line. "I think I'm reaching soon. Where are you?"
"I'm standing right outside the buffet restaurant. You see me? What are you wearing?"
"Pink shirt and khaki pants..."
Junjie was looking around for guys wearing pink shirt... he was scanning in front and... Yeah! He saw Jielun looking a little lost. He raised his hand up and wave while speaking onto the phone, "Hey!! Here! Your 3 o'clock. Turn to your right!" Wave. "Saw me?"
Jielun was looking around with hands in his pocket, "Where?" He scanned closely and spotted a guy dressed in white sleeveless and white pants waving at him. "Oh! There!" And both of them hung up while he jogged across to where Junjie was.
"Yo!" Junjie called out.
"Hey, sorry I'm late." Jielun apologised but he realised the girls weren't around. "有没有搞错啊？ 她们又迟到了啊？"
Junjie smiled, "Girls need time to doll up. Because for her boyfriend whom she haven't seen in a long, Xinjie's would definitely dress up in her most pretty outfit for him."
Jielun rolled his eyes, "Xinjie I can understand. 不过另外一个白痴就不需要了。反正她在怎么打扮也是一样丑."
"Tsk!" Junjie glared at Jielun, "你怎么这么说捷琪啊！她其实很可爱的." While talking to Jielun at the same time, he was also looking out for signs of the girls in case they also couldn't see the sign of this buffet restaurant. And he seem to spot them but wasn't too sure.
"Yeah, right. Cute. Duh!" Jielun exclaimed. "Whoever thinks that idiot is cute gotta have their eyes check because that person is blind. And let me tell you-"
Junjie cut him off, "Hey, I think I saw them. They're in front."
"Hey, I haven't finished..." Jielun went on. "我从来就没有看过像她这么-"
Junjie yelled, "Xinjie!! Jieqi!! Over here!!" He waved to get their attention. The girls heard their names being called and saw their seniors and walked towards the 2 guys.
Jielun then glanced slightly at the two girls walking toward them then turned back at Junjie and went on, "没有看过像她这么...." He wanted to say "这么笨的人！" but the moment the girls walked nearer, he let his sentence hang and jaw dropped. He didn't believe what he was seeing. He practically froze and forgotten what he wanted to say because someone had taken his breath away...
"Sorry sorry sorry..." Xinjie apologised and bowed. "We didn't mean to be late."
"不好意思，让学长久等了." Jieqi said shyly while she looked at Junjie. She only roughly glanced at Jielun a little.
Junjie smiled, "No, it's ok! You girls are very pretty."
Xinjie smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you, I know!" And laughed.
"And wow, Jieqi!" Junjie praised. "Very very cute. I didn't know there's this side of you too. 化妆起来，真得很漂亮！"
Jieqi's heart was fluttering all over with Junjie praising her like that. "Thank you!" She said softly.
Xinjie nudged Jieqi, "See see, I told you!! I told you!"
Junjie was curious, "See what? Told her what?"
Xinjie laughed, "I told her to dress like that more often to get guy's attention. Mini skirts are a head turner. If I had long legs like hers, I would have worn too!"
Junjie nodded, "对啊，可爱的纯情少女带有一点的性感！杰伦，你说是不是？"
But no response from Jielun because he kept looking at Jieqi and his mind was whirling and didn't notice Junjie was speaking to him. "Jielun?" Junjie nudged him. "Don't you think so?"
Jielun regained composure and coughed a few times, "Hmm...oh! Uh."
Jieqi became defensive with Jielun looking at her like that, "干嘛一直盯着人家看嘛！ 我可没有欠你哦！"
Xinjie then notioned everything to go in, "Alright! My boyfriend and his band had reached. Let's quickly go in and look for them."
Jielun walked behind all of them with hand in his pockets and head bowed low, occasionally bobbing his head up to look at a certain somebody.
Junjie realised Jielun was walking really slow and get behind and nudged him again. "What's up with you? PMS again? Experiencing moodiness again?" He was quite worried if Jielun would pull another foul temper stunt, especially not in a public place while having dinner with other fellow musicians.
Jielun shook his head, "Nothing."
Junjie then remembered Jielun was saying something when the girls came, "Oh yeah, what were you telling me just now? You were saying something about Jieqi."
"Aiya!" Jielun got irritated, "Nothing la! I'd forgotten what I wanted to say."
But Junjie persisted, "你说你从来就没有看过像她这么什么？"
"没有东西啦！" Jielun hissed, "都跟你说我忘了！"
"Alright! Keep up the pace." Junjie said. "I'm quite curious to see how does Xinjie's boyfriend look like." With that he caught up with the girls, leaving Jielun still dilly dally-ing behind.
原来，我从来就没看过像她这么可爱，单纯的女生。。。
To be continued...
She was so engrossed in her thought that she didn't noticed Jieqi had boarded the same bus as her.
"Xinjie!" Jieqi called out.
Xinjie's thoughts were broken and turned to the direction of the voice, "Oh! Jieqi! You board the bus too!"
"Yeah! I almost couldn't board this bus and I thought I'd be terribly late." Jieqi said with a sigh of relieve then asked, "Where's Yijuan?" She was puzzled why her boyfriend wasn't with her.
Xinjie explained, "Oh, cos he'd be going there with his bandmates. Since he knew the place, we could meet there on our own."
Jieqi nodded, "I see..."
Xinjie was seated while Jieqi was standing. So Xinjie was checking Jieqi's outfit out and said, "Wow! Woolen striped top and mini skirt! Since when do you wear such outfit, Jieqi? Did you renew your wardrobe collection or something?"
Jieqi blushed, "Nah...I bought these long time ago but didn't dare to wear them out or rather no chance to wear them."
"You look really pretty today! You should wear mini skirts often to get guys' attention!" Xinjie half teased and half meant it.
At the same time while Xinjie commented, several guys looked over at their direction. Jieqi was blushing fiercely, "Shhh!! Guo Xinjie! Look what you've done!"
"哎呀，有什么好害羞的." Xinjie teased again. "You must know how to show your assets!"
The red-faced girl was really embarrassed & shy, "Err...I'll try." And hopefully he'd notice later, Jieqi thought.
Jieqi probably spent a whole 2 hours trying to look for a suitable outside to go with it. She has rejected so many others and finally chosen this set. It was her first time in a group outing with her seniors, of course she'd have to dress up. She even put on some light make up to make her face glow and did a bit of styling to her hair. She thought she looked pretty ok but hopefully she won't get so shy later on while facing them...
*******
Junjie was waiting outside the buffet restaurant for Jielun and the girls to arrive so that they could go in together. While he was waiting, a group of guys with weird sense of dressing walked passed him, heading toward the buffet restaurant. They are Asians but they spoke in loud twang of British English... Junjie wondered where they were from.
Junjie then glanced up at that group of people and he eyes caught up with this chiselled looking guy with sharp features and thought he was really very good looking for a guy! His eyes sparkled with confidence and he had very good complexion. For a moment, he thought what he saw was a group of celebrities. 穿着怪是怪，不过个个都很帅，怎么会有这么帅的人啊？ he thought.
And then Junjie's mobile phone rang. He shook off the thoughts earlier and picked up the phone. It was from Jielun. "Hello?"
"Hey," came from another line. "I think I'm reaching soon. Where are you?"
"I'm standing right outside the buffet restaurant. You see me? What are you wearing?"
"Pink shirt and khaki pants..."
Junjie was looking around for guys wearing pink shirt... he was scanning in front and... Yeah! He saw Jielun looking a little lost. He raised his hand up and wave while speaking onto the phone, "Hey!! Here! Your 3 o'clock. Turn to your right!" Wave. "Saw me?"
Jielun was looking around with hands in his pocket, "Where?" He scanned closely and spotted a guy dressed in white sleeveless and white pants waving at him. "Oh! There!" And both of them hung up while he jogged across to where Junjie was.
"Yo!" Junjie called out.
"Hey, sorry I'm late." Jielun apologised but he realised the girls weren't around. "有没有搞错啊？ 她们又迟到了啊？"
Junjie smiled, "Girls need time to doll up. Because for her boyfriend whom she haven't seen in a long, Xinjie's would definitely dress up in her most pretty outfit for him."
Jielun rolled his eyes, "Xinjie I can understand. 不过另外一个白痴就不需要了。反正她在怎么打扮也是一样丑."
"Tsk!" Junjie glared at Jielun, "你怎么这么说捷琪啊！她其实很可爱的." While talking to Jielun at the same time, he was also looking out for signs of the girls in case they also couldn't see the sign of this buffet restaurant. And he seem to spot them but wasn't too sure.
"Yeah, right. Cute. Duh!" Jielun exclaimed. "Whoever thinks that idiot is cute gotta have their eyes check because that person is blind. And let me tell you-"
Junjie cut him off, "Hey, I think I saw them. They're in front."
"Hey, I haven't finished..." Jielun went on. "我从来就没有看过像她这么-"
Junjie yelled, "Xinjie!! Jieqi!! Over here!!" He waved to get their attention. The girls heard their names being called and saw their seniors and walked towards the 2 guys.
Jielun then glanced slightly at the two girls walking toward them then turned back at Junjie and went on, "没有看过像她这么...." He wanted to say "这么笨的人！" but the moment the girls walked nearer, he let his sentence hang and jaw dropped. He didn't believe what he was seeing. He practically froze and forgotten what he wanted to say because someone had taken his breath away...
"Sorry sorry sorry..." Xinjie apologised and bowed. "We didn't mean to be late."
"不好意思，让学长久等了." Jieqi said shyly while she looked at Junjie. She only roughly glanced at Jielun a little.
Junjie smiled, "No, it's ok! You girls are very pretty."
Xinjie smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you, I know!" And laughed.
"And wow, Jieqi!" Junjie praised. "Very very cute. I didn't know there's this side of you too. 化妆起来，真得很漂亮！"
Jieqi's heart was fluttering all over with Junjie praising her like that. "Thank you!" She said softly.
Xinjie nudged Jieqi, "See see, I told you!! I told you!"
Junjie was curious, "See what? Told her what?"
Xinjie laughed, "I told her to dress like that more often to get guy's attention. Mini skirts are a head turner. If I had long legs like hers, I would have worn too!"
Junjie nodded, "对啊，可爱的纯情少女带有一点的性感！杰伦，你说是不是？"
But no response from Jielun because he kept looking at Jieqi and his mind was whirling and didn't notice Junjie was speaking to him. "Jielun?" Junjie nudged him. "Don't you think so?"
Jielun regained composure and coughed a few times, "Hmm...oh! Uh."
Jieqi became defensive with Jielun looking at her like that, "干嘛一直盯着人家看嘛！ 我可没有欠你哦！"
Xinjie then notioned everything to go in, "Alright! My boyfriend and his band had reached. Let's quickly go in and look for them."
Jielun walked behind all of them with hand in his pockets and head bowed low, occasionally bobbing his head up to look at a certain somebody.
Junjie realised Jielun was walking really slow and get behind and nudged him again. "What's up with you? PMS again? Experiencing moodiness again?" He was quite worried if Jielun would pull another foul temper stunt, especially not in a public place while having dinner with other fellow musicians.
Jielun shook his head, "Nothing."
Junjie then remembered Jielun was saying something when the girls came, "Oh yeah, what were you telling me just now? You were saying something about Jieqi."
"Aiya!" Jielun got irritated, "Nothing la! I'd forgotten what I wanted to say."
But Junjie persisted, "你说你从来就没有看过像她这么什么？"
"没有东西啦！" Jielun hissed, "都跟你说我忘了！"
"Alright! Keep up the pace." Junjie said. "I'm quite curious to see how does Xinjie's boyfriend look like." With that he caught up with the girls, leaving Jielun still dilly dally-ing behind.
原来，我从来就没看过像她这么可爱，单纯的女生。。。
To be continued...
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Chapter 18: Cry Baby VS Music Prodigy
Jielun stopped playing his cello and looked up at Junjie, "Why are you asking this?"
"Oh...." Junjie began, "Nothing much, just curious cos actually sometimes I see that you are really trying to help her. but when I see you yelling at her like that, I think she's rather 可怜."
Jielun continued playing his cello back again, "谁叫她这么迟钝！每次都比别人慢半拍！"
Junjie raised an eyebrow, "I see." He suddenly smiled, "Actually both of you look rather compatible eh? She's also the sort of girl you're looking for, isn't it?"
"Don't be ridiculous! This is so stupid! Her? I'd probably vomit blood everyday trying to talk to her." Jielun rolled his eyes.
"Oh...so you don't like her?" Junjie asked. But Jielun kept quiet and didn't reply him.
"Eh, there's this Iceman guy in the basketball team huh?" Junjie asked.
"Yeah, why?"
A smiled crept on Junjie's face, "听说最近他们走得很近?"
"你听谁说的?" Jielun looked at Junjie suspiciouslly, wondering what was he up to?
Junjie smiled, "不过也好. She needs someone to take care of her and help her 出头 when she's being scolded so severely by our cellist from J Ensemble."
Jielun suddenly froze upon hearing that. The thought of Iceman & Jieqi didn't make him feel too good. Jielun have no idea why was he feeling that way. But it was none of his business anyway.
"Really no interest in Jieqi?" Junjie asked once more.
Jielun indeed have no interest in Junjie's silly questions, "WU LIAO!"
*******
Jielun was online at home at night doing his usual surfing of sports news, sports forums, blogs, friends' profiles and then he saw a nick '爱哭鬼' online on his MSN list. He clicked on it to check out who it was. It turned out to be Jieqi with a sad but funnily cute face as her display pic.
He smiled, then went back to his usual solemn face. He clicked on her nick, but he was unsure of what to type/say because he does not chat with her at all. The reason for adding her was because sometimes Junjie would have announcement to make and will add all band members inside the chat conference.
Finally he muster all courage and MSN her.
音乐神童 says:
sorry I said those 难听的话 this afternoon. I apologise and take those back.
Jielun was looking at the screen, waiting for some sort of " 爱哭鬼 is typing a message." But there was no reply nor response from her. So he nudged her.
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You have just sent a Nudge!
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爱哭鬼 says:
apology accepted
Jielun was overwhelmed! But was quite disappointed with that remark at the same time. That chatterbox always talk and type a lot but what she typed was just 2 words. He was expecting her to throw some nasty words back to him but she didn't. Hmm...
音乐神童 says:
are u still mad at me?
爱哭鬼 says:
don't dare to.
音乐神童 says:
then why all the short answers?
爱哭鬼 says:
cos I won't know what I say will provoke you. so I better keep it short.
音乐神童 says:
你明明就还在生气！
爱哭鬼 says:
我生不生气有分别吗？你有想过我的感受吗？
It was Jielun's turn to keep quiet. He seriously didn't think about that before. 他一只想到他个人的感觉罢了.
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爱哭鬼 has sent you a Nudge
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爱哭鬼 says:
is there something about me which you can't stand? do I have some bad habits or weird actions which you r unable to accept? 为什么你老是看我不顺眼呢？我觉得真得很辛苦，很难跟你合作下去了。
音乐神童 says:
你只把我当作你的合作伙伴吗?
爱哭鬼 says:
不然？
音乐神童 says:
你觉得我老是看你不顺眼吗？
爱哭鬼 says:
不是吗？不见得你也对心洁这样！
Jielun had typed, "其实我...." but he backspaced it and replaced it with...
音乐神童 says:
因为看你好欺负啊！笨笨傻傻的！:)
爱哭鬼 says:
为什么我感觉不到你是在逗我而以呢？怎么好象每次都在欺负我，取笑我，看不起我呢？
音乐神童 says:
对不起啦，以后不会了。
爱哭鬼 says:
这可是你说的！再发生的话，我就退出 J Ensemble!
音乐神童 says:
好啦好啦。
爱哭鬼 says:
最好明天不要给我看到你的臭脸！
音乐神童 says:
知道啦知道啦！你很啰嗦耶！
爱哭鬼 says:
I'm going offline. Byebye!
音乐神童 says:
Byebye!
Jielun watched as Jieqi's nick turned offline, leaving a happy guy smiling to himself in front of the computer.
*******
The next day, Yijuan was getting changed to prepare for the buffet dinner together with Xinjie and her J Ensemble mates. He was styling his hair while his band mates were just hanging around behind making sure one another looked ok.
Yijuan's mobile phone was ringing.... it was probably Xinjie asking if he was ready. Without looking the name flashing on the LCD screen, Yijuan picked up and said, "Hey sweetie..."
"My beloved honey!" Came from the other line and it shocked Yijuan! Because, he didn't expect the call was from his UK girlfriend, Cassey.
Yijuan stopped what he was doing and said, "Cassey! It's you!" His band mates heard that name and turned to look at him.
"Yes, it's me. I thought you knew it was me?"
Feigning ignorance, Yijuan continued, "Yes! Of course I knew it's you! Why do you think I said sweetie?"
"How's things over at Singapore? I'm missing you already and I hope you can come back soon."
"Everything fine here. In fact, we're going to meet the organisers of the charity concert I told you we were performing for dinner." Yijuan felt bad for lying but that was what he could do at the moment...
Cassey's voice sounded disappointed, "Wished I could be there with you."
"Don't you worry, I'd be back in no time. Wait for me ok?"
"Ok, but remember I'm always thinking about you!"
"Yep, me too. Look honey, we're running a little late, I'll call you soon again ok?" Yijuan explained.
Luckily for him, Cassey said, "Opps, sorry! Alright then!! Love you. Byebye."
"Byebye." With that, Yijuan hung up and heave a big sigh.
One of his pals, Rob asked, "Cassy called huh?"
Yijuan nodded, "Yeah. I didn't expect her call! Goodness, I thought it was Xinhui rushing for us."
"Have you told Xinhui?" Rob asked. Being Yijuan's pal, he knew about what happened to them and part of Yijuan's purpose back here was intending to end things off with her.
Yijuan sighed, "I'm still waiting for a chance to break it up to her."
Rob reminded him, "你要知道，长痛不如短痛。你拖得越久，她受的伤害会越大. The girl has to know that things had changed and people move on and look forward. Not backward, not what was in the past."
Yijuan nodded, "谢谢，我知道要怎么做。 我自有分寸的。"
"Ok." Rob said, "Let's make a move then..."
说是一定要说，可是要怎么样把伤害弄得最低呢？
To be continued...
"Oh...." Junjie began, "Nothing much, just curious cos actually sometimes I see that you are really trying to help her. but when I see you yelling at her like that, I think she's rather 可怜."
Jielun continued playing his cello back again, "谁叫她这么迟钝！每次都比别人慢半拍！"
Junjie raised an eyebrow, "I see." He suddenly smiled, "Actually both of you look rather compatible eh? She's also the sort of girl you're looking for, isn't it?"
"Don't be ridiculous! This is so stupid! Her? I'd probably vomit blood everyday trying to talk to her." Jielun rolled his eyes.
"Oh...so you don't like her?" Junjie asked. But Jielun kept quiet and didn't reply him.
"Eh, there's this Iceman guy in the basketball team huh?" Junjie asked.
"Yeah, why?"
A smiled crept on Junjie's face, "听说最近他们走得很近?"
"你听谁说的?" Jielun looked at Junjie suspiciouslly, wondering what was he up to?
Junjie smiled, "不过也好. She needs someone to take care of her and help her 出头 when she's being scolded so severely by our cellist from J Ensemble."
Jielun suddenly froze upon hearing that. The thought of Iceman & Jieqi didn't make him feel too good. Jielun have no idea why was he feeling that way. But it was none of his business anyway.
"Really no interest in Jieqi?" Junjie asked once more.
Jielun indeed have no interest in Junjie's silly questions, "WU LIAO!"
*******
Jielun was online at home at night doing his usual surfing of sports news, sports forums, blogs, friends' profiles and then he saw a nick '爱哭鬼' online on his MSN list. He clicked on it to check out who it was. It turned out to be Jieqi with a sad but funnily cute face as her display pic.
He smiled, then went back to his usual solemn face. He clicked on her nick, but he was unsure of what to type/say because he does not chat with her at all. The reason for adding her was because sometimes Junjie would have announcement to make and will add all band members inside the chat conference.
Finally he muster all courage and MSN her.
音乐神童 says:
sorry I said those 难听的话 this afternoon. I apologise and take those back.
Jielun was looking at the screen, waiting for some sort of " 爱哭鬼 is typing a message." But there was no reply nor response from her. So he nudged her.
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You have just sent a Nudge!
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爱哭鬼 says:
apology accepted
Jielun was overwhelmed! But was quite disappointed with that remark at the same time. That chatterbox always talk and type a lot but what she typed was just 2 words. He was expecting her to throw some nasty words back to him but she didn't. Hmm...
音乐神童 says:
are u still mad at me?
爱哭鬼 says:
don't dare to.
音乐神童 says:
then why all the short answers?
爱哭鬼 says:
cos I won't know what I say will provoke you. so I better keep it short.
音乐神童 says:
你明明就还在生气！
爱哭鬼 says:
我生不生气有分别吗？你有想过我的感受吗？
It was Jielun's turn to keep quiet. He seriously didn't think about that before. 他一只想到他个人的感觉罢了.
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爱哭鬼 has sent you a Nudge
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爱哭鬼 says:
is there something about me which you can't stand? do I have some bad habits or weird actions which you r unable to accept? 为什么你老是看我不顺眼呢？我觉得真得很辛苦，很难跟你合作下去了。
音乐神童 says:
你只把我当作你的合作伙伴吗?
爱哭鬼 says:
不然？
音乐神童 says:
你觉得我老是看你不顺眼吗？
爱哭鬼 says:
不是吗？不见得你也对心洁这样！
Jielun had typed, "其实我...." but he backspaced it and replaced it with...
音乐神童 says:
因为看你好欺负啊！笨笨傻傻的！:)
爱哭鬼 says:
为什么我感觉不到你是在逗我而以呢？怎么好象每次都在欺负我，取笑我，看不起我呢？
音乐神童 says:
对不起啦，以后不会了。
爱哭鬼 says:
这可是你说的！再发生的话，我就退出 J Ensemble!
音乐神童 says:
好啦好啦。
爱哭鬼 says:
最好明天不要给我看到你的臭脸！
音乐神童 says:
知道啦知道啦！你很啰嗦耶！
爱哭鬼 says:
I'm going offline. Byebye!
音乐神童 says:
Byebye!
Jielun watched as Jieqi's nick turned offline, leaving a happy guy smiling to himself in front of the computer.
*******
The next day, Yijuan was getting changed to prepare for the buffet dinner together with Xinjie and her J Ensemble mates. He was styling his hair while his band mates were just hanging around behind making sure one another looked ok.
Yijuan's mobile phone was ringing.... it was probably Xinjie asking if he was ready. Without looking the name flashing on the LCD screen, Yijuan picked up and said, "Hey sweetie..."
"My beloved honey!" Came from the other line and it shocked Yijuan! Because, he didn't expect the call was from his UK girlfriend, Cassey.
Yijuan stopped what he was doing and said, "Cassey! It's you!" His band mates heard that name and turned to look at him.
"Yes, it's me. I thought you knew it was me?"
Feigning ignorance, Yijuan continued, "Yes! Of course I knew it's you! Why do you think I said sweetie?"
"How's things over at Singapore? I'm missing you already and I hope you can come back soon."
"Everything fine here. In fact, we're going to meet the organisers of the charity concert I told you we were performing for dinner." Yijuan felt bad for lying but that was what he could do at the moment...
Cassey's voice sounded disappointed, "Wished I could be there with you."
"Don't you worry, I'd be back in no time. Wait for me ok?"
"Ok, but remember I'm always thinking about you!"
"Yep, me too. Look honey, we're running a little late, I'll call you soon again ok?" Yijuan explained.
Luckily for him, Cassey said, "Opps, sorry! Alright then!! Love you. Byebye."
"Byebye." With that, Yijuan hung up and heave a big sigh.
One of his pals, Rob asked, "Cassy called huh?"
Yijuan nodded, "Yeah. I didn't expect her call! Goodness, I thought it was Xinhui rushing for us."
"Have you told Xinhui?" Rob asked. Being Yijuan's pal, he knew about what happened to them and part of Yijuan's purpose back here was intending to end things off with her.
Yijuan sighed, "I'm still waiting for a chance to break it up to her."
Rob reminded him, "你要知道，长痛不如短痛。你拖得越久，她受的伤害会越大. The girl has to know that things had changed and people move on and look forward. Not backward, not what was in the past."
Yijuan nodded, "谢谢，我知道要怎么做。 我自有分寸的。"
"Ok." Rob said, "Let's make a move then..."
说是一定要说，可是要怎么样把伤害弄得最低呢？
To be continued...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Chapter 17: I Really Don't Mean It...
"WEI!!" Jielun yelled at the person in front of him, "你可以拉好来一点吗？"
Jieqi jumped with Jielun's sudden yelling, "Ah?? Orh... Ok ok."
Xinjie looked at Jielun and whispered to Junjie, "他怎么了? 火药味这么重?"
Junjie's raised his brows, "I don't know. He was ok in class earlier. Maybe tough bball practice again? Not the first time anyway."
"Wah kao! 有没有搞错！这么简单的曲子给你拉成这样!" Jielun snapped.
Everyone kept quiet and went back practicing... Jieqi was super stress, especially. She totally concentrated on the score and made sure she didn't make any mistakes. But still, Jielun had something to say.
"EH!" Jielun was very irritated, "你真得很不转业你知道吗？ 你到底会不会音乐的？怎么一点感情都没有？你不是有很多感情的吗？"
Jieqi turned around with creased eyebrows, "Huh? What are you talking about?"
Both Xinjie & Junjie looked at Jielun, no idea what was all these for. Even Sir was not that strict with them.
"不练了！什么烂音乐!" Jielun yelled again.
Jieqi turned to Xinjie & Junjie and mouthed, "What? My fault again?"
Junjie was quite taken by surprised on Jielun's sudden outburst. "Uh... why not we take a break first. Everybody go take a break, ok? Be back by 5.30."
Jielun got up from his seat irritatedly and kept frowning and pretended to busy with arranging scores. Truth was, he also had no idea why was he in a foul mood. 他只知道他心里很烦，不应该那音乐出气的。可是一想到刚才天祺说的话，他就一肚子火。那个水性杨花的人！
Junjie went over to see if Jieqi was ok. It was so ungentlemanly of Jielun to shout at her at like, considering Sir never even did that do them. Jieqi was sitting down on her chair and sighing dejectedly when Junjie approached her, "You ok?"
Jieqi was half shy half touched that Junjie would be so concerned, "Hmm... I guess so. Just a little demoralised."
Junjie smiled, "杰伦也真是的！每次练完球就过来拿音乐出气. 也不懂得怜香惜玉。没有关系！有我们在！不会让他欺负你的！"
Jieqi smiled sheepishly back, "谢谢你！有你这句话就够了."
Jielun, who was watching from behind, was gritting his teeth the whole time. 见到我就好像见到鬼一样板着个臭脸，跟别人讲话就这么有说有笑！花心做作的女人！ He thought furiously. He then walked forward pretending to take some reference notes from the cupboard where Jieqi & Junjie were.
"你们两个这么谈得来， 我建议你们在演奏会上可以加一个双人钢琴的项目。一定会很有看头！" Jielun was making lots of senseless remarks which he didn't even realise it so.
Junjie really found Jielun weird and ridiculous today, "What are you doing, Jielun? What's with all these? Why do we need to include 双人钢琴?"
"人家这么喜欢和你表演，你就成全人家嘛." Jielun went on.
Jieqi stood up, frowned and said, "Wei! Zhou Jielun, what are you saying!! What the hell are you talking about?"
"怎么？难道不是吗？" Jielun said and studied Jieqi's expression.
Jieqi stared back at Jielun with displease and said, "我到底什么地方得罪你了？"
"No, you didn't do anything to offend me. I just don't like the way you treat music lightly, as if it was your lowest priority!" Jielun retorted.
Jieqi's brows were creased and her eyes widen. In a raised voice, she said, "你这个人怎么这么莫名其妙啊！说一些没有根据的话！Since when did I treat music lightly, huh?"
Jielun 气得脸都绿了，“我不想跟你这个白痴说话！” With that, he walked away and head toward the cupboard...
The soft-spoken Xinjie was stunned when she saw them quarreling she decided to keep quiet since she wasn't able to do anything to help. But Jielun do look like he was leaving, "Jielun, what are you doing? We haven't practiced the..."
Jielun grabbed his bag and sprouted, "I'm leaving." He looked up at Jieqi and glared at her, saying, "我看到她就作呕，根本练不下去."
Junjie was shocked to hear something coming from Jielun, "Wait, Jielun! 有话好说嘛."
In a swift moment, Jielun shut the door behind him with a loud slam. Everyone in the band room went quiet.
Tears were forming in Jieqi's eyes and mumbled, "他就那么讨厌我？ 我有那么差竟吗？"
Xinjie came over and placed a hand over Jieqi's shoulder, "Aw... Of course you're not! You're the best violinist in the section."
Wiping away a tear which rolled down, Jieqi sobbed, "我真得会让人作呕吗？ 我有这么难相处吗？"
Junjie came forward and tried to comfort Jieqi, "根本就不会啊. Don't take Jielun's words to heart, ok?"
"But he was really too much!" Xinjie said. "Fancy taking it out on Jieqi like that!"
Jieqi spoke in 委屈-ness, "I think, perhaps we're unable to work together now. In the beginning, I was still able to tolerate his foul temper, but nowadays 他一直对我作出人生攻击。 我知道我迟钝，我慢半拍，可是我真得很努力了."
Junjie patted Jieqi's shoulder, "I know. We all know! We have eyes to see who's working on it and who's not. Com'on, it's not easy for us to form this Ensemble. Jielun didn't mean what he said so don't take him seriously."
Jieqi continued, "But, we won't know when will he flare up again... "
Xinjie nodded, "And I want J Ensemble to meet my boyfriend and his band, I don't want my team members to be so disunited. I know Jielun wasn't being himself just now but... like you mentioned it's not the first time that's happening, shouldn't he do something about it to prevent all these uncalled situations for?"
Junjie sighed and nodded, "Don't worry. I'll talk to him about this and hopefully next time such things will not happen again."
"You better make sure!" Xinjie said firmly. "Poor Jieqi, always get such harsh treatment. She didn't even do anything wrong. Sometimes she'd just be sitting there quiet and Jielun would come over and yell at her for no reason."
Jieqi then said, "他就是看我不爽就是了啦！Forget it, I'm not going to think about it anymore..."
"Alright." Xinjie nodded, "Just a reminder about tomorrow's dinner date ok?"
Junjie nodded, "Got it." He also didn't dare to comment much about anything. But for the sake of J Ensemble & Xinjie, he'd find out what exactly was Jielun's problem. Because if it gets too big, practice sessions would be hard with his roller coaster temper...
*******
Xinjie & Jieqi left, leaving Junjie alone in the band room.
Junjie pulled out his mobile phone and dialled Jielun's number. "Hey, are you still around?"
On the other end of the line, Jielun was hesitating to answer. So he replied with, "What's up?"
"Playing basketball?"
"Yeah."
"Come back to the band room."
"No!"
"The girls are not around. There's only me."
"I...." Jielun didn't want to see some people.
As if able to read Jielun's mind, Junjie said, "The girls left. There's only me left in the band room." He was expecting Jielun to respond but what greeting him was a click sound and a dead tone from the mobile phone. "臭小子！ 挂我电话！也不会应一声啊. "
Junjie continued practicing his piano solo and he heard somebody opening the door. It was Jielun who was opening the door slowly n carefully and checking around the band to see if there was anybody...
"干嘛？在找谁？" Junjie said, "I already told you I'm alone here."
"No, nothing." Jielun said as a matter of factly and placed his bag on the chairs and sat in front of his cello...
Both of them began to talk a little about their dreams as musicians and how J Ensemble affected them. They also had some bit of guys talk regarding parents and Junjie decided to 进入正题.
"Wei!" Junjie called out to Jielun out of the blue
Jielun who was practicing his cello replied, "干嘛?"
"Actually, you're not a bad-tempered person. But why do you always have to 呼呼赫赫 at Jieqi?" Junjie asked him curiously. From what he knew, Jielun was a very shy boy and he seldom spoke and treated words like gold.
Jielun stopped playing his cello and looked up at Junjie, "Why are you asking this?"
To be continued...
Jieqi jumped with Jielun's sudden yelling, "Ah?? Orh... Ok ok."
Xinjie looked at Jielun and whispered to Junjie, "他怎么了? 火药味这么重?"
Junjie's raised his brows, "I don't know. He was ok in class earlier. Maybe tough bball practice again? Not the first time anyway."
"Wah kao! 有没有搞错！这么简单的曲子给你拉成这样!" Jielun snapped.
Everyone kept quiet and went back practicing... Jieqi was super stress, especially. She totally concentrated on the score and made sure she didn't make any mistakes. But still, Jielun had something to say.
"EH!" Jielun was very irritated, "你真得很不转业你知道吗？ 你到底会不会音乐的？怎么一点感情都没有？你不是有很多感情的吗？"
Jieqi turned around with creased eyebrows, "Huh? What are you talking about?"
Both Xinjie & Junjie looked at Jielun, no idea what was all these for. Even Sir was not that strict with them.
"不练了！什么烂音乐!" Jielun yelled again.
Jieqi turned to Xinjie & Junjie and mouthed, "What? My fault again?"
Junjie was quite taken by surprised on Jielun's sudden outburst. "Uh... why not we take a break first. Everybody go take a break, ok? Be back by 5.30."
Jielun got up from his seat irritatedly and kept frowning and pretended to busy with arranging scores. Truth was, he also had no idea why was he in a foul mood. 他只知道他心里很烦，不应该那音乐出气的。可是一想到刚才天祺说的话，他就一肚子火。那个水性杨花的人！
Junjie went over to see if Jieqi was ok. It was so ungentlemanly of Jielun to shout at her at like, considering Sir never even did that do them. Jieqi was sitting down on her chair and sighing dejectedly when Junjie approached her, "You ok?"
Jieqi was half shy half touched that Junjie would be so concerned, "Hmm... I guess so. Just a little demoralised."
Junjie smiled, "杰伦也真是的！每次练完球就过来拿音乐出气. 也不懂得怜香惜玉。没有关系！有我们在！不会让他欺负你的！"
Jieqi smiled sheepishly back, "谢谢你！有你这句话就够了."
Jielun, who was watching from behind, was gritting his teeth the whole time. 见到我就好像见到鬼一样板着个臭脸，跟别人讲话就这么有说有笑！花心做作的女人！ He thought furiously. He then walked forward pretending to take some reference notes from the cupboard where Jieqi & Junjie were.
"你们两个这么谈得来， 我建议你们在演奏会上可以加一个双人钢琴的项目。一定会很有看头！" Jielun was making lots of senseless remarks which he didn't even realise it so.
Junjie really found Jielun weird and ridiculous today, "What are you doing, Jielun? What's with all these? Why do we need to include 双人钢琴?"
"人家这么喜欢和你表演，你就成全人家嘛." Jielun went on.
Jieqi stood up, frowned and said, "Wei! Zhou Jielun, what are you saying!! What the hell are you talking about?"
"怎么？难道不是吗？" Jielun said and studied Jieqi's expression.
Jieqi stared back at Jielun with displease and said, "我到底什么地方得罪你了？"
"No, you didn't do anything to offend me. I just don't like the way you treat music lightly, as if it was your lowest priority!" Jielun retorted.
Jieqi's brows were creased and her eyes widen. In a raised voice, she said, "你这个人怎么这么莫名其妙啊！说一些没有根据的话！Since when did I treat music lightly, huh?"
Jielun 气得脸都绿了，“我不想跟你这个白痴说话！” With that, he walked away and head toward the cupboard...
The soft-spoken Xinjie was stunned when she saw them quarreling she decided to keep quiet since she wasn't able to do anything to help. But Jielun do look like he was leaving, "Jielun, what are you doing? We haven't practiced the..."
Jielun grabbed his bag and sprouted, "I'm leaving." He looked up at Jieqi and glared at her, saying, "我看到她就作呕，根本练不下去."
Junjie was shocked to hear something coming from Jielun, "Wait, Jielun! 有话好说嘛."
In a swift moment, Jielun shut the door behind him with a loud slam. Everyone in the band room went quiet.
Tears were forming in Jieqi's eyes and mumbled, "他就那么讨厌我？ 我有那么差竟吗？"
Xinjie came over and placed a hand over Jieqi's shoulder, "Aw... Of course you're not! You're the best violinist in the section."
Wiping away a tear which rolled down, Jieqi sobbed, "我真得会让人作呕吗？ 我有这么难相处吗？"
Junjie came forward and tried to comfort Jieqi, "根本就不会啊. Don't take Jielun's words to heart, ok?"
"But he was really too much!" Xinjie said. "Fancy taking it out on Jieqi like that!"
Jieqi spoke in 委屈-ness, "I think, perhaps we're unable to work together now. In the beginning, I was still able to tolerate his foul temper, but nowadays 他一直对我作出人生攻击。 我知道我迟钝，我慢半拍，可是我真得很努力了."
Junjie patted Jieqi's shoulder, "I know. We all know! We have eyes to see who's working on it and who's not. Com'on, it's not easy for us to form this Ensemble. Jielun didn't mean what he said so don't take him seriously."
Jieqi continued, "But, we won't know when will he flare up again... "
Xinjie nodded, "And I want J Ensemble to meet my boyfriend and his band, I don't want my team members to be so disunited. I know Jielun wasn't being himself just now but... like you mentioned it's not the first time that's happening, shouldn't he do something about it to prevent all these uncalled situations for?"
Junjie sighed and nodded, "Don't worry. I'll talk to him about this and hopefully next time such things will not happen again."
"You better make sure!" Xinjie said firmly. "Poor Jieqi, always get such harsh treatment. She didn't even do anything wrong. Sometimes she'd just be sitting there quiet and Jielun would come over and yell at her for no reason."
Jieqi then said, "他就是看我不爽就是了啦！Forget it, I'm not going to think about it anymore..."
"Alright." Xinjie nodded, "Just a reminder about tomorrow's dinner date ok?"
Junjie nodded, "Got it." He also didn't dare to comment much about anything. But for the sake of J Ensemble & Xinjie, he'd find out what exactly was Jielun's problem. Because if it gets too big, practice sessions would be hard with his roller coaster temper...
*******
Xinjie & Jieqi left, leaving Junjie alone in the band room.
Junjie pulled out his mobile phone and dialled Jielun's number. "Hey, are you still around?"
On the other end of the line, Jielun was hesitating to answer. So he replied with, "What's up?"
"Playing basketball?"
"Yeah."
"Come back to the band room."
"No!"
"The girls are not around. There's only me."
"I...." Jielun didn't want to see some people.
As if able to read Jielun's mind, Junjie said, "The girls left. There's only me left in the band room." He was expecting Jielun to respond but what greeting him was a click sound and a dead tone from the mobile phone. "臭小子！ 挂我电话！也不会应一声啊. "
Junjie continued practicing his piano solo and he heard somebody opening the door. It was Jielun who was opening the door slowly n carefully and checking around the band to see if there was anybody...
"干嘛？在找谁？" Junjie said, "I already told you I'm alone here."
"No, nothing." Jielun said as a matter of factly and placed his bag on the chairs and sat in front of his cello...
Both of them began to talk a little about their dreams as musicians and how J Ensemble affected them. They also had some bit of guys talk regarding parents and Junjie decided to 进入正题.
"Wei!" Junjie called out to Jielun out of the blue
Jielun who was practicing his cello replied, "干嘛?"
"Actually, you're not a bad-tempered person. But why do you always have to 呼呼赫赫 at Jieqi?" Junjie asked him curiously. From what he knew, Jielun was a very shy boy and he seldom spoke and treated words like gold.
Jielun stopped playing his cello and looked up at Junjie, "Why are you asking this?"
To be continued...
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Chapter 16: Ambigious
"What are you thinking about?" Xinjie asked curiously, was suspecting something happening.
"Oh...nothing. Just wondering about some things." Jieqi said ambigiously. Then added, "How is being back together with Yijuan?"
Xinjie always couldn't keep that smile away at any mentioned of her dearest boyfriend, Yijuan. "I am very happy. I mean, seriously, genuinely happy to see him back. To have him back at my side. After all, I haven't seen him for such a freaking long time. I'm very glad that he still hadn't changed at all. It feels like back during the old days when we're together."
"Oh...." Jieqi exclaimed enviously. She suddenly sighed.... "Hai...."
Xinjie was taken aback, "Why are you sighing? I thought you should be happy for me or at least feel the teeny bit of happiness I'm going through?"
"Sorry..." Jieqi winced a little cos she didn't want to seem like a spoilsport in front of her best pal. "I was just wondering how is it like to like someone. 喜欢一个人是怎样的呢?"
"Hmm...." Xinjie grinned suspiciously at Jieqi, "Why are you thinking about this? 难道说你现在有喜欢的人吗?"
Jieqi was surprised how did Xinjie know? "How did you know?"
"Ah...So I was right." Xinjie nodded knowingly. "I smelt something fishy earlier on. I could tell right away. 说！你喜欢的是谁啊？"
Jieqi turned to look at the window, shyly, "哎呀，不要问我啦."
"快点说嘛。是谁啊？." Xinjie prompted, "Was it Iceman?"
Jieqi's eyebrows were creased, "No! It's not him!"
"Are you sure?" Xinjie doubted, "Both of you were so intimate just now."
"NO!" Jieqi insisted, "It's not him! I won't like him."
"Well, then who? Com'on, tell me?"
"Hrmp...don't ask me again. I won't tell you." Jieqi said. "My stop's reaching. I gotta go now. See you tomorrow." Thankfully for Jieqi, she quickly got off from the bus in order to escape from Xinjie's pushing.
我连自己的感觉都不确定，怎么跟你说呢？
*******
Xinjie & Yijuan were having dinner at this Pasta Cafe they used to frequent...
"Would Ferrago be free to meet up with my group, J Ensemble?" Xinjie brought it up to Yijuan over dinner.
"Hmm... I'm ok with you but I need to seek my group's opnions. But I think most probably they'd be ok too if I give the nod." Yijuan said while taking a sip of water.
"I can't wait for you to meet up with my group too. Well, I know you guys are doing rock while we're doing classical but hey!" Xinjie exclaimed excitedly, "It'd be cool to exchange music pointers, eh?"
Yijuan smiled and nodded, "Yeah! And be sure to rally more supporters for the charity concert which I mentioned to you!"
Xinjie nodded enthusiastically, "Of course!! Most definitely! You guys are going to blow the audience away!"
Both of them went back eating their food. Yijuan glanced up at Xinjie and thought about Rob's words and what he wanted to tell her. Go on, just tell her, Yijuan thought to himself. But he shook the idea off because he couldn't bring himself to and ended up asking Xinjie, "Now that I'm back, what's the thing that you most wanted to do?" Well, perhaps that was the least he could do to fulfil her wishes when he was still around.
Without any hesitance, Xinjie replied, "To spend time with you everyday! To 弥补 the days when you were not around by my side."
Yijuan felt his insides frooze. But still regained composure and suggested, "Like perhaps going to the zoo together? Or to the Underwater World? Or maybe doing extreme stuffs like sky diving or parachuting together?? Or maybe going to playce which you'd been wanting to go? I'd be glad to accompany you to do those!"
Xinjie just shook her head and said, "No, there's no need to. I just want to spend as much time with you as possible because I won't know when will you be coming back again. Time is far too precious..."
Yijuan smiled uneasily and took another sip of water.... 你叫我怎么恨得下心说出来。
*******
During basketball training the next day, on a Friday, Icemen was exceptionally in a good mood. Everyone was wondering what had happened to him.
It was break time and several basketball players from the team were talking among themselves in the locker room.
"Eh? You realised? Captain had been smiling all day!" Player #1 said.
"Yeah! He never smiles." Player #2 said, "Ok, maybe he does but it was only when our team win."
"Maybe he's in love!" Player #3 was speculating...
Jielun was behind Player #3 and was wiping sweat on his forehead and neck in the locker room. He himself also thought Iceman wasn't really himself today, being so extra polite to everyone when he used to shout & yell at the other team members.
"You're half correct!" Came a voice.
The 3 players and Jielun turned to look at the where that voice came from.
It was Gao Tianqi.
"Eh?" Player #1 exclaimed, "Half correct??"
Being nosey, Player #2 asked, "Hmm... Tianqi do you know something we don't?"
"Yeah! Com'on!" Player #3 urged, "Share with us!"
Tianqi was looking himself in front of the mirror, styling his hair and casually saying, "Imagine you got a chance to be able to lift your angel on your shoulder, having her so close to you, won't you be in a good mood too??
"Eh? Angel?" Player #1 exclaimed again. "Iceman 难道有喜欢的人了?"
"Who is it? Do you know? From which class or ECA?" Player #2 continued asking.
However, Player #3 was taking note of the break time, "Hey, I think we better get going else coach will give us a lashing again later."
"Ok. Hey, Tianqi, we'll continue the conversation later..."
With that, the 3 of them left the locker room leaving just Tianqi & Jielun inside. Tianqi was still combing and styling his hair. He always made sure that every strand would be in place despite having a rough training/gaming session out in the court. It was then from the reflection that he saw Jielun sitting on a bench behind him.
"Oh! Jielun, you're around!" Tianqi turned around to look at Jielun for a while then turn back towards the mirror.
What Tianqi & the other teammates had said had made Jielun really curious. Iceman's change, what angel, what having her so close?? He didn't feel too good but yet he wanted to know about it. So he asked casually, "The angel you were talking about is...."
"Huh? What?" Tianqi didn't quite paid attention cos he was more concern of his hair. But after a while, he remembered, "Ah! The angel which Iceman lifted? I thought you know?"
What what lifted? Iceman lifted the angel? I know the angel? Jielun thought. "Huh? Who are you talking about?"
"Jieqi ah!" Tianqi said as a matter of factly. "I was playing basketball after school yesterday. Jieqi joined me. Shortly after that, Iceman joined us. And Jieqi said she wanted to do a slam dunk. But obviously she wasn't tall enough so Iceman offered to lift her to his shoulder so that she could smack the ball through the hoop."
Jielun couldn't believe what he was hearing and silently cursed, "What the hell she think she was doing. What an idiot. 随随便便让男生碰的家伙！"
But apparently, Tianqi didn't hear Jielun's silent curse and continued, "但是我觉得，她喜欢的好像是俊杰而不是我们的队长."
Jielun looked up at Tianqi who was preparing to leave the locker room. 她喜欢的好像是俊杰? He then recalled about the few times when he caught her starring at Junjie during band practice.... 杰伦开始胡思乱想了...
*******
After basketball training, it was band practice for Jielun and he reluctantly went to the band room and saw the others practicing their pieces....
"Oh," Junjie said while flipping his scores in front of the ivory keys, "Jielun, you're here."
"Mmm." Jielun mumbled and put his bag at the locker and brought his cello and scores and joined his Ensemble.
Xinjie was blowing her flute beside Junjie and his piano. Jielun was on the other side of Junjie while Jieqi was in front of Jielun. The 4 of them was practicing several pieces together... But Jielun's ears was super sensitive today.
To Be Continued...
"Oh...nothing. Just wondering about some things." Jieqi said ambigiously. Then added, "How is being back together with Yijuan?"
Xinjie always couldn't keep that smile away at any mentioned of her dearest boyfriend, Yijuan. "I am very happy. I mean, seriously, genuinely happy to see him back. To have him back at my side. After all, I haven't seen him for such a freaking long time. I'm very glad that he still hadn't changed at all. It feels like back during the old days when we're together."
"Oh...." Jieqi exclaimed enviously. She suddenly sighed.... "Hai...."
Xinjie was taken aback, "Why are you sighing? I thought you should be happy for me or at least feel the teeny bit of happiness I'm going through?"
"Sorry..." Jieqi winced a little cos she didn't want to seem like a spoilsport in front of her best pal. "I was just wondering how is it like to like someone. 喜欢一个人是怎样的呢?"
"Hmm...." Xinjie grinned suspiciously at Jieqi, "Why are you thinking about this? 难道说你现在有喜欢的人吗?"
Jieqi was surprised how did Xinjie know? "How did you know?"
"Ah...So I was right." Xinjie nodded knowingly. "I smelt something fishy earlier on. I could tell right away. 说！你喜欢的是谁啊？"
Jieqi turned to look at the window, shyly, "哎呀，不要问我啦."
"快点说嘛。是谁啊？." Xinjie prompted, "Was it Iceman?"
Jieqi's eyebrows were creased, "No! It's not him!"
"Are you sure?" Xinjie doubted, "Both of you were so intimate just now."
"NO!" Jieqi insisted, "It's not him! I won't like him."
"Well, then who? Com'on, tell me?"
"Hrmp...don't ask me again. I won't tell you." Jieqi said. "My stop's reaching. I gotta go now. See you tomorrow." Thankfully for Jieqi, she quickly got off from the bus in order to escape from Xinjie's pushing.
我连自己的感觉都不确定，怎么跟你说呢？
*******
Xinjie & Yijuan were having dinner at this Pasta Cafe they used to frequent...
"Would Ferrago be free to meet up with my group, J Ensemble?" Xinjie brought it up to Yijuan over dinner.
"Hmm... I'm ok with you but I need to seek my group's opnions. But I think most probably they'd be ok too if I give the nod." Yijuan said while taking a sip of water.
"I can't wait for you to meet up with my group too. Well, I know you guys are doing rock while we're doing classical but hey!" Xinjie exclaimed excitedly, "It'd be cool to exchange music pointers, eh?"
Yijuan smiled and nodded, "Yeah! And be sure to rally more supporters for the charity concert which I mentioned to you!"
Xinjie nodded enthusiastically, "Of course!! Most definitely! You guys are going to blow the audience away!"
Both of them went back eating their food. Yijuan glanced up at Xinjie and thought about Rob's words and what he wanted to tell her. Go on, just tell her, Yijuan thought to himself. But he shook the idea off because he couldn't bring himself to and ended up asking Xinjie, "Now that I'm back, what's the thing that you most wanted to do?" Well, perhaps that was the least he could do to fulfil her wishes when he was still around.
Without any hesitance, Xinjie replied, "To spend time with you everyday! To 弥补 the days when you were not around by my side."
Yijuan felt his insides frooze. But still regained composure and suggested, "Like perhaps going to the zoo together? Or to the Underwater World? Or maybe doing extreme stuffs like sky diving or parachuting together?? Or maybe going to playce which you'd been wanting to go? I'd be glad to accompany you to do those!"
Xinjie just shook her head and said, "No, there's no need to. I just want to spend as much time with you as possible because I won't know when will you be coming back again. Time is far too precious..."
Yijuan smiled uneasily and took another sip of water.... 你叫我怎么恨得下心说出来。
*******
During basketball training the next day, on a Friday, Icemen was exceptionally in a good mood. Everyone was wondering what had happened to him.
It was break time and several basketball players from the team were talking among themselves in the locker room.
"Eh? You realised? Captain had been smiling all day!" Player #1 said.
"Yeah! He never smiles." Player #2 said, "Ok, maybe he does but it was only when our team win."
"Maybe he's in love!" Player #3 was speculating...
Jielun was behind Player #3 and was wiping sweat on his forehead and neck in the locker room. He himself also thought Iceman wasn't really himself today, being so extra polite to everyone when he used to shout & yell at the other team members.
"You're half correct!" Came a voice.
The 3 players and Jielun turned to look at the where that voice came from.
It was Gao Tianqi.
"Eh?" Player #1 exclaimed, "Half correct??"
Being nosey, Player #2 asked, "Hmm... Tianqi do you know something we don't?"
"Yeah! Com'on!" Player #3 urged, "Share with us!"
Tianqi was looking himself in front of the mirror, styling his hair and casually saying, "Imagine you got a chance to be able to lift your angel on your shoulder, having her so close to you, won't you be in a good mood too??
"Eh? Angel?" Player #1 exclaimed again. "Iceman 难道有喜欢的人了?"
"Who is it? Do you know? From which class or ECA?" Player #2 continued asking.
However, Player #3 was taking note of the break time, "Hey, I think we better get going else coach will give us a lashing again later."
"Ok. Hey, Tianqi, we'll continue the conversation later..."
With that, the 3 of them left the locker room leaving just Tianqi & Jielun inside. Tianqi was still combing and styling his hair. He always made sure that every strand would be in place despite having a rough training/gaming session out in the court. It was then from the reflection that he saw Jielun sitting on a bench behind him.
"Oh! Jielun, you're around!" Tianqi turned around to look at Jielun for a while then turn back towards the mirror.
What Tianqi & the other teammates had said had made Jielun really curious. Iceman's change, what angel, what having her so close?? He didn't feel too good but yet he wanted to know about it. So he asked casually, "The angel you were talking about is...."
"Huh? What?" Tianqi didn't quite paid attention cos he was more concern of his hair. But after a while, he remembered, "Ah! The angel which Iceman lifted? I thought you know?"
What what lifted? Iceman lifted the angel? I know the angel? Jielun thought. "Huh? Who are you talking about?"
"Jieqi ah!" Tianqi said as a matter of factly. "I was playing basketball after school yesterday. Jieqi joined me. Shortly after that, Iceman joined us. And Jieqi said she wanted to do a slam dunk. But obviously she wasn't tall enough so Iceman offered to lift her to his shoulder so that she could smack the ball through the hoop."
Jielun couldn't believe what he was hearing and silently cursed, "What the hell she think she was doing. What an idiot. 随随便便让男生碰的家伙！"
But apparently, Tianqi didn't hear Jielun's silent curse and continued, "但是我觉得，她喜欢的好像是俊杰而不是我们的队长."
Jielun looked up at Tianqi who was preparing to leave the locker room. 她喜欢的好像是俊杰? He then recalled about the few times when he caught her starring at Junjie during band practice.... 杰伦开始胡思乱想了...
*******
After basketball training, it was band practice for Jielun and he reluctantly went to the band room and saw the others practicing their pieces....
"Oh," Junjie said while flipping his scores in front of the ivory keys, "Jielun, you're here."
"Mmm." Jielun mumbled and put his bag at the locker and brought his cello and scores and joined his Ensemble.
Xinjie was blowing her flute beside Junjie and his piano. Jielun was on the other side of Junjie while Jieqi was in front of Jielun. The 4 of them was practicing several pieces together... But Jielun's ears was super sensitive today.
To Be Continued...
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Chapter 15: 你没有必要向我解释
"My boyfriend, Yijuan is in Singapore now, putting up at his friend's place and remembered I told you that him & his band are back here for a charity performance??"
Junjie noddedly unsurely, "Uh huh, and then?"
"Would you be free this coming weekend to have dinner with Yijuan and his band? We can asked Jieqi & Jielun to come along. I hope we could go as J Ensemble to meet him? I wanna let him know about us!" Xinjie said excitedly.
For a moment, Junjie was spaced out as soon as Xinjie finished her sentence. You wanna let your boyfriend know about us, you & me, Junjie thought stupidly. "Us?" Junjie repeated stupidly. Was there an 'us' to begin with?
Xinjie nodded, "Yeah. Us. J Ensemble. You, me, Jielun, Jieqi. Us."
Junjie was back on planet earth, "OH!!! Us...yeah....us..."
Xinjie raise an eyebrow and asked him, "What were you thinking about huh?"
Junjie feigned innocence, "Oh uh...nothing. Nothing... " He smiled awkwardly.
Both of them continued heading toward the main entrance where they'd pass by the basketball court...
*******
Tianqi felt so much better after taking it out on basketball.
"Oh man!" Iceman exclaimed. "You're a bull today! Where have you found those drive & energy!" He was panting hardly, almost dying upon this one-on-one match with Tianqi.
Jieqi was clapping by the side and said, "Tianqi!!! 你好厉害哦！ You won the captain!!"
Both Jieqi & Iceman were expecting some sarcastic remarks from Tianqi but what came out from Tianqi's mouth was alarming. "Sorry, cap. Sorry, Jieqi." He passed his bottle to Iceman and continued, "Had a rough day today. Didn't mean to take it out on both of you."
Jieqi stood up and said, "就知道你有事！ 今天一整天都怪怪的."
Tianqi put up a smile and said, "But I'm ok now, seriously. Thanks for your concern."
"So, can we not play rough anymore?" Jieqi asked innocently.
"Of course!" Tianqi said. "If I played rough with you, Captain would probably skinned me alive!" Side glancing at Iceman. "Right, Captain?"
Jieqi took the basketball and tried a few free throws but couldn't get in. But she continued trying and had a lot of fun playing on her own.
"小姐!" Tianqi sighed, "投篮不是这样投的. 你看你那个是什么姿势啊！" He went ahead and impart some 'free throw skills' to Jieqi.
But being slow-witted, of course Jieqi didn't get it. "Aiyo! I'm not a basketball player la. Don't be so苛刻 with me, will you?"
Iceman then shot over, "Eh Tianqi, 你很不懂得怜香惜玉哦."
Tianqi crossed his eyes and said, "Yeah yeah yeah. Captain knows it best. 重色轻友的家伙！"
Frankly speaking, Jieqi was quite intimated with Iceman's pressence. With all of Tianqi's awkward teasing, she was feeling rather uneasy. In order to ease the awkwardness, out of the blue, she suggested, "Wei! 你们会灌篮吗? Can you show me how to dunk?"
Tianqi was known as the 'king koil' of the team. He was able to jump very high despite being a whole 8cm shorter than Iceman. "Hmm...I haven't tried that in a while already..."
Iceman nodded, "I think I'm still able to dunk..."
With that, both guys were practicing & doing some dunks. Tianqi had the first few attempts failed but slowly getting the hang of it. Iceman first few attempts was very good but he said he was pretty tired and had a rest.
Jieqi was commenting casually, "I wish I could dunk too! But it's impossible for me to jump that high. I can't even touch the basket."
Iceman looked at her, "You wanna dunk? That's easy!"
Jieqi was puzzled, "Easy? How?"
"You'd just hold the basketball and I'd lift you up to the hoop. It's that's easy!" Iceman explained.
"HUH?" Jieqi exclaimed. "Erm...."
Tianqi stopped what he was doing and almost flipped when he heard what Iceman has just said, "喂，队长，你不是想要占人家的便宜吧？"
Iceman smacked Tianqi's head and said, "臭小子！你在说什么啊？ 我想那种人吗？"
Tianqi blinked and shrugged his shoulders, "How would I know?"
Iceman turned to Jieqi and explained, "Don't worry, I'm not what you think or what Tianqi described. I mean, if you wanna have a taste of how it feels like to slam dunk, I can easily lift you up. Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, you can choose not to. It was just a suggestion."
Jieqi cheeks turned pink and looked at Tianqi. "Huh...err....I errm..."
Tianqi explained to Iceman, "What sort of suggestion is this? 人家一个女孩子被你这样抱上去。。。不是很奇怪吗？"
Jieqi was stuttering, "I...well... I kinda wanna try the feeling of slam dunking up there...but well, I'm kinda embarrassed. Will I be too heavy?" She asked Iceman.
Iceman waved, "Nah! I'd lifted ppl much bigger than you... No worries. So uh...." It was his turn to turn awkward.
"Erm...it'd be a quick one ok? Lift me up, dunk ball through basketball, lift me down again. Ok?" Jieqi said.
Iceman showed an ok sign. "Ok!"
Iceman then bent down to let Jieqi sit on his shoulder and then he slowly stood up. Jieqi who was holding the ball happily dunks the ball through the hoop and clapped happily like a kid!
However, at this point of time, Junjie & Xinjie were crossing over to the basketball court and saw the whole scene of Iceman lifting Jieqi up to slam dunk...
"Is that Jieqi?" Junjie asked Xinjie, unsure of what he just saw.
Xinjie's jaw dropped too, "Uhh...I think it is."
Tianqi was watching Jieqi clapping happily like a child on Iceman's shoulder. He then spot Xinjie standing outside the basketball court. He called out excitedly & delightedly, "Xinjie! What are you doing here?"
Still on Iceman's shoulder, Jieqi turned to the direction where Tianqi called out and saw Xinjie....and JUNJIE!! She got the shocked of her life!!! And told Iceman, "快点放我下来! 快点！"
Iceman was quite taken aback by Jieqi's sudden change of mood and quickly did what she said, "Orh! Ok. Sorry."
Xinjie was still looking at Jieqi, then back at Tianqi & explained, "Oh, Junjie & I were at the band room earlier and making our way out to the bus stop to go home. You haven't gone home yet?"
"Oh, I was playing basketball alone earlier. Then Jieqi came over and joined me." Tianqi explained. He then looked over at Junjie who smiled at him. Tianqi smiled awkwardly back at him.
Jieqi walked over to them with face as red as tomato's. "Err...Hi! Hello!" She took a shy look at Junjie and looked away. Oh no, Junjie must have gotten the wrong idea about me, Jieqi thought disastrously. What to do now?
Xinjie said, "We're on our way to the bus stop and saw you guys here."
Junjie commented casually, "Woah, Jieqi...having a great time out there in the court huh? How was the slam dunk?"
Jieqi's face grew even redder, "No no no...it wasn't what you think! Iceman was just...well, I wanted to dunk the ball but wasn't tall enough...so Iceman helped me out on that. I mean, well, 我不是你们想象的那种随便让人碰的女生."
Jieqi was anxious to explain to Junjie that she wasn't that kind of open girl but couldn't put the words together. But Junjie was indifferent towards her explanation but still smiled and said, "只是逗你的啦。我们都知道你的为人。不过其实，你没有必要向我解释的."
'你没有必要向我解释的' was ringing in Jieqi's head. It sounded so heartless and she was hurt.
Xinjie & Iceman were oblivious to what was happening but Tianqi 看在眼里 and immediately knew that Jieqi likes Junjie. There was glistening in her eyes. But she regained composure and blinked the hurt away......
*******
Jieqi & Xinjie took the same bus home. Earlier on, all of them were waiting at the bus stop but the girls' bus came first so they boarded the bus first leaving the guys waiting for theirs buses at the bus stop.
Along the journey, Jieqi kept quiet and kept staring out the window. Xinjie could tell that Jieqi wasn't feeling too good and offered to asked, "You're very quiet, you know?"
Jieqi turned around and said, "Oh, sorry. Was drifting away."
"What are you thinking about?" Xinjie asked curiously, was suspecting something happening.
To Be Continued...
Junjie noddedly unsurely, "Uh huh, and then?"
"Would you be free this coming weekend to have dinner with Yijuan and his band? We can asked Jieqi & Jielun to come along. I hope we could go as J Ensemble to meet him? I wanna let him know about us!" Xinjie said excitedly.
For a moment, Junjie was spaced out as soon as Xinjie finished her sentence. You wanna let your boyfriend know about us, you & me, Junjie thought stupidly. "Us?" Junjie repeated stupidly. Was there an 'us' to begin with?
Xinjie nodded, "Yeah. Us. J Ensemble. You, me, Jielun, Jieqi. Us."
Junjie was back on planet earth, "OH!!! Us...yeah....us..."
Xinjie raise an eyebrow and asked him, "What were you thinking about huh?"
Junjie feigned innocence, "Oh uh...nothing. Nothing... " He smiled awkwardly.
Both of them continued heading toward the main entrance where they'd pass by the basketball court...
*******
Tianqi felt so much better after taking it out on basketball.
"Oh man!" Iceman exclaimed. "You're a bull today! Where have you found those drive & energy!" He was panting hardly, almost dying upon this one-on-one match with Tianqi.
Jieqi was clapping by the side and said, "Tianqi!!! 你好厉害哦！ You won the captain!!"
Both Jieqi & Iceman were expecting some sarcastic remarks from Tianqi but what came out from Tianqi's mouth was alarming. "Sorry, cap. Sorry, Jieqi." He passed his bottle to Iceman and continued, "Had a rough day today. Didn't mean to take it out on both of you."
Jieqi stood up and said, "就知道你有事！ 今天一整天都怪怪的."
Tianqi put up a smile and said, "But I'm ok now, seriously. Thanks for your concern."
"So, can we not play rough anymore?" Jieqi asked innocently.
"Of course!" Tianqi said. "If I played rough with you, Captain would probably skinned me alive!" Side glancing at Iceman. "Right, Captain?"
Jieqi took the basketball and tried a few free throws but couldn't get in. But she continued trying and had a lot of fun playing on her own.
"小姐!" Tianqi sighed, "投篮不是这样投的. 你看你那个是什么姿势啊！" He went ahead and impart some 'free throw skills' to Jieqi.
But being slow-witted, of course Jieqi didn't get it. "Aiyo! I'm not a basketball player la. Don't be so苛刻 with me, will you?"
Iceman then shot over, "Eh Tianqi, 你很不懂得怜香惜玉哦."
Tianqi crossed his eyes and said, "Yeah yeah yeah. Captain knows it best. 重色轻友的家伙！"
Frankly speaking, Jieqi was quite intimated with Iceman's pressence. With all of Tianqi's awkward teasing, she was feeling rather uneasy. In order to ease the awkwardness, out of the blue, she suggested, "Wei! 你们会灌篮吗? Can you show me how to dunk?"
Tianqi was known as the 'king koil' of the team. He was able to jump very high despite being a whole 8cm shorter than Iceman. "Hmm...I haven't tried that in a while already..."
Iceman nodded, "I think I'm still able to dunk..."
With that, both guys were practicing & doing some dunks. Tianqi had the first few attempts failed but slowly getting the hang of it. Iceman first few attempts was very good but he said he was pretty tired and had a rest.
Jieqi was commenting casually, "I wish I could dunk too! But it's impossible for me to jump that high. I can't even touch the basket."
Iceman looked at her, "You wanna dunk? That's easy!"
Jieqi was puzzled, "Easy? How?"
"You'd just hold the basketball and I'd lift you up to the hoop. It's that's easy!" Iceman explained.
"HUH?" Jieqi exclaimed. "Erm...."
Tianqi stopped what he was doing and almost flipped when he heard what Iceman has just said, "喂，队长，你不是想要占人家的便宜吧？"
Iceman smacked Tianqi's head and said, "臭小子！你在说什么啊？ 我想那种人吗？"
Tianqi blinked and shrugged his shoulders, "How would I know?"
Iceman turned to Jieqi and explained, "Don't worry, I'm not what you think or what Tianqi described. I mean, if you wanna have a taste of how it feels like to slam dunk, I can easily lift you up. Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, you can choose not to. It was just a suggestion."
Jieqi cheeks turned pink and looked at Tianqi. "Huh...err....I errm..."
Tianqi explained to Iceman, "What sort of suggestion is this? 人家一个女孩子被你这样抱上去。。。不是很奇怪吗？"
Jieqi was stuttering, "I...well... I kinda wanna try the feeling of slam dunking up there...but well, I'm kinda embarrassed. Will I be too heavy?" She asked Iceman.
Iceman waved, "Nah! I'd lifted ppl much bigger than you... No worries. So uh...." It was his turn to turn awkward.
"Erm...it'd be a quick one ok? Lift me up, dunk ball through basketball, lift me down again. Ok?" Jieqi said.
Iceman showed an ok sign. "Ok!"
Iceman then bent down to let Jieqi sit on his shoulder and then he slowly stood up. Jieqi who was holding the ball happily dunks the ball through the hoop and clapped happily like a kid!
However, at this point of time, Junjie & Xinjie were crossing over to the basketball court and saw the whole scene of Iceman lifting Jieqi up to slam dunk...
"Is that Jieqi?" Junjie asked Xinjie, unsure of what he just saw.
Xinjie's jaw dropped too, "Uhh...I think it is."
Tianqi was watching Jieqi clapping happily like a child on Iceman's shoulder. He then spot Xinjie standing outside the basketball court. He called out excitedly & delightedly, "Xinjie! What are you doing here?"
Still on Iceman's shoulder, Jieqi turned to the direction where Tianqi called out and saw Xinjie....and JUNJIE!! She got the shocked of her life!!! And told Iceman, "快点放我下来! 快点！"
Iceman was quite taken aback by Jieqi's sudden change of mood and quickly did what she said, "Orh! Ok. Sorry."
Xinjie was still looking at Jieqi, then back at Tianqi & explained, "Oh, Junjie & I were at the band room earlier and making our way out to the bus stop to go home. You haven't gone home yet?"
"Oh, I was playing basketball alone earlier. Then Jieqi came over and joined me." Tianqi explained. He then looked over at Junjie who smiled at him. Tianqi smiled awkwardly back at him.
Jieqi walked over to them with face as red as tomato's. "Err...Hi! Hello!" She took a shy look at Junjie and looked away. Oh no, Junjie must have gotten the wrong idea about me, Jieqi thought disastrously. What to do now?
Xinjie said, "We're on our way to the bus stop and saw you guys here."
Junjie commented casually, "Woah, Jieqi...having a great time out there in the court huh? How was the slam dunk?"
Jieqi's face grew even redder, "No no no...it wasn't what you think! Iceman was just...well, I wanted to dunk the ball but wasn't tall enough...so Iceman helped me out on that. I mean, well, 我不是你们想象的那种随便让人碰的女生."
Jieqi was anxious to explain to Junjie that she wasn't that kind of open girl but couldn't put the words together. But Junjie was indifferent towards her explanation but still smiled and said, "只是逗你的啦。我们都知道你的为人。不过其实，你没有必要向我解释的."
'你没有必要向我解释的' was ringing in Jieqi's head. It sounded so heartless and she was hurt.
Xinjie & Iceman were oblivious to what was happening but Tianqi 看在眼里 and immediately knew that Jieqi likes Junjie. There was glistening in her eyes. But she regained composure and blinked the hurt away......
*******
Jieqi & Xinjie took the same bus home. Earlier on, all of them were waiting at the bus stop but the girls' bus came first so they boarded the bus first leaving the guys waiting for theirs buses at the bus stop.
Along the journey, Jieqi kept quiet and kept staring out the window. Xinjie could tell that Jieqi wasn't feeling too good and offered to asked, "You're very quiet, you know?"
Jieqi turned around and said, "Oh, sorry. Was drifting away."
"What are you thinking about?" Xinjie asked curiously, was suspecting something happening.
To Be Continued...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Chapter 14: Deflated Balloon
Yijuan was putting up at his band buddy's rented apartment. Xinjie helped him with his luggage and stuffs into the shared room.
"Hey, thanks so much for picking me up." Yijuan told Xinjie.
"Nah!" Xinjie laughed, "You don't have to be so polite with me!" Although Yijuan still looks the same but he seemed to have changed. Well, maybe just a little. He needn't have to be so polite & courteous to her.
"No, I'm just really glad."
Xinjie smiled, "Ok, after taking a 10-hour flight, you must be really tired. You have a good rest first then. Let me know if you'd like to hang out."
Yijuan blinked a few times. He'd tried to cover his tiredness but Xinjie was able to tell, "Sorry I can't hang out with you today. Got a practice session with the guys later in the afternoon which would probably stretch to night."
Xinjie nodded understandingly, "My mom would like to invite you over for dinner, which day would you be free to drop by?"
Yijuan smiled thoughtfully, "Hmm... I gotta check with the guys first. But let me tell u what. What time do you get off school tomorrow? Let's have lunch and we'd probably discuss about what to do during my one-week stay here?"
"Brilliant!" Xinjie replied excitedly. "Just give me a call on my mobile anytime you want to."
"Ok! I'll catch you soon!" Yijuan said and saw Xinjie to the door. He wanted to see her downstairs but Xinjie declined and asked him to have a good rest.
Yijuan plopped on the bed and sighed. "How should I tell her I'm leaving Singapore for good? How should I tell her I'd be living in London for good?"
*******
It was a Monday afternoon at 1pm at AJHS. And Tianqi was playing basketball alone. Jieqi, who had to walk pass the basketball court to get to the bus stop after school, saw him.
"Eh! Tianqi!" Jieqi called out.
But Tianqi didn't stop what he was doing and continued with the layups and bouncing the ball in between in legs and over his body. Jieqi was watching him outside the court. She noticed he had been really quiet in class today. He was usually the most noisy & hyperactive one. He would also always like to come over and talk to her & Xinjie, but he sat at his place obediently. He was like a deflated balloon...
"喂！高天祺，你怎么不理我啊？你怎么啦？" Jieqi called out again, raising her voice a little this time.
Finally, Tianqi spoke while still dribbling the ball, "心情不好."
"Oh..." Jieqi nodded. "谁惹你了?"
"没有人." Tianqi got irritated and yelled, "哎哟！你很烦咧."
Jieqi found him 莫名其妙 and said, "Just showing you some concern as classmates & friends."
"Play with me?" Tianqi stopped bouncing the ball and held it in his hand.
Jieqi raised her eyebrows and said, "Ah? Again? But I don't know how to play, you sure win."
"Com'on, the idea is not to win me. The idea is the block me, get it?" Tianqi explain irritatedly.
Jieqi, being the good friend she is, decided to play with Tianqi despite not knowing the game. She figured he probably need to release his bad mood through playing basketball. She nodded and said, "Orh! Ok, alright!" She placed her bag aside and stood in front of Tianqi and stretched her hand forward to block him.
Tianqi didn't give Jieqi the time to get ready and charged forward with the first score. A few times, Jieqi managed to block him and that only got him more raged and he didn't care if Jieqi was a girl or not and started to play rough and knocked against her just to score. She landed on her butt for the Nth time and groaned.
"Goodness, basketball is such a rough game." Jieqi looked at her bruised leg and felt comfort, "Luckily it's not my hand or arm, otherwise how would I play the violin!"
Tianqi didn't bat and eyelid and said, "That's just the starting of the game. Do you know-"
"OEI!"
Tianqi was cut off by a loud yell. Jieqi, who was still 'sitting' on the ground was shocked too. Both of them looked at the direction where that voice came from.
"你还是不是男人啊？这样子欺负一个女生?" That voice came from Iceman, who has been watching both of them from a distance. He couldn't stand the way Tianqi was bullying and taking out on Jieqi like that.
Tianqi thought he heard wrongly, "Huh? 我欺负她？ 是她自愿要跟我一子玩的，我没有逼她哦. And besides, that's how basketball is, don't you know this better than me?" He had no intention of challenging Iceman. But all his words contain 'thorns' in them today.
Iceman went forward and helped Jieqi up. "Are you ok?"
Jieqi smiled, "Orh! I'm fine. Just some bruises on my knees. Tianqi won't bully me."
"Are you sure?" Iceman 会心疼他的天使这样被人欺负。
Jieqi nodded, "Umm! Tianqi is having a bad mood and was playing basketball alone just now. By playing with him, I hope he will get better. But..." She smiled sheepishly, "I don't know how to play so that's why..."
"Never mind!" Iceman assured. "Since I'm here, I'll play with him and show him who's boss."
Tianqi, who was dribbling beside them, almost wanted to laugh when he saw how exaggerting Iceman looked when he came over and how he helped Jieqi up. It really seemed like his 队长变成了情圣了！Look at that tone he used! But he was supposed to be the 'bad mood guy'.
"Eh, Gao Tianqi." Iceman called out.
Tianqi stopped his dribbling and said, "Yes, Captain?"
"You and me. One on one. How's that?"
Tianqi feigned fear & inconfidence, "Woah, one on one? I'm not sure..." He suddenly smirked, "...if you can keep up with me!" With that, Tianqi whiz passed Iceman and scored a ball!
Jieqi grabbed Iceman's arm and said, "Quick!! Don't let Tianqi score!"
Iceman looked at his own arm being grabbed by her, he felt adrenaline pumping through him and said, "Watch me." Then he whiz passed Tianqi and grabbed the basketball from him easily. He shot Tianqi, "Think again. Who is unable to keep up with who."
Those 2 guys were having their one on one with Jieqi cheering for them happily...
*******
"Hey you know how to add mp3 songs to website?" Xinjie was asking Junjie casually on their way out of the band room.
"Oh, you have to type in the bgsound thingy." Junjie explained briefly. "You have the code of practice?"
"No." Xinjie shook her head.
Junjie said, "Never mind. I'll send you the soft copy of it via MSN when you're online tonight."
"Thanks so much. I still have some trouble creating the html project we're supposed to do."
"Don't worry about it too much. You'll do fine." Junjie assured her.
Both of them then walked in silent along the hallway. When Junjie casually asked, "What mp3 are you gonna put up? Your boyfriend's creation?"
Xinjie turned to look at Junjie, stunned, "How did you know? Well, they came up with a new composition and I wanna put the song up on my blog."
Junjie wanted to sound surprised but somehow his tone came out, disappointed, "Ah...I see."
"I can send you some of his band's songs to you if you're interested."
Junjie nodded interestedly, "Sure, I'd love to. Thanks."
Both of them continued walking again in awkward silence And Junjie was always the one to break it.
"So erm..I heard you used to play drums for your boyfriend's band, Ferragamo?"
"Ferrago." Xinjie corrected.
"Right. Sorry." Junjie smiled awkwardly. "And..."
But before Junjie could continue asking more, Xinjie interrupted excitedly, "My boyfriend, Yijuan is in Singapore now, putting up at his friend's place and remembered I told you that him & his band are back here for a charity performance??"
Junjie noddedly unsurely, "Uh huh, and then?"
To Be Continued...
"Hey, thanks so much for picking me up." Yijuan told Xinjie.
"Nah!" Xinjie laughed, "You don't have to be so polite with me!" Although Yijuan still looks the same but he seemed to have changed. Well, maybe just a little. He needn't have to be so polite & courteous to her.
"No, I'm just really glad."
Xinjie smiled, "Ok, after taking a 10-hour flight, you must be really tired. You have a good rest first then. Let me know if you'd like to hang out."
Yijuan blinked a few times. He'd tried to cover his tiredness but Xinjie was able to tell, "Sorry I can't hang out with you today. Got a practice session with the guys later in the afternoon which would probably stretch to night."
Xinjie nodded understandingly, "My mom would like to invite you over for dinner, which day would you be free to drop by?"
Yijuan smiled thoughtfully, "Hmm... I gotta check with the guys first. But let me tell u what. What time do you get off school tomorrow? Let's have lunch and we'd probably discuss about what to do during my one-week stay here?"
"Brilliant!" Xinjie replied excitedly. "Just give me a call on my mobile anytime you want to."
"Ok! I'll catch you soon!" Yijuan said and saw Xinjie to the door. He wanted to see her downstairs but Xinjie declined and asked him to have a good rest.
Yijuan plopped on the bed and sighed. "How should I tell her I'm leaving Singapore for good? How should I tell her I'd be living in London for good?"
*******
It was a Monday afternoon at 1pm at AJHS. And Tianqi was playing basketball alone. Jieqi, who had to walk pass the basketball court to get to the bus stop after school, saw him.
"Eh! Tianqi!" Jieqi called out.
But Tianqi didn't stop what he was doing and continued with the layups and bouncing the ball in between in legs and over his body. Jieqi was watching him outside the court. She noticed he had been really quiet in class today. He was usually the most noisy & hyperactive one. He would also always like to come over and talk to her & Xinjie, but he sat at his place obediently. He was like a deflated balloon...
"喂！高天祺，你怎么不理我啊？你怎么啦？" Jieqi called out again, raising her voice a little this time.
Finally, Tianqi spoke while still dribbling the ball, "心情不好."
"Oh..." Jieqi nodded. "谁惹你了?"
"没有人." Tianqi got irritated and yelled, "哎哟！你很烦咧."
Jieqi found him 莫名其妙 and said, "Just showing you some concern as classmates & friends."
"Play with me?" Tianqi stopped bouncing the ball and held it in his hand.
Jieqi raised her eyebrows and said, "Ah? Again? But I don't know how to play, you sure win."
"Com'on, the idea is not to win me. The idea is the block me, get it?" Tianqi explain irritatedly.
Jieqi, being the good friend she is, decided to play with Tianqi despite not knowing the game. She figured he probably need to release his bad mood through playing basketball. She nodded and said, "Orh! Ok, alright!" She placed her bag aside and stood in front of Tianqi and stretched her hand forward to block him.
Tianqi didn't give Jieqi the time to get ready and charged forward with the first score. A few times, Jieqi managed to block him and that only got him more raged and he didn't care if Jieqi was a girl or not and started to play rough and knocked against her just to score. She landed on her butt for the Nth time and groaned.
"Goodness, basketball is such a rough game." Jieqi looked at her bruised leg and felt comfort, "Luckily it's not my hand or arm, otherwise how would I play the violin!"
Tianqi didn't bat and eyelid and said, "That's just the starting of the game. Do you know-"
"OEI!"
Tianqi was cut off by a loud yell. Jieqi, who was still 'sitting' on the ground was shocked too. Both of them looked at the direction where that voice came from.
"你还是不是男人啊？这样子欺负一个女生?" That voice came from Iceman, who has been watching both of them from a distance. He couldn't stand the way Tianqi was bullying and taking out on Jieqi like that.
Tianqi thought he heard wrongly, "Huh? 我欺负她？ 是她自愿要跟我一子玩的，我没有逼她哦. And besides, that's how basketball is, don't you know this better than me?" He had no intention of challenging Iceman. But all his words contain 'thorns' in them today.
Iceman went forward and helped Jieqi up. "Are you ok?"
Jieqi smiled, "Orh! I'm fine. Just some bruises on my knees. Tianqi won't bully me."
"Are you sure?" Iceman 会心疼他的天使这样被人欺负。
Jieqi nodded, "Umm! Tianqi is having a bad mood and was playing basketball alone just now. By playing with him, I hope he will get better. But..." She smiled sheepishly, "I don't know how to play so that's why..."
"Never mind!" Iceman assured. "Since I'm here, I'll play with him and show him who's boss."
Tianqi, who was dribbling beside them, almost wanted to laugh when he saw how exaggerting Iceman looked when he came over and how he helped Jieqi up. It really seemed like his 队长变成了情圣了！Look at that tone he used! But he was supposed to be the 'bad mood guy'.
"Eh, Gao Tianqi." Iceman called out.
Tianqi stopped his dribbling and said, "Yes, Captain?"
"You and me. One on one. How's that?"
Tianqi feigned fear & inconfidence, "Woah, one on one? I'm not sure..." He suddenly smirked, "...if you can keep up with me!" With that, Tianqi whiz passed Iceman and scored a ball!
Jieqi grabbed Iceman's arm and said, "Quick!! Don't let Tianqi score!"
Iceman looked at his own arm being grabbed by her, he felt adrenaline pumping through him and said, "Watch me." Then he whiz passed Tianqi and grabbed the basketball from him easily. He shot Tianqi, "Think again. Who is unable to keep up with who."
Those 2 guys were having their one on one with Jieqi cheering for them happily...
*******
"Hey you know how to add mp3 songs to website?" Xinjie was asking Junjie casually on their way out of the band room.
"Oh, you have to type in the bgsound thingy." Junjie explained briefly. "You have the code of practice?"
"No." Xinjie shook her head.
Junjie said, "Never mind. I'll send you the soft copy of it via MSN when you're online tonight."
"Thanks so much. I still have some trouble creating the html project we're supposed to do."
"Don't worry about it too much. You'll do fine." Junjie assured her.
Both of them then walked in silent along the hallway. When Junjie casually asked, "What mp3 are you gonna put up? Your boyfriend's creation?"
Xinjie turned to look at Junjie, stunned, "How did you know? Well, they came up with a new composition and I wanna put the song up on my blog."
Junjie wanted to sound surprised but somehow his tone came out, disappointed, "Ah...I see."
"I can send you some of his band's songs to you if you're interested."
Junjie nodded interestedly, "Sure, I'd love to. Thanks."
Both of them continued walking again in awkward silence And Junjie was always the one to break it.
"So erm..I heard you used to play drums for your boyfriend's band, Ferragamo?"
"Ferrago." Xinjie corrected.
"Right. Sorry." Junjie smiled awkwardly. "And..."
But before Junjie could continue asking more, Xinjie interrupted excitedly, "My boyfriend, Yijuan is in Singapore now, putting up at his friend's place and remembered I told you that him & his band are back here for a charity performance??"
Junjie noddedly unsurely, "Uh huh, and then?"
To Be Continued...
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