CHAPTER 4: MEETING (4)

The speech class schedule is available, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, the three of us go to a special private classroom for typical students and lecturers, what a luxurious classroom. , the most luxurious. The first time I walked in, I was stunned by the furniture and the layout of the room, forced my mouth to let go: "so beautiful", and reached out to touch things. That is what makes the great lady Thien Kim scold me: "Country, don't sit near me", I don't know why she always has that attitude toward me or everyone. everyone is like that, but... touching anyone but touching this An Thu is not easy.

“Even though I don't know why you're always jealous of me, are you afraid I'll take your second place?” I raised my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest to look at her fearlessly.

“You dare…” Her angry face looked beautiful, but when she got angry I felt a sense of contentment in my heart. So I got the momentum I went to attack her.

"Why can't I, I can be first-rate too." After I finished speaking, I realized that I had made a mistake, making the sentence stick to him, suddenly he glanced at me, and then, smirked. Although that smile quickly disappeared, I can see it very clearly, that smile is very beautiful, indeed the male god of the rumored sisters.

"If you're good, just do it, I'll wait and see." Suddenly he spoke, his words brought me a strong threat and challenge. Stunned, looking at him without blinking. That was the first time I looked directly into those eyes, clear and bottomless, those eyes attracted my eyes, for a long time... the more I looked, the more I was attracted to each other.

"Brother Duong, don't worry about her, say it to look like that," said Thien Kim while sitting closer to Luc Duong, her coaxing expression put on her strong arm, and turned to look at me: "She doesn't. Not worthy of being compared to my Lu Yang."

"Wait and see". I answered vaguely and avoided Luc Duong's eyes, turned to find a table to sit down at, making sure my table was far away from where the two of them were. I hate my challenges, I thought to myself, what is he, how can I study, but I can't be equal to him, for example, he is naturally intelligent, studying 10 to 7 and I am just a mediocre mind. usually, "not worthy" as she used to say, learn 10 to remember 3, then I'll learn 30 to remember 9, there's no way I can't be better than him, I definitely won't lose, because they accidentally touched My taboo is to look down on others blatantly. Also because that look provoked me.

The first lesson took place in a quiet atmosphere, most of the time I just listened and took notes of some basic information, the main ideas of how to study and a few mandatory rules, what to avoid, and what to do. in a speech contest. Studying until 21 o'clock, when I stepped out of the classroom, I realized that it had been dark for a long time, I greeted the teacher and quietly walked home. Passing through the campus to the school gate, I thought to myself whether there is still a bus at this time, my house is 20km from the school, and now it's determined by walking. I dragged my heavy footsteps, Saigon streets were twinkling with lights, the streets were still crowded, people were in a hurry, and the pace of life was suffocating, it reminded me of the time 3 years ago, when I stepped foot in Saigon to go to high school, and in that there is also Anh's figure, always flickering, I'm still there, but where are you?

The summer of the 9th-grade year was terrible with the hot, harsh sun. I was dumbfounded like a soulless person reaching out to check the school's transcript .... (a first-class high school in the city). The more my hand moves down, the more my heart tightens. “Nguyen An Thu”..... haha

"This is my name guys, my name ... I passed, passed".

“Hey, let's go…”

"Okay, let's go now hihi". The laughter was loud but filled with anxiety of a schoolgirl who was only 15 years old, the age of innocence and innocence, which is also the age when people can live in the most authentic way.

That autumn, I really got to put on the traditional Ao Dai. Overwhelming joy and pride were evident on his face. I was the first female student in town to pass the entrance exam to the city's specialized high school. Most of the students in this school were recruited from the city's gifted middle schools, and I was the lucky one who passed. into this prestigious school.

After packing up my luggage, I said goodbye to my parents and friends, carried my backpack to the car, and a tear slid down my cheek. I have always been cared for and considered a treasure by my mother, I have never been able to live away from my mother for a day, but now I have to learn to adapt to an independent life in a strange city, I have to be away from friends. , my friends play together, we live in the same neighborhood, so Thanh and I are like brothers, and I have never thought of leaving them... But somehow, during the entrance exam to high school. My parents forced me to enroll in a specialized school in the city so that I would have to suffer this separation, but I always understand and secretly rejoice, my parents want the best for me, and I am also repaying my parents with success. their own learning.

Initially, I lived in the dormitory at the school, my room had two friends, that was My An and Xuan Vy, both of them were like me, both students from a small town who were lucky enough to get into this school, perhaps. Because of the same understanding, because of the same situation away from home, the three of us are quite close and live in harmony. On the first day of school, we went to the schoolyard together, where the bulletin board was trying to hold up a few people. Hundreds of students and parents were searching for their children's class, we decided not to rush into the crowd to be "killed" but quietly turned our backs to the school gate, where the barbecue was being prepared. Use your sense of smell to attract people. We ate and chatted happily until the schoolyard was empty of people, the darkness began to ease, and the sun quietly hid our shadow before we hurriedly ran to the Han Xuan with the "notice board". Each of them had a look on their face, their fingers scrabbling along with the names. Unexpectedly, the three of us stopped at the same time in class 10a2, the three hugged and danced while shouting: "We're in the same class, haha".

Returning to the dormitory, I hurriedly called to inform my mother, telling her about the new friends, about the class, and about this precious school. So by dawn, I had entered a new learning environment, which was really new to me, because there were no longer my parents to take care of me, and there were no friends to play with like before instead. It's the times when I'm sick alone, new friends with different dreams, and also you, the sadness I don't want to remember.

After a while, because the parents were too worried about their beloved daughter, who had to be away from home to study at an immature age, unable to decide on her own, she sent me to stay with a close friend of her parents' house. The day I said goodbye to my friends in the dorm, my heart was filled with tears, I am a very difficult person to integrate with, fortunately, when I just arrived at a new place full of strangers, I met two friends who were suitable for me, I was slowly adapting to it, but my parents continued to move me to a stranger place. But I still understand that everything is for the best of me. I was moved to live in a Grade A house on the outskirts of the city, both large and beautiful like a recreated mini castle. I still remember the feeling when I first walked to this place, the road was lined with green colors, shading both sides of the road, and a castle with European-style architecture gradually appeared. Covered in a delicate and luxurious white, the car just arrived, the gate was immediately opened, making my eyes blink continuously, in the middle of the yard is a sparkling fountain with all kinds of fish. colors are racing to swim. The car stopped in front of the main door of the villa, an old woman with wrinkles on her face but very quick hands and feet walked to open the car door.