Why it never ends

Chapter 1156 Visitors
Qiqi walked around the room and soon found the torn photos and photo frames in the trash can. She squatted down and pieced the fragments of the photos together one by one until it was complete again.

Kiki in the photo and Kiki outside the photo stared at each other.

No one spoke and the room was very quiet.

……

Lu Qizhen took her cell phone and walked quickly to the bathroom. As expected, there was a long queue in the women's restroom. She stood in the queue and slowly moved forward with the crowd.

At the same time, she tapped the screen quickly with two fingers, continuing to edit the text message that she had not yet finished writing. When she was about to move to the bathroom entrance, she finally pressed the send button.

Lu Qizhen felt a little relaxed. She had finally said everything she wanted to say. Although it might not be frank to talk about these things via text message, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to say a word if they met in person.

At this moment, the cell phone rang, and Lu Qizhen's breath rose to his chest again. He picked up the phone, and a familiar name appeared on the caller ID without any suspense.

"Hey……"

"I don't understand. What do you mean when you say you want me to go back to District 1 first? Are you not going back with me, or are you not planning to go back?"

Lu Qizhen felt her scalp tingling. She held the phone in one hand and dug her other hand deep into her hair, tightly grabbing a few tufts of hair roots: "...I will definitely go back, but I want to stay in District 12 for a while."

"What exactly is it about me that makes you dissatisfied?"

"No, it's not your problem..." Lu Qizhen felt a chest tightness as if she was drowning. At this moment, someone patted her shoulder from behind and pointed the way forward. Lu Qizhen shuddered and quickly realized that there was a new empty seat in the bathroom.

She quickly left the line, bowed slightly to apologize, and walked out quickly. The people behind her looked at the girl in surprise: After waiting in line for so long, why didn't she get on when it was her turn?
Lu Qizhen hurried out, not caring about people's gazes. She heard a slightly suppressed question coming from the phone: "What about the wedding? When you return to District 1, are you still going to marry me?"

"Dear... this is exactly what I need to figure out during this period of time." Lu Qizhen whispered, "My current state... may, may not be suitable for marriage-"

"why?"

Lu Qizhen stopped.

At this moment, she already felt the absurdity of what she was about to say, but at the same time she felt as if she had to say it.

"...Let me ask you a question," Lu Qizhen whispered, "Do you think...I love you?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line.

"What do you mean, you want to--"

"Answer me this question," Lu Qizhen clutched the phone tightly, raised her head as if asking for help, and looked at the dazzling ceiling of the theater, "Do you think I love you?"

"What a stupid question. Qizhen, we have been together for almost ten years. Do you still remember how we got together in the beginning? Do you still remember how much we have been through together over the years? Who has always been with me and cared about me—"

"So you really do think that I love you." Lu Qizhen interrupted the other party, "Really?"

"Of course you love me!"

"...That's good," Lu Qizhen sighed softly. Fortunately, she got this answer, otherwise, she might not be able to continue the conversation because of guilt. "But you know, I recently... No, not recently, I had a vague feeling before I came to District 12, but recently this feeling has become stronger and stronger... I may - we may all have misunderstandings about 'love' and 'being loved', I..."

"Where are you!" The male voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rose, "Don't use this bullshit to fool me, Lu Qizhen, it's been ten years! There must be a limit to your willfulness. Where are you now? I'll find you!" "...Don't come, I'm with my friends now-"

"What friend can't I see? It's this friend who turned off the location of your phone and made you start to have wild thoughts, right? Where are you?"

"I won't tell you, calm down..." Lu Qizhen gritted his teeth, trying to think of how to formally end this conversation, "Anyway, what I want to say is-"

"You're in the cinema, right?" the other end of the line suddenly asked, "Did you guys go into town to watch a movie together?"

"No! Listen—"

"No, it's the theater... You went to see Dagger and Sheath by yourself, didn't you? I told you I could get front-row tickets, but you refused and went by yourself, huh? Are you crazy—"

Lu Qizhen finally hung up the phone, her heart pounding as if she had just finished a sprint.

Standing among the crowd coming and going in the theater, Lu Qizhen realized belatedly that perhaps she should not have answered the call from the beginning.

……

At eight o'clock, all the children went back to their beds, but Kiki's bed was still empty.

Eleven had turned her anger into appetite and ate a voracious meal at the reception banquet at night. At this moment, she had already lay down in the bed with everyone else, but while the adults were not paying attention, she quickly crawled under the quilt and turned herself around.

Kiki clearly didn't come back, but for some reason, the teachers who passed by her empty bed just glanced at her indifferently and said nothing.

Eleven almost couldn't help asking: "Qiqi hasn't come back yet, where is she?"

But when I thought about what would happen if I spoke up and Qiqi found out later, it would be so embarrassing.

Eleven was a little nervous. She didn't know if Qiqi had noticed that she had thrown the photo frame into the trash can. She was really angry at that time, so angry that she almost wanted to fight with Qiqi, but now she was not so angry anymore.

Eleven was worried that if Qiqi came over to accuse her, she might not feel so righteous.

After all, that photo frame is very important to Qiqi...

Yes, it was because it was very important that she took her anger out on the photo frame.

Eleven clutched the quilt tightly and tried to continue to resent her, but the sound of wind outside the window interrupted her thoughts. Light raindrops fell and it started raining outside again.

Eleven glanced at the electronic clock on the wall - it was already a quarter past eight, where had Kiki gone?

……

Stella covered her head with her bag, rushed through the garden path, and went up to the second floor of the palace.

"I'm back, Ms. Pacat!" She greeted Pacat in her usual exaggerated tone. "I originally agreed to accompany you for a day, but I couldn't help but sneak out again in the afternoon - huh?"

Stella put down her bag, tilted her head and looked at Qiqi who was sitting next to Pacat, and smiled.

"Look who's here... We have a special guest tonight."