Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 387 - 282. Diary

"I didn’t know," Xia Xiaoxiao giggled behind her hand after she had slipped and let it escape during a bath, "I couldn’t find it."

She walked to the bedroom door, opened it, and peeked inside.

Xu Qingfan wiped the remaining water off his face. Don’t get it wrong—it was that damn cat that had fallen asleep on his face!

"Isn’t there a water print on the floor? If you follow it, wouldn’t you find it? And closing the door on me, I really...." Seeing that the naughty little brother had already sneaked out through the door crack, he was so mad he didn’t even want to speak.

Xia Xiaoxiao, looking at his embarrassingly pitiful expression, laughed even harder. She scoffed, "What are you snarling at? You’re never this harsh with Lin Wanning; you only ever snap at me!"

"Would Lin Wanning do something like this, letting a cat in to sleep on my face?" Xu Qingfan was almost amused by his irritation.

"Pfft," Xia Xiaoxiao couldn’t hold back her laughter. She thought, ’Why is he so angry? Just wash the duvet. It’s not a big deal. It must be because little brother slept on his face.’

Xia Xiaoxiao merely speculated for a moment, and instantly, the image formed in her mind. Standing by the door, she pointed at him and giggled non-stop.

"And you’re still laughing. Go to sleep properly, instead of bathing cats!" Xu Qingfan, having just woken up, had no memory of his dreams, let alone of what had actually happened.

However, Xia Xiaoxiao had watched it all happen with her own eyes!

Upon hearing this, the girl instantly stopped laughing, but a shy smile still lingered on her face.

[If it wasn’t for you, that damn dog, would I need to bathe at all?]

Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at the floor nervously, muttering softly, "Why are you blaming me? It’s not like I was the one sleeping on your face. Go find the little brother if you dare, why bother me?"

"I give up on you. You’re usually so smart. How could you not find a simple cat? Don’t tell me you did it on purpose, to get back at me for last night?" Xu Qingfan looked at her with a weird expression.

"Hmph, you think I’m as petty as you? Lazy pig, get up already. I need to wash the duvet!" Xia Xiaoxiao was worried that he might notice the water stain in one area of the bed was deeper than others, so she stepped forward to hustle him off the bed.

"That nice?" Xu Qingfan let her push and shove him out of bed, turning back with a puzzled look.

"Hmph!" Xia Xiaoxiao, worried about giving herself away, put on an extra fierce face.

"Well, keep at it and might as well help me change the duvet cover while you’re at it, good girl Xiaoxiao." He ruffled her hair, grinning cheekily as he left the room.

Xia Xiaoxiao stole a glance at his raised hand, something crossed her mind, and her face started to turn red again.

Shortly after, the living room turned into a scene of a person chasing a cat, followed by the sounds of both cat crying and human howling.

"You naughty little brother, who taught you to enter the room, who taught you to sleep on your master’s face!"

"Meow!"

In the end, the little brother bore all the consequences.

...

When the girl finished washing and drying the bedding, the sun was already setting.

The two of them rode an electric scooter, as usual, to buy groceries at the market.

As dusk approached, the temperature on the street was still high, but the breeze while riding relieved some of the heat.

Xia Xiaoxiao wore only a pair of loose sports shorts, the edges curling up slightly in the wind, revealing her fair and smooth thighs.

As for why he knew they were smooth, Xu Qingfan said don’t talk, just feel!

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At a red light, he habitually placed his left hand on the girl’s thigh. Unexpectedly, Xia Xiaoxiao just glanced at it, then ignored it, letting his hand caress her smooth-as-jade thigh.

This action was habitual for Xu Qingfan and had no improper intentions; he even thought he was touching his own thigh at the moment!

When the red light turned green, he withdrew his hand to continue driving, only then shocked to realize he had been touching Xia Xiaoxiao’s thigh. No wonder it felt so much better…

But seeing the girl had no reaction, he just happily pretended nothing had happened.

[What’s with Xia Xiaoxiao acting so oddly all afternoon, did she do something guilty?] Xu Qingfan wondered to himself, but obviously, he had no clue at all.

At the next traffic light, Xu Qingfan tried again to place his hand on the girl’s thigh, and again Xia Xiaoxiao didn’t stop him.

He secretly glanced at the young girl through the rearview mirror using the corner of his eye, realizing she was looking sideways at the green belt, lost in thought.

[So she’s thinking about something.]

Realizing he was overthinking, Xu Qingfan quickly withdrew his hand. Joking aside, it hurt quite a bit when the girl pinched the soft flesh around his waist. Touching her further would be too risky and not worth the payoff.

The electric scooter soon resumed a steady pace on the street, what Xu Qingfan didn’t notice was that when he pulled his hand back, Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a brief glance.

She had indeed been daydreaming, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t feel an errant hand on her thigh.

Xia Xiaoxiao thought to herself, after what had happened in the afternoon, she was bound to belong to this stinky dog from now on. It seemed... letting him touch her thigh wasn’t really a problem if he liked it that much.

This had nothing to do with feudal superstitions; it was simply because once the girl made up her mind about something, she would not change it unless the opposition came from a certain dead dog...

The two quickly drove to the market because they were planning to stay up late for the World Cup and bought a lot of groceries.

On the way back, the sunset was beautiful, and Xia Xiaoxiao imagined their future together in her heart. They definitely had to end up together, right...

Back home, Xu Qingfan went to cook in the kitchen while Xia Xiaoxiao’s thoughts surged, and she felt an urgent need to jot them down immediately.

"I’m going home to take a shower." After helping bring the groceries to the kitchen, she made up an excuse to leave.

"Go ahead, call them to come eat after you’ve showered," Xu Qingfan waved his hand, indicating she should leave, not to linger and be in the way.

"Hmm~" All Xu Qingfan saw was a tall ponytail and the slender, graceful back of the girl as she left.

In the living room, his little brother’s cat had naturally dried off and came over to rub against Xia Xiaoxiao’s foot without holding a grudge.

"Soon you’ll have big shrimps to feast on, our little brother is really awesome!" She picked up the cat and kissed its head, then carried it back to her room with her.

There were a total of five diaries in the drawer of the dressing table, which she had kept since childhood.

Since Lin Jing was a Chinese teacher, Xia Xiaoxiao started recognizing characters at about three years old, plus she had literacy classes in kindergarten, so she really began writing diaries probably around the upper kindergarten classes, a little over four years old.

However, since not every day had something interesting to record, over ten years, she had only filled five diaries.

Xia Xiaoxiao took out all five diaries and arranged them in order on the dressing table.

In kindergarten, she didn’t know many characters, so she used less than half a notebook, then came elementary school, which took about three notebooks.

It seemed that upon entering middle school, she began writing more frequently in her diaries, and also, it seemed every diary entry was because of some bad thing in the neighboring kitchen.

Xia Xiaoxiao laid out all five diaries in order, transitioning from green immature letters to mature elegant ones, just as she had grown from a babbling little girl into a stunning young maiden of her flowering years.

It had been a long time since she last looked at the diaries she wrote as a child, suddenly curious, she picked up the oldest one and started flipping through it in her hands.

Mom bought cotton candy, shared half with Xiao Fan. After eating, we both turned into big cats. He said it was wasteful, cleaned my face up with his mouth.

Xu Qingfan gave the candy I gave her to another girl, I hate him!

Xu Qingfan was playing with another girl, I hate him!

Xiao Fan made a violet flower crown for me today, it looked so pretty on my head, I forgave him!

The violets were planted by Aunt Chen on the fourth floor, we went together to pick them, he’s such a fool!

...

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan has become so awesome, what if he won’t play with me anymore, I need to become awesome too!

We made a new friend, Lin Wanning from Class B. He said he wanted to go out alone with Wanning and not take me, I hate him!

New term and I’m not his desk mate anymore, his desk mate is Lin Wanning, I’m unhappy!

...

Although reluctant to admit it, every youthful word in the diaries unmistakably spoke of a girl who seemed to have fallen for a boy from the moment she learned to read...