<aside> 🔑 Key: 🦌: Lu Chen/Alkaid 🖌️: MC 🔭: Astronomy students 🐈: A Can (Lu Chen’s Cat)
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For the rest of the day, I continue to help with the “school open day . continued” tour, Lu Chen stayed in the astronomy department, and was saying goodbye to his classmates that were preparing to leave. New students arrive, old students leave, me and Lu Chen spent time this afternoon, it was like a miniature cycle of college. It was time to meet Lu Chen, I was in front of the complex building, and I find him still surrounded by many classmates. He waved towards me, and passed me an apologetic expression. 🦌: Our graduation group photo still haven’t finished, maybe you need wait a little more. 🔭: Lu Chen, can you ask that junior if she can help take a photo? I was still in a daze, a camera already was skillfully passed into my hands. 🔭: We’ll borrow your junior’s help. Everyone laughed, messily discussing the group photo arrangement, they were noisy that even Lu Chen was once again being swept along. I stood outside of the crowd, while listening to them laugh and joke around, and while I study the tripod set aside. After the camera is set, I leaned over to confirm they were in the frame, I was about to instruct the graduate students to adjust their position, but Lu Chen who was in frame moved. He shifted two steps towards the middle, and immediately he turned to instruct his classmate next to him. His side profile covered in golden glow of the setting sun, ends of his hair under the light was close to transparent. 🦌: I’m in right in the center of the picture… the person behind me doesn’t need to be so tense, are you guys still going to throw your graduation hats? Amidst the laughter, the crowd gradually disperse into formation, all of them were in the center of the viewfinder. After I confirmed with everyone once more about their positions, Lu Chen was on the first row kneeling down. 🦌: We are ready. He raised his hand on his knee, gazed up and smiled at the camera. — or maybe, he was gazing at me who is behind the camera. 🖌️: Then I will count down from three, three, two — In the small viewfinder, I can clearly recognise his gaze on me. His gazed was fixed into my eyes, a look containing a raw gem that shone. My heart burned under the sunlight, also as if it skipped much quicker. 🖌️: One —— Snap snap — The camera made a shutter noise, before my eyes many smiles flew together with their graduation hats, the viewfinder repeatedly set course. I suddenly recalled of that festivity when I entered school not long ago. That day, in the play “Morning Star” Lu Chen also went down on one knee in front of me, but that time his eyes drooped down, waiting for me to decide to leave or to stay. And before my eyes he sort of resemble that time, but also not. I release the shutter, get up, and calmly looked at him. Outside the viewfinder, Lu Chen’s smile was increasingly bright. A beam of light between his eyes and brows, and suddenly it seem like the end of winter and the arrival of spring
= next scene = After we ate, we returned home from the commercial area. When we reached the entrance, he suddenly turned around and asked. 🦌: By the way, when you left this afternoon, Professor Chen wanted to ask are you free to eat together with us. 🖌️: Me? 🦌: According to him, its thanks to you for letting him have a great student. Although in Lu Chen’s voice brought a smile, between his words also had some implication to tease, but— 🖌️: How did Professor Chen know? Lu Chen fished out his keys, borrowing the dusky street lights fumbling to open the door. 🦌: After you left, we have to catch up — Ah! His fingertips and the door lock barely touched and suddenly exploded in tiny electrical sparks, and he unconsciously pulled back his hand. I was unbearably laughing as I took the key, and at the same time pointing to him still wearing his graduation gown. 🖌️: Its better to change a bit earlier — Did Professor Chen shared some gossip? Generally the professor mostly care about what their student’s girlfriend’s major is, which year and are they good enough? 🦌: He didn’t dig up anything about you… actually it was me. The lock core moved with the key, making a slight “click” sound. I open the door. 🖌️: Hmm? 🦌: It was me… who can’t help but want to flaunt. The big doors open in front of me, inside the room the sound of A-Can faint meow. I held the door and looked up at him. I did not know where the idea abruptly came from, an exceptionally bright spark was in my mind. I suddenly thought of a question I never asked him before. 🖌️: I never asked you this, at that time why did you change schools to St. Shelters?
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Lu Chen was already inside, having to heard that he turned around again. Under his gaze, I can’t help but grab onto the doorknob. On his face was a smile that suddenly grew a bit, his expression is simply just of.. craftiness. 🦌: What’s your thoughts on it? my reasons for coming here? I groaned slightly 🖌️: Anyway its certainly not because of me. Lu Chen no longer kept me in suspense, while he brought back some things to put back, he explained to me. 🦌: Because of the ex-chairman, he was more invested into the astronomy department in St. Shelters, and also his academic research was going well 🦌: I compared academic courses and teacher qualifications of other schools, I thought St. Shelters was more suitable for me compared to Shanghai University. 🦌: Although — He paused, as my curiosity grows, he continued with a smile. 🦌: I finally transferred schools, and also to say because of you is not wrong. 🦌: When I went to the glaciers to take a picture of the aurora lights, I wanted to find an opportunity to make a final decision. He turned his body around, standing beside the plants, the faint yellow lights mixed with the vibrant green that fell in his eyes, overflowed to a gentle smile. 🦌: As a result, I met you. In a split second, it seems the aurora in middle of the night sky swirled around freely, and thoroughly immersed me. 🐈: Meow — Without knowing when he had appeared, A Can rubbed against Lu Chen’s feet, for the time being it attracted his attention. Lu Chen crouched down to pat A Can. After a “Crackle” the sound of electric currents, A Can screeched, and in an instant we ran three inches* away from him. 🦌: ….. It seems this was still the first time I saw Lu Chen show this kind of expression towards A Can. 🖌️: The synthetic fibre clothes really are… Do you want to go and change first? 🦌: First, can you take a graduation photo with me? Lu Chen took his camera bag, and setup his camera, adjusting the angle of the shot. I huddled on the sofa and found a suitable lighting from this position, I brought up the subject from before. 🖌️: Then if you at that time weren’t at the glaciers and haven’t met me what would you have done? Regardless if its my sudden impulse to go on a trip to the lake, or Lu Chen’s plan to take pictures alone, in the end, they are all coincidences that we met. 🦌: I’ve considered that, I believed we were still going to meet at St. Shelters, and than… love each other. Probably its the trauma from the shock of static electricity, Lu Chen set up his camera than went and wash his hands, and just walked in front of me. 🦌: Regardless when, where we get to know each other, us right now, is certainly what I am maybe looking forward to the most. Like the celestial bodies that meet in the middle of the universe and than attract each other, its not certain the beginning will always be facing the only certain ending. I held his hand, and urged him towards the sofa next to me. We were like the gravitational force of two stars, stuck in the middle of a white sofa getting closer and closer. Even though the distance is unable to get closer, I slightly raised my head, and gave him a light peck on his cheek. Our face was red. After the light peck, I released my hand and stroked the tiny crease on his shoulder. The gentle and soft sound of removing the wrinkles within his clothes. 🖌️: It seems you zapped me a little. Lu Chen smiled, his lips leaned in and softly pressed into mine, and soon after it deepen into a kiss. Flash and the sound of the shutter, I couldn’t help myself to lean on his shoulder. My fingertips drawing on his graduation gown, the sound of electricity fleeing from my thoughts. 🖌️:The clothes will get wrinkled.