Just in Time Chapter 42
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 42 Seats
“Ah, we have to change seats again!” Ji Shumo slammed the book in his hand onto the table, turned around, and dramatically reached out to Yi Chenliang, “Brother Yi, I don’t want to leave you!”
Yi Chenliang coldly ignored his wailing and picked up his water cup to drink.
Seeing that his Brother Yi was hard-hearted, Ji Shumo turned and reached out to Yun Fang, “Study god!”
Yun Fang was bowing his head writing on an exam paper. Without raising his head, he said, “Changing seats is normal.”
Ji Shumo feigned a sob. “Brother Yi, look at him! Study god, can you bear to abandon Brother Yi! You two have always been inseparable!”
Yun Fang’s writing hand paused slightly, and Yi Chenliang slapped Ji Shumo’s head, “Get lost, stop howling here. Let’s go play ball!”
“Eh? Brother Yi, are you going too?” Ji Shumo asked.
“Of course.” Yi Chenliang took off his down jacket, “Hurry up, less talk!”
“Holy cow, my Brother Yi has finally turned back from the sea of questions!” Ji Shumo cheered, calling his teammates, “Let’s go, Brother Yi is going to play ball, let’s head to the playground!”
A group of people noisily left the classroom, and the whole classroom suddenly became quiet.
“Yi Chenliang is going to play ball.” A girl quietly tugged at her bestie’s sleeve, “Let’s go watch.”
“Let’s buy water first, hehe.” The bestie giggled.
The two girls were sitting diagonally in front of Yun Fang, and they heard the conversation between the two clearly. He continued to do his questions with his head down.
After getting two questions wrong, Yun Fang, feeling a bit frustrated, put down his pen.
“The seating chart is out!” The class representative ran into the room from the door, “Quick, quick, quick, guys, get moving, Old Fang ordered to change seats before class!”
“Hey, a group of people went to play ball!” Someone shouted.
“Help them change first, I’ll go call them.” The class representative stuck the seating chart on the podium and ran towards the playground in a flurry.
Yun Fang went to look at the seating chart. He was moved to the middle of the fourth row, with unfamiliar names on both sides. Yi Chenliang… was still in his original place, his desk mate had been changed to a girl.
“Yun Fang, do you need help?” A boy wearing glasses came over to ask.
Yun Fang didn’t have much impression of him, “Thank you, but I can do it myself.”
The boy introduced himself generously, “My name is Qin Jun, I’m your new desk mate.”
“Hello.” Yun Fang gave him a slight smile, then started to pack up his books and backpack.
“Ah, let me help you move it over.” Qin Jun held the table, Yun Fang couldn’t refuse anymore, and together they moved the table to the middle of the fourth row.
The middle of the fourth row was four tables in a row, he was right in the second one on the right, Qin Jun was on the left, and on the right was a somewhat introverted girl, who remained unmoved amidst the chaotic crowd, looking at a book in her hand, her expression deep.
Yun Fang remembered her name seemed to be Shen Zhouzhou.
A group of people had just been called out to play ball and were then chased back by the class representative, looking frustrated and howling, Ji Shumo rushed to the podium to look at the seating chart, and yelled at Yi Chenliang, “Brother Yi, your seat hasn’t moved.”
Yi Chenliang, with a cold expression, drooped his eyelids. Hearing the sound, he raised his eyes and happened to see Yun Fang smiling at Qin Jun.
“Thank you.” Yun Fang nodded at Qin Jun, and as he raised his head, he met Yi Chenliang’s gaze.
The gazes met and were unexpectedly separated by the students who rushed in. Yun Fang stacked up his books and sat down at his seat.
Yi Chenliang returned to his seat with a cold face, the new desk mate next to him had a bit too many books, and they were about to fall over, he reached out to help.
The new desk mate was named Zhang Yue. She was beautiful, with long hair down to her waist, tied into a long ponytail. She thanked Yi Chenliang generously, “Thank you.”
“It’s nothing.” Yi Chenliang let go of his hand and lowered his head to flip through his book.
“Yun Fang, what are you looking at? Can’t bear to part with your old desk mate?” Qin Jun patted his shoulder.
Yun Fang turned his head and smiled, “No.”
Yi Chenliang raised his head to look at Yun Fang, but only saw his back, chatting and laughing harmoniously with his new desk mate.
When they were desk mates before, they would meet and talk to each other almost every day. It seemed that they had gotten used to having such a person by their side. But when the seats were really changed, they found that even in the same classroom, if they didn’t deliberately look for someone, the number of times they met and talked was pitifully small.
Probably only when the teacher called out a name to ask a question, could they convince themselves to put their gaze on the other’s face in a fair and square manner, and then hurriedly take back their gaze, feeling a bit melancholic and a bit annoyed.
There was less than a week left until the final exam, and the class was all buried in revision, and there were more self-study classes.
“Yun Fang, can you explain this question to me?” Shen Zhouzhou finally plucked up the courage to speak to Yun Fang for the first time after more than a week.
“Let me see.” Yun Fang took the test paper she handed to him, looked at the question, and then wrote down the detailed steps for her on the draft paper, “You can ask me if you don’t understand.”
“Thank you.” Shen Zhouzhou said softly.
“You’re welcome.” Yun Fang smiled, remembering that Yi Chenliang often said that his problem-solving steps were very detailed, he couldn’t help but look back.
Yi Chenliang was accepting the milk tea handed over by Zhang Yue, lowering his head and saying something, Zhang Yue laughed very happily, even pounded his shoulder, and handed him the straw in her hand.
Yun Fang withdrew his gaze and turned around to continue writing the question.
Making new friends is also quite good. He thought so, and the pencil in his hand snapped, the lead broke.
Qin Jun handed him a pencil lead, and complained, “Is the quality of your pencil lead not good? It has broken several times.”
“I’ll change it another day.” Yun Fang pulled out the pencil lead and replaced it with a new one, “The quality is too poor.”
Yun Fang had to go to the competition class in the evening, which lasted until ten o’clock, and the evening self-study class ended at nine fifty. He and Yi Chenliang hadn’t seen each other for many days, let alone talked.
Yi Chenliang was deliberately avoiding him, and he couldn’t find a reason to continue to approach Yi Chenliang. The two of them were so awkward in school, even if they accidentally bumped into each other in the bathroom, they would pass by each other tacitly.
Only late at night, when it was quiet, looking at the light in the window opposite coming on and then going off, knowing that there was such a person under their own eyelids, did they feel that the day was over.