99 Deep, Forbidden Love (9)

Perhaps he had already noticed her back then. The young man's heart struggled to understand what love was or what it meant to be moved. He only knew that after playing football after school everyday, he would see her and feel relaxed. When he didn't see her, it felt like something was missing.

For over half a year, he had always silently paid attention to her. Then, on one heavily rainy day after school, he finally actually got close to her.

At the time, he carried an umbrella and was about to pull it out from his school bag when he saw her carrying her school bag over her head and running over to a shelter under the roof of a house. He didn't know what came over him but he pushed the umbrella back down into the bag and followed her under the roof.

He was listening to Jay Chou at the time, but he turned off the music as he stood next to her. With earphones in his ears, he heard the pitter patter of raindrops. From the start, he never turned to