Chapter 15 my teenage years

When I was young, like Takeru and Yuno, I lived in an apartment from the second grade of elementary school until I graduated from high school. Although our family is not a single-parent family, since my mother worked in a supermarket, I always wore a bunch of keys around my neck when I was a child.Therefore, since elementary school, I will open and lock the door by myself, and I will not be afraid when I return to a house where no one is there. Each of the characters in the novel reflects the author—a certain part of my personality and characteristics.In fact, when I was a teenager, I was very similar to Xiaojian in some aspects, and very similar to Yuno in other aspects.

For example, I really like riding a bicycle, but the bicycles at that time were not as advanced as the mountain bikes now.Next to my community, there is also a relatively steep high slope. I rushed down from the high place to my heart's content, enjoying the joy of flying.Occasionally, I also practice a big slap, but now I don't have the courage. Xiaojian is a football fan, and so am I.But football was not popular at the time, and the most popular sport was baseball.I'm not particularly athletic, so I never dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, and I didn't even own a ball, except for occasionally playing in the triangle at the park.

Even so, sometimes I really want to experience the joy of playing ball.One day, I picked up an old ping pong ball on the road, and suddenly became interested in playing it. I practiced ping pong alone in the open space of the parking lot against the concrete wall.Cars come and go here, knowing that it is a dangerous place, but I still have a lot of fun.I didn't leave reluctantly until I was reprimanded loudly by an aunt next to me. I also like to sit on the window on a quiet night, hold the guardrail of the window with my hands, stretch my feet outside, and watch the night scene outside leisurely. "It's really dark outside the apartment", this was my most real feeling when I was a teenager.Of course, I dare not stand upside down on the window, but I did it when I stood on it. It was to experience a special feeling. Of course, it was a very terrifying experience.

I once climbed on the roof and looked down, and I went up to the water supply jug. The boys in the apartment have done this kind of thing.Thankfully, though, at some point, the grate gate leading to the roof was locked, and the children had no chance of further adventures. In retrospect, everything was dangerous and not good boy behavior.I am the same as Xiaojian in these respects, a naughty and reckless child. On the other hand, I'm a lot like Yoshino, I'm often alone, reading my favorite books.At dusk, I often curled up against the wall, and the rays of the setting sun shone on my book, and my mother would scold me: "Reading like this is not good for your eyes!"

Maybe my mother was a little worried. As a primary school student, I always read some adult books.When I was in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, I began to read some works of famous literary figures.Knowledgeable enough to have some haughty thoughts in my head, not giving a damn about books for children.So the novel I wrote may not be exactly suitable for children. I also skipped classes because I hated going to school.Being cunning, I often pretended to be going to school. When I left the house, I hid behind the building. After my mother went to work, I would sneak back home, cover myself with a quilt, and have a good sleep.But unfortunately, if I accidentally slept for too long, I was discovered by my mother who was off work. She was not as gentle as Yuye's mother, so the final result was often that I was beaten up.

I also like to watch the train alone in the evening. There is a railway line near my house, and I can often see fast-moving trains and trains full of goods. When the train was about to come, the signal lights on both sides of the road changed from red to green, and a low humming sound came from the dark railway line, which gradually became louder and deafening. Finally, the train appeared, but it was very Quickly and swiftly passed by, rushing into the distant darkness. In the evening of summer, in the orange sunset glow, countless bats came flying. Once, a bat suddenly hit the train and immediately fell to the ground like a piece of paper.After the train passed, I ran to the railway track to see that the little bat was covered in blood, only its wings were still shaking weakly.I still remember how pitiful it was until now.

The place where I watched the train was very close to the train, probably only an arm's length away.But suddenly one day, there was a barbed wire fence there, and I could no longer "close contact" with the train at close range.Probably because adults feel it is dangerous. The apartment life, which has left me with many good memories, has gradually moved away since I went to college.I lived in a dormitory in Nagoya when I was in college, and then I worked in Tokyo, and the apartment life became more and more distant from me. Ten years later, when I returned to the apartment I lived in when I was a child, I was shocked. The apartment in my memory had completely changed.

First of all, the number of buildings has increased. When I lived there were only fifteen buildings, but now they have increased to twenty-six, almost doubling the number.The park where my friends played lawn baseball disappeared, and a strange building was built.The open space of the apartment has not changed, but the distance between the buildings has become smaller, and the space between the buildings has become very narrow, almost shoulder to shoulder. The vast apartment that seemed as big as the world when I was a child now looks so small, it’s suffocatingly small.The original tall buildings seem to have become small and dilapidated.Building 15, which was brand new and enviable in the past, is now shabby and dilapidated.

Only then did I feel sincerely: I have really grown up. This novel is produced by such admiration and emotion.