「妳可以當我的女朋友嗎?」
他就突然問我這個問題。
我們突然靜默了好幾秒，時空彷彿凝結在那一刻，永遠停格在那裏。
「啊」，我打破了沉默。「我想起來我還有事，我先走了。」
接著我就轉頭走了。
接下來的幾天，他打過來的電話，我都沒有接。
我不知道要說什麼。
就這樣，不知不覺，一星期就過了。
突然有一天，他推開門，進入了我打工的咖啡店。
他隨意地挑了一個在我視線內的座位坐下。
「你好，請問你今天要點什麼?」
他沒接話。
若是平常，他一定會點一杯阿華田或可可亞。
他是那種不喝咖啡的人。
「一杯拿鐵。」
我有點意外，我看著他，接著就轉過頭去。
泡製時，我刻意地把牛奶加多一點。
我端了出去，之後，他就坐在位子上慢慢地喝，偶爾看著窗外的景色。
外面慢慢地下起雨來了。
接著他從口袋裡掏出手機，用了一下子。
我看了我的手機，一則簡訊。我打開來看，我愣了。
那是一則他傳來的簡訊，上面寫，
「今天晚上我請妳吃飯。」
他曾對我說他從來不請朋友吃飯。
「等我下班。」
他看了看，回了個「好」，就又喝了口他的飲料。
之後，他從他的背包裡拿出了一本小說，就從有著書籤的地方開始讀。
他就一直讀到我下班，我們兩個就，各自撐著一把傘一起去吃飯。
II
我對他說「當我知道是吉野家的時候有一點失落。」
他說 「還好吧，我弟在美國，還滿想念這味道的。」
「對了，妳到現在還沒回答我的問題。」
「我只是覺得為什麼是我，以你的條件，應該可以找到更好的女生。」
他又突然不說話了。
「這茶碗蒸給妳。」我就收下了。
他靜靜著吃著飯。
「五次了，不多也不少，我到妳的店裡五次了。」
「那不是我的店，我只是在那裏打工而已。(難道他到咖啡店純粹是來看我的?)」
「其實，我不敢接受你，也不敢拒絕你。」
他看著我，也沒說什麼。
「我們就維持這樣的關係好了。」
他抓了抓頭，說 :「好吧。」
他看起來有點不知道又說什麼，突然間又蹦出一句話，「我給你問一個問題好了。」
他講完後，又突然有著一種自以為是的霸氣。
我想了一下，(我到底要問什麼問題呢?)
「你覺得你追不追得到我 ?」
他遲疑了一下，很淡定地說，「妳跑不過我的。」
III
突然隔壁桌的一個女生跟我說，「啊，小雪，真巧，這妳男朋友喔?」
我慌忙地說: 「這，還不是。」
突然之間，他和她的表情都有點怪怪的。
她很順口地說，「還不是? 所以牽過手以後，或者接過吻之後才是?」
「不不不，要他下圍棋下贏我才算。」
她不敢置信地看著我，又很同情地看著他一下。又再看著我。
她一臉，「妳確定嗎?」
我很困惑地看著她，我錯過了什麼嗎?
他突然起身，說，「我去一下洗手間。」就離座了。
她說，「妳要不要邀他加入圍棋社? 妳的社團不是很缺人嗎?」
「他可能不感興趣吧。」
「就邀邀看啊。」
說完話後，我朋友就回她的座位了。
"Can you be my girlfriend?"
He suddenly asked me this question.
We suddenly silenced for a few seconds, and the time and space seemed to condense at that moment, and it was forever stopped there.
"Ah," I broke the silence. "I think I have something to do, I am leaving."
Then I turned around and left.
In the next few days, he called me and I didn't pick it up.
I don't know what to say.
In this way, unconsciously, it will pass in a week.
Suddenly one day, he opened the door and entered the coffee shop where I worked.
He casually picked a seat in my sight and sat down.
"Hello, what do you want to do today?"
He did not answer.
If it is normal, he will definitely order a cup of Ovalt or Cocoa.
He is the kind of person who does not drink coffee.
"A cup of latte."
I was a little surprised, I looked at him and then turned around.
When brewing, I deliberately added a little more milk.
I took it out, and then he sat down on the seat and slowly drank, watching the scenery outside the window.
It rained slowly outside.
Then he took out his phone from his pocket and used it for a moment.
I saw my mobile phone, a newsletter. I opened it and I was embarrassed.
It was a newsletter from him, written on it.
"I am going to dinner this evening."
He once told me that he never invited friends to eat.
"When I get off work."
He looked at it and returned a "good" and drank his drink again.
After that, he took out a novel from his backpack and started reading from a place with bookmarks.
He always read that I was off work, and we both went to eat with an umbrella.
II
I said to him, "When I knew it was Yoshinoya, I was a little lost."
He said, "Fortunately, my brother is in the United States and still misses this taste."
"Yes, I haven't answered my question yet."
"I just think why it is me. You should be able to find a better girl on your terms."
He suddenly stopped talking.
"This tea bowl is steamed to you." I took it.
He is quietly eating.
"Five times, no more, no less, I went to the store five times."
"That's not my shop, I just work there. (Is it purely to see me at the coffee shop?)"
"Actually, I dare not accept you, and I dare not refuse you."
He looked at me and said nothing.
"We will maintain this relationship."
He grabbed his head and said, "Okay."
He didn't seem to know what he said, and suddenly he said, "I am asking you a question."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly had a self-righteous domineering.
I thought about it. (What question do I have to ask?)
"Do you think you can't chase me?"
He hesitated a moment and said calmly, "Hey, I can't run."
III
Suddenly a girl at the next table said to me, "Oh, Xiaoxue, really, what about this boyfriend?"
I hurriedly said: "This is not yet."
Suddenly, he and her expressions are a bit strange.
She said very succinctly, "Isn't it? So after taking the hand, or after taking the kiss?"
"No, no, I want him to win under Go."
She looked at me incredulously and looked at him with sympathy. Look at me again.
She looked at her face. "Are you sure?"
I looked at her in confusion, what did I miss?
He suddenly got up and said, "I am going to the bathroom." He left the seat.
She said, "Would you like to invite him to join the Go Club? Isn't the group really lacking people?"
"He may not be interested."
"I invite you to see."
After speaking, my friend returned to her seat.
IV
結果他回來之後，發現他空的飯碗裡多了一些飯。
他看著我。
我轉過頭去。
頭轉回來時，發現他還是看著我。
我說，「我吃不了那麼多。」
說完話後，他就開始幫我吃掉一些飯。
過了一兩分鐘，我對他說，「那換你問我一個問題?」
說完話後，我有一點後悔，(天曉得，他會問我什麼問題?)
「妳看不看美國職籃，如果是，妳喜歡哪一支籃球隊?」
「我不看美國職籃。」
他臉色有點變。
「但我支持你喜歡的那支球隊。」
聽完後，他就一直不講話。
他最後，這樣說。
「我會回去看一下，我想支持哪支球隊。」
V
過了一星期，這次換我約他出來。
不過，地點是他選的就是了。
他選在公園裡的涼亭裡。
奇怪的是，居然是我先到。
還好這公園不大，涼亭還滿好找的。
我一邊等他，一邊看著那已讀未回的簡訊。
「我的圍棋社缺社員，倘若有興趣的話，煩請加入。」
我突然聽到腳步聲，看見他遠遠地走過來。
「好久不見啊!」
這句話聽起來特別的酸。
聽完，我一屁股坐下去，就開始揉眼睛了。
「哭什麼啊。」
我呆住了，望著他。
不講話，就靜靜地待在角落。
兩個人就這樣坐著，沉默。
飲料給你
我就接過他遞來的運動飲料，但沒有喝。
「你有沒有什麼話要對我講的?」我對他說。
他說某某球星退休了。
「你難過嗎?」
「不是難過，算失落吧。」
「我跟他，你比較喜歡誰?」
「當然是妳啊。」
「那個球員既不傳球，又把隊友氣到轉隊。還很自以為是。」
「那你失落什麼?」
「他畢竟是個傳奇球星，又在我住處附近洛杉磯地方打球打了半輩子，他要退休，我當然有點不捨。」
「那你喜歡哪支球隊?」
「有人喜歡前四強的球隊，有人喜歡地方家鄉的球隊。」
「那你呢?」
「我，我喜歡實力被低估的球隊。」
「那最被低估的球隊是哪一隊?」
「熊貓隊。」他很正經地說。
「美國的貓熊應該是進口的吧?」
「那泰迪熊隊。」
「泰迪熊隊聽起來有點嫩，叫它熊熊隊好了。」
「要不要去散步什麼的。」
「好啊。」
VI
「我小時候常來這個公園，就來這裡溜冰，溜滑梯之類的。」
「在這裡嗎?」
「對。」
「那和以前一樣嗎?」
「不一樣，現在的設施比較安全。」
「大概時代不一樣了。」
「把我講的很老似的，我也沒大幾歲啊。」
我覺得該把要講的話講出來了。
「那個你看過我傳的簡訊，那你願不願意加入圍棋社?」
「我可以加入，但別指望我社課時會出席。」
「為什麼?」
「我有我的事，再說去圍棋社下圍棋很花時間。」
我們又再走了一段路，之後就各自回去了。
IV
As a result, he came back and found that he had some more rice in his empty rice bowl.
He looked at me.
I turned my head.
When the head turned back, he found that he still looked at me.
I said, "I can't eat that much."
After speaking, he began to help me eat some meals.
After a minute or two, I said to him, "Would you ask me a question?"
After I finished speaking, I regretted it a bit. (He knows, what questions will he ask me?)
"I don't see the US basketball team. If so, which basketball team do you like?"
"I don't look at the US basketball team."
His face changed a bit.
"But I support the team you like."
After listening to it, he never said anything.
He finally said this.
"I will go back and see which team I want to support."
V
After a week, I changed him to come out this time.
However, the location is what he chose.
He was chosen in the pavilion in the park.
The strange thing is that I actually arrived first.
Fortunately, this park is not big, the pavilion is still full of find.
I waited for him while looking at the newsletter that had not been read.
"My Go Club is short of members. If you are interested, please join us."
I suddenly heard footsteps and saw him coming far away.
"long time no see!"
This sentence sounds particularly sour.
After listening to it, I sat down and started blinking.
"What are you crying?"
I am stunned and looking at him.
If you don't talk, just stay in the corner quietly.
The two were sitting and silent.
Drink for you
I took the sports drink he handed, but didn't drink it.
"Do you have anything to tell me?" I told him.
He said that a certain star has retired.
"Are you sad?"
"Not sad, forget it."
"I am with him, who do you like?"
"Of course it is awkward."
"The player doesn't pass the ball and puts the teammates on the team. It's also very self-righteous."
"What are you missing?"
"He is a legendary star after all, and he played for half a lifetime in the Los Angeles area near my residence. He wants to retire. Of course I am a bit sad."
"Which team do you like?"
"Some people like the top four teams, and some people like the local home team."
"how about you?"
"I, I like teams whose strength is underestimated."
"Which team is the most underrated team?"
"Panda team," he said very seriously.
"The American pandas should be imported?"
"That Teddy Bears."
"The Teddy Bears sound a bit tender and call it the Bears."
"Would you like to go for a walk?"
"Okay."
VI
"When I was a child, I used to come to this park. I came here to skate, slide, and the like."
"Is it here?"
"Correct."
"Is that the same as before?"
"Not the same, the facilities are safe now."
"Probably the times are different."
"I told you very old, I am not too old."
I think it is time to tell the words to be told.
"That kind of newsletter you have seen me, are you willing to join the Go Club?"
"I can join, but don't expect to attend when I am in class."
"why?"
"I have my business, and it is time to go to Go to go to Go."
We went a little further and then went back.
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