Echoes of Embarrassment

I am stupid.

In this cave, only our breath and heartbeat were echoing.

It's a lie to say that my heart wasn't moved.

Later, we both calmed down for a while before slowly walking outside.

He naturally took my hand, and from then on, there was only him in my eyes.

"Be careful." He would remind me when we got to a place with stairs.

It wasn't gentle, but it warmed my heart for a long, long time.

He saw that my knee was scraped, but he didn't offer to carry me.

I was still a little disappointed, it was not like what was written in novels.

"What are you thinking?" He asked when he saw me silent.

"Ah... nothing." I cursed myself for overthinking.

But he stopped and whispered in my ear, "It's not that I don't want to carry you... I can't get too close to you right now..."

"Ah... why?" It turned out that I had a big mouth.

Because he gave me a gloomy look and said, "I'm a man, we've kissed for so long... do you really not understand or are you pretending not to?"

"I understand." I blushed and couldn't look at him anymore.

"Why don't I walk by myself and you don't need to hold me?" I was really considering his safety.

"Just hold your hand, it'll be fine." He smiled at me.

"Okay... I guess." I blushed and let him lead me outside.

Later, I found out that there were safety exit signs in the cave, but I was so scared that I forgot everything, my mind was blank.

When we met up with his brothers outside, everyone started teasing us again.

"Juan-ge, what were you and sister-in-law doing in there for 30 minutes?"

"Why are you guessing? How could Juan-ge be so weak?"

"Sister-in-law's face is all red."

...

These guys really know how to talk.

I was really ashamed, I felt like I had no place to hide.

"What are you guys talking about? Do you really think you'll understand if I tell you? Do you have a girlfriend? Shut up,"

Zhou Juan said, putting his baseball cap on my head and glaring at the onlookers.

Was this Zhou Juan's way of clearing things up?

I felt like things were only getting worse.

I was really nervous.

Before dinner, Zhou Juan suddenly asked me and his brothers to go ahead, saying he had something to do.

"Can't I go with you?" I whispered to him.

I was a bit shy and didn't want to be left alone with his brothers, who would probably tease me again.

"It's better if you don't come with me," he said, giving me a casual glance.

"Why not?" I persisted, because I was just too shy.

"...," he stopped talking and sighed, "let's go."

"Okay."

I followed him happily as he said he wanted to buy something.

Was he buying me some food?

He's so kind!

He's so thoughtful!

Until we arrived at the supermarket, and he stared at the neatly arranged boxes in front of the cashier, and asked me which flavor I liked, I was really dumbfounded.

"I'll go get another bag of chips," I turned around and ran to the snack area in one second, my heart racing almost to my throat.

Why is he like this?

How could he buy...?

He told me not to come and stay with his brothers, just to prevent me from feeling embarrassed.

I feel like a social outcast and that I have brought trouble upon myself.

In the snack section, I dawdled for a long time. When I finally came out, I saw that he had already paid and was waiting for me at the door.

My heart was pounding the whole time.

I settled the bill and I didn't dare to look at him or talk to him on the way out.

Fortunately, he didn't try to talk to me either.