Danna Keller just left the hospital not long ago, felt his pockets and found his car keys seemed to have fallen in the fruit basket, and turned back to find, before walking back to the hospital lobby, the elevator doors ‘ding’ slowly open, and then and Pei Sheng a face-to-face.
“Pei sir!” Danna Keller subconsciously saluted and stood slack-jawed.
Pei rose out of the elevator, frowned, stared at her for a moment, and pressed her hand down, “As I said, when you see me in private, I’m not your superior, no need to salute.”
Danna Keller froze, her gaze falling on Pei Sheng’s hand as he pressed his own, and did not make a sound.
Probably realize that something is wrong, Pei Sheng immediately withdrew his hand, “Kael they have not seen you, so stop you did not let you in, sorry.”
“Oh, it’s okay, it’s just their job, and anyway, I got my stuff delivered, so just know you’re okay.”
“You’re worried about me?”
Danna Keller nodded a little and said with a straight face, “You are a friend of Lin Bureau and the top commander of the Air Force Command, being wounded and hospitalized is a big deal, we are both in the army, I understand your feelings.”
The words made Pei Sheng cry and laugh, “I …”
Deliberate for a moment, actually do not know what to say, only to say, “I heard that you received a new mission, this time how long to go?”
Danna Keller hesitated, “It’s confidential.”
Pei rose and nodded, “Sorry, I asked too much, so you’re leaving now?”
“We leave tonight,” Danna Keller raised her wrist and glanced at the time, “six hours before departure time, sorry, I only found out about your injury yesterday, and it was too late to ask you what was going on.”
“No, are you free at the moment? Go for a walk outside.”
“Huh? Is that okay with you?”
Danna Keller looked suspiciously at Pei Sheng, still in his blue and white striped hospital gown, draped only in one of his Air Force jackets, looking thin, and the temperature outside in Hounslow in December was no joke.
“It’s okay, I’ve always been hardy to the cold, let’s go, you don’t have much time, just go for a walk in the garden.”
Pei Sheng insisted, and Danna Keller could not say much.
It was the end of the year, the wind was bitterly cold outside, the hospital garden was a scene of decay, Danna Keller herself could not help but shiver, looking at the thinly dressed Pei Sheng, could not help but ask, “Are you really not cold?”
Pei rose and shook his head, pointing to the gazebo in the small garden, “Let’s go sit over there.”
After the cold wave, even when there is sun at noon, the usual group of sunbathing patients are reluctant to come out, this time the gazebo inside half a shadow of a person is not.
Danna Keller nodded in agreement, thinking that the gazebo would at least provide some protection from the wind.
When we got to the gazebo and sat down, the air leakage on all sides made Danna Keller regret a little, it would be better to stay outside.
To distract herself, she asked, “Why didn’t you tell me about your injury?”
Pei Sheng said, “I’ve heard your Lin Bureau say that you rarely get a long break once a year, so it’s better to think about not bothering you.”
“I heard from a friend that you were injured on the seventh, was it when you were having dinner with me?”
Speaking of the injury, Pei Sheng’s face was a little embarrassed and he let out a ‘hmm’, as if he didn’t really want to bring it up.
“Sorry, I saw you didn’t come back for a long time the other day and I thought you had left.”
“How?” Pei Sheng gathered the jacket on the shoulders, “originally to have a good meal with you to talk about some things, did not expect to encounter some accidents, fortunately you left early, which did not … not … ”
“No what?”
“Nothing …”
Pei Sheng this speech stammering look, really let Danna Keller some annoyance, she most do not like is that others do not say something straight, cornered let people guess.
She is not a good at finding the topic, the seventh day of the matter Pei Sheng and apparently not willing to say more, she simply do not ask, lowered his head frequently look at the table.
“Do you like watches?” Pei Sheng suddenly asked.
“Huh?” Danna Keller froze for a moment, “I don’t like it or not, I just use it to watch the time.”
“I see you’ve been wearing this watch for a long time.”
Seeing Danna Keller’s puzzled face, Pei Sheng explained, “About ten years ago, I saw you once at a military parade, when you were also wearing this watch, although well hidden, but when you raised your hand to meet the sunlight refraction when kicking the square step, just shake my eyes.”
Danna Keller’s scowl was not subdued.
Ten years ago her watch shook his eyes such a thing can remember so clearly, this is to take personal revenge?
“Sorry, I don’t know …”
Pei Sheng froze, “No, I do not mean to pursue, I … I mean to say that I …”
Danna Keller puzzled looking at Pei Sheng, always feel that he speaks today is really dawdling, the gazebo inside the four sides of the wind, blowing people’s hands and feet cold, looking at him this a thin, Danna Keller some sit down, “Pei sir, if you have what to say on it, outside the strange cold, you finish I send you back early. ”
“I … want to say that I bought a watch earlier, originally intended to give you the day of the seventh, the results of the incident, did not send, think about asking your opinion, you … willing to accept it? ”
Danna Keller hesitated, “Is it expensive?”
“It’s not expensive, it’s just a normal watch.”
“You bought all bought, I do not accept the words is not very good, but received the gift must return the gift, I am often away from home, which is a bit of trouble.”
Danna Keller sometimes speaks too directly, with familiar friends, but not with those who are not familiar, especially the opposite sex, often hurt people without knowing.
Pei Sheng is also in his early forties, the original has long been sophisticated and mature mentality, but met Danna Keller, perhaps Danna Keller’s character is too unique, different from the norm, so he is sometimes in front of her with the same rash, do not know how to handle themselves.
This ‘trouble’ two words, then he fell into a deep self-doubt, a time to know whether she is a polite refusal or that it was just a casual remark.
Seeing that Pei Sheng did not say anything, Danna Keller just assumed that the conversation was over, so she glanced at the time, “Pei sir, it’s late, I have to go.”
Pei rose to his feet, “Are you leaving?”
“Well, we’re leaving at six, and I have to be back in time to gather for a head count by four.”
“Then … that I won’t hold you up.”
“It’s okay, I’m leaving.”
Danna Keller smiles a rare smile and strides down the gazebo.
Pei stood in the same place for a while, watching Danna Keller’s back getting farther and farther away, he remembered the parade ten years ago, ten years ago just to look at her in the crowd, in the Blue Eagle Special Forces few female soldiers, there are some tough, intelligent, but only the cold and aloof temperament, she is unique.
“Danna Keller!” he suddenly chased down the gazebo, lost twenty years of habitual pride and dignity in front of people, Chambers can not be what repeatedly reminded himself that the relationship thing can not be rushed, to be gradual and slow, head hot shouted at the back of the fast disappearing, “. If you get married, what do you think of me?”
In the distance, the back stood suddenly, turning back with a pair of cold pupils tinged with a few moments of dismay.