Tianyuan Shuo also sat by the window after a long absence and recalled his past. He touched his wrist and looked at the sky quietly.
From an objective point of view, although his parents divorced early in his childhood, his father abided by the judgment and paid monthly alimony. Xiao Shuoye's mother, although an Asian single mother, also relied on her own efforts to make a career in the United States. Start your own career.
Tianyuan Shuo has never blamed or resented his mother, because he clearly knew how difficult his mother's life was back then, and he also knew clearly that everything he had now was obtained by his mother's unconditional support.
It was just during that critical period of growth that Tenwon Mizhi really ignored Xiao Sakuya's psychological condition because of her busy schedule. It wasn't until one day when the teacher called to say that something happened to her child at school that Tenwon Mie really realized that the child How terrifying the malice between them is.
The former chubby, lively and cheerful little golden retriever became gloomy and silent. Even when Tianyuan Meizhi tried to pick him up, the child's reaction was just to freeze and tremble.
Although Xiaoshuo also has standard blond hair and blue eyes, the blood from his mother can still be reflected in him. He is thinner and thinner than his peers, and his beautiful and delicate appearance when he was not yet developed, all of which made him a good student in the community primary school. It was difficult to move forward.
Tianyuan Meizhi was heartbroken. She took Xiao Shuo to visit the child psychiatrist many times, until Xiao Shuo timidly grabbed her by the corner of her clothes and said, forget it, mom, it costs a lot of money, I’m scared. .
Tianyuan Meizhi even dared not let him go to school by himself.
Things took a turn for the better when my cousin from my hometown was coming to the United States to study. I asked Tenwon Mie to take care of the child.
When Sendō Akira arrived, he didn't know that Aunt Mizhi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was not only married and divorced without telling her family, but that her child was already in the third grade of elementary school.
The 1.9-meter-tall man squatted on the ground and greeted the blond dumpling hiding behind his mother with a smile: "Hello, I am your cousin Sendo Akira. I will give you more advice in the future."
Xiao Shuo also looked at Sendō Akira's appearance that was obviously different from Europeans and Americans. His eyes wandered a few times on his trendy hairstyle, and he actually nodded to Sendō Akira as a greeting.
The opportunity for Xiaoshuo to really start talking to Akira Sendō was when his cousin took him to watch a basketball game between community colleges.
Although in Xiao Sakuya's memory, his 1.9-meter-tall cousin was already the tallest and strongest person he knew. As a result, once Sendō Akira joined the team, he suddenly became less conspicuous.
The blond dumpling couldn't help but recall some not-so-good things.
Until my cousin, who usually speaks slowly and likes to sit by the river and fish like an old man, pressed the opposing team to the ground and rubbed him with ease.
He was obviously an outlier on the court, but Akira Sendō stood there, smiling and raising his hand to indicate that he had successfully scored a layup, while enjoying the applause of the audience and the crowd of teammates.
After the game, Xiao Shuo grabbed his cousin's trousers and said that he also wanted to learn basketball.
Sendō Akira didn't ask why, he just stretched out his hand and purred his little cousin's soft golden hair back and forth: "At this time, you should yell, coach, I want to play basketball."
Xiao Shuoye:?
"I'm just teasing you," Sendou Akira ignored his exclamation and picked him up and put him on his shoulders, "It doesn't have to be basketball, right? Is it better to start with physical exercise?"
Anyway, for Sendō Akira, he just gave half of his fishing time to his little cousin.
Three years later, Xiao Shuoya's shooting and dribbling skills have become quite impressive, but Sendō Akira is a little worried when he sees him stubbornly practicing fixed-point shooting every day: How does this look like he has developed into Hainan's shooting guard Kamizou Ichiro? By the way, shouldn't I develop into a point guard?
But it would be cool if he could really shoot a fatal and perfect three-pointer like Ichiro Kamisou in every game.
As Tenwon Sakuya graduated from elementary school and was promoted to junior high school, with the encouragement of his mother and cousin, he plucked up the courage to apply to join the basketball club of that junior high school.
Although his skills are pretty good among the junior and middle school players, the coach also has trouble with the kid's character. Basketball is a sport that requires unity, but a player's personal character is also an indispensable condition for becoming a top star.
Especially in basketball, there are not many physical collisions, and the locker room is full of young boys who have just entered puberty, and they all look like they have eaten artillery. The coach touched his early bald forehead, and his thoughts were on the sky. Yuan Shuo also made several technical adjustments, but still accepted the child.
After several months of running-in, the coach finally approved this group of young men to stand on the court.
It was Tianyuan Shuo's first time participating in a game, and his mother and brother took time off to cheer him on. However, when he stepped onto the field and raised his hand to ask for the ball, he discovered that no one was willing to give him the ball.
Unable to get the ball, Tianyuan Shuo gritted his teeth and actively chose to defend closely, trying to contribute to his team.
After defending closely in such a game, Tianyuan Shuo also had bruises of varying degrees all over his body. Coupled with the child's fair skin, Tianyuan Meizhi almost cried when he applied medicine to him.
Akira Sendō also felt a little guilty. He patted the little boy on the shoulder and asked him: "Are you happy playing basketball?"
Tianyuan Shuo also thought about it and answered honestly: "I just think that if I play basketball, they won't bully me anymore, although judging from the current results, there seems to be no change."
Sendō Akira didn't say anything on the surface, but behind his back he stayed up late and harassed everyone who could call for help. He made a list one by one with Tenwon Mie and took Tenwon Sakuya to the children's club for a tryout.
"Let me see," Akira Sendō flipped through the list, "rugby pass; tennis pass; table tennis. America's technology isn't that good either. Passpass, Xiao Shuo, are you interested in any of them?"
After not waiting for a response for a long time, I turned around and found Sendō Akira, his cousin standing across the street with his head tilted:! ! !
"What are you looking at?"
Tianyuan Shuo also pointed at the people inside the stadium: "Brother, what are they playing?"
Akira Sendō looked in the direction of his finger: "Oh, that's volleyball. Aunt Meizhi originally planned to take you to see it this Saturday."
Tianyuan Shuo also nodded and stopped talking. He stared at the small ball flying in the air with a pair of cat eyes, looking very interested but not saying anything.
Akira Sendō also stood outside the court and watched for a while, touched his chin and said: "Speaking of which, I remember seeing a report somewhere before, saying that some volleyball players have a higher reach than basketball players. After all, professional Many basketball players have to gain weight, but I remember volleyball doesn't need to."
"Eh?" Tianyuan Shuo also raised his head, "Can they jump higher than Brother Xiandao?"
Akira Sendō:...
Akira Sendō pinched his nose and acknowledged: "Maybe there really are, but there shouldn't be many of them. Those who touch high can surpass me."
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Sendao Akira looked at his eager little eyes and sighed in his heart: "No, is that why you want to learn volleyball?"
Tianyuan Shuo also pursed his lips and looked at his cousin stubbornly: "Although my talent in basketball is not as high as that of Brother Xiandao, in the future I will definitely become the volleyball player who can jump higher than Brother Xiandao. In this way, my mother and Brother Xiandao will also be proud of me."
**
The path of volleyball is much easier than Tian Yuanshuo imagined. He had already practiced sports before, and in the second semester of the second grade of junior high school, Tian Yuanshuo also successfully entered the growth and development period.
Just by looking at Sendou Akira's height, you can tell that Tenwon Mie's genes are excellent, and the man who was attracted by Tenwon Mie will definitely not be any worse. Therefore, Tenwon Saku also successfully reproduced the growth of his cousin. According to the current trend, by the second semester of the third grade of junior high school, his height is almost approaching 1.75 meters.
Moreover, although the popularity rate of volleyball in the United States is also very high, not only is it partly taken away by beach volleyball, but the degree of commercialization of volleyball has not reached the exaggerated level of rugby and basketball, so Tianyuan Shuo is also withdrawing from all boys for this reason. After trying hard to join the basketball club, I actually spent two very comfortable years in the volleyball club.
Even when he graduated from the third year of junior high school, some colleges and universities already extended an olive branch to Tianyuan Shuo, hoping that he could join as a sports special student.
Tianyuan Shuo also readily agreed. After these two years of training, he was finally raised like a child of this age, lively and laughing. Although he is still a little shy occasionally, in general, he has greatly exceeded the previous Tianyuan. The expectations of Mie and Sendō Akira.
Tianyuan Shuo was also very popular when he first came to the St. Peter High School boys' volleyball club. He had an active mind, good skills and physical fitness, so he quickly became the coach's favorite and was selected into the main team.
Tian Yuanshuo was also deeply encouraged. In order to live up to the coach's expectations, he was the first to arrive at school for training every day and was basically the last to leave the gym. He could also say a few words to his teammates every day. Life seemed to be gradually improving. On track.
It wasn't until the first training game that the entire team's apparent calmness was shattered.
"Why don't you pass the ball to me?!" Tian Yuan Shuo also broke down and asked the setter on the team, "What part of my performance is not good enough? Am I not able to score?"
The Latino boy who was questioned was very impatient: "So, you are the setter and I am the setter?"
"And why should I pass it to you," the Latino boy raised his chin in disdain, "I should have passed the ball to the ace or main attacker, right?"
Tianyuan Shuo also looked at him in disbelief, looking at other teammates as if asking for help. The juniors all actively avoided his sight, and the ace who was confirmed to be admitted to the National Youth Team in his senior year also looked back calmly. Its purpose is self-evident.
Tianyuan Shuo didn't give up and went to find a coach, but after hearing his complaint, the coach who had enthusiastically invited him to become a sports special student and join the men's volleyball club just patted him on the shoulder and hoped that he would understand: "After all, you will join the national team in the future." The queen of the youth team is also Evan’s junior, so why make the relationship so tense?”
Tianyuan Shuo also fell silent.
He took two days off, and although he returned to the volleyball club after that, it was obvious that he was consciously transforming himself from an offensive deputy attacker into a blocking deputy attacker.
The blond boy still had the last glimmer of hope in his heart. If team sports always mean the sacrifice of personal ability, then I can do it. In this case, can my teammates accept me again?
But in fact, bullying never disappears because the victim compromises.
Tianyuan Shuo also gradually found that he began to be isolated by his teammates. Although he was still training, someone locked the door of the gymnasium, so that he could only climb out from the small window of the back door in embarrassment; when the team was divided into groups to block, there was no People are willing to form a human wall with him; he greets his teammates while walking on the road, but his teammates walk past him, talking and laughing as if they haven't seen him.
This weird atmosphere made the coach couldn't help but step in, but he still couldn't bear to have the good young talent he valued ruined in one day.
But after the coach talked to Evan and Phil respectively, the bullying did not disappear. Instead, it sank from the surface to the water, and even the players who had been watching before were involved.
After all, according to the default rules of the locker room, bringing conflicts between players to the coach, no matter what the reason, will be nailed to the traitor's pillar of shame.
"Sakuya," the coach said with some seriousness, "Go and apologize to Evan and Phil, otherwise something will happen to you sooner or later."
The blond boy in front of him lowered his head. He no longer looked as high-spirited as he remembered. He was splashed with water all over his body. He was standing there in such a state of embarrassment that even the coach couldn't bear to look at him. The coach sighed and wrote him a note of leave. Go home and change clothes first.
Tianyuan Shuo also silently bowed to thank the coach, clutched the leave note and went home.
Fortunately, my mother was at work at this time, and Brother Xiandao had classes, Tianyuan Shuo thought, otherwise it would make them worry again.
He looked at his uncontrollably trembling hands indifferently, then simply took a basin of cold water, put his hand in, and waited quietly until his hands gradually lost consciousness before taking them out.
He also said that he would definitely make his mother and brother Xiandao proud of him. Tianyuan Shuo also stared blankly at his pale face in the mirror. After a long time, he reached out and patted his cheek.
"If that's the case," Tian Yuan Shuo also muttered, "then let's change our thinking."
No one knew exactly what he was thinking, but after that office conversation, he seemed to be his old self again.
Even though he still had to endure the bullying from his teammates, he still insisted on training every day, rain or shine. If his teammates didn't pass the ball to him, he would simply give up smashing the ball. If his teammates didn't form a wall with him, he would slowly practice on his own to become a predictive blocker. .
He doesn't take the initiative to speak or show kindness. He stays in the team like a shadow. When the coach needs him to play, he is impeccable. When the coach doesn't need him, he is perfectly invisible.
So in this silent confrontation, the first person who couldn't stand it was not Tenwon Sakuya, but the previous setter Phil.
"Don't you think you're disgusting?" Phil's handsome face, which is usually praised by girls, is now horribly distorted. "Can't you get out of the house? Evan is very angry. How can we play the game when Evan is angry? Do you understand that I’m getting out of the team? Are you mentally challenged because you were bullied?"
The Latino boy yelled and smashed at the blond boy, and the locker room seemed to be swept by a tornado. The sound was so loud that the gatekeeper outside had to signal Phil to keep his voice down.
But this damn half-blood, damn lunatic, just stood there, watching all this quietly.
Phil couldn't help but rush up and grab him by the collar: "You inferior..."
"Me what?"
Phil wanted to scold him, scold him with the most vicious words he had ever thought of, but Phil suddenly saw Tenwon Sakuya's eyes, and his blue eyes seemed to be burning with fire.
Phil suddenly broke into a cold sweat for no reason.
"Phil. Felix," Tianyuan Shuo also tilted his head, as if he saw something interesting on his face, and actually smiled slowly, "You are afraid, Evan can't do anything to me. , started to take it out on you, right?"
Phil shook off his collar suddenly, and his face instantly turned pale.
Tianyuan Shuo also had some regrets. He originally wanted to pat Phil's hand comfortingly, but now he could only smile and encourage him: "It's okay, you still have a long way to go. After all, you and Evan will definitely be together in the future." He’s still a teammate of the National Youth Team.”
"Come on, don't let down everyone's expectations."
St. Peter's Private High School finally achieved the best results in history in the NSAA Boys Volleyball League. Just after the game, a call from the head of the National Youth Team came to the coach's cell phone, asking for the information of several players in the team. Among them is the name Tianyuan Shuoye.
But tonight, Tianyuan Shuo also put forward his own idea at the small celebration banquet held for him by his mother and brother: "I want to go back to the country where my mother and Brother Sendao lived."
Tenwon Mie and Sendō Akira looked at each other and asked him cautiously: "Xiao Shuo, did something happen to the team?"
"How is that possible?" Tenwon Saku also smiled shyly, "I just learned about the U.S. National Youth Team before and found that the competition for my position is relatively fierce. I thought that I might develop into the Japanese national team in the future, so I simply It might be easier to join the national team in the future if you choose a good school to transfer to while the team gets good results."
Tianyuan Meizhi, who doesn't know much about sports, was relieved of most of her doubts after hearing this. She didn't think there was anything wrong with her child talking about the national team now: "Then Xiaoshuo should choose carefully. Mom can wear Shuo in the future. The national team uniform also cheers Xiao Shuo, it’s wonderful to think about it.”
On the surface, Xiandao Akira agreed with his cousin's imagination with a smile, but secretly he cast a doubtful look at his little cousin.
Tianyuan Shuo also winked at his brother a little mischievously, and said to Xiandao Akira with gestures: It's okay, don't worry.
