"Sean, wake up! Sean!"

Sean Dickinson opened his eyes, and in front of him was a face with freckles and a pointed jaw.

"Tom..." Sean sat up and found himself lying on the hay outside, "How long have I slept?"

When Sean's hair was small, Tom said, "You slept as long as we played cricket. I called you before, but you didn't wake up... Did you sleep last night, Sean?"

Sean stood up from the haystack and found the sun was setting.

He patted the hay on him, and Tom handed over a white letterhead.

"what is this?"

"A letter to your sister..."

Sean was about to take it apart.

Tom stopped: "Eh, eh! You can't watch!"

Sean knew that Tom liked Arya, and the letter was nothing more than some childish love words.

He didn't want to see it, he just made fun of Tom.

"You really have perseverance." Sean snatched the letter and smiled, "Last time Aaliyah returned the letter to you, saying that there were more than a dozen grammatical errors in the letter, and she used a red pen to correct it for you...

"Huh?" Sean asked suspiciously, "Are you writing a love letter to my sister, or do you want to take a free grammar class!"

Tom's thin face flushed red, turning his freckles brown: "There must be no grammatical mistakes this time!"

Sean nodded in relief: "Okay, then I wish you full marks this time."

The redness on Tom's face then faded, and when Sean walked towards the house, he realized that what his friend said was a bit strange.

"This is not a grammar test paper!" The dull Tom woke up and chased Sean angrily.

After a few more instructions, Tom looked at the window on the second floor of the house and left with a blushing face.

Sean shook his head and walked into the house.

Every summer, they live with their grandfather's house in the suburbs.

There are farms and friends here, which is suitable for summer.

But the younger sister who likes to stay at home, after arriving at the farm, she still stays in her room on the second floor, quietly reading newspapers, writing poems, and replying to distant pen pals...

"It's time to go out for a walk, too." Sean thought, what reason should he find to take his sister out for a walk.

Grandpa was dozing off in the rocking chair, while Grandma was busy in the steamy kitchen.

Sean walked up the wooden stairs and walked to Arya's door.

knock knock.

"Who's outside?" A slender and pleasant voice came.

Sean cleared his throat to make sure there was no one around, and said with a blushing face, "A knight, your majesty the long-haired princess..."

Arya opened the door with a smirk.

Sean knew that if he didn't say the correct code words, his sister would never open the door anyway.

Aaliyah was wearing a white nightdress at the moment, her long hair was braided, and her face was full of white and neat teeth because of her smile, which made her look cute and radiant.

"Well, for you." Sean handed Tom's letter to Arya.

Arya giggled and took it: "It's time to mark the papers again."

Sean smiled and said, "Don't rate him, I'm afraid he will cry."

"That won't work." Arya pretended to be serious. "For the sake of Tom's grammar class, I must give him a good grade..." She said, and put the letter written by Tom on the desk among the letters from several pen pals. superior.

Then, Arya, who was barefoot, pulled her brother to sit on the chair with a mysterious smile on her face.

"What's wrong?"

Arya proudly picked up a piece of white paper with her graceful font from the desk: "I wrote another poem today - the kind I am very satisfied with."

Aaliyah rarely brags about her poems, only a few of which she has ever expressed "very satisfied" with.

So today's work is rare, Sean said with a smile, "I'll listen to it."

Arya cleared her throat and read in her unique, slightly low, affectionate voice:

"I could have endured the darkness,

If I had never seen the sun.

But the sun, but the sun...

Has become my new desolation. ” (Note 1)

Sean's eyebrows stretched, and his face moved away from the hand he was originally supporting: "It's... wonderful."

Brother stood up, took the paper in Arya's hand, read it again and again, and muttered, "You little girl, how can you always write such... lonely poems?"

Sean looked up at her.

Aaliyah's face was flushed at the moment, obviously her brother's compliments were very useful.

Sean asked, "Aaliyah, do you often feel lonely?"

You always leave your sister alone in the room to write such poems, right? Sean thought.

Arya shook her head: "I know you are right outside the door, right at home. I'm not alone at all.

"I stayed up all night last night.

"Watching the sun rise, illuminating the field outside the window, I suddenly felt a sense of excitement and... loneliness that made me tremble."

"I really enjoy that feeling."

Sean smiled reassuringly, and said with undisguised pride, "This year Green's Literary Magazine selects the Poet Laureate, and you will definitely be there!"

Aaliyah stuck out her tongue, and then she had a somewhat disinterested expression: "No—they think I'm too young..."

Grandma's voice sounded downstairs: "Sean, Ellie, ready to eat..."

Sean put down the paper and turned around to go downstairs.

Arya grabbed her brother's clothes: "Wait."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

The younger sister's face was still flushed and she asked, "Do you remember what day is today?"

"What day?" During the days on the farm, Sean focused on rest and never looked at the calendar

"March 14th..."

Sean's eyes lit up.

Arya ran to the desk, opened the drawer, took out a white greeting card and a mechanical pocket watch and placed it on the table.

"For you." Her voice was small, her face was red, and she ran downstairs first with light footsteps.

Sean, who was quite surprised, walked over to the desk and opened the card first: "Wherever you go, you can't forget your family; wherever you go, you can't be ignorant of your conscience—I wish my knight brother a happy birthday..."

Sean picked up the pocket watch, opened the case, saw the photo of Aaliyah on the inside of the case, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com smiled.

With a click, he closed the pocket watch, Xiao En smiled and sighed slightly: "Thank you..."

Suddenly, the birthday card and pocket watch in his hand suddenly burned out of thin air and turned into fly ash.

Sean's eyes widened: "Aaliyah!"

He rushed down the stairs and saw Arya's back standing at the kitchen door.

The moment she turned around, her body started to burn, and before her smile bloomed, it turned into fly ash like burnt-out letter paper...

Standing still, Sean wanted to call out a name, but he couldn't remember the name he wanted to call out.

Grandma came out of the kitchen carrying the hot stew with a warm smile on her face: "It's dinner, Sean."

Sean was taken aback and walked towards the dining table.

He felt like he had forgotten something.

After recalling for a while, I didn't think of any clues.

"It shouldn't be an important thing..." Thinking so, Sean, who was sitting at the dining table, returned to a relaxed state of mind, leaving a space beside him.

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Note 1: The original poem is "If I Had Not Seen the Sun" by Emily Dickinson

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