GdP

“For the first time since this morning I feel myself relax slightly. I love coming up here, not only because it's quiet and most often empty, but because it's beautiful. The rooftop is designed like a garden with bright mandarin trees and slender bamboos and this gnarl looking plant I can't name and fresh jasmine flowers, Ma's favorite, glimmering everywhere like glitter cluster of star, simming the air with their scents. There are even fairy light strung up around the railings and over the wooden swing set in one corner, though I've never stayed late enough to watch them glow. The view's gorgeous too. From here you can see the entire stretch of the school campus and Beijing rising behind it, all that shining glass and steel reflecting the clouds and the sky. This is my trick to surviving new schools, find a space like this, a place where no one can disturb me, and claim it as my own.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real