The night before, I had told Warren that he was leaving Launceston tomorrow, and that it was an afternoon flight. He thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow I'll take you to the airport." ”
The next day, Warren arrived at my inn early, carried the heavy backpack I had packed on his shoulders, and threw it into the trunk. He said we still had a morning and he could take me some more places to see. To my bewilderment, he even drove me to his mother's grave.
After a few days together, I've gotten used to his accent. On this day, he said more than ever. He told me that, according to his last name, his ancestors were most likely from Germany, but he had never left Australia in his life. He jokingly said that I, a foreigner, had visited more Australian cities than he, a native Australian.
"I must come back to see it again when I have the chance, because I don't know...", his words were not finished, but I understood what he wanted to express: he did not know whether he would still be alive when I came back to Launceston.
"Be careful when writing your address, or your letter will be sent to Austria." (Australian Australia and Austrian Austria are spelled much like this).) Before we parted, Warren gave me his mailing address. I think if he could use the computer, our communication would be more convenient.
We took a group photo at the airport, dressed in the clothes I've been wearing since the first day I met him, carrying my backpack on my right shoulder, smiling intently at the camera, wrinkled corners of his eyes, and sincere in his eyes. Unlike before, this time, in addition to hugging each other, he also gently kissed on the sides of my cheek.
There were not too many people after boarding the plane, and I sat down in my window seat, twisted my face out of the window, and finally took a look at this land in Launceston. From the initial acquaintance with Warren in the backpacker's inn to the airport just separated, the scene flashed in his mind like a movie, the time together was so short, Pingshui met, and I Ho De He could be treated like this by him.
The plane took off, and my heart was full of reluctance.