May.
Spring is in full bloom, youth soaring.
The senior students of Thirteen Middle School are too distracted by the approaching College Entrance Examination to appreciate the beauty of May. The school, and the classrooms, are permeated with a sense of urgency mixed with relaxation and anticipation.
The College Entrance Examination signifies a conclusion, an ending, but also a new beginning.
Many students feel nervous at the thought of the exam, yet they also eagerly await it. Regardless of whether they do well or not, it's the wrapping-up of an era that allows a new beginning. The atmosphere in grade 12 thus appears strangely mixed; it seems that most students are studying, but many are irresistibly drawn to other matters.
Like, romance.
At eighteen, the age when they are like blooming flowers, the thought of the imminent exam and the impending separation from classmates endows some with feelings of bitterness and reluctance.