［九月导读］ 这篇说故事不是九月写的，而是纵然君（纵然平行）2006年时在他的博客里写的一篇原创。前一阵我读到这个故事，不仅被纵然君优美细腻的文笔吸引。故事写得真好，也非常感人！于是请问朋友能否让我翻译成中文，和这里的朋友们分享，期望朋友们也和我一样喜欢这个故事...
糖枫树下，她对他的承诺(上)
翻译：九月
六月站在一棵茁壮的枫树下，枫树柔柔地飘荡着花瓣和枝叶，似一片绿色的海洋。从六月美丽细腻还有点天真的脸上，人们看不见一丝焦急和疲惫。然而那暖暖的芬芳的空气，梦幻般的酱紫色的夜空却没有能带给她一如往常的平静安祥。六月在等待汤姆，她的心上人，来和她说再见，明天早上他将去前线的战场。
这一段的广播、报纸和电视里全是战争的悲惨信息。死伤人数每一天都在不断增加。每每在那一刻，六月是多么希望她能够抹去心头的担忧，那担忧从汤姆告诉她他要上战争的那一刻就深藏在那里。她会在心里勾画他，那个高大英俊和喜欢嬉闹的男孩子，那个让她欢笑的男人。心被狂热的爱情刺痛着，六月试图告诉自己，上天已经听到了她不断的祈祷，她是不会失去他的，永远都不会。
六月不像她的女朋友那般，她不喜欢和自己的心上人坐在零售店门口，喝着可乐，让众人来观赏自己是怎样和男朋友谈情说爱的。六月喜欢和汤姆一起到这里来，坐在这棵枫树下，品味着那安静的树林，让那夏日暴风雨前电磁般的空气释放着两人之间那晕旋着的强烈情感。
枫树叶的清新气味柔和着安慰着六月的心，这里仿佛是她心灵的庇护所。她还记得就是在这棵糖枫树下，她读着汤姆写给她的第一封情书，还有后来许许多多他悄悄写给她的爱情诗句。直到今天，当六月背诵着那些句子时，她还是会脸上闪着红晕，心跳得厉害。就是在这棵糖枫树下，她身体颤抖着给了汤姆她生命里的初吻；就是在这棵糖枫树下，汤姆与她分享了有一天他要成为一名宇航员的小秘密。
汤姆来到糖枫树下，他那熟悉的男人发香，他那大大的有力的双手，是六月所不能忘记的。他的吻融化了她预先想抱怨他迟到的话。他们的身体激情地相拥在一起，如定制的拼图般吻合。六月不想破坏了这个特殊日子的气氛，她知道这一刻是多么宝贵，他俩都不可能避免明天的到来。如果他们足够幸运的话，下一次再相见，也要好几个月。在这一刻，他们试图忘记战争的残酷现实，他们的眼里只是对方。汤姆爱抚着六月柔软娇嫩的皮肤，他的呼吸越来越局促沉重。当他试图解开六月的裙子时，她轻轻地捏了捏他的手，拦住了他。她从汤姆的肩膀上抬起头，轻声在他的耳边说：“我保证，新婚之夜我一定把自己给你”。
汤姆停了下来。可那明显的失望写在他还有点孩子气的脸上。他紧紧地盯着六月那美丽的棕色眼睛好几秒钟，然后叹了口气，他把她的身体拉近自己，温和地再次吻了她的唇。在他的心中，汤姆没有任何疑问，六月的眼睛和她简单的话语，已经给了他所有的承诺，一如月亮一定会绕着地球轨道运行一样，那承诺是不会改变的。汤姆不在乎他的同伴们是怎样同他们的女友告别的，他已经满足。
那个晚上，六月和汤姆就是这样相拥着度过的。他们互相倾诉着自己对战争后的梦想和计划。六月清清楚楚地记得她对汤姆说的最后一句话是：＂请你一定要回来，为了我，也要回来＂...
糖枫树下，她对他的承诺(上)
原作：纵然平行
June stood beneath a young maple tree which was floating with a sea of green tassel flowers. Her beautiful, delicate and innocent face seemed to be incompatible with the presence of the impatience and fatigue. Warm perfumed air and dreamlike reddish hue on the evening sky didn’t pacify her as it usually did. She was waiting Tom, her sweetheart, to come by to say goodbye before he would be shipped out to the front line tomorrow morning.
Nowadays, the radio,newspaper and TV were saturated with tragedy news of the war. The number of casualty and death were mounting each day. For a moment she wished she was able to brush off the worries dwelled in her mind since the day Tom told her he was going to the war. She started to picture him in her mind, the tall, handsome and frolic boy who made her laugh, tingling inside and madly in love. She tried to convince herself that her constant prayers had been heard already. She would never lose him.
Unlike her girl friends who would prefer to sit in front of drug store nursing a bottle of coke and showing their fondness with their sweetheart in public June loved to come here sitting with Tom under this maple tree to savor the quietness of the woodland and release their strong feelings towards each other that spiraled like electrified air before the summer storm.
The fresh smell of maple tree leaves appeared to soften and reassured her as if she was in the sanctuary. She remembered it was under this sugar maple she read Tom’s first love letter addressed to her and those subsequent love poems which he managed to give to her without making a fuss. To this day when she recited the sentences and stances of his writing her face would still flash and her heart would pound faster as the same way she read them in the first time. It was here she had her first kiss of her life with him while her body was trembling. It was under here Tom shared with her of his secrete plan to become an astronaut some day.
Tom was here by her. The familiar scent of his hair and his large and strong hands were unforgettable. His kisses melt her pre-prepared complain of his lateness. Her body and his one embraced passionately as they were custom fit puzzle pieces. June didn’t want to spoil this special occasion. She knew this moment was precious because tomorrow would be the day for him and her as well. The next time they could see each other might be months away if they were lucky enough. For a moment they tried to forget about the cruel reality of the war and just to have each other.
Tom was caressing her soft tender skin with heavier and heavier breath. While he was making an attempt to unbutton her skirt she gently squeezed his moving hands and blocked them to go further. June raised her head from Tom’s shoulder and whispered to his ear softly “I promise, I’ll give it to you at our wedding night”.
Tom paused and a visible hint of disappointment could be recognized on his boyish face. He looked into June’s beautiful brown eyes for few intensive seconds and sighed. He pulled her body closer to him with gentle nudge and kissed her lips again. In his mind Tom had no doubt that June’s eyes and her simple words were as promising as the moon will orbit the earth. He didn’t care if his buddies might spend their farewell hours with their girls differently.
The evening, then, the night went by Tom and June snuggled together talking about their dreams and plans after the war. June remembered vividly the last word she ever said to Tom was “Please, come back for me, please”.
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