America's King of Poetry

Chapter 41 Gustavo

Gina went into the locker room at the gym, and she was alone.

She came early today, and the dressing room was empty. The sunlight outside the window shone in from the high windows. This was the morning sunlight, which was clear and clean, unlike the afternoon one, which was dim and cloudy.Gina took off her clothes and sat on a bench under the window, letting the sun shine on her.

Her figure is beautiful, like an ancient Greek sculpture, with healthy and flawless skin, long and slender legs, a soft belly, and her hair falling down to cover her full breasts and round shoulders.In the past, neighbors always said that she looked like her mother, and she was also very grateful that she looked like her mother, Grace, and not like her mediocre father, Carter Gustavo.

Gina's full name is Gina Salina Gustavo.

Gina has never received any love from her mother. The relationship between her parents is sometimes close and sometimes estranged, sometimes like a normal and warm home, and sometimes like a battlefield with ruins.Carter is an ordinary dock worker with a low income. Grace has no formal job. With her good looks and figure, she takes on some modeling or theater roles.

She wanted to be an actor with all her heart, and she often went to various auditions with exquisite makeup, and then returned home with a tired face.When Gina saw her lost mother, she wanted to comfort her, but she always got cold looks and scolding.Mother shut herself in the room, shutting out Gina and her staring eyes.

At the age of 8, Grace ran away with a man who claimed to be a Hollywood director, left New York, went to sunny California, and went to Hollywood to realize her dream of being an actor.A year later, a divorce agreement was sent to the family. Carter signed it without hesitation, divorced Grace, and soon remarried, marrying a waitress in a restaurant near the pier.

Gina has a younger brother and a younger sister, and since then she has no sense of presence in the family.Carter is not bad, he is not as rude as the average dock worker, he will buy Gina presents for Christmas, and he will take Gina to the amusement park during the holidays.But that was a small number of times, most of the time he was very indifferent, showing indifference to Gina, to his wife, and to the other two children.

He loves to find flowers and ask willows, but he has an unusual attraction to the opposite sex despite his ordinary appearance. Gina suspects that he spends all his enthusiasm in life on women's bellies, so that he can only allocate a little for his wife and family.However, Gina's stepmother didn't control Carter's private affairs much. This waitress was also a prodigal whore. Gina had seen her bring other men to the house.

The stepmother was okay with Gina, and she didn't criticize Gina too much because of her special status. Once Gina made a mistake at school and was left behind by the teacher, she went to school and took Gina back.It's just that most of the time, like Carter, she is ignorant and indifferent to Gina, but Gina is a fiery girl by nature.She needed love and longed for it, and when her body began to develop, she felt the hot eyes from the boys around her.

Gina enjoyed the gaze, and she slowly learned that men liked her young, hot body.She herself often admires her own body in front of the mirror, hoping to find the alluring secret from it.If she herself was beautiful and alluring, why didn't those closest to her love her?

Her mother didn't love her and left her, her father and stepmother were indifferent most of the time, and even the half-brother and sister looked at her with strange eyes.These two children, like their mother, were filled with a kind of vulgar numbness. When they were young, they didn't have the aura and cuteness of children, and when they grew up, they seemed even more mediocre and annoying.

At school, Gina is getting more and more attention, especially when she joins the cheerleading squad.She wears a beautiful leotard, dances difficult dance moves, and she can feel the eyes from the stands.Some from boys, some from girls, some enthusiastic, some obscene, some jealous, some envious, Gina's vanity was satisfied.But she always felt that something was missing, a kind of look, a pair of eyes that she needed most...

Until she met Arthur, that night, under the Brooklyn Bridge.

With a "crack", the door of the locker room rang, and someone pushed in. Gina hurriedly covered her body with a towel, got up and walked away from the sun, hid next to the locker, opened the locker and put on her cheerleading uniform.And it was none other than Gina's good friend Jenny who came in.She chewed bubble gum, her blond hair was tied back, and she tiptoed in with her gym bag on her back.

"Gina, you came early!"

Jenny saw Gina, opened the locker with a bang, stuffed the bag in, and began to undress.

Gina just said "hmm", then looked at Jenny coldly, and Jenny took off her clothes one by one.She is taller than Gina, with slender legs, her abdomen is flat, her body proportions are better, and her waist is more enchanting. She is a stunner, the kind that women will fall in love with when they see her.

But when Gina saw her graceful figure, she just felt sick in her heart, because she couldn't help but think of her father, and tears burst out of her eyes.Gina slammed the locker door shut with a bang, and then rushed out of the locker room.Jenny was left standing there with her eyes wide open, not knowing what happened.

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After dropping Gina off at school, Arthur rode to her home, a block away from McCarran Park in Brooklyn.It was close to the pier in Brooklyn, and her family lived in an old apartment. There was a Japanese restaurant downstairs. Arthur parked the car at the entrance of the restaurant, looked up the name of the store, and compared it with the address given by Gina. There was nothing wrong.

Today Saturday, Gina said his father may be resting, but he's not necessarily home either.With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Arthur first bought a box of sushi in the Japanese restaurant downstairs, and if her father was easy to talk, he would give him a box of sushi for lunch.If it was difficult to speak, Arthur would not be too polite to him.

In fact, Arthur didn't think clearly about how to solve this problem that was not a problem.

Jenny and Gina's father got together. To be honest, it was out of Arthur's control. Besides, didn't he mess with other people's daughters?It's really strange that people haven't settled accounts with him yet, but he came here to give pointers to the cheap old father-in-law.

After going upstairs to the door of Gina's house, Arthur was holding sushi in one hand and a gun in his pocket. Now whenever he goes out, Arthur will carry a gun.

The revolver that was supposed to kill Abramo.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Arthur knocked on the door. He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was ten o'clock in the morning, and it was time to get up.

There was no movement inside, and Arthur knocked hard a few more times before a middle-aged man's hoarse voice came, "Who is it?"

Arthur cleared his throat and said, "I'm Gina's friend, Arthur, Arthur Luciano."

As he spoke, Arthur took a step back and straightened his clothes a little. He suddenly felt that he was not here to solve the problem, but to propose marriage to Gina's father.But when you propose marriage, you have a box of sushi in your hand?

The door opened with a "creak" and a middle-aged man of short stature opened the door. He was wearing a white undershirt and was unexpectedly clean, with his hair neatly combed and not messed up.He didn't ask much after seeing Arthur, he seemed to have known Arthur's existence for a long time, and invited Arthur into the house.

The house was not as messy as Arthur expected. On the contrary, it was very clean. There was a carpet at the door, and the tables, chairs and benches were arranged neatly. The house was small, and the furniture was arranged in an orderly manner. It didn't look crowded at all.On the window facing the corridor, two pots of daffodils were placed, and the leaves stood there enjoying the sunshine in April.

Arthur put the sushi on the dining table. Facing the clean room, he was at a loss for a while, not knowing where to sit.He thought that Gina's father was a stevedore, and the house must be in a mess. The floor was covered with alcohol, cigarette butts, cockroaches, and mice were crawling around. His father was a rough man with a beard and a foul mouth.

But think about it carefully, if Gina's father is such a person, how could he be with a young and beautiful girl like Jenny?He has no money, no status, and no handsome appearance, so he must have something different from ordinary people.Seeing where he lived, Arthur knew he was indeed special.

Carter pulled a chair for Arthur and motioned him to sit down. He found a high stool and sat down. He raised his legs and looked at Arthur. He asked in a very flat tone, "Is Gina okay?"

Arthur nodded, then shook his head and said, "Okay...not good. That's why I came here."

Carter nodded. He reached out and scratched his eyebrows, and said, "I know she saw it, and Jenny, her good friend. However, things are not the same as she thought. Are you interested in hearing my story? About me, about Gina, and her mother."

Arthur actually wanted to refuse, saying directly "not interested", but looking at Carter Gustavo sitting on the high stool, calm and even with a touch of elegance, he actually became a little curious.So he nodded and said, "Yes, I want to know, I'm always interested in stories."

Intuition told Arthur that Carter might have something to do with poker, but which card would it be?

(End of this chapter)