America 1982

Jim Manz is an absolute activist. The day after he finished chatting with Tommy, this guy bought a plane ticket and flew to Bangladesh. In his words, he wanted to observe Professor Yunus with his own eyes. How the bank operates, discover its strengths and weaknesses, complete a detailed investigation report, and then think about how to improve that system to make it more suitable for the United States.

Tony, Ashley, Melonie and Will took Bethea to New York to enjoy the luxurious vacation that Tommy gave them.

Ever since the small bar opened to the public with unlimited supply, Dad has been hanging out there all day long. It’s not that he is drunk every day. On the contrary, most of the time, he is very sober and stands at the door of the small bar with a large loudspeaker. , let the drunkards who come to drink for free line up, and at the same time promote the excellence of his son, and let the drunkards be grateful that they can drink free beer because of his precious son Tommy's generosity, and let them express their gratitude for the creation of human beings Like God, thank Tommy for giving them free beer.

Tommy put on his shirt and walked out of the house. Dennis was waiting outside in his cool Dodge sports car.

"Newport County Inspector's Office." Tommy said as he got into the passenger seat and adjusted the buttons on his cuffs.

Dennis started the car: "What trouble did you get into?"

"No, while I have a week, I'm going to try to woo Miss Otelia Farrell, I like her." Tommy checked his face, looked at Dennis, and said seriously.

Dennis held the steering wheel: "Brother, I like her too, but that's not why you take a fucking car to go on a date? As a lover of all women of the right age in the United States, I'll give you a suggestion. You must first have a car that's stylish enough to let you go. A woman is willing to sit in the passenger seat of a car, otherwise why would you expect her to go out with you on a bicycle? Two cyclists kissing will definitely hit a lamppost."

"The date I arranged today does not require driving. Also, why does kissing on a bicycle hit a street light? Kissing in a sports car must be stopped before it can happen. No one kisses while riding a bicycle." Tommy heard Dennis worry about him , raised his eyebrows in astonishment, who could do such a stupid thing as kissing while riding a bicycle.

Dennis was silent for a while while driving, and then he said, "Pam and Carly have done this before, crashing into a street light. I laughed at him, and then I couldn't hold back my curiosity and tried it with my girlfriend. , and successfully hit it."

"I'm so happy that I, a top student admitted to Stanford, have two friends like you with outrageous IQs. If I start writing a memoir one day, I will definitely not mention your and Pam's names in it. You will reduce sales." Tang Mi mocked mercilessly.

But he quickly put away his smile: "I don't believe that we will bump into each other. It must be that your kissing posture is too stupid, so you lose your balance."

"I knew you wouldn't be able to hold back your curiosity." Dennis seemed to have known what Tommy would say: "If you have a chance to try it with Otilia, you will hurt her, she will break up with you, and then I finally have a chance to pursue her."

Newport County is even sparserly populated than Warwick. Warwick City has a population of 80,000, while the four towns in Newport County combined only have 80,000 people. The total population of Newport City, the county seat, is only 23,000. However, this small city is more famous than Warwick. Warwick is called the countryside, while Newport is called the Summer White House. Many presidents take their families here for vacation during the summer.

In the United States, one of the ways to implicitly tell someone that you are a high-class person is to invite the person to spend the summer at your family's mansion in Newport.

This is because Newport has hundreds of mansions built in the mid-19th century. Most of them were built by southern planters when they came to the north to escape the summer heat. Nowadays, almost all of them have become heritage buildings, and all of them are owned by non-rich people. Even if it is expensive, even if it is resold, it usually only happens between friends or people of the same class. It is difficult for the nouveau riche to have the opportunity to buy a luxury house here.

In a small city with more than 20,000 people, it is conceivable that the public officials here have no work pressure at all, such as Otilia at this time.

…

Office of the Assistant City Inspector, Newport.

Sitting at her desk, sipping coffee, flipping through the latest issue of fashion magazines, waiting to get off work. The work has already been completed. The so-called work is to help her boss, her godmother Doris Luger. The lady writes external press releases and answers various phone calls for her.

As for the scene she had imagined, filing a criminal lawsuit with her godmother on behalf of the county government and talking in court, it never happened once. This made Otilia wonder countless times whether she had taken a fake exam. Judicial Examination.

Instead, she tasted all the hand-ground coffee beans available in the American market while sitting in her office.

"Hi ~ Otilia." There was a gentle knock on the open door of the office. Otilia raised her head and saw Tommy Hawke looking at her with a smile.

"Tommy~" Otilia straightened her body, smiled, raised her face to look at Tommy who walked in, and said in surprise: "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to make an appointment with you during the last week of summer vacation." Tommy came over and handed the autobiography in his hand to Otilia: "By the way, I will give you the book I wrote."

Otilia took out a copy from the desk drawer: "Actually, I have already bought one myself, but I am still very happy that you will come and give it to me in person. Thank you."

"It's okay, I'm mainly here to ask you out. Can I ask you out after get off work?" Tommy looked at Otilia and asked expectantly.

Otilia stared at Tommy with suspicious beautiful eyes and asked: "A date like that with just the two of us?"

"Yes." Tommy nodded.

Otilia shook her head: "I said, I like mature men, Tommy, and I will not date my own students."

"Not now?" Tommy asked.

Otilia said firmly: "Never."

…

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Until she saw the men and women wearing evening gowns at the main entrance of the museum, walking towards the museum along the red carpet and flashing lights, Otilia, who had already changed into an evening gown in the Rolls-Royce luxury car, looked at the suit next to her Tommy:

"This is crazy. I didn't get off work until four o'clock, and then I was already standing in New York at seven-thirty to attend the Met Gala summer dinner hosted by Vogue magazine? How did you get the invitation?"

Although Otilia is not as vain as other rich girls, it does not mean that she does not know the value of the invitation to this event. The guests of the Met Gala fashion dinner, which has been held since 1971, have always been top entertainment stars, artists, models, and photographers. With fashion magazine editor-in-chief.

Even though she is the daughter of the president of the Rhode Island seafood shipping industry, she has never participated, because apart from those big names, there are only two to three hundred invitations, and these invitations are usually sent to Washington politicians or young people from wealthy New York families. If divided among people, not to mention the local rich in Rhode Island, the rich in California who can compete with New York State may not be able to get much.

It was when Tommy took out the invitation that Otilia couldn't hold back her curiosity, went home, changed into an evening dress, and flew directly to New York with him.

"It looks like it would be fun to hang out with me, right?" Tommy said with a smile when he saw the other person's shocked expression.

The invitation was given to Tommy by Senator Pete Wilson, because he took away the concept of technological equality and treated Tommy's behavior as being influenced by him in his speech. This was just the other party's return to the young people. A little kindness.

"I hope you enjoyed your first date with me, Miss Otilia Farrell, who will never date her own students." Tommy personally helped Otilia open the car door, bowed slightly to her, and extended his hand Handed.

Otilia lowered her head to hide her embarrassment at being teased by Tommy, but she still placed her hand on the other person's palm and allowed the other person to hold her arm and walk toward the red carpet.

…

Next day, Office of the Assistant Inspector, Newport.

"Wow, Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland, Beverly Johnson...you took a photo with them? That's great, honey, when did you go to New York?" Otilia's godmother , Newport County Inspector Doris Luger asked in surprise as she looked through the photos of Otilia and other guests and celebrities at the dinner.

Neither she nor her husband, Rhode Island's superintendent of public instruction, had attended such a fashionable event.

Otilia said with some embarrassment: "Actually, all this happened after get off work yesterday. After attending a dinner in New York, I rented a small plane and flew back to Newport. At 11:40, I had already Lying on the bed in your own bedroom.”

"This is more surprising than me hearing that you received the invitation." Doris heard her goddaughter's description and shifted her gaze from the photo to the other person's face: "Is it a date with a high-quality boy?"

"It's my former student, Tommy Hawke, the... kid who published his autobiography." Otilia took out Tommy's autobiography "I Should Die Immediately" and pointed to Tommy's photo on the cover. .

Doris nodded when she saw Tommy's photo: "This little guy looks very handsome. Is he a famous writer?"

"He is studying at Stanford University, and a year ago I was coaching him on how to get into college." Otilia followed the other person's gaze and looked at Tommy on the cover of the book, and said with a smile.

Doris smiled after hearing Otilia's words: "Judging from the way he asked you and the connections he showed, he doesn't need any help to get into college. It's much easier to get into college than getting an invitation letter."

At four o'clock, Otilia walked out of the government building and saw Tommy Hawke again. He was holding two dogs and was trying to get them to learn to sit down quietly.

"I told you, Tommy, what happened last night won't happen again... These two dogs are so cute. Did you raise them?" Otilia looked at the three leashes on one side and said, Tommy, who was greeting himself, wanted to express his attitude, but his attention was quickly attracted by those fluffy dogs. He came over and knelt down, petted the dogs and asked.

Tommy handed Otilia a leash: "While waiting for you to get off work, I wanted to find something to do, so I went to the Newport City Animal Shelter to take these poor dogs out for free. Take a walk, let’s go, put them back in their crate.”

"This dog is very cute." Otilia took the leash and looked at the Shetland dog and said.

Tommy led another beagle and asked Otilia: "Can I ask you to watch a movie tomorrow?"

"No, Tommy." Otilia rejected Tommy's invitation without any hesitation.

"Okay." Tommy shrugged, leading the dog and Otilia toward the animal shelter.

…

The third day, office.

"You adopted two dogs?" Doris asked curiously when she saw an extra photo with the two dogs on her goddaughter's desk.

Otilia adjusted the photo frame and explained: "No, Tommy adopted them, but he agreed to let me take care of them both temporarily."

"It's very cute. What's your name?" Doris nodded clearly.

"Tommy originally named them Dennis and Pam." Otilia said:

"But I think he did it on purpose because those two names belonged to two of his high school classmates, so I decided on my own to name the Shetland dog Brady and the beagle dog Paisley."

Doris looked at the photos of the two dogs: "So you and Tommy went on a date again after get off work yesterday?"

Otilia immediately explained: "A date? No, no, no, he just helped the two dogs build their own huts with me in my garden. There was no date. We kept discussing how to make the doghouses look more beautiful." More comfortable questions, he did ask me while he was working if he could take me out to a movie tomorrow and I said no.”

"So, what do you think of this boy named Tommy?" Doris asked, leaning in front of Otilia's desk.

Otilia thought for a while: "He is caring and fun to chat with. You don't have to worry about the atmosphere being awkward when you get along with him. That's just it."

"I have a hunch, Otilia, that you are going to fall in love. I suggest you not to eat any spicy food these days, so as not to embarrass yourself when the sudden kissing moment comes." After Doris heard this, she said: made his own suggestions.

"Kissing? With her own students?" Otilia asked in surprise, then took a deep breath:

"No, I won't kiss him, absolutely not."

"I told my mother the same thing back then. She advised me not to eat spicy food." Doris picked up a small biscuit in an iron box and put it in her mouth, then walked towards her office:

"Then...it turns out that a man's lips are always more tempting than a promise to my mother, and I happened to eat onions in the meal before the kiss. I still feel embarrassed when I think about it now."

After get off work, Otilia saw Tommy waiting outside with a shopping cart full of ingredients. Otilia immediately shook her head:

"I'm going home, Tommy."

Tommy patted the armrest of the shopping cart: "Can you give me a ride? I'm going to a nursing home and help the elderly there cook for free."

"You know how to cook?" Otilia asked in surprise.

"I don't look much like a human being?" Tommy said with a smile: "Want to taste what food cooked by non-human beings tastes like? Or if the elderly get food poisoning, you can call the emergency number in time on the scene."

In the central kitchen of the nursing home, Tommy, who was wearing an apron, was skillfully cutting pumpkins, potatoes and other ingredients. His mouth was not idle, and he told Otilia next to him about his interesting experiences in college, which made Ottilie angry. Ya laughed melodiously from time to time.

After an interesting incident, Tommy suddenly asked: "Can I ask you to go to a movie tomorrow?"

Otilia's eyes flashed, she paused for a moment, then smiled and shook her head: "No."

"Okay, I'd better keep telling jokes." After Tommy got the rejection, he didn't show any disappointment and continued to cut vegetables and laughed.

…

The fourth day

"Can I ask you to go to the movies tomorrow? Otilia?"

"……No."

…

fifth day

"Can I ask you to go to the movies tomorrow? Otilia?"

"…………No."

…

The sixth day

"Can I ask you to go to the movies tomorrow? Otilia?"

“……………Maybe”

…

After getting off work, Otilia went home and changed into clothes that she was satisfied with. She walked out of the main entrance of the lobby of her manor. Then she was seen by her parents on the second floor terrace. Julian Farrell held on to the guardrail and asked Otilia road:

"Dinner is almost ready, Otilia."

"I'm going to watch a movie with my friends. Dad, my friend has booked a restaurant, but don't worry, I will be home before ten o'clock." Otilia raised her head and said to her father with a smile on her face.

Julian nodded: "No problem, honey, have fun."

After Otilia drove away, Julian looked at his wife who was sitting opposite him and playing with the two dogs:

"The kid named Tommy Hawke has a maturity that is different from his peers. The invitation shows connections, the pets show love, and the cooking skills show ability... I think my baby girl is just like Doris described, most likely... Fallen."

"Sit tight, Paisley!" Julian's wife teased the pet dog next to her and said to her husband with a smile:

"This boy named Tommy is like a peacock with its tail spread out, showing off all his advantages. I think it's great. These abilities show that he can guarantee to take care of Otilia on our behalf, and Otilia and him Don’t worry about being boring when you get along.”

Julian nodded: "I understand, I am not a rigid father, dear, I am just a little disappointed, you know, the kind where your most lovely daughter no longer regards you as life because of the appearance of another man. The feeling of being the only man he can rely on can make every father jealous and slightly hostile towards his daughter's boyfriend."

The embarrassing scene of the first date that Otilia imagined did not appear. Tommy chatted with her as usual. The two of them finished dinner in a relaxed atmosphere, and then went to the cinema to watch a movie together, starting from the beginning. In the end, Tommy didn't express his love for him in a sensual way, nor did he make any overly intimate gestures, just like every time they met before.

This date felt good, and maybe tomorrow Tommy should send himself another invitation that wasn't a date but was actually a date. Otilia thought to herself as she walked out of the cinema.

Tommy accompanied Otilia towards the parking lot along the moonlight until they reached the entrance of the parking lot. Tommy stopped and looked at Otilia who didn't realize that he had stopped and continued walking towards the parking lot with a smile. Asked: "Ottilia?"

"What's wrong?" Otilia turned around and looked at Tommy standing in the moonlight.

Tommy smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing, my vacation is over, and you helped me bring it to a perfect ending."

Otilia looked at Tommy and said in surprise: "But...it's still some time before the university officially starts...you mean you're going back to California early?"

"Yes." Tommy lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked at Otilia: "On the last night before the vacation, the opposite sex I like watched a movie with me. There is nothing more perfect than this."

Otilia walked back to Tommy and looked at this big boy who always couldn't help but ignore his age when getting along with her: "You never told me that your vacation was so short."

"If you like a girl, you always like to show off everything about yourself in front of her, and then want to know more about her. I have done that this week, and I will come back next holiday. I think we may be able to skip a lot of processes." Tommy looked at Otilia gently and said:

"I want to say, dear Otilia, if I think of you again some nights in California, can I call you?"

Otilia looked into Tommy's eyes and shook her head: "No."

Tommy breathed out, and for the first time a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face, but he quickly shrugged: "Then I guess next holiday, I will have to start the peacock opening process again."

"I mean... maybe you don't need to call to tell me that you miss me. Maybe you can tell me every weekend. Just like you suddenly took me to New York, I can also suddenly appear in California." Otilia thought for a while , said seriously: "Dear Tommy."

"Thank God, you know, American Airlines has launched a lifetime VIP membership card with unlimited flights for $200,000 and free upgrades. I will ask them to send you one as soon as possible." Tommy raised his head and sighed. , then said to Otilia: "Family members can also receive supplementary cards. I mean... if one day... I become a family member... I can fly around like you."

"Before you allow you to start missing me, I want to ask you a question." Otilia put her hands behind her back and asked Tommy.

Tommy nodded: "Of course, what's the problem?"

"Do you want your partner to be just a woman with nothing to do?" Otilia asked Tommy with bright eyes: "I just don't want to be thrown into a big gorgeous house, like a rag doll, I know you are capable of doing that, and I'm worried about that happening, too, and that's a big reason why I don't fall in love. I've tried dating some men through my parents' introduction, but when it comes to conversation... they'd rather Women are at home taking care of the family and having children.”

Tommy said seriously: "Otilia, you can do a lot of things you want to do. You can quit this comfortable job and keep yourself busy, or you can think about what you want to do first and then put it into practice. Action, no matter what decision you make, I will support you, or I have an inclusive banking project. If you are interested, I can ask Jim to send you the information back. You can understand it first, it will not make a lot of money. But it should be able to help a lot of people and give you spiritual satisfaction. If you are willing, you can try to participate in some work."

"I promised my family that I would be home before ten o'clock. It's getting late." After hearing Tommy's words, Otilia did not answer directly. She just glanced at the time on her watch and said to Tommy.

Tommy stood where he was: "I'm here to see you off."

Otilia nodded, turned around and prepared to walk towards her car, cursing her godmother in her heart: "This is different from what Doris said, I...I have secretly used breath freshener twice... "

"Otilia?" Tommy shouted.

"What?" Otilia turned her head.

Tommy asked, "What will you do to me if you go to California?"

"Why do you ask that?" Otilia was stunned for a moment.

Tommy smiled and said, "Because I miss you now just like I did in California."

"Maybe I will..." Otilia looked at Tommy. Tommy's face slowly came closer. Otilia's breathing was a little quick, and she pressed her lips against Tommy's lips nervously but excitedly.

With just a gentle kiss on the lips, Tommy pulled back: "Good night."

"Good night." Otilia took a deep breath and looked at Tommy with a smile: "Now, my godmother's words are perfectly confirmed."

"What words?"

Otilia walked towards her car and said with a smile as she walked: "I told her that I will never kiss you, and then she said that a man's lips are always more tempting than a promise to his mother, Turns out she was right, see you in California, Tommy.”

"See you in California. I will never date a student, and I will never kiss my high school teacher girlfriend, Miss Otelia Farrell." Tommy responded with a smile under the night.

I sat from six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the morning, just to write some daily love stories, practice my writing, and see if I could write love scenes...

As a result, in twelve hours, the coding software prompted me to write a total of more than 11,000 words. After deleting and discarding, I felt that I could only come up with nearly 7,000 words...

Now I know how good the writing skills of those masters who are good at writing ambiguity are. After trying it myself, I realized that this thing is really difficult to write...

I don’t know if my writing is good or not, but that’s it. I can write about the limits of male-female interactions...