Forced to focus on daily life [Comprehensive English and American]

Most of the blocks in North Brooklyn are black neighborhoods, the environment is worrying, the law and order are chaotic, the low walls are covered with various graffiti, and there are always large pools of sewage on the walls. In summer, flies Almost became the main residents of these blocks.

Herson, where Rosie grew up, was such a place.

Before she could remember, her parents died in a plane crash, so she could be considered to have been brought up by her aunt Natalia Taylor, who worked at a fast food restaurant on the next block. A teller, and on weekends, she goes to do housekeeping in the homes of rich people in South Brooklyn.She and her husband have no children, so she regards Rosie as her own daughter. Although Rosie has been urinating all over the block since she was a child, she always talks about "our cute little Rosie" .

The little neighbor boy who was beaten up by Rosie for throwing stones and smashing the window glass of Natalia's bedroom in junior high cried and said that no matter what Rosie did, in Natalia's eyes, she All angels.

When Rosie was in high school, she was suspended for a week by the school for beating the principal who attempted to moles a female classmate. At that time, she thought she would be expelled from school, and she even decided on her future job, so she went to Natalia's fast food restaurant The coffee shop opposite the store works as a waitress. In the future, she will drive Natalia to and from work on a motorcycle. Whether she encounters rogues or uncles who drink too much on the road, Natalia no longer has to be afraid.

And just one day this week, Natalia came home at three o'clock in the afternoon, holding a dark blue hyacinth in her hand, and Rosie wanted to ask her why she got off work so early that day But she smiled at Rosie as soon as she entered the door and said, "Little Rosie, you can go back to school tomorrow."

Rosie blurted out at that time: "I have decided to go to work in a coffee shop."

Natalia put the hyacinth on the dining table, gathered the dark blue petals, turned around, looked at Rosie, and said, "Didn't you say you want to be a programmer? I heard that Empire State The computer major in the university is good, you can apply to that university, your grades will definitely be no problem, and it’s not too far from Helson, you can come and see me on weekends..."

"Natalia, I've decided to go to work in the coffee shop." Rosie emphasized.

Natalia was stunned for a moment, she stretched out her hands to gather the hair on her cheeks behind her ears, her eyes were a little uneasy.

Rosie has seen photos of her when she was young. In her early twenties, she looked very similar to Rosie's mother, and she also had brilliant blond hair. However, over the years, the smoke and dust of the slums enveloped her, and even her blond hair became Dry and dull.

Holding the glass vase with hyacinths in her hands, she thought for a long time before saying, "Rosie, I still hope that you can stick to your original dream and not bury your whole life here."

In fact, Rosie hasn't dreamed of her for a long time, and she also thought that she would never think of the twenty years she lived in Helson. After all, people yearn for the good, and no one will always hold on to the past .

The taxi driver looked at Rosie several times on the road from Manhattan to North Brooklyn, but Rosie didn't care. She turned her head and looked out of the car window, watching the buildings outside the window gradually become desolate from the tall buildings. And dilapidated, she didn't make a sound until the car reached a familiar street: "Just stop here."

The driver stopped the car, turned around, and when she was about to say something, she smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm quite familiar with this film."

She got out of the car under the suspicious sunlight of the driver, raised her eyebrows, she was indeed quite familiar with this area.

The intersection of Helson Street is where this block looks a little bit better. There is a flower shop at the intersection. The shop is not big. Natalia used to come here to buy a few bouquets of flowers and put them on the dining table. I have to say , how many colorful flowers there are in such a dilapidated and gloomy room, it really makes people feel a little bit more comfortable.

Rosie hasn't been to Helson since the accident in September last year. She always feels that this New York in the parallel world is no longer the New York she is familiar with, so she never thought about coming here to remember anything. Fortunately, Although the Chinese restaurant at the street corner has become a grocery store, and a hundred-year-old sycamore tree is missing at the entrance of the store, the flower shop still exists, but the owner has changed from a black girl to a white-haired one. Caucasian Elderly Woman.

Rosie walked to the entrance of the flower shop, walked past a field of roses and carnations, and then stopped in front of several hyacinths. The old lady who owned the shop was reading a newspaper. After hearing the noise, she raised her eyelids to look at her, and then Shouted: "Judy, there are guests."

Rosie raised her head, and saw the familiar black girl coming out from the inside.

She was stunned, but the black girl named Judy had already smiled at her and said, "Miss, what flowers do you need?"

Rosie lowered her eyes and looked at the hyacinth at her feet.

"Hyacinth, do you want dark blue or purple?" Judy asked again.

Rosie opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she heard a smiling voice from behind saying, "It's dark blue, this young lady has been looking at it for a long time."

Rosie stared, turned her head suddenly, and saw Tony wearing a white shirt and iron-gray suit pants beside the bush of roses. He still had the pair of brown sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, but it was around this morning Because the sun was too bright, she could clearly see his smiling caramel eyes through the sunglasses.

Iron Man and the chairman of the Stark Group, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like he will come to the slums of Brooklyn.

He lowered his head slightly, eyes protruding from the top of his eyes, looked at Rosie, and said with a smile: "Secretary Mathers seems a little surprised?"

Rosie stared at him for a long time, then took a step back: "You...you followed?"

"Didn't I say I would pick you up in the morning?" The boss shrugged.

"But didn't I refuse!" Rosie amplified her voice slightly.

The boss raised his head again, the corners of his mouth curled up, like a smirk, but it didn't look like it: "It doesn't seem strange for the boss to inspect his own property."

But it's strange for the boss to follow his secretary to the slums.

Rosie didn't say this, she resisted the urge to roll her eyes, turned her head quickly, looked at Judy who was a little dazed, and said, "I want the dark blue one, please wrap it up for me."

Judy looked at her, then at Tony standing at the door of the store, and nodded absently: "Oh, oh." After walking back for a few steps, she turned her head again, blinked her eyes, and asked, "Excuse me, are you... Iron Man Tony Stark?"

Before Tony could speak, Rosie smiled and said, "No, so Helson is very safe today."

Tony: "..."

Rosie was walking on the dirty streets of Helson with dark blue hyacinths in her arms. She was still wearing the business attire she had worn to work before, and she was wearing the dark blue high heels praised by Tony. She was walking on this street , always give people a feeling of being out of place.Of course, she was not the only one who was out of place. She turned her head from time to time and saw the boss wearing a high-end handmade shirt. Every time she saw it, her forehead ached.

The sixth time, she simply stopped and turned to look at Tony: "Boss, I'm here to see my classmates."

The boss adjusted the brown sunglasses on the bridge of his nose: "Yes."

"I'm not asking for your permission." Rosie rubbed her forehead, "You don't need to follow me, I know that the law and order in North Brooklyn is chaotic, but don't worry, I will be fine."

The boss said lightly: "I'm not worried about you, Secretary Mathers."

Rosie: "..."

She exhaled, turned around, and continued to walk forward. The wonderful combination of her and Tony attracted the attention of many people in Herson. Even the children who were playing football on the street corner put down their footballs and went to the corner Go and see her.

She was thinking, since it is already a parallel world anyway, it is impossible for Natalia to still exist here, and at the same time, she was thinking, what if Natalia is really still there, and she can't help crying, isn't it? It was exposed in front of the boss... No, no, how could she, as a Brooklyn death knight, shed tears so easily...

She thought so, and when she came to her senses, she had already walked in front of the familiar house, she stopped abruptly, and turned around, Tony was standing not far from her, seeing her turn around, He smiled and said, "Has your classmate arrived?"

"Here we are." Rosie said through gritted teeth, and after she finished speaking, she was a little dazed again.

If Tony hadn't been following her all the time, then this would be a road full of various memories, from the flower shop at the street corner, to the graffiti on the wall along the way, the children playing football on the street corner, and to the two-story building. In front of the cottage.She focused on how to keep her boss from seeing the clues along the way, so that she had no extra energy to remember her past.

And standing in front of this house full of her memories of the past twenty years, she didn't have the mixed feelings she imagined.

She took a deep breath, bent down, and put the wrapped hyacinth plant under the mailbox in front of the house, then recovered, Tony smiled and asked: "I just took a taxi from Manhattan to send a flower ?”

Rosie shook her head, and when she was about to speak, she suddenly heard the sound of the door opening behind her. When she heard this sound, her body instantly became stiff, and her heart began to beat crazily after a brief pause. I wanted to turn my head away, but found that my body seemed out of control, and my fingers trembled a little.

At this time, she heard a girl's voice that she was familiar with: "Rosie... Mathers?"

This voice does not belong to Natalia, nor does it belong to any of the neighbors who knew her back then.

She exhaled, turned her head, and looked at the tall and strong girl standing at the door. After less than a second of doubts, a flawless smile appeared on her face: "Hello, classmate Sophia Simpson."

Although she didn't know why Sophia Simpson, her college classmate with whom she had a grudge, would live in her former home, but... at least, she must have made a lie in front of the boss by accident.