[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

Sally returned to the dormitory after seeing Lucas off.

Thinking of Toby's angry look just now, he took out his phone and planned to apologize to him.

But on second thought, she didn't do anything wrong!

I don't know what Lucas said, which can irritate people like that, but it's definitely not a good thing to think about.

She didn't ask Lucas, subconsciously felt that it was useless to ask, and besides, she didn't like Toby's entanglement very much.

He always spread rumors to other people in the department that they were together. Sometimes when Sally went to class or went to dinner, she met people who often got together with Toby, and they always stared at him maliciously. The boy even whistled at her. This behavior similar to sexual harassment made Sally feel very disgusted. She originally wanted to ask him to have a good talk someday, but she didn't expect it to end in this way.

... Forget it, it can be regarded as indirectly achieving the goal.

Thinking of this, Sally turned off her phone again.

She lay on the bed with her limbs stretched out, took the little bear that Lucas had given her, held it high with both hands, and looked at it carefully.

To be honest, she really didn't expect that Lucas would give her a doll, and it was just the right size, and it was just enough to hold her in her arms.

She really likes this kind of cute doll. Although she is 27 years old, she is still a girl at heart. In the original world, she just bought a pink naughty leopard when she moved into her rental house. She sleeps with her almost every day. become a habit.

After coming here, in order not to collapse the heroine's personality, she didn't live according to her own ideas.

She felt that she could always go home, and when she returned to her original world, this world would have nothing to do with her at all, maybe the disappeared Ashley would also return to this body...

But right now everything is unknown...

Sally couldn't help but sighed in frustration, and rubbed the little bear hard.

As for the white teddy bear, the corners of the mouth sewn with thread are slightly raised, and it looks cute and cute. The two inlaid eyeballs are black and bright, as if it is also staring at her.

(Ding--)

The mobile phone suddenly rang a notification tone, and Sally held the little bear in her arms, picked up the mobile phone and looked at it. It was nine o'clock in the evening, and her online oral Chinese communication class started.

This oral course is a language learning software she found in the Google store. It is filled with people from various countries. When registering, she will fill in some information and her native language. She is lucky to be matched with a Chinese whose native language is "Chinese". , the two make an appointment every day from Monday to Friday at [-]:[-] pm to have language conversations with each other and teach their mother tongues.

It is because of this magic weapon that her oral English has improved by leaps and bounds. What makes Sally even more satisfied is that this software is completely free of charge!

For a poor guy like her, is there any conscience software?

The person (teacher) she matched with is very punctual. In order to fear that her being late will affect her badly, Sally specially set the prompt tone, quickly clicked on the software, logged in to the account, and made an online call. .

It was connected quickly there.

"Hello, today... How are you... How are you..."

"I... zizizi..."

"...Zizi..."

I don't know what happened, the voice on the other side is intermittent today, full of electric sound.

"..." Sally glanced at the phone strangely, the signal is full, and the university wifi is also connected, so she said, "...it seems that I can't hear clearly, sorry, can you Say it again?"

As a result, she heard her own echo, and it was very loud.

"It seems to be... Zizi... You... Zizi... Believe... Not good... Zizi..."

"...What's the situation?" Sally couldn't hear the other party's complete sentence at all.

This lasted for several minutes, Sally had to hang up the phone, reconnected to the university network, exited the software and re-entered, but the result was still the same.

Sally groaned.

...What the hell is going on, the online call was fine yesterday!

Flynn, who was lying on the bed reading a magazine, noticed the situation here and asked, "What's the matter? What happened?"

"...I don't know what's wrong with my online call today. I can't hear the other party talking, and I keep making a sizzling sound, and I always hear my echo..." Sally replied depressingly.

"Did something interfere with the signal?"

"Signal interference?" Sally turned her head and glanced around her bed and desk, "There is nothing that can interfere, the laptop is not turned on yet."

"...that's weird," Flynn said, "how about you go somewhere else?"

"...It can only be this way."

In the end, Sally had to take her mobile phone to make a call outside the dormitory. The strange thing was that she could make a call outside without interruption, without the disturbed hissing sound and endless looping echo at all.

After the sun set, it left a bright and rich red glow on the dividing line on the edge of the city, and the sky began to gradually dim.

As night comes, the city is enveloped in darkness, with high-rise buildings, feasting lights, dazzling bustling streets, hip-hop music in the streets and alleys, and three-dimensional graffiti on the walls.

A teenager wearing a denim jacket and a peaked cap was walking through the streets. He held his mobile phone in one hand, looked at the map on the screen and the location of the car, looked up and glanced around, and stopped at a car beside the road at the gas station. In the black car.

He walked quickly towards the car, opened the door, took off his hat and sat in the co-pilot.

"Miami Airport." The boy said, and then he pulled off the seat belt and fastened it.

The bald middle-aged man in a white shirt with thinning hair glanced at the boy in the car, threw the cigarette butt out of the car, and started the car.

After nearly an hour, the car arrived at the airport.

The brunette boy took out a few banknotes from his jeans and said to the driver, "Uncle, do me a favor and give you an extra $50, and the extra money will be counted as a tip."

"...for what?"

The boy handed over the pre-typed words on the phone, "Call me, just follow the instructions on it."

When the man read the words above, he immediately understood everything.

He took out his mobile phone and asked the boy to dial the number.

After waiting for a few minutes, the phone was connected.

"Hi American Airlines, how can I help you?"

"Hello...help me check flight AAxx34." The driver said while looking at the above words.

"I am the father of a boy named Lucas Nale, and I am calling to ask you to allow my son to travel alone by plane..."

"Yes... I am unwell and cannot accompany him."

"...the child's mother will pick him up at the airport over there."

"it is good."

"Thank you."

"..."

"Thank you for your cooperation." After the driver hung up the phone, the boy handed him the money in his hand.

After that, he put the peaked cap back on his head, got out of the car, and walked straight into the airport.

Miami airport.

At midnight, people in the airport were scattered.

After getting off the plane, most people went to get their luggage, and Lucas walked out of the airport with his backpack on his back.

"Hey! Dude! Here!" The blond boy waved at Lucas who walked out of the airport, "Why did you come out so late, do you know that I have been waiting for almost two hours!"

"...The plane is late, what are you doing so early?" Lucas looked a little tired after a day of running around.

Hearing what he said, Garrett replied with a face full of complaints, "Do you think my mother will let me out if I'm late?"

Then the two called a taxi and arrived at Leon's house after more than an hour.

As soon as he entered the house, Garrett went straight to the sofa in the living room, lying on it with his limbs limp on his back, before he had time to sigh comfortably, he suddenly remembered something, got up quickly, and picked up the sofa from the inner pocket of his clothes. He took out a small box the size of a palm.

"Ah... little guy, you must be bored..." He muttered softly, opened the lid of the box, and carefully pulled out the soft and cute hamster with his thumb and index finger, and put it on the palm.

The little yellow and white hamster moved slightly and fell asleep in his palm.

After changing into his slippers, Lucas came in and hung his schoolbag on the hook on the wall. Seeing Garrett with a cute expression on his face, he frowned unconsciously, "...how do you Bring it all here?"

Garrett stretched out his index finger and gently patted the little hamster's soft belly, "...my sister is at home, what if I don't take good care of it?"

Since Lucas gave him this little hamster a year ago, Garrett has taken extra care of it, taking it with him no matter where he goes, and thanks to the small size of the hamster, it doesn't take up too much space.

Lucas is used to the fact that Fa Xiao is a "hamster fan" and likes murine animals, but he doesn't like the kind of weak and cute little animals. Every time he sees them, he feels restless and wants to make fun of them. die.

Averting his eyes from the hamster, Lucas went upstairs and changed into a set of pajamas, drank a glass of water, and then sat in front of the piano and planned to practice the repertoire twice before going to bed.

"Did you go see her today?" Garrett asked as he put the hamster into a small box and folded his arms on the sofa.

Lucas paused for a while before flipping the score, and said blankly, "...I see."

"How is she? Has the memory recovered a little?"

"...No."

"...It's really unimaginable. On Christmas Eve last year, she was fine, but she suddenly committed suicide..." Garrett said thoughtfully, "...But it's good that she lost her memory, otherwise we What she did to her, with her character, will definitely tell your mother."

"..."

"But I'm really curious, buddy," Garrett sat up on the sofa with excitement in his eyes, looking at Lucas's back, "What did she tell you after I left that day?" ? You confessed to her and she accepted??"

In fact, Garrett asked Lucas this question more than once before this, but each time Lucas remained silent.

For some reason, he always felt that Lucas had changed since that Christmas Eve.

They used to talk about everything when they were together, but now, sometimes he can clearly feel that Lucas has a strange sense of distance from him.

Even though he still treats himself very well, he even gave away a hamster.

"No, she didn't say anything." Lucas replied casually to Garrett, "She just promised not to tell my parents about that night."

Garrett thought for a while, then whispered to himself, "...that's strange, is she such a reasonable person?"

Lucas ignored him, put ten slender fingers lightly on the piano keys, stared at the notes on the score, and began to play.

The elegant and moving melody filled the whole house, and there seemed to be notes beating on his fingers.

Even Garrett, who didn't understand music at all, felt it sounded so good, he couldn't help but relax his body.

When the piano sound stopped, Garrett asked.

"What tune, I haven't heard you play it before."

"Schubert Impromptu." Lucas closed the lid of the piano, lowered his eyes, and his thick eyelashes formed a black halo under his eyes, covering the expression in his eyes, "...I will participate in the competition next year. Piano grading test, the piece prepared for that."

After speaking, he stood up slowly, walked to the balcony, pulled up the gauze curtains, and saw a covered transparent glass jar in the corner, inside the jar was a black hairy spider imprisoned.

Lucas squatted down and lifted the closed glass jar. As soon as he opened a crack, the black hairy spider, which was almost a quarter of the size of a palm, crawled out. Under his gaze, it crawled to the balcony. outside yard.

Seeing its disappearing shadow, Lucas slightly raised the corners of his lips.

...go ahead, you are free.

After a while, he stood up and turned to Garrett.

At this moment, Garrett had fallen asleep lying on the sofa at some point, with his body heaving up and down, snoring softly.

Lucas looked at him blankly for a while, and went upstairs to sleep.