The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

It was already evening when Peter Parker finished his work on "Good Neighbors in New York" today.

When he jumped into the room from the living room window of Parker's house in the spider suit, he saw Erica sitting on the half-worn cloth sofa, putting the landline phone back in place.

She looked calm, as if she was thinking about something, and Peter suddenly appeared in a red and blue tights, which inevitably surprised her, "Wow—this uniform is really eye-catching."

The young Mr. Parker touched the back of his head shyly and asked her opinion, "Is the color scheme not very good?"

"Of course not, I like your 'gadgets' very much," Erica stood up, "but I'm afraid you have to replace it now, after all, we need to take the subway to the restaurant where Aunt May works in half an hour .”

Of course Peter would not forget tonight's 'family gathering', he 'jumped' into the bedroom, changed his uniform, and asked through the door, "Does Aunt May know our dinner plan now?"

"Yes." A few hours ago, Erica called the back kitchen area of ​​the restaurant where Aunt May worked, explaining her and Peter's dinner arrangements in advance.

Listening to the simple female voice coming from outside the room, Mr. Spider-Man, who has returned from "Protecting New York and Saving the World", once again found that——

Even in such a small daily schedule, Erika still seems to take care of him.

She always comes prepared, arranges everything in advance so that he hardly has to worry about anything.

It's like, Spider-Man is the patron saint of New York, and Erica Parker, is his exclusive patron saint.

Across the door, Erica certainly didn't know what the young Mr. Parker was thinking. She also went back to the bedroom and changed out of the clothes. When she put on a woolen coat and walked out, Peter was already standing in the living room waiting for her. .

Thinking of the false report that was hotly discussed in the streets and alleys this morning, Peter repeatedly reminded, "I think you may need a pair of sunglasses? Or a wide-brimmed hat? Aunt Mei probably also knew about that news, so she must have Like I did this morning, literally want to call and complain about the news paper."

"When I was discussing today's dinner arrangements with Aunt May on the phone, I already explained this morning's news by the way." Erika turned up the collar of the wool coat, pushed open the oak door and walked out of Parker's house. The brim hat, just a piece of nonsense news, doesn't make me walk down the block or ride the subway and be hounded by New Yorkers for questioning."

Peter looked at Erica, who was dressed in black and looked calm, and had to admit that what she said made sense.

But it's not because of the lack of influence of the absurd news, but because Erica's extremely beautiful face looks a bit difficult to mess with when his face is expressionless.

Like a dangerous and fierce femme fatale, strangers should not enter.

His opinion has been confirmed in reality——

When Peter and Erica took the G subway and almost traveled across Queens to Brooklyn, they did not encounter any strangers who approached them.

Even if the passengers in the entire carriage looked back frequently, people were almost wondering if there was something wrong with their cervical plexus.

This scene was not new to Peter. Even before that absurd report appeared, Miss Parker beside him had always been the focus of the crowd.

The current hot news all over the streets and alleys only intensifies this kind of reaction.

Until the subway arrived, Peter deftly put some distance between Erica and the crowd. After all, Erica had been a popular high school figure since he just entered adolescence. Sister' troubles.

"It's like going back to high school interscholastic football and I have to run up to keep you from those nasty hunks right after you lead the varsity cheerleading show."

"So maybe that's when you practiced your good skills." Erika was teased by him. When she smiled sincerely, the femme fatale aura began to disappear, and the smile on her face made her look even more beautiful. Sexy and coquettish, very contagious.

Walking out of the subway station, it was the back alley of the American restaurant where Aunt Mei worked. Erica looked at the chain convenience store that was only a narrow passage away from the back kitchen area of ​​the restaurant, and said to Peter, "I need to buy a box of mints. , you wait for me in the restaurant."

After finishing speaking, she walked into the chain convenience store. In addition to mints, there was a box of tampons at the checkout, so she sent Peter away and asked him to enter the restaurant first.

And when Erika finished paying and walked outside, she turned her side slightly, and saw two women in waitress uniforms smoking at the street entrance in the narrow passageway between the convenience store and the kitchen area of ​​the American restaurant.

The two had their backs to her, but Erica was wearing a familiar uniform from the restaurant where Aunt May worked.

Erica had already recognized them as Aunt May's colleagues and had seen them a few times before when Erica had come to the restaurant to wait for Aunt May to come home from get off work.

One of the women exhaled smoke, "Recently, because Mei often goes to the hospital to attend nursing training, I have to always increase the shift, but Mei is really hard."

"Raising two teenage children alone, I think everyone has to make ends meet." Another person responded, "I heard Mei mention that when she was training as a nurse in the hospital, all the people who competed with her for the same position were young people in their 20s. .”

"It looked like she had no chance of getting a job in the hospital, and maybe that's why she asked the people in the restaurant not to mention it to her children."

At this time, a cold wind hit the streets of New York, making the two of them shiver uncontrollably.

So they immediately extinguished their cigarettes, stopped discussing this trivial matter that had nothing to do with them, and then both entered the restaurant and resumed work.

In the same noisy American restaurant adjacent to Brooklyn, Peter sat on the soft chair at the corner table. After waiting for a few minutes, he finally saw Erica walk into the restaurant. Her face was pale from the cold. .

And Erica looked at Peter, who looked normal, and was very thankful that the noise in the dining area of ​​this restaurant prevented Peter, whose hearing was far beyond ordinary people, from being able to hear the conversations of Aunt May's colleagues.

"Rika, would you like a roast beef sausage sandwich? Today's French fries with cheese curds are also very good," Aunt May asked Erica gently after seeing Erica sit down at the table, and then looked at Peter , "The cheesecake here is very popular, I heard it is a Jewish recipe."

Aunt May recommended dinner to the children in great detail, just like what she had done in the past ten years—she always hoped to give everything she could give without reservation.

During the 10 minutes from when the dinner was served to the end, Peter noticed that Erika seemed to be a little silent. Perhaps because the temperature was too low tonight, she had symptoms of a cold and her voice was slightly hoarse.

And until nine o'clock in the evening, when Aunt May finally got off work and the Parker family arrived at the cinema, Erica's pale complexion still seemed to have not fully recovered.

Peter stood in the ticket office, picking out the movies that were showing, he chatted with Erica and Aunt May, "Driving Miss Daisy, I heard it's about changes in race relations, and it's the current Oscar hit -"

"As for 'Born on the Fourth of July', oh, it has Tom Cruise, and it looks like it's going to be a hit at the box office; 'Crazy Christmas Vacation' sounds like it's kind of dumb and boring, and the crime action movie 'Black Rain' has already Released for more than two months—”

He then looked at the bottom of the ticketing screen, "A trial screening of "Pretty Woman"?"

Before Hollywood movies are officially released, they are often shown in theaters to a small number of audiences months in advance to collect viewing feedback.Sometimes staff are even arranged to listen to the conversations of the guests in the theater lobby and lounge to get the most authentic response possible.

"I heard people talking about this movie in a restaurant. It seems to be a Disney comedy movie?" Aunt May talked about this movie that has not yet been officially released.

Erica then explained to her, "Last week, The New York Times said it would be officially released in late March. The story of the movie seems to be a modern version of Cinderella and La Traviata. The test screenings were very good. I like Julia Roberts. , her performance in "Steel Magnolia" last month was very good."

Peter noticed that Erica, who had been in a low mood during the dinner, was talking about movies and actresses with Aunt May at this time, and it was rare to raise some enthusiasm.

Compared with several other films that are currently showing, the Parker family is more interested in this light-hearted film that was previewed on a small scale, so after 10 minutes, they sat in the small screening hall of "Pretty Woman".

This is a very typical Hollywood-style romantic comedy, with a kind and intelligent novice prostitute and a handsome business tycoon, performing an extremely romantic light comedy.

And when the movie played to the end, Erica was sitting on a red velvet chair in the dark theater, listening to Roy Orbison's song "Pretty Woman", the king of blues and rock love songs, and the provocative lines that could not be more Hollywood-style ——

"Welcome to Hollywood, what is your dream?

Don't give up on your dreams, this is Hollywood!

Here, there's always time to dream, so keep dreaming—"