"When Sherlock was in middle school, he was always excluded and bullied. Of course, it doesn't mean that he was not excluded in elementary school. It's just that children in middle school are more difficult to be controlled and punished. I came home from London once, and my mother told I said that for a period of time, he often described that he came home in a state of distress. Sometimes his coat and schoolbag were gone, and he would not open his mouth no matter how much he asked, but then he did not know how to solve this problem. Mom often said that Sherlock should be Sent to the boarding school I used to go to, but I must say, even if he sent him to a girls' school, he would have been slapped for not fitting in. As long as Sherlock didn't like football, he'd be kept out, And the only way to protect yourself is to make them afraid of you."

——Excerpt from "Interview with Sherlock Holmes"

The next day, Raymond got up late as usual, and by the time he went downstairs, Jessica had already finished her breakfast and washed the dishes by the way.

So, who is going to tell him why suddenly one day his spoiled sister can wash dishes?

He remembered how his mother had come to see him in his room last night after talking on the phone with Eleanor, saying she wanted to "talk about Jessica."Although he felt that he was a lot of trouble and had no time to care about other people's affairs, as a "good boy", he still asked his mother Jessica what was wrong with concern.

"Jessie's been a little bit off these days, I thought maybe something happened at school? Any thoughts?"

Uh, having said that, Raymond suddenly found that Jessica was indeed a little abnormal these days.

"I think..." Raymond organized his words, "she seems to have had a fight with a girl named Jones at school...yes, the one who used to come to the house often...not the blonde one...Jones is at school Spreading rumors everywhere about Jessica's drowning...yeah yeah it's too much I'll fix it...I mean maybe it hit Jessie hard? She suddenly got it Cruelty of society?...I'll ask Eleanor tomorrow, Jones is on the cheerleading squad...yes, I think El should know something..."

His efforts were not in vain, and his mother left with a gratified expression of "my baby has grown up", but he suddenly couldn't fall asleep.

He used to act as Jessica's "nanny" for a while because his parents were too busy with work. At that time, Jessie still adored him, but after puberty, she became rebellious and annoying (maybe he himself was the same. ), and even dared to quarrel with him.Of course, the point is, is he too lacking in concern for his only sister?

He's got a bunch of shit to sort out at school himself, the football team, the drama club, and El--he means she's the best girlfriend most of the time, but women are trouble, no ?Even so, he paid so little attention to Jessica at the lower level that he couldn't even remember the last time he saw her courtside.

Raymond suddenly felt a little guilty. His sister was going through the throes of puberty. Not that he could help, but it was always right to care...

But thinking of Jessica threatening him with the car, he gritted his teeth angrily.

But after Joanna dropped them off at the school gate, instead of going to his friends as usual, he pulled Jessie aside and said to the blond girl rushing over, "You are Jessie's friend ? Mary? Give us some time, please?"

"Actually, it's Emma." The blond girl looked at him suspiciously, and then at Jessica who looked blank.

"Okay, Emma, ​​give us 2 minutes, I want to have a few words with Jessica."

Without waiting for their reaction, Raymond pulled Jessica a few steps aside, opened his mouth, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"What do you want to tell me?" Jessica asked suspiciously.

"Well, I just wanted to say," Raymond licked his lips, "do you want me to teach that Jones a lesson? To give her a better memory? It's not about the car—well, maybe , but I’m serious, she also told you some other… rumors before, I thought it was your instigation at the time, but now I think about it, it’s very wrong. "

"Really?" Jessica still looked a little confused, "No need, you just need to control yourself."

"Sorry," he smiled awkwardly, "I'll explain to those guys later."

Jessica had a weird look on her face, and he bet she was thinking "My brother went crazy over a car".

"Okay, do you have anything else to do? Emma is waiting for me."

"No more." Raymond watched Jessica and the blond girl walk away arm in arm, and sighed in his heart. Being a good brother is really not that easy.

He threw his schoolbag over his shoulder, and just a few steps away, he saw Eleanor and Anne Jones chatting and laughing at the school gate. Eleanor also saw him, said goodbye to Jones, and walked in his direction Come on, he took a few steps forward and took her hand and kissed her cheek, but damn, El seemed to grow taller again.

He listened patiently to Eleanor for a few minutes about what she had done yesterday, until Eleanor touched his face and took the initiative to care: "You look distracted, what happened, Ray?"

"I was just going to ask you," he scratched his head, "you know, since Jessie fell into the water, she has become a little bit out of order, even my mother found out. I wonder if it's because of things in school these days? I Knowing that Jones exaggeratedly slandered her from the beginning, of course... I also did something wrong yesterday..."

"Oh no, you didn't do anything wrong," Eleanor reassured him, "as for Annie, she was Jessie's friend, or she was a sidekick, and you know, Jessie used to be a little—a little bit  , Annie has some complaints against her. In short, this is simply a dispute between the little girls, and I will talk to them when the cheerleading team trains on Friday."

Although Eleanor is only one year older than Jesse and the others, she looks quite mature in comparison.Raymond took her hand and kissed it.

"It's just," she said after thinking for a while, frowning slightly, "Jessie's abnormality...I thought of one thing..."

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Jessica grudgingly slipped into a typical Jessie Harris outfit — a tight T-shirt and miniskirt and a little makeup — after last night’s self-invigorating and self-inspiring effort. However, Mark went out early in the morning, and Joanna was still busy answering different calls in the driver's seat. As for Raymond, he gave her a hesitant look from time to time throughout the whole process, but he obviously didn't notice that she was wearing a dress. what.

He took the wrong medicine again today. He didn't act or listen to his precious cd along the way. When he arrived at school, he pulled her aside and had a conversation about his brother caring about his sister.

Is playing good boy addicted?

Jessica is not in the mood to care about others anymore, she wants to think about her own future more now, of course, the first task is to hold on to Sherlock Holmes tightly, no matter what happens again this time, don't cause another tragedy in the previous life.

Secondly, although the conversation between Mark and Joanna last night made her a little sad, she found that they had attributed her abnormality these days to the shadow left by the last drowning incident, which meant that she did not have to worry about her personality for the time being. The drastic change is doubtful.

So, now her main goal is to meet Sherlock, but before that, she thought of a perhaps not so good idea.

"Emma, ​​we're best friends forever, aren't we?" Her first class today is history, based on the fact that she's been a history teacher for a month and Emma Hunt is never bothered by the fact that she doesn't listen , so she and Emma sat in the last row and painted each other's nails.

"Yeah." Emma blinked and painted Jessica's thumbnail bright red.

"I want to ask you a few questions to see how well you know me." Jessica coughed, "Uh, do you think, can you tell me who I hate and why?"

"Well——" Emma frowned and thought for a while, "The people you hate, there must be Eleanor Carter, and Hannah, she wore a dress exactly like yours last year, Grace, last time she Tell everyone in the restaurant that James rejected you so badly, Jon..."

"Wait, wait," Emma did know Jessica very well, and she basically didn't have a deep impression of those names, but, "Can you explain in detail why I hate Eleanor?"

"When Eleanor was with Raymond at first, you hated that she took away Raymond's time with you. Then you joined the cheerleading team and your attitude towards her changed."

Speaking of which, Emma pouted, and Jessica vaguely remembered that Emma was rejected by the cheerleading team because she was too short, "But some time ago, just before you fell into the water, you seemed to start to hate her again, even the training Don't want to go, I don't know why, I'm not on the cheerleading squad after all."

The last sentence was uttered by Emma in a sour tone.

"Anyone else?"

Emma said a bunch of little things about Jacqueline, Felicity, Megan and other girls, as well as her ex-boyfriends, but in fact, Jessica completely remembered these people , but they are not really ex-boyfriends at all. The former Jessica had a crush on Raymond's friend and teammate, James Perkins, a neighbor of the Harris family, from a very young age. The guise of being close to James is precisely why there are rumors that "Jessica slept with most of the football team".

Of course, Anne Jones may also have contributed to it.

I have to say that her previous skills in pursuing boys were a bit too... different.

"By the way, there is another person named Sherlock Holmes."

Jessica shook her hand, and the nail polish got on her fingers.

Emma exclaimed, which attracted some attention, and she hurriedly covered her mouth again.

Jessica suppressed the horror in her heart, and pulled out a few tissues, "It's okay Emma, ​​I just wandered off for a while, did you just say... Sherlock Holmes?"

"It seems so," Emma frowned and thought for a while, "it's that curly-haired, tall and thin boy, they all call him a freak."

Jessica stared at her nails, bit her lip, and held back countless questions that wanted to blurt out, until she saw that Emma had no intention of continuing, she finally couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with Sherlock Holmes? "

"I don't know, you didn't tell me." Emma looked at her with some complaints, then seemed to think of something, and looked at Jessica with a hesitant look.

"Do you want to say something?"

"No, I told you not to mention it."

"Emma," Jessica tried to use her most sincere expression, looking directly into Emma's eyes, and said slowly: "I thought a lot during the few days in the hospital. After going through that incident, I feel that I have It's not the old me, so the previous things don't count, do you understand? I know that I used to be too... harsh on you sometimes, and I'm really sorry."

"Oh——Jessie," Emma's eyes welled up with tears, she opened her arms to embrace Jessica, and said in a crying voice, "You are really the best friend."

The girl seemed to be too emotional, Jessica could only reach out and pat her on the back helplessly.

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