Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 598 Scarlett

"Yes, Mom, Ms. Sophia has set her schedule in September, so I still have time." Wearing a thin T-shirt on her upper body and white underwear underneath, Scarlett crawled on the bed with a cordless phone and talked to the woman on the other end. Mother was discussing about the new movie, her slender and smooth calves were swinging back and forth, making the curve of her buttocks look very attractive.

"Okay, I get it, mom, don't worry, just leave it like this—" With Scarlett's long ending, the contest between mother and daughter finally came to an end.

"Really, I'm going to be 18 soon - although there are still five months left. Can't you treat me like a child who can't grow up? I'm not Angie." The girl turned over and jumped out of bed .

She poured herself a glass of water, took a small sip and went to the window.

Although it was not opened and the curtains were half drawn down, Scarlett still took a deep breath and stretched beautifully.

"Another day has passed, and a new day will come soon." The girl looked at the night in New York outside the building, and suddenly sighed.Although I have lived here for more than ten years, I have never been tired of seeing this kind of night. The colorful New York at night always makes people linger, maybe I will live here for the rest of my life?

Even if the word "maybe" is used as an attributive, it is only a modification, and few people can change what she has already decided, for example... Sensing that her thoughts are a bit misplaced, Scarlett shook her head and chuckled sadly After a few sounds, I sat down at the desk and took out a thick diary and began to remember the diary.

Perhaps it was because of the previous reason, after she finished writing the date and weather, she stopped writing for a long while, as if she didn't know what to write.If it wasn't for the phone ringing suddenly, God knows how long she would be in a trance.

"Hi, who am I looking for?" Scarlett asked politely even though it was an unfamiliar number.

"Is that Miss Scarlett?" A strange but calm male voice came from over there, "I'm Bucket, Bucket Buchanan, I think you should know who I am."

"You are..." Scarlett frowned, turned her head for a while before asking in surprise, "Are you that Bucket?!"

It turned out to be the bodyguard next to Angela. He was tall and strong, but he was taciturn and serious all day long, so she didn't remember him immediately.

"Thank God, you do remember me." There seemed to be a sigh of relief, "If possible, can you come to the Bakewell Bar on 45th Street in Manhattan now? If it feels too late, I can let someone Come pick you up."

"Did something happen?" Scarlett asked inexplicably, looking at the time, it was already past ten o'clock.Angie's bodyguard called and asked himself to go to a bar in Manhattan now?And you said you could have someone come pick you up?what is this?

"I'm sorry, because Miss Angela doesn't allow us to notify any of her family members, so I can only call you, Miss Scarlett." Bucket explained briefly, with helplessness in his tone.

"What do you mean she doesn't allow you to notify her family?" Scarlett asked in surprise.

"This... I'd better get someone to pick you up first, Miss Angela is in the bar."

As the car stopped on the side of the street, Scarlett, who tidied up a little, jumped out in a hurry.She already knew the general situation from the few bodyguards who picked her up, but it also made her more confused.

"Hi, Bucket, how's it going?" Scarlett greeted the bodyguards waiting at the door of the bar.

"It's still inside." Bucket nodded and walked into the bar, as concise as ever.

"Please wait a moment, lady, can I see your driver's license?" The black guard at the entrance of the bar suddenly blocked Scarlett, and the girl was stunned for a few seconds before explaining: "I just came here to find someone ,gentlemen."

"Sorry, if you are under the age of 21, I can't let you in." The black man shook his head as if he was not negotiable.

"I can assure you, this lady won't be drinking at the bar, we're just looking for someone and they'll be out soon." Bucket cut in.Perhaps it was because Bucket had entered and exited the bar a few times, and the black guard was already familiar with him, so he let him pass after hesitating for a few seconds: "Okay, don't let me cause trouble."

The bar based on orange and yellow is a little dark, but it has a different atmosphere, especially the band on the stage is still singing slow-paced old-fashioned love songs, which makes people feel that everything can be relaxed .

As Bucket turned a few corners, Scarlett quickly saw Angela sitting at the small round table in the corner.She was leaning back on the chair with a flushed face, shaking the glass gently with one hand, and resting her elbow on the armrest with her other hand to support her cheek.Although the black hair hanging down like a waterfall is fake, she still has a charming taste, but her eyes are cold, which makes several men who want to strike up a conversation back away in embarrassment.

"What happened, Angie?" Scarlett sat down in front of her, frowning and looked up and down.

"Manny?" A hint of surprise finally flashed in Angela's eyes, and then she chuckled: "You came just in time, how about having a drink or two with me? Let's see who gets drunk first, as long as you don't drink whiskey."

"Stop kidding, Angie, I don't want to call the police." Scarlett glared at her angrily, "What's wrong with you, Bucket, they said that you have been drinking here since you returned to New York in the evening, and have been drinking until now."

"Never mind that, honey, it's nothing, I'm very restrained, I haven't been drunk yet, have I?" Angela waved her hand with a smile, but the smile looked like a mask, "Come on, accompany me I'll have a few drinks."

Scarlett's frown deepened. She felt that Angela was so strange tonight. She leaned on the chair as if she would soften at any time, and she was so lifeless that she didn't radiate dazzling light like before.

"I can accompany you, but I can't be here." She said after sighing.

The flushed Angela stared at her for a long while, then opened her mouth softly: "Okay, but... I don't want to go to a hotel or anywhere else, I don't want to be recognized, I don't want my family to know..."

"Then go to my apartment." Scarlett interrupted, then stood up and extended her hand to Angela.

With the sound of the key turning, Scarlett helped Angela into the room, put the girl on the sofa, said a few words to Bucket outside, and then closed the door.As soon as he turned his head, there was a crackling sound from the sofa. It turned out that Angela was opening a can of beer. This was what Bucket had asked Bucket to buy at a convenience store when he was downstairs.She even tried to persuade her to go upstairs and wait until she went downstairs to buy it, but she insisted on standing still and waiting for the bodyguards to buy it before going up.

What's the matter with you, Angie?Do you know I'm worried?Scarlett sighed inwardly as she tidied up the house, only then did she notice that her diary was still turned over on the desk.Scarlett yelled damn, quickly closed the diary and put it in the drawer, followed by Angela's voice: "Manny!"

"What?" She turned around nervously, Angela still had that indifferent smile, shaking another newly opened can of beer in her hand: "You promised me."

"Okay, okay." Scarlett rolled her eyes, but breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.She walked over and sat down boldly on the coffee table, then took the beer and drank it down in one gulp, even if a little dripped from the corner of her mouth onto her shirt, she didn't care.

"You can do it now." Panting, Scarlett threw the empty soda can on the ground, and looked at Angela with a little provocation.

"That's great, come again." Angela applauded like a child, but the smile on her face became more and more hollow.She stopped her hand suddenly, and after thinking for a few seconds, she said again: "Let's have something else, not just beer."

Scarlett stared at her for a while, then stood up and walked to the kitchen cabinet: "Okay, what do you want?"

"Anything is fine, as long as... it's wine." Speaking of this, Angela suddenly giggled: "But there must be no whiskey, otherwise, the consequences will be very serious."

"Really, how serious is it?" Scarlett put two cups and brandy on the coffee table, staring at Angela and asked.

"I will become a monster with only desires, and take everything I can see as my own." Angela's smile suddenly disappeared and became cold, and Scarlett shivered involuntarily.

In just a few seconds, the other party laughed again: "But as long as you don't drink whiskey, you will be fine."

The girl was suddenly at a loss for what to do with the quick change of face, so she could only pour brandy and hand it to Angela.The two of them drank one cup at a time like this, and just drank without talking.

After a few glasses of wine, Scarlett's face also turned red, and seeing Angela's eyes drifting away, as if she was about to get drunk, she finally asked, "Can you tell me now, what happened? "

Angela, who was crushing the cup on her forehead, looked straight at her and still didn't answer, but her eyes suddenly turned red.Seeing it, Scarlett couldn't help being a little sad. She slowed down and said in a soft voice: "You can tell me if you are sad, Angie, even if I can't help you, at least I can be a listener."

Angela's blank eyes lit up suddenly, but they dimmed again in just a few seconds, and her empty smile gradually turned into bitterness and self-mockery: "We broke up."

"Part... broke up?" Scarlett blinked her eyes, and she didn't turn her head for a moment.

"It's over, it's over...Kate, Jessie, Nat, they all chose today to end with me...the day I graduated..." Angela murmured, lying on the sofa, the shiny things It slipped from the corner of her eyes, "I've made arrangements, I've obviously made preparations, but why...why did this happen?"

She suddenly held her face and sobbed and was so sad that she couldn't help herself. Scarlett, who was so shocked by the news that she couldn't speak for a while, finally came back to her senses, put down her glass in a panic and sat down next to Angela. He was about to reach out to hug her, but there was a hesitant expression on his face.

A few seconds later, with the girl's sigh, she still hugged Angela, and the other party wrapped her arms around her waist as if grabbing a life-saving straw, buried her head in her lower abdomen and sobbed even louder.

"How... how did this happen?" Scarlett, who was patted on Angela's back, asked sadly, "Didn't you say before... that after graduation, you will invite everyone to go to sea... and then ask them Confession?"

However, Angela in her arms just cried and didn't answer anything.Scarlett sighed slightly, so she had no choice but to keep patting her on the back like this, letting her vent her heart while hugging herself.

After an unknown amount of time, Angela's sobs finally subsided.The girl who was holding her finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when she wanted to ask a question again, she found that she had fallen asleep at some point, but she still choked up from time to time.

Scarlett smiled wryly and looked at the time. It was already past midnight. After a long breath, she picked up Angela with some difficulty and went to the guest room.After putting the other party on the bed, she carefully took off her clothes and wiped her body, and finally covered her with a quilt.

Looking at Angela who was lying on the bed with shiny things overflowing from the corners of her eyes from time to time, Scarlett shook her head lightly, leaned down and kissed her on the forehead, and then exited the guest room.

After tidying up the living room a little, she stretched her body to relieve fatigue, sat down at the desk and took out the diary again.After hesitating for a while, she flipped through the previous diary, and Scarlett finally started to write.It only took her more than ten minutes to complete today's diary, and then quickly washed and turned off the lights and went to bed.

However, even though she also drank a lot, those gray-green eyes opened for a long time in the darkness before closing.

"Sorry, Manny, I kept you waiting." Natalie said as she opened the chair and sat down, with a calm expression on her face, making it hard to see whether she was hiding something on her mind. "Is there anything you need to do when you come to Boston? I dare you." I'm sure you didn't come here to see me on purpose."

This joke didn't make Scarlett laugh, she shrugged: "Actually, I did come here specially for you."

After a pause, she added, "Angela is with me now."

The corners of Natalie's mouth curled up, showing a mocking smile: "She asked you to be a lobbyist?"

"No, no, Nat, I came here on my own initiative, and it has nothing to do with Angie." Scarlett shook her head, looked into Natalie's eyes and said seriously.After staring at her for a few seconds, Natalie nodded silently.

"Angie is very sad," Scarlett went on, "she didn't expect you to be... so unsympathetic. Frankly speaking, Nat, your words are really too much. Although Angie didn't tell me everything, I can tell you everything." It can be seen that she was hurt a lot...how could this happen, Nat? You...don't your relationship for several years not exist? "

"For such a question, you should first ask Kate, then Jessie, and finally me," Natalie replied calmly, "But before that, you'd better ask Angie first, and listen to her How did you answer it?"

"Actually... Nat, I knew something about it before." Scarlett considered the words.

"Oh?" Natalie raised her eyebrows, her eyes suddenly narrowed.

"I infer from some clues that Angie may be dating the three of you at the same time, and the time may not be short. For this reason, I asked Angie face to face, and she admitted and promised to make it clear to you when she invited everyone to go to sea after graduation. Scarlett said in one breath, "She actually... cares about you very, very much."

"Please note that you are using plural numbers, Manny." Natalie clasped her hands together and placed them on the small round table, "Do you think it is appropriate to use plural numbers here?"

"I know," Scarlett raised her hand and pressed it, "I know what you mean, Nat, I just want to say...she is not what you said, she has deep feelings for you all, she Knowing her mistake and ready to face it, why not give her one last chance?"

Natalie shrugged meaninglessly: "I don't think what I said is wrong, you know, my major is..."

"A person who is in anger and thinks that the other party has deceived him can come to a fair conclusion?" Scarlett couldn't help retorting sharply, "Can psychology explain everything?!"

Natalie lowered her eyelids and fell silent. Finally, she shook her head: "It's too late, Manny, she had countless chances to redeem herself, but she didn't do anything in the end, and she couldn't drag it on so she had to face it." Yes. I'm pretty sure if Kate and Jessie and I didn't know that the other had something to do with Angie, she would've kept it a secret."

Speaking of this, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes and didn't want Scarlett to observe her emotions: "You won't understand this feeling, Manny. When you find that the person you love is actually with you at the same time Several people are dating, and have been dating for several years, and you are just one of them, and when you are the one with the shortest time, the feeling of being betrayed and being played with is so painful and desperate."

Scarlett opened her mouth to say something, but then thought of something, so she closed her mouth with a wry smile, and both of them fell silent immediately.After a long time, Natalie stood up: "That's it, I'm very busy recently, and I may have to go somewhere else—this is not your business, Manny."

She said, turned and walked towards the cafe.

Scarlett covered her face and sighed deeply after Natalie's back disappeared.Obviously, Natalie had made up her mind, and no amount of persuasion would help.

At this moment, her mobile phone rang, and the girl took it out to take a look, and a look of expectation flashed in her eyes.

"Hi, Lindsay, how is it?" Scarlett asked cautiously after pressing the answer button, and her original expectations disappeared without a trace after just a few words.

"Why...why?" the girl clutched her forehead and couldn't help moaning, "Didn't you tell Jesse that Angie was ready to confess? And... oh, damn it... no, no, no Speaking of you...doesn't it mean Jesse...hey, keep your voice down, you want everyone around you to hear...well, that's it for now, I'll get in touch when I get back to New York...Lindsay...anyway... ...you have to find a way, okay?"