Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 557 Cold War

No one spoke, and the four women just looked at each other.Angela was confused and hesitant, with her mouth slightly open as if she didn't know what to say; Kate by the stairs was expressionless, but her right hand was not only tightly grasping the handrail of the stairs, but still trembling slightly; Jessica was slightly lowered. The hand covering her mouth has never been removed, and the unbelievable look in her eyes is so obvious; as for Natalie, her lips are pursed into a thin line, her head and chest are slightly undulating, and she only occasionally brushes her lips. A few glances.The atmosphere was so dignified that even the unsuspecting maid could sense it.

At this moment, a voice temporarily saved Angela: "Angie, we have to go, otherwise we will be late."

"Hmm...Jack," Angela finally had a voice, "How much time do we have?"

"One hour, although the journey is only 20 minutes, but considering the need to get rid of the reporter and the preparations, I still suggest you start now." Sparrow came over with a briefcase in his arms, as if he didn't notice this weird and dignified expression atmosphere.

"Okay...well, then...let's...start now, anyway...this outfit is not bad." Angela spoke incoherently, and kept making meaningless gestures with her hands.

"Then, I'll ask Bucket to drive the car over now." Sparrow nodded, turned and walked out.

Angela didn't look away until the figure of the other party disappeared at the door, then patted her head, glanced at the three lovers and forced a smile: "Well...I want to go out, you can...wait for me here... ..."

What would happen if the three of them were left here?Angela didn’t want to think about it or want to think about it.She has only one thought at the moment, that is to run away, don't face these things and don't put yourself on the fire.

"No, no need, I should go back, there are other things to do." Kate's voice sounded, and unexpectedly her tone was very calm, as if nothing had happened, and she walked towards the door as she spoke. go.

"Kate...you...this..." Shocked, Angela subconsciously wanted to keep her, but Kate had no intention of stopping at all: "As long as you know you're fine, I won't bother you."

She walked out without even turning her head. Angela wanted to reach out to catch Kate's shadow, but her arms were too heavy to lift.Then, Jessica's voice sounded again: "I think... I should go too."

"J...Jesse? Why...can't you..." Angela turned her head in surprise again.

"I too... came to see you. Since I'm fine... then I'd better go home." Jessica walked out with her head slightly lowered, her tone trembling, her eyes dodging and she refused to talk to Angela. touch.

The eloquent Angela couldn't say anything, and could only watch Jessica leave here in a daze at a loss.After a while, she turned her head stiffly to Natalie again. Even though she wanted to keep her calm, the pleading in her eyes betrayed all her thoughts: "Nat..."

The silent Natalie finally turned her head away, her eyes were flat, as if all her thoughts were buried in it, and after a few seconds, she took a deep breath: "Since you are fine, I should go back too gone."

"But...but...you just got off the plane..." Angela's face turned pale uncontrollably.

"There are many flights to New York, it just takes a while." Natalie said calmly and took out the phone from her handbag, "I'll call the taxi company, there is no need to ask someone to take me, after all, there are so many reporters outside."

Following her out of the door without looking back, a feeling of exhaustion suddenly surged up, Angela staggered, if she hadn't leaned against the handrail of the stairs in time, she might have collapsed on the ground.After a long while, she barely got up and dragged her heavy steps to the edge of the sofa and sat down softly.

Why is it always like this?Angela stared blankly at the front with a blank face, and it took a long time before she moaned and held her face in her hands.Damn it!Damn it!I told them that I'm fine and don't come here for now, but why didn't they listen!You idiot, why didn't you speak just now?Why not run over and pull them all back?Why not tell them the truth? !Why not? !Why!Where has all your courage gone!

Angela didn't understand why she didn't have the slightest fear of death when facing the gangsters, but when the three lovers appeared in front of her, she was so frightened that she couldn't even speak a word.

"Angie, we are waiting for you." Sparrow appeared in front of Angela again.

The girl holding her head gave him a numb look, and asked in a jerky tone, "They... all left?"

"Yes." Sparrow replied briefly and did not make another sound. After a long time, Angela stood up with a wry smile: "Let's go."

Angela was in a trance all afternoon, and sometimes she had to ask three or four times to respond to a sentence.However, when she appeared in front of the reporters, she immediately put a smile on her face like a spring breeze. Whether it was a press conference or individual questions afterwards, she responded very well, no different from usual.

This is a kind of psychological self-protection, besides, she is already very familiar with this kind of thing of adding a layer of shell to herself.However, as long as she leaves the reporter's sight, she will become distraught again.

"Honey, you don't seem to be right?" The father who was holding the red wine asked calmly.

"Huh? What?" Angela raised her head in a daze, and then squeezed out a smile after recovering: "It's nothing, Dad, I'm fine, it's just... thinking too much about something, so I'm lost in thought... um ?”

As she spoke, she raised the spoon, but when it was brought to her mouth, she realized that she was holding a fork.

"Strange, can you drink soup with a fork?" Ike, who was also drinking soup, asked strangely.

"Stupid, why can't you?" Willie said to her younger brother, "Isn't my sister drinking with a fork?"

"But forks aren't for drinking soup, are they?" Ike retorted.

"It's true that it's not for drinking soup, but it's not that it can't be used for soup." Willie retorted in the same tone.

At this moment, the mother coughed lightly, and the brats who were still arguing immediately shut their mouths obediently.Angela smiled wryly in her heart, and then stood up: "Sorry, Mom and Dad, I'm done."

Seeing her figure disappear from the door of the dining room, the father looked back, waited for Ike and Willie to leave after dinner, and looked at his wife: "I heard from Jane that Kate, Jesse, and Nat are all together today. They came to the house to look for Chrissy at almost the same time, and they all left one after the other within a few minutes?"

"Yes, I think there may be something wrong with Chris' relationship." The wife said calmly, but there was nothing but a "huh" from her husband.Elena couldn't help but frowned: "Jedi?"

"What do you want to say, Mary?" Jared put down the knife and fork, folded his hands in front of his face and looked at his wife.

"You should understand what I'm talking about, honey, this is an opportunity." Elena said seriously.

"Opportunity?" Jared shrugged. "Who do you want to introduce to Chris? Mr. Gross from the Einhorn family?"

"Gross is a nice guy, although he is not as good as our daughter, but..." Now that the topic was picked up, Elena also said what she had been wanting to say, but her husband raised his hand to stop her : "Mary, when did you become like my father?"

"It has nothing to do with whether you look like a father or not. It's just a normal reaction of a mother who cares about her daughter." Elena looked at her husband with some annoyance.

"Normal reaction? Introducing Chris to her boyfriend on the premise of knowing her sexual orientation?" Jared spread his hands.

"Are you really going to argue with me about this, Jedi?" The wife couldn't help crossing her arms.

The husband raised his hands with a smile, and after a pause, he said seriously: "I remember, I told you the reason why I fell out with my father, right? Chris is indeed our most outstanding daughter, and she has always been very good. Obedient and understanding, but in some ways she is just as selfish as I was! Trying to change things by force only gets conflict and resentment."

After a long time of silence at the dining table, Elena covered her forehead and sighed softly.Jared immediately pressed his wife's hand: "Let her face and solve it herself, Mary, Chris is an adult."

"Well, even if gender can be ignored, how many people like her have maintained relationships with three lovers for several years?" The wife smiled wryly, "I think she is more like a man thinking about problems."

"Hey, that's a bit harsh, honey." Jared rolled his eyes, and then held his wife's hands again before he could retort: ​​"Okay, Mary, we can't have a hand in this kind of relationship." , Everything has to be handled by Chris herself. If she is willing to ask us for advice, we will give her advice, and whether to use it or not is still up to her. If she does not want to do this, then we will silently guard her by the side. That's what parents should do."

Indeed, feelings are very personal matters, and they cannot be sorted out by meddling casually, and even the parties themselves may not be able to figure it out, such as Angela.After all, people are different, and no one can fully understand another person.Love sprouts from here, and misunderstandings also arise from this, and the knots I tie can only be untied by myself.

Although Miss Genius had a shootout with gangsters on the street, although the police held press conferences again and again, it basically stopped the public opinion's intentional or unintentional exaggeration.Angela herself admitted more than once that even if she didn't propose to shoot the gangster's feet, someone would have thought of it, so the Los Angeles police were the biggest contributors to this incident.

But in the hearts of the people, she is still a great heroine, and even those who hate her don't dare to say anything at this time.If it wasn't for Angela's multiple identities as actor, singer, screenwriter, director, and producer, maybe a producer would have come to her door waving a check.

So when she returned to Boston, no matter how low-key she was, she was recognized immediately as soon as she entered Harvard.Then came the "crowd" from three floors inside and three floors outside. In the end, Angela was able to escape with the help of lecturers and professors. Harvard students are sometimes crazy.

This kind of life lasted for a long time, no matter where Angela went, there would be many curious people who would come to talk to him and want to know the situation - after all, such a thing as a big star and a fully armed gangster shooting in the street is not unprecedented, but it is definitely unprecedented - There are even many people who boldly express their love, but they are all women.

Regarding this, Angela was very, very depressed. She wanted to drive these people away, but she was quite winking. As soon as she had that intention, she immediately stood up and said goodbye politely; let these people talk, I really don’t want to take away those repetitive things. to keep repeating.However, what made her most angry and helpless was that the professors did not release her homework because of this.

"If only you hadn't been injured," Angela said to Mavis angrily.

"Because I will never let you shoot the gangsters, but crawl on the ground by yourself, is that right?" Meivis asked without raising her head while flipping through the information, "Do you think you won't stand up like this?" Are you on the cusp?"

"At least it won't be like it is now." Angela sighed and spread her hands.

"To be precise, it should be much more serious than it is now," Annie who was packing her luggage suddenly interjected, "In that case, you will be the one who gets hurt. Think about it, what will happen now."

"Hmm... Maybe I won't get hurt?" Angela thought for a long time before choking out such a sentence.

Annie turned her head and gave her a blank look, and continued to pack the things in her hands.Meivis couldn't help chuckling, and handed the information in front of Angela: "I have made adjustments based on your opinions, but there are a few points I insist on, even though your father sent additional bodyguards , but it doesn't mean you're safer than before."

"Yeah, yeah, I should hire a few more federal agents." Angela hummed while browsing, "Let's discuss it on the plane, we still have time."

"As you wish," Mavis stood up, "don't think I will back down."

"Don't talk too much, just wait and see!" Angela waved her fist at her leaving back.

Annie, who had a panoramic view of everything, sighed softly in her heart, and put all the suitcases in the bedroom: "That's all, unless you have something else to bring."

"Thank you, Annie," Angela smiled and hugged Annie, "With you here, I don't need to worry about this."

"This is my duty." Annie hugged her back, and then remembered something: "By the way, you still have to direct a movie this summer, right? Maybe... Lily can work part-time on your crew."

"Oh?" Angela raised her eyebrows.

Annie made a few gestures, and finally said the truth: "You know, Lily will always go to the studio to work when you are editing here. So she decided to earn some pocket money during this summer vacation, I... Somewhat uneasy, so I thought maybe you could offer her an assistant or something, after all, by your own admission, she did a good job as an assistant."

"I don't deny this, but..." Angela moved closer to Annie, showing a half-smile.

Annie leaned back slightly, her eyes wandered before looking at Angela: "But what?"

"It's nothing." Angela made a face and looked away. "I'll give her an assistant job, but she has to agree. If she refuses, there's nothing I can do."

"When has Lily ever rejected you?" Annie asked back, and then added: "I will tell her."

"Then... that's it." Angela suddenly sighed and sat down slowly by the bed, the original happiness was suddenly replaced by depression.

Annie couldn't help but frowned slightly, and after thinking for a few seconds, she asked carefully: "Are you... still the same?"

Angela was silent for a long while before she buried her head between her arms, "Yes... I feel... I feel like we have become strangers... We are all on campus, but if I want to find her It would take a lot of effort to stay in the dormitory...and...and even if I found her, I didn't know what to say...the topic would be diverted after a few sentences...she was always polite and polite...just Even going back to the dormitory to say 'Hi' is... faint... I don't know how to..."

Seeing the sad appearance of the girl, Annie opened her mouth but then closed it again. This kind of thing is not something she should be involved in.So she just put her hand on Angela's shoulder.

Angela held her hand, raised her head and showed a wry smile: "And I have to see another one now...he refuses to answer my phone...even if the call can't last a few minutes..."

Annie still didn't say anything, she just put her other hand on Angela's arm and patted it lightly. After a while, she looked at the time: "You should go down, Angie."

The place to go this time is the small tail on the east coast of the United States, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. The "Devil Head" crew chose a beautiful town called Cannersway as the shooting location, which is said to be not far from where Irene Wuornos once committed the crime.

"Welcome, Miss Angela." Director Ike Cochlin and Pixar's head Gail Anthony had been waiting outside the set early.

"Thank you, how is the situation now? I heard it's not bad?" Angela, who had disguised herself a lot, got out of the car and shook hands with the two in turn.

"Yes, Ms. Kate is very good. I think she has a good understanding of Irene. I believe that with your performance, this will be an amazing movie." Director Ike praised her a little.

"Thank you, I hope I have done enough homework." Under the sunglasses, Angela seemed to be smiling, "By the way, is Kate in there?"

"Yes, I'll take you there." Ike made a gesture of invitation.

Turning around and saying hello to Meivis and Alizee, Angela took a deep breath and followed the director to the set.