American drama of life

Chapter 27 Empathy, Luke Bauer!
"Andy is there too?"

The tall and fat middle-aged man's face softened slightly.

"Uncle Terry."

Andy didn't drink as much as Ruth. At this moment, when he heard the middle-aged man talking, he could only come out to say hello, and introduce to both parties: "This is Ruth's father, and this is our classmate Luke."

"What are you doing, drinking like this on the first day of training!"

Terry McCorkey helped his drunken daughter and looked at Luke badly: "Did you feed them?"

"Please, Dad, don't say the other way around!"

Ruth smirked and said, "We wanted to feed him and then go to Andy's house for the night, but he didn't agree..."

"Count your acquaintances!"

Seeing that his daughter was talking more and more outrageous, Terry hurriedly helped her to go home, took a few steps, and turned to Andy and called, "Andy, come here too, you will sleep here tonight."

"Oh."

Andy didn't resist either.

Obviously the two have a good relationship.

"Do you need me to pick you up to go to the academy with you tomorrow?"

Luke asked.

"Great!"

Ruth heard that, pushed her father away, raised her hands, and cheered loudly.

Terry held his daughter again with a dark face.

Luke quickly flashed.

A firefighter's rank can be seen on the uniform and the badge on the collar of the uniform.

Ordinary players don't.

The vice-captain who manages a fire truck has a horn, the color is gray, and the shirt uniform is also gray.

The captain who manages a fire station has two horns, the color is also gray, the shirt uniform has become white, and the top is all white shirts.

The brigade leader who manages a field of multiple fire stations has two horns, and the color changes to gold.

There are three golden horns for the deputy head of the division (which is still the suffix of the captain in English at this moment), and the division head has four golden horns.

Further up is the level of the city fire chief. There are assistant chiefs, deputy chiefs in charge, first deputy chiefs, and chief chiefs, all of which are five golden horns.

AKA, in the entire New York City Fire Department, only those chiefs who are bigger than the four golden horn division directors of Papa Ruth are only those chiefs.

Proper New York Fire Department big man.

No wonder Ruth is so sunny and cheerful.

No wonder Gary is so not Gary!

The next day.

Luke came to pick him up on time.

After watching his daughter and Andy get into the car, Dad Ruth stretched out the index and middle fingers of his right hand, gestured to his eyes, and then gestured to Luke again, indicating that he was staring at Luke.

Luke nodded with a smile and drove away.

"Ruth, your father is actually the division supervisor, that's amazing!"

Luke didn't hide and tuck, and directly talked about this topic.

"He is him, I am me."

Ruth rubbed her head and muttered, "What a shame, I drank so much last night and didn't take you down. By the way, is there something wrong with you? Are Andy and I not pretty enough?"

"Of course you are beautiful and in good shape."

Luke saw that there was no ambiguity from last night in Ruth's words, only the complaints between friends, so he laughed and joked: "It's just that the buddies have seen better ones, and I think everyone is classmates, and they will be good friends in the future, don't take it seriously. Relationships are complicated."

"You are so special."

Ruth tilted her head and glanced at Luke's face, without doubting the authenticity of Luke's words. After she was relieved, she couldn't help but complain: "It's normal for friends to look at each other and help each other or build a team, right?"

Although Andy didn't speak, the smile on the corner of his mouth revealed that she agreed.

"I like pure friendship."

Luke confessed: "That way, we won't hurt each other because of the arrival of a new relationship. After all, good friends always get together to play together."

"What's the matter, don't worry, I'm definitely not that kind of person."

Ruth didn't care.

"Everybody said that."

Luke smiled reservedly: "But in the end, I can't do it all. Believe me, the numbers won't lie."

"..."

Ruth didn't speak this time, and looked at her best friend Andy before saying, "Now I believe you're not gay anymore, that's too naive."

"Scumbag!"

Andy added.

"So you should be able to see that I sincerely hope we can be good friends."

Luke smiled and said, "Pure friends of the opposite sex are not easy to come by. How about we cherish them?"

"How do you know that I am willing to be your pure friend?"

Ruth joked: "Don't overestimate yourself, maybe we just use you as a tool?"

"A lot of people said that at first, but it turned out..."

Luke shrugged.

"..."

Ruth's mouth twitched and she was completely speechless.

With anyone, they can spray each other to death.

What are you talking about, what are you eating!

But looking at Luke's face, what he said seemed to be true.

She suddenly had no confidence in herself who could withdraw at will before.

"never mind."

Ruth shook her head, which still hurts after the hangover: "You're right, let's just be friends, anyway, if we haven't rolled together for 24 hours, we're still a little less attractive to each other, and it doesn't make sense to do it deliberately. "

What else could Luke say but give her a thumbs up.

The car pulled into the fire academy and happened to be driving back and forth with Gary.

Gary's face turned gloomy when he saw Luke, Ruth, and Andy getting out of the car talking and laughing.

Luke caught a glimpse of it and started chatting and laughing with Ruth, Andy and the others more familiarly.

That's right!

He just wanted to take advantage of Ruth's family status, it is best to let Gary give up those traps and graduate smoothly and complete the registration.

Otherwise, it would be better to make Gary feel a little bit more jealous, and make him feel uncomfortable.

Today's training is to wear fire suits.

The 23 people in the class received a full set of firefighting suits and put them in front of them, and then began to try to wear them during the time when the teacher blew the whistle.

"36 seconds!"

The teacher held the timer and looked at the crowd. Seeing Luke was the first to wear it, he was surprised to report the wearing time, glanced at Luke, and continued to stare at the timer while looking at the other students.

"45 seconds!"

"52 seconds!"

"60 seconds!"

For the students who were dressed first, the teachers reported the dressing time.

At the end of the 90-second timer, everyone was dressed.

It's really easy.

"Have you practiced?"

The instructor walked up to Luke and asked.

"No, sir."

Luke's proper answer.

"Are you really wearing a fire suit for the first time?"

The teacher was a little disbelieving.

Firefighting clothing includes protective clothing, radios, headgear, helmets, protective gloves, protective shoes, air calls, etc. It must be worn in the correct order. It feels completely different from ordinary clothes. It is very uncomfortable for ordinary people to wear it for the first time.

"Sir, I know why."

Ruth raised her hand.

"Say!"

The teacher looked over.

"Luke Bauer, considerate."

Ruth said solemnly, "Without him, I only know you well!"

When he said this, the rest of the class burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)