[American Entertainment] Dance out of my youth

Grace took him to eat ice cream, drink tea in a Chinese teahouse, and buy fruit in a fruit shop.Instead of buying fresh durians, she gave him two durian candies.

Durian tastes weird!

But after enduring the smell, I actually felt: It’s okay!

"I'll take you to eat fresh durians next time. But after eating durians, you must eat chewing gum." She handed him a piece of Green Arrow gum.

He tore off the gum wrapper, stuffed the gum into his mouth, and said vaguely, "Do you like durian?"

"Generally like it. Juliet likes to eat durian, but David doesn't like the smell, it's too smelly."

"It's all right, I think—well, it's a little weird, but not particularly bad."

"Most tropical fruits have strong flavors, such as pineapples, mangoes, and durians, which are the 'biochemical weapons' of fruits. Humans are actually amazing, they can eat anything."

He couldn't answer and didn't know what to say.He suddenly realized with distress that her knowledge level was much higher than his. According to her career plan, she might study for a doctorate in the future—David is a doctorate.He was not troubled by the gap in education, but... troubled by having nothing to say.

—does she think I'm so stupid that she doesn't want to talk to me?

He was a little distracted.

"What's the matter with you? Did you not sleep well last night?" She noticed that he was a little listless, so she asked him.

"No, I slept well last night, it's just...Grace," he bit his nails on his left finger nervously, "Do you think I'm annoying?"

"Why?" She asked in surprise, "Did you do something bad?"

"No, I mean, are you taking an exam? Am I taking up your review time?" He asked carefully.

"I finished the exam yesterday. You should know that the exam is not difficult for me, and I don't need special revision." Xueba is so confident! "I was planning to go back to London on the weekend, and Nikki said we could go back together, and she booked a plane ticket for me."

Tom didn't know about this, so he was overjoyed, "Really?! Why didn't mom tell me?"

"Probably, you are still underage."

He glared at her angrily: Bullying again!

"Why are you staring at me? You are underage, and I'm not wrong."

"I, I will soon be 18 years old, only 18 months!" The boy said unconvinced.

She smiled and said, "I'll take you back, Nikki said invite me to dinner."

The 16-year-old boy tries his best to show that "I am already an adult", but in fact, he is still a child. He is most afraid of being called "underage" or "still a child", and wants to pretend to be an adult everywhere. look.For example, I don’t know who taught him and asked him to be responsible for the expenses, so I always wanted to rush to pay the bill, but I really didn’t have much experience. After playing for a long time, I didn’t use any money in my wallet.

Grace didn't think about asking him to pay the bill either. She was a landlord and her family was not short of money, so she was used to paying the bills herself since she was a child.It never occurred to her that Tom was already a money-making kid.

When Nikki learned that he had never paid the bill successfully, she laughed for a long time, making him blush: You really deserve to be your own mother!

"Let me teach you, she will pick you up tomorrow. After you get in the car, before she drives, give her your money and say that you put it with her. If you use the money, you can take it directly from it. Half of each person. She hasn't yet Work, don't let her pay for your drinks."

"What if she doesn't want to accept it?" He had a bitter face.

"That's it—" Nikki thought for a while, "If you really can't give it away, I'll buy her something, and you can pay attention to see if she has anything she wants, but you don't have the money to buy it yet. "

But this task is not very good.Elliott's family is not short of money, and Grace has enough living expenses, and the standard of eating, drinking and entertainment is quite high. She has nothing she wants but can't afford.

Nikki also couldn't think of what to give her. It didn't seem too good to care too much about such a small amount of money for food, drink, and gasoline. The money transactions between friends should be clear, but if they are too clear, they will appear petty and not free and easy. , preoccupied.

Gift giving is also a science, and it is a good gift to give someone something that the other party really likes.

Tom soon let go of the question of who would pay the bill.

They booked a flight for Saturday morning, so Grace picked him up on Thursday and Friday for a tour in and around Los Angeles.

I eat a lot of American food, some are delicious, such as Mexican burritos;What about playing, in fact, that's it, look at the street view, look at the coastline, go for a stroll in the Caltech library, and Grace took him to her dormitory.

The roommates have already gone home, and they are the only ones in the room.

Tom looked at the girls' dormitory curiously: there were posters on the walls, not star posters, but some fantasy illustrations with a unique style; two beds were leaning against the walls on both sides, and the beds were not very tidy and messy. Tossing someone's clothes, skirts and jeans; bookshelves, desks, wardrobes, bathrooms.

Grace took out the suitcase from the closet, threw a few clothes into it, took the laptop out of the safe, and put it in the suitcase.

"I won't be back at night. I booked a room on the same floor as yours, and we will leave together tomorrow morning."

Tom nodded.

"Have you never been in a girls' dormitory?" She asked with a smile.

"No." He answered honestly.

"Are there no girls in BRIT?"

"Yes, but—" Ah, she was teasing him again, wasn't she?He immediately shut up and stopped talking.

"Shy?" She rubbed his head.

He blushed, "Don't—"

"You won't let me rub your hair when you grow up?" She looked at him funny.

"—It's not like that." He was a little impatient, "I didn't say that."

"Let's go." She glanced at him and walked out of the dormitory first.

Tom was stunned for a moment, followed by a few steps, then realized, turned back quickly, and pulled up the suitcase.

Grace closed the dormitory door and locked it.

Tom didn't speak until he put the suitcase away and got into the car.

Kind of weird, but what's wrong?He still can't figure it out.

Chrismas holiday.

Nikki is busy spending money at the store for the big Christmas sale, the most important holiday of the year.Sometimes the whole family would rush to the store, the Hollands would go shopping, and the boys would play in the casino inside the store.

Every year, the Elliott family deliberately installs a Christmas tree in the living room, buys some gifts and puts them under the Christmas tree, and it is considered a holiday.Grace doesn't think it's a problem that the family's Christmas atmosphere is not strong. The holidays are actually just an excuse to eat and drink, buy some gifts to reward herself, and amuse the children by the way.Both she and David rationally felt that Christmas didn't have to be exhausting for the whole family.Juliet is not interested in foreigners' festivals.

Juliet didn't even bother to compete with tens of thousands of people for Christmas promotional products, and she got a headache when she saw too many people.

But Elliott's family doesn't celebrate the Chinese New Year very extravagantly. For Grace, the Spring Festival is a matter of eating dumplings on a certain day in January or February. Oh, and there will be lucky money.It is still very good for Grace, who is still a child, but when she gets older and her pocket money increases, the new year's money will not be so attractive to her.

The same goes for the Christmas holidays this year.

After eating the Christmas Eve dinner, Grace thanked Mom and Dad for the presents.Before 11 o'clock, the family of three went to bed.

Tom called just before twelve and asked if she was asleep.

"I didn't sleep, even if I fell asleep, I was woken up by you." She was lying on the bed, and there was a tacky star lamp on the bedside table.There are mottled stars on the ceiling, shining brightly.

"Sorry, I thought you would go to bed later tonight." The child immediately apologized obediently, "Do you like the gift I gave you?"

"good."

"You don't like it?" Tom was disappointed. "But, but they say girls like star lights."

"Who said that?"

"Ha, Harrison," he stammered.Harrison is stupid!What a bad move!

"Don't listen to other people's nonsense." She couldn't help laughing.

Tom was silent for a while, then said: "I like your present very much."

"Christmas gift."

"You haven't given me a birthday present this year." A bit aggrieved tone.

"No?" She smiled lowly, "Children are always thinking about birthday presents."

"But I give you a birthday present every year."

"No? Not this year."

"I sent it to your school. The post office must have lost it!" He shouted angrily, "You should have told me earlier, then I would send you a new gift."

She laughed again, "I lied to you! I received it. Well, I'll send it to you tomorrow and make it up for you." This child is really easy to deceive.

Only then did he become happy, and chatted nonsense with her for another 20 minutes, and hung up the phone reluctantly after 12 o'clock.She was a little girlish, it was nothing, he didn't even realize that it was called "lying".

Grace casually dug out two unused lip balms from her dressing table, threw them into an envelope, called a courier, and sent them to Kingston.

In the afternoon, the Holland family received a courier.

Tom wondered what the hell was the point of giving him lip balm?

Call her right away.

"It's nothing, it's just that I don't know what to give you, I just found it. What kind of smell is it? I forgot."

"Coffee, grapefruit."

"I like peach flavor, next time I will give you peach flavor."

Well, maybe it’s really just a random thing.

A coffee-flavored lip balm with a hint of coffee.

He put a layer of lip balm on his lips.

Next time, I want a peach flavor.