I love you, I won't kill you

For the first time since joining the Marine Corps, Amanda felt inexplicably nervous and uneasy.Too bad it wasn't Jasmine, and there wasn't a basement with weapons of mass destruction, so she could hardly find a way to relieve stress she liked.

While putting down the bottle, I seemed to think of the phone ringing I heard just now.Go into the room and take out the phone, and go back to the living room again.Looking at some fitness equipment in the living room, Amanda shook her head helplessly.

One of the great things about living in a temporary officer's cottage near the Naval Air Station is that you can get a lot of fitness without leaving the house.Of course, this is for those naval officers who come from the Naval Academy or the Naval Base.

As an officer of the Marine Corps, Amanda will naturally follow the physical training subjects of the Marine Corps for fitness.After completing her outdoor long-distance running subjects, she will do some regular physical training subjects such as deck squats, partner squats, push-ups, Chinese sit-ups and sandbag sit-ups.

She doesn't have a Marine buddy, so she can only do some solo physical training subjects.Putting the phone down on the coffee table in the living room, she took off her sports T-shirt as she opened voicemail.Wearing only a sports bra and shorts, he walked to a corner of the living room and looked at the stainless steel pipe above his head.

Obviously, the stainless steel pipe installed in the living room is used for pull-ups.After clenching fists with both hands, Amanda suddenly jumped up and grabbed the steel pipe, pulling her body up easily.

At this time, the phone had a mechanical female voice, "Your first new message: 'Hey, little girl, today is Sunday. Call me back if you have time.'" She knew it was Nina voice, just wondering what's up with Nina.

"Your second new message: 'Hey Marine, today is the 64th day we've known each other. If you want to make up your 60th day celebration, you know where to find me, Fernanda.'" Amman When Da pulled his body up, he looked at the phone subconsciously, "Day 64? She and I are friends who have kissed at most. Do we need to celebrate?"

"Your third new message: 'Hi, good morning. I thought, you know this is our first Thanksgiving. Anything you want to say to me? If you want, call, call, video. '" This was Julie's voice, and Amanda realized that this might be the last time she had a video conversation with Julie in China.

After finishing 30 pull-ups, Amanda lifted her body upside down.Hook the pole with your feet wearing running shoes, release your hands, and let your whole body hang vertically downwards.Head down, and then slowly lift up the upper body, doing upside down "sit-ups".

When the body hangs upside down in the air, the blood in the whole body accelerates to the head, artificially creating "brain congestion".The anxiety, uneasiness and tension from before disappeared without a trace in an instant.Amanda felt her self-awareness return to her body, and her chaotic thoughts gradually began to clear up.

After completing 100 aerial "sit-ups" abs, Amanda jumped back to the floor.She thought the voicemail was gone, but instead she received another message, "Amanda, this is Victoria. Give me a call back and I'll tell you something you'd like to hear."

"Is this impossible? Could it be that she also received an order to come to the San Diego base?" Amanda thought, and began to do push-ups on the floor.

Continuous, heavy push-ups are a traditional feature of Marine Corps physical training.Both male and female soldiers will be required to persist in this training subject for a long time.This is not just something to do at "Hell's Boot Camp" on Balis Island, but also the training that will be required to be completed anytime, anywhere in the future, even on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

When she finished 100 push-ups, she felt a little hungry.Quickly got up from the floor, rushed to the bathroom, and thought while running, "Okay, today's content is done. The rest is to take a shower, eat breakfast, and make a lot of phone calls."

While taking a shower, I thought again, "Today is November 11th. It doesn't seem like a special day. Why are there so many messages? Oh, there are still four days until Thanksgiving. No wonder Julie called today."

At 9:45 am, Amanda has made all the calls she should have made except Fernanda's call back.Before going out, she really didn't think about how to say something to celebrate with Fernanda.

Following Sherman Road, south of the Naval Air Station, Amanda pulled the car from the block where she was stationed to the Naval Checkpoint, a mile away.After checking the documents, he drove non-stop to the Rhododendron Garden Apartment in San Diego.

"On the phone just now, I felt that Nina was not in a good mood, but she didn't say anything. What happened?" Amanda was thinking while driving.

Twenty minutes later, she pulled over to the side of the road on the Hermann Boulevard side.When getting off the car, I glanced at the gray three-story townhouse in front of me on both sides of the road, and thoughtfully walked towards the entrance of the corridor on the right.

"Hi, Nina, how are you?" Amanda greeted enthusiastically when Nina opened the door.

"Come here so soon? Come in." Nina, who was wearing sunglasses, said softly.

"Good morning, ma'am." The two little girls sitting on the carpet in the living room turned around and said to Amanda.

"Hi, ladies." Amanda greeted Nina's two daughters at a distance.

Nina smiled and walked to the two daughters, knelt down and said softly, "Babes, just stay here and watch TV. Mommy and her friends have something to talk about."

Amanda didn't know what Nina wanted to do, but just followed her into the room on the left.Sitting at the dresser, looking at Nina in the mirror, "Okay, can we talk now?"

Nina sat on the edge of the bed and slowly took off her sunglasses, "What do you think is this?"

Amanda suddenly found that Nina's left eye socket was black, "God! Nina, what happened?"

Walked up to Nina and sat down, took her hand excitedly and shouted, "Tell me, who did this? The son of a bitch!"

"You know, Tony came to see me last night..."

"What? Your ex-boyfriend Anthony Price?"

Nina nodded, and continued with a depressed expression, "Actually, the purpose of my coming to San Diego is to make my two daughters live safer and receive a better education. Of course, the most important reason is to leave Tony."

Amanda asked, "I know. But how did he know you were in San Diego?"

When the two met, Nina had already given birth to her eldest daughter Cecilia with her boyfriend Anthony.Although Nina was not married to her boyfriend at the time, she never regretted having children out of wedlock.

Due to the birth out of wedlock, Anthony cannot take care of his daughter as a father when it comes to custody issues.Therefore, raising her eldest daughter, Cecilia, became the most important thing for Nina every day.

But with the birth of her second child, Emma, ​​Nina felt that her boyfriend seemed less and less able to accept marriage.Finally one day, when she woke up from the bed, she never saw her boyfriend again.

To her, it didn't matter whether the man disappeared or died in some stinky sewer.Her only concern is how to raise her two daughters.During this long process, she no longer expected this man to return to herself and her two daughters.

Nina smiled and said lightly, "He is the father of two children, there will always be a way to find out."

Amanda was really anxious and angry, "If he threatens the lives of you and your two children, I will not let him go."

"I know. If necessary, I will apply to the court for a restraining order against him," Nina said.

"Of course, no matter what you do, I will support you! Just, give me his phone number!" Amanda said at the end, her face became a little cold.

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