She received the gift of God [Greek mythology]

It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon after finishing the big clothing purchase.It felt a little strange to have lunch at this time, so the group decided to eat ice cream.

Apollo consciously acted as a shopping bag guard, sat on a bench in the atrium of the shopping mall, and familiarly announced the desired flavor: "I want orange dark chocolate and strawberry cheesecake."

As soon as Artemis raised her hand to acknowledge, she dragged Pandora into the gelato parlor.

The bright and bright display cabinets are lined up, and dozens of ice creams of different flavors are neatly stacked inside. The top layer of each flavor of ice cream is framed into beautiful patterns, and it is also decorated with various fresh fruits and nuts, like a close-knit Small hills lined with colorful flowers.Many flavor labels are foreign words with unclear meanings, and Pandora is getting more and more dazzled: common varieties, it turns out that ice cream can have so many flavors...

Artemis reported her brother's order first, and then quickly decided on the taste she wanted: "I want sour cherry cream and almond biscuits." She then looked at Pandora and joked kindly: "Are you delusional?" ?”

Pandora expressed her feelings honestly: "Everything looks delicious..."

"If you're undecided, I recommend straiatella flavor, vanilla cream and dark chocolate chips, it's an unmistakable choice." Hermes walked to her side and spoke at the right time.

It sure sounds delicious.

She asked: "Hermes, what flavor do you want?"

"Tiramisu and pistachio bar."

"Pistachio?" Pandora found it in the window, it was the same light green color as the pistachio.Kind of hard to imagine what that would taste like.But Hermes' choice ignited her curiosity. She reluctantly looked at other fruit flavors and made up her mind: "I have never eaten pistachio ice cream, so I will try it too."

Hermes teased her with a smile: "If you think it's not delicious, don't blame me." He took his own ice cream cone from the boss, then came up with a new idea, and suggested: "If you don't worry about it, don't worry about it." , If you want another flavor, I'll give you a bite of my own pistachio flavor." As he spoke, he really made a gesture to let her take a bite out of it with a small spoon.

Pandora almost readily agreed.She and her high school classmates have also done something similar to exchanging ice cream flavors, but only for the same sex. Hermes didn't seem to care much, but she still felt subtly awkward.She changed her words and said, "No, I've decided. Please give me pistachios and straia—" She stumbled and blushed a little while reading the long Italian name.

The owner of the ice cream shop smiled kindly, repeated the correct pronunciation, handed her the big cone, and winked at her: "buonappetite, signorina!" (Bon Appetite, Miss)

The cone she received contained a scoop of ice cream flavored with wild strawberries.Pandora froze for a moment: "I didn't..."

"A present for the lovely young lady."

Seeing this, Artemis complained half-truthfully: "I come to you to eat ice cream every time, why don't I get such treatment?"

The boss smiled: "Signorina, the ice cream scoop I gave you is half the size of your brother's."

Apollo, the worst in the game.But he was not there, and he was unaware of the difference between himself and his sister, which may also be a blessing.

A little afraid that the ice cream ball would slip off, Pandora scooped out a scoop of pistachio flavor carefully before leaving the store.

"How is it?" Hermes asked impatiently.

Pandora felt the taste melting on her tongue seriously, and didn't answer immediately.

Hermes blinked, unconsciously showing a little nervousness on the line of his lips.

She then bent her lips and smiled: "I didn't expect it to be quite delicious."

"Let me just say it?" He laughed too, as if he was very happy to agree with her on the ice cream flavor, and his smile was like stars dancing in his eyes.

Pandora hurriedly turned her gaze back to the ice cream, and took two big bites.The coolness rolled down the throat, as if slightly dispelling the heat rushing to the ears.The sweetness of wild strawberries has a hint of sourness, which is a perfect match with the sweetness and mellowness of vanilla cream chocolate.

The blond twins sitting on the bench not far away had a panoramic view of the interaction between the two.

Apollo ate fast, already started to chew on the cone skin, murmured to his sister vaguely: "The real purpose of coming out today is this..."

Artemis didn't answer, just shrugged.

"It's really rare for him to be so attentive not long after we met, but you don't need to worry about that guy, right? Whatever he wants, he will always get it himself."

"Really? But according to my opinion, maybe he's quite useless in love. It may not be as simple and straightforward to beat around the bush." ​​Artemis left a comment and licked the ice cream ball slowly.

Apollo said loudly: "It seems that you are not convincing when you say this kind of emotional reason."

Artemis squinted at him: "I hardly have sex with others || lust doesn't mean I can't understand the relationship between men and women." She added thoughtfully: "Rather than worrying, it's better to say that I want to see him fail He looks like that, so he creates opportunities for him instead.”

"Al, I think you should restrain your sadistic tendencies."

"Well, what did you say?"

"Nothing was said."

When Pandora and Hermes came over, a similar conversation repeated itself.Hermes asked casually, "What were you talking about just now?"

Apollo replied, "Nothing."

After eating the ice cream, Apollo dragged the other three to accompany him to choose the letter paper—he seemed to be sending a long letter with a love poem to a certain woman at a frequency of at least once a month (if it wasn’t for Artemis Dissuade, he will probably write every day).In terms of courtship, the style of this Mr. Poet is extremely classical.

But when Apollo grabbed Pandora and put on a pitiful big dog expression, sincerely asking for her opinion on the stationery style as a young woman, Pandora started to get dizzy: don’t make it seem that the stationery she chooses will determine his Love is the same as life and death!

After hesitating for a long time, Apollo finally bought a copy of all the options without any accident.Let's save the problem of choosing stationery until writing the letter.

After the trouble with Apollo, it was almost time for dinner.Artemis finally showed a trace of fatigue: "I want to go home for dinner." Apollo agreed.Hermes looked at the numerous shopping bags: "Can your car fit it?"

Artemis thought for a moment: "I probably can't fit it." After finishing speaking, she decisively called the driver and asked the driver to drive another car to pick him up.

While waiting for the car, Pandora suddenly thought of something: "Hermes, you don't seem to have bought anything today." Although she can't claim to have "bought" those clothes...

The other party was surprised and silent for a while before saying: "I didn't come here today for shopping. I was supposed to be the driver, but because some guys messed up the situation, I don't know what I did in the end."

Apollo, who was blatantly targeted, glared at him: "You'll get the advantage and be good!"

Instead, Pandora thought that the cognition that going to the shopping mall meant that she had to buy something might just be a reflection of her own experience.After Prometheus disappeared, Epimetheus couldn't drive again. Before she got her driver's license at the age of 16, she would take the car of neighbors or friends' parents to the nearest city only when she needed to buy new clothes or go to a restaurant to eat. shopping center.The Olimpoi children were certainly different.She didn't speak any more, took out her phone and opened a sns application casually, killing time aimlessly.

Suddenly a new message popped up, from Hermes.

"I actually bought something today"

Someone is standing next to her, what's the matter?Pandora gave him a puzzled sideways look, and asked cooperatively, "What did you buy?"

"Confidential"

She flattened her mouth and was about to press off the screen to ignore him, when a new bubble popped up in the chat window:

"I bought it for someone else"

After pausing for a few seconds, Pandora's fingertips slid across the keyboard to type the phrase "to whom" but then deleted it.She suddenly didn't want to know the answer.So mysterious, nothing more than a girlfriend or something.She had no intention of prying into the private lives of the Olympians.

"That's it"

After saying this, she put the phone back in her bag.

"The driver is finally here, 5 minutes. Go downstairs."

The receptionist in the parking lot drove the white sports car of Artemis to the temporary parking area on the ground.

Artemis ran to instruct the two men how to put the shopping results into the trunk and the car without any injuries, and Pandora sat in the passenger seat first as promised.For a few minutes, she sat alone in the avant-garde sports car. The air-conditioning in the car was very strong, and the elegant fragrance in the car seemed to be gone, but she couldn't calm down, and she couldn't find the reason.

When the car door opened again, it was Hermes who sat in the driver's seat.

"Artemis doesn't want to drive anymore, so let me do it."

Pandora nodded and fastened her seat belt silently.

After the black car following the Agra mansion drove onto the highway, Hermes broke the silence: "Tired?"

Pandora shook her head, and then said: "Maybe a little bit."

"What's the matter? You look sullen."

She couldn't help but glanced at her expression in the rearview mirror.In defense: "There is no sullenness."

Hermes turned on the soothing music in the car, turned the volume down, and said without looking sideways: "You don't need to have psychological pressure to get along with the pair of siblings. They are the embodiment of self-will, and they don't care much about the people around them." But they have no bad intentions. If they want to play with you, they really want to play with you. If they feel tired, they can quit at any time. They forget it the next day, and they will bring you next time .”

"Today is the third day I've been here. It turned out to be only the third day." But she has met many new people and had some unprecedented experiences. "Maybe... I began to fear that I would be changed by the new environment, and it would be too fast and irreversible."

Oops.Accidentally leaked the truth.Pandora laughed dryly as if coughing: "I'll just say it casually. Don't pay attention." She quickly turned the topic to Hermes: "You analyze the same thing every time the people around you. Don't you give each of them Make a personal profile, just like the psychological profiler in the TV series?"

There is another sentence she didn't say: won't you be tired like this?

"Neither," said Hermes, turning right. "I just can't help noticing a lot."

Pandora didn't have time to carefully figure out what these words meant, and suddenly realized that the black car of the Olymboi family was not in front of her.She turned her head in astonishment, and through the left window, she saw that the black car continued to move straight along the road, while the sports car she and Hermes were in turned to the other direction.

"Don't be nervous, don't rush to call the police, I didn't intend to kidnap you," Hermes said lightly, "You said you want to invite me to dinner, right? A little detour from here happens to be where I want to go."

"Then Artemis and the others know..."

Hermes' cell phone in the storage compartment rang at this moment, and he pressed it immediately after glancing at it, with a smile as if he had succeeded in a mischief: "Now they know."

Pandora leaned back on the seat resignedly: "Then where are we going now?"

Hermes replied in a good mood: "Temporary secret."

"..."

As a result, Hermes drove directly up the mountain road, and when he arrived at the parking lot on the top of a certain hill, the setting sun had already sunk halfway.Pandora got out of the car, shrunk her neck because of the high evening wind, looked around and was quite confused: no matter how you look at it, there is no building nearby that can be called a restaurant.

"Go over there."

Following Hermes across the small parking lot, Pandora came to a booth selling hot dogs and other fast food.

"Here it is." Hermes seemed to find her disbelieving expression amused.

Pandora was mentally prepared to let the wallet bleed, but it turned out to be such a friendly place.All the hot dogs in this restaurant are priced at 5 crowns, and the package including chips and drinks is only 799 crowns.

"you sure……?"

"I'm sure," Hermes looked at the greasy menu, "I want the classic hot dog set, served with spicy brown mustard sauce, and the drink is iced coffee, please."

Pandora ordered two classic hot dog combos.It feels very magical to take out a 20 kroner note and pay back the favor and even give change.

"Here." Hermes had already sat on the wooden picnic table and chairs beside the sentry box, and waved to her.

She walked over with the plate and sat down beside him.She took a sip of ice-cola, bit her straw and muttered, "Even though Epimetheus is bankrupt, I'm not penniless. You don't have to worry about me so much."

With that said, she took a bite of the hot dog.Maybe the hot dogs here are good enough to make a special trip?

"..." She was thinking too much.

Hermes read out what she was thinking again: "The hot dogs here are quick-frozen sausages that are reheated casually, nothing special."

"Then why..."

"I really want to come here." He raised his wrist and glanced at the electronic watch. "The time is just right."

"What's good?"

He picked up a potato chip and turned it around, pointing to the side of the wooden fence.

Pandora then looked over.

From here, not only can you see the surrounding satellite cities clearly, but you can even see the bay embraced by the vast sky.The sun has not yet set, and the cloud that presses the sea and the sky | the wall is still gorgeous pink and purple, but the city surrounded by hills has been shrouded in the shadow of cool tones.

Then, little by little, the lights of the streets and buildings were lit up, as if a net of pearls was suddenly picked up from the gray sea waves, and the splendor was shining brightly.It only took about ten seconds for the whole area to be completely lit up, but sitting on the dilapidated bench at the edge of the parking lot, it was like witnessing the heart of the bustling city completely revealing its original appearance as night fell; the traffic flow caused the valves to expand and contract And the pulsating silver blood, flowing non-stop, no matter the destination, it just moves forward.

Pandora was distracted by the scene in front of her, and was speechless.

"Your hot dog is going cold."

She subconsciously took a bite when she heard the words.No matter how beautiful the scenery is, this is still a mediocre hot dog.

"If you want to see this view from this location, you can only come here to eat hot dogs." Hermes gestured behind him.

A notice board hung on the side of the sentry box facing the picnic tables and chairs: "Customers Only".

It turned out to be the case.

Hermes crossed his fingers and supported his chin, and asked with a smile: "Is there a good reason for me to come here to eat?"