Summer of Fireflies

……disappeared. Janice cried on my shoulder, and I patted her on the back to comfort her.

Anna was silent, and I was silent, and only Janice's intermittent sobs were left in the room. In fact, I should have thought of it a long time ago. The mafia lady is not as easy to do as I imagined. It happened. Janice said that she mobilized the power of the whole family to find Jos.

The disappearance is just that his whereabouts are unknown, and it doesn't mean that Josi is dead. That is to say, he may still be alive. It is better to have the hope of being alive than to see the dead body.

We all hope that Jos is not dead, and Janice, who loves Jos deeply, is most afraid of seeing Jos die while waiting for Jos to return.

The waiting ladder was the most tormenting, and it was no wonder that her body, which had become fat after giving birth, was now haggard and turned into a bamboo pole.

"Don't cry!" Hearing Janice's cry, Anna became upset: "It's useless to cry now, and Jos won't come back."

When Janice heard Anna mention the missing Jos, she cried even more sadly.

"Pa——" the slap made a crisp sound after hitting the bones, Janice and I were stunned by Anna's slap.

"Anna, what are you doing?!" I grabbed Anna's slap that was about to attack again, but Anna jumped over me and dragged Janice, who was crying and swollen, to the mirror: "Look at the way you look now! Does the Janice I know look like this?!"

The woman in the mirror had long hair loose, her eyes under her bangs were swollen and ugly, and her entire face was haggard without a trace of rosy blood.

It's just that she hasn't dressed up for a few days, as if she has traveled to Obasan's country, her image is extremely bad, how can she be half as beautiful as Janice in the past?

"Don't forget that you have a daughter, Janice. As the mother of little Angie, you are no longer a child."

Little Angie was the nickname for Janice's daughter.

Even though Jos disappeared, she had to fulfill her mother's responsibility to take good care of her daughter until Jos came back.

At first I didn't want to understand the meaning of Anna's slap, but after hearing what she said, I understood her painstaking efforts to enlighten Janice in a different way.

Fortunately, Janice finally recovered after Anna's slap.

"Anna, if you slap harder just now, Janice's face will be disfigured." After Janice calmed down, she went to comfort little Angie who woke up from crying, and Anna and I went to the bathroom together.

Anna hooked my shoulder and smiled heartlessly: "Why don't you slap Lisa again? Symmetry is more beautiful."

"... Janice will definitely hate you." I frowned silently.Back in the room, Janice was breastfeeding the black child. After dressing up, although her eyes and half of her face were very red, her spirit and complexion were much better than when we first came in and saw her. Finally, Anna and I can leave with peace of mind .

The rest is the business of the Jos family. I believe that Janice, who has regained her strength, will be able to support the whole family after Jos disappears. Don't underestimate Janice's talent. In terms of talents and management, her talents are second only to Anna.

Our sister, she has never been an empty vase.

Moreover, the affairs of the Jos family can only be managed by Janice herself, and the two outsiders, Anna, me, cannot interfere.

Later, Janice put the focus of her life on taking care of little Angie, helping Jos manage the family, and looking for Jos wholeheartedly. As impatient as ever.

As if she had grown up overnight, while Anna and I were gratified, we still couldn't help worrying about her. If Jos disappeared this time and never came back, I don't know that this one in front of me——it seems to be very strong on the surface , In fact, she braced her body and forced herself to be busy with managing the family and taking care of her daughter, so that she had no time to think about other Janice, whether she would fall down again because of Jos's absence.

Later I realized that I was wrong.

"I'll wait for Jos to come back." Janice, who was breastfeeding the child, had a firm light in her eyes, as if Jos's disappearance was just an ordeal in her eyes.

She said she had to be strong before Jos came back, and Janice said she didn't want to wait for Jos to come back and leave him with a broken family.

Janice with a calm expression, only when she looked down at little Angie, her gaze would emit the unique tenderness of motherhood.

Suddenly, I felt that the little girl among the three of us had really grown up, and she was far stronger than me in dealing with emotional issues.

"Do you regret it?" I asked Janice.

I still remember back then, I also took this sentence to ask young people.

"I don't regret it." A very straightforward and decisive answer.

After all, Janice is different from the young man. When she answered this sentence, she didn't even bat an eyelid. Unlike the young man, time left no option for him to regret.

The bumpy road of youth can only go forward, but Janice cut off her back road, leaving no room for regret at all.

"Lisa, I don't know what you are confused about. When it comes to feelings, you have to give up to get something. If you really meet the right person, don't miss it. You know, if I didn't choose to marry Joss, I wouldn't marry him." There will be me now, and there will be no little Angie.” Knowing that the road ahead may be dark, but Janice’s resolute behavior for love made me puzzled, and her strength infected me.

In Palermo in June, the climate is warm and rainy. It may be because there has not been much rain in the late spring, so after June, Palermo's rainy season will take over.

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of summer again, and time went by so fast that I couldn’t catch my breath. In the clothing store on the street in Palermo, the winter clothes were taken down, and the spring and summer clothes were put on the hangers impressively.Today An An was sent to study at JOY. Anna invited me to go shopping, but I flatly refused.

I opened the curtains and looked out of the window. The wet raindrops rolled down from the glass door, drawing blurred traces, and the world outside the glass door was currently raining heavily.Occasionally, there are people walking with umbrellas on the side of the road. When the wind blows, the umbrellas will flip over. If the passers-by did not quickly grasp the handle of the umbrella, it is estimated that the umbrella in his hand has been blown away by the strong wind and heavy rain.

The rain is heavy and the wind is also strong.

Early summer in Palermo turns into a rainy season.

Because of the heavy rain that has been falling for a long time, JOY called on the phone: "An'an lives with me today." The tone was so flat that there were no ups and downs.

There was an example of An An living in JOY’s house before, even though I doubted whether I would cook a meal instead of ordering takeaway without the two of them, but seeing the rain, I couldn’t go out to pick An An back, After thinking about it, he decided to forget it, and it would be okay to let An An stay at JOY's place for one night. After instructing some trivial matters related to eating and sleeping, he hung up the phone.

Not long after, another phone call came, completely disrupting my mind.

"Mr. Prison Temple, can I ask you to make it clear?!"

There was a rustling noise from the other end of the phone. Because of the heavy rain, the telecommunication signal was also affected. I couldn't quite hear what Kiyogiji Hayato said on the phone, but only "Judaime" "died" I heard the key words "not in the hospital" especially clearly.

Connected in series is: Judaimu...dead...who is not in the hospital...

No matter who died or who is not in the hospital, it has something to do with Tsunayoshi Sawada.After the phone call was cut off for no reason, my heart fluttered along with the phone call.

When I called again, only the "beep beep" sound remained in the voice, and then the screen displayed: No signal at all.

Prisoner Hayato will not call me for no reason, only when it involves the safety or whereabouts of young people, he will call me to ask me.

So, based on the above words, I can make the following inferences:

First, Tsunayoshi Sawada is dead.

Second, Tsunayoshi Sawada was injured and hospitalized.

Third, Tsunayoshi Sawada disappeared in the hospital.

No matter what kind of inference it is, I don't like it, but there is one thing that I can't ignore, that is, something must have happened to the young man.

I picked up the phone and wanted to contact the young man, but there was still no signal, and Hayato Gokuji couldn't get through. I couldn't think of anyone who could still contact the young man.

Never in this moment has I hated myself so much.

Before, I tried not to get in touch with the young man as much as possible, so apart from a series of numbers, I have nothing else to contact the young man. I don’t know where he works, where he will go if something happens, and I don’t know. Is it safe.

It suddenly occurred to me that Jos seemed to be a good friend of the young man. I called Janice to ask Janice, and Janice went to help check the records. The secret copy of the Jos family has permission to use, and Janice, who does not know the password, Naturally, Si couldn't find the clues and news I wanted.

After sleeping for a while, thinking of a place that was close at hand, I suddenly grabbed the umbrella in the porch and rushed out the door. The heavy rain washed the asphalt road, splashing raindrops.

I ran to the villa next door with an umbrella in hand. The cold door was locked, indicating that none of the residents of the villa had come back recently. I put down the umbrella and sat on the steps in a daze. Fear and worry haunted me. It suffocates me.

At this moment, I began to miss him crazily, but I didn't know where to find him. I didn't hold up my umbrella until the raindrops outside the house splashed my trouser legs, and ran towards the parking lot.

Pick up the car, drive, no matter where you go, I just want to see him now.