The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

"But no matter what, you won't accept me." On Harry Osborn's handsome pale face, there was some peculiar morbid beauty, and his posture of kneeling and stopping beside Erica looked calm and elegant.

His eyes were filled with secret disappointment and fanaticism, but he began to analyze in a calm tone, "Even if I am 16 years old, which is a very legitimate age for 'dating', even the most conservative religious people would not Restrict a 16-year-old boy from dating."

"But in the United States, establishing an emotional relationship between an adult and a minor involves considerable risk," Harry stared at Erica, explaining clearly, "especially now that you have become a public figure and have a relationship with an underage boy Intimacy will make you very passive in relevant public opinion."

Even though there is only a three-year age difference between him and Erica, adulthood is like a blatant barrier between them, and Erica, who has grown up, will always be the one who bears the responsibility and is questioned.

Harry stared straight at her with those blue eyes, and asked her, "Am I right?"

On Erica's almost impeccable face, which is in line with the golden ratio of ancient Greece, there is a kind of calmness that is a bit ruthless, and her voice is calm and composed, "Yes, I will not let my career go through twists and turns. And Besides, it's because I never saw you as—"

"I understand the reason enough!" Harry interrupted her with a raised voice, he knew so well the rejection she would say, but when all this happened, he found that he still couldn't listen calmly, she said those cold words.

At this moment, Harry began to regret today's impulsive advance so much.

He has obviously restrained and suppressed for such a long time, when she kindly proposed to accompany him to visit the laboratory of Caltech, he should pretend to be gentle and polite again, and readily agree, shouldn't he?

Why do you lose your mind, become angry, and angry at her because she can't always sense his intentions and don't accept his concern?

If in the car, he hadn't said that obvious statement against his will, how could Erika have insight into his true intentions?

But at that time, he almost intentionally revealed those paranoid emotions to her——

He was completely fed up with the suppressed, hidden emotions that could never be known to her.He is self-defeating, harboring emotions bordering on malevolence, and just wants to reveal everything.

Is it because he is too young that his love must be like a gray mouse in the sewer, which can only be covered up forever, so that it will not be noticed by others?

So he finally told her everything, his secret, strong, fanatical, extreme, almost desperate emotions.

But now, the boy lowered his face a little, and the loss and fragility in his voice was deliberately expressed, "I can't hear you say those words with my own ears."

He disguised himself as the poor guy again, trying to silence Erika's rejection words.

But she always makes her desperate reason like this, "No, Harry, I can't give you hopeless expectations."

Why not?There was a self-deprecating smile on Harry's drooping face. He really resented Erica's "responsibility" towards him now. Why couldn't she try to use him?

He's the sole heir to Osborne's business, isn't he?It is obvious that countless people treat him differently because of this, and there are many schemes.

But Erica, she seemed to cherish his emotions, so she chose to reject him without any ambiguity.

"Harry, I'm sorry I didn't notice your mood before." Erica never ambiguously dealt with feelings, "I don't want you to be like the "strange woman" described by Stefan Zweig, in a bitter love Spend countless hours of your life, never forgetting the heartless."

But Harry Osborn didn't seem to respond to her words. He raised his face and looked at her again, ignoring her comfort, but asked Erica abruptly, "Do you remember Thanksgiving four years ago?"

He said to himself, "In the science and technology museum of the Flushing Expo, I accidentally slipped and fell from the height of the stairs, but you wanted to hug me and prevent me from being injured, but fell to the ground and dislocated your arm. "

Harry stared at her expression and saw a little confusion in it.

It took Erica a few seconds to recall this incident, and it was probably only in the depths of her vague memory that she remembered it.

And Harry didn't wait for her to say anything, and continued to speak, "Also—do you still remember that when I was 12 years old, the night before I left New York to study in England, I stayed at Parker's house, but after I woke up from a nightmare, you once Sing me a lullaby?"

Erica remembers that at the beginning of the month, Peter seemed to have happened to talk to her about this incident, but she couldn't remember much about the past at that time, and she was a little confused about why she would sing a lullaby to a 12-year-old boy.

Now, she just got a little answer. It turned out that Harry had been awakened by a nightmare.

And Harry Osborn was like a mime actor immersed in a one-man show, and once again he did not give her a chance to answer, his voice became soft, "It is the other end of the rainbow in "The Wizard of Oz."

"Can you believe it?" Harry's clear blue eyes became brighter and moister. "That was the first time someone sang me a lullaby, but Peter told me that you used to lull him to sleep with it every day."

Erica was taken aback. She had heard that Harry's mother passed away unexpectedly not long after he was born, and that he and his father had always been estranged, but she did not expect that the boy's growth experience would be so indifferent.

And Harry continued to recall, looking at her intently, "You sang to me—"

"Beyond the rainbow, there is a paradise

If you dare to dream, they will come true

There are blue birds flying over the rainbow

So why can't I?

If only a happy bird could fly over a rainbow

So why can't I? "

He seemed to be full of doubts, and said to her almost questioningly, "Then, why can't I?"

Harry questioned her, his expression was like a child who was ignorant of the world but being rejected by the whole world.

Erica is rarely touched by others, but now, her heart constricts for a moment when she is pierced by the boy's gaze.

But she still tried to calmly and rationally said to him, "But these past events should not be the source of your painful emotions. If so, maybe you should forget them."

"No, never," Harry actually smiled, "I understand enough that these memories may not matter to you, but it doesn't matter, I don't need you to value them for this."

He didn't even go on to talk about how many times in the past five years, when exchanging letters with Peter Parker, he could only write a hopeless sentence, "Please give my regards to Peter Parker." Ricardo'.

How many times, when he stood in front of her, he could only restrain himself, pretending to be the "not very close, brother's friend" in her eyes.

But it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter, her existence can make endless emotions pour into his life, and that is enough to offset everything.

"I will return to England tonight, and I won't let you bother me anymore." Harry Osborn's eyes were filled with moisture, "But I won't be like a 'strange woman', who can only embrace hopeless pain for the rest of my life emotion."

Harry tried his best to suppress his strong emotions. For the first time in his life, he tried to touch Erica's wrist with his cold, almost trembling fingers, "We will love each other, one day..."

His cold lips and warm tears fell on Erica's fingertips, but he just whispered, "I have already plunged into my destiny, my abyss, and will spend my whole life because of it." .”