James's house is a closed mansion. The iron net on the wall and the high iron gate erected at the intersection show the degree of privacy that the owner pays attention to. The surrounding tall and lush trees block the curious sight of pedestrians.

Jessica followed Raymond, and behind herself was the eerily silent Sherlock.Ever since she made her speech about love, Sherlock has been so unfriendly, even Raymond's bragging in the car doesn't care.

They entered the yard and could hear the house commotion from a distance, and it sounded like they had started the celebration early.

"What if you lose?" Jessica suddenly thought of this question, "Will this party still be held?"

"Of course, why not," Raymond said without looking back, "this is the season's celebration party, you know?"

As he spoke, he walked to the door, the heavy oak door was wide open, and James was standing at the door.

"Hey, Raymond!" He smiled and held out his hand, and the two of them gave a high five.

"Thanks, man," Raymond patted him on the shoulder, "you're really very generous."

"It's not a big deal." James brushed the broken hair on his forehead back with his hands. "We should really get together. I'm going to London soon."

They chatted a few words about graduation, and James noticed Jessica and Sherlock next to him.

"Jessie—we haven't seen each other in a while," he grinned like a movie star on a poster, "how are you?"

"I'm fine." Jessica also said with a smile, but she was thinking of him encouraging Kevin to embezzle funds and steal transcripts.

"This is..." James looked suspiciously at Sherlock who was standing behind. The latter wiped the railing with his finger, twisted it with the pads of his index finger and thumb, and put it under his nose to smell.

"This is Sherlock Holmes," Jessica had no choice but to introduce herself before Raymond came to answer the conversation. "Uh, Raymond's friend is also my friend."

After she finished speaking, she found that Raymond had entered the room, was talking to a boy, and winked at Jessica.

"Oh——" James suddenly realized, "I heard that he is very famous." He held out a hand in Sherlock's direction.

Sherlock took a solemn step forward and shook it for a full ten seconds, which made James' smile stiffer and stiffer.

"Forgive me," Sherlock finally let go of his hand, "Your father must have a heart disease."

"How do you know?" James said in surprise.

"The railing of the stairs in the porch, even if he has three or four steps, he has to grab the railing hard. It should have a long history of illness. But now it seems that it is not congenital, at least you seem to have no symptoms."

"This...should be a secret," James froze for a moment, and he paused for a while before reorganizing his words, "My request may be a bit too much, but it's easy for you... My dad was talking about a business recently. project, if a competitor knows..."

"Oh, it won't be a problem." Sherlock immediately assured, and he bowed politely, "If your father is here, I can explain to him in person, in fact, I am also a hunting/gun fan .”

"He's not here, but," James relaxed, becoming excited, "you also like to collect hunting/guns? Then you must go upstairs and see, my dad has a special room..."

Before taking Sherlock upstairs, James patted Jessica on the head apologetically and offered her a drink, "You're not interested in guns."

Jessica could only watch helplessly as the two disappeared on the second floor like friends for many years.

*****************

As the proud son of heaven born with a golden spoon in his mouth, James' parents are also so enlightened that people are jealous.After he agreed to throw the celebratory party, his parents took his two younger sisters to Disneyland, giving the guests a lot of freedom—a decision they may regret.

Now the whole house - at least the ground floor - is packed, the stereo is turned up so loud it's deafening, the nose is filled with the smell of alcohol and cigarettes, and the disco ball is shooting out lights that hurt the eyes. Constantly destroying the senses.

Jessica was never a party person, and for the life of her she couldn't comprehend the joy of chatting over crappy beer.She stayed here out of a sense of duty, and Sherlock was "charging" upstairs, and if he accidentally tripped the alarm system, Jessica at least made sure someone tipped him off when the police came.

So on the surface, she was drinking drinks in the corner and declining all invitations, but she was actually observing the surrounding environment vigilantly, even though these drunken teenagers really had nothing to observe.

James was socializing around, he seemed to have no worries about leaving Sherlock upstairs alone, and he was still working hard as a host to greet everyone.

Calvin sang karaoke on a small makeshift stage in the living room. His voice was moving and attracted many screams.

Raymond is talking to a boy with long hair, and they have been inseparable since the beginning.Jessica took a closer look at the boy dressed as a hippie, and found that he seemed to be No. 17 on the court today—their opponent?And the one who Sherlock had concluded had injured his Achilles tendon?

She really couldn't understand Raymond more and more.Jessica rolled her eyes, but found Eleanor Carter in the crowd in a blink of an eye.

Jessica rubbed her eyes in surprise, making sure she was right.Eleanor was still dressed as a lady, surrounded by a few girls, so serious that she was out of place with the whole scene.

But...she looked at Raymond who was unaware on the other side, and then at Eleanor.

Doesn't Eleanor know that her two mortal enemies, Raymond and Sherlock, are here?

Perhaps sensing Jessica's gaze, Eleanor left her small circle and walked towards this side through the crowd.

"Jessie, I want to apologize to you this time," Eleanor said loudly when she was three or four steps away from Jessica, attracting a lot of curious attention, "For Annie, and for me Myself. You know I broke up with Raymond . . . it makes me irrational, but it's none of your business."

"Huh?" Jessica was taken aback for a moment, and then became a little wary.Although Eleanor has always been so hypocritical, now that she and Raymond are almost incompatible, what reason is there to maintain a relationship with Jessica?

"I believe you didn't interfere with my Raymond's relationship, because you dare not." Eleanor stopped in front of Jessica, she smiled, but her eyes turned cold, "And you know exactly what I'm talking about. "

"To be honest, I really don't know what you're talking about." Jessica was confused for a while.And this frank confusion seemed to annoy Eleanor instantly.

She was furious at first and wanted to accuse something, but in an instant she seemed to have heard something funny.

"My God," she let out a nervous laugh, "My God, you don't...don't care! I can't believe it...so I'm going to see if you care, I don't care anyway but lost..."

An ominous premonition rose in Jessica's heart, and the idea that Eleanor had something to hold her once again came to mind.

But no matter how hard she tried, she didn't have any relevant memories.

Jessica tried to grab Eleanor's arm as she turned away, but she dodged it.Eleanor strode to the karaoke booth and snatched the microphone from Calvin, who was singing "On the Edge of 17."

"Hey...you crazy woman..." Calvin wanted to snatch it back dissatisfied, but was pushed away.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Eleanor said holding up the microphone, her eyes shot straight across the surprised crowd to Jessica at the back, "I have something very important to say, Carl Wen, can you wait a minute?"

Calvin muttered something, but stepped aside.The accompaniment also stopped, and the whole house was extraordinarily quiet for a while.Everyone's curious or excited eyes focused on Eleanor on the stage.

"As we all know, my relationship with Raymond has entered a stage of no return," she said clearly, "but out of conscience, I feel that I can no longer hide an incident that happened on campus. , sensational, and extremely bad."

Jessica's sanity told her to go up and stop what was going to happen - whatever it was.But deep in her heart, there is another her, waiting for the final answer with bated breath just like everyone else.

Eleanor showed a sweet and vicious smile, did not show off, and spit out a sentence from her red lips, "Jessica Harris, a girl with a beautiful appearance like an angel, she seduced Simon ... Mr Cornwell! They've done everything you can imagine!"

Her voice was carried into the air through the wires from the surround speakers on both sides, and the sound waves mixed with the surprised discussion of the crowd reached Jessica's ears in bursts, causing her overloaded cochlea to scream in pain.

She stood there dumbfounded, and from the corner of the eye she saw Raymond rushing onto the stage like crazy, and he said into the microphone while bursting with foul language: "This is shit! I don't believe this at all! Eleanor, you can't just because When we broke up..."

"You can ask Jessica yourself," Eleanor interrupted him mercilessly, "I have letters and photos of their exchanges here."

"Jessica!" Raymond said loudly in Jessica's direction with the veins on his forehead popping out, "I believe you haven't done it, why did you let her slander you?"

Jessica stared blankly at Raymond's anxious eyes, and opened her mouth to deny it, but Eleanor's determined and proud face rushed into her eyes in a blink of an eye.

did she do it

Or, Jessica, ever did?

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like