[Comprehensive British and American] Alien girls are still saving the earth today

Jinx was curled up in a tub full of water when she heard her phone ring.

After all, it is for people to take a bath. It is not comparable to the sea or the community swimming pool. She curled up in the water in the form of a human being, with her eyes open, looking at the lights of the Yuba on the ceiling of the bathroom flickering through the water. Shaking, she shook her head, exiting a wave on the surface of the water, then overflowed the ceramic bathtub, and splashed on the floor tiles with a splash.

The bell rang suddenly, startling her, she sat up from the water, and then looked at the mobile phone she put on the sink.

At this moment, she seemed to see Zoboga Coconut slowly looking up on the screen of the mobile phone.

However, the passionate music of "Verona" keeps looping, and even if it hangs up automatically, it will continue to sing persistently. It seems that the person who made the call is very patient.

After calming down, she came out of the bathtub, pulled off the bathrobe hanging on the shelf and put it on her body. With her wet hair on her face, she picked up the phone from the sink with one hand and the bathroom door with the other. Putting the handle on, she closed her eyes, as if cheering herself up, and softly shouted "one, two, three". After counting "three", she twisted open the door, closed her eyes, and rushed to her own Cover yourself with a quilt on the bed in the bedroom.

At this moment, she opened her eyes and let out a breath. Without looking at who the caller was, she swiped the screen and connected the call.

"Jinx?"

There was a pleasant voice over there. Even though the voice through the electric current would change more or less, Jinx could still recognize that the person opposite was Charles.

She exhaled, and seemed to expand several times in the limited space of the quilt.

Charles on the other side of the phone frowned.

Sparrow walked past his feet, and then jumped onto his lap twice and sat cross-legged, watching Charles with a haughty look on the phone. Charles called five or six times before the other side got through, and he didn't speak. , but panting like the rest of his life after a catastrophe.

"Jinx?" Charles asked, frowning. "What's wrong with you?"

Jinx wrapped himself up tighter with the quilt. Although his heart was beating violently, Jinx was still calm on the surface, without waves: "I finished watching the Japanese ghost movie "Curse" blame"."

Charles was taken aback for a moment, and then thought of the two text messages sent by Jinx.

"Charles, I hit a ghost :)"

"...so scared QAQ"

He didn't know the meaning of the last "QAQ" two days ago. It was Henry who told him that many little girls would use these three letters to express crying.

Although Jinx's voice on the phone was very steady and even calm, he still imagined that Jinx's eyes were wide open, and tears were rushing from her eye sockets.

He coughed and said, "...are you afraid?"

"Scared." Jinx said expressionlessly and very honestly, "I hid in the water for a long time before, and now I'm under the quilt."

"..." There was silence on the phone for a few seconds, and then she heard a low laugh from Charles.

It seemed that the warmth of spring had broken through the ice that had spanned the entire winter, making her heartbeat a little slower.

She was covered in the quilt, and although her eyes were dark, she still blinked and said: "I didn't expect this movie to be so scary, everyone who enters this house is entangled by kayako, There is another person hiding under the quilt, but Kayako still emerges from under the quilt..." Her voice suddenly stopped.

She is now nestled in the quilt.

"It's okay, Jinx." Charles thought of the fearless Jinx who was huddled under the quilt to make a phone call at this moment, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised. Like a child telling a bedside story, "Let me tell you a story."

Jinx clenched the phone tightly, poked half of his head out from under the quilt, and looked out nervously.

"What story?" she asked.

"My ghost story." Charles said with a smile.

Jinx: "!!!"

"Don't be nervous." Charles smiled lowly, holding the phone in one hand, and gently stroking the hair on Sparrow's back with the other, and said softly, "When I didn't go to church school, I was in At home, my father gave me the first education. At that time, except for the United States, almost the whole world was at war. I sometimes read newspapers. Whenever the newspapers reported where Europe fell and how many people died, I was asleep. Everyone in the world dreams of them, their villages destroyed by plane bombing, and their relatives dying in concentration camps in batches."

Jinx knew he was talking about World War II.

"Jinx, you know, my ability is to enter other people's minds, I can spy on everyone's thoughts, I can also use my will to control other people's wills, and even let a person completely Death." He paused, and then lowered his voice very softly, "However, this is not a perfect ability. When I invade other people's thinking, their emotions, including pain, will all be reflected in my brain. in the head."

Jinx listened so engrossed that he didn't even realize he was holding his breath.

"For example, you, Jinx, when you were young, I mean, when we first met in Los Cabos." Charles smiled and said, "I know that experience was not pleasant, but it was The time when I invaded other people's minds was the most relaxing and joyful time. I can hear seals chirping, I can feel the gentle touch of the sun on my skin, and I can also feel that you are cruising in this sea every day, and your mood is as light as Singing that whistling ditty. I knew then that the one in Los Cabos wasn't a sea monster, but a marine intelligence that was so pure that it didn't hold any ocean debris."

"However, what I experienced when I was a child was a kind of heaviness that I couldn't understand or let go of at the time." He exhaled, as if looking for adjectives to describe the various nightmares he had when he was still young, "I I felt my flesh and bones being separated in the sound of the explosion, I felt the poisonous gas filling my airway, and I felt the tracks of the tank rolling over my body. At that time, I felt that I was the one who died countless times ghost."

Jinx tightens his grip on the phone a little.

Charles rubbed Sparrow's forehead, he watched Sparrow narrowing his eyes in enjoyment, and smiled: "But I'm alive, Jinx." He said softly, "So there are no ghosts. "

Jinx loosened his grip on the phone.

"Sleep in peace." Charles said, "There will be no Kayako drilling your bed tonight."

Listening to his smiling voice, Jinx also smiled. Since the six-second curse was unsealed, she began to work hard to learn various expressions. She learned the smile from Charles, and slightly raised her lips. Although It's still a little rusty and unnatural, but at least many people can recognize it as a smile.

"Professor Xavier," she called out.

Charles on the opposite side smiled and said, "Charles."

"Charles." She changed her words very naturally, "The first time we met, what did you feel in my mind?"

Although she didn't make it clear, Charles knew she was referring to the meeting at Baldwin's barn bookstore.

Sparrow yawned, and then fell asleep on his lap. At this time, the hour hand in the study had pointed to [-]:[-] in the evening. Most of the entire Xavier School had fallen asleep, only Charles and him The desk lamp is still awake.

"You've never changed," Charles said.

Jinx didn't know why when Charles said this, she felt a sense of peace and comfort as if she had returned to the sea. She buried her face in the soft pillow and listened to the ticking of the alarm clock on the bedside table , the chest is warm, as if floating on the sea on his back, being gently caressed by the sun.

After Charles hung up the phone, he looked at the call time on the screen and smiled lightly. Just as he put down the phone, he heard a sound coming from the door. He looked up and saw that Rui Wen's upper body leaned into the room, and said teasingly: "It's late at night, and the elderly will actually make such a long phone call."

The corner of Charles' mouth slightly raised: "Coax the little girl to sleep."

Rui Wen pursed her lips: "Your expression now is exactly the same as when you were young."

"Really?" Charles blinked and touched his face, "It can be described as 'young', I don't think I'm that old."

Rui Wen clicked her tongue twice: "I probably know which little girl you are coaxing to sleep."

Charles raised an eyebrow.

"Charles, Henry said that you seemed to want to have a talk with her." Raven folded her arms around her chest and stood leaning against the door frame, "So now, your 'talk' means 'love' ?"

"In love?" Charles smiled, "I don't know."

"Is there anything Charles Xavier doesn't know?" Raven asked.

"No." Charles looked at all the "Jinx" messages displayed in the text box of the mobile phone, and said, "But there is something I don't want to know."

Jinx went to class the next day staring at a pair of thick dark circles. When she was at the school gate, Ms. Smith almost stopped her, thinking she was going back to her old ways and painted smoky makeup.

Peter was very curious about Jinx's dark circles. When he gathered in the cafeteria for lunch at noon, he looked at Jinx with dull eyes and kept poking the pizza on the plate with a metal fork. Finally, he couldn't help it and asked: "Jinx, did you stay up late doing the questions?"

Jinx finally came back to her senses, looked at him, and then lowered her head again: "No..." She forked a piece of pizza with a metal fork, then stopped as if suddenly remembering something, looked To Peter and Harry and Mary Jane, who are digging into their lunch.

"Uh... I have a friend," Jinx said deadpan, "and she won't be able to sleep because of a phone call."

Harry and Mary Jane stopped and looked up at her. Mary Jane frowned: "Can't sleep because of a phone call? Who's calling."

Thinking of Charles, Jinx began to describe: "A professor, very knowledgeable, there is almost nothing he doesn't know, whether it is mathematics, physics or psychology."

As she spoke, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes were full of longing and admiration.

At this time, the three people sitting at the same table with her also guessed that this friend of Jinx was Jinx himself.

"Jinx." Mary Jane said very seriously, "You are also very good, and you will definitely become like him."

"So." Harry continued, "Don't stay up all night studying the questions."

"It hurts." Peter shrugged and said.

Jinx: "???"

After the three of them had some healthy teaching, the topic turned to the previous day's club activities, what ideas did their respective clubs come up with that "surprised Mr. Harris".

Harry's science club is planning to do a drone show, and each drone has a "Welcome Mr. Harris" banner.

Mary Jane's school newspaper is going to do a "Write a Love Letter to Mr. Harris" campaign.

After the two finished speaking, they looked at Jinx and Peter together.

Peter frowned: "Our symphony orchestra..."

Jinx was expressionless: "I'm going to borrow the costumes from "Romeo and Juliet" and dress up as the characters in the play to play music."

Mary Jane nodded: "It is said that Mr. Harris won an award for this drama when he was the president of the drama club."

"Yeah." Peter rubbed between his brows, "But in order to achieve the goal of 'surprise Mr. Harris', our team leader decided to reverse all collusion..."

Mary Jane: "..."

Harry: "..."

Peter continued: "Because Jinx is the tallest girl in the club, she will be dressed as Romeo."

"So, Peter, are you Juliet?" asked Mary Jane.

Harry raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Do you think Peter might be?"

"Of course not." Peter sighed. "I'll be Mrs. Montague."

Mary Jane: "..."

Harry: "..."

"Yes." Peter said to himself, "Romeo's mother."

Jinx looked at Peter blankly: "Mom."

Peter looked hopeless.