[Zhongyingmei] Hello stranger

After dinner, Will brought out the candled cake and placed it on the cleared table.When everyone was still happily watching the beautiful and delicious cakes on the dining table, Shirley, who had been waiting for this moment and deliberately chose the one closest to the power switch, walked over first, "Okay, I'm going to turn off the lights!"

Henry responded sweetly, and then Shirley turned the switch, leaning against the wall beside them and humming a happy birthday song with them.At first, everyone's attention was on Henry and Cake, and no one noticed Shirley's position. Until Henry was about to blow out the candles, he raised his head and looked around, "Hey, where's Aunt Shirley?"

Everyone looked around and realized that Shirley was not by their side. They subconsciously looked to the power switch, only to vaguely see her figure under the faint light of the candle, "...I am here."

Except for the two children who were present, they didn't notice anything unusual, and even Garcia, who was not a profiler, could smell something wrong.Before she turned her head and asked if she was unwell, she was attracted by the sound of knocking on the table from the other side, and then saw Morgan give herself a "don't ask" look.

Garcia blinked his eyes knowingly, pursed his lips and closed his eyes on Shirley.The rest of the people also looked away calmly and looked back at Henry, but Henry had already got off the chair and walked towards Shirley's position, "Come over here and blow out the candles with us, okay?"

"...Well," Shirley watched Henry approaching her, but still stood still.Before she hesitated to come up with words to refuse or explain, he had already walked to the side and took her hand, turned around and asked casually, a little puzzled, "Are you cold?"

"Hmm..." Henry's steps were already slow, and Shirley deliberately slowed down to delay the time, "A little bit..."

Apparently the other party wasn't because of the temperature, but JJ cooperated and left the position to find the remote control of the air conditioner, "It should be that the temperature of the air conditioner is too low, I'll turn it up..."

Standing beside Huo Qi, Jack looked around suspiciously, glanced at Shirley, then looked back at Huo Qi, and asked in a low voice, "Daddy, are you cold?"

Huo Qi licked his lips in embarrassment, not knowing how to answer the question that his son obviously knew the correct answer.When he paused for a while and was about to affirm, he heard Reid preemptively said: "In fact, studies have shown that different genders have different perceptions of temperature. The average muscle mass of men is 30.00% higher than that of women. In addition, women's hands, joints and necks are not protected by a layer of fat, and their hair is not as thick as men's... So under the same temperature conditions, men tend to feel warmer."

After finishing speaking, Reid nodded solemnly as if emphatically affirming his words.While solving Jack's doubts, it just rightly gave everyone a focus point, and even Henry stopped to listen to Reid's remarks.

"No wonder Aunt Shirley feels cold~" Jack smiled and nodded to Hodge with a clear smile, and the rest of them let nature take its course and made fun of Rhett as usual.The atmosphere became active again. Henry held Shirley and tried to move forward, but felt a pull back, and looked back at her in confusion, "Huh?"

"Actually..." If the candle was turned off but not turned on, even if it was only for a moment, Shirley would yell uncontrollably.That would not only ruin Henry's birthday but scare the two little kids, but she couldn't explain her fear to anyone.And children often have the habit of getting to the bottom of it. When she can't give him a convincing reason, all he can do is think of the most obvious answer.Here, it's "You don't want to blow out the candles with me", "I..."

Before Shirley could organize her words, Morgan, who had walked away from the dining table, approached her, shook her hand in the dark, gave her an encouraging look, and walked straight to where she was before.

Shirley looked back at him, even though she still couldn't fully trust him who saw everything clearly, she could vaguely discern his outline in the dark as if wearing a perspective mirror.Withdrawing her gaze, she seemed to be ready to put all her eggs in one basket, smiled self-consolation, raised her arms and hugged Henry and walked to his seat farthest from the power switch, "I'd be happy to blow out candles with you~"

Henry stood back on his chair, ready to start blowing out the candles.When Shirley approached the candle with others, she pinched the flesh of her palm with her nails nervously, hoping to restrain herself in a moment of darkness.

But what surprised her was that immediately after the candles went out, the lights above her head came on.He has quick eyes and quick hands, and the perfect connection did not leave her with a trace of darkness visible to the naked eye. "Happy birthday!"

Following Morgan's congratulations as he walked back to the table, the people around the table couldn't help applauding and cheering, "Happy birthday~!"

She clapped her hands and looked at him.Among them, there is joy and more emotion.She smiled and watched him approach, and watched him wink at her triumphantly, and couldn't help raising her eyebrows amusedly.

Looking away, she looked at him who was back at the dinner table laughing with everyone, she seemed to see—a kind of person in this world who can face the darkness without fear.Because he himself is the light.

After the birthday party was over, everyone helped JJ's family pack up and left one after another, while Morgan drove Shirley home first, "Have you had fun?"

"Hmm..." Shirley, who was sitting behind Morgan, agreed, "I also made an appointment with Penelope and the others to go shopping together tomorrow."

"Oh, so you're going to abandon your old friend so soon?" Morgan whispered with a sad smile, looked at the laughing Shirley through the rearview mirror of the car, looked back and heard her whisper: "You Not like them."

"Really?" Soon after reaching Shirley's house, Morgan stopped the car and got out to help her hold the door.After she walked out, he closed the door and walked forward with her, "Why don't you tell me what's special about me?"

Walking outside the courtyard gate, Shirley stopped, looked at him sideways, observed him seriously for a moment, and replied solemnly, "Sex!"

"That's it? Only this?" Morgan shook his body a few times with a smile. Seeing her frowning and nodding with affirmation, she couldn't help but stop her smile, and her tone was much less teasing. "Even if I asked, you You won’t tell me why you’re afraid of the dark, right?”

"I think the answer is yes," Xue Li raised her hand to support the iron door, and turned her back to it.Morgan turned to face her, and saw her smiling and looking around, waiting for her to look back at him, "But I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm just afraid that the darkness is impenetrable."

Morgan frowned, understanding what she said, "You mean it was because the doors and windows of JJ's house were locked?"

Seeing his serious look, Shirley pushed open the iron gate and walked into the yard in a funny way, "Maybe."

Morgan put away his thinking face, and raised his eyebrows at her smiling face.Seeing her inserting the door lock, when she looked up at herself, she suggested sincerely, "Shirley, if you are in any trouble, just say it, whether it's me or everyone tonight, we will do our best help you."

Shirley looked straight into his brown pupils, as if she saw herself willing to be trapped in a cage.Helplessly smiled, lowered his eyes and looked at him again, "Living alone in this world will always have countless troubles, you can't rely on other people's strength every time you encounter a problem, right?"

Obviously, the trouble she mentioned and the "unfortunate encounter" she alluded to were two different things, Morgan curled her lips in cooperation, and then explained, "I just want you to know that if you need anything, I'm always there. "

"Thank you." Shirley nodded, put down her hand on the iron door and hugged her arms tightly.It seems that the autumn where the trees are desolate where I am is only a door away from the spring where the grass is full of grass, but I stubbornly stay where I am.She put down her hand and smiled with her lips in her mouth, "If one day I can't hold on and need help from others, I promise you will be the first person I think of."

"Then I really hope you'll think of me tomorrow." Morgan said with a dejected smile. Seeing her covering her mouth and smiling, she put away her unreasonable worries and laughed a few times in agreement, "Good night."

"Good night." Shirley waved her hand, turned and walked inward.

Thinking about shopping the next day all night, Shirley didn't fall asleep until five o'clock in the morning, and suddenly woke up four hours later.Without sleepiness, she had no choice but to go downstairs with a pair of dark circles under her eyes, leaning on the sofa and applying eye mask.

After a while, the phone rang. She opened her eyes, took the phone and saw that it was jj.When she sat up and was about to answer the phone, she remembered that the appointed time was clearly noon, and leaned back annoyed.Picking up the remote control, I quickly found that the latest news related to their group was at six o'clock in the morning, and the accident occurred in the famous seaside city of Santa Monica.

Pausing the TV, Shirley answered the phone, "Good morning, jj."

JJ, who just got off the plane, apologized and said that they had to miss their appointments when they received a new case in the morning.After Shirley listened carefully, she frowned regretfully, and then smiled without paying too much attention, "That's too bad... But it's okay, it just so happened that my friend in Los Angeles invited me to play on the beach in Santa Monica, and I still Didn't reply to them."

"Oh, that's good." Hearing what she said, JJ felt much less apologetic in his heart, nodded to Emily who was beside him, and walked quickly to the local police station, "Have fun, let's meet again next time. "

Xue Li happily nodded and agreed. After hearing a "goodbye" followed by the sound of the phone hanging up, she couldn't help frowning and threw the phone aside, "That's it?"

Pressing the remote control sullenly, after seeing the entertainment news related to Lauren, she stopped what she was doing, "Our reporter Thomas Franklin caught the suspected boyfriend of Lauren Bais at the New York Auto Show not long ago. Rick Selman and the recently widely-watched female racing driver Shirley Davis had a secret private meeting..."

"...What the hell." Shirley laughed speechlessly, listening to her go on to say: "But on the other hand, when she was trapped in the break room of the auto show to hide from reporters, she was also a racing driver Charles Tyson, who was rumored to have an affair with him, rushed to the rescue immediately..."

"As for the inextricable relationship between these four people, it's really incredible..." Hearing the sound of a text message from the mobile phone, Shirley turned off the TV and saw a text message from jj, "Be careful. "

"Thank you for your concern^^" After replying to the text message, Shirley tore off her eye mask.He got up from the sofa, walked around to the stairs in a good mood, and went up the stairs humming a song.