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It didn't take long for them to receive the case, and Shirley bid farewell to them with understanding.After returning home, I took Lucas to travel to Boston, and life seemed to return to the past.

Until a month later, I received a text message from Morgan, who I hadn't contacted for a long time, "Are you blown away by the wind?"

Shirley, who was walking on the Freedom Road, smiled at the screen, stopped and glanced at the Park Street Church not far away, and gently pulled Lucas to stop with the leash.After replying to the text message, I turned around and walked in the direction I came from, thinking that I should go back and say goodbye.

In Quantico's headquarters, Reid kept staring at Morgan on the right swivel chair.Seeing him stop and shake the swivel chair laughing at the phone screen, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Shirley is back?"

Morgan quickly replied to the text message, put away the phone, and looked up at him, "Yes, she went to Boston and will be back tomorrow."

Reid nodded earnestly, turned around, picked up a book and flipped through it, cleared his throat solemnly as if secretly relieved, and said, "She hasn't said anything and left for such a long time, you must have a lot to talk about." To say. More importantly, I finally don't have to make a bitter face at you all day..."

His voice got lower and lower.Morgan didn't hear clearly, turned the chair and slipped to his side, put his hand on the back of his chair, frowned and asked, "What are you muttering?"

Before Rhett could speak, Emily who walked behind them asked aloud, "Have you contacted Shirley?"

Morgan frowned and spread his hands, looked back and forth at them, and answered puzzledly, "That's right?"

The two looked at each other and raised their eyebrows at the same time.Rhett took the opportunity to slip away, and Emily sat down with a earnest look, stared at him for a while, suddenly burst out laughing, and frowned in disbelief and asked, "Haven't you noticed yet?"

"What?" The two of them were so mysterious, Morgan was a little puzzled, "What did you find?"

Emily showed an expression as if she was looking at Rhett, opened her mouth to say something, then stopped, and said instead: "Since the case ended a month ago, you seem listless every day, and you rarely Talk to us. Just keep picking up the phone and putting it down every day, picking up the phone and putting it down..."

Morgan thought about it, and it seemed that it was right, "So what? I just happen to be in a bad state."

Emily smiled slightly, "Hmm, and Shirley also left at that time."

Seeing him looking at her suspiciously, Emily felt a bit like playing the piano against a cow, and added: "You said before that Shirley didn't reply to your text message, and I asked you to send another one. But you have been hesitating until you just contacted She recovered after recovering...what do you think?"

Morgan nodded, realizing that she was talking about this, and took it for granted: "I'm worried that something will happen to her!"

"No... If you really don't think about tea or food because you're worried about this, why don't you just make a phone call?" Emily denied it mercilessly, stood up and left a sentence for him to understand, "You're worried about her leaving."

Looking at the back of her leaving, Morgan felt that something sharp had pierced his heart.If you still don't understand what she means, then you can really move Rhett's IQ over and add a minus sign to act as your EQ at the moment.Turning around and looking around, before feeling joy or other emotions, he couldn't help but start to sulk with himself, "Damn."

Shirley returned home that night, leaned on the sofa with her eyes closed for a while, and decided to call Beth first, "Hey, are you still up?"

Beth just drew all the curtains in the room, sat on the bed and connected the phone, "Huh? What's wrong?"

Shirley moved her hand resting on the backrest, and she suddenly felt nostalgic when she said the words, "...I'll be back in a while."

Beth heard the hesitation in her words, "Didn't you tell her?"

Shirley smiled, "In fact, I may just want to find my former self through her, but in fact many things have changed. I have my own new life, and she also has her own life, family, and friends. She no longer treats me. It felt familiar, and when I stood in front of her again I was just a stranger, a friend of a colleague who needed care."

Her tone seemed to be relieved, and Beth didn't try to persuade her, "Okay. It just so happens that I have a long vacation recently, so I can accompany you."

"That's good, let's go to France." Shirley was quite happy. In fact, the matter had been finished, but she seemed to have something to say.Before Beth could ask, she frowned questioningly, "I don't know why, it feels like there's something I haven't done yet."

Beth smiled and comforted: "If you still want to go back, the distance won't be too far..."

Shirley shook her head and sat up straight, "No, it's not because of her...I don't know, maybe it's because I've stayed in this city for too long."

Beth didn't say much, and the two hung up the phone after saying good night, and Shirley didn't think about it any more.

The next morning, Morgan walked out of the headquarters yawning, and saw Shirley get out of the car on the side of the road at a glance.Seeing her staring at the headquarters nervously, Morgan suddenly wondered why she always met him so coincidentally.Thinking back carefully on getting along with her, the more Morgan thought about it, the more he felt that she had always been hot and cold towards him.

As soon as his head became hot, he shook his head in frustration, and rushed towards her arrogantly, as if he wanted to force her to admit something, accusing: "Xue Li, there are some things we have to clarify..."

Shirley smiled in surprise when she saw him, seeing that he tilted his head but didn't give himself a chance to speak, and continued with a little too much momentum: "If what happened in Las Vegas was just a coincidence, your car It's also accidental that you broke down on my way to work, and it's also accidental that you want to rent my house, even you are..."

Looking at his appearance, Shirley thought he had found something, pretended to be ignorant and shook her head, then interrupted him, "Derek... I don't understand what you're talking about..."

For the first time, Morgan felt disgusted by this ambiguous state, and more importantly, EQ had been given to Reid at some point.Just when she was about to continue her self-righteous tirade, she smiled to herself after seeing her tilt her head and looked in front of her eyes, "Sorry...we'll talk later."

Morgan frowned, watching her go straight to the jj who had just walked out, and gradually regained consciousness.Thinking back on what he originally wanted to say, he shook his head unimaginably, and cursed himself for being so stupid, so he quickly hid while they were still talking.

And Shirley, who had just met Morgan, suddenly figured out the reason why she felt nostalgic while talking to JJ.She turned her head to look, and the other party left only a hurried back.She looked back at jj again, if she came to Washington because of jj, then she would stay for Morgan.So after hearing jj's voice, he changed his words with a smile and said, "...Actually, my sister has a long vacation recently, and I want to go back and be with her."

JJ continued to listen, "I should be back soon, so I plan to leave Lucas in the pet shop. If Henry is free, I would like to ask him to help me see Lucas occasionally."

"Okay, I think Henry will be happy to go..." JJ readily agreed, and the phone rang while speaking.After taking a look, he looked at Shirley with a smile, "Sorry, we have to start work."

Shirley smiled and nodded.Seeing her turn around and take a few steps, she returned to the car and thought for a while, then sent a text message to Morgan, "qaq, sorry for interrupting you just now, I have to go back to Los Angeles for a while, let's talk when I come back~"

Morgan just received the task and walked out of the coffee shop.Glancing at the phone, he let out a dull breath.Obviously, he has already figured out a thing or two, but the other party's behavior as usual makes him feel a little unhappy for no reason.He wanted to try to analyze it, but he didn't seem to have a clue.And this never-before-seen feeling often lowered his IQ and EQ, and finally he simply ignored it.

After waiting for a while, Shirley finally received a reply.Seeing the simple sentence "It's okay" on the screen and frowned, she leaned back depressed and said to herself, "Why did you just reply..."

After waiting for a while, she glanced at her phone, thought about it and sent another message, "Uh, by the way, I left Lucas at the pet store. JJ knows the address, can you go and see him when you're free? "

The text message sounded soon, and although Shirley didn't hold out much hope, she turned on the screen.After seeing the "I know" above, he still bit his lip and muttered softly, "Why did he become so indifferent all of a sudden... Can you see something..."

After waking up for a while, Shirley shook her head amusedly, and threw the phone to the back row.And Morgan just walked to the side of the headquarters building and watched her car slowly leave.My heart calmed down a little, and I stepped into the headquarters, hoping that everything would be as before when she came back.

But it was the end of January of the second year when she came back again.

The coldest time has passed, and people still wear thick windbreakers.A group of people sat around drinking and chatting at the bar they frequented as usual, and JJ, who arrived late, brought good news, "Shirley is back, I invite her to come and sit with me. We haven't seen each other for a long time."

The others were looking forward to it, but Morgan couldn't tell whether it was happiness or worry.Everyone didn't pay attention to it deliberately, as if they didn't see anything.Morgan got up, smiled calmly and turned to leave, "I'll be right back."

Seeing him walk to a hidden place at the central bar and sit down, everyone looked away.Rossi shook his head and asked jj, "Have they not been in touch?"

JJ shook his head, and Emily asked again: "Didn't she say she would come back soon? Why have you been away for almost four months?"

JJ shook his head again, and Rhett corrected: "It's actually four months and seven days."

Emily stared at him, and Hodge answered her doubts, "Her sister had an accident recently, I think she might be with her sister."

Garcia looked at Huo Qi in surprise, and asked hesitantly, "...how did you know something happened to her sister?"

Everyone looked at Huo Qi, Huo Qi raised his eyebrows helplessly, "It's on TV."

Everyone frowned unanimously, and Huo Qi glanced at each of them with a straight look, but unfortunately the influence was not great.

And Morgan sat on the bar and drank a few glasses of stuffy wine, and soon attracted a brown-haired woman in business attire to sit down beside him.Morgan looked up at her, and called the waiter to point to the left, "Please give this lady a glass of wine."

The waiter was about to turn around, she raised her hand and smiled at him, "Sorry, just give me a glass of lemonade."

Morgan looked at the waiter, nodded, and turned to look at her, "Since you don't drink, why do you come to the bar?"

She raised her chin slightly and smiled, "I'm here to work."

"Insurance or house?" Morgan smiled, feeling that she was similar to Shirley in some respects, turned around and drank the wine soberly, "I don't need either."

The waiter brought lemonade, which she thanked.Turning around to face the bar, leaving a word and began to drink quietly, "You don't seem to be in a good mood, if you want to talk to someone. I'd be happy to, for the sake of this glass of lemonade."

Morgan glanced at her, obviously she was here to talk, but at this moment she acted as if she didn't care too much and was sure that he would talk.He thought it was funny, but he didn't expect that what was even more funny was that he actually opened his mouth when he saw that the glass of lemonade was about to bottom out.

The content of the conversation naturally revolved around Shirley, but some background was omitted by him.After listening carefully, she smiled, "Okay, now I can basically sum up your current state of mind in one sentence."

Morgan looked at her suspiciously, and heard her say mercilessly: "Longing for possession, afraid of losing."

Morgan did not argue, thinking carefully.She glanced at him and explained: "In the beginning, you began to reject this relationship subconsciously. You thought that you didn't have too much * for her, so you felt very relieved and felt that you could still maintain an equal relationship." Friendship. But the truth is, you've been deceiving yourself from this point on."

Morgan frowned, "What?"

She raised her eyebrows, "Because you love her, you think more about wanting her love than possessing her. You hope she can love you too, not your unilateral..."

Morgan thought about it, and let out an annoyed cry, which made her smile, "See? You know now. And the first time you know, you're angry with yourself, and you think, 'How could I fall in love with What about her? ", "This will ruin our relationship! ’. But soon you realize that you don’t have control over your emotions, so you start to expect her to love you and find proof for what you think.”

Morgan shook his head. "So I almost said that? Because I'm not clear-headed and my emotions are starting to take over my mind?"

She smiled and didn't deny it, "But I have to say that it's fortunate that you didn't say that, because it was really the worst confession."

Morgan raised her eyebrows, silently agreeing, and heard her continue: "You quickly regained your senses, but because you were too sensible, you killed the chance of making her fall in love with you. This approach is quite unwise from an emotional point of view. .”

Morgan turned to face her, seeing that her expression gradually became serious, "You want to wait for time to wear off everything, so that you can gradually let go of your feelings. When she comes back, you can return to the close friendship that will definitely last forever." , but in fact..."

She smiled, raised her eyebrows, and suddenly sighed enviously: "When you are so affectionately staring at me in a daze, and there is only room for another smiling face in your mind, how long can you restrain yourself from going?" Longing for her love... When you love someone so much, how can you bear to only be friends with her?"

Morgan came back to his senses, remained silent, and looked up.I saw Shirley, who had just met them, find herself under the guidance of JJ, and saw her cheerfully waving and smiling at herself, "She's back."

The woman in front of her didn't look, but only looked at his gratified smiling face, "So... what do you want to do?"

Morgan followed Shirley who was approaching him, and Morgan felt a burst of excitement and ecstasy in his heart.He misses her so much, they can't just be friends anymore.He stood up, with a big smile on his face, waiting to greet her with full of energy, "I want to tell her how fascinated I am by her."

"That's right, I want to meet your sweetheart too." She turned around joyfully, and frowned when she saw Shirley standing in front of Morgan with a smile, "Sher?"

Shirley followed the source of the sound and looked away, frowning amusedly, "... Lauren? What a coincidence."

Morgan followed and looked, his eyes widened in surprise, feeling that the world was full of deep malice towards him.