Chapter 58 fifty seven

Edda's fugitive life (3) Joan's hand slowly warmed up in Ida's big hand, and Ada's heart surged with the desire to kiss her. "Joan! Edda!" it was the boss calling. Ada thought with mixed feelings that she had finally escaped from Mr. Reagan's clutches.She heard a subdued commotion among the patrons.There were muffled screams here and there.Even without looking so hard, she saw white rats scurrying among the crowd, and there were too many of them.A boy stumbled over and held her hand, then flung himself into her arms trembling.The boy looks less than 20 years old. "They're here again, how could this be? Huh? How could this be?" he said.Ada remembered seeing him talking to an older, elegant woman with a maturity beyond his years in the eyes. "They call you Ida, are you really Ida? My God, they're coming here again, and you know how to deal with them."

Ada helped him sit on the chair, and blocked the light with her body, leaving him in complete darkness.She felt the boy was like her little brother. "Whose child are you?" she asked him kindly. He tucked his legs fully back onto the chair, and wrapped his hands around his knees. "If you leave me. I won't get out of this chair. There's a storm tonight." Although the people were terrified, no one escaped.Now they stood in a row next to the wall, all staring at the small animals running on the ground. Ada felt that they actually admired these small animals. Joan came from the far end of the lobby, with a drunken gait. Ida had never seen her like this, and couldn't help being curious.As soon as the boy saw her, he pulled Ada's clothes nervously, and said repeatedly: "She! She's coming! You have to block me! She's coming!" He buried his head in his knees.But Joan stopped in the middle of the lobby, her eyes staring blankly at the stuffed animals on the wall, and a bunch of green lights seemed to cut off the other half of her face.In an instant, Ada understood the relationship between these two people.

When the music stopped, the rat disappeared.The entire lobby became deadly silent.People don't know when they are already in their positions.Maybe the boss made the music stop.Now the boss and the two guys could no longer be seen at the counter, it was dark there.Where did they go?Edda looked again, and Joan was gone.After a while, the old scene of whispering in the house resumed.But the boy never got off the chair, and grabbed Ada's skirt with one hand. Ada stood there in embarrassment.The past was vivid in her mind, and she was struggling fiercely in her heart. Mr. Reagan once jokingly said to her: "Your territory is everywhere, and wherever you go, you will turn it into your home."

She retorted him at the time: "I want to be free, I want to float like a kite with a broken string." Someone stretched out a hand from the darkness, dragged her over, and dragged her all the way to the back door.It was Joan, Ada sensed from the start. "Don't pay attention to him, he will lead you into the abyss with him, he is the kind of boy who has no taboo. He is very uncomfortable with the environment in our bar. His situation is very miserable." Joan's pale fingers twisted her brown hair in terror. When the rats were quiet and the parents were out, Joan stood beside the old furniture, which was thick with dust, and told Ida about her hopeless love affair.Joan herself pursued the Japanese boy on her own initiative.The boy likes climbing mountains very much.In the early days of the relationship, Joan faintly felt that his thin and fragile appearance was just a disguise, and there was something crazy in him, which made Joan feel scared from the bottom of her heart.They were inseparable back then.Finally one day, the boy invited Joan to go hiking nearby.that mountain is not

Too high, it is a bare stone mountain.Although Joan had made adequate preparations, she still did not expect that it would rain halfway.They were lying on the top of the steep and slippery cliff, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.He begs her never to look down, because "you're going to see right through me".This sentence caused the desire in Joan's heart to move around, and the temptation she received was too great.As a result, she fell into a stone cave with thick thatch and broke her lumbar spine.During the six months in the hospital, she lost all thoughts, as if she had died once.The boy is also missing.When youth finally defeated death and her strength gradually returned, Joan saw what she had seen that day when she looked down from the mountain.It was a white mouse, floating in the mid-air current.Joan returned to normal life, and the boy appeared.Joan made up her mind to distance herself from him, and raised the little white mice with her mother.Mother seemed to be more fascinated with raising white rats, so within a short time, their hallways were full of these little animals.But the boy didn't want to distance himself from Joan. He knew that Joan would not go out of the house, so he went to the old place every day to wait for her.Sometimes, he would break into the bar rashly, as he did yesterday.

"The most frightening thing is the most wanting to experience it," Ada said empathetically. "Your boy is a strong-willed man." "I know," said Joan dreamily, always looking toward the landing, as if afraid of her mother's unexpected presence there. "What are you afraid of?" "My mom doesn't approve of my sentimentality. She thinks I should give the rats my full attention. Of course, she's right."