Chapter 37 Section 10

Back home, Lana said to Jonny, aren't you afraid that I will go out alone?I'm not going anywhere this weekend, but could you please leave us mother and daughter alone for a few days? "No!" Johnny retorted. Xue Luoer was upstairs in her own room, she must have heard the quarrel, and after Johnny left, she came downstairs with a sullen face: "How can you allow him to talk to you like that, Mom? Why don't you Tell him straight up that you don't want to see him again?" "I have tried, Xue Luoer, believe me, I have been trying." "You're afraid of him, aren't you? Did he hurt you, mother?"

"You're still young, kid, mom doesn't want you to know about these grown-ups." Xue Luoer refused to listen, but wanted to get to the bottom of it: "What happened that night, Oscar's night?... But why did it happen, Mom? Why didn't you leave him?" "It's not as simple as you think, Cheryl," Lana told her daughter about how Jonny threatened to kill three generations of their family without knowing why, and about all the things he'd been involved in that Jonny had bragged to her about. mafia terrorism. "This matter must be resolved as soon as possible, but first, we must not provoke him."

On Friday, Good Friday, Lana invited makeup artist Dale Armstrong to come to her house for afternoon tea, and Jonny was there.Dyer brought along an acquaintance Lana hadn't seen in years, Bill Brooks, one of the local sponsors on the 1954 filming of "The Sea Chase" in Hawaii. While Jonny was going to the kitchen, Bill turned to Lana: "What did you say your friend's name was?" "Joni Stepanato." "I think I know him," Bill mused. "Really? Where?" "He was in the same class as I was at Kemper Academy in Missouri, class of 1943, if I remember correctly."

Class of 1943, impossible!Jonny told Lana that he was born in 1918, how could he be still in military academy at the age of 25?The Kemper Military Academy is equivalent to a technical secondary school or high school. Students generally enter the training at the age of 15 and join the army after graduating at the age of 18... Lana was calculating like this, and Jonny came back from fetching ice. "Hey, remember me?" Bill held out his right hand to Johnny. "Of course I do." Johnny shook hands with Bill. Jonny was a little uncomfortable, he only hemmed and hawed a few words to Bill and then left.Lana heard him remind Xue Luoer not to forget to watch a movie together at night before he left, which the three of them had discussed before.

"How did you two meet?" Bill asked Lana as Jonny closed the door behind him.Lana and Dale looked at each other, neither of them answered. Bill added, "Back in Kemper's day, he was the one to be avoided." "why?" "There's a lot wrong with him. Stealing, telling lies..." Lana wasn't surprised what Bill said. What she didn't understand was why Jonny hid his age.Lana felt as if someone had set up a game for her. Around 8pm, Jonny came.Lana said she was tired and not interested in going to the movies with them.But obviously, that's not what Jonny cares about. He only asked how long Bill Brooks and Dale Armstrong stayed after he left?Why did you stay for so long?And, "What, you guys are going out for dinner tomorrow, and it doesn't include me?!"

Another big quarrel was imminent, Lana left Jonny and turned to go upstairs, hoping in her heart that Jonny would be calm and calm downstairs, but she didn't want Jonny to follow up the stairs arguing. Xue Luoer was watching TV in the small living room on the second floor, so Lana said to Johnny: "Can you keep your voice down? How many times have I told you not to argue in front of the children..." "Let her hear it!" Jonny raised his voice even more, "Let her hear it! Let her know what her mother is!" Lana turned and went downstairs, and Johnny followed.Lana went to the bar to mix a glass of wine for herself, but Jonny snatched it away: "You don't count. You agreed to go to the movies together, but then changed your mind, and now you still want to drink something. You drank too much It's..."