Chapter 128: Please Step Back
Vince looked helplessly at the moon outside the window and said, “I will ask him tomorrow and give you an explanation, but you should also stay focused. Don’t get lost easily and always dare to run in unfamiliar places.”
“Yes, yes, I deserved that.”
“Miss, do you have to use this tone when you talk to me?” Vince suddenly held a tissue and picked up her arm.
“What are you doing?” Arianna stepped back and was alerted.
“Your arm is wounded.” He spread the tissue, and there was a little blood on it. Arianna was indifferent.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.
Vince frowned with a look a bit like a child, “I haven’t met you or talked to you many times, but I saw you wounded twice and sick once. Are we connected to each other somehow?”
“Do you mean fate?” Arianna went out with an ugly face. She was going to see Claire, but she didn’t know which room and she had no key. Eventually, she had to ask. Vince to get the spare key from the administrator. They went through a room where there was a crowd playing poker. Some looked at Arianna with a weird expression.
Arianna saw Rebecca in the room. Rebecca looked like nothing had happened. When Arianna walked over to her, Rebecca smiled, “I heard that you were scared. This is the ceremony for us to welcome new people. Claire must have told you?”
Arianna also smiled, “It seems so. Probably I forgot.”
When Arianna found Claire, she was lying in bed and slumbering. Claire even remembered to lock the door and cover herself with the quilt.
She wiped Claire’s face and hands with a hot towel, helped her change her pajamas, sat on her bed, and stayed for a while. After half an hour, Claire had no sign of waking up. Arianna then left a night light on for her, walked out of the room slowly, and locked the door.
Arianna returned to her room and smoked two cigarettes. Her cigarette addiction was not too big. It didn’t matter if she didn’t touch it for a month. But in the past two days, she was so irritated that she took a big box. She suspected that there was smoke in her pores.
The building was full of facilities. She went to take a shower and sat for a while, then waited for her hair to be dried by the wind. She couldn’t sleep, and she was upset. She got up again to look at the moon outside the window, but the black night sky and white moonlight made her more annoyed. She suddenly wanted to go out, so she changed into her skirt and went out with her hair loose. Her hair just grew to her shoulders, and she rarely scattered her hair.
Before she went out, she remembered the previous unpleasantness. She found a fruit knife from the bag and put it in her pocket.
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These houses were located on the lakeside. At this moment, the lakeside bonfire was extinguished, the moon shadows slanting. A wind was blowing in the middle of the night, making the lake wrinkled. The surroundings were not silent like the dead. There were insects, the rustling of the wind blowing the leaves, and the low-pitched laughers from some rooms.
Arianna sat down on the chair in the courtyard, breathing the scent of the grass with the wind, and she was relaxed. She smoked another cigarette, watching a thin cloud slowly passing by the moon.
A low sound from the corner came suddenly. The position was five meters away. A little scared, Arianna bent over and picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it in that direction.
The stone slammed into the wall and made a noise, but there was no sound of landing. When Arianna picked up another stone, someone stood up in that direction, holding the stone in his hand, and he said, “So, you like the game of throwing things.” It was Vince, dressed in white and sitting next to a white statue.
Arianna relaxed and walked over to him, “Are you enjoying the moonlight too?”
“I was.”
Arianna was silent.
He smiled, “You are polite to everyone. You can even make my grandma happy. But you are always so mean to me.”
Arianna said, “Someone told me whoever wanders outside at midnight is either guilty or boring. I was warned to say little to this kind of person.”
“So, in between us, who do you think is guilty or boring?”
“I’m not familiar with you. I have no idea which kind you are.” Arianna suddenly felt sleepy, and she yawned, “I need to go back to sleep.”
“So, I am a catalyst to hypnosis.” Vince stood up and said, “Let me walk you back to your room, lest you get lost again.”
They walked with a space in between them large enough to walk two more people. She opened the door to her room.
“You can watch TV without sleeping. Don’t go out for a walk. Everyone drank a lot. One person is always insecure.” Vince sounded like educating a child.
“You told me earlier, it was just that they were joking with me. Your arguments changed very quickly according to your needs.”
“Look, don’t begin again. You are best at using such a peculiar angle to understand my goodwill to you.”
His words with a smile and a sad expression succeeded in triggering Arianna’s guilt. She quickly reflected on it. Today, including several times before, he always looked after her, and her attitude was getting worse and worse. She lowered her voice and said, “Thank you.” She waved at him with a folded knife that was two inches long. “Because your site is not safe, I am prepared.”
“That is the toy used to scare the children and the dog.” Vince smiled as soon as he saw the thing and suddenly moved close to her body, rushing to grab the knife. But the seemingly harmless and beautiful fruit knife had a mechanism. When she pressed it, the blade popped out, and the blade pointed to Vince’s chest. She said, “Hey, I don’t intend to scare you, please step back.”
At that time, she was leaning against the wall. Vince was so close to her. The moonlight was behind him, and she could not see his expression, and his breath passed over her face.