Chapter 72: Please Help Me Again
Ryan lowered his head.
“Actually, I don’t hate him anymore. Sometimes I think I can even understand him. But if we calculate how long my parents lived, then I have less than half of my life left. There are still many things I haven’t done before, and there are still many places I’ve never been to. In such a short life, I hope that everything I do in the future will make sense.”
Arianna continued, “I can forgive, but it doesn’t mean that I will forget. So I thank Mr. Cooper for letting me go, and I wish him all the best. Please convey this thought to him. I forgot to tell him in person.”
Ryan sat there for a while, then took a piece of paper from his suit pocket and slowly pushed it to her. It was a check written out to her for a huge sum of money.
Arianna looked at the seven-digit number on the check and smiled, “What does this mean?”
“Mr. Cooper knows that you aren’t short on money. He just hopes that you will live better in the future.” Ryan said thoughtfully.
Arianna slowly tore up the check after Ryan finished talking.
With his eyebrows scrunched, Ryan said, “I think you are particularly stupid. No one has a problem with money, especially when it is real.”
She rolled her eyes. Ryan said quickly,” It’s okay, I have another for you.”
He slowly took out another check and handed it to her. Travis Cooper signed the check, but the amount was left empty.
Arianna laughed and took a pen out of her bag. She thought for a while before asking. Ryan, can you remember how long we have known each other?”
“Four years and two months.”
She filled in the check for 200, 000 dollars.
Ryan said, “Miss Jenkins, you are insulting Mr. Cooper.”
“In the years you knew me, I only met with Travis once per month on average. So in fifty months, we only met about fifty times. I think five thousand per visit is already a high price, so I applied a fifteen percent discount.”
Ryan put one hand on his forehead, and Arianna added, “Can you accompany me to the bank to cash this check?”
She put the money into her account in front of Ryan before asking him to accompany her to the bank’s safety depository. Arianna opened one of the safes. There were already many things in it, so she took a few of them out. Then, Arianna took a few small boxes out of her big bag and put them in the safe.
The newly added items were all the precious gifts from Travis over the years. She handed the key to Ryan and said, “Please help me again.”
The veins in Ryan’s forehead were pulsing. He said, “Miss Jenkins, did I offend you?”
“Nope.”
“Then why are you doing this to me?”
Ryan said in an angry manner that she should not do something this outstanding if she really wanted to cut ties with Travis Cooper. All she was trying to do at the moment was leave Travis unable to forget her.
His opinion took her by surprise. After all, she did not want to forgive Travis so easily with a simple peace of mind.
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In the following two months, Arianna did a lot of things she had never done before. She shopped in the markets like a housewife and spent many afternoons
cooking a large table of food for herself.
Arianna binge-watched many TV shows, staying up several nights in a row.
She bought flower seedlings and beautiful flowerpots to turn her balcony into an experimental field and then found that the only plant she could keep alive was a cactus.
For an entire month, she had been ordering all kinds of things online to enjoy the feeling of signing for packages every day.
When her wound was fully healed, she drove her car for a few hours to a new amusement park in the neighboring city. She rode all the rollercoasters, but while others were screaming on the big drops and loops, she kept totally calm.
The company had called her twice, asking if she wanted to return to work in the office. She turned them down politely both times before visiting human resources to terminate her employment completely.
Many of her colleagues knew about her resignation, and Arianna worried she might cause gossip if she returned to the company. In fact, she did not care about this job, even though it was a very good position.
After her few months of fun, Arianna began researching on a recruitment website and carefully sent out a bunch of job applications. Her work experience was not rich, but not poor either. Arianna did not have high requirements for the position nor the pay. A few interested companies contacted her, but she didn’t find any of them to be very promising.
A few days later, Dr. Lynch called to check in on her. After giving some suggestions, he asked, “I remember that you said you studied some psychology. Was that your major?”
“I only got a bachelor’s degree in psych. And I’ve almost forgotten everything that I learned in the field.”
“I have a short-term job at hand. I’m going back to school for half a year, and I can bring a few students out to work on the project. I would love for you to continue as my assistant. The school is good, and the scenery is beautiful, but living there might be a little tough.”This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.
Dr. Lynch talked about the psychological counseling project vividly, arousing her interest. Arianna asked, “Counsel others? Didn’t you always say that I am the one who needs counseling myself?”
“That’s why I think you are most suited for the job. The children are like mirrors. You can see yourself in them and understand them better.”
Arianna accepted Dr. Lynch’s invitation. She could not explain it, but she felt distant when she was with normal people, yet she was very good at communicating with people with abnormal psychology.
She followed Dr. Lynch and a few young people for a three-month period.
They were in a relatively isolated mountain range. There were good sun rays, causing Arianna to feel cheerful most of the time. She became a lot healthier during her stay there.