chapter 29 elopement
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Updated : Nov 30th, 2024
In Zoey doubtful eyes, I said: "Don't look at me with your big doubtful eyes. Have you ever hurt Wesley? Between young lovers, hurting each other is beneficial to the healthy development of the relationship. Who is here?" I didn’t know that I, Maxwell, have a good character.”
After saying that, he complained to Penelope: "Don't make trouble, if you hurt me, let's go home and flirt. These are all bad friends. Don't get along with them."
"Maxwell, you are really crazy. For the sake of your own high image, you have degraded a group of me,"Brian said.
"I've always been good at this"
This time Penelope took the initiative to answer: "Then I said you have a bad character, right?"
"That's right." Everyone agreed, then smiled knowingly, picked up their wine glasses and clinked them together, and the atmosphere finally became more lively.
I drank the remaining half of the bottle of beer in one gulp and felt a little relieved. From the corner of my eye, I looked at Emily. Ever since she entered the bar, she was even more silent than Penelope. She only occasionally talked to Brian. sentence.
Everyone continued chatting. Although I was sitting next to Penelope, I didn't dare to have any physical contact with her because I was afraid that she would fall out. Now I just hope that this party can end peacefully, and I don't want to do it again in the future. At this moment, only I know the pain in my heart. I just want to stand behind Emily and Brian and wish them happiness silently, instead of like now.
I laughed and yelled with everyone against my will, which filled my heart with pain, but I couldn't escape.
Wearing a mask that doesn’t fit the size will cause pain not only to your face, but also to your heart.
Hayden in the distance finally finished singing. He looked at me with the microphone and said: "Maxwell, come up and sing two songs to cheer up your friends."
As soon as Hayden finished speaking, Emily was the first to applaud, and then Wesley, Brian and others also applauded and whistled, and the atmosphere in the entire bar became high.
I glanced at everyone, nodded to Hayden, and then walked towards the stage.
Hayden handed me the guitar in his hand, and he took a bass from band member Xiao Wu to collaborate with me. I took a deep breath and asked for a song called Zheng Jun's Elopement.
"A song for elopement for you." I said, strumming the guitar strings, closing my eyes, and some fragmented images came to mind again.
"Dedicate your youth to the glorious city behind you. We pay the price for this beautiful dream. Leave your love to the most sincere girl beside me. You sing with me, you accompany me wandering and accompany me. Both sides suffer. It is only now that I suddenly understand, What I dream of is true love and freedom. I want to take you and elope to the most distant town.
I want to take you to elope and be the happiest person to elope, elope, elope.”
Amidst the tearing sound, I improvised and sang three elopements in a row. My emotions were completely released at this moment. Before Emily left the country, we were forced to have no other choice. We hid from Shanghai back to Suzhou and wanted to leave Suzhou again. Elopement to Tibet. At that time, we naively thought that relying on the courage in this song, we could elope to the ends of the earth. We also thought that with a guitar and two people, running all the way would be the happiest people. We even thought that elopement would allow us to elope from Stealing the lives of two people in the real world
The heavy metal music tore apart the longing, and all the worldly noises were drowned in this elopement song. I have never been so helpless to my own hysteria, wishing to tear the world and the illusion apart.
The sound of the music gradually stopped and the applause started to thunder. I still raised my head and returned the Hayden to Robben beside me for a long time, and walked to the bathroom without looking back.
In the bathroom mirror, my face was covered with water stains, but I was glad that I finally managed to hide it from the truth and successfully concealed the pain and suffocated tears.
Once, she was my faith in this city of Sex and the City. Now, my faith has collapsed ruthlessly, so the hurt, pain, and longing are all suppressed in my heart. Finally, I am overwhelmed and mutate and twist in the time of a song. It hurts my nerves.
Outside the bar, everyone said goodbye. The three of us were all a little drunk. Wesley put his arm on Zoey’s shoulder and walked to their car first. Emily supported Brian, who was unconscious. Only Penelope and I remained. at an imperceptible distance.
Emily helped Brian into the car. Just when she thought she was leaving, she turned back and walked towards Penelope and me.
She stood in front of Penelope and me, but without looking at me, she said to Penelope: "Go back and give him a glass of milk soaked in honey. His stomach is not feeling well."
Penelope nodded, and Emily looked at me who was a little unsteady on my feet, then nodded to Penelope, without saying another word, turned around and walked towards the car over there.
I stared at her back and couldn't recover for a long time.
"She's gone,"Penelope next to me said to me.
"Oh." I responded numbly.
"Where do you live? I'll take you back."
"No, I can just take a taxi myself."
Penelope smiled and said, "I promised your ex-girlfriend to make you a cup of honey milk. I don't like breaking promises."
"Then let's go."
Penelope drove the car, and I sat in the passenger seat. Watching the car shuttle between the tall buildings against the light and shadow of the city, I felt a little dizzy. I knew I was getting drunk.
After a long silence, Penelope finally asked me: "Is that song you just sang for your ex-girlfriend?"
"Her name is Emily."
"Why, don't you like people calling her your ex-girlfriend?"
I replied a little awkwardly: "Wouldn't it be better for two people who have already separated their relationship to call each other by their first names?"
Penelope smiled and said, "I'm afraid your heart is not as clean as you say."
I didn't respond and stared at Penelope for a long time, then suddenly said: "Drive faster, I feel like vomiting."
"Then get out of the car and throw up."
"Go home and throw up. Drive faster." I urged again, and my speech became fluent.
Penelope stepped on the brake and the car stopped immediately: "Get out of the car and throw up. Isn't it uncomfortable to hold it in? There is a river over there."
Although I was dizzy, I didn't want to vomit. The reason why I vomited was because I didn't want to talk to her about Emily. But the inertia caused by this sudden stop almost made me spit out all the wine accumulated in my stomach. This woman seemed to He always exposes my lies and punishes me.
I opened the car door, rolled and crawled towards the river, and then vomited hysterically.
I was a little exhausted, lying flat on the ground in a big shape, looking at the twinkling starry sky and feeling dizzy again.
Penelope came to me and handed me a tissue and said in a reproachful tone: "I'm asking you to drink so much again."
"If you hadn't stepped on the brakes just now, I wouldn't have vomited at all." I still said awkwardly.
"Really? Then you were just playing tricks on me again."
Only then did I realize that I had not brought it upon myself, so I simply pretended to be dead and lay motionless on the ground.
"You keep pretending, I'm leaving first."
I thought again of the night when Penelope was left in the wilderness, and I grabbed her hand and said, "Don't go."
I held Penelope's hand tightly and refused to let go, for fear that I would end up alone in this area where few people or cars passed by.
Penelope was a little panicked. She struggled and let me go, and I hugged her legs tightly, as if I had found support, solace, and the lost past.
"Maxwell, please let go quickly. You've drunk too much. Don't go crazy."Penelope's words became even more nervous. Such physical contact was too intimate for us.
"Let me hold you for a while, don't leave." My voice was choked with sobs.
"I'm not Emily, Maxwell, please wake up."Penelope held my shoulders and struggled fiercely, finally pushing me to the ground and running towards her car.
Lying on the ground again, my world was dark, and the cold autumn wind blew me gradually awake. After lying for a while, I got up and walked towards Penelope's car. However, Penelope was still frightened and firmly disagreed with me sitting in the passenger seat. , driving me behind.
The car started up again, driving towards the bright lights ahead with me gradually waking up and feeling disappointed.